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Jane
Fox
History of the Wigle Family and Their Descendants, The Wigle Family, Kingsville, Ontario, 1931.
The Marriage Registers of Upper Canada/Canada West, Volume 14, Western District 1786-1856, Compiled by Dan Walker & Fawne Stratford-Devai, Global Heritage Press, Milton:
Marriages by Rev'd Richard Herrington, Baptist Minister, Colchester (p. 152):
Robert Bruner, to Jane Fox, both of Gosfield. 15 May 1848, by Licence. Rev. Herrington. Wit. John Herrington and John Heatherington.
1861 personal census, Gosfield Twp, Essex Co., ON, 4-5:
Bruner Rubin, M, Married, 58, born U.C., Baptist, Farmer;
Jane, F,
Married, 58, born U.C., Baptist;
Milton, M, Single, 12, born U.C., Labour;
Marvin, M, Single, 10, born U.C., Labour;
Adira, F, Single, 8, born U.C.;
Alaza, F, Single, 5, born U.C.;
Olover, M, Single, 2, born U.C.;
Elizabeth, F, Widowed, 74, born U.C., Baptist;
Fox Sharlotte, F, Single, 18, born U.C., W[esleyan] M[ethodist].
1881 personal census, Gosfield Twp, Essex Co., ON, LDS 1881
census household record:
Bruner Reubin, M, Married, 58, born Ont, origin: German, Universalist, Farmer;
Jane, F, Married, 57, born Ont, origin: German, Universalist;
Edorah, F, 27, born Ont, origin: German, Universalist;
Oliver M., M, 22, born Ont, origin: German, Universalist;
Rubie A., F, 18, born Ont, origin: German, Universalist;
Fox Mary, F, 71, born Ont, origin: German, Universalist.
Commemorative Biographical Record of the County of Essex, J. H. Beers & Co., Toronto, 1905, p. 528-529:
... In 1772 Philip Fox came to America from his birthplace, Baden, Germany, where he had married Catherine Lamer. They settled in the same year at Baltimore, Maryland, remaining for several years, and then moved to Pennsylvania, during their residence in which State several children were born. A number of neighbours then banded together to locate farther north, and in the company were John Wendel Wigle and Philip Fox, with their families... in 1794 he was fortunate enough to draw Lot 10, on the lake shore in Gosfield, and removed thither. There both he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives, and their remains rest on the Wesley Wigle farm, in a private burying-ground. They had eight sons and two daughters born to them, as follows: ... George, who settled on Lot 22, Concession 4; ...
George Fox, the ancestor of many of the name, was born April 18, 1781, in Pennsylvania, and came with his parents to Gosfield, Oct. 16, 1804. He was drowned Nov. 1, 1838. He married Julianna Wigle, and had the following family: Michael G. was born Jan. 1, 1806; Elizabeth, born Sept. 20, 1807, married (first) A. Fisher and (second) Charles Watson; Mary Ann, born Aug. 15, 1809, died at the age of seventy-seven years (she was stricken blind); Catherine, born Oct. 10, 1811, died July 12, 1826; John, born Feb. 4, 1814, married into the Scratch family, and died in the County of Kent; Theodore, born Feb. 5, 1816, married Matilda Fox; Joseph, born July 20, 1818, died at Port Stanley; Henry, born March 15, 1821, married Margaret Scott; Jane, born May 15, 1823, married Reuben Bruner; Caroline, born May 10,
1827, married William La Marsh; Robert, born Nov. 28, 1830, lives on Pelee Island; Harriet, born May 8, 1833, died May 28, 1853...
Commemorative Biographical Record of the County of Essex, J. H. Beers & Co., Toronto, 1905, p. 501-502:
Reuben Bruner, an esteemed resident of Gosfield South, County of Essex, is probably one of the most venerable citizens of this locality, belonging to one of the old families.
In early days three youths, George, Adam and Henry Bruner, accompanied their widowed mother to the County of Essex, and lived for a time on Grosse Ile. Later, when their mother married a Mr. Tofflemire, the family removed to Cedar Creek, and there the lads were reared. Of these, George was the father of our subject. ...
George Bruner, like his brothers, was born in Pennsylvania. When he located in Gosfield township on his own responsibility, he settled on Lot 21, Concession 5, a government tract of 200 acres... Mr. Bruner died May 12, 1834, aged fifty-seven years. He married Elizabeth Tofflemire, daughter of Martin Tofflemire, who came here from Kentucky, although he lived originally in Pennsylvania. Mrs. Bruner died in 1868, aged eighty-four years. The children born to them were the following: ... Reuben....
Reuben Bruner was born March 23, 1823, on the place where he grew to manhood and received his education. In his early years he was engaged in the business of getting out wood for the furnace. When he attained manhood, he came into possession of a part of the homestead, receiving eighty-five acres as his portion. He did much of the necessary clearing, and lived in the hewed log house until after his marriage, when he built his present brick house.
In 1848 Mr. Bruner married Jane Fox, daughter of George Fox, who died in February, 1899, aged seventy-four years. They had these children born to them: Milton G., born April 20, 1849, of Olinda, married Marshy Webster, born July 6, 1851; Marvin L., married Amanda Routain, and they had children, Clara, Melvin (of Manitoba), Hattie and Elva; Adorah, born April 12, 1854, married James Chissam, of Glencoe, and they have children, Mabel, John and Martin; Eliza J., born April 3, 1856, married John Latam, in Mersea, and they have children, Golden, Maxwell, Oliver, Mahlon, Ada, Reuben, John and Jacob; Oliver M., born Jan. 18, 1859, lives with his father and carries on the farm, owning also a farm in Mersea township, and he is also engaged in the broom industry, making as many as 1,000 dozen a season; he married Ella Towns, of Ohio, and they have children, Leona, born Dec. 15, 1890; Reuben S., born May 17, 1892; Elda, born March 13, 1894; Viva, born Dec. 6, 1895; Ida Murial, born Nov. 1, 1897; Carl Demorest, born April 23, 1900; and Irene, born Nov. 30, 1902; and Ruby A., born June 26, 1862, married Wellington Stotz, of Gosfield North, and they have children, Murray, Lottie and Pearl.
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