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K Orilla (Rilla) Stewart

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County Marriage Registers of Ontario, Canada 1858-1869 Volume 35 Essex County, Elizabeth Hancocks, 2005, Global Heritage Press, Campbellville, ON:
Fox Leonard, 24, Gosfield, Romney, s/o George & Marie, married 13 Dec 1859 Orilla Steward, 20, Gosfield, NY, d/o Abel & Lucy.

1861 personal census, Gosfield Twp, Essex Co., ON, 3-1:
Fox Leonard, M, Married, 26, born U Canada, C England, Yeoman;
Orrilla, F, Married, 21, born U Canada, C England;
Amelia, F, Single, 1, born U Canada, C England.

1881 personal census, Gosfield Twp, Essex Co., ON, LDS 1881 census household record:
Fox Leonard G., M, Married, 45, born Ont, origin: German, Unitarian, Farmer;
Orilla, F, Married, 41, born Ont, origin: Scottish, Unitarian;
Amelia, F, 20, born Ont, origin: German, Unitarian;
George, M, 10, born Ont, origin: German, Unitarian.

1901 personal census, Gosfield South Twp, Essex Co., ON, G3-6:
Fox Leonard, M, Married, 29 Sept 1835, 65, born Ont, origin: German, Can, Univer, Farmer;
Orilla, F, wife, Married, 9 Dec 1839, 61, born Ont, origin: Scotch, Can, Univer.

Commemorative Biographical Record of the County of Essex, J. H. Beers & Co., Toronto, 1905, p. 672-674:
Milton C. Fox...is traced to Philip Fox, born in Baden, Germany, who was the first of the family to settle in Gosfield, locating on Lot 10, Eastern Division...
     Michael Fox, son of Philip, was born before the family came to Gosfield, and he settled on Lot 250, Talbot Road, removing later to Lot 7, Eastern Division, and then to Amherstburg, where he died. He married Elizabeth Wigle, and they had ten children as follows: ... George, the grandfather of our subject, ...
     George Fox was born Sept. 7, 1807, in Gosfield, at the time of his marriage removing to Romney township, County of Kent... In 1842 he returned to Gosfield and settled on the east half of Lot 7...
     On Nov. 8, 1827, in Gosfield, Mr. Fox married Mary Hairsine, born Sept. 3, 1808, in Yorkshire, England, and they had these children: ... Leonard G., born Sept. 22, 1835, married Rilla Stewart, and died in January, 1902; ...

Commemorative Biographical Record of the County of Essex, J. H. Beers & Co., Toronto, 1905, p. 90-92:
Simeon M. Stewart is a representative member of one of the historic families of County Essex, and is now proprietor of the leading hotel at Ruthven. The family, as the name indicates, is of Scottish extraction.
     James Stewart, progenitor of the family in County Essex, was born in Argyllshire, Scotland, and always clung to the Highland costume, which, according to his clan, consisted of a kilted skirt, with sash and belt, a sword at his side, short hose and sandals. When he was quite young, the French war being then in progress a press-gang started on its rounds to gather up young men by force, for increasing the army, and a brother of James Stewart was captured, although he subsequently escaped. On account of his youth James did not seek to avoid the gang, but, to his dismay, he was also impressed and placed in a company called the Highland Watch, in the 42nd regiment, this being the first company that was raised in Scotland. He served faithfully through the entire war, and, after it closed, embarked for America. During the American Revolution he served as a colonel in the British army, and took part in the battle of Bunker Hill. Safely passing through this war also, he subsequently married, in Maryland, a Scottish-born maiden, Margaret Brown, and started with her across the Alleghany Mountains, she being the second white woman who had ever crossed voluntarily. They settled on a farm in Dunkard township, Greene county, Pennsylvania, and in the course of time eight children were born to them, four sons - James, John, Daniel and Charles - and four daughters - Sophia, Mary, Jane and one whose name is not recorded.
     [Story of James Stewart's death at the hands of the Indians, and James and John being captured and taken to Malden. John escaped, and later James acquired a farm near Cedar Creek.] In 1805, the mother, then seventy-four years old, accompained by her sons and their families, came to Canada, where she died in 1838, at the advanced age of 107 years.
     John and Charles Stewart served under Gen. Anthony Wayne in the Indian war in Ohio, and also assisted in the building of the stronghold, Fort Erie, the first one on Lake Erie. John Stewart married in Canada a Miss Augustine and Charles married Jennie Findlay.
     Charles Stewart, the grandfather of our subject, was born in Pennsylvania, and when he settled in Ontario drew a Government lot on the 4th Concession, in Mersea township. Later he acquired much land, enough to enable him to start each of his sons with a farm. For years he was an elder in the Baptist Church. His children were: Charles, who lives at Olinda (he married Mary Whittle, whose youngest daughter married J. S. Bruner); John, who lived at Olinda and married Eliza Hamilton; Abel; and James. Of the daughters, Margaret married Michael Fox, locally known as "Big Mike"; Tabitha married Rev. Mr. Irving, a Baptist preacher; Polly married Lorenzo Dow Vaughtan; and Sally married Harrison Brown.
     Abel Stewart was born June 22, 1815, on the homestead farm in Mersea township, where he grew to manhood. He began farming on 100 acres of the homestead farm, selling that later and coming to Lot 12, on the Lake Shore in Gosfield, where he purchased 100 acres of unimproved land. On the front of this lot he built a water mill, which he ran for many years, and then sold to a Mr. Patton. He completed the clearing of his land, and built a frame house which still stands on the place, his first home having been a log cabin. His death took place Sept. 21, 1884, when he was aged sixty-nine years, two months, twenty-nine days. He married Lucy Blackman, who was born at Lockport, New York, and who died in Gosfield Feb. 24, 1893, aged sixty-six years, nine months, twenty-four days. Their children were: Rilla, widow of Leonard Fox, has two children, George and Amelia; Tabitha is the wife of William J. Fox; Demarius is the widow of John Fox, of Windsor; Horatio, a farmer of Pelee Island, married Katie Shoetie; Michael, a stonemason in Detroit, married Delia Burke, and they have two children, Amelia and Rexford; Simeon M. is mentioned below; Elihu B., of Detroit, married Jane Hairsine, and they have three children, Leonard, Maitland and Eva, both sons being physicians; Nathaniel, of Leamington, married a Miss Fink; Duncan resides at Cohoes, New York; William lives at Ruthven; Wilday married Cornelius Neilson, of Sandusky, Ohio, and they have a daughter, Ethel.
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Charles Stewart ca 1774-   Jane (Jennie) Findlay    
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Abel Stewart 1815-1884   Lucy Blackman 1826-1893
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Orilla (Rilla) Stewart 1839-