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History of the Wigle Family and Their Descendants, The Wigle Family, Kingsville, Ontario, 1931.

1861 personal census, Gosfield Twp, Essex Co., ON, 3-7:
Wigle Thomas, M, Married, 28, born U Canada, Baptist, Yeoman;
Delilah, F, Married, 22, born U Canada, Baptist.

1881 personal census, Gosfield Twp, Essex Co., ON, LDS 1881 Can census household record:
Wigle Thomas, M, Married, 48, born Ont, origin: Dutch, C Methodist, Farmer;
Elizabeth, F, Married, 34, born Ont, origin: English, C Methodist;
Thorfin, M, 16, born Ont, origin: Dutch, C Methodist, Farmer Son;
Ortina, F, 15, born Ont, origin: Dutch, C Methodist;
Laona, F, 14, born Ont, origin: Dutch, C Methodist;
Lily, F, 12, born Ont, origin: Dutch, C Methodist;
Willington, M, 8, born Ont, origin: Dutch, C Methodist;
Nay, F, 4, born Ont, origin: Dutch, C Methodist.

1901 personal census, Gosfield South Twp, Essex Co., ON, G2-9:
Wigle Thomas H., M, Married, 2 April 1834, 67, born Ont, origin: German, Can, Meth, Farmer;
Elizabeth A., F, wife, Married, 2 July 1846, 54, born Ont, origin: English, Can, Meth.

Commemorative Biographical Record of the County of Essex, J. H. Beers & Co., Toronto, 1905, p. 407-408:
Thomas H. Wigle, a prosperous farmer of Gosfield South township, County of Essex, located on the 3rd Concession, belongs to the prominent old pioneer family of that name, the early ancestral data of which will be found elsewhere.
     John Wigle, grandfather of our subject, was the oldest child of John Wigle, the pioneer settler of that name in Gosfield, and he was born Dec. 21, 1778, at York, Pennsylvania, and died Jan. 28, 1871, aged ninety-two years, in Gosfield. At Amherstburg, Feb. 9, 1802, he married Susanna Scratch, born July 23, 1785, on Hog Island, and died Jan. 29, 1860, aged seventy-four years, in Gosfield. They had the following children: Mary, born Feb. 10, 1803, married John Roe, and died Dec. 4, 1827; Leonard, born March 14, 1804, married Jane Hairsine, and died in Mersea, Feb. 27, 1878; Julianna, born June 4, 1805, married Peter Malott; Wendel, father of Thomas H. Wigle, born Sept. 9, 1806, married Hannah Hairsine; Isabella, born June 2, 1808, married Thomas Williams; Joseph, born Oct. 8, 1809, married (first) Miss McKenzie, and (second) Sarah Stewart; Peter, born Aug. 25, 1811, married Mary Augustine; Susanna, born Nov. 18, 1813, married John Iler; John, born Sept. 19, 1815, married Ann Randall; Sarah, born Sept. 8, 1818, married Joseph Coatsworth; Robert, born May 24, 1820, married Elizabeth Williams; Solomon, born May 14, 1822, married Ann Iler; Adam, born June 14, 1824, married Lucinda Buchanan; Nancy Jane, born June 1, 1828, married Louis Jasperson, and they are parents of George Jasperson, of Kingsville; Michael, born March 15, 1831, married Jane Crow, and is the only surviving member of this large family, and now resides in Kingsville.
     Wendel Wigle, the fourth child of John Wigle, was born on the Wigle homestead in Gosfield, and there grew to manhood. At maturity his father gave him a tract of 142 acres of land on Lot 3, Eastern Division, and upon this he settled, building here first a hewed frame house on Mill Creek, some 200 rods north of the house now owned by Benjamin Wigle. After some years he moved this house, and put up the stone addition that for many years was known as the homestead. He began the first clearing on this farm, and was permitted before his death to see it practically all cleared. He was an excellent farmer and manager, and added to his holdings by the purchase of eighty acres in Lot 2 of the 2nd Concession.
     On Nov. 23, 1830, he married Hannah Hairsine, born March 5, 1812, in Yorkshire, England, who died April 6, 1888, in Gosfield. She was a daughter of Charles and Mary (Burton) Hairsine, and was five years old when the family came to Canada and settled in Mersea township. Wendel Wigle was a Conservative in his political views. He was a faithful member and an active worker in the Methodist Church. His life, which covered ninety-two years, three months and ten days, ended on Dec. 19, 1898. He retained his faculties to a remarkable degree.
     To Wendel and Hannah (Hairsine) Wigle were born the following children: Mary, born Dec. 1, 1831, married James Flood, and died July 8, 1868; Thomas H., born April 2, 1833, is the subject of this sketch; Susan, born Feb. 4, 1835, married Hubert Deming, and died in 1880; Stephen, born Jan.8, 1837, married Sarah Wilcox; Sarah, born March 9, 1839, married John Harrington, of Kingsville; Julianna, born Feb. 22, 1841, married Edward Rodgers, of Gosfield; Jane, born Jan. 4, 1842, married Drake Wilcox; Charles, born in 1844, died aged two and one-half years; Wendel, deceased, born Sept. 9, 1846, married Mary Vansleet; Benjamin, born July 4, 1848, married Colinette Deming, and occupied the home place; Lucinda, born in September, 1850, married Aaron Haycock, and died Sept. 12, 1878; Amelia, born Dec. 22, 1852, married Duncan Montrose, and resides in Detroit; and Janette, born July 6, 1856, deceased, married Eugene Augustine.
     Thomas H. Wigle was born in the frame house above mentioned, in Lot 3, on Mill Creek, and he remained under the home roof until he was twenty-six years of age. As he was the eldest son, much hard work was his share, in the clearing of the land, and in the first preparations for farming. These were all carried on under most adverse conditions, and there are few pioneer hardships Mr. Wigle did not go through. However, the outdoor life and constant industry made muscle and brawn, and, like others of his family, he grew into strong young manhood, perfectly capable of undertaking the clearing and cultivating of the farm given him by his father. The land was perfectly wild at that time, and even the 2nd and 3rd Concession roads had not yet been cut through. Mr. Wigle put up a frame house on his land, and occupied it until 1875, when he replaced it with his present commodious brick residence. He has cleared all his land, drained wet places, put out orchard, erected substantial buildings, and has made the other improvements which mark the farmer who is both modern and practical. His first tract included eighty acres, to which Mr. Wigle has added eighty-five acres, and is now in possession of one of the most desirable farms of this locality.
     Mr. Wigle easily recalls the time when wild animals were seen almost daily. He became expert with his gun, and killed the last wolves seen in the township. He has always enjoyed hunting, and even in the past year joined a party of sportsmen in a trip to the North, and was gratified by being able to bring home a larger pair of deer horns than any other of the party.
     Mr. Wigle was married (first) to Delilah Wilcox, who died two and one-half years later, and he married (second) Elizabeth Ann Rodgers, and to them were born: Thorpin, born May 18, 1865, married Alva Peterson, and they have Eva, Ella and Alla; Ortena, born Dec. 28, 1866, married Thomas O'Donald, a merchant of Wallaceburg, and they have John and Lillie; Laona, born Nov. 27, 1867, married John Minor, a tile manufacturer, and they have Carl, Manley and William; Lillie, born June 15, 1869, married Manley B. Squires, a plumber of Windsor; Wellington, born Oct. 21, 1872, married Mary Bruner, and they have John, Lila, Elizabeth and Beatrice (he graduated from the Detroit Dental College in 1900, and is now practicing his profession in that city); and May, born Jan. 20, 1877, married George E. Christmas, of Harbour Beach, Michigan, and they have one son, Thomas William E. Mr. Wigle and family belong to the Kingsville Methodist Church.
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John Wigle 1778-1871   Susanna Scratch 1785-1860   Charles Hairsine 1775-1852   Mary Shipley or Burton 1781-1837
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Wendel Wigle 1806-1898   Hannah Hairsine 1812-1888
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Thomas H. Wigle 1833-