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F Elizabeth Black

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

Commemorative Biographical Record of the County of Essex, J. H. Beers, Toronto, 1905, p. 299-300:
Frederick A. Scratch, of Gosfield South, County Essex, is one of the well-known members of the old and honorable pioneer family of that name, and is a son of Henry Ryan Scratch and grandson of Peter Scratch.
      Peter Scratch was born Nov. 29, 1786, in Trenton, Michigan, and was a child when the family settled on the lake shore in Gosfield... On May 3, 1808, he married Mary Wigle, born June 19, 1793, in Gosfield, who died June 3, 1872, and they had children as follows: ... Henry Ryan, born Oct. 6, 1817, is mentioned below...
      Henry Ryan Scratch was born Oct. 6, 1817, on Lot 4, East Division, Gosfield township, and received his educational training in the Master McMurray school. When he started farming he bought thirty acres in Lot 4, which is now the G. W. Coatsworth farm. This property had been but little improved, and he immediately set to work clearing the land and erecting buildings, continuing there until 1858, when he had an excellent opportunity to trade this farm for one of 100 acres in Lot 6, Concession 2. Here he built a log house of such a substantial nature that it stood the storms of years, being demolished by our subject in 1872, its site being occupied by his present handsome residence. To his disappointment, Mr. Scratch found, after settling on this farm, that but two or three acres could be cultivated, the greater part of the tract being under water. In the following summer he organized what was called a logging bee, and our subject, then but a boy, recalls that these neighbours were present: Michael J. Wigle, Adam R. Wigle, Dr. Andrew Wigle, John D. Wigle, Al.. Scratch, Digney Rodgers, Joseph and John Scratch. This gathering of men resulted in the piling up of all the logs lying around, with the exception of those too deeply imbedded in mud and water. Later in the season the father cleared up the wettest place, at which time he left standing a small hickory twig, saying to our subject that he would leave it so that his grandchildren could gather nuts there. It is still standing, long surviving the kind man who was thus thoughtful for his posterity, and is well cared for by Mr. Scratch. The land was finally all cleared and drained by its owner, but the last years of his life were passed on a small place he bought just east of Kingsville, his death occurring Jan 31, 1901.
      Henry Ryan Scratch married Elizabeth Black, who was born Oct. 10, 1823, in Ireland, and died March 21, 1851, and to them were born children as follows: Alpheus married Lucinda Augustine, and had three children, Henry, Ada and Maggie; Thaddeus married Harriet Malott, and had four children, Nellie, Cyrenus, Carl and Zadah; Louis married Clarissa Augustine, and had Amos, Hardy, Hardy (2), Leslie and Arthur. The second marriage of Mr. Scratch was to Mary Ann Fulmer, born Dec. 8, 1834, who survived her husband. They had children: Jerome, deceased; Frederick Adolphus; Caroline, who married Robert Augustine; Mary Adeline and Margaret, residing with the mother; and Lucinda, who married A. E. Montgomery, of Toronto.
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