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M Alpheus H. Scratch

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Von s Seite Henry Ryan Scratch 1817-1901

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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:
Scratch Henry R., M, Married, 44, born U Canada, Methodist W;
Mary Ann, F, Married, 26, born U Canada, Methodist W;
Foster, M, Single, 18, born U Canada, Methodist W;
Thaddeus C., M, Single, 16, born U Canada, Methodist W;
Luke G., M, Single, 13, born U Canada, Methodist W;
Adolphus F., M, Single, 7, born U Canada, Methodist W;
Caroline A., F, Single, 5, born U Canada, Methodist W;
Adellia J., F, Single, 3, born U Canada, Methodist W.

1881 personal census, Kingsville, Essex Co., ON, LDS 1881 census household record:
Scratch A. H., M, Married, 38, born Ont, origin: Irish, Church of England, Mason;
Lucinda S., F, Married, 39, born Ont, origin: Scottish, Church of England;
Harry B., M, 11, born Ont, origin: Scottish, Church of England;
Ada E., F, 8, born Ont, origin: Scottish, Church of England;
Maggie V., F, 6, born Ont, origin: Scottish, Church of England;
Augustin E., M, 23, born Ont, origin: Scottish, Church of England, Mason.

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. At maturity he began farming on Lot 4, Eastern Division, where he erected a log house, and later built a two-story and a half brick residence. In the course of time he became the possessor of 600 acres of land, all in one tract, and in addition owned farms in Mersea township. Although he was an extensive landholder and farmed extensively, he was not intended by nature to be an agriculturist, his inclinations and talents tending toward mechanical work. He was, in fact, a genius, and when it is remembered how few and crude were the tools of that day his manufacture of guns, ... wind and power mills was certainly very ...able. He delighted to puzzle out some ... machine, and usually succeeded in putting it into working order. During the military occupation of Windsor, during the war of 1812-14, he kept the soldiers' guns in repair. Mr. Scratch laid the brick for the first brick house ever built in this section of the country. In 1831 he received his commission as postmaster of Gosfield and continued in office for a number of years, dying March 14, 1871. 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: John, born Nov. 14, 1810, married Sarah Saintsatin; Leonard, born Feb. 14, 1813, married (first) Elizabeth Cole, and (second) Sophia Agla; Judith, born May 25, 1815, married Oliver Kellogg; Henry Ryan, born Oct. 6, 1817, is mentioned below; Mary, born March 12, 1820, married Samuel Bentley; Joseph Benson, born Dec. 11, 1823, married Mary Black; Alpheus, born Aug. 25, 1826, married Nancy Palmer; William Ryerson, born Jan. 4, 1829, married Elizabeth Crow, and they live retired on a part of the homestead farm; Archimedes, born March 25, 1831, (deceased), married Deborah Palmer; Oliver Kellogg, born March 30, 1833, married Jane Fulmer, and lives retired in Leamington; Cyrenus Lyman, born Dec. 20, 1838, married Emma Barnett, and lives at Shelbina, Shelby County, Missouri.
      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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Peter Scratch 1785-1871   Mary Wigle 1793-1872    
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Henry Ryan Scratch 1817-1901   Elizabeth Black 1823-1851
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Alpheus H. Scratch ca 1843-