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F Lucy Blackman

Mariages et enfants

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Notes individuelles

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 Herington, Regular Baptist Minister, Gosfield (p. 27):
Abel Stewart, of Mersea Twp., to Lucy Blackmore, of Gosfield Twp. 1 Jan. 1839, Gosfield, by banns. Rev. Herington. Wit. John Blackmore and John Stewart.

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... During the American Revolution he served as a colonel in the British army... he subsequently married, in Maryland, a Scottish-born maiden, Margaret Brown... 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... 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... His children were: ... Abel...
     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.
     Simeon M. Stewart was born Nov. 13, 1850, on the old homestead in Mersea township, and was a boy when the family removed to the Lake Shore in Gosfield. He obtained his education in the section school. His first independent venture was as a hog and cattle buyer for Bellnap & Drake, of Detroit, and he also did some buying for Hiram Walker. For nine months he worked at the carpenter trade in Lasalle county, Illinois.
     On March 1, 1877, Mr. Stewart rented the "Lovelace Hotel" at Ruthven, which he conducted for five years, and then moved to Leamington. After one year there in the livery business he bought the "Lake View Hotel", which he operated for a time, and then sold it to become proprietor of the "Ontario House", and later the "Erie Hotel", at Wheatley. For a short time he engaged in the livery business at Leamington, but after an absence of five years returned to Ruthven. In May 1887, he purchased the hotel which he has since ably conducted, under the name of the "Stewart House". In addition he owns the home farm, and looks after this property in connection with his other business.
     In politics Mr. Stewart is a Conservative and he has always taken a lively interest in local affairs, but has never consented to hold political office, although eminently qualified to do so. For the past seventeen years he has been fraternally connected with the Order of United Workmen at Kingsville.
     On Feb. 14, 1877, Mr. Stewart was married to Minnie, daughter of John Nutson, and three sons have been born to them, namely: Alfred, born May 17, 1879, is a graduate of the Medical Department of the Toronto University; George, born July 1, 1881, is a student in the Medical Department of the Toronto University; Joseph, born June 4, 1884, completed the course at the Leamington high school in 1904, and is now taking up dentistry in Toronto University.