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F Mary Wigle

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1861 personal census, Gosfield Twp, Essex Co., ON, 3-11:
Scratch Peter, M, Married, 75, born U Canada, Unitarian, Miller;
Mary, F, 67, born U Canada, Methodist W;
Cyrenus, M, Single, 22, born U Canada, Methodist W;
Loveless Amana, F, Single, 13, born U Canada, Methodist W;
Scratch Samuel, M, Single, 18, born U Canada, Methodist W.

Commemorative Biographical Record of the County of Essex, J. H. Beers & Co., Toronto, 1905, p. 61-64:
Wigle. The prominent and numerous family of this name in the County of Essex, Ont., is descended from John Wendel Wigle, who was born in Germany in the year 1763. Being left an orphan at an early age, he was obliged to shift for himself, and was a mere boy when he made his way to the seacost, where, having neither means nor friends, he hid himself on board a sailing vessel which was about to leave for America. He was discovered after the ship sailed by the captain, who proved himself a most cruel man, and immediately upon arrival in America bound young Wigle out to service for seven years, it is said, to pay for his passage. To what trade he was apprenticed during this time is not definitely known, but as his occupation in later life was weaving, it is most probable that his knowledge of the business was acquired during that period.
     At the age of twenty-one years John Wendel Wigle made his home at York, Pennsylvania, where in 1776 he was married to Julianna Rommer. He did not bear arms in the Revolution, though he was undoubtedly a British sympathizer, as we find that he decided to leave soon after the war closed. In 1786, along with a number of other families, he and his family started for Canada, making the journey to Detroit through Ohio, with pack-horses, driving their cattle before them. They spent several years near Detroit, probably on Grosse Ile, as the government had not yet acquired the land from the Indians, but about 1792, when government grants were thrown open to settlers, John W. Wigle and his family settled in Gosfield township, County of Essex, on Lot 6, Eastern Division. Here he passed the remainder of his life, dying in the home he established there, and he was buried in Lot 6, as is also his wife, who passed away in May 1824. In spite of the hardships and trails they had to contend with in making a home in the wilderness, these good people prospered, and John Wendel Wigle acquired possesion of some 3,000 acres before he died. Thus he was able to leave his children in comfortable circumstances, and as his family was a large one he had ample use for his numerous acres.
     We have the following record of the eleven children born to this pioneer couple: John, born in Pennsylvania Dec. 21, 1778, died in Gosfield Jan. 28, 1871; he married Susanna Scratch, and they had a family of fifteen children. Wendel, born in Pennsylvania, Dec. 17, 1781, married Isabella Scratch, and died April 6, 1860. Kate, born in Pennsylvania, married Theodore Malott, who settled on Lot 13, in Gosfield, East Divison. Elizabeth, born in Pennsylvania, became the wife of Michael Fox. Julianna, born in Colchester April 4, 1789, married George Fox, and died on Pelee Island July 3, 1879. Joseph, born March 22, 1792, died July 23, 1864; he married Euphemia Miller, and they had eleven children (they were the grandparents of William R. Wigle, who is mentioned elsewhere.) Mary, born in Gosfield June 29, 1793, married Peter Scratch, and died June 3, 1872. Sarah, born in Gosfield Aug. 26, 1798, married Solomon Shepley, and had eight children. Maudlin married Jacob Fox, and had seven children. Christopher married Mary Wilkinson. Michael married Julianna Tofflemire, and for his second wife, Prudence Chapman...

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.
      Frederick Adolphus Scratch was born March 17, 1854, on Lot 4, and was four years old when the family removed to the 2nd Concession. Although a mere child, he remembers the prevailing conditions during the first years of their residence there. His school advantages were necessarily limited, but he recalls one teacher with affection, a Miss Coatsworth, who now resides at Leamington. In time he came into possession of seventy acres in Lot 6, which he has continued to improve and make more and more valuable with substantial buildings, etc. It is almost impossible to realize that the present well cultivated, productive farm was, until 1858, a wilderness. With the exception of two years, when he was engaged in the grocery business at Ruthven, Mr. Scratch has always followed farming and is justly regarded as one of the leading agriculturists of his locality. His interests have been too closely centered in his vocation to admit to any very active work in politics, on which he entertains liberal views. He is thoroughly interested in the advancement of education and served for six years as trustee of School Section No. 3. For many years he has been a faithful worker in the Methodist Church at Ruthven, and for the past twelve years has been assistant of the Sunday-school.
      On March 2, 1881, Mr. Scratch married Annabelle Odell, of Detroit, Michigan, who was born there May 28, 1859, daughter of James and Roxie (Palmer) Odell, of Quebec and the County of Essex, respectively. The former was a mechanic in Detroit. Mr. and Mrs. Scratch have three children: Arthur Harrison, born Aug. 18, 1888, who was until some two months ago holding a responsible position at Windsor, when, without any warning, he suffered from a stroke of paralysis, which all of his many friends trust will not be of long duration; Ada Roxie, born March 2, 1895; and Florence Barbara, born Juy 18, 1899.

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John Wendel Weigele/Wigle 1753-   Julianna Romer
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Mary Wigle 1793-1872