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F Madeline Wigle

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Notes individuelles

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 & 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...
     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 & Co., Toronto, 1905, p. 528-529:
... In 1772 Philip Fox came to America from his birthplace, Baden, Germany, where he had married Catherine Lamer. They settled in the same year at Baltimore, Maryland, remaining for several years, and then moved to Pennsylvania, during their residence in which State several children were born. A number of neighbours then banded together to locate farther north, and in the company were John Wendel Wigle and Philip Fox, with their families... in 1794 he was fortunate enough to draw Lot 10, on the lake shore in Gosfield, and removed thither. There both he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives, and their remains rest on the Wesley Wigle farm, in a private burying-ground. They had eight sons and two daughters born to them, as follows: ... Jacob, father of William C. Fox, and grandfather of our subject (he settled on Lot 22, Concession 6); ...
     Jacob Fox, the grandfather of Gordon P. Fox of Gosfield, was born Jan. 22, 1788, in Pennsylvania, and was but a lad when the family became permanently settled in Gosfield. He began farming for himself on Concession 6, where he did the first clearing, but later removed to Lot 24, on the lake, building about 1826 a log house near the shore. This house is still in use, and is the oldest in the county to be occupied. He continued to add to his land here until he had several hundred acres, and, for his day, was regarded as a man with large capital. He took part in the Rebellion, and was present at Amherstburg and Pelee Island. His death took pace at his home July 19, 1868, at the age of eighty years, five months, twenty-seven days.
     Jacob Fox was twice married, first to Madeline Wigle, and they had children: Julianna, born Oct. 30, 1812, married John Snider, of Colchester; John I., born March 22, 1814, married Elizabeth Godwin; Jacob, born March 11, 1816, married Elizabeth Lypps; Susannah, born March 16, 1818, is the widow of George McLean, of Colchester; Sarah, born Nov. 14, 1820, married John Arner; Anna, born Sept. 11, 1824, married George Noble, of Ruthven; William C. was born July 24, 1827...

Biographical memoirs of Gratiot County, Michigan : compendium of biography of celebrated Americans, J.H. Beers, Chicago, 1906, p. 100-103:
TIMOTHY D. ACKLES (deceased), one of the highly respected pioneers of North Star township, Gratiot county, was born in Onondaga county, New York, August 13, 1835, son of Terttules and Charlotte (Doolittle) Ackles, natives of the same State... Toward the latter period of the Civil war Mr. Ackles was engaged in Canada in buying horses for the United States government and while thus employed in County Essex, Ontario, met his future wife. On August 20, 1865, he married the lady-Miss Abigail Fox-born in the county named, September 7, 1845, the youngest of the three children born to Jacob and Elizabeth (McLean) Fox... Jacob Fox had been twice married, his first wife, a Miss Wigle, of County Essex, dying in 1825, at the age of thirty-five, mother of the following: Julia Ann, deceased, Mrs. John Snyder; John I. and Jacob (deceased), residents of County Essex; Susan, Mrs. George McLean, of the county named; Sarah, Mrs. John Arner, living in the same county; Ann, deceased, Mrs. George Noble; and William, also a resident of County Essex...

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John Wendel Weigele/Wigle 1753-   Julianna Romer
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Madeline Wigle ca 1795-ca 1827