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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1957-05-29, Page 7The `picture Above shows the pupils 'at. S.S. No, 3 in 1894. rn They are, fro ]eft„ to right, back row: John D. Metcalfe,' Jack Weir, Oliver Stokes, Walter Dunkin, Bruce Ferguson, Ted Scott, Isaac' Stokes, Isaac Metealfe, Jim Weir, Tommy Start, Mac 'Aitken. Second grow, Rachel Dunkin, Agnes Mun- dell, Maud Smith, Maggie Mundell, Aggie D. Aitken, Jennie Hutto; Beesie Gray, Mardie McLean, Mary Aitken, Ida ' 'Grey, Jack Baird,:Third row: Annie McGee, Molley McGee, Charlie _Aitken, 1Ches Dunkin, Sam Marshall, Hartley Aitken,, Jim Dunkin / Addle Dunkin Mabel Elliott, Ida Elliott, Bessie _Aitken, Myrtle Gr6'•, •Omar Stokes, Herb Coupland. Fourth row: Bob Aitken, Walker Rutherford, Peter Muir, Ed Baird, Bert Elliott, Roy :Rutherford, George Muir, John Hutton, George Baird, Percy Coupland, Charlie Dalgleish, Dori Dal- Cason:tore, Wes Marshall. Front row: Aggie Wal- lace, Andy Wallace, 'Margaret Muir, Lily Kinsman, Harold Hutton, Willie, Marehall, "Gladys Dunkin, Etta" Elliott, Ella Elliott, Mary Aitken, Roy Elliott, The trustees were James Scott, David Wallace and Patrick Wells. John Gilmour was the, teacher., , Here are the puede who Were attending o N, 3, Tuthberey in 1915) Back row, libel theinft, H6011611. Meteelfe, David Bedie,' Mary Veil Campbell, Eclha Elliott, Edna tineoln, Item, MeGlYnri, jainee CAMP' '1)611 I seodtal row, Elmer Breen;'Boyd Marshall; Jean Wilton, Mary Sadie, Annie Metcalf; tIolin McGlynn and Lorne MeGlynn; third raw, Berbera, Weir, Edith ItealfeI Walter McGlynn, Isatte Metcalfe, Clarke Elliott, Jean Campbell, Geade Mitchell; frerit roes, Mary Andy •IVIltelbell, Addle Rreekenridge, 'fames Marshall, Irene Mundell, Robert Breen, tsob l Metcalfe'. 'One of the children inr tbe front row holds a slate Whlbh rigs the 'trustees 'as A :Preen, it, Muir and AMP If-KV-77" abtiellitte=rtliteti VANGUAN,ONTAMOA WUONFADAY, MAY 20 j'iTf'm''"'-"+-m""-'"'"-'-""'"--m--"— Farm Talon, by Stories of Pioneer Days 1-4 11)Yer in Suit Mom Compiled by Mrs, R. Appleby Make illterestiOg Reading We grateful to Mrs. 1. APe pithy who. has Spent a great deal of time . gathering and compiling the history of Terriberry School' Section No, 3, which appears this Week, Mrs, APplehy. would like to ego".• press, her thanks te. all her .neigh; bolas who ,so, kindly 'cO;.operated by supplying her with information, and pictures. • Tir, Irwin, who subsequently laid hear down the treP door into the out and named the village of Bel- Stable, It fell on a man who was more, North-east W obretioginr6 f 'stt:et1°.troWlirilshthipe., tteldselliturhthrelaeho:fse'hso , to 'both man: and al0114' on Lot 1, Own C, Prank Irwin was bdar. pest master and .commissioner,: •: These !bean were, a great annoy- end Thomas Irwin' wab ,a 'allee to Mrs, Wells, and one day man, s14e , could stand It no. longer, so OWNED ITWO DEARS' she got on horseback and rode on the river to Vifroketer, When One of the most •colorful •char- she carne back she was still so ectere among' the early eettlere angry, that instead of going home, she stayed at .a neighbour's for or four days. ELLIOTT BRICK YARD STILL 110111111SHINfi 'TABLE IN MlUSEUIVI S,S, No, 3, Glenannan, )14$ 41.. long history of service'to the' youngsters -of three '.generations of Turnherry Township youngsters whose 'early days were spent Within its walls. This picture will bring hack memories of days gone by. From the lot are Arno Metcalfe, Plant Stokes, Margaret Mundell, Eimer Jeff- Ray, Jellies Campbell. Centre, Marian Wallace, Mary Baird, Lois Apple., Fern Jeffrey, Front, Donald \ 'Wallace, Stewart Jeffrey, Arnold .Teffeity and Walter Dunkin, Norman Muir, Seen at the rear, was the teacher.. Rey, Christopher' Currie took Ire the farm Which Etetiberi Stokes later owned, They had a big family as was usual in these days, ,Mr. Currie got' into a law suit and by the time it was finally settled he' had lost his farm 'to the lawyer; a Mr. OaMeron Of Goderich, who rented 'it to diVertnit people and finally Reuben Stokes bought it'in 1893. In 1898 he Married Mary Ze.rfce. and they bad a family of four girls, Mabel, Annie,' Myrtle and Elma, who all livo in the neigh,. borheod, . • • For 33 years Mr. Stokes wlrs Secretary of .the school board. His wife' died, In 1948 and he passed away in 1952 at the age of 86 years. Wren Ages • Fiye to ►flea ed Glen-an-44n - School ClaOes DUNKIN RESIDENCE HOUSED POST OFFICE Chester Dunkin'e grandfather, Mr, Monroe made a table as a wedding present for his wife. This table was cherry wood, and was made from the first board' Sawed in the first sawmill in Goderich. The pedestal and foot resembled the trunk and roots of a tree. It is now safely housed in the mus- eum in Goderich. Don't miss it on your next visit, 'Pte. Wm, Marshall Died for Country From 1914, to 1918 rnany of the boys In the seotion enlisted and all but one were fortimate enough to return home. Pte. Wm, Marshall enlisted In the 119th battalion in 1916 and nine months latert ,paid the supreme sacrifice. At home the women of the sec- tion did their part also and about 1,10 quilts were sent overseas, be= sides innurnerbale scarves, socks and boxes of treats for the soldiers. was Paddy Wells, an Irieh Protest: ant, who built his cabin on the river bank at the hack of David Eadie's south place, He elways wanted a, right of way to the side- road so he wouldn't have to cross I the river, The next neighbour, "Yankee" Stevens, was stubborn and the' fence between them was -taken down and put tip many times with many loud arguments. One time when. Mr Wells was up near Tara buying patio, he acquired two bear cubs. One of these couldn't be tamed, and was kept chained. The other one was a pet and would wrestle with his owner, One day, at threshing, time, men up in the barn, pushed the the child". One of his pupils, Emily Wells, rebelled when he at- tempted to strap her and grabbing his wriskers, swung on them until he had, to give up. , WOLF AT WINDOW One time Robert Muir and his brothers and sisters were left alone. As night came en, they Were watching out the window of their little log cabin for their parents return when' a wolf ap- peared and looked in. This little w house was built just west, of ere Mr. Muir built the brick hOuse. A. lilac bush marks the spot. 4..bout the Year 1868 there were ninny children in the neighborhood and. it was decided to build a log eehool close to the boundary line , between the farms of Thomas, and George, Stokes. The teacher' was Andrew Forbes, an early settler, Who lived about a mile west of the Echoed. The, pupils ranged in, age from tots of five years to young men and women of eighteen and nine- teen.- By 1873 the enrollment had' risen to 72, and it was decided after much discussion as' to loca- tion,- that a new frame school should be built at the corner, the location• of the present school.. ratepayer wanted the school in the centre of the section, but that would have been back the Isideroad at the boundary between Gleen Appleby's and William El- liott's. Mr. Fraser was still the teaCher, but when a' young man SCOTT OWNED APPLEBY FARM J. MARSHALL BUILT PRESENTWEIR HOME of whom have remained In the sec- tion. Following Miss McDonald were ,Miss. Juneve Taylor, Miss Ada Mc- Gill (Mrs. R. Appleby), Miss Nellie Doig, Alleise Myrtle Bennett GNUS T. Metcalfe), Mr, Harold' Weir, I Mr. Norman Muir (7 years), Miss, Helen Mulvey (Mrs. David Eadie)„ Miss Grace Ireland (Mrs, Lloyd ;Jasper), Miss Annie Campbell, Wm. Black, Carmen Farrier, Geo. Cowan, Miss Jean Forster (Mrs, Alex•Robertson), Miss Jean Dicki- son (Mrs. Elmor Ross), Joseph IrMn, Miss Helen Walker (Mrs, Ross Grey), Miss Mabel Dunkin (Mrs. J. Goldrich), Mrs, Janet Day, Miss Alma McMichael and Miss (Please turn to page nine) Miss Weir then taugh't for 'three years,' followed by George Musa, grove, John Corny; Gilbert Rob- ertson, B,dulston. Denlop, Miss Clara Fortune, Sohn. Gilmour, Peter Fraser who married Mrs. Robert Muir's sister Annie 'Reid), Miss Roadhouse, Miss Pearson (3 years), Mr. Bryans, Miss McDou- gall, Mr. Wesley Ansley (4 years), Miss McBurney„ Miss Laura 'Ans- ley, Miss .1. Bowman, Miss Florence Imlay (Mrs. Charles Hopper) and Mr. Andrew Wallace. A new brick school was erected in 1915 with Miss -Mabel McDon- ald (Mrs. Walter VanWyek) as the first teacher.' Since that time there have been twenty teachers, several from the boundary by the name of Cart caused a fight at the school, the teacher found he could ilok stop it, The trustees'were called in and it was decided 'that a' new teacher must be found, Mr. Forbes was 64 years of age at the time and in order to be eligible for pension taught at, the Belmbre School for one year. - - Neil Gilmour, •a young, man from Brueefield was appointed to suc- ceed Mr, Forbes, He was soon, re- placed by Miss Priscilla Powell, Who was able to maintain disci- pline' and taught , for sour years. One applicant for the position had excellent references but was turn- ed down because he was a hotel= keeper's son. SWINGS ON WHISKERS , Next in succession came Miss BAxter and,,, Mr. McRae, who ' be- lieved in "Spare the rod and spoil John Marshall was 'born in County Fermanagh, Ireland, He was a sailor along the coast of France and across the Atlantic for seven years. When he decided to settle down, he landed at New York harbour. He worked in Genessee Valley for a year or so and then crossed into Canala by 'way of Niagara. He lived for a time near Port Hope, ,east of Oshawa, There was an Irish settlement here and it was named the Township of Cavan after County Cavan in Ireland. In 1863 he married 'Margaret Boyd and came up to this district, They lived in a little cabin close .Henry,..Johann unt11,, he ,&ought the 300 acres on the tenth where his descendants, Mrs, Mar- garet Weir, Wesley and a grand- son, Boyd still live. They, had ten children, William, John, Dave, Annie, ('who died when she was seven) George, Joseph, Samuel (who died with diphtheria When he-was a baby) Margaret, Samuel (named for his brother) and Wes- ley. They lived in the log cabin about ten years, then built the present Frame house which has been in usg for seventy-four years. Two years later the barn was built, and was raised on 'Margaret's birthday. Mr. Marshall passed away in 1915 and his wife in 1920. David Dunkin and Martha Mon', roe were married in East Wawa- nosh, where he bad a blacksmith shop at the Brick Church .corner,. In 1885 , ho moved to Glepaiman and bought the blacksmith shOP and house from John Bray. In September 1913 he was given the contract for drawing the mail from the post office, which at that time was kept by Mist; Agnes Far- tune, who succeeded the Ander- snits, He ran both the Mail route and the blacksmith business until his death in July 1919. His son Chester then took over the mail route and a year later the post, office was moved to the Dun- kin residence. This arrangement lasted until 1944 when illness forc- ed Mr. Dunkin to lease the mail carrying to Stafford Paisley.. , Eight years later' the work. was taken over by Jim Paisley, but in 1955' both post office and rural mail route were discontinued and the mail new comes directly from the Wingharn post office, and is drawn by Edward Walker, Mr. and Mrs. David Dunkin had ' ten children, two of whom, Mabel and Gladys, died when young. The others were Ellen (Mrs. Arthur Lincoln), William, Rachel Dave Metcalfe), Walter, James, Addle Mrs. Fred Johnson), Click- ter and Alice (Mrs; Jeteeph Main),, Chester still lives, in the did home with his wife,..the „former. Hazel Armstrong. :They have four child: re; Walter, Mabel, Jackson and Dorothy. • I George Scott took up the land where Glenn Appleby now lives. He married Grace Wallace and they had three children, Tod, Margaret (Mrs. William Mitchell), and Marian (Mrs. Charlie Mitch- ell), The girls married and went to their own homes but Tod stayed on the farm until 1912, He sold, the farm at that time to Thomas Appleby and went to Chicago, Some years later he married and went to California. Here his wife died but he still lives at San Diego, California. ' Thomas Appleby married Fanny Stokes and their sari Reuben took over the farm when his 'father died in 1949 .at the age of 79. Reu- ben's, so; Glenn Thomas Apple- by,• now owns the farm. He and his wife , Leena Fichell have_ a family of •three, a girl, Lois Laur- aine and two boys, Thdmas Ed- ward and William Neil.' , In pioneer times there were many professions which are seldpin heard of 'today, For instance, James Ingram, who lived just west of the swamp across from Reuben Stokes', was a"-pump-maker. John Bray bought out the business and he was a hlacksmith. After a while he thought he should have a 'better location so he moved to Glenannan and built a house and blacksmith slum there, Later In sold out to David Dunkin who continued the business until, his., death in July 1919, John and Andrew Mitchell also had a blacksmith ' shop whey( Robert Campbell now lives, Later Andrew Mitchell .bought the farm now occupied by Herman Metcalfe. In Belmore there were five shoe- makers, two blacksmiths, one tailor, one wagon maker, one harness maker, one 'tannery, and three-pearl-ash makers. In Glenannan 'there was a saw- mill on the north-Cast side of the railroad, owned by Dutch- man and run by Mr. Logan. A blacksmith shop, a store, and the post office, kept by Willie Ander- son who also toned after the stat- ion. There was another sawmill sit- uated on the creek back in Jef- frey's bush, run by Tom Piper and Tom Aitkens, Still another was located across from Roy Ruther- ford's. The store was run by Mr, Gal- braith just west of the blacksmith shop, but after a quarrel about property he moved over to the north side of the road. On the boundary there was a 'brick yard run by James Elliott, He had come out from England with his family and built a house north of the present location of the 'brick yard. The Elliott brick yard is still• .flenriehing .,and is a familiar land mark of the district. Wm. 'Elliott, a grandson of the founder is proprietor, • .Pupils in in 1939 'when William. Black was the teacher are, back row; Bernice A plebs, jitekson Dunkin, John Rutherford, Michael Willie, Vernon Reid. Centre row: Mildred Stokes, Flo enee Wallace, Mabel Dunkin, Jack 'Metealln. Front, Doris Culliton,' Audrey Culliton Brian IVfetcalfe, Lorne Metcalfe, Glenn Appleby, Metcalfe's LOg House Torn Down in 1898 About the year 1860, Isaac Met- calfe and Jane Stephenson were married in -Stanley. They lived in Michigan for a while, then came back to Stanley again. While, there they got in touch with Stephen Piper who lived in Zurich and from him bought two lots' of land, which still belong to the Metcalfe family. They hired in a little log shanty on• the first hill down the sideroad, until they built' another log, house and barn on the same location as Isaac Metcalfe's house now stands. They had seven children, Alice, Ralph, John, David, Robert, ,Isaac and Annie, • About 1808 the log house was teen down and the family lived in a little shanty -until the new brick house was built -on• the Same ground as the old one had been The -next year, 180, John Met- calfe and Fanny Robinson were married in Gttelph by a Methodist minister, 'Rev, Craig. They had a family of four girls and fouraboye, Thomas, Herman, Annie, -*Edith, Isaac, Isabelle, Elva and Arno. In 1954, On the 23rd of November, Mrs, Metcalfe Passed away, Mb. Metcalfe and his son Isaac and fanny Still occupy the Old home- stead. Marshall Farm Joh', Scott took up the land now owned by SanyMarshall, Mr. Scott Married 'Miss Wallace, They had throe children, olio of whom died while yeung, Margaret Jane Married Adam Johnston and Jambe, who never married, stayed on the home place until it Wri,,s sold to Mr. Marshall in 1923, Mt, Marshall and his eon ife'r- Vitt are Still en this farin. Lincoln Home Built by D. Weir Arthur Willerton Lincoln, eon of John Lincoln and Harriet Norris of England, married Ellen Dunkin, daughter of Mr, and Mrs. David Dunkin, They were married in 1896 by Rev, A. C. Stewart, of Binevele. They sewed en the farm, 'Lot 8, Con, 10 which' they bought front Mr. Andrew Forbes, About eigh- teen years later they moved to the farm formerly owned by James Weir. Mr. Lincoln passed away' in 1054 and Mrs: Lincoln died in Detembet of the same year. t" Their stone house, which Stands on the faint their eon Lance now occupies, was Mint by David Weir for his'expected .bride, but she de- bided she Would not leave• Scot- land to live hi •the Wilds of Cklietche The farm Was bought from the crown in 1862 at a Sale of schen)). 'Mule, foe two hundred dollars, At that One RitrOrt IVionek of tat, lYtran'arton, Ireland WAS Governor General of B'r'itish lqOrth America, When the old log school on the corner 'of Isaacs Stokes' place, was deserted for the new frente school, church services were held there for a short tithe, Then a frame building wee,bent on land donat- ed by' Isitito Metcalfe for an Atte.- limn Church, This was on the ebtith,eset corner opposite the school. Later :Primitive Methodist prea- chers took the services, There was a Rev. Tette/land n, brother-in-16W of Artluir Lititoin flamed Justus Rowe who pr€aehed for ti time both here and le Bluevale. Later this building beeerne a Temper- ance Ledge, then when this dis- banded, 'the 'building was sold to Jack Rollers of Lower Wingham who built a sinall barn with the lumber, in 1866 ,ladies' Presbyterian Church was built where it stood until 1045. Mr, Hastie was,ite first minister and he married the school teacher, Miss MacLeod. The 75th Anniversary of Eadie's Church was held on October 5th. 1041, The form of service was the same as the Covenanter:, used in Scotland as early as 1560, The Of- fering was dropped into a small black bag fastened to the end of a slender bale, Which enabled the usher to reach everyone in the congregation, The closing service for Eadie's Was held Mn May 17th, 1045, The Covenantees service Was again used, The church was moved to Kintail to the summer camp and the shed 'was bought by the Tees- water •Agrieultural Society, The congregation earned Itself a reputation .for its garden parties, Where the .tables eet out on the lawn, Were always loaded With good things to eat. A variety' cot 'always follOWed the supper, EAMES' C1111111 MOVED TO KINTA1L •aeee,e-,-