HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1980-07-31, Page 27This. is a 'view of the back of the 'creamery
owned by the River Cellar Valley Creamery
Company, built on Disher property..a short
distance along the mill road 'from the fourth
concession bridge with Thomas Disher's son,
Adrian in`partnershipwth a man from Biyth. It
was operated by Mike , and Barney Benninger.
It ran successfully for several years but un-
fortunately burnt down in 1917 and was never
rebuilt.
Institutedoes history book
The Dungannon
Women's Institute has
prepared a history book
to be published 4n con-
junction with the
Dungannon 125th bir-
thday party. Marian
Zinn, Olive Blake, Elora
Black and Elsie Irvin are
members of the institute
wha:havworked.. on:. the
project and the fifth
member of their com-
mittee has been Ashfield
resident, Sheila Gunby.
The history book traces
the family history of the
farms in the southern
part of Ashfield and West
Wawanosh, and the Port
Albert area. In the village
of Dungannon, histories
were done for the school,
churches, businesses and
stores. The book also
includes township
minutes. and reports of
road , building; honour
rolls of the two world
wars; „golden and
diamond anniversaries;
methods of farming and
pictures from the in-
stitute Tweedsmuir
History book.
The committee used
the census of 1851, 1861
and 1871 to trace family
origins as well as
resources at the registry
office. Family histories
were done in the village
ecause many. -of the--
it age families were
retired couples who had
moved into the village
from the outlying farms
and their histories would
have been repetitious.
The greatest find of the
research done for the
book was a diary written
by William McQuoid of
concession 7 in Ashfield.
Excerpts from the diary
published in the history
book cover a period of 40
years. Mr. McQuoid
wrote in his diary every
day from about 1860 until
two days before his death
in 1913. The diary is
contained in a series of 12
books.
The 'committee spent
hours talking with older
members' ofthe com-
munity whose memories
of the past provided.
valuable resources for
the history. Their
research, produced
stories which have to
remain .unwritten to
protect the families, but
the committee laughs
about the other history
that still remains to be
written, the one you can't
write.
They found the
response to their request
for information to be
overwhelming. People
would come with armfuls
of pictures and scrap-
books willing to talk -
about their family's
ancestorsfor hours.. -The
committee has attempted
to verify all the in-
formation in the book but
they realize there may be
mistakes. They ask that if
there are mistakes or.
omissions, people inform
them so they car,a be
corrected should another.
edition of the book be
printed.
The history ...book has
also put the committee in
touch with people trying
to trace their family's
roots. A granddaughter
and great-granddaughter
of the Hagens who lived
in Dungannon about 1874
were looking for in-
formation about their
family at the Goderich
library. Olive Blake's
cousin who worked at the
library sent them to Olive
and she went. to. Willy
John, Stuthers. He sent
them tothe cemetery,
where they found in-
formation on the tomb-
stones . which . verified
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information they already
had, connecting them to
their ancestors.
The committee found
the. medical histories of
the families most in-
teresting. There were
frequent deaths{caused
by blood poisoning and
one account of a young
man, . whocontacted.
rabies. The death was so
terrible, the family
smothered him with a
mattress to end his
misery. He left a wife and
two small childr" en.
Elma Black recalls
how she had the unique
experience of being
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