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4iiism; ,W111;BeIose bis death;
John and Frederick were On
farmsa few iota north of the
lionleatead• J9114 heOatne.
• Ownrofthe homestead when
brothers and sisters and his
mother signed off their
claims.' Frederick-, James,
4oseph, Horace, William and
• Arthur, were married;
Elizabeth was Mrs. John.
Hillier; Henry evidently was
single at the time. Frederick,
who married Ellen
'4v Osboldesten (1850-1937) died
1n1885.
James married Elizabeth
Straughan, and they had
three sons and two daughters.
Henry died in 1895, aged 20.
David died in 1913, aged 26.
Mary Ellen married John
Farrish. Maggie. married
William Cook. Archie, who
married Elizabeth Glidden,
was the father of James
Horton, Victoria Street,
Goderich, and grandfather of
Edward Horton, Nelson
Street. A sister of James
Horton, Grace, married Rod
Bogie.
John Horton, on the
homestead, died January 28,
1898. In a will made 13 years
„earlier he left his estate to his
wife, Susanna, for her
lifetime, to be distributed
thereafter as his ad-
ministrators saw fit. Re
named as administrators his
widow and Harry Horton.
Mrs. Horton died in 1922, the
surviving administrator
,being Harry Horcon, of
Toronto, druggist.
The farm went to Horace
Horton for $3,600. Signing off
theirclaims were Henry, of
Ashfield, unmatioried; Nellie
Clutton; 'Ellice' township,
Perth; Hillary of Exeter,
blacksmith; Edith and
Elizabeth, unmarried, and
Frances Sonby; wife of
Hillary ran blacksmith
shop at Dunlop for a number
of years beforeremoving to
Exeter. He died there 'as a
result of a car -bicycle ac:
cident. He had twodaughters,
Hildred and Alberta..........-.
Nellie Horton married
'Gavin ,Clutton; they ran a
market gardennearStrat-
ford. They had four children:
Susan and William, married
and liying in Stratford;- Alex,
married 'and niVing in
Waterkki, ant. -Edith, un-
married, 'Wing in Stratford,
after Many' years as a
missionary iiiKenya.
Edith and Elizabeth did not
marry. They lived in a small
house on .the former
homestead: Edith died in
1952; Elizabeth in 1957. •
Henry married Rachel'
Stothers and farmed for most
of his life, retiring to
Dungannon. He- had one
daughter, Mary, who married.
Orland Bere. They have
seven children.;
THEBERE,FAMILY
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Maryhelle is - Married to
• Dwight Aldintin, and .lives in
• bodericir. Mr; Aldhain works
in the salt mine, his wife at
the A & P. They have three
children,'
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John Bere, who married
Maylin Chung H- rnandez, is
an engineer w h Power
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Motion. manufActuring,
I.ondon; Ont. I `
Ruth recently married to
James. -- us - ives in
Toronto and .works for
1 LAttetsT sfoCK-
Cotipfy
countinglir„ittr, , •
erald, 23', and, Dad 2Q.
•rented farmhouse in Ashfield
and work atcarpentry with
Ken McNee.
Kathryn (Kathie) was
married, last May to John
Stanhary, and they livenear
the Nile. John works at
Dominien Road Machinery,
and Kathie is taking her
Senior 12 at high school.
James (Jamie), nearly 11,
was born ,after- his father's
death. He Jives at home in.
Dungannon with his mother.
Mrs. Bere teaches remedial
reading at Brookside school.
artThey "bitch!! in a
CHILDREN OF HORACE
Horace Horton, who took
over the home farm in 1922,
married Margery Tichborne.
He remained on the farm
until retiring to Saltford.
They had eight children:
Thomas, Benson, Evelyn,
Frank, Phyllis, Dove, Harriet
and Eudora.
Thomas married Idell Oke.
They ha'd 11 children:
Catherine, Jack, Fred,
Audrey, Muriel, Irene, Zeta,
Glenn, Donald, Kenneth and
Jerry. Formerly in Goderich,
the family is now in Montreal.
Benson did not marry; ,he
died in 1966.
Frank married Eva Horton
and they have three children:
Donna, Mrs. Bob Broadfoot,
RRI Brucefield; Everett and
Ronald, of Goderich.
_phyllis,is married to Peter
Harrison, Con. 5, Goderich
Township. Their ,son James
married Marlene Thonipson
and has two daughters,
Debbie and Beverly. Another
son. Ralph, died in his early
'teens. A
• Dove' married Fred Hor-
ton; widowed, she lives on the •
Huron -Road here.
Evelyn married Charles
Moore, Goderich. They had
no family. Mrs. Moore died.
Harriet was married to
Thomas Cantwell, of ran-
ningtoii, Ont.,, and they 'hate
five children: Evelyn, Shirty,
BonnierIVIargery and Robert.
Eudora, unmafried, is in a
nursing home. •
In 1952 the ''Horton
hotnestead was sold- to
Horace Crawford. by J.
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11Be*z Horton, -ad..
t*. of Horace Hor,f,
tiOltetOtk six Of kin signing
•off their olairns„
Assistance :from Miand
rrank HOrton,
,Goderich,l ad others, ,ac-
counts for mach of the
biographical details in the
foregoing pages. No attempt,L
is made M this _artiele, of
course, to folio* tlp all the -
Horton families originathitin
Colborne. Somebody Ought to
'do_ that - and set up a com-
prehensive family tree,
taking -in the many members
of his interesting and
portant family who. through
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the years Scattered to • the
Canadian or U.S. West and
elsewhere.
As this is written, in
December, 1976, there is not
one Horton name in the
Colborne fdters' list, though
many descendants with other
names.
Time ran .out before it
becatne possible to find the
proper place for three Horton
brothers — Hillary, Mark and
Alex. A Signal -Star obituary
for Hillary, who died March
14, 1924, fails to name the
parents. Hillary, it stated,
was born "at Leeburn on the
old homestead" in 1872 „lived
at Dunipp, then farmed in
various 'places. He married
Rennie Stirling and "some
years ago" moved to
Goderich. They lived in a
house on Huron Rdad which
was removed for Canadian
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group, -of. retired(' people -,40: -
Bayfield, has been annearte0:
by Health and Welfefe.`
Minister Marc Lalonde.
The grant, awarded under
the - government's New
Horizons- program, brings the
national total to 6,623 projects
a meunting to $38,774;749 since
the program began in 1972. ,•
• The Bayfield Archives
Association, Bayfield, will
use the grant to enable the
group to gather artifactaand
historical notes in, the area.
The •. material ' will he
catalogued for Ilse. in . the
archives. •• .
New Horizons Offers grants
to groups of retired people to .
create projects and MI-
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benefit of -themselves, and
others in the mmunit
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- Persons interested
Continued Next Week participating in the program.
Kinettes make Chris
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merrier for one fami,
On December 13 , the
Kinettes had their annual
Christmas dinner at the
Kinsmen clubhouse. After a
short' meeting, Mrs. Miller of
Seaforth 'served a delicious
smorgasbord to the 22
members present. Santa
arrived and gave presents to
, everyone who had been good
throughout the year.
The Kinette club ' is very
busy all year but at Christ:,
mas it has a special project.
It receives a faintly on clothing '
welfare from the Chilciren:cs
Aid Society and tries to makey,
their Christmas a happy one:
. Presents are purchased for;
every member of the fainq.
• Good clothing is also do
for the children. 8achaine
donatesan item of food so.:-.
Christine's dinner can
• prepared for the family. ,F1
• Thanks go out to the A&P
store for donating the turkeyY
and to Bluewater Cleaners for
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can obtain infOmation •
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Isi ngton , Avenue, Toronto,.
Ontario, M8X 1Y9.
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