The Wingham Advance-Times, 1967-06-29, Page 8Thomas Stokes and his wife, the former
Margaret Query, resided on Con. 10, Turn-
berry. Seen in the family picture are
Maggie, (Mrs. W. Ballagh), Oliver, Mary,
James, Isaac,
and Reuben.
Appleby), Mr.
and Omar in
Ruth (Mrs. James Austin)
Front, Fanny (Mrs. Thomas
Stokes, Mrs. Stokes, Hanna,
the foreground.
THE FAMILY of the late Mr, and Mrs.
George Casemore, taken in 1880. Back
row: George, John, James 1840-1909,
grandfather of Leon Cantelon, and Robert.
Front: George Casemore 1790-1867 ( in-
sert), Mary Jane (Mrs. Duncan Campbell),
William, Margaret (Mrs. Andrew Balfour),
and Mrs. Casemore, the former Mary Good-
fellow in the insert, The pictures of the
parents were taken some years earlier.
JAMES CASEMORE (1840-1909) and his wife Jane Cor-
nell (1851-1937) taken in 1869. They were the parents
of Sarah Jane Casemore (1870-1965) who was the wife of
Robert John Cantelon (1863-1921).
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The kitchen looked like this?
More than any other room, the kitchen has changed in the last
100 years. Today modern furniture transforms the kitchen to
a room of beauty.
Since our store was started in 1898 by the late James Walker,
beautiful furniture for every room in the house has been our
business.
WE'RE PROUD TO JOIN WITH CANADIANS EVERY.
WHERE IN WISHING CANADA A
HAPPY CENTENNIAL 1861-1961
WALKER •FURNITSIIMINGS
S. J., WALKER
THRESHING GANG, at the farm of the late Michael Walker
67 years ago, Lot 35, Con. 18, East Wawariosh. This was
the first portable steam engine in that part of the town-
ship. The machine was hand fed and the straw had to be
taken away by hand. The little boy standing in the centre
of the group is Russell Walker, snow of Goderich.
Since 1891
PEOPLE HAVE BEEN SHOPPING AT
OUR STORE
A lot of water has run down the Maitland since 1891 when GEORGE E.
KING started his General Dry Goods and Grocery business here. Since then
it has been operated by the KING BROTHERS, by THOMAS C. KING, by A.
WEINBERG and by its present owner, E. EDIGHOFFER.
WE APPRECIATE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO JOIN WITH WINGHAM
IN CONGRATULATING
CANADA 1867 1967
EDIGHOFFERS WINGHAM
'THE 'FRIENDLY STORE'
First settlers
to Turnberry
in early 1850's
The first Turnberry settlers
arrived in the early 1850s and
some of the names of residents
at that time were Jacob Cante-
lon, Alexander Duncan, James
McCullough, James Henning,
Robert J. Duff, John Gallagher,
Alex Thompson, Andrew Mit-
chell, John MacTavish, Wil-
liam Morris, William Bennett,
John Messer, Samuel Black, Ro-
bert Moffatt, W. Irwin, the
Hyslops and a Mr. Beckett.
Previous to 1857 Turnberry
was united for the purposes of
municipal government with Wa-
wanosh, then comprising both
East and West Wawanosh. It was
decided in 1857 that Turnberry
should have its own governing
body and Samuel Black was
elected reeve and John Fortune,
David Haugh, Walter Sloan and
William Elliott councillors to
the first township council. The
clerk was Thomas Fortune;
treasurer, James Anderson; as-
sessor, Andrew Mitchell; col-
lector, Robert J. Duff. The
clerk received a salary of 310.00
per year, the assessor $0.00 and
the collector $7.00.
Early county councillors
from Turnberry were Samuel
Black, Thomas Eadie, John
Messer and Benjamin Willson.
C, Tait Scott was the first de-
puty reeve in 1869 and was suc-
ceeded by William Cornyn,
William Douglas and James
Henning.
MR. AND MRS. JOSEPH WALKER were pioneers of Turn-
berry. Mrs. Walker was the former Margaret Scott.
Members of their family pictured with them here are,
standing, Pearl and Thomas who later owned the farm, and
seated, Hannah.
Stokes family
here since 1857
In the year 1845, Reuben
Stokes and his two sons, Isaac
and Thomas sailed from Liver-
pool, landing in New York
about a month later, They
ed in Rochester for awhile, then
crossed Lake Ontario to King
Township in York County, north
of Toronto, From there Thom ,
as Stokes made his way to Turn-
berry in 1857 where he cleared.
land for himself..
In 1863 he married Margaret
Query and they raised a family
of ten children, The farm on
which Isaac, the third son liv-e
ed has been in the Stokes name
for 110 years, and is still oc-
cupied by Isaac's wife and her
daughter Edith.
Mr, Oliver Stokes of Minnie
Street, Wingham, is the last
surviving member of this pia ,
neer family,
Casemore families
settled in area
many years ago
BY LEON CANTELON
Much research has revealed
that all known Casemores in
North America are descendants
of the same ancestor, William
Casemore. According to family
tradition this William Case-
more was a coachman in the
employ of a wealthy, supposed-
ly titled family in England
whose surname was Rider. He
fell in love with Mary, a young
and pretty daughter of his em-
ployer and she returned his love.
Fearing parental refusal, they
eloped and were married. As
expected, her parents were fur-
ious and disowned and disin-
herited their daughter.
The newlyweds came to
Canada about 1780 and event-
ually settled at Puslinch Lake
in Southwestern Ontario, They
had two sons, William and
George, who each owned a
farm on Puslinch Lake after
reaching maturity. William
married but had no children.
George married Mary Good-
fellow and they had six sons,
William, Robert, John, Jo-
seph, George and James, and
two daughters, Mary Jane and
Margaret.
George and Mary needed
more land for their large fam-
ily and in the 1850s came to
Huron County and pioneered on
Lot 36, Con. 1, Turnberry
Twp. Their youngest son,
James (1840-1909), and his
wife, Jane Cornell (1851-1937),
the writer's grandparents, set-
tled on Lot 35, Con. 1, Turn-
berry.
Two older sons, John and
Joseph, settled in Turnberry
Twp., John, on the farm on
the west side of the Junction
road, that joins the Bluevale
and "B Line" roads; and Joe on
the farm west of him and near-
er Wingham,
William, Robert and George
Jr., settled in Morris Township,
the first two on farms on the
second concession, near Wing-
ham, and the latter on the farm
near Bluevale, on which the
C.N.R. station is located.
Margaret married Andrew Bal-
four and settled on a farm near
Bluevale, and Mary Jane mar-
ried Duncan Campbell, and lo-
cated in Wingham.
The foregoing were the an-
cestors of all Casemores now
living in Wingham district,
which includes the wife of
Wingham's mayor, the former
Bertha Casemore, Carl, Lloyd,
Chester, etc., of town. George
Casemore, 94, Lot 24, Con.
11, Turnberry, son of Joe Case-
more is the last living member
of his generation. His two
children, Harold and Nettie
(Mrs. Frank Ross) and her fam-
ily live with Mr. Casemore,
The pioneer settler, John
Casemore, was a "Squatter" on
his farm before purchase. The
land was covered with bush and
he had a log cabin. One day,
returning from Bluevale where
he had gone for supplies and to
visit his brother George, John
found two rough, tough men
from nearby Upper Wingham
(Rowdy Hill) in possession of his
cabin. They claimed the place
by right of possession and threat-
ened his life if he didn't va-
cate at once. Flight was the
better part of valor at that time
so John started to leave the farm.
As he was leaving through
the bush he remembered an old
worn-out musket that be had
discarded some time previously.
He searched for and finally
found the useless-looking wea-
pon and managed to assemble
it into a formidable-looking
gun once more. He returned to
his cabin, surprised the two
land-robbers, and threatened to
shoot to kill if they didn't leave
the farm at once -- which they
very hastily did. So John Case-
more kept his farm by sheer
nerve and bluff,
When John's first wife died,
she was buried in Wingham
Cemetery, (now the Town Ath-
letic Park), In 1877 the graves
were removed to a new ceme-
tery northwest of town on the
Kelly farm, At that time, as
the coffin of his wife was being
lowered in its new grave, John
insisted that the coffin lid be
opened so he could have one
more look at his beloved wife.
This was done at his insistance.
Years later he told his niece,
(my mother), that his wife
looked quite natural for a very
short time, and then the flesh
seemed to crumble away, and
he wished he had never had the
coffin opened.
Isaac Metcalfe
farm in family
past 99 years
Ninety-nine years ago Isaac
Metcalfe, his wife Jane Steph-
enson and little son Ralph left
Marlette, Michigan, and set-
tled on the tenth line of Turn-
berry, on land still in the fam-
ily name. First they lived in a
little log shanty on the side-
road, later moving into a new
log house on the concession. In
1898 a new brick house was
built, in which the present
Isaac Metcalfe lives. Isaac and
Jane had six more children who
moved away as they became
adults. Only the second son,
John D. remained on the home-
stead marrying Fanny Robinson
from the ninth concession of
Turnberry in 1899.
To them were born four sons
and four daughters. Arno, the
youngest son, a veteran of
World War II was killed in a
train accident. The daughters,
Anne, Edith, Isabelle and Elva
are married.
Tom, Herman, and Isaac
farm on the tenth line, Tom
married Myrtle Bennett of Wing-
ham. They have three sons,
John of Vancouver, Brian and
Lorne of Turnberry and one
daughter Verlie, (Mrs, Robert
'roman) of Kitchener.
lIerman married Eleanor
Stewart. They have five sons
and five daughters: Harold, Bob,
David, Bill and Ivan, Anna
Mae, Evelyn, Linda, Joan and
Patricia. •
Isaac, who is on the home-
stead has two sons, George and
Calvin, and one daughter, Don-
na, Mrs. Tony Wagstaffe of
Ottawa.
There are also younger child-
ren who will make up the fifth
generation to live on the tenth
concession of Turnberry.
Gurneys have
been industry
here 61 years
W. II, Gurney & Son Ltd,
has been one of Wingham's
portant industries for the past 61
years, It was founded in 1906
by W. H. Gurney, who rented •
the glove department in Prin-
gle's Tannery, on the present
site of Joe Clark Auto Wreck-
ers,
The tannery was first owned
by W. J, Chapman, who tanned
sheepskins and made mitts. In
1889 the firm expanded and a
three-storey brick building was
erected on a stone foundation.
The original frame building was
raised and bricked, and stood
on one corner of the property.
In 1903 the tannery became
Pringle and Groves and later
W. D. Pringle took over the
business when Mr. Groves re-
tired.
A fire in 1909 wiped out
both Mr. Pringle's tanning op-
erations and Mr. Gurney's glove
works, Mr. Pringle rebuilt the
present two-storey structure,
He sold to William Stewart in
1923, When Mr. Stewart ceas-
ed operation the building was
rented for some time by C.
Lloyd & Son and then stood idle
for a short while until 1943,
when Mr. Clark moved in.
Following the 1909 fire Mr.
Gurney rented and later pur-
chased the building on the south-
east corner of Victoria and
Scott Streets, and carried on
business there until he bought
the Kent Block on the corner of
Victoria and Josephine Streets
in 1016,
W. W. Gurney went into
business with his father in 1930
and is the present owner. The
firm ships directly to chain
stores and wholesalers across
Canada.
Dress gloves have been for
years the company's main line
of manufacture. In recent
years, however, changed im-
port regulations have meant an
increasing number of gloves are
coming into the country from
countries with low labor costs.
As a result the local firm has
switched its production to con-
centrate more on various lines
of work gloves,
Production at the present
time is running at about 20,000
dozen pairs annually and about
20 people are employed by the
company.
Jack Templeman has been
with W, H. GThrney & Son Ltd.
for 53 years. Employees who
have been over 30 years with
the firm are George Evans, Art
Sturdy, Jim Prigione, Mrs.
George Selling and Mrs. Myr-
tle Foxton,