Family/Spouse: Reinke, R.. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Silver, Yves Natalia was born on 16 Dec 1994; died on 25 Apr 1995.

S.C. married Clow, R.".M. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Clow, J.M.
2. Clow, K.S.K.
3. Clow, H.J.
4. Clow, E.

O.D. married Abrams, P.C. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Occupation: North of Sydenham ; Farmer
• Religion: Free Methodist

Notes:

Ran away from home at the age of 16.

Was big as grandpa (sick of taking garbage)

Broke a broom over his head.

Orville left and never went back.



Moved to Rochester NY with Orville and worked at Kodak park. (film)

Quit in 1929 just before the Great Depression. Moved to Cataraqui and bought a farm on concession 5.

He had money saved up.



He bought a little house and barn from George Henry (Harry) Silver.

He put a roof on the house because it was leaking.

George Davy drilled a well.

Didn't have ewnough money, so he did a trade. He traded the car for the price of the well and Mr. Davy gave him a truck.



Hard times-- readly struggled.

William married Darling, Zella Blanche on 29 Apr 1928 in Unknown. Zella (daughter of Darling, Harry Austin and Spooner, Lottie Muriel) was born on 29 Apr 1908 in Latimer; died on 11 Dec 1977 in Kingston General Hospital, Kingston, ON, CAN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Went to school in Latimer through grade 8.



Old school is still standing Stone school house.

Wrote entrance exam to Sydenham High school. Stayed night at the home of the Brawley Feed Mill (where the library is now)

Went to KCI (Kingston Collegiate Institute) (KCVI)

Through grade 9.



Sisters went to KCI to become nurses after mom finished grade 9.

Took piano lessons and got her degree in music. Royal Conservatory.

Taught music from home to home as a girl. About 22 when she got married.



Orville ran away from home.

Dad has a wedding picture.

Other Events:

• PHOTOPRIMARY:
• Occupation: Machinist and Welder
• Religion: Free Methodist
• Residence: Dec 1945 ;

Notes:

Nan says there was a story of damage that was so unintentional that it shouldn't be written unless it was anonymous. Bop not having parents scarred him deeply. It left him vulnerable, always searching, never satisfied right to
the day he died.



Picture a little boy between 3 and 4 with his mother dying, no father-- at that time it was so different. Nowadays so many helps are at our fingertips. They had a Xian background which was very real, and not taken lightly. Th
ey were Presbyterians. Read the Bible and prayed every morning.



This little boy was left in this household of two people in their late 70's. Uncle Jamsey (James Alexander) and Aunt May. (Mary Ellen) Aunt May wasn't married and she was in her early forties. Uncle Jamsey was the same age. T
hey were smitten with the grief of losing two or three family members already. Aunt Lucy died with the flu, and Uncle Jamsey just about died, walked with two canes in his 30's for about a year afterwards.



They tried to discipline he and his sister as they grew up. The sister was three or four years older than him. He regarded her as his mother. He needed her all the time and folowed her around. They were dressed adequately an
d fed, but not anything like your own children. No extras or treats. It was rigourous and for the most part rather cold and unfeeling. (Nan says that with a "Lord firgive me kind of attitude). She picks that up from what Ear
l says.



Uncle Jamsey would get the kids something at Xmas. Cut back at the meals. Too much butter or sugar or something.



When he was a teenager, they didn't know which way to turn, no idea. (the aunt and uncle)

Aunt Bea was sent off to shool and got a year at Lorne Park College in Toronto. She learned a lot about common courtesies and dressing and speaking, and stuff. The Wilsons were known for their respectability and refinement. Th
ey tried to raise bop and Bea in that way,



The Abrams were mourning, the woman died at home, Jane, and she brought the family to Uncle Jamseys when the dad died, and so when she died at home, the kids just stayed there.



It may have been a court decision, but in a small community it may have just been done as a convenience. Everyone just knew each other. The Wilsons had more clout than the Abrams. Grandpa Wilson had a BA, so he had a good educa
tion for those days. People came to him for legal advice. Township always involved in township affairs. to do with the laying of the roads. It was remarkable him having that education.

Nan has a picture with both sets of granparents (Both of Earls grandparents and both of Nan's grandparents.) it's at a mill, and they're sitting on logs. It's written on the back.



Didn't get an education. He didn't like School, so he didn't go. If he heard the "chug chug" of the steam engine, he wouldn't be paying any attention to his lessons, he'd be yearning to get out of there and get home. He always
worked at home. Tried to work at other places for a few weeks, but was just wretched.



Married he was 23, couldn't leave Uncle jamsey. Never had, and couldn't. Lived with Nan's parents for 4 years, and this was terrible for both of them. They both felt like bop was a complete failure. Had NO money for weeks on
end. Then nan's dad took sick.



Uncle Jamsey would give him a little money once in a while because he had men working for him. When Earl was about forty he got his feet under him. After Uncle Jamsey died. He started working at the big mines. He hated it bec
ause his dad had been killed in a mine. So poverty stricken, so had to do it.



Married six years before Clair was born. He was named after a cousin of nans.



For the first time in his life he was getting a regular pay check. That meant so much to nan. More than she could ever describe. To try to run a home and be a good wife and supportive and a good mother etc, in such hardship an
d poverty. "God knew all the time."



Hazel's dad gave them some property and they built a cottage and lived there for four years. It was on Sand Lake. Got raw lumber from the mill. No insulation. No furnace, big woodstove in the kitchen. Little box stove in the
living room. Had some help building it. Earl knew so many people who were handy like himself and they'd swap jobs. Uncle Ray may have, neighbor boys helped put the roofing.

It burned down recently in the eighties. Nan has photos.



Nan's grandmother made her wedding dress by candlelight. Elizabeth "Jenny" WIlson.



Moved to little place in April of 42.



Moved to Uncle George Wilson's house in Kinsford Lake on first week of December 45. Nan's sat there in the driveway with Clair and mom-- was an experience: believe me! Reliving it, running in and out doors, hanging clothes, th
ere the apple tree, being a young mother etc.



Left Wilson's house and moved to Verona in Octiber of 54. Rented a house right across from te FM church for 2 months.



Bought a little lot, then a cottage across Brock lake from Sandy Storms (a neighbors name) in 56? moved the cottage across on the ice to the lot and lived there for two years. Wasn't finished at all. Slept in the basement.



In 58 they moved to where I remember. Pine Ridge Drive. It was a muttart Pre-fab house. Package deal. less than 4,000 dollars. Clair sold it later for between $80,000 and $90,000.



The little cottage lot was a two minute walk toward the Southwest of the Muttart house.



Clair bought Clarence Babcock's house for $14,000 in 73 on Deyo's Corners. "It was a steal."



In '76 Bop and Nan swapped with them.

Wilbert married Timmerman, Hazel Mae on 16 Sep 1937. Hazel (daughter of Timmerman, Archie and Wilson, Mary "Mae" Jane) was born on 26 Sep 1917; died on 10 Jul 2007. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• PHOTOPRIMARY:

Notes:

The Timmerman kitchen table was passed this way.

Other Events:

• Census: 1911 , Cataraqui, Kingston, Frontenac, ON, CAN ;

George married Richardson, Melissa "Grace" Grace. Melissa (daughter of Richardson, Dennis and Emma) was born on 12 May 1888; died on 1 Aug 1978. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

lived in Perth Road and the Kingston area

Other Events:

• PHOTOPRIMARY:

Notes:

Harry Austin Darling was born 11 Oct 1877 in Pittsburgh Twp, Frontenac Co, ON, CAN, and died 5 Jun 1971 in Kingston, Frontenac Co, ON, CAN. He was buried in Sandhill Cemetery, Battersea, Frontenac Co, ON, CAN. He was the son of
12. Noble Festus Darling and 13. Sarah Elizabeth Spafford.



Lottie Muriel Spooner was born 23 Sep 1882 in Storrington Twp, Frontenac Co, ON, CAN, and died 11 Nov 1966 in , Frontenac Co, ON, CAN. She was buried in Sandhill Cemetery, Battersea, Frontenac Co, ON, CAN. She was the daughter o
f 14. Niram Spooner and 15. Elizabeth Ann Walters.



Strong man, short.

Could hold two sledge hammers out horizontle by the handle for a minute

Knew tricks like lifting someone up by the forehead. Straight as a poker. Would stick fingers in his lower jaw. Give himself leverage.

Know one could tell.

Lay on your stomach.



Falling flat on his face.

He'd put his hands behind his back and fall forward. He'd stick out his stomach and this would make him go like a rocker.



Zella would say that Harry would put the pipes in the tops of the silos. He'd walk around without a rope and didn't mind it a bit.



Picking rocks Harry and Eldon and Charlie (hired man).

Eating lunch and an airplane flew over.

Eldon says "Charlie! Stop chewing! I want to hear the airplane!"



Granpa and Charlie were good friends.

Charlie says "Harry, I think a man should always think twice before they say anything."

Charlie stuffed his pipe in his pocket and his pants started to smoke.

Harry says "Charlie, I think"

"Charlie, I think your pants are on fire"

That was about the same time as Charlie found out for himself.



Charlie came into the kitchen and Lottie was getting supper on.

The twins were running around.

Charlie said. "Lottie, did you raise them by hand or suck them yourself?"

Harry married Spooner, Lottie Muriel on 5 Sep 1905 in Latimer, Frontenac Co, ON, CAN. Lottie (daughter of Spooner, Niram and Walters, Elizabeth Ann) was born on 23 Sep 1882 in Storington Twp, Frontenac Co, ON, CAN; died on 11 Nov 1966 in Frontenac Co, ON, CAN; was buried after 12 Nov 1966 in Sandhill Cemetery, Battersea, Frontenac Co, ON, CAN . [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died in the General Electric micah mines in Sydenham. Dad has a lot of pictures of the mine.


Birth:
Birth guessed based on him being about 30 when he died.


Died:
Death age guessed at based on Earl being about 2 when he died.

James married Wilson, Sarah Jane. Sarah (daughter of Wilson, James and Kemp, Sarah) died about 1917. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Sarah Jane had a sister who married a Campbell. Her name was Bessie. Bessie had a child Evelyn who is my aunt. Her brothers and sisters are:

John Campbell (m)

Evelyn (Campbell) Orr(f) who married Mac Orr

Betty Lou (Votery)

Nancy (Northmore)

Lloyd Orr (never married)

Grace Campbell (f)

James Murray (m)

Les Campbell (m)

Nadine (f)

Dean (m)

Muriel Campbell (f) (Sands)

Heather Sands (f)

Dale Sands (m)

Mark Sands (m)

Lloyd Campbell (m)

1 girl




Died:
Death guessed based on the possibility that Earl was about 2 or 3 when she died.

Other Events:

• PHOTOPRIMARY:

Archie married Wilson, Mary "Mae" Jane on 18 Sep 1912 in Harrowsmith, Frontenac, ON, CAN. Mary (daughter of Wilson, James J. and Campbell, Elizabeth "Jennie" Jane) was born on 29 Jun 1888; died on 9 Apr 1981 in Fairmount Home for the Aged, Glenburnie, Frontenac, ON, CAN; was buried in Desert Lake Cemetery, Desert Lake, ON, CAN . [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• PHOTOPRIMARY:
• Residence: Bedford Twp, Frontenac, ON, CAN ;

Notes:

The table was passed this way.



Daughter, Hazel Abrams, said in a phone conversation: Mary Jane Wilson lost her inheritance. Her brother had wheeled it away because he was still on the farm, and he wanted her land too so he could make more money. She gave it
to him.



Mary Jane Wilson's mother's name was Elizabeth Campbell and Elizabeth's mother was a Snook.



Her mother was a dutchess of some place-- Wessenburg? Sister Muriel used to tell that life was very hard for her becuase she never learned to speak English.



Apparently Hazel has an old newspaper with this information in it.



Mother used to tell nan about this but didn't know if she was a princess or a dtuchess or what, but "it came out..."



she had a daughter Elizabeth. This daughter was nan's great grandmother. Gradma Wilson's Mother.



Her father's name was John Campbell. He founded Inverary and the whole area there once belonged to him and to the Illans.



This is not correct:

(Her Father's name was James Jonathon Wilson January 13, 1866, and his mother was Mary Jane Nesbitt Wilson).