John Milton Brace

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-167154
• Residence: 1870, Otsego, Columbia, Wisconsin, United States

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-59673
• Residence: 1840, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Occupation: 1851, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Blacksmith
• Residence: 1851, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist
• Residence: 1863, , New York State, USA
• Occupation: 1870, Otsego, Columbia, Wisconsin, United States; blacksmith

Notes:

It is said that Louis is the son of Bannister Brace and Huldah Rhoda Burnham. No proof as of yet.

Louis married Laura Amelia Woodward 30 May 1840, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Laura (daughter of Lumon Woodward and Mary Ballard) was born 9 May 1823, , Ontario, Canada; died 8 Nov 1887, , Hamilton Co., Iowa; was buried , Alden Cemetery, Alden, Hardin, Iowa, United States. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Laura Amelia Brace
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-59674
• Residence: 1851, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist
• Residence: 1870, Otsego, Columbia, Wisconsin, United States

Notes:

Laura after the death of her husband Louis moved to Iowa to live with her daughter Jennie Cole.

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-112429
• Occupation: 1852, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; farmer

Notes:

The first Scotch settlers came into Woolwich and settled in the neighbourhood of Winterbourne between the years 1834 and 1837. These were accustomed in the old country to gather for worship on the Sabbath day and felt the want of a meeting place. For a time they met in the homes of each other and in the log schoolhouses after these were built. They were not satisfied with these places of worship, so about the year 1837 they met at the hotel situated at the corner about a quarter of a mile south of the present village and took definite action to provide a place to meet in. The tavern was kept by a Mr. Grant. A lot was obtained shortly after for church and burying ground from Mr. Luman Woodward, but the deed was not obtained until Dec. 7th, 1858, owing to Mr. Woodward not having taken out the Crown Deed. So they had the use of it for twenty years before they became owners of it. Mr. Robert Douglas bought the farm from the government as also the one on the other side of the road on which Mr. Bemis had settled, and from Mr. Douglas the church obtained the deed for the ground on which the church was built and also the cemetery. The movement to have a church visible would thus be in the present year 1919 just eighty-two years ago. Previous to the opening of the church, services were held for a time in the schoolhouse situated at Mr. Norman Snyder's gate on the south side, the grounds of which were also the graveyard for the community. The most of the bodies were removed to the church yard, but some sleep quietly beneath the action of the plough and the harrow and underneath the growing grain.


A Few Notes on the Early History of Chalmers' Church, Winterbourne" by Rev. A. M. Hamilton, M. A.

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Lumon Woodward, an, American, was born in 1792. He came to the township of Woolwich in the spring of 1824 and took up the adjoining farm north of Hewitt's. This is the farm upon part of which is the Presbyterian cemetery. Lumon Woodward was married three times. Those in his family were: John Milton, married Rozy Smith. Alba, died in April, 1848, at the age of twenty-seven. Ebenezer, married Charlotte Peterson and lived at Hawkesville. William, married Helen Webster and they also lived at Hawkesville; at their home Lumon Woodward and his third wife died. George married a Miss Brown and now lives in the town of Waterloo. Emmeline married George Taylor, and lived in the township of Maryborough. Laura married Louis Brace. Mabel married a Mr. Green, lived in Elmira; and Alice. Lumon Woodward died on February 19th, 1860, in his sixty-eighth year.

The Early History of Elora, Ontario, and Vicinity by John R. Connon

Lumon — Mary Ballard. Mary was born CALC 8 Oct 1804, , New York State, USA; died 29 Dec 1893, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Hawkesville Union Cemetery, Hawkesville, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Mary Woodward
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-112430
• Residence: 1861, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Primitive Methodist
• Residence: 1871, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; U. Brethren