Samuel Mark

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-217044P
• Residence: 1871, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Wesleyan Methodist

Samuel — Mary Anne McLennan. Mary was born 1800, , Antrim, Ireland; died 13 Feb 1884; was buried , Pinehill Cemetery, Pinehill, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-342518
• Residence: 1855, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1860, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

Alexander married Elizabeth Ann Tindall 26 Apr 1855, New Hamburg, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Elizabeth (daughter of William Charles Tindall and Frances Cannon) was born 21 Aug 1833, , Prince Edward Island, Canada; died 16 Sep 1922, Woodstock, Oxford Co., Ontario, Canada; was buried , Hillview United Cemetery, Woodstock, Oxford Co., Ontario. [Group Sheet]

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• Military: Waterloo County Militia - Fenial Raids
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-124000
• Occupation: 1871, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Residence: 1871, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mennonite
• Occupation: 1881, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer

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Died. At his residence, Huron Road, Wilmot, on Friday, November 8th, 1895, Samuel Mark, Aged 64 Years, 7 Months, and 22 Days. The Funeral will leave his late residence on Monday, November 11th, at 2 o'clock P.M., for St. James' Cemetery. Friends and acquaintances please accept this intimation.

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August 27. Memorial services for Mrs. Samuel B. Cassel, 96, were held in the beautiful, well preserved St. James Anglican Church on the Huron Road, west of Haysville, where she had been baptized, confirmed and married. Annie was a daughter of Samuel Mark who participated on the side of the Tories in the 1837 Rebellion, and later with his wife Margaret Illingworth, settled near Haysville in Wilmot Township. Annie Mark married Samuel Bricker Cassel (great-grandson of Samuel Bricker, hero in Mable Dunham's book, "The Trail of the Conestoga"). The Cassels resided in the Haysville vicinity until 1916 when they moved to Kitchener where Mr. Cassel was active in public life, serving many years as county clerk and treasurer of Waterloo County.Mrs. D. D. B.

Waterloo Historical Society Annual Volume 1960

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CHURCH HILL FARM.

He who sees interest in relics of antiquity and articles that were useful before those who live in the present century were born, can revel to their heart's content if he pays a visit to this lovely old home. It is in the heart of an agricultural section especially favored by nature, and most beautifully adorned by the hand of man. The Church Hill farm derives its name from the fact that about one hundred yards to the northeast of the residence, on a slight incline, stands the English church, the first in the neighborhood. Through an opening in its wealth of evergreen foliage we get a glimpse of its square tower, a new feature erected for the reception of its monster bell, bequeathed by the late Samuel Mark in 1896. The land upon which the edifice stands, together with that taken up by its sacred dead, was given by the Canada Company soon after the Huron road opened up this section for settlement. The bell is probably the largest of any country church bell in Western Ontario.

The residence of the Church Hill farm (is yet an unpretentious affair), but its environments are particularly homelike on account of its profuse dis- play of evergreen foliage and ornamental shrubbery, a feature for which the homes along the Huron road, from Haysville to its terminus, are most conspicuous. The farm, which comprises one hundred and three acres, is described as lot No. 28, second concession, three miles south of New Hamburg. It was originally part of a six hundred acre tract purchased from the Canada Company by the late Henry Puddicombe, and came into the possession of the late James Gordon Smith on February 25, 1838. It was then a dense wilderness. Smith was born at Rustico, Prince Edward Island, April 7, 1801, and died in 1871, aged 70 years. I take this record from the old family Bible, printed in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1795. He was a ship carpenter by trade. The farm, which he purchased for four dollars per acre, he cleared up himself. He experienced many hardships and privations after leaving his island home, having walked a distance of one thousand and ten miles before he reached his destination in the wilds of Upper Canada. His first trip was in 1836. But he remained only a short time, for we learn that after framing a barn for Henry Puddicombe he returned to Prince Edward Island, coming out again in 1838, bringing with him his wife and family.

His son, William Glover Smith, became heir to the property. He was also born in Prince Edward Island, the date of his birth being February 28, 1833. He was married to Margaret Cullom in 1877. The fruits of this union were two children, one son and one daughter. The daughter is deceased, and Allen Radcliffe Glover, living with his widowed mother at the old homestead, is the sole surviving heir to the estate. The father had a wide circle of acquaintances, and his death, which occurred suddenly on May 10, 1899, was deeply regretted by his neighbors who had known him so long. At one time he was acting captain of the New Hamburg company of volunteers. He was a patriot of the true type and took an active and interested part in affairs military. He was among the first to answer the call for volunteers when this country was threatened by the memorable Fenian invasion of 1866. For meritorious services in that brief campaign he was one among other heroes recently recognized by the Government in the way of being awarded a medal. The mother and son expect soon to receive this emblem of gratitude from a grateful Government. Deceased was also a member of the Township Board of Health for many years.

Allen Radcliffe, the son, is an energetic, enterprising young man. While the education he has received was only what the public school of his neighborhood afforded, he would be taken by the stranger as a bright, young college youth. He was born January 14. 1879. Though yet young in years he gives evidences of splendid creative ability, and manages the affairs of the farm in a manner from which much older heads could learn a profitable lesson. He has a remarkable penchant for preserving old family heirlooms, and his collection of articles of antiquity would supply a good-sized museum. Of the collection of old relics I will take pains to mention a few of the most rare: letter written on October 21, ...
[not microfilmed] and minerals, Indian ornaments, an old bond dated September 6, 1787, a Ready Reckoner, 1790, a pair of brass spurs stamped with the year 1501, a walking hazel cane used in olden times for opening gates while on horseback, is 150 years old, clock brought from Barnstable, England, in 1799, a pair of deer horns which his grandfather purchased from the Indians, their dinners being the price paid, a set of tools brought from England in 1799. In addition to the latter list there are many articles of a later date. The collection of old coins is also a very rare and valuable one, and his collection of fereign and domestic stamps is one of considerable value.

While enumerating this collection of things of a past day and generation, the writer had his attention called to a remarkable instance or kindness and consideration for man's noblest friend in the brute creation. In the stalls of the stable are three grey horses whoee respective ages are twenty-five, twenty-six and twenty seven, that have been in the possession of the family ever since they were colts. Despite their advanced ages they are still full of life and spirit, the oldest being used in ploughing sod at the time of my visit.

For the past five months an unusual activity has been going on at the Smith homestead. This was the result of a decision to rebuild the old barn.

The raising of the new bank barn, 62x72 in dimensions, in place of the old structure erected in 1846, took place on June 3rd, 1899. About 120 men were present to take part in the raising. Four purlin plates, each 60 feet long, taken from one stick of Wilmot pine by a whip saw nearly fifty years ago for the old barn, and perfectly sound to-day, were used in the new frame. Forty cords of stone were used in the foundations, which have been pointed in the best manner possible. The stables are floored with Napanee cement, the posts are of finely turned cedar, to be surmounted by neat ornaments, and the stalls, etc., are nicely finished in the best white ash lumber. The frame is enclosed with the best quality of planed lumber, battened and painted. Some 16,000 feet of lumber was used in its construction. The interior has been laid out in a manner to meet every requirement as to convenience. Tiny colt boxstalls, neatly finished and supplied with the latest improved troughs and fixtures for convenience in feeding the youngsters, is a feature that is strikingly novel in a farm building. Mr. Smith, the young proprietor, has devised a system of ventilation and waterworks for the new building that is worthy the special attention of farmers. The stables are supplied with water from a cement reservoir on an elevation a short distance from the barn. The top of the building is surmounted by three ventilators, the centre being an octagon from which will appear the figure of a horse. Behind the stabling is a long cellarway, with a capacity for 7,000 bushels of roots.
I have visited a good many barns in the past year or so, but none have I seen where greater pains have been taken for convenience and neatness in the construction of a barn than in this one.

Waterloo County Chronicle, 2 Nov 1899, p. 6

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Mark, Samuel - The subject of this sketch was born in Kemptville, Grenville County, Ont., in 1831, the son of Samuel Mark, one of two brothers, the other being Alexander, who came to Wilmot in 1860 and located, Alexander on the farm now owned by Mr. Samuel Cassel, Reeve, and Samuel on the farm on part of which his grandson, Manley, is now living retired. Samuel Mark, the younger, the subject of this sketch, was married in 1863 to Miss Martha Illingworth, and has since his arrival in the Parish identified himself heartily in the work of the St. James' Church. He was many times Warden and delegate to the Synod. Two stained glass windows in the chancel and two memorial windows in the body of the Church are his gifts, besides a legacy at his death of Four Hundred Dollars mentioned elsewhere. He died in 1896 and is survived by his widow, two sons and one daughter, Manley William , on the homestead (retired), and Allan Alfred, a partner in the firm of Walker Parker Co., a large shoe manufacturing house of Toronto, and Annie Adelaide, Mrs. Samuel Cassel. Mary Hannah, Mrs. A. A. Barber, another daughter, died in 1902.

Church of England, An Historical Sketch of the Parish of Wilmot 1828-1913, Diocese of Huron, Ontario, New Hamburg, Canada by Charles James Fox, Sep 1913

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OBITUARY.-Two very sad events have taken place here within the last few days. One was the funeral on Friday last of Miss Annie Tye, eldest daughter of Mr. Robert C. Tye of this village, and the other that of Mr. Samuel Marks who died at his home Huron Road on Friday the 10th inst., and was buried last Monday. Miss Tye has been living for some time in Superior, Wisconsin, where she had made a large number of warm friends and her sudden death is deeply mourned by them as it also is by her relatives and friends in this vicinity.

The late Mr. Marks has lived in this section of country for many years and had won the love and respect of everyone who knew him. He took an active part in the affairs of St. James' Church of which he was a member and his face will be greatly missed by the rest of the congregation.

Waterloo County Chronicle, 14 Nov 1895, p. 8

Samuel — Martha Illingworth. Martha (daughter of William Illingworth and Ann Ferguson) was born Feb 1837, , Ontario, Canada; died 1914; was buried , Saint James Anglican Cemetery, Wilmot Township, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-217046
• Residence: 1871, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Wesleyan Methodist

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-167646

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• Name: Annie Adeline Cassel
• Eby ID Number: 00016-1328.4
• Residence: 1871, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Church of England
• Residence: 1891, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Anglican
• Residence: 1911, Haysville, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Anglican
• Residence: 1921, 39 Ellen St. E. Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1921, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Church of England

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August 27. Memorial services for Mrs. Samuel B. Cassel, 96, were held in the beautiful, well preserved St. James Anglican Church on the Huron Road, west of Haysville, where she had been baptized, confirmed and married. Annie was a daughter of Samuel Mark who participated on the side of the Tories in the 1837 Rebellion, and later with his wife Margaret Illingworth, settled near Haysville in Wilmot Township. Annie Mark married Samuel Bricker Cassel (great-grandson of Samuel Bricker, hero in Mable Dunham's book, "The Trail of the Conestoga"). The Cassels resided in the Haysville vicinity until 1916 when they moved to Kitchener where Mr. Cassel was active in public life, serving many years as county clerk and treasurer of Waterloo County.Mrs. D. D. B.

Waterloo Historical Society Annual Volume 1960

Annie married Samuel B. Cassel 22 Sep 1885, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Samuel (son of Henry B. Cassel and Mary Ann Bricker) was born 25 Sep 1858, Blenheim Twp., Oxford Co., Ontario, Canada; died 4 Dec 1949, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Saint James Anglican Cemetery, Wilmot Township, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Mary Hannah Barber
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-79067
• Residence: 1871, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Church of England
• Residence: 1891, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Anglican

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Died. At the General Hospital, Guelph, on Saturday, December 12th, 1902, Mary Hannah, Beloved Wife of A.A. Barber, Aged: 36 years, 7 months and 7 days. The Funeral will take place from the residence of her mother, Mrs. M. Mark, Huron Road, Wilmot, on Tuesday, the 16th inst., at 2 o'clock P.M., to St. James' Cemetery.

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Mary — Arthur Alexander Barber. Arthur (son of Arthur Barber and Frances "Fanny" Graham) was born 13 Dec 1859, , Ontario, Canada; died 15 Dec 1934, Marpole, Greater Vancouver Regional District, British Columbia, Canada; was buried , Pacific Heritage Cemetery, Burnaby, , British Columbia, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Manley Mark
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-202857
• Residence: 1871, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Church of England
• Occupation: 1911, Haysville, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Income
• Residence: 1911, Haysville, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Anglican

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Manley Mark

Manley Mark of 419 Brant St., Woodstock, died Sunday, Feb. 23 at Woodstock General Hospital. He was 102.

He was born Nov. 8, 1867 on the Huron Road, Wilmot Township, Waterloo County, son of the late Mr and Mrs. Samuel Mark.

He farmed on the family farm until his retirement in 1916 when he moved to Woodstock.

Always a keen outdoorsman, his particular hobby was his garden. In 1969 he celebrated his centennial and received many honors from various levels of governments.

He was a member of New St. Paul's Anglican Church, Woodstock, and while in Wilmot Township he had been active in St. James Anglican Church.

His wife, the former Catherine Laird of Haysville, predeceased him in 1958.

Surviving are one daughter, Miss Mary Mark, at home, and several nieces and nephews

Funeral services were held Tuesday of last week at the F.E. Rowell Funeral Home, Woodstock, with temporary entombment in the Woodstock Mausoleum.

New Hamburg Independent, March 5, 1969

William — Catherine Ella Laird. Catherine (daughter of William C. Laird and Elizabeth Torrance) was born Mar 1866, , Ontario, Canada; died 1958; was buried , Saint James Anglican Cemetery, Wilmot Township, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-217024
• Residence: 1871, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Church of England
• Occupation: 1936, Toronto, York Co., Ontario, Canada; shoe manufacturer

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"Alan A. Mark, son of Mr. Samuel Mark, of Huron Road, one of Wilmot's most successful farmers, called here on Monday last in the interests of the well known firm of the J.D. King Co., wholesale manufacturers of fine boots and shoes, Toronto. Mr. Mark, Jr., is a very successful traveller having worked up a large business by his persevering and gentlemanly habits. In 1885 during the North West rebellion, while No. 3 Co. 29th Battalion was practicing here under Capt. Jonathan Cook, now of Berlin, Alan then a boy of 14 offered his services, as he was bound to be a soldier, he signed the service roll, and a red coat was given him, which his parents made him bring back next day, as he was so young. A few years afterwards he again joined No. 3 Co. and attended the Military school at London, where he took first class certificates. He spent a year at London, and was complimented as a very efficient graduate, whom the officials were very sorry to part with. This short military career our young friend claims was the stepping stone between the farm and his present mercantile position, he was determined to become a commercial traveller for a first-class house, and he has secured his desire, solely accomplished by his untiring and persevering efforts."

Berlin Daily Record, Oct. 11, 1894, p. 1

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In 1885 during the North West rebellion, while No. 3 Co. 29th Battalion was practicing here under Capt. Jonathan Cook, now of Berlin, Alan then a boy of 14 offered his services, as he was bound to be a soldier, he signed the service roll, and a red coat was given him, which his parents made him bring back next day, as he was so young.

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• Misfortune: Killed by Lightning " thunder struck death set in a moment"
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-217023
• Residence: 1871, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Church of England

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-78574
• Residence: 1891, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Anglican
• Occupation: 1911, Haysville, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Student Teacher, Public School
• Residence: 1911, Haysville, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Anglican
• Occupation: 1921, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Teacher, Public School
• Residence: 1921, 39 Ellen St. E. Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1921, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Church of England

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-78573
• Occupation: 1911, Haysville, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer Son, on Shares
• Residence: 1911, Haysville, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Anglican

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"The first telephone was built in 1911 by John Ernst.....In 1922 the company was sold to the township with Ilingworth Cassel, Gideon Bechtel and Edwin Eidt being the first Commissioners."

More Than a Century in Wilmot

Illingworth married Christina "Tina" McCallum 1 Jan 1917, South Easthope Twp., Perth Co., Ontario, Canada. Christina (daughter of John McCallum and Christina Williams) was born 1884, South Easthope Twp., Perth Co., Ontario, Canada; died 1968; was buried , Saint James Anglican Cemetery, Wilmot Township, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Edith Martha Ewen
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-78576
• Residence: 1911, Haysville, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Anglican
• Occupation: 1921, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Stenographer, Rubber Factory
• Residence: 1921, 39 Ellen St. E. Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1921, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Church of England
• Occupation: 1926, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Stenographer

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The death occurred at her home in Toronto, on Dec. 28, of Edith Martha Cassel, beloved wife of Mr. George Ewen. The deceased was a daughter of County Clerk Samuel Cassel and Mrs. Cassel of Kitchener. She was born in Wilmot and had many friends in this vicinity who deeply regret her passing. Resides her husband she leaves two sons, Donald and Kenneth, in Toronto, and her parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. Cassel, one brother, Mr. Illingworth Cassel, and one sister, Miss Winnifred Cassel, Kitchener. The funeral took place to Park Lawn Cemetery, Toronto.

New Hamburg Independent, January 9, 1942

Edith married George Ewen 17 Feb 1926, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. George (son of George Ewen and Adelaide "Addie" Weller) was born 10 Oct 1898, Elora, Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-202861
• Residence: 1911, Haysville, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Anglican