Fred married Rhoda Ethel May WILLIAMSON on 24 Nov 1898 in Stilwell, Cavalier County, North Dakota, USA. Rhoda (daughter of Joel Halstead WILLIAMSON and RHODA GOODMURPHY) was born on 10 Aug 1877 in Sophiasburg Twp, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada; died on 12 Mar 1903 in Stilwell, Cavalier County, North Dakota, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
Buried in Morris Hill Cemetery in Boise, Idaho

Ara married Adelaide CLARK on 1 May 1862 in Hillier Twp, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada. Adelaide was born on 17 Jul 1841 in Ontario, Canada; died on 12 Feb 1912 in Morris, Pembina, Manitoba, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The family came to the Red River Valley in 1881.
In 1883 they moved to Cavalier County, and homesteaded in Harvey Twp.
In 1902 they bought a farm in South Dresden, North Dakota.

Rhoda passed away in 1888, and Joel returned to Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada. There he met Sarah Kingston, who he married on Feb 28 1891.
Joel and Sarah went back to North Dakota.
In 1911 they moved to Stilwell (a town named for his mother Lucretia Stilwell). They lived with their son Alden Williamson and his family.
Joel died in 1912.
Sarah went back to Ontario, where she died on Dec 29,1924 in Prince Edward County, Ontario.

Joel married RHODA GOODMURPHY in 1866 in Wellington, Hillier Twp, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada. RHODA (daughter of LAWRENCE GOODMURPHY and Lydia GARRATT) was born on 12 Aug 1845 in Wellington, Hillier Twp, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada; died on 8 Dec 1887 in Stillwell, North Dakota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

According to Lucetta Eliza (daughter of Rhoda), the family moved to the Dakota Territory in 1881.
The town they lived became known as Inkster. Then they took land in Langdon in Cavalier County.


Died:
Buried in Harvey Cemtery in Langdon, ND

Arra married Anna Ellen BARTON. Anna was born in Feb 1808 in Hillier Township, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada; died on 9 Jul 1874 in Hillier Twp, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

James married Lucretia HALSTEAD before 1841. Lucretia (daughter of Joel HALSTEAD and Sarah Ann GAFFIELD) was born on 23 Aug 1812 in Pittstown, Rensselaer, New York, USA; died on 3 Dec 1898 in Stillwell, Cavalier County, North Dakota, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Lawrence arrived in Canada about August 1822 with his parents. The family had stopped at Kingston, Ontario , and there he was apprenticed to a man named Carl, to become a shoemaker.
The arrangement stipulated that Lawrence would apprentice for three (3) years, then when he was finished, he was to get a suit of clothes and some money.

Meanwhile his parents and siblings were to have meandered along towards the west, arriving at Smokeville (now Wellington).
The inhabitants at that time were few and far between, but just the same, they had two hotels where whiskey was sold.

Lawrence obviously completed his apprencticeship and headed for Wellington three years later. in 1825 or 1826 he met a Lydia Garratt at a Suree at the Sandbanks, and they were married sometime soon-after.
The Garratts were Quakers who had originated from Belfast and had emigrated to Upper New York State, then crossed over to Canada.

I found Lawrence on the 1840 Census for Murray Township. The Cenus records that there were a total of 7 in the family, all Quakers.
There were four (4) male children, two (2) adults, plus another female over 16 (unknown).
Next door was a Townsend Garratt and family, and a Thmas Garratt and family. Could be siblings of Lydia??

Lawrence took up the Quaker relgion for his family and set up a shoemaking shop in Wellington.
The 1851 Census has the family residing on Lot 11 of the 3rd Concession - Military Tract in Hallowell Twp - a farm made up of 114 acres.

The first two children, Sarah Ann and Rachel Ann were twins and died at birth according to Eliza Cooper.

Townsend and Thomas died of TB.

On Nov 28/1851,Lawrence purchased the North Half of Lot 11 on Conc 3 MT, from Thomas Waring and wife.
On April 28, 1864 Lawrence acuired 1/4 acre of Lot 1, Concession 1 in Hillier Twp, from Rufus Wilder.
On March 8, 1867 he sold the West Half (50 acres of his Hallowell Twp property) to his son Wm Davis, and on April 22, 1867 sold the Eest Half (other 50 acres) to his son Solomon.
On April 28, 1867 Lawrence sold the 1/4 acre on Lot 1 to his son John.

Solomon acquired 70 acres of Lot 1, Conc. 1, in Hillier Twp, on November 5, 1872 from Silas Reynolds & Charlotte Blakely.

Laurence and Lydia were still living at the time of the 1891 Census and lived on the farm at Lot 1 with Solomon and his wife Lydia Morriah Hutchinson.
Apparently Lydia was blind by 83 years of age (1889).

According to the Register of Births, Deaths, Marriages kept by Franklin Jones, the clerk for Hillier Twp., Lawrence and Lydia were registered as dying in the 1st Half of 1892.
An examination of the Death Register of the Ontario Archives has given me the exact dates.
Lawrence died on December 17, 1891, see record # 01538192, and Lydia died on November 15, 1891, see record # 01538292. Lawrence died of paralysis, and Lydia died of old age.

It is not know where they are buried but it is presumed to be in Wellington .

A View of Life in 1861 on the Family Farm
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In 1861, on Lot 11, Conc. 3 - Military Tract, Hallowell Twp, out of a total of 114 acres, Lawrence and his family had 75 acres under cultivation. 46 acres were growing products and 29 were in pasture.
39 acres supplied 700 lbs. of maple sugar in that year.

The cash value of the property was $3200.00.
The cash value of the farm equipment was $50.00.

On this property, the following products were produced:

Spring Wheat - 4 acres/ 100 bushels
Barley - 10 acres/ 400 bushels
Rye - 7 acres/ 210 bushels
Peas - 14 acres/ 350 bushels
Oats - 5 acres/ 100 bushels
Potatoes - 4 acres/ 450 bushels
Carrots - 200 bushels
Beans - 10 bushels
Hay - 4 tons
Wool - 65 lbs.
20 yards of full cloth
16 yards of flannel

The livestock consisted of :

4 steers
6 milk cows (300 lbs. of butter)
4 horses ( 2 colts)
25 sheep
2 pigs

In 1861, almost 1600 lbs. of pork was barreled and 11,200 lbs. of fish

For transportation, the family had one pleasure carriage valued at $10.00.

LAWRENCE married Lydia GARRATT about 1826 in Wellington, Hillier Twp, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada. Lydia (daughter of Caleb GARRATT and Dorcas CARMAN) was born about Oct 1807 in Hallowell Twp, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada; died on 15 Nov 1891 in Wellington, Hillier Twp, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

It is understood that Lydia was blind by the year 1889, being 83 years of age.
She apparently died of old age in 1891.
It is believed that she and Lawrence are buried somewhere around Wellington.