WILFred Lawrence ANDREW

Male 1918 - 1917


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Generation: 1

  1. 1.  WILFred Lawrence ANDREW was born on 4 Dec 1918 in Kelwood, Manitoba (son of Edwin Arthur ANDREW and Blanche D MCCUTCHEON, .2); died on 19 Oct 1917 in Kemnay, Manitoba; was buried in Kelwood Community Cemetery.

    Notes:

    Buried:
    Aged 52y 10. Black granite monument.


Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Edwin Arthur ANDREW was born on 30 Oct 1891 in Hyde, Cheshire, England; died on 19 Oct 1949 in Regina, Saskatchewan; was buried in Kelwood Community Cemetery.

    Edwin married Blanche D MCCUTCHEON, .2 on 1 Jun 1915 in Glenella, Manitoba. Blanche (daughter of Andrew Thomas ANDY MCCUTCHEON and Lillian LILLIE SIMPKIN) was born on 16 Mar 1895 in Burlington, Wentworth Co., Ontario; died on 13 Jan 1979 in Neepawa Co., Manitoba; was buried in Kelwood Community Cemetery. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 3.  Blanche D MCCUTCHEON, .2 was born on 16 Mar 1895 in Burlington, Wentworth Co., Ontario (daughter of Andrew Thomas ANDY MCCUTCHEON and Lillian LILLIE SIMPKIN); died on 13 Jan 1979 in Neepawa Co., Manitoba; was buried in Kelwood Community Cemetery.
    Children:
    1. Alfred Edwin ANDREW was born on 28 Aug 1917 in Kelwood, Manitoba; died on 16 Oct 1944 in Noord-Brabant, Holland; was buried in Noord-Brabant, Holland.
    2. 1. WILFred Lawrence ANDREW was born on 4 Dec 1918 in Kelwood, Manitoba; died on 19 Oct 1917 in Kemnay, Manitoba; was buried in Kelwood Community Cemetery.
    3. Harold Clifford BARNEY ANDREW was born on 22 Sep 1920 in Kelwood, Manitoba; died on 26 Jul 1972 in Banff, Alberta; was buried in Banff, Alberta.
    4. RUSSell Albert ANDREW was born on 15 Aug 1922 in Kelwood, Manitoba; died on 6 Jul 2002 in Kelwood, Manitoba; was buried in Kelwood Community Cemetery.
    5. Pearl Margaret ANDREW was born on 6 Jul 1924 in Kelwood, Manitoba; died on 23 Apr 2009 in Winnipeg, Manitoba; was buried in McCreary Cemetery.
    6. Merle Arthur ANDREW was born on 28 Dec 1929 in Saskatchewan; died on 25 Aug 1983 in Kelwood, Manitoba; was buried in Kelwood Community Cemetery.


Generation: 3

  1. 6.  Andrew Thomas ANDY MCCUTCHEON was born on 20 Mar 1861 in Arthur Twp., Wellington Co., Ontario (son of Hugh Robert HR MCCUTCHEON, .3 and Rebecca LAMOTT); died on 20 Feb 1954 in Kelwood, Manitoba; was buried in Kelwood Community Cemetery.

    Notes:

    - Andy never received his Letters Patent to this farm. Tragedy struck them when their house burned to the ground from an overheated stove pipe. He had no insurance, so the family lost everything, including the prized piano they had recently purchased with his inheritance money. The family went to Roche Percee SK where Andy found work in the Souris coal mines.

    1953 THE MAN WHO RODE WITH JESSE JAMES :
    There will be a big celebration at Kelwood Manitoba next Friday for Andrew McCutcheon who will be celebrating his 10th birthday. Neighbours will crowd into the little home where he lives with his youngest son George, & his daughter-in-law & grandchildren. Old Andy will dance a jig & there will be plenty of food. After his jig Old Andy will return to his favourite chair to watch the fun. His great grandchildren will crowd around him & direct his mind to the past.

    Grandpa, tell us about the times you rode with Jesse James, they will ask. Maybe Old Andy won't hear them very well at first, so the children will shout a little louder & then finally the old man will smile & nod & his eyes will mist up a bit.

    "When I was a young lad I lived on my grandfather's farm near Mount Forest in Ontario" he may say.  "This fellow came out of the bush one day. Said his name was Jesse James. We didn't know he was a hold-up man. Stayed & worked at our place for two or three weeks. Seemed a good fellow. I was around 18 at the time & he was 4 or 5 years older 'n me. Him & me went riding lots of times. Oh, that Jesse, could he shoot. Could take 3 nicks out of a squirrel's tail as he run up a tree."
    The children will laugh as they always do. This is their favourite story & they know it by heart. What else happened, Grandpa?
    But Old Andy will have forgotten & will be stamping his foot in time to the music. The children will persist until he returns to the tale. Little by little he will tell of Jesse' prowess with a gun - the wild pigeons they shot in the pea fields, of the bears & the coons they brought home. There will be admiration in his voice, undimmed by the greater part of a century.
    It is with sadness & reluctance he tells the latter part of the story - of how his grandfather discovered that his new hired man was only using his farm as a hide out after a recent robbery in the States & had hidden his share of the loot in the loft of the barn.
    Shortly after this Jesse 'borrowed" a horse & rode away. Down the trail he was joined by an accomplice. The 2 men headed for Mount Forest where they committed a robbery & then disappeared. Old Andy shakes his tousled white head. "That Jesse sure could shoot" he always says.

    Andrew McCutcheon was born near Arthur, Ontario in 1852. His acquaintance with the notorious outlaw Jesse James may be a fact but there is no record that Jesse James or any member of his gang ever reached Canada. But, there is a period of time around 1870 when his whereabouts were never definitely ascertained.
    Mr. McCutcheon may unknowingly hold the missing link to the James story.  His reference to Jesse's age as compared to his own is correct as records show the outlaw was born in 1847. A recent research conducted by the Mount Forest Historical Society revealed no written record to show definite proof that Jesse James was ever in the district but several residents were convinced of the fact because of stories which had been handed down to them from reliable sources. The exact location of a shack in Proton Township, which he once used as a hide-out, was also established.
    As a young man Mr. McCutcheon worked in the lumber woods of Muskoka. He helped to make the first rut roads in this area. Here, he recalls many a skirmish with the Indians. At one time he was captured by a marauding band but allowed to go free after they stripped him of all his possessions. He still recalls with sadness that it was here he lost his beloved Bible & hymn book given to him by his mother.
    Later he wandered down through the northern States where he worked on small river boats & in the iron mines. In 1889 he was married in Lambston, New Jersey.  He moved to Manitoba in 1896 when they took up a homestead.  In 1915 they moved to Saskatchewan where he continued to farm at various places. After the passing of his wife in Northgate, Saskatchewan, he returned to Manitoba in 1935. This time he settled on a farm in the Kelwood district. Later he moved into the village of Kelwood but with no thought of retirement.
    At 85 years of age he was available for part time employment & worked intermittently for several years. But around the time he marked his 100th birthday, his doctor persuaded him to stop buck sawing wood. He accepts his longevity with apparent unconcern.  He continues to enjoy above all three hearty meals a day, his pipe, the visits of his friends & memories of the days when he rode with Jesse James.
    Ref: (BY Wanda Neill Tolboom, Winnipeg Free Press 1953)

    - 1953 Fall, Andy was cutting wood for the household with an axe when it slipped & he cut his big toe. Gangrene quickly set in & he was hospitalized at Neepawa Hospital. The doctor informed him that in order for him to survive, his big toe would need to be amputated. Andy's replay was "..absolutely not. I was born with all my body parts & I am going to die with them…."

    - Andrew was the oldest child born to Hugh Robert "HR" McCutcheon & Rebecca Lamott. Andrew McCutcheon didn't come west - with the family in approximately 1885. Instead, he wandered south to the United States, ending up in New Jersey looking for work in the mines. It was here where he met & married Lillian Simpkin. Lillian was 13 years old. Lillie is buried in an unmarked grave in Estevan, Saskatchewan.

    A handsome photo of Andy McCutcheon, Andy is seated, wearing a corduroy jacket & pants & heavy button sweater. He has a heavy mustache with red or fair, graying hair, blue eyes.
    -Transcripts by PJ Ahlberg. Thank you. - - -

    Died:
    COD gangene

    Buried:
    Manitoba.

    Andrew married Lillian LILLIE SIMPKIN in 1889 in Lambskin, New Jersey. Lillian was born on 23 Sep 1875 in Ocean Co., New Jersey; died on 15 Jul 1924 in Northgate, Saskatchewan; was buried in Estevan City Cemetery. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 7.  Lillian LILLIE SIMPKIN was born on 23 Sep 1875 in Ocean Co., New Jersey; died on 15 Jul 1924 in Northgate, Saskatchewan; was buried in Estevan City Cemetery.

    Notes:

    Buried:
    Saskatchewan.

    Children:
    1. Hannah Lydia MCCUTCHEON was born on 16 Mar 1893 in Burlington, Wentworth Co., Ontario; died on 31 May 1975 in Kelwood, Manitoba; was buried in Kelwood Community Cemetery.
    2. 3. Blanche D MCCUTCHEON, .2 was born on 16 Mar 1895 in Burlington, Wentworth Co., Ontario; died on 13 Jan 1979 in Neepawa Co., Manitoba; was buried in Kelwood Community Cemetery.
    3. Robert Andrew BOB MCCUTCHEON, .7 was born on 16 Jun 1898 in Kelwood, Manitoba; died on 30 Aug 1974 in Kelwood, Manitoba.
    4. Clara Jane MCCUTCHEON, .2 was born on 11 Jan 1898 in Kelwood, Manitoba; died in 1979 in Kelwood, Manitoba.
    5. Richard William MCCUTCHEON was born on 20 Jan 1901 in Kelwood, Manitoba; died on 27 Nov 1976 in Kelwood, Manitoba.
    6. George Henry MCCUTCHEON, .2 was born on 9 Aug 1905 in Kelwood, Manitoba; died on 1 Aug 1994 in Neepawa Co., Manitoba.
    7. Walter Lawrence MCCUTCHEON was born in 1908 in Kelwood, Manitoba; died on 10 Oct 1969 in Neepawa Co., Manitoba.
    8. Elmer Thomas MCCUTCHEON was born on 5 Apr 1910 in Kelwood, Manitoba; died on 3 Apr 1985 in Regina, Saskatchewan.
    9. Lillian Viola MCCUTCHEON was born in 1915 in Kelwood, Manitoba; died in 1993 in Kelwood, Manitoba; was buried in Kelwood Community Cemetery.


Generation: 4

  1. 12.  Hugh Robert HR MCCUTCHEON, .3 was born in May 1842 in Erin Twp., Wellington Co., Ontario (son of Hugh MCCUTCHEON, Sr. and Mary STEWART); died on 9 Mar 1917 in Portage La Prairie, Manitoba; was buried in Riverside Cemetery.

    Notes:

    1869 Sep 2 - HR joined the American Civil War when is was 19 years old. His father-i-law, Andrew lamest may have fought side by side. HR & Lamott may have been drawn of Kansas by the American government's offer of free land in Kansas to veterans.

    HR was born the youngest son of Hugh & Mary. He was 15 years younger than his oldest sister, Ann, & yet their paths, or rather her children's paths, crossed his in Manitoba years later. We have often wondered if he knew that Lemuel Little was his nephew, who homesteaded very close to both himself & Andy.
    His childhood years were quite idyllic on the farm in Erin, Ontario. Being the youngest, he was spared a lot of the heavier farm labour that his older siblings bore the brunt of.  hat's not saying that he didn't have to do farm work, for he did. He was to become a very successful farmer….later on in his life; so he learned his trade well. But I am getting ahead of my story.
    What possessed him to become a Soldier of Fortune, we don't know. As related by Andy only that he did become one.
    But first, he got a girl "in the family way". He met Andrew Lamott's only child Rebecca about 1861. It was also the same year that his father, Hugh, died. The Lamott's were living 20 miles to the north (in Arthur Township) of the McCutcheons, on a homestead. According to the historical records found, Andy was 4 months old when his parents married. It was also around this time HR went to live on that homestead, with his new in-laws & a new born baby. Over the next several years, he & Andrew Lamott were to became very close.
    12th April 1861 & the American Civil War had just begun. There were 45,000 Canadians who served in this war.  Andrew Lamott & HR McCutcheon were amongst them. HR, recently losing his father, never inherited anything. His Dad died intestate & his Mom continued living on the original farm in Erin. HR needed funds to finance his own farm in Ontario. The cheap new western Land Grants were still 15 years in the future.
    It is believed that HR, after getting married in June 1862, headed south to the USA by August 1862. He returned once in 1864 or 1865 long enough to make Rebecca "in the family way again" with Mary, then he left, not returning until sometime in 1867. Robert John was born thereafter. This coincides with Andy's recollections. One time Andy recalled "……when he was young, he was no darn good as a father….." Andy remembers him coming & going when he was a young boy, not being around very much, henceforth his comments. It also coincides with the births of the children. Andy maintained that Rebecca lost no children. And then there are the existing war records that need to be verified, as of yet.
    It's understandable why a boy would think that his father was "no good" when he wasn't around very often during Andy's formative years.
    Why did HR go to war as a Soldier of Fortune? Perhaps adventure, loyal to the cause of slavery (he fought for the Union), maybe he liked to kill, money. At home on the farm in Arthur, he was lucky if he made $10 per month. From historical records, Soldiers of Fortune, pedestrian Soldiers, were paid, in gold coin, between $20 & $22 US per month. They were paid more than the regular recruits, who earned between $13 & $16 a month. In those days, a sizable sum of money; enough for him to buy a farm. When he came home to Arthur, his saddle bags would have been jingling with USD gold coin.

    In 1867, HR McCutcheon, Rebecca, Andrew & his sister, Mary, were living on EOSR, Lot 26, along with Andrew Lamott & Jane Ferguson. This was the farm in Andrew's tale "The Man Who Rode with Jessie James". To quote Andrew "When I was a young lad I lived on my grandfather's farm near Mount Forest in Ontario…" This was the grandfather whom Andrew McCutcheon was named after.
    By 1870 he owned the farm in Arthur; Andrew Lamott & Jane had moved south to Neosho, Kansas. In the 1877 County Atlas for Arthur, Wellington, R. McCutcheon is solely named on EOSR, 26, Lot size 100 acres. Lamott is no longer listed on that lot.
    Circa 1880, HR heard the stories of cheap land opening up in the "Territories," as Western Canada was called.  For $10 a quarter section of land could be purchased in Manitoba. He applied for a Land Grant & received it. After disposing of his farm in Arthur, Ontario around 1885, HR, his wife, & 5 of their children left Arthur, Ontario for the "Territories". According to family folklore, they came west in Red River Carts, settling on a farm in the locality of Spring Hill, Manitoba which is located north-west of Neepawa. HR & his family first appear in the 1891 census for Manitoba, in the newly formed Rural Municipality of Rosedale. HR was one of the first settlers in Springhill. HR received title to his land on the 28 January 1898.
    In 1897, building was brisk in the Glensmith area. Council news lists a few [houses] as follows: H.R. McCutcheon frame story & a half at $500.00, W.E. Mabley log house $200.00. His is an entry in the book "Kelwood Bridges the Years".  This entry is significant in that is an attestation as to the wealth that HR was accumulating. Compared to the houses of the era being built, log homes at $200, he built a very capacious house; 2 story framed. It was "the talk of the town".
    HR's wife, Rebecca Lamott, died in 1912 leaving him on the farm, living alone. He got ill not long after she died & was unable to care for himself so a nurse by the name of Cecilia Black was hired. She stayed with him until his death on the 15 November 1917. He was finally laid to rest beside his wife of 52 years at the Riverside Cemetery in Neepawa, Manitoba.
    When HR died, he was relatively wealthy. The land depression still had not devastated Manitoba & when the farms were sold, $5000 was bequeathed to each of his 4 surviving children. He also bequeathed $500 to his grandson, Robert McCutcheon, perhaps because Robert (Bob) was his name sake. Bob, who was only 19 years old at the time, spent his inheritance on a new car called the Tin Lizzie. Bob drove it for a while, as long as the gas lasted & then had to tow it behind a team of horses.  "HR" also left a small amount of money to his nurse, Cecelia Black. 
    Ref: Recollections of son Andy McCutcheon & his grandson Lawrence McCutcheon.

    Transcripts by P J Ahlberg. Thank you. - - -

    Birth:
    Res 881 Cenues: Arthur Con.

    Buried:
    Neepawa, Manitoba. Red granite monument with a urn on top.

    Hugh married Rebecca LAMOTT on 10 Jun 1862 in Erin Twp., Wellington Co., Ontario. Rebecca (daughter of Andrew LAMOTT) was born on 27 Apr 1845 in Arthur Twp., Wellington Co., Ontario; died on 9 Mar 1912 in Springhill, Manitoba; was buried in Riverside Cemetery. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 13.  Rebecca LAMOTT was born on 27 Apr 1845 in Arthur Twp., Wellington Co., Ontario (daughter of Andrew LAMOTT); died on 9 Mar 1912 in Springhill, Manitoba; was buried in Riverside Cemetery.

    Notes:

    Rebecca is the daughter of Jane Ferguson, 1808, Scotland and Andrew Lamott, 20 Feb 1815, Manitoba.

    Buried:
    Neepawa, Manitoba.

    Children:
    1. 6. Andrew Thomas ANDY MCCUTCHEON was born on 20 Mar 1861 in Arthur Twp., Wellington Co., Ontario; died on 20 Feb 1954 in Kelwood, Manitoba; was buried in Kelwood Community Cemetery.
    2. Mary MCCUTCHEON, .5 was born in 1865 in Arthur Twp., Wellington Co., Ontario.
    3. Robert John MCCUTCHEON, .4 was born on 26 Aug 1868 in Arthur Twp., Wellington Co., Ontario; died on 27 May 1890 in Neepawa Co., Manitoba; was buried in Riverside Cemetery.
    4. William Robert MCCUTCHIN, .9 was born on 30 Oct 1872 in Arthur Twp., Wellington Co., Ontario; died on 7 Apr 1917 in Neepawa Co., Manitoba; was buried in Riverside Cemetery.
    5. Sarah Jane MCCUTCHEON, .2 was born in c. 1873 in Arthur Twp., Wellington Co., Ontario; died on 23 Sep 1904 in Neepawa Co., Manitoba; was buried in Riverside Cemetery.
    6. Ellen MCCUTCHEON, .6 was born on 24 Dec 1874 in Arthur Twp., Wellington Co., Ontario; died on 12 Feb 1907 in Neepawa Co., Manitoba; was buried in Riverside Cemetery.
    7. Ann MCCUTCHEON, .4 was born on 17 Feb 1877 in Arthur Twp., Wellington Co., Ontario; died on 29 Nov 1959 in Neepawa Co., Manitoba; was buried in Riverside Cemetery.
    8. Margaret MAGGIE MCCUTCHEON, .3 was born on 9 Jun 1879 in Arthur Twp., Wellington Co., Ontario; died on 20 Jun 1953 in Neepawa Co., Manitoba; was buried in Riverside Cemetery.