Notes:

Birth:
Detroit / Seaforth Verify

Died:
COD: TB.

Notes:

. ALBERT J. WILLSON. Death called Albert J. Willson when he was sojourning in St. Petersburg, Florida, for the benefit of his health. He had long been well known in connection with the hardware trade of Detroit & had made for himself a most creditable position in business circles. He was born in Seaforth, Ontario, on the 24th of July, 1866, & was one of a family of 6 children, whose parents were Oliver C. & Sarah (Sloan) Willson. The father engaged in the hardware business in Canada, where he won prosperity through his wisely directed efforts & unfaltering enterprise. Later he removed to Detroit, where he continued in the hardware business until his death.
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"Albert J. Willson, spending his youthful days in Canada, attended the public & high schools of Seaforth to the time of his graduation. He was a young man of nineteen years when in 1885 he came to Detroit & entered the employ of the Standard Hardware Company, with whom he remained until 1895. When that decade had passed he accepted a position with the T. B. Rayl Company as a clerk & won subsequent promotion until he was made manager of the household furnishing department. He always made his services of value & benefit to his employers & his name was synonymous with the term of fidelity & loyalty.

Mr. Willson was united in marriage to Miss Mary Williams, a daughter of E. S. Williams, & a member of one of the well known families of Detroit. 3 children were born to them: Kenneth A., whose birth occurred November 3, 1896; Sidney W., born February 2, 1902; & Dorothy M., born January 17, 1903. All are living at home with the mother. Mr. Willson belonged to the Central Methodist Episcopal church, of which his family are members & his life was ever guided by its teachings & its principles. His political support was given to the democratic party & he was a faithful follower of the Masonic order. He had many sterling qualities which won him the confidence & goodwill of all who knew him, so that his death was the occasion of deep & widespread regret to his many friends. Passing away in Florida his remains were brought back to Detroit for interment in Roseland cemetery. His family is well known in this city & Mrs. Willson occupies an enviable social position.
Ref: The City of Detroit, Mi, 1701-1922, Vo. IV, pg. 723. - - -

Died:
Died of Bright's disease.

Buried:
Detroit. Small monument Sec 15, Lot 155.2, lies half embedded in the ground.

Albert married Mary H MAMIE WILLIAMS in 1895 in [[pt:586]]. Mary was born on 11 Mar 1869 in Walkerville, Ontario. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Mamie is the daughter of E S Williams of Detroit.

. Mary Harriet Williams was born in Walkerville, Ontario, her father being involved in the Hiram Walker distilling operations there during that time (Walker was her father's brother-in-law).

. Her 1st husband was Albert Jacob Willson, a hardware dealer whom she married in 1895.

. They had 3 children, all born in Detroit:
Ken, b.1896
Sydney, b.1902
Dorothy, b.1903

. Mary suffered the calamitous loss of her entire Willson family from the years 1920 through 1927... She was surely devastated to have occasioned such loss.

. She eventually married Canada-born William A. Cloughley, who was & had been a streetcar conductor (or rather a "coach driver" on the "street railway") in Canada & Michigan, & they took up residence in Highland Park. - - -

Notes:

Oliver is the son of Eliza Ann Sayre & Jacob Willson.

. 1873 March 28, Advertisement with drawings:
Implements for Spring Work. O C Willson Wished to direct the attention of Farmers to his stock of Implements: thistle Cutters, various Plows, Reapers & mowers, Sewing machines. Musical instruments,
Markham Street, Seaforth, Ontario. General Agent for the Dominion.
Ref: Huron Expositor newspaper, p6.

. 1874 Apr 16, Advertisement:
Music & Sewing machines, O C Willson's Sewing machine & Agricultural implements Emporium. Seaforth, Ont. Still in the Front Bank as usual.
Ref: Exeter Times newspaper, Ont.

. 1879 Jun 13 - Advertisement: Seaforth Agricultural Warerooms, O C Willson, Proprietor, has now on hand a large & well elected stock of farming implements. The New Massey Reaper & Mower a specialty., OC Willson, Main St. Seaforth.
. 1892 Jul 15 - Buggies & Wagons in Seaforth, Celebrated makers: Gananoque Carriage Co., Brantford Carriage Co., W J Thompson o London.
Ref: Huron Expositor newspaper.

Note: Many more advertisements by O C Willson may be found in the Huron Expositor. - PJA

. 1902 Oct 10 - For Sale at a Bargain - House with 2 lots attached. That comfortable & commodious brick residence on West Goderich st., owned & occurred by O C Willson. the house contains parkour, sitting room, dinning room, kitchen, pantry, wood shed, coal bin & hard & soft water down stairs.There are 6 bed rooms, sewing room, clothes closets & bathroom up stairs. Apply on the premises to O C Wilson, Seaforth.

. 1911 Oct 20. Work was received at Seaforth of the death in Detroit on Tuesday of last week of O C Willson, for many years engaged in business in Seaforth. Deceased was 74 years old & for some time he conducted a feed store here & after that travelled through the district as representative for farm implements.
Ref: Herald newspaper.

Died:
Aged 74. Ref: Michigan Death Records.

Buried:
Goderich, ON.

Oliver married Sarah SLOAN. Sarah was born on 29 Sep 1845 in Toronto, York Co., Ontario; died on 30 Oct 1920 in Seaforth, McKillop Twp., Huron Co., Ontario; was buried in Maitlandbank Cemetery. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Sarah daughter of Catherine Campbell & James Sloan.

. 1917 Aug 10 - Mrs O C Willson of Detroit, is a guest at the home of her daughter, Mrs W G Willis.

Obituary
. 1920 Oct 30 - Death of Mrs O C Willson, The death occurred in Detroit on Saturday last of the former very well known & greatly respected resident of Seaforth, Sarah Sloan, widow of the late O C Willson, was born in Toronto & was in her 75th year. Before the family removed to Detroit some 17 years ago. Mr Mrs Willson were 2 o the oldest residents of Seaforth. Mr Wilson having been in business here since the early days of the town. The body was brought to Seaforth on Monday & the funeral was held from the home of her son-in-law, W G Willis, on Wednesday afternoon, interment made in the family plot in the Maintlandbank cemetery. Mr. Willson died in Detroit 2 years ago but a family of 3 daughters survive,
Mrs. G Mann, Miss Elizabeth Willson of Detroit, & Mrs W G Willis of Seaforth.
Ref: Huron Expositor newspaper, Goderich. Ont. & Clinton New Era newspaper.

Birth:
Alt name: Sloane

Buried:
Seaforth, ON.

Notes:

Jacob is the son of Mary Ann Cummer & John Willson.3rd.

. 1846 Smith's Canadian Gazetter, Province of Canada West:
Goodrich, Huron District, on Lake Huron. Laid out in 1827 by Mr. Galt, of Canada Company, Town is handsomely situated. A harbor has been constructed, but the piers are now getting out of repair. A lighthouse is jut about being erected by the government. In 1827 a road was open to Wilmot Twp., also to town of London.
States run twice a week fro Goodrich to London & Galt. The steamboat Goodrich called here on her weekly trips from Windsor to Owen's Sound. A fishing copy was established here. 5 churches, a stone jail & court house & Canada Company offices are kept here. Post 4 times a week. Population 659. Experts for 1844 were small but doing the spring of 1845, about 12,000 buses of were are ship. One grist, 2 saw mills, bulling mill & carding machine. There is a tavern on the Bayfield road, 4 miles south of Goodrich.

. The Willson home was not far that that of Judge Reed's Tavern on the now vanished Hibernia Terrance. This was the terminal for the stages which travelled from Hamilton up through Kitchener, Galt, Guelph & Stratford. The Canada Company stage started in 1841 & was still operating in 1855. Jacob obtained employment driving stage, probably through his father's connections with the Canada Land Company & continued to do so for some years. Eliza & Jacob's first child, Oliver Creedon was born there in Oct 1837, to be followed by 4 sons & 2 daughters, the last in 1856.
The stage business was probably dwindling about this time & Jacob was now over 40. In 1862 Jacob purchased Lots 14 & 15, Maitland, in Colborne township, not for from Goderich. The land was not too productive & it was not easy to make ends meet so Jacob followed the family pattern of many mortgages. The house on the property burned down many years ago.
In Dec 1886 Jacob purchased 3 lots, 14, 15 & 16, Range F, Section 5, in Maitland Cemetery."

.1848 Mar 15, Goderich. Astray, Came into the enclose of the subscriber, on the Glebe Lot, Maitland Road, about Sep 15 last, A RED Heifer, with white face & legs, 2 years old. The owner is requested to prove property, pay charges & take her away, otherwise the heifer will be sold to defray expenses, according to State made in such cases & Provided, Jacob Willson.
. 1848 Apr 28, Goderich. Notice: The 2 year old Heifer, as advertised for some weeks past in the Huron Signal as having strayed into my premises about the middle of last September, will be sold by Profit Asufied? on the Glebe lot, Maitland Road, at 2 oclock, on Sat. May 6, to decay expenses. Signed Jacob Willson.
Ref: Huron Signal newspaper, Goderich, pub. 1848.4.18

. 1849 Dec 4, Caution to the Public. Lost at the residence of the subscriber, Con 2, Goderich Twp., about the end of November last, a Promissory NOTE made by one jack Wilson in favor of John Galt, legal or bearer for £11 15s & due on 8 Nov 1849, sit. Robin Elliot & John Healy. This is therefore to caution nay person finding or receiving the said Note, that the same is still the property of the subscriber & he has not assigned to any one & the same may be delivered to D Watson Esq., Barrister, Goderich or the subscriber, John Gallager, 2nd con. Goderich Twp.
Ref: Huron Signal newspaper, Goderich, pub. 1850.2.14.

. 1852 Census Hay Twp., Huron County, Ontario:
. Parents & children are on separate pages. (Wm. Wilson on the bottom of page is not part of this family.}
. There appears to be 2 log houses. Eliza, Jacob & son Oliver, are recorded in this frame house - which is a tavern. On the Census 1861 they were living in a frame one story house.
. This stage coach-tavern was on the Lake Huron Road which would be a perfect location for the tavern relay station on the long trek up north to Bruce Peninsula.

. 'The land in this township is of a superior quality, with the exception of a narrow pine & cedar swamp running length of Township on 4th & 5th Concessions. Also a Cranberry Marsh on the beater part of 8th & 9th conn. There is a Settlement of French on Lake Shore, Centre of Twp. is occupied by Germans & G. Britain. Canada Company's selling price of their lands in 15 shillings currency per acre. Improved farms sell from £2.10.0 to £3 an acre. Signed, John Shirrny?, Enumerator.

. 1880 Colbourne Township, Ontario, Voter Polling Subdivision 1, ncluding Benviller Village, the Falls, Seaforth, Carlow, Milburn, Nile, Auburn, Goderich, Shepardton: Willson, Jacob, Lot MC, Con 10, Owner.

. 1885 Oct 9. Colborne. Our old pioneer, Jacob Willson, met with a painful accident last week. He was returning from the funeral of this granddaughter, Miss Ida Allen of Lucknow, & in alighting from his buggy at his own gate, his horse moved forward throwing him violently to the road. He sustained some severe west & was carried to his home in a unconscious state. He was obliged to rest in bed for several day, but is again as his usual self. [Sorry this article is slightly misprinted at the end to the page. - PJA]
Ref: Huron Signal newspaper, Goderich, pub. 1885.10.9.

. Obituary1: 1890 May 21 - Jacob Willson, At Crosswell, Michigan on the 21st inst., formerly of Colborne township, aged 74 years.
Ref: Huron Expositor newspaper, pub.1890.5.23.

Obituary2: 1890 May 21 - Jacob willson, one of the pioneer settlers of Colborne Twp., & father of Mr O C Willson & MrsJas Scott of Seaforth, died at his home in Croswell, Mich., on the 21st inst. Mr. Willson was widely known among the old residents of the county & was everywhere universally respected. he was 74 years of age.
Ref: Huron Signal newspaper, Goderich.

. He was a school trustee at Maitland. After the death of his wife Eliza Ann, Jacob moved to Crosswell, Michigan. - - -

Birth:
Alt Name: David. Ref:Census 1881 error?

Died:
Body returned to Godrich, ON.

Buried:
- with wife Eliza Ann Sayres, Plot 114, small monument lies in the grass.

Jacob married Eliza Ann Cooper SAYERS on 21 Jul 1836 in London, Middlesex Co., Ontario. Eliza was born in Apr 1818 in Town of York (Toronto), Ontario; died on 8 Dec 1886 in Goderich, Huron Co., Ontario; was buried in Maitland Cemetery. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

. Eliz Ann is the daughter Mr. Cooper.

of Catherine Campbell & James Sloan of (?) Chestnut Street near the Osgoode court Hall in downtown Toronto was original named Sayres Street.

Three Willson married at the same place at Goderich, by Rev. Alexander McKenzie, Presbyterian Minister, Goderich:
VERIFY IDENITY: Anna Wilson, married 9 July 1836 to Cyrus McMillan,
Wit: Joseph Pickley & Ben. Miller;

Ontario marriage Cert.
Jacob Willson, married 21 July 1836 to Eliza Ann Cooper, & Richard Papst & James Hater? & his sister
Margaret Willson, married 21 July 1836 to John Isaac, Witness, Ed Gooding & Benjamin Willson.

. 1836 July 18, Upper Canada Marriage Bond
Known all Men by these presents, that we are jointly & severally held, we bind ourself, our & each of our Heirs, by these presents, sealed at London, [Ontario], on July 18, 1836,
Jacob Willson of the Township of Goderich, in County of Huron, in London District, farmer, &
Eliza Ann Cooper of the same place, spinster.
Signed, E Ryerson & H Crawford.

. Eliza A Willson died at the home of her son Lockman Willson. Jacob Willson's remains were returned from Crosswell Michigan, to be buried beside his wife. - - -

Birth:


Died:
COD: Brights disease. Aged 68y 6m.

Buried:
Plot 114, with Jacob. Colborne Twp., Huron Co., Ontario