Notes:

Birth:
Geddes St.

Buried:
Plot B9-8. Pillar monument. with a roof with ivy growing on top, plus a book? on the right.

Notes:

. 1871 Wellington County Directory, West Garafraxa
Vickers, George, Con 1, Lot 7, freeholder.

- Vickers, Thos., Carpenter, Eramosa.

. The early residents of Elora. There were 7 taverns inserting the village in 1870. Around the corner & up Metcalf St & Church Sts., The American Hotel.Immediatey next door is the Royal Hotel. This hose has been operated since 1859 by Thomas & Francis Vickers. This the best place in the village to a have a meal. The hotel is otherwise plain, & attracts guests of more moderate mean.
Ref: The Elora Sentinel newspaper. published 2007. - - -

Birth:
Lot W 11, Con 9.

Died:
resided

Francis married Maria SARGENT on 12 Sep 1849 in Fergus, Nichol Twp., Wellington Co., Ontario. Maria (daughter of George THOMAS SARGENT and Sarah FELKER, .1) was born in Mar 1832 in Grimsby, Lincoln Co., Ontario; died on 8 Oct 1870 in Elora, Eramosa Twp., Wellington Co., Ontario; was buried in Elora Cemetery. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Maria is the daughter of daughter of George Thomas Sargent & Sarah Felker.

. 1852 Advertisement: Dress making: Millinery & Straw Bonnets done to order, by Mrs Vickers, Melville St Elora, near the Presbyterian Church. Straw Plait of all descriptions kept on hand. marriage & Mourning Dresses made on shortest notice. Elora, April 2 1852.
Ref: Elora Backwoodsman newspaper, published 1852 Jul 15.

. 1991 Dec 3 - Darby House, Elora's premier hotel of the 19th centre. Robt Dalby was an Elora businessman who sought to build a strong industrial base in the village un the 1870s. He no longer had time to look after the management of the Dalby House, & in 1873 he headed the hotel for 5 years to James All, who had been managing a hotel in Harrison who proved to be an immediate disaster as a hotelkeeper. The Dalby House soon los its reprobation.
In 1874 to salvage the business, Robt. Dalby went part way down Metcalfe Street to the Royal Hotel. He hired the Royal's manager, Frank Vickers, to restore the Royal hotel. The Vickers family had been in the hotel business in Elora for over 20 years. Frank Vickers had been successful in the livery & cartage businesses as wells running the Royal.
Much of the Vickers reputations based on the culinary skills of Frank's wife, Maria & his daughter, Mary Jane. They brought the Royal's dinning room reputation with them to the Dalby House & succeeded in rebuilding the business. They made special efforts to appeal to commercial travelers, who by this time, were becoming the mainstay of the hotel business.
In 1878 [or 1870?] the family was forced to relinquish the job, due to the illness of Maria Vickers. Frank Vickers returned to the livery business. Management of the hotel returned to the Frank Dalby family.
Ref: Elora Sentinel newspaper, article by Steve Thorning. - - -

Died:
COD: inflammation of the bowels, 5 weeks ailing.

Buried:
Plot: B9-6.

Notes:

. WILL of George Thomas Sargent, Left his farm to his eldest son James. The release came through in 1854 but for some reason, James died at the age 33 years on April 17, 1857, aged 33y 4mos.

. It is also known that James Sargent bought S half Lot 12, Con 8, Garafraxa from the Crown on Aug 17, 1846 for £10, but no payment was made & no deed was given so this property was transferred to James Loree in 1852.
It is not known why James gave up this farm, whether because of unexpected responsibilities after his father's death and /or because of his own ill health. Cause of death? - - -

Died:
Aged 46y 3m.

Buried:
Plot F1, Craigsholme, Dufferin Co.

George married Sarah FELKER, .1 on 27 Mar 1822 in Fort George, Niagara-On-The-Lake, Ontario. Sarah (daughter of Mary FELKER, .2) was born in 1805 in Grimsby, Lincoln Co., Ontario; died on 27 Jul 1877 in Arthur, Wellington Co., Ontario; was buried in McKee Cemetery. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Sarah is the daughter of Mary Felker born in NJ & granddaughter of Johann Jost Völkel JOHN Felker.

. 1861 Census Erin Twp., Wellington Co.
Widow Sarah Felker Sargent, age 55, b 1806, widowed, & daughter Ann Sargent, 17y, b. 1844 are both visiting with daughter Eliza A Awry, age 28, b 1833 & her husband Thos Awry & their 2 children: Sarah 1856 & Maria Awrey, age 3, 1858 .

. Sargent Family History, compiled by Jean Hutchinson 28 Apr 1986.
Sources McKeen Cemetery, Geta & Frank Goodall, Lois Wells & others:

George Thomas Sargent, 1803-1849 & his wife Sarah Felker, b. 1811, came from Grimsby to Garafraxa in or before 1841 when their son Cyrus was born.

. Descendant of Mary Ann, Mrs. Joseph Cawthra send information from Marriage certificates:
Ref: the Pioneer's wife Felker:

. The pioneer couple took up 200 A, all of Lot 12, Con 7, Garafraxa Twp. No record of 1st land owners in Microfiche Abstracts for Geo. This Sargent ever having owned this piece of property, yet it was left to his descends by his will.
We believe he made arrangements with the owner in Grimsby area to buy L12 C7, Garafraxa, & settled on it, but because of his untimely death, he never made a payment on it; also because of the distance to Toronto, the mode of travel by foot, around by Galt to Hamilton to Toronto. We expect the Sargent family came by way of Hamilton to Toronto
We expect the Saregent family came by way of Brantford to Elora, Fergus to Belwood, following the Grand River then an Indian Trail. They may have come to Garafraxa because a relative, Lewis Felker 1795 & his wife Mary Meredith 1796, & their family came to W Holt 16 & 17, C7, Garafraxa at Carmel in March 1826. Fellers & Merediths were U.E.L. from the Grimsby area.
Since Thomas died in 1849, we have not discovered where he was born, but D.F. Sargent always said his people came from England. Likely by way of NY City and across NY State from Albany by way of Erie Canada to Buffalo or to Niagara-on-the-Lake, arriving in the Niagara Peninsula where why were married. - - -

Birth:
Born at Twenty Mile Creek, ON.

Died:
b. 40 Mile Creek (Grimsby). Aged 72y, farmer wife. (No CODeath given).

Buried:
West Garafraxa Twp.

Notes:

Married:
(previously Ft. Newark.)

Notes:

Mary Felker is the daughter of Johann Jost Völkel JOHN Felker,

. WILL of Joseph Felker, 3 December, 1804.
Secondly I give unto my granddaughter Mary Felker all my beds & bedding & money & movables, after my honest debts & Funeral Expenses paid to be put to use till her child Sarah comes of age of 18.* The said Mary will have one bed & the Interest she is to have yearly to her use till her child Sarah comes to the age of 18 then she, Sarah, is to come in full heirs of all.
Note1: Sarah Felker, at the outside, would therefore be eighteen on or before 1822.

. Census 1851, Garafraxa Twp., Wellington Co.
Note2: Mary Felker is the only living adult living with 6 children.
Lewis Felker & family are just a couple of farms away. Where are the parents? Dead or visiting elsewhere?

. John Beasley, born England, W. Meth., Age 14, b 1838 [Alt Surname: Bearley.]
Georgeanna Beasley, born England, Age 11, b 1841, W. Methodist. [Georgiana?]
Jane Beasley, born England, age 9, b 1843 [i.e. arrived in Canada between 1843 - 1846.]
Seth Beasley, b Canada West, age 6 b 1846
Mary Beasley, b Canada West, Age 4, b 1848
Becy (? female) Beasley, b Canada West, age 1, b 1851, &
Mary Falker, born United States, Age 65, b 1787. Residing in a log cabin. - - -

Birth:
Alt DOB 1785 USA.

Died:
VERIFY this Mary Felker.