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Henry McCutcheon, True Pioneer, Womb to Grave:

Henry Smith McCutcheon was a true pioneer from womb to grave; he had quite a life's journey in his 73 years. Following the tradition for the McCutcheon penchant for nicknames, Henry Smith was called Horace during his lifetime. After being born in Montreal, Quebec in 1824, the Robert McCutcheon & Agnes Beck family didn't stay long in Quebec. The family was then living just outside Montreal at Megantic. When he was only a month or so old, the family boarded covered wagons, probably pulled by oxen & headed into the wild untamed woods of Ontario, travelling over rough terrain, arriving at Erin Township before the snow fell. This 900 kilometer journey took several weeks. The family had to bake bread & cook their meals on open fires on the trail; with millions of insects as dinner guests.

It doesn't seem logical that the family would have headed west on bumpy, unstable trails in the spring of 1825 when Agnes was 7 months pregnant with their third son Robert. Robert's father, John & his older brother William, were already in Erin Township on their new homestead, & it is probable that the family stayed the 1824 winter with them. Then journeyed a few miles north to their new homestead in the spring of 1825.

Information from Alice Burke: Robert applied for his land in Adjala near Rosemont in 1825, Lot 30, Concession 1. This was the homestead where Henry's younger brother Robert was born.
In his father's will, the homestead in Adjala was left to his younger brother Hugh. Henry was left some money. After he married Sarah they farmed for a while on an adjacent farm. But the lure of black gold was beckoning. At the age of 23, their 3rd son, Robert, died in 1879 & was buried on Canadian soil. Soon after their son Robert died, Henry & his wife Sarah, along with their 4 younger children again boarded wagons or Red River carts pulled by oxen & left the farm in Nottawasaga, settling in Tomahawk, Wisconsin in 1885. This journey was a longer one; 1,250 kilometers.

They both died here & were buried in the Protestant Cemetery near Tomahawk. Henry was one of the founding pioneer settlers to farm in Tomahawk, Oneida County. Tomahawk was an uninhabited wilderness in 1885. The city of Tomahawk was not yet surveyed or laid out. It was surveyed in the spring of 1887 & lots were sold on the 25th June 1887. TheJohn Oelhafen Stor has a picture of the first buildings to be constructed in this small outpost town.The population of Tomahawk was 1816 in 1890. Henry & his family probably hitched their horses at the front of this store to shop & visit with their neighbours before returning home to their farm. Note the hitching posts still in place at this date.

Later, his sons owned & operated a saloon in Long Lake, Wisconsin, located about 80 miles east of Tomahawk. In the mid 1880 & later, this area boomed with logging, many saw mills opening up, creating employment. It was to this industry that Henry & Sarah's younger sons turned to for work for a while. In a list of registered voters for the area on the 12 March 1898: two of their sons, in Ward 1, David McCutcheon was registered & in Ward 4, Alex McCutcheon was registered to vote.
Henry & Sarah raised 10 children over a period of 21 years. Other than a 5 year span between child 2nd & 3rd child, they did not appear to lose any children which commonly happened then to childhood illnesses such as scarlet fever (as did his brother James), measles, whooping cough, small pox, etc.
Of Henry's ten children, 5 eventually settled & died in the USA, one applied for & received a land grant in Alberta, dying in Lacombe, whilst 3 others applied for land grants in Saskatchewan, near Bengough. The only one of this family left in Ontario was 23 year old son Robert lying in a cold grave. This family lived near Rosemont Lot 32, Con VIII Mono Twp., (Mulmur), then moved to Nottawasaga Twp., Simcoe Co. & then to Wisconsin, U.S.A.
Ref: McCutcheon from Donaghadee - - -

Birth:
Ner Megantic.

Henry married Sarah IRWIN on 8 Mar 1845 in Adjala Twp., Simcoe Co., Ontario. Sarah was born on 8 Jul 1824 in Kingston, Frotenac Co., Ontario; died on 18 Aug 1899 in Tomahawk, Oneida Co., Wisconsin; was buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Wisconsin. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Spouse is Alexander Murphy

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The children of Pricilla Sarah Smith & John T McCutcheon are:

1. William McCUTCHEON (6) B. 1873, Nottawasaga Township, Simcoe County. He married Rose Elisabeth HOLDEN circa 1903.
2. Robert James McCUTCHEON (6) B. 1874,Nottawasaga Township, Simcoe County.
3. Thomas Henry McCUTCHEON (6) B. 1876, Nottawasaga Township, Simcoe County. He married & had one known child, Emma.
4. John Alexander McCUTCHEON (6) B. 1878 Nottawasaga Township, Simcoe County & died 5th August, Edmonton, AB. BU: Mount Pleasant Cemetery. He married Sue Agnes HALL (1886-1948) in 1904. Their only child, Stella May (1908).
5. David Edgar McCUTCHEON (6) B. 9th June 1883 - 31st May 1886 of Scarletina, Holland Township, Grey County, ON.
6. Norman Lorne McCUTCHEON (6) B. 12th July 1884, Holland Township, Grey County, ON. - 15th April 1961, Maple Ridge, BC. He was married twice. He enlisted in the US Military in WW I.
• Sarah Pricilla McCUTCHEON (6) B. 12th September 1885, Holland Township, Grey County, ON. - died in Vancouver, BC. She was married1 Charles Couse CURTIS ((1882-?) on the 26th January 1904. Their 3 children were: Muriel P (1908-?); Gordon Edward (1910-1970); Ruby M (1914-?). She divorced Curtis circa 1925 & married Alton JOHNSTONE. Their one child: Kenneth.
7. Floyd Oscar McCUTCHEON (6) B. 14th April 1889, Holland Township, Grey County, ON. He enlisted in the Canadian Army on the 15th October 1915.
8. Gladys Araline McCUTCHEON (6) B. 2nd September 1891, Holland Township, Grey County, ON - died circa 1973 in Spokane, WA. Gladys married twice but remained childless.
9. Walter Frederick McCUTCHEON (6) B. 4th January 1895 in Lacombe, AB - 3rd October 1971 Abbotsford, BC. He married Dyvekke Margrieta CHRISTIANSON circa 1920. Their children: Leona, Norman, Robert, Ruby, Donald (1933-2010), Muriel Pricilla (1935-1989).

NOTE: This family had 8 sons, 5 of whom served in the armed forces in World War I; 2 in the US military and 3 in the Canadian military.
Ref: FindAGrave. - - -

Buried:
Sec ! Lot 39, Plat !

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Isabella McCutcheon married R N Kinnear 1852-1926.

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Thomas MCutcheon married Margaret Jane Petland.
Their child: Mary Ann McCutcheon Reinke. 1890-1979.

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Wm. H McCutcheon married Sarah Jane Robinson 1863-1920.
Their child: Helen Josephine McCutcheon, 1890-190.

Buried:
Munising.

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Sarah McCutcheon married Chas. James McCormick, 1863-1906.
Their child: Wm. Chas. MCormick, 1893-1967.

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Buried:
Weyburn.

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Obituary

1936 Feb 17. Funeral for Well Known Tomahawk Man Tomorrow.
David McCutcheon Dies Saturday After Illness of Three Weeks' Duration:

Funeral services will be conducted by Rev. J Anderson at 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday for the late David McCutcheon, a well known resident of the city who passed away at the Sacred Heart hospital at 9:45 a.m. on Saturday after a 3 weeks' illness.
Mr. McCutcheon, who was born March 31, 1864 in Rose Mount, county of Sincoe, Ont., Canada has been a resident of this city for f45 years & a resident in Michigan before coming here after leaving Canada in 1880.
He was in business in this city for 35 years & lost his building in the big fire of March 1929, when Mitchell Hotel was destroyed. The past 10 years he had rural mail routes; the Harrison route for 6 years & the Spirit Falls route for 4 years. He was married in this city on January 18, 1892 to Miss Margaret Flaherty, who passed away May 25, 1928. Of a larger number of children born to this union,
the surviving are: one son, Thomas McCutcheon of Wausau, 4daughters: (Ervie) Mrs. Edward Grant of Eau Claire, (Maude) Mrs. E Jonas of Wausau & the Misses Lilah and Gladys of this city. Other survivors are 7 grand children: one sister, Mrs. Sarah McCormick of this city; & 2 brothers, Alex McCutcheon of Long Lake, WIs., & James McCutcheon of Canada.
Interment will be in Greenwood Cemetery.
Ref: Daily Herald. - - -

Buried:
Plot 13, Lot 4,

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Buried:
Rheinländer, Oneider Co., Wi, Plot 25, lot 16, Grave J