_Stephen SKINNER _
_Daniel Milton SKINNER _|
| |_Clarissa SMITH __
|
|--Rachel Burzee SKINNER
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| __________________
|_Elizabeth Jane HILTON _|
|__________________
Line 1742 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC She moved to Vienna from the Niagara District with her family when she
Line 1743 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC was 2 years old (about 1842-43). Per a letter received from the Elgin
Line 1744 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC County Pioneer Museum she was born in Cooks Mill, Ontario and of English
Line 1745 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC decent. She lived in Vienna her entire life except for a few years in St
Line 1746 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC Thomas and other centres. One newspaper clipping indicates her father was
Line 1747 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC a builder of houses and was the builder of the first grist mill in
Line 1748 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC Vienna.
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Line 1750 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT She was a member of the Methodist Brethren and baptized at Catfish Creek,
Line 1751 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC Junction at Otter River, Vienna, Ontario.
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Line 1753 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT Have newspaper clipping commemorating Rachel's 98th and 100th birthdays
Line 1754 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC (one printed in the St. Thomas Times, the other from a paper in Port
Line 1755 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC Burwell). Per these articles her health was good - she wore no glasses,
Line 1756 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC walked without a cane and hearing is good. Long age apparently runs in
Line 1757 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC her family - she mentioned a grandmother who passed away at age 108 in
Line 1758 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC one of the newspaper interviews.
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Line 1760 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT Elgin County Marriage Register 1858-1869 shows the marriage of Calvin
Line 1761 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC Pace and Rachel Skinner to be December 2, 1862. Also, it indicates
Line 1762 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC Rachels parents to be Daniel and Elizabeth Skinner. She met Calvin Pace
Line 1763 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC at the hotel in Port Bruce, married at a Richmond, Ontario hotel when she
Line 1764 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC was 22 years old.
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Line 1766 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT She lived the majority of her life in a cottage on the Otter Creek Bank
Line 1767 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC overlooking Vienna. Sim's History of Elgin County, Volume III indicates
Line 1768 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC this property was originally purchased from Charles Oscar Edison (he was
Line 1769 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC the son of Captain Samuel Edison and grandson of John Edison - founders
Line 1770 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC of Vienna). Property assessment roles show that during some of the
Line 1771 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC earlier years the property had a mortgage to Mrs Skinner. My mother
Line 1772 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC remembers that Maple trees were grown on the property.
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Line 1774 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT Apparently Henry Ford lived near by and periodically visited Vienna - my
Line 1775 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC mother tells of Henry Ford visiting Rachel on her 100th birthday. Also,
Line 1776 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC she knew Thomas Edison when he was a boy visiting relatives in Vienna. As
Line 1777 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC a side Note, Henry Ford purchased the home of Captain Samuel Edison, had
Line 1778 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC it moved to Menlo Park at Dearborn, Michigan and than had it restored in
Line 1779 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC 1933.
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Line 1781 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT Per the letter received from the Ontario Genealogical Society - Elgin
Line 1782 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC Branch it is indicated Calvin C Pace (1828 - 1908) and Rachel B. Pace
Line 1783 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC (1840 - 1943) are buried at St. Lukes Cemetery, Bayham (Con 3, lot 10,
Line 1784 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONC 397).
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Line 1786 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: CONT (John Terry)