Stanton Family History
February 5, 2023
Research
Early Settlement, Clear Lake Rd., Clear Lake, Ontario In the Chaffey’s Lock and Area Heritage Society 2017 Newsletter, local historian and author, Sue Warren, writes about the region in 1867. She mentions Clear Lake Road. This was where James Stanton, the first of our ancestors from England, settled when he arrived from England. Warren writes: “Along…
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It seems to me I may have found a picture of our common ancestor, Joan(e) Stanton Deane on ancestry.ca. As yet it is not confirmed. Family legend has it that she lived to be about 100 and smoked a corn cob pipe until the end. Do you think this picture fits?
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Read More about pdf printout of Heritage by Annie Coleman (Kerr) SextonThis appears to have been a newspaper article written circa July 2, 1948, exact source unknown. It was reprinted in Stanton Stats in December 30, 1996. 90’TH BIRTHDAY OF JOSEPH STANTON, OF SEELEY’S BAY “Uncle Joe” Remains Most Active for His Years NATIVE OF NEWBORO Seeley’s Bay, July 2 – Familiar and affectionately known as…
Read More about 90th Birthday of Joseph Stanton of Seeley’s BayThis article was written circa 1972 by Jacqueline Carpenter. It was reprinted in Stanton Stats of December 30, 1996. Seldom do we meet someone who is really outstanding in such a way we just ‘sense’ it. They make a lasting impression on us even if our relationship with them is brief. For some reason they…
Read More about Profile of Leeds; Mr. & Mrs. Clair Stanton, Seeley’s BayAt the 1995 Reunion, Lois Mitchell read us an excerpt from a newspaper account of her grandparents’ wedding, probably in the 1880’s. Reprinted in Santon Stats November 14, 1995. Precisely at 6 o’clock yesterday morning the melodious strains of a wedding march were heard for the first time in the Newboro Methodist church. It was…
Read More about A Pretty Wedding; First in New Methodist Churchby George S. Grogan, published in Stanton Stats November 14, 1995 My Uncle Jim [James Lorne Stanton of Treherne] used to tell me stories about his early visits to the Crosby area and one story was about a blind Job Stanton who could swim across the canal at Chaffey’s Locks guided by the voices of…
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by Annie Coleman (Kerr) Sexton, published in Stanton Stats February 17, 1995 When I was thirty-one, in the year 1920, [my first daughter,] Kathleen, was born. She was followed in quick succession by four brothers and two sisters. Ruth was born in 1930 on my parents’ golden wedding anniversary. I wasn’t the efficient housekeeper my Mother was,…
Read More about Heritage: Raising My Children & My Parents Final Yearsby Annie Coleman (Kerr) Sexton, published in Stanton Stats February 17, 1995 Then, at the age of sixty-eight, [in 1918] a Brandon doctor found [Father] had cancer of the rectum. He didn’t give up, [but] went to Mayo doctors in Rochester. The operation was successful. Three inches of back bone was removed to make sure no…
Read More about Heritage: Father Goes to Mayo Clinicby Annie Coleman (Kerr) Sexton, published in Stanton Stats February 17, 1995 My ambition was to teach school and Mother’s thrift in saving pennies enabled me to attend high school in Deloraine to get Grade 11 (highest grade taught there then), and then three months of Normal School in Winnipeg. How I loved Winnipeg. I’m eternally…
Read More about Heritage: My Ambition to Teach Was Fulfilledby Annie Coleman (Kerr) Sexton, published in Stanton Stats February 17, 1995 My only brother, Walter, who was two years younger than I, was a studious, very religious boy and the joy of my parents’ hearts. At the age of twenty he was studying Grade 12 in Deloraine and, for some reason I’ve never known, he…
Read More about Heritage: My Younger Brother and Sisterby Annie Coleman (Kerr) Sexton, published in Stanton Stats February 17, 1995 In 1890 Bidford School District was formed. There was a Board of three Trustees and a Secretary. After a few years Father was a Secretary. Later he was a Councillor in our Rural Municipality of Winchester. Then he became Reeve and succeeded in getting…
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