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View Tree for Isabelle FentonIsabelle Fenton (d. date unknown)

Isabelle Fenton died date unknown. She married John Smith on 1834.

More About Isabelle Fenton and John Smith:
Marriage: 1834

 Includes NotesMarriage Notes for Isabelle Fenton and John Smith:

Newspaper clipping in Gordon scrap book, August 2004
Isabelle and John were married by a minister called Lount "who suffered the extreme penalty of the law for his share in the Mackenzie rebellion. Many a time has the writer heard the late Mrs John Smith tell the story of these stirring times. Their home at the time was on the farm immediatly north of the Queensville Cemetery, but afterwards they moved to Union St, where the greater part of their married life was spent and their family of four sons and seven daughters were reared.
John Smith, a Scotsman, was grieve of an estate in Yorkshire when he immigrated to Canada and Mrs Smiths ancestors came from Pennsylvania. They had taken the side of Britain in the War of Independence , and chose to suffer the hardships of a new land for the sake of the old flag. They were United Empire Loyalists. It was laways interesting the hear her tell of those early days of Spartan simplicity. The dress of men and women was called "full cloth", the thread of which was hand spun, hand woven and often colored with butternut bark. Bears and deer were common, and it was not an unusual sound to hear the wolves at night howl at the door . There were few luxuries but plenty of wholesome, homemade food, and better than all, real reighborly helpfulness and friendship. There was no attempt to create community spirit, it already exisxted, and the strong helped with burdens of the weak and so fulfilled the law of Christ. Maybe they didn't talk much about thier religion, but their lives proved the reality and depth of it. The Sabbath was a Holy Day, used to wash from the soul the grime of a week's contact with the world, to rest the phyiscal powers and strengthen the spirit. In this way a sterling quality of character was produced of which our day knows little. "
(there follows a listing of the people who attended the reunion. Not sure what date)

Children of Isabelle Fenton and John Smith are:
  1. +John Smith, b. 13 Sep 1831, East Gwillimbury, d. 20 Apr 1923.
  2. Belle Smith, d. date unknown.
  3. Anne Smith, d. date unknown.
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