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Chapter III
Sarah Annis, the eldest daughter of Levi Annis and Rhoda Conant, born in Scarboro in 1809, married George Skelding and moved to the Township of Yarmouth, where a large family was reared, they were all a sturdy, well built race of men and women, progressive and honest which left a fine impression on the people of the West of the Province of Ontario. The descendants are many and are scattered from Toronto to Vancouver and Minneapolis and Toledo.
There went out ministers and doctors, teachers and nurses, Technically trained and lumber men, merchants are found in all the Provinces of the West, as well as skilled artisans. The names of Uncle George and Aunt Sarah Skelding have embedded themselves deep into the heart of all the Annis family, and it is with affection and pride that the name with all its association and connections is recalled. It has left a deep and lasting impression on the life of the writer who can visualize the saintly form of Aunt Sarah as she “went around doing good” and in her leisure moments enjoyed a puff at the long clay pipe. They left a heritage of love and affection, a national asset and Canada is better because they lived.
The eldest of this family of eight was Ephraim, who married and had one son, whose address is 25 Eagle St., St. Thomas.
The second son of George and Sarah Skelding was Charles, who also married and had five boys and one girl - James, Charles, Levi, George, Herbert and Sarah.
James married Eliza House and had two boys, Cecil married Ethel Lush, who had two daughters, and Wilbur, whose wife Marjorie Haddon had one son.
Charles, son of Charles, had three daughters, Lila, Vera and Glenna. Lila married Albert Kennedy, Vera married Richard Pipes, and Glenna married Frank Corbett.
Levi the third son of Charles, Herbert moved to Minneapolis, George, M.P.P., formerly of McLeod, Alta., and Sarah the daughter.The third son of Sarah and George Skelding was George Wm., who married Almira Benns, and their family was three sons and one daughter, John, William, Arthur and Lydia.
John’s wife was Jannet Hamilton, they had two sons, Charley, who married and had two daughters, and Harvey, who
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was killed in the Great War. John’s second wife was Annie Kew, and they had six children, four boys and two girls, viz., George Arthur, whose wife was Dorma Kew, 73 Victoria Park Ave., Toronto; Leanore May married Russell Campbell of Richards Landing, Ont., John Frederick, who married Beatrice Bowshill, 78 Park Row, Hamilton, Alma Skelding, 920 1st Ave., Owen Sound, Frank, 61 Glenmount Pk. Rd., Toronto, and Harold Skelding at Wingham, Ont.
The second son of George and Almira was William C., his wife was Elizabeth Patten.
The third son of George and Almira was Arthur, his wife was Eva Mcmannes, of McLeod, Alberta, with two sons, Edgar and Elbert.
George and Almira’s only daughter was Lydia, who married Grenville Sutherland, and live at Elstow, Sask.The fourth child of Sarah and George Skelding was John, who never married, and died at Belmont, Ont.
The fifth child of Sarah and George Skelding was Nancy, who married Mr. Cope. She died at Saskatoon, aged 86 yrs.
The sixth child of Sarah and George was Anthony, or “Frank” Skelding, who had four in family, viz., Gordon, married Dot Dench of Winnipeg, Reginald, Walter and Crossley.
George and Sarah Skelding’s eighth child was daughter Elizabeth (Betsy), whose husband was Rev. R. H. Hall, and they had four boys and one girl. The first born died a youth. The second was Etta Hall (Esther Alice) married twice. The second husband was W. Rief, 3828 15th Ave., Vancouver, a brother Carmen Joseph, and Edith his wife, their children, Margaret, Medora, Douglas of Camrose, Alberta. The fourth child, Morley Wilford, his wife, Nellie, with two children, Muriel and Irene, and Evelyn Ealine of Biggar, Sask. A fifth child, John Wesley, his wife Florence had one child, Alice Esther Hall. Andrew J. Courtice, son of Mary Annis and Thomas Courtice, born at Dunbarton, 1848, writes as follows concerning the Courtice branch of the Annis family:-- “I found our people modest, and couldn't muster courage to give details of their lives for publication. I recall grandfather Annis presenting my brother Richard and myself with a jacknife each, and also walking two abreast, later, at his funeral from Washington Church to the family plot on the homestead farm. Well do I remember disobeying my father
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by climbing up a load of hay, while “watching” the horses without bits in their mouths eating hay, and tugging at the lines, and crawling from under the same hay and seeing the horses with two wheels of the wagon disappear towards the sunset. My father was a local preacher in the Bible Christian Church, he preached twice on Christmas Sunday and passed away the following week. Thomas Hogarth, with towsey hair, began to teach at the Union School in 1866, and introduced athletics and music and became quite popular as teacher, choir leader and singing school conductor, and married my sister, Janet.
I recall the Grand Truck Railway construction through my father’s farm, the shovel navies and the trained horse with the dump car making a fill. My school days and arithmetic haunt me, and when I asked my chum, Jim Long, about eleven times four, which four should I carry, Jim laughed and got us both into trouble.
In 1861 my mother, then a widow, called a logging and burning bee, to clear a fallow for crop. Eighteen men with six yoke of oxen, logging chains, handspikes and cant-hooks. At night we were a grim looking lot, black as Negroes, my appearance at the front door, begging for a bite to eat resulted in a near flogging from my sister, Harriet.
My recollections of the Annis families convinced me they were wholesale visitors, as a good Irish maid in uncle Jerry's home said, they came in droves. My mothers family was no exception, so off we started in a democrat wagon for Uncle Levi’s in Darlington. Our team was old Jess mare and her little colt and a thirty-five mile trip ahead, taking in Ezra Annis, Oshawa, Uncle William's, Aunt Betsy's, with all the cousins, such a welcome, such a time, and such meals in one whole week.
I was converted to God in the Union School house, when 14 years old, and because of the urgings of Uncle Andrew Annis, became Superintendent of the Sunday School at Ebenezer.
My brother, Richard T. Courtice, gave his heart to God in 1861 at Pickering, and under Mr. B. Bunting's counsel attended Victoria College, and was ordained into the Christian ministry, with circuits at Lindsay, Manilla, Toronto, Cleveland, Darlington and Coburg, leaving three sons, James, Dr. J. T. Courtice, Harold, and a daughter, Pearl, an overseas nurse with the C.E.F. in the Great War, and afterwards married greatly beloved Chaplain of Christie St. Hospital, Captain Sidney Lambert.
Thomas Courtice was a widower with two children, John Lane Courtice, who married Elizabeth Pickard, and Elizabeth Courtice, married Peter Scott, who moved to Richmond, Va.
My own life was guided by the first sermon I heard after our marriage --The text --"with long life, will satisfy him, and show him my salvation."
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A few remarks about some of our "family tree" members:- Gerald Cowan was Post Master, and Sunday School Supt. He and his brother Dyson, maintained the Rosebank Summer Resort, my Sister Harriet and husband with a sleigh moved into the north bush country, where he, Charles Brailey, still lives, aged 95 years. His son Andrew was Superintendent of two Sunday Schools, four miles apart, for many years. Andrew's daughter Josie is a deaconess in Toronto. His brother John is S.S. Supt. at Ardtree. Andrew J. Courtice of Homesville was S.S. Supt. for 46 years, and Bible Class teacher now at the age of 84 years, and for 25 years was Post Master, railway ticket agent, and express agent. He never sold tobacco, and never missed a train in all the years of carrying the mail from store to train.
Some of his family:- Rev. Thomas R. Courtice, M.A., B.D., D.D. of Ohio Wesleyan College, Drew Theological Seminary, Allegheny College, and now District Superintendent of Methodist Church, Pittsburg, Pa.
Andrew J. Courtice, D.D.S., Northwest University, Chicago; Oliver J. Courtice, D.D.S., North Western University; William Norman Courtice, B.A. Victoria Collge, Toronto and B.D. of Union Seminary, N.Y.; Sarah J. Courtice, Prest. of Young Peoples Class and Mission Circle; Thomas S. Walter, S.S. Supt. and Church Stewart; Nellie E. Courtice, Church and Choir worker; Fred C. Elford, Prest. Worlds Poultry Plant, and first Manager of the Dominion Poultry Plant, and now Dominion Poultry Husbandman, active also in religious work in his home Church at Ottawa.
THE COURTICE FAMILY RECORDS
Mary (Polly) Annis, daughter of Levi and Rhoda Conant Annis, married Thomas Courtice, farmer, Pickering. They had seven children, Sarah Ann; Harriet; Rhoda; Richard T.; Andrew J.; Janet; and Mary Ellen.
Sarah Ann married John Pearce, they had one child; Mary Emma, she married William Cowan and had a family of three, Alice, Dyson and Gerald Cowan.
Alice married Alex Annan.
Dyson Cowan married Mabel Maw.
Gerald Cowan married Margaret Scott.Harriet Courtice married Charles Braily in 1861. Their family - Henry, son of Harriet and Charles married Rosetta Gunton.
Stanley B. son of Henry and Rosetta Gunton, married Cova Leigh. They had five children, Isabella H., Mary, Kenneth G., Kathlene, and Annie M. Brailey.
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Amelia H., daughter of Henry and Rosetta, married Alex Larkins, their daughter Rosetta M. married Andrew Adams, their daughters Elizabeth, and Marie Adams. Chester A. and Bruce B. sons of Amelia and Alex Larkins. Henry Brailey's second wife was Ethel Stopps, their son Joseph married Beeva Lankershire, and they had one son Robert Brailey.
Mary Brailey, a daughter of Harriet and Chas.
Sarah, a daughter of Harriet and Chas., her husband - Alex Carter - their family - Evelyn Carter, her husband Wilbur Reid. Ross C. and Alex Y. Reid sons of Evelyn and Wilbur Reid.
Geo. Carter son of Sarah and Alfred C., and his wife Mary Haylet.
Hattie, daughter of Sarah and Alfred whose husband was Percival J. Brennan, and their son was Robert Brennan.
Mary E. and Marjorie, daughters of Sarah and Alfred Carter.
Andrew, son of Harriet and Chas. Brailey was married twice, his first wife Minnie Agnes, their daughter Josie E. Brailey: his second wife Grace Agnes, their daughter Emma H., and her husband was Jonas Beevs, their daughters Audio, Grace and Milford..
Wm. C. son of Harriet and Chas. Brailey, his wife was Sarah A. Carter, their son Charles H., his wife was Almeda Jones, their family - Wm. C. and Clara Brailey.
Hazel J. daughter of Wm. and Sarah Brailey, her husband was Albert Beers, their daughters Helen J., Edna, and Ruth.
Hattie E. daughter of Wm. and Sarah Brailey, her husband was LeLoyd Racher.
Annie H. daughter of Wm. and Sarah Brailey.
Harriet E. daughter of Harriet and Chas. Brailey, her husband was Robt. J. Ego, their daughter Gladys M., her husband was Wm. Beeton and their family, Robert, Charles, Annie, Donald, Dannie, and Alice.
Janet A. daughter of Harriet and Robt. Ego with her husband Hilton Cook, their family, Muriel, Annie, and Hester H. Cook.
Gerald and Horace, sons of Harriet and Robt. Ego, John H. C. was a son of Harriet and Chas. Brailey, his wife was Margaret A. Wood.
Rhoda Courtice was a daughter of Mary and Thomas Courtice.
Richard T. Courtice was a son of Mary and Thomas Courtice, his wife was Bessie Davis, their family, Sadie, James C., whose wife was Cora Moore. John T. Courtice, son of Richard T. with his wife Effie Prout and their son Harold A.
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Pearl Courtice married Sidney Lambert, they had three children, Edith C., Sidney Thomas, and George Russell.
Harold, son of Richard T., married Florence Forth, they had two children, Pearl and Richard.
Andrew J. Courtice married Janet Annan, their children were Ellen E. who married Fred C. Elford whose daughter Fern married Lawson Gillespie, with one daughter, Ann Gillespie. Another daughter of Ellen and Fred was Hazel who married William A. Moss, they had one daughter, Jean Elford.
Another daughter of Andrew and Janet Courtice was Sarah J. who married Thomas Walter, their children are Evard L. and Barrie C. Walter.
A son of Andrew J. and Janet Courtice was Rev. Thomas R. Courtice, who married Nellie Pool, they had two children, Irma and Allyn Courtice.
Another son of Andrew and Janet Courtice is Dr. A. J. Courtice who married Edith Wilkins, their children are Marion, Sybel C. and Roscoe. The doctor's present wife is Dell Quirt.
Another son, Dr. Olivee J. Courtice, married Irene Wiswall, they have two children, Clyde, and Thornton.
Andrew and Janet's daughter, Emma L. is deceased.
Another son of Andrew and Janet Courtice id William N., who married Francis Treleaven, their son is Stuart.
Janet Courtice a daughter of Thomas and Mary, married Thomas Hogarth. They had six children - Henry C. Hogarth, a daughter Agnes M., who married William H. Smith, they had one son Harold Russell Smith.
A daughter of Janet and Thomas Hogarth was Edith G, and a son John A., married Millicent Marlin, their family were, Alex who married Eileen Gould with no children, and Melville Hogarth.
Another son of Janet and T. Hogarth was William L. who married Blanch Walkinshaw, and they had four boys, William, John, George, and Edwin Hogarth.
Three children of Janet and Thomas Hogarth were George A., Ethel M., and Franklin E. Hogarth.
A sixth son of Janet and Thomas Hogarth is Thomas C. who married Ethel Dixon, with no family.
Mary Ellen Courtice, daughter of Mary and Thomas Courtice married William R. Miller, they had six of a family, Agnes C. who married Robt. G. MacDonald with one child Marjorie.
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Percy H., who married Catherine Fraser, they had two of a family, Loraine and Helen Miller.
William R., who married Janet M. Chester had three of a family, Marion B., William R., and Chester J. Miller.
Richard A. married Jeac C. Todd, they had two in family, William, and Donalda Miller.
Marion E. married Fred M. McNeil, they had one son Albert McNeil.
Ernest R. Miller married Belle Andrews and raised a family of three, Allen, Reginald and Percy H. Miller.
Albert V. married Netta Hunder, and had two of a family, Hunter Miller, and Natalie Miller.
Mary E. married George J. Ogden, their family was Doris E. and Muriel M. Ogden.
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The line of William Annis.
The William Annis farm was situated near the Village of Enfield, in the Township of Darlington, to which home he brought Elizabeth Coleman of that family which has given a dean of the Faculty of Arts to the University of Toronto. William Annis raised his family well, and had the distinction of knowing his great grandchildren before he died at the ripe old age of 93. Of his children, perhaps the Reverend Jeremiah may specially be noted. He had a brilliant career at the Victoria College then in Cobourg, having the degree of B.A. Bd.D and was known as one of the most gifted orators in the then Methodist Church, and during the course of a brief lifetime occupied some of the most coveted positions which that Church had to offer. He died about the year 1895 at the age of 43 years in the City of London having achieved a reputation which still lingers throughout Western Ontario. His widow still survives him. In the next genereation there might be noted Dr. Levi Annis of Cedar Springs, Michigan, son of David Annis, eldest son of William, a well known doctor in that district. His children also followed his profession. Mrs. Jenkins of Toronto is one of the sponsors of higher education for women, is a daughter of David Annis. Dr. Clare Langmaid, son of Emmeline Annis, a grandson of William, is well known as a physician at the Ford factory Windsor, Ontario. Harry, son of Edwin Annis, a grandson of William is prominent in American Transportation with offices in Detroit. George, son of Levi Annis, a grandson of William is well known in and about the town of Bowmanville as President of the West Durham Agricultural Society, and is Reeve of the Township of Darlington.
It may be of interest to note that the writer, a great granson of William Annis is practicing law in the City of Oshawa, in partnership with the great great grandson of Roger Conant.
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It should be said that the above mentioned lawyer is A. F. Annis who was speaker of the senior boys Parliament during the days when he was an undergraduate and Mr. Taylor Statten, a distinguished authority in such matters tells me, that A. F. Annis proved himself to be capable, eloquent, and constitutional, in fact the most successful and brilliant presiding officer up to that time.
William Annis was a very powerful man. He and his family of boys, David, Levi, Jeremiah and Edwin could do as much heavy work, chopping, logging, digging as any other five men in the district. He was handicapped in middle life by rheumatism - one leg becoming much shorter than the other. But the great virtue of industry was transmitted from father to son, down to the present geneartion. His farm produced great quantities of grain of the highest quality, as well as live stock, especially horses. His chief recreation was playing dominoes with his family or his friends, alertness brought victory. His friends were countless. Joy filled his heart when his relations visited him. Towards the close of his active and useful life he found interest in wood carving with a jacknife. His father Levi, having produced many useful and ornamental pieces of wooden ware - scoope, butter bowl, with ladle and stamp, which today occupy prominent places in the museum of the York Pioneer and Historical Association at Sharon, and in the log cabin at the Canadian National Exhibition. His uncle David obtained many hundred acres of land, heavily timbered, he built schooners with which to market the lumber and timber and made money. David was also a woodcarver of importance, for one of grand nephews tells me, that old Uncle David, as he has been known, kept books with a jacknife and stick.
Uncle William's wife, Aunt Elizabeth, was a fully consecrated Christian Mother, her religoud devotion and influence has been transmitted to every member of that large family, and all the family connection have tasted of that vitalizing and saving grace. The throb and power of Aunt Elizabeth's prayers are heard by the writer today after 65 years. William Annis sought not public favors, but his sons, and grandsons, and great grandsons, have filled honorable positions, as public servants in the Municipal, Social, and Church life, as well as the field of agriculture.
William Annis, son of Levi and Rhoda Conant Annis, married Elizabeth Coleman, and raised a family of eight - David, Levi, Mary Ann, Jane, Emeline, Elizabeth, Ellen, Jeremiah W., and Edwin.
The eldest, David, married Julia Clark, they raised seven of a family, the eldest of which Dr. Levi C. Annis married Frances B. Scott, and reared five children viz., William Elsworth Annis D.D.S., Richard Carlton, Gordon Clark, Charles Garfield, and Ethel Louise Annis. The first named Wm. Elsworth married and had one son Richard Elsworth Annis. Doctor Levi C. married the second time, Miss Ethel Louise Scott.
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The second son of David and Julia Clark Annis was Andrew Annis, whose first wife was Selena Fee, who rasied a family viz.- Dr. Arthur Annis and Caroline Eilene Annis. Doctor Arthur married and rasied one girl. Andrew's second wife was Sarah Davis.
The eldest daughter of David Annis and his wife Julia was Mary Annis, M.A., a high school teacher. She married R. S. Jenkins, M.A., a College Professor, and had one son, Robert Jenkins.
The second daughter of David Annis and his wife Julia was Jeanie, who married William J. Simpson, they had one son and one daughter. (Note: The second daughter of David and Julia Annis was Jane {Jennie} Annis, born May 28, 1869, not Jeanie. Her husband was William Isaac Simpson.)
David Annis and Julia his wife had two more daughters, Emma and Nellie, neither of them married.
David and Julia's seventh child was Jenny Annis, who died young.
William Annis born Dec. 10th, 1813, married Elizabeth Coleman, daughter of John and Jane Treleven Coleman, she was born Feb. 12th, 1815, their fourth child was Levi John, born Oct. 17th, 1844, died 1904, and was married March 24th, 1870 to Charlotte Clemens, who was born March 3rd, 1850, a daughter of William Clemens of Tyrone, Darlington. They had six children, namely, Arthur William, Lillian Mabel, Walton Clemens, Florence Jane, George Franklin, and Annie Beatrice.
The eldest, Arthur, was born April 22, 1871, married May 21st, 1898 to Annie C. Foster, they had one son, Allin Foster, born Feb. 23rd, 1899. Allin married Edith N. Neff, and they had two children, Jane Catherine, born August 19th, 1926, and Arthur Clifton born Oct. 28th, 1927.
Arthur William married his second wife Adelaide McLaughlin, in May 1905, they had three children, viz.- Levi McLaughlin, born May 21st, 1908, William Lorne, born July 1st, 1915, and Adelaide May, born Nov. 22, 1916.
Arthur William was married three times, his present wife being margaret McFeeters in Jan. 1927.
The eldest daughter of Levi and Charlotte Clemens Annis was, Lillian Mabel, born Nov. 5th, 1872. Married March 3rd, 1898 to Arthur Brent. They had four children, viz.- Evelyn Brent, married to Lorne Phare, Howard, May, and Gordon Brent.
The third child of Levi and Charlotte Annis was Walton Clemens Annis, born March 28, 1875. Married March 26th, 1902, to Ethel L. Garfat. They had four children, all girls, Beryl, who married Frank Sewell and had two children - Margaret Annis and Joan Marie. The second of the four girls was Marjorie, then, Elva, and the youngest Eileen Annis.
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The second daughter of Levi and Charlotte Clemens Annis was Florence Jane, born Aug. 26th, 1876, and married Dec. 31, 1902, to Samuel J. Courtice, M.A. They had two children, Iva Courtice, B.A. and Gerald, deceased.
The fifth child and third son of Levi and Charlotte was George Franklin Annis born Nov. 15th, 1879, married to Ada Allin and in 1914 he married Florence Allin, her sister, they had one daughter, Ada Annis. George was Reeve of Darlington Twp. and President of the West Durham Agricultural Society.
The 3rd daughter of Levi and Charlotte and youngest member of the family was Annie Beatrice Annis born Nov. 13, 1884, died in 1926, was married to Luther T. Courtice, and had one son Graham Courtice.
A daughter of William and Elizabeth Coleman Annis, was Mary Anne Annis wife of Walter B. Scott, they had one child Minnie, who married Rev. John T. Caldwell, M.A., B.D., Phd. - with no family. Mary Anne Annis Scott married a second time, John Rice of Whitby, Official Assignee, they had one daughter Mable Rice, who married William Brown, and had three children, Lexia, Roff, and Bruce Brown.
Another daughter of William Annis and Elizabeth Coleman was Jane Annis born 1842, and married John Scott, with no family.
The third daughter of William and Elizabeth Coleman Annis was Emmeline Marie wife of Joseph Langmaid, and they had four children, Howard, Russell W., Clare A., and Irene Langmaid. Howard died. Russell married Violet Guy, they had four in family, Ralph, Harold, Earl, and Clare Langmaid.
Clare A. son of Emmeline and Joseph Langmaid, married Eunice Barber, and had four children, viz. - Bruce, Valda, Gloria, and Barry Langmaid.
Irene Langmaid, an only daughter of Emmeline and Joseph Langmaid, became the wife of S. Charles Allin and raised four children viz. - Dorothy, Clare, Ada and Annie Allin.
A fourth daughter of William and Elizabeth Coleman Annis was Elizabeth Ellen Annis, wife of Eber Millson, they had four of a family, George, Arthur, Edward, and one daughter Myrtle. The first named George, married Edna Campbell and had one child, Georgia wife of Everett Hardyn.
The second son of Ellen and Eber Millson viz. - Arthur married Alice Leigh and had three daughters, Evelyn, Jean, and Marie Millson.
The third son of Ellen and Eber Millson was Edward, who married Annie Devitt, they have a lovely family of nine girls and
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boys but the editor of this booklet has somehow failed to get those names recorded.
The only daughter of Ellen and Eber Millson is Myrtle Millson, wife of Claude Bain with two girls, Gladys and Marjorie Bain.
William Annis and Elizabeth Coleman Annis had a third son, Rev. Jeremiah W. Annis, M.A., B.D., a great preacher of the Methodist Church, who married Louise Watkins, but left no family.
A fourth son of Wm. and Elizabeth Coleman Annis, was Edwin Annis, husband of Frances Holden and raised six children, viz. - James W., not married, Harry married but no family. Florence, wife of Frank Gilbert with no family. Marjorie, wife of Gordon Leask, and had one son Ewart Annis Leask. High, a son of Edwin, married Grace Slemon, with no family. And the sixth child of Edwin and Frances Annis, Louise, became the wife of Harry Jardine.
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Mathew Annis, seventh child of Levi and Rhoda Conant Annis was born in 1815 and died 1879. He married Agigail, a familiar name in the early days of the Annis family. His appearance was somewhat different from that of his eight brothers, as he shaved all the face except the sides, while his eight brothers grew full beards, which may have been the result of tradition, or puritanical influence, but possibly the full beard may have attained to prominence because it was not convenient to shave.
However the pioneer we know labored under many limitations, and the present generation, because of ancestral custom, look upon the full beard sympathetically, if not reverently, and we must admit that this is almost a bare faced age, and confess to being somewhat perplexed in the presence of beautiful patriarchal beards.
Mathew and Abigail the above mentioned had five children, namely: Sophia, Elizabeth, Andrew Emerson, Ellen and Harriet. They moved to the state of Michigan between 1865 and 1870, and settled on a bush farm - and after getting a comfortable home built, and considerable land under cultivation, the great Michigan fire swept everything away and many of the family injured by smoke later succumbed to the effects.
Sophia married a Mr. Wilson, they had two children, Andrew and Maud. Andrew had four children namely Ruth, Florence, Frank, and Helen. Ruth married Wm. Ormburg and they had one boy, Robert. Florence married a Mr. Tuttle, and left no issue, Frank and Helen unmarried.
Sophia Wilson's other child Maud, married John Cutler, and they had two children, namely Earl and Lena Cutler.
Mathew and Abigail Annis' second child was Elizabeth, who married Mr. Wright, they had four children, Cyrene, Myren, Ina, and Omar. Cyrene married and had no children. Myrene married and had three children. Ina married and had three children, Omar
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married and had five children, among whom was Ruth who married and had two children.
The third child of Mathew and Abigail Annis was Andrew Emerson, who married Lucy Tomkins of Rouge Hills, Ont. They had four children, namely:- Maud, Jerry. Emerson, and James. Maud May married Frederick Barton Rutter, and had six children, namely:- Lucy May, Vera Blanch, Frances Emily, Albert Frederick, Florence M. R., and Emerson Edmond Rutter.
Lucy May married Fred McLachlan, and they had four children, namely:- Margaret May, Thomas Frederick, Helen Irene, and Robert Arthur McLachlan.
Vera Blanch married Ernest Gill and they had four children, namely:- Ernest J. D., Helen M. M., Vera Annis, and Margaret Audrey Gill.
Frances Emily married Ernest Clarke and they had five children, namely:- Lionel Albert, Basil W., Gail Rutter, Omar Emerson, and Verna Florence Clarke.
Albert Frederick married Mary Metcalfe, they had three children, Bruce Frederick, and twins Barbara and Beverly Rutter. The fifth child of maud Rutter was Florence M. with her husband Thomas Baker, raised one child, Beverly Joyce. And the 6th child of Maud Rutter and Fred Rutter was Emerson Edmond, and whose wife was Elsie Hollingsworth.
The second child of Andrew Annis and Lucy Tomkins was Jerry Edmond, whose wife Deborah had one child Orpha Annis.
Andrew and Lucy's third child was Emerson Albert, whose wife Ida Marshall, had three children, viz.- Marshall, Grace, and Helen Rosemond Annis. The last named married Van Ackerman { Correction: This should read Van Ackerson - courtesy of Linda Ackerson Holowecky, daughter of Richard Ackerson} and had one child, Richard Ackerman.
The fourth child of Andrew Annis and Lucy his wife, was a son, James Hamilton, his wife Louise Huffman had one daughter, Vera Annis.
Mathew and Abigail Annis' fourth child was Ellen, her husband was Mr. Cleland, they had one son Alex, whose wife had three boys, Robert, Roy and Earl Cleland.
Mathew and Abigail Annis' fifth child was Harriet Annis, she married a Mr. Stroud, and left no children.
Mr. B. S. Annis of Lookout Mountain, U.S., write as follows:- I was born in Wells, Maine 72 years ago, on that farm one Stephen Annis was living 113 years ago. Six generations of Annises have lived on the same place. But how my branch of the family is related to the other Annises of the U.S. and Canada I do not know. There is a tradition among us that we are Scotch by descent, others say Irish. Some 30 years ago one Lorenza Annis
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