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Tlid: LLELIXS and the acrr""iiii2UCrcUc"; 10El isrried Fred hebb; Lucy who harried Erenh nowe and George who married Carrie mujor’end San. The Tom :eskins had one daughter, Eliza Jane, and five sons to whom they gave Biblical names: Lechariss, Lzexiel, Joshua, .oses and rheophiius (at least not so con- fusing as the Tilliems, Johns urrd, Freds of the other families). they were very big men and there are stories of their escapades not quite in Keeping with their names. ihey worked for a time for Various people along the hiver but moved quite early to nichigen. ' Ty 1868. "‘illiem Serraugh's wife Jane, had died and he had married Catherine Dennison whose family lived on the Lower Line. In the first family there were nine children who grew to maturity: Mary, who married John Clarey of “arch Tovnship; John harried Catherine Dennison, e niece of his s:tep-r1ot.'1er, and soon quit farming to settle in lull; Fred married Flize iaskin, daughter of his cousin Jumes and lived in the Coy- gunity for many years; ?&wcett never nerried and went to the “est boost; nohert and ism went to Winnipeg and married vestern girls; William married beret :eird and lived on tle Rock Road near Carp; Zerah became ”rs.nerhs of Ettore while loamy did not sorry. In toe second family there was one child, a daughter Letitie, Fanilv of John und Lerearet Baskin with 2nd Generution. Jane John Fred ion Jones _-r-nr:? n.Tm.Derraugh m.Eliza Armstrong m.;nn Jordon m.Lliza O'Xeil n.3lice gall fu, genes oowney Lery John Fred Lecheries Johnnie Lurah Jane John fiery Jane issoore nzeniel c:u,sy,:eie Fred Eliza hilliam Joshua Llize Robert Robert Moses Tillie farcett JaLes fheophilus bred _ ,erah Olivia Llizn Jane Mary .am John Thomas alice "filliam Lucy Tommy. George letitia (2nd family) 3am Che first log shanties were replaced by log houses and the lean-to for the cow and pig were replaced by log barns on the taskin and Lerreugh ferns. Unfortunately there is no record of? the livestock they bought or the prices paid. Uilliam terraugw was a small A men but he rust have been very wiry for he walked three or four miles to out wood for I , some of the land-owners in Tarch while clearing, his own place. he placed his buildings Quite a distance from the road which turned out to be quite a plague to car-ovning des- cendants but was all right for his time as there was a good spring, nearby which later became a flowing well. John Zoskinis buildings were on a rise close to the reed and he also had a good well. The fire of Ify70 did not touch his buildings out the burn on William Derraugh's place was burned. Thet took their families and stool to the hiver and remained there till the fire had passed. It may have aided in clearing the bush but it also destroyed 3 good deal of top soil. by about 1900 the present Clearings end fences