Zion Line WI Tweedsmuir Community History, Volume 3: Biographies, 1963-2000, p. 10

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***********************i********#***************#â€"******************************#*: T # m # ; ZJ/X T * e U%c /o/ is t# # # x i * * "Jack" as bhe is better known to $ * % # m C Nn h o4 ; y £ & : Q\\\‘ ‘\\§ \\:\\\\\ his friends and neighbours is stilli S h « j IL\\\ w S f f * h .\\\ E‘t‘\. an active man and though in his § 7 ‘.s\ T § o| 9Oth year when this picture was $ $ ?.s‘.n TtE ul | £ ‘ x .~-~ f'-',p ,.| taken he thinks nothing of walking i % e | x % -- 3 in | 3 & : * 4 .â€"~‘ Bs ~â€" i | a mils or more to visit his neighâ€" @ - % % ecyâ€"â€" # x * [E _CTâ€"_r : I & bours. Jack was the son of John x & ECE O tss [ ;éi § e s | afe" A2 4 7 > + E | mm A !:‘ Sode and Barbara Phillips and the § [SL._ 7 eS j # * (5_â€"L_â€" i grandâ€"son of James Code and Mar $ i Eue Aj . | E $ t % sST ___ h & ; f A â€" M * * Anne Molten who came to Canada «* * | % # x ~ % o from Ireland,. § * % * cap * JOHN CODE * * *% x % * % £ « « * John was born two miles west of Douglas in the township of Bromley on 3 *# * * 4 ? s § * * March Oth, 1880, moving with his parents at an early age to the "Garden Road" * % % Haleys. He was one of a family of seven â€" five boys and two girls. Two * * * *# 3 4 Aews . : ; s ; % brothers are still living: Westley Code of New Westminster, B.C., and Robert i# T & J 3 # & % * $ Code living in the Village of Oobden. Jack and his brothers attended a t 3 * + f country school near Haley‘s. $ * # T As a young man, when the work on the farm was done in the fall, he * * * % 7 % * would leave for the lumber camps ususlly taking a team of horses. Jack workâ€" f * # * 5 â€" « ; « io # *# ed at camps at Echo Bay, Spanish River, Webbwood, Calabogie and different x £ * * # camps in Quebecs. Those "Shanty days are still remembered by him,. Their only # £ x % equipment for work was the horses, crossâ€"cut saw and axe. § * % # « i * He and Elizabeth Jane Ross were married in November of 1906 and took $ * * a â€" « % * over the farm from her father, Thomas Ross. They praised a family of two girls % * % ‘ * sand three boys: George, who Still lives on the farm, Irene (HMrs. Clifford * C $ * * 1 $ x 3 £ « M s a T ; MeLaren) of R. R. #3, Cobden, Christens (Mes., Tom Hoye) who is nursing in the % % # # £ wWest, Ross, who married Frances Edwards and lives in Toronto and Archie, who J x * « « ; : « % % was killed overseas in Pnd world war and is buried in Holland, * * % : inp n « A 8 5 5 5 5 * $ His wife, Elizsabeth Jane died in January 1933 and is buried in Zion £ # i * y 5 y @ Line Cemetry, near where, when she was a young girl she attended Church and T La # *********************â€"**x**x*x*****:::***x***x*********s-*****************x**********:

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