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| George Lancelot Clarke
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George Lancelot Clarke 2 3 4
1881, Census Place: Cumberland, Russell, Ontario, Canada
• Residence, 1881, Cumberland, Russel County, Ontario. 5
George married Etta Lynn Fee, daughter of Cyrus J Fee and Emma May Douglas, on 19 Jun 1918 in Saskatchewan.4 (Etta Lynn Fee was born on 18 Mar 1899 in Indianapolis, Indiana 4 and died on 17 Nov 1966 in Buffalo Narrows, Saskatchewan 4.) |
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The Idylwild Women's Institute, Pioneers and Followers of Idylwild and Witchekan Districts (printed by Turner-Warwick Printers Ltd., North Battleford, SK).
"Pioneers and Followers of Idylwild and Witchekan Districts" compiled by the Witchekan Women's Institute. Turner- Warwick Printers, North Battleford, Sask. 1976
page 37, 78, 79, 80
DOUGLAS FEE, SOUTH WEST OF FIFTY TWO
"Section 3 range 11 West of the third Meridian." As his wife, I've hear him state it with quiet defiant pride, many times. "My Dad was the first white man with a family in there."
Poppa came out and located in 1912. We shipped from Minnesota, U.S.A. in 1913. Up to Shellbrook, Saskatchewan as that was the end of the steel. No railroad past Shellbrook in those days. And that ginger sand was "something else." So, in 1914 we moved with horses up to the SW 1/4 of 3-52-11 West of 3rd.
Goldings were the next "family." They had one wee girl about five years old at the time, and they were gone inside of three years.
The other neighbors were bachelors. Dick Shano, Joe McKellop and Albert Garling. Came right after the Fee's (us). Wilfred Atkinson, Gordon Butler, Evert Halterman and Lester Bowman. Came in together. They walked in 130 miles from Battleford, with all their possessions in packs on their backs.
It was not until 1917, some 4 years later, that we met the John Bellamy family. They lived near Belbutte some twenty odd miles away. Twenty miles with horses was a good days trip. But there was for the first time another boy to see and play with. Jim was 10 and Douglas was 10 four months later. The memory of their meeting is still vivid. Jim sat on the floor and Douglas eyed him from a big chair (just wishing they could be friends) but Jim's mischief save the day when he was sent to feed the pigs he leaned forward, caught hold of his toes and said "oink, oink, oink", both lads laughed and that friendship is still firm. It's withstood the hazards of time for 58 years. Now both men are Masseurs, Jim near Spiritwood and Douglas at White Fox, Sask. Their work bringing relief and health to vast numbers of people. Both farmed for years. Worked in lumber camps, rode cattle drives, etc. Jim ran a community pasture, Douglas a store at Meetoos.
Douglas Fee filed on a homestead SW I-53-12 when he was 17 years old. Witchekan School, the first in the district was a frame building completed in 1923. The Post Office was built in 1916 and the mail hauled by team from Battleford. Idylwild Hall came next. The Twin Bay School in 1928 and Log Cabin School in the early thirties. Douglas helped in the building of these. Served on the board of trustees for Twin Bay in 1928. He also served as commissioner of oaths. Also, floating horses teeth, general veterinary work. Thanks to Mr. Ruldan Holm, another early settler, who gave him a vote of confidence when he needed it most.
Mr. and Mrs Cyrus Jay Fee will still live in some memories. For blacksmith work was of vital importance in those days. While Mrs. Fee was mid-wife for the whole area.
Once, when their oldest grandchild was born, Poppa got Jim Titsmarsh to come stay and do chores. Douglas was 10 then and could make a pan of biscuits and handle a team. Which for all the folks good intentions caused a minor catastrophe. As it turned out Mr. Titsmarsh got in such a muddle with the team, he gave the lines to Douglas who promptly set things right. Next time he tried the oxen, and again "the boy" had to set things right. Then when he turned out a pan of hot biscuits for supper, the result was, he found himself alone next morning. So for ten days he held the fort, when Poppa drove in late in the evening of the tenth day. He found a very lonesome little boy with the cat curled up in his lap, the old dog hugged tight to his leg, dozing in the rocking chair. But the stock was fed and watered, the cow milked, eggs gathered and the house tidy, with no dirty dishes.
Yes, lively and varied, the life of the Cyrus Jay Fee family.
Lilly, the oldest girl is now in B.C. (Mrs Soren Saulhague). She and her husband are enjoying retirement. She married the first time without changing her name, to a Mr. Charlie Fee. He was Irish, while the folks were Scotch. Her oldest boy Raymond Fee, is still on the old homestead.
Etta, the second girl, now rests in Buffalo Narrows Cemetery. Her husband George Clark is still living at 104 years of age. Bernice, Mrs. Ralph Lavigne, is in Edmonton, Alberta, and has most of her family near her in the city.
Mr. and Mrs. Cyrus Jay Fee, are both at rest in Meadow Lake Cemetery and the epitaph is 'IN DEATH THEY WERE NOT DIVIDED"
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George Clark
Came West from Navan, Ontario in 1895. He homesteaded at Marcelin, SK in 1902. And my mother, the former Etta Fee was born in Indianapolis, Indiana and came to Canada with her parents, Mr. & Mrs. Cyrus J. Fee either in 1912 or 1913 homesteading on the east side of Witchekan Lake. She went working out and ended up in Marcelin where she met George Clark and married in June 1918. We lived there until May, 1931 and moved to Twin Lakes for ten months, then sold out and moved to Ontario. We lived there until Sept 1933 and then we moved to Timberlost, west of Big River, SK. Then on to Buffalo Narrows, SK in 1942. Mom passed away Nov 17, 1966 age 67 years. Dad passed away Oct 1975, age 101 years.
2 Len Kilbreath, of Vernon B.C, Clarke gedcom as supplied by Len Kilbreath, Sept 11, 2002.
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National Archives of Canada, NAC C-13229 Dist 104 SubDist C Div 2 Page 29 Family 112+. :
1881, Census Place: Cumberland, Russell, Ontario, Canada
Source: FHL Film 1375865 NAC C-13229 Dist 104 SubDist C Div 2 Page 29 Family 112+
Sex Marr Age Origin Birthplace
Richard CLARK M M 52 Irish Ireland
Occ: Farmer Religion: Church of England
Rachel CLARK F M 50 Irish Ireland
Religion: Church of England
Thomas CLARK M 25 Irish Ontario
Religion: Church of England
Edward CLARK M 23 Irish Ontario
Religion: Church of England
Amile CLARK F 20 Irish Ontario
Religion: Church of England
Elisebeth CLARK F 16 Irish Ontario
Religion: Church of England
Richard CLARK M 18 Irish Ontario
Religion: Church of England
Elen CLARK F 14 Irish Ontario
Religion: Church of England
Sarah CLARK F 11 Irish Ontario
Religion: Church of England
Samuel CLARK M 8 Irish Ontario
Religion: Church of England
Launclet CLARK M 6 Irish Ontario
Religion: Church of England
George CODE M 18 Irish Ontario
Occ: Servant Religion: Church of England
4 The Idylwild Women's Institute, Pioneers and Followers of Idylwild and Witchekan Districts (printed by Turner-Warwick Printers Ltd., North Battleford, SK).
5 National Archives of Canada, NAC C-13229 Dist 104 SubDist C Div 2 Page 29 Family 112+.
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