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History of Swarts Farm
"POVERTY KNOLL"
Great Grandpa (John) Swarts was given a farm on the Brooklyn Sideroad where Eli MacDonald lived - second farm on the east side along the creek. Grandpa owned a sawmill. He married Maggie Fleming who was sixteen years old. He had a brother Sam. Grandpa's father died at 26 years old. He had a sawmill here at the creek. Grandpa batched until his marriage. Maggie lived where the Joe Cronk farm was - just across the creek from his farm. Grandpa traded his farm for Poverty Knoll (West half of Lot 15, Con 1, Walpole) , owned by Will Dennis' father. They lived in a small house until the present house was built (1870) and the old house was then used for a pig pen until the present pig pen was built. There was only about 20 acres of cleared land. Logs were cut from Poverty Knoll and used to build Albert Swarts' buildings now owned by Lloyd Swarts (Lot 14, Con 2, Walpole). Grandpa lived on Poverty Knoll until Pearl was five years old and lumber was cut to build their home in Hagersville. They sold and moved to Selkirk across from the Memorial Gates.
Written by - Ena Swarts
Haldimand Deaths, Walpole - Swarts Margaret, Residence Selkirk, Female, Scotch, Married, Aged 74 Years 7 Months 25 Days, Born Ontario, November 5, 1852, Housewife, At Place of Death 6 Years, In Ontario Lifetime, Father John Fleming, Born Ontario, Mother Sarah Warnick, Born Ireland, Physician Geo. W. Slocombe, Selkirk, Ontario, Informant Leslie Swarts, R. R. 2, Nanticoke, Son, Place of Burial Selkirk, Date of Burial July 15, 1926, Undertaker Munro Hoover, Selkirk, Cause of Death Carcinoma of Esophagus, Duration 9 Months, Contributory Cause of Death Chronic Fibrous Myocarditis, Duration 5 Years, Date of Death July 3, 1926, S. A. Thompson Division Registrar of Walpole, Address Nanticoke
Haldimand Deaths, Walpole - Swarts John, Male, German, Widowed, Aged 79 Years 9 Months, Born Walpole, December 26, 1846, Retired Farmer, At Place of Death 2 Weeks, In Ontario Lifetime, Father John Swarts, Born Ontario, Mothre Marg Dennis, Born Ontario, Physician Geo. W. Slobombe, Selkirk, Ontario, Name of Informant Leslie Swarts, R. R. 2, Nanticoke, Residence (Covered over with stamp February 14/97), Place of Burial Selkirk Union Cemetery, Date of Burial September 28th 1926, Undertaker Munroe Hoover, Selkirk, Date of Death September 26, 1926, Cause of Death Chronic Fibrous Myocarditis, Duration 5 Years, Contributory Cause of Death Arterio Sclerosis, Duration 5 Years, S. A. Thompson Division Registrar of Walpole, Address Nanticoke
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Rainham Builders
1851 - 1926 (74 years)