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Houghton
Family Line: > Martin
> Jonathan >
Joseph > Oliver > ?
Daniel
Houghton (Son of Martin & Elizabeth)
| Born: |
18 Sep 1860 in
Newboro, Ontario, Canada |
| Married: |
Hannah Felicia
Killenbeck, 31 May 1886 in Gananoque, Presbyterian, Methodist. marriage
certificate # 006469,(11) division of Gan., daughter of Charles
Killenbeck and Margaret Andress. (b.31 May 1868 in Gananoque, Ontario,
Canada) (d.26 Aug 1943) |
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11 Children: 7
Lived;
Maude
Houghton (b.1888) (d.1963)
Belle Houghton (b.1891)
George Edward Houghton (b.1894,
Newboro, Ontario, Canada) (d.27Jun 1964, Albany, New York)
Winfred James Houghton (b.1 Jul
1896, Newboro, Ontario, Canada) (d.4 Nov 1973) Kingston,
Ontario)
Riley Elgin Houghton (b.4 Apr 1898,
Newboro, Ontario, Canada) (d.2 May 1986, Sarnia,Ontario)
Celas Patrick (Pat) Houghton (b.1900,
Newboro, Ontario, Canada) (d.1960, Syracuse, New York) ( m. Betty) Notes for
Celas Patrick (Pat) Houghton: Pat was a member of the North West Mounted
Police for a time. He also served in the Canadian expeditionary force to
Siberia, 1918-1919. He was cremated.
Audrey May Houghton (b.16 Jan
1904) (d.1985)
The last 4 children born in 1900, 1902, 1908, 1914
died as infants |
| Died: |
29 Aug 1940 in
Newboro, Ontario, Canada. |
| Buried: |
Newboro, Ontario,
United Church Cemetery with wife Hanna. Hanna's Service by Rev. Robert
Dark. |
| Narrative: |
* Dan was a
big man. He was noted for his good sense of humor, but his good wife had
none. Dan built houses around Newboro, one was Ben Bells. Up street
Hannah ran a store, bakery and ice cream parlor. Dan bought the point in
Newboro where the Pritchards now have their cottages. He owned from the
stucco cottage all the way around the point including Kingsberrys. In
1920 Dan at the age of 60 built their home on this point and called it
" The Green Shingle", because of its exterior facing. ON this
site had been a tavern that had burned down. When Dan dug the
foundation, he found a bin of barley, the main ingredient for making
booze, that had been buried there at the time of the fire. The house was
spooky, and gossips said it was due to the spirits of the people who
frequented the tavern. Dan was a carpenter, a boat builder and fishing
guide.
* Houghton's Island. Houghton's Island is in Newboro Lake on the
Rideau Chain. Dan Houghton bought the island for 200 dollars. The
original cabin that Dan built was about in the center of the island ,
but it burned down many years ago. At one time Dan and Hannah would move
out of the Green Shingle on the mainland and rent this house for the
summer while they lived on the island. The family could pick enough
berries on this island that they had plenty for the whole winter and
Hannah also would use berries for the pies she made to sell in her shop,
and some berries were used in the ice cream too. Dan would cut enough
trees on the island to supply their wood needs every winter. Dan's son
George always used the island to live on in the summer when he came from
New York. George built the second cabin. George's grandson, Jeanne
Jordon now has that cabin. George's granddaughter Sheila and her husband
built a cedar sided cottage on the opposite side of the island (the
east). This is called The Narrows. The puff balls used to grow in this
area. Heather and her husband built a pine sided cottage. Heather's son
Jim built one near his mom and dad's. Heathers son Dan built a beautiful
log cabin in the trees. Originally the island was for the use of any
Houghton, but that was a long time ago and would not be recognized as
such today. Bell's son Clarence (Kerney) French, when he was a young man
he thought he could raise white ducks and a special breed of bull frogs
on Houghton's island. He spent a lot of time trying to vermin proof and
building fenced- in pens. But he couldn't keep out the black snakes and
snapping turtles. He finally had to admit defeat and gave it up for a
lost cause.
*Notes for HANNAH FELICIA KILLENBECK:
Hannah's Grandfather lived near Landsdowne Ont. When Hannah was a
teenager her home was at Marble Rock in that same district. Killenbeck
Lake was named after the early settler George Killenbeck. this would be
Hannah Houghton's Grandfather. In the late 1800's some of the
Killenbecks moved to Beach Corners near Plevna Ont. Hannah's father
Charles lived here,also some brothers and sisters. Hannah was a no
nonsense lady. Her husband Dan was not allowed to smoke in the house.
This was sixty years before the current no smoking in the house rules.
Dan would walk up the hill to Laura's, his daughter-in-law and smoke
there and tell stories. Gramma would get very angry at their laughing
and accused them both of being crazy. Hannah had a uncle who would visit
her in Newboro, he was from Holland. He was in the Import Export
business and dealt in diamonds and precious stones. After the second
world war nothing was heard of him again. Hannah was of Dutch decent.
Hannah was a tailoress and a magnificent seamstress. When her son Win
was 12 years old he and his brother George caught fish and sold them all
summer to be shipped to Montreal. With their earnings they bought their
mother a new sewing machine and lengths of cloth, one for a suit and one
for a dress. Hannah called William Spicer , Uncle Bill. He was the
spicer who owned the factory in Newboro and married Jennie and then
Mercy Stevens. The relationship couldn't be confirmed but it is thought
that Williams sister, Mellissa, married Dan Kelsey who may have been
Hannah's mother's brother, or the connection is through Bill's brother
Joel who married Mary Killenbeck. Hannah died of sromach cancer but
through her illness she never complained.
In 1794 Abel Stevens brought families from Vermont to Leeds County. His
grandson, Abel Neri Stevens and his wife Precilla Derbyshire had a
daughter, Mercy Stevens, born July 9, 1857, she married Frank Fifeld and
then married William Spicer. |
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