Thanks for the photo of the blacksmith shop. I always liked looking at it when it was still standing and I would walk past it. I think the blacksmiths were Charles and John Bateman, who bought 3 acres from Silas Wheeler, who owned my family’s farm, at the end of Kangas Road, in 1830. They built a house, which was probably the house opposite the tennis court, or could be Helen Emma’s former house. Charles Bateman later moved to Ohio, and John Bateman sold the property to Thomas Emery, whose house is on the old maps, but I can’t figure out if it’s the house by the brook or at the corner of Kangas Road.
Yes it is a sloppy and insensitive obituary and it seems like the paper’s regular obituary writer must have been on holiday.
But what about that experimental olive oil acquired by James Roger?
Thanks for the photo of the blacksmith shop. I always liked looking at it when it was still standing and I would walk past it. I think the blacksmiths were Charles and John Bateman, who bought 3 acres from Silas Wheeler, who owned my family’s farm, at the end of Kangas Road, in 1830. They built a house, which was probably the house opposite the tennis court, or could be Helen Emma’s former house. Charles Bateman later moved to Ohio, and John Bateman sold the property to Thomas Emery, whose house is on the old maps, but I can’t figure out if it’s the house by the brook or at the corner of Kangas Road.