Pearl Ethel Singleton

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PEARL ETHEL SINGLETON was born on March 15, 1891 in Dunn's Valley, Algoma District, Ontario, Canada to James Singleton, and Susanna Pattison.

She spent her formative years on the farm and at school in Dunn's Valley, Algoma District, Ontario, Canada.

She later immigrated to the USA and resided at Duluth, Minnesota.

For a time in 1910 she worked as a servant for Duluth Lawyer, James Wanlass.

Pearl married Ira Lycurgus Ricketts. on Dec 19, 1911 at Duluth, St. Louis County, Minnesota. They had four children:
1912-1972 - Alice Ricketts: Memorial 29212373
1915-2004 - Mrs. Alma (Ostrander) Stephan
1918-1977 - Calvin Ira Ricketts
1921-2005 - Mrs. Helen Grimm

Pearl's husband Ira, was a detective sergeant with the Duluth Police Dept. He spent eighteen years with the Department and served as a popular policeman who was known for hard work and efficiency in his duties. Ira L. Ricketts died in 1933 due to a paralytic stroke after which he had suffered several weeks.

After her husband's death, mother Pearl took in laundry and ironing and rented rooms to boarders to ensure that the family wanted for nothing. She was a devoted mother and wanted to ensure the success of her children, which she did.

Pearl died on 25 April 1976, aged 85, of old age, in Duluth, Saint Louis, Minnesota. She was buried on 25 April 1976 in Forest Park Cemetary, Duluth, Saint Louis, Minnesota.

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Pearl played the "Autoharp" and sang beautifully. She loved to recite nursery rhymes, and tell her grandchildren stories. Portland Square Park was across the street from her home in Duluth and she brought her grandchildren there when they visited. The swing set was the most fun for everyone.

Note: Pearl had a dog named "Blondie" and a tabby cat named "Tiger."

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Pearl's headstone is marked with the symbol of the Eastern Star, a branch of the Freemasons, open to all family members.

OBITUARY: Pearl E. Ricketts, Duluth News Tribune, Monday, April 26, 1976
Mrs. Pearl E. Ricketts, 85, of 7700 Grand Ave., died Sunday in a Duluth nursing home. She was born in Dunn's Valley, Ont., and resided in Duluth 69 years. She was a member of Bethel Baptist Church.
Surviving are a son, Calvin, Las Cruces, N.M.; two daughters. Mrs. Helen Grimm and Mrs. Alma Ostrander, Duluth, 12 grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren.

Harry Mutchler was one of her lodgers.
His Memorial ID is: 46838837

Pearl married Ira Lycurgus Ricketts in 1911. Ira was born on 18 Feb 1887 in Bement, Piatt County, Illinois, United States; died on 15 Mar 1930 in Duluth, St. Louis County, Minnesota, United States; was buried in Forest Hill Cemetery, Duluth, St. Louis County, Minnesota, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Alice Ida Ricketts was born on 3 Aug 1912 in Duluth, St. Louis County, Minnesota, United States; died on 29 Jan 1972 in Yakima, Yakima County, Washington, United States; was buried in Laurel Hill Memorial Park, Cle Elum, Kittitas County, Washington, United States.

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James Singleton's parents William Singleton and Catherine (Coad) Singleton emmigrated, to Eastern Canada in the early 1800's.

James was born on Jan 28, 1850 at Kitley, Leeds County, Ontario. He grew up there and became a farmer like other folks in the area.

He married Susanna Pattison on Dec 25, 1876 at Wingham, Ontario, Canada.

James and Susanna had seven children:
1878 - William Amos Singleton
1881 - James Emerson Singleton
1883 - John Wesley Singleton
1885 - Mrs. Angeline Dixon
1886 - Roy Leonard Singleton
1889 - Secord Singleton
1891 - Mrs. Pearl Ethel Ricketts

James' brother Abraham coincidentally married Susanna's sister, Ellen, which made their children cousins on both sides of the family.

James died on Dec 12, 1913 at Dunn's Valley, Ontario, Canada, and he is buried at Rock Lake Cemetery, Rock Lake, Ontario.

His wife Susanna followed her children to Duluth, Minnesota and she is buried at Forest Hill Cemetary, Duluth, Saint Louis, Minnesota.

While they were married and raising their family, James and Susanna had homesteaded on land and at Dunn's Valley, Algoma District, Ontario, Canada. The property had a lakeshore (Skookum Lake) where the children could swim to cool off in the summer.

James' brother Abraham also came to Dunn's Valley, homesteaded and raised his family on adjoining land.

They lived in a log house that James built. There was an out building that housed a pump and stored some food for winter. The house had an inside pump just inside the door and a wash basin in the kitchen. The kitchen had a large cook stove fired by wood, used for cooking all their meals. They raised all their own food such as pigs, cows and chickens, and stored it in the root cellar(a dug out place in the side of a hill with a door on it), vegetables were always stored there for the winter. They slaughtered their own animals, stored the meat in crocks, and salted it down so it would keep during winter.

Meals were often stew, potatoes, and homemade bread or rolls. Dessert was usually canned fruit like a large bowl of blue berries, raspberries, gooseberries, apples, and/or carrots. Small individual bowls were set beside the big bowl and it was dished with a spoon. When they were done with their meal, everyone would would have a dish of sauce.

Laundry was done in the out building. Water for washing was heated in big wash tubs and carried to the out building. They used kerosene lamps for light, and they had no television or radio.

Their days in summer were spent tending crops. The vegetables were usually tended by the women, and the hay and oat fields were taken care of by the men. In the summer the children went to the woods and pick berries to be canned, they also helped make hay stacks and filled the barn for the animals winter feed. They also had to feed the pigs and water the horses.

The school was one room, and also used for the church. A teacher, usually a young woman, came out to teach from Sault Sainte Marie, Ontario. She was usually single, and would board and room during the school year with whatever farmer had room for her.

On Sundays, everyone went to the one roomed church. Usually the minister was a circuit rider. He would be provided a room and board by some farmer. He would come and stay, sometimes just a week, and sometimes longer. The local families would take turns feeding him his meals, and after he was done he would move on to the next town.

Their evenings were usually short. After they were done with their chores and their schoolwork was done, it was bedtime. Sometimes in the evening, the mother or someone else in the family would play the pump organ in the parlor, and the family would sing hymns together.

Susanna sewed clothes for the children. When the kids were out of school, vacations were sought for some of them. They would go to Sault Sainte Marie, and work as a milliner's helper. They would work for their room and board while attending school. Others were apprenticed as dressmakers. Most of the married went to quilting bees and made their own blankets and bedding from flour and feed sacks.

Occasionally things were ordered from Sears Roebuck catalogs. If they were lucky, once a month or once in three months, they would all be able to go to town in the horse and wagon for supplies. It was a long trip and if they were coming back late, they would have a neighbor take care of their evening chores, and then they would return the favor.

In the fall it was threshing time. One family owned the thresher and they would all move from farm to farm to do the threshing. Then the family would cook meals for the threshers until it was all done. Then all the threshers would move to the next farm. This was a very cooperative thing.

Saturday nights, dances were held in the schoolhouse or the church. The men would play fiddles for music. The women would bring clothes baskets filled with sandwiches for lunch. The whole family gathered. If there were babies they came to and they slept in the clothes baskets in the kitchen while the music played and the adults and children danced. Coffee was made at mid evening and the dance floor was cleaned. The men put up saw horses and table on tops on top of them, and lunch was served on them. After eating, the men took down the tables, put the benches against the walls and swept all the mud that they tracked in. Then it was time to dance again. Young, old, and all who could walk would dance.

In the winter they went to church by sleigh and cutter, keeping warm by covering up with wool blankets. Sometimes they were snowed in and unable to get mail for weeks at a time, so it was important to load in the supplies, like flour and sugar, before the snow came in. The highlight of the evening on cold days was the kitchen. The kitchen stove burned most of the time during the night. The fire wood was piled up in the stove, but burned out quite often. The family gathered in their winter underwear in the kitchen trying to keep warm while dressing by the stove which was started early in the a.m. by mom or dad.

Thus was life on a farm during the early 1800's in Canada.

Records Citation: James Singleton, died 12 Dec 1913, 63 yrs 9 mths, died at Galbraith, mail carrier, s/o William Singleton & Catherine Sinclair, cause-pneumonia, inf: Roy Singleton of Dunns Valley, Unorganized Territory, Algoma District. The doctor was from Bruce Mines.

James married Susanna Pattison on 25 Dec 1875 in Wingham, Huron County, Ontario, Canada. Susanna was born on 10 Mar 1852 in Kitley Township, Leeds County, Ontario, Canada; died on 11 Dec 1933; was buried in Forest Hill Cemetery, Duluth, St. Louis County, Minnesota, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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William married Katherine Code on 30 Dec 1832 in Kitley Township, Leeds County, Ontario, Canada. Katherine (daughter of George William Code, Sr. and Mary Elizabeth Blackburn) was born in 1811 in County Wicklow, Leinster Province, Northern Ireland; died on 18 Feb 1889 in Wawanosh Township, Huron County, Ontario, Canada; was buried in Deacon's Memorial Cemetery, East Wawanosh Township, Huron County, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Catherine Coad
• Name: Catherine Code
• Name: Katherine Coad
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Catherine Coad was born in 1811 in Wicklow, Ireland to George Coad, and Mary Blackburn.

Catherine, aged about 21 was married to William Singleton, aged about 28, on December 30, 1832 in Kitley Township, Leeds County, Ontario, Canada.

They had 11 Children:
-1834 John
-1836 William
-1838 Susan J.
-1840 George
-1842 Abraham
-1844 Mary
-1845 Rachel
-1848 Thomas
-1850 James
-1853 Catherine
-1856 Zachariah

Catherine died on 18 February 1889, aged about 77, in Wawanosh Twp. E. Huron County, Ontario
Canada.

She is buried at Deacon's Memorial, East Huron County, Ontario, Canada.

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• Name: Thomas C Codd
• Name: Thomas C. Coad
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• Alt. Birth: 1778, County Wicklow, Leinster Province, Northern Ireland

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BIOGRAPHY:
George Coad was born in 1783 at Wicklow, Ireland to James Codd and Ann Codd.

In 1810 he married Mary Blackburn, .

Later, they emmigrated to Ontario, Canada and homesteaded at Kitley Township, Leeds County, Ontario.

They had nine children:
1. Jane Coad married Stephen Campbell on Oct 19, 1851.

2. Catherine Coad, was born in 1811 in Wicklow Ireland, died on Feb 18, 1889 in Wawanosh Twp. E. Huron County, ON Canada aged 78, and was buried in Deacon's Memorial, E. Huron County, ON Canada.

3. William Coad was born on May 16, 1813 in Wicklow Ireland and died on Jan 24, 1901 aged 87.

4. Abraham Coad was born in 1817 in Wicklow Ireland, died on Jun 5, 1891 in Montague Township, ON Canada aged 74, and was buried in St. John's Anglican Cemetery, Smiths Falls, ON.

5. George Coad was born in 1818 in Wicklow Ireland and died on Jun 3, 1904 aged 86. George married Esther Johnson.

6. John Edward Coad was born in 1820 in Wicklow Ireland and died in 1897 in Kitley Township, ON Canada aged 77.

7. Thomas Coad was born in 1824 in Wicklow Ireland, died on Nov 5, 1904 in Kitley Township, ON Canada aged 80, and was buried in Forbes (Abandoned) Cemetery, Kitley Township, ON Canada.

8. James Coad was born in 1827.

9. Joseph Coad was born in 1830 in Wicklow Ireland, died on May 3, 1904 in Montague Township, ON Canada aged 74, and was buried in St. John's Anglican Cemetery, Smiths Falls, Ontario. Joseph married Elizabeth Hawkins. Elizabeth was born in 1839, died on Feb 2, 1913 in Montague Township, ON Canada aged 74, and was buried in St. John's Anglican Cemetery, Smiths Falls, ON.

GEORGE COAD'S DEATH:
On Jan 16 1853 George Coad passed this world and his family will remember him fondly for all of their years. He died at Kitley Township, Leeds Co., Ontario, Canada and was buried at Forbes (Abandoned) Cemetery.

(Research):Notes for THOMAS CODD:
Notes from Eileen Jackson:

1. Thomas and Elizabeth Codd and their five children arrived in Canada in 1820, "and in

the month of August of the same year proceeded to Lanark to obtain land." (See Upper

Canada Land Petition's, 27 August 1828, p. 106). Thomas Codd and his son George

located on lots 3N.E.., 4, and 5, concession 12. George obtained the patent for lot4S.W...
2. Family information is that the outcome of a dispute about a political issue accounts for

the difference in the spelling of the surname Codd in Canada. Thomas Sr., and his son

Richard selected "Coad", George, Thomas, Abraham, and James decided on "Code".

Codes who settled in Kitley in Leeds were also divided as to how they spelled the surname.

Family information is that they were relatives of Thomas Codd.

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a relative on the path between a DNA Match and a common ancestor

George married Mary Elizabeth Blackburn in 1810 in County Wicklow, Leinster Province, Northern Ireland. Mary was born in 1782 in Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland; died on 2 Jul 1859 in Kitley Township, Leeds County, Ontario, Canada; was buried on 2 Jul 1859 in Forbes Cemetery, Motts Mills, Leeds and Grenville United Counties, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Mary Blackburn was born in 1782 at Wicklow, Ireland

In 1810 she married George Coad.

Later, they emmigrated to Ontario, Canada and homesteaded at Kitley Township, Leeds County, Ontario.

They had nine children:
1. Jane Coad married Stephen Campbell on Oct 19, 1851.

2. Catherine Coad, was born in 1811 in Wicklow Ireland, died on Feb 18, 1889 in Wawanosh Twp. E. Huron County, ON Canada aged 78, and was buried in Deacon's Memorial, E. Huron County, ON Canada.

3. William Coad was born on May 16, 1813 in Wicklow Ireland and died on Jan 24, 1901 aged 87.

4. Abraham Coad was born in 1817 in Wicklow Ireland, died on Jun 5, 1891 in Montague Township, ON Canada aged 74, and was buried in St. John's Anglican Cemetery, Smiths Falls, ON.

5. George Coad was born in 1818 in Wicklow Ireland and died on Jun 3, 1904 aged 86. George married Esther Johnson.

6. John Edward Coad was born in 1820 in Wicklow Ireland and died in 1897 in Kitley Township, ON Canada aged 77.

7. Thomas Coad was born in 1824 in Wicklow Ireland, died on Nov 5, 1904 in Kitley Township, ON Canada aged 80, and was buried in Forbes (Abandoned) Cemetery, Kitley Township, ON Canada.

8. James Coad was born in 1827.

9. Joseph Coad was born in 1830 in Wicklow Ireland, died on May 3, 1904 in Montague Township, ON Canada aged 74, and was buried in St. John's Anglican Cemetery, Smiths Falls, Ontario. Joseph married Elizabeth Hawkins. Elizabeth was born in 1839, died on Feb 2, 1913 in Montague Township, ON Canada aged 74, and was buried in St. John's Anglican Cemetery, Smiths Falls, ON.


MARY COAD'S DEATH:
On Jul 2, 1859 Mary Coad passed this world and her family will remember her fondly for all of their years. She died at Kitley Township, Leeds Co., Ontario, Canada and was buried at Forbes (Abandoned) Cemetery.