Joseph Richard Potter

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Robert married Mary Elizabeth Manary on 26 Jun 1889 in Arnprior, Renfrew County, Ontario, Canada. Mary (daughter of Robert William Manary and Harriet Sheffield) was born on 14 Mar 1871 in Bristol, Outaouais Region, Quebec, Ontario; died on 24 Oct 1948 in Moosomin, Melville Census Division, Saskatchewan, Canada; was buried in South Side Cemetery, Moosomin, Melville Census Division, Saskatchewan, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Arthur Thomas Potter
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Thomas married Rachel Evans in 1851. Rachel (daughter of Benjamin RICHARD Evans and Rachel Code) was born on 12 Jul 1830 in Ramsay Township, Lanark County, Canada West; died on 6 Sep 1920 in Arnprior, Renfrew County, Ontario, Canada; was buried on 8 Sep 1920. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Buried:
The date on the stone says 1849 but I have his DOB as 1852

Robert married Harriet Sheffield on 3 Aug 1869 in Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. Harriet was born on 22 Jul 1851 in Bristol, Outaouais Region, Quebec, Ontario; died about 1875 in Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Thomas married Mary Connor. Mary was born about 1787 in Ireland; died in Admaston, Admaston/Bromley Township, Renfrew County, Ontario, Canada; was buried in Admaston, Admaston/Bromley Township, Renfrew County, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Benjamin Richard Evans
• Name: Richard Ben Evans
• Name: Richard Evans
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• Alt. Birth: 1796, Ireland; as recorded in 1861 Canada West Census
• Alt. Birth: 1799, County Wicklow, Leinster Province, Northern Ireland; as recorded on his death certificate

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Lanark census info:
Settlers 1820-1822

Lanark County, Ontario, Canada

Page 2 of 4
Evans Richard Ramsay 1 20E 11 30 1822

Info about Richard
A Richard Evans settled in Ramsay at Con 1, Lot 20 E Settler number 71 on December 6, 1822. Referred as Lanark Military Settler in Letter to Major Hillier at Government House, York, U.C. Letter signed by Col. W. Marshall "Supt. " He also certified that this Richard Evans did not belong to the societies of emigrants from Lanarkshire Scotland and did not receive any assistance from Government in money or provisions. Letter dated December 24, 1825. Richard Evans emigrated from Ireland to Canada in 1822 and settled in Ramsay Township, Lanark County Ontario November 30th 1822. The family farm was located on Concession 2, lot 20 east just outside of Clayton. According to Lanark county (Ontario) census of 1861, his age is given as 61 years. The death of Richard Evans is entered in Ann Plunkett's family Bible as: October 9, 1874. The family farm passed to William and then to his son Abe and upon Abe's death the family homestead passed to George Pretty, a son of Janet Evans and George Goodson Pretty. The widow of George Pretty sold the homestead and the present owners are believed to be from Ottawa. Notes for Rachel Code: Her age is given as 67 years in the Lanark county census. The death of Rachel Code Evans is entered in Ann Plunkett's family Bible as April 9, 1879.

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Benjamin married Rachel Code before 1823 in Perth, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. Rachel (daughter of Captain John Code and Ann Groves) was born in 1794 in County Wicklow, Leinster Province, Northern Ireland; died on 9 Apr 1879 in Ramsay Township, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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James married Isabella McLellan in 1831. Isabella (daughter of Hugh McLellan and Mary McIntyre) was born on 4 Feb 1814 in Knapdale, Argyllshire, Scotland; was christened on 20 Apr 1814 in Glenorchy and Inishail, Argyllshire, Scotland; died on 12 Nov 1888 in South Dakota, United States; was buried in Canistota Cemetery, Canistota, McCook County, South Dakota, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Died:
My great-great-grandmother's name was Isabella McLellan Manary. When I first began genealogy in 1980, no one I contacted even knew her name. Through the years, the family has learned much about her: her date of birth and death, the probable year of her marriage, the places she lived, some sketchy data on her husband and quite detailed statistics on her 14 children. She was not literate and left no diaries or letters and it was years before a photo of her finally came to light. But through research and statistical comparisons, it became apparent that she was a remarkable woman. Isabella came with her family to Canada in 1821 from Scotland, likely from Renfrewshire where all the related McLellans came from. She would have been 7 years old at the time. Although the marriage record hasn't been found, Isabella would have been 17 when she married James Manary. James, who was from County Tyrone or County Armagh in Ireland, was 38, 21 years older than Isabella. He had arrived only a year earlier and probably had much work left to do on his house and farm. Over the span of 25 years, Isabella bore 14 children. The last child was born in 1857, when Isabella was 43 and James was 64. Every one of their children survived into adulthood, married, and had their own families. Compared to the statistics in Ontario at that time, to have 14 children and have every one survive was almost unknown. What does this say about her? Probably that both she and James were unusually healthy and produced healthy children; that Lanark County was quite remote and not as subject to contagious diseases; and that, most of all, Isabella was probably a very conscientious mother. And how did her children feel about her? A clue is the fact that the name Isabella seemed to be held in high esteem: several of her granddaughters were named Isabella and the name survives in the family to this day (although the holders of the name might not be aware of where it originated). The family was close-knit and many of the children married brothers and sisters from neighbouring families. They also migrated together, almost half the family moving to South Dakota in the late 1870s and 1880s. At the time of James' death in Quebec in 1872, Isabella was 58. He had willed her their farm and she was surrounded by the rest of her family. But in 1881, when she was 67, she decided to sell the farm and move to South Dakota, along with a few of her children and families. Even in this present mobile age, it would be surprising for a woman of 67 to sell her estate, leave familiar surroundings, family, and friends, and make a difficult migration of approximately 1200 miles. This would seem to establish beyond a doubt her adventurousness, her robust health, and her strong ties with her children. Compared with her contemporaries, Isabella appears to have been an unusually strong and independent woman. Not afraid of a challenge, she emigrated from her native Scotland as a young girl, began her own family at the age of 17, moved from Ontario to Quebec, and finally, as a vigorous woman of 67, moved to untamed land in South Dakota. Her large tombstone in Canistota, South Dakota (shared with her youngest daughter, Elizabeth Manary Vellow), reads, with telling sentiment:
My mother!
We miss the sunshine of thy face
We miss thy kind and willing hand,
Thy fond and earnest care.
Our home is dark without thee
We miss thee everywhere.

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