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Show BIOGRAPHY 01 JOHN PABK.Jather of Joseph Park. V lho waa bon near Glaabn, in Scotland May 11th, 1802 - in his eqrly years he waa engaged the cloth industry as weaver, which bo.ainees was carried on extensivel.7 in' the neighborhood of his birth. Re lett Scotland with ia father and large family for~. prior to 1s30. The family came out fest and settled in this Township of PlYJDpton, West Ontario. now known as Watford lambton Cou.nt7, Ontari0t,. This section was then in its primitive state, forest land filled up with lmgh Maple trees. and other timber - and known as the :ButJ,i. Here the family cleared the land felling the big trees , :la"le hija.r'd lio'1'. mther aasiated at the log relling, which meant rolling or hauling the logs together, piling on the underbru.eh and then burning up the fallen logs that they might till the 1011 on ich it grew. 1rom recent correapandenta D)1f living in Canada in the vicinity of the old homestead, we learn that part of father•• farm, ia now the burial ground of the present generation. The countr7 then abmmcle4. in gaae. Turke7s 1 deera, timber wolves and panthera were in a'bu.ndance. !he corre91>ndent referred to (llr. Joaepb s. Williams) tells how after father left, hia good dog watch that he le!t behind, was :p11raued b7 a large guant wolf right up cloee to the old log house, alld the correspondent •• father ,w the wolf', and paid hie taXea with part of the boum;7 money received !or the wolf'• scalp. >. .-1tten agreeaent is held bJ the family which atatee, that John Park agrees to maintain hie father James Park, during his la.st daye in coneideration of redeinnc -11 properties owned by the said Jamee Parle, which ia a quaint and ancient piece of legal writ quite intereating • .{gain the deed from the British Government to John Parle for his section of land dated Dec 29.1841 on parchment ie worthr of mte - given under the seal ot the Province of Canada and in the 5th 7ear of the reign of ~een Victoria. Father lived here :tor many 7eare mar7inc Louie& Smith in 184<>, she came to Cana4a from Fal'Jlhame • Xent, England fortr ailea in a direct line sou.th from the |
