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- 2. John Wall
Born Dec. 9th, 1825 in Beckwith Twp. John took out a lot on Con. 1 SDR when he came with his family to Grey County in the late 1840s. He never married that we know of. He probably farmed beside his parents and helped clear the land. John is living in Bentinck in 1871 with his mother and Edward Wynn Jr. In 1881 they are still living in Bentinck. In 1891 John and his mother, Anne, are living in Hanover. According to Anglican Church records, Anne died July 1st, 1892 in Hanover. John probably stayed living at that location. We have found no record of John's death. Tracing John and Jane is very difficult because the Hanover Post burned in 1900 burning all the old newspapers. A caretaker at St. George's cemetery, where Moses Wall is buried, burned all the records of internments. He also took off with the bank account "according to a local historian". So we presume that Jane and Edward Wynn, Ann Jane Wynn, and John Wall and his mother, Ann Wall, are buried in a family plot at St. George's cemetery. The marker only tells us about Moses Wall who died on January 17th, 1864. These deaths were never registered. The only other record we have found of John is where he voted for a public school trustee in 1881. In local church records we did find Anne (Merritt) Wall's death recorded.
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