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Ancestors of Victorina BELLYOU
and Edgar
Samuel WAITE Sr.

Reuben Solmos WAITE's 5 Generation Pedigree Chart

Up Dated 6 February 2007

Select any name on this Pedigree Chart and click on it to go to that person's FAMILY and HISTORY... or click on » to go the the next Pedigree Chart... or click on « to go back to Robin FORREST's 5 Generation Chart... C = Circa or About Samuel WAIT III » George WAIT |b: 1749 Sarah Day GREENE » Samuel WAITE |b: 1783 | Unknown | Elizabeth SALLS | b: ???? Unknown Griffin WAITE |b: 1809 | Unknown | | Daniel TARBUSH | | | Unknown | Rachel TARBUSH | b: C 1783| Unknown | UnKnown | Unknown Edgar Samuel WAITE Sr. |b: 1835 | Unknown | | Gabriel SPRUNG | | |b: C 1767 Unknown | | John SPRUNG | | |b: 1790 | Unknown | | | Maria BAYARD | | | b: C 1767 Unknown | Elizabeth SPRUNG | b: 1812 | Unknown | | UnKnown | | | Unknown | Abigail BROOKS | b: C 1791 | Unknown | UnKnown | Unknown Jenny Mafsett married George H BROWN b: 1864 Samuel Edgar b: 1866 Charles (Charlie) b: 1868 d: 1870 Nellie Lisbetta married George MURPHY b: 1871 Gretta Margaret married Jeremiah Chauncy SCRIPTURE b: 1874 + Reuben Solmes WAITE |b: 1876 Frances (Fannie) Iva married Burton E. BRINTELL |b: 1882 Isaac BELLYOU/BILLIOU » | Jacob BELLYOU II. | | Rachel BRITTAIN | Jacob BELLYOU III | | | Unknown | | UnKnown | | Unknown | Jacob BILLYOU IV | |b: 1809 | Unknown | | | UnKnown | | | | Unknown | | Catherine DeMILLE | | | Unknown | | UnKnown | | Unknown Victorina BILLYOU b: 1843 | Joseph BETTES | Jeremiah BETTES | | Abigail WHITNEY | Levi BETTIS » | |b: C 1792 | Unknown | | Mary/Molly UnKnown | | Unknown Mary BETTES | Heinrich/Hendrick SIMON | Abraham SIMMONS | | Susanna Margaretha TREBER Susanna SIMMONS » b: 1797 | Samuel LIVINGSTON Lydia LIVINGSTON Annatje VIIELIN

Samuel WAITE

Samuel Waite, son of George Waite, was born in Albany County, New York on October 8th, 1783. He married there December 31, 1802, Rachael Tarbush, daughter of Daniel Tarbush of Coxsacke, New York. Samuel emigrated to Canada in 1812 to settle at first on Crown Land, Lots 1 and 2 in the First Concession in the township of Halidmand county of Northumberland, On., then Upper Canada, and moving from there in 1820 to the 4th Concession of Cramahe next to the Brighton Township line, where he lived until his death on March 25, 1871. He is buried on his own farm in Cramahe, Waite's Cemetery.

Samuel Waite and Smyton Simmons came together from Albany County near Poughkeepsie in Lower New York State. They came by covered wagon bringing some equipment, and crossed at Cape Vincent just before the War 1812 started. It is said that some trouble was experienced in crossing the boundary line. Both were big men and well built. It is said that Samuel struck and knocked down the Canadian Customs man, and the party drove on.

Samuel and his wife, brought their five children all under ten years of age, and Symton Simmons and his wife, Sarah Waite, had five children all under 13 years of age.

Samuel Waite's tombstone is in the Waite Cemetery near the South West corner. It is very hard to read now due to the erosion of the marble.

He used to take his grain on horse back to Roblin's Mill, the nearest mill, though over 20 miles away to have it ground. Demorest had a Grist Mill and Cooperage at Demorestville before 1820, which would have been closer for Samuel.

Griffin Waite

Griffin Waite, son of Samuel Waite and Rachel Tarbush of Cramahe Township, Northumberland County, Ontario, born in Albany County, New York State, 8 August 1809, when 3 years old his father emigrated to Halidmand Township then Upper Canada on 7 January 1833. Griffin married Elizabeth Sprung, daughter of John and Abigail Sprung who had moved from Roblin's Mills in Prince Edward County in 1827 and settled on crown land in Brighton Township across the Township line from the Waite homestead. (Samuel Waite had moved from Halidmand Township to the 4th Concession of Cramahe Township in 1820 and had taken up Crown land at that location) Griffin Waite died 17 November 1896 and Elizabeth (Sprung) Waite died 31 July 1905. They lived on the Waite homestead all their married life and are buried in the Waite's Cemetery at the south end of their farm.

Mr. Samuel Waite raised a family of 11 children, Griffin being the second child, of whom there were but two living in 1896, viz. Alson in the far west and Mrs. Kemp, (Adeline) living in Ohio. Each of the pioneer families had two children living: after a lapse of 70 years. Griffin Waite was married in January 1833 to Miss Betsey Sprung, daughter of John Sprung; she survived him and was generally quite healthy. They raised a family of 11 children. The deceased was a man of vigorous health and not withstanding his advanced years had the use of his natural teeth up to the end and his hair was only partially changed by age and up to the time of his last sickness which only lasted three days he hardly knew what sickness was which shows the benefit of total abstinence from intoxicating liquor. He was converted in the township of Haldimand when he was 15 years old and lived an active and useful member of the church from that time until his death 72 years after. During the last 50 years of his life he was a class leader in the Methodist Church which place he filled with satisfaction to all concerned. He spent a good deal of time in reading the Bible and during the first five months of this year he read the entire Bible through.

The large concourse of people at his funeral showed the respect he was held in by the community.

Roswell Waite thinks that the Waites originally were from Germany. He said that Willet when he was a little boy was playing in the attic of his grandfather's house and found an old German or what he thought was a German uniform in a trunk, so Willet always remembered this and figured probably the name had been Von-Waite.

The church on the Waite farm adjoined the cemetery. The oldtimers talked about it and being at services there. Services were discontinued in the early 1890's. Gordon Thorne said he remembered being at the funeral for Steve Thorne when he was about five years old, and he believed the church was taken down shortly after. The cemetery (the Waite Cemetery) is on the old Samuel Waite farm. Samuel was the father of Griffin Waite and the grandfather of Edgar, one of Griffin's sons. Edgar along with William Smith and Ira Brintnell were the founders of the Waite Cemetery. Edgar donated the land. He was owner of the Samuel Waite, or at least part of Samuel's farm at the time the cemetery was founded in 1868. Both, Samuel Waite and John Sprung, got a full lot in the first place and the 100 acres which was Griffin's and later Wallace's was a half of the original grant. Wallace bought part of the Murphy place to the west of him.

Gilbert Waite told in 1924, that his farm had belonged to his uncle, Benjamin Sprung, who sold it to a George Brown, and Gilbert bought it from Brown. Benjamin Sprung got his land from his father, John, in the first place. - - - - - - -

NEWSPAPER CLIPPING
FROM
THE BRIGHTON ENSIGN
- November 17, 1896 -

By the decease of the late Griffin Waite whose death occurred on the 17th ult., this place has lost one of the old land marks as he had lived here for a period of nearly 70 years. He was born in Dutchess County, N.Y. in 1809. Three years later his father, the late Samuel Waite, moved into this country and settled in the Township of Halidmand where he lived until the spring of 1827 when he and his family took up their residence here. Griffin Waite was then 18 years old and he was the only man that knew of the early history of his place for his advent into this vicinity was near the beginning of its settlement and he has lived continually in from that time up to the present.

This place is greatly undebted to the four heads of families that came here in the early part of 1827 namely Samuel Waite, Aaron Hinman, John Sprung and Joseph Morden. Mr. & Mrs. Waite were members of the church before they came here and Mr. & Mrs. Hinman were also members, Mr. Hinman having been converted at a meeting held in a barn belonging to Mr. Waite, in Haldimand, before he settled here. Mr. & Mrs. Morden were also members of the church before coming to this place and Mr. & Mrs. Sprung were converted and joined the church so on after their arrival. These were all persons of good ability and were earnest Christian workers. Mrs. Morden being highly gifted in church work. These four families formed a social circle of friendship that was dissolved only by death and much of the success of the Methodist Church in this place, from that date to the present time, is due to the labours of these pioneer settlers. This circuit at that early date extended from Cobourg to the Carrying Place and the Quarterly Meetings were held in rotation in different parts of the circuit at which there was preaching both on Saturday and Sunday. Mr. Samuel Waite is said to have not missed attending a single Quarterly service either Saturday or Sunday, in twenty years, although some of them were held 15 or 20 miles away. His advice to young men at near the close of his life was to pay the preacher whether anybody else was paid or not.

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