Suggested edit:
On 26 Sept 1867 he married Lydia Pethick, daughter of Phillip Pethick and Eliza Mollon.who are buried in Zion Cemetery in Hope Twp.
Offered by Ruth Waite
Suggested edit: Joshua Best (Abraham1) was born February 15, 1845, in St. Austell, Cornwall, England. Joshua also travelled to Upper Canada with his parents in 1848, as a young boy. The Durham County Marriage Register lists Joshua, age 22, marrying Lidia /Lydia Jane Pethwick, age 18, September 26, 1867. Lydia was born May 5, 1849, in Upper Canada. The 1871 Ontario Census has Joshua, Lydia and new son Richard, farming in East Wawanosh Township. His father, Abraham may have moved with him to settle in East Wawanosh Township. Joshua’s daughter Eliza was baptized in late 1872 in East Wawanosh. Joshua and family moved to Cass County, Michigan in 1979, according to one account. Joshua most likely had been working in Michigan since 1875. The family is listed in the 1880 Census of Michigan, for Silver Creek Township. Thirty-five year-old Joshua is listed as working in a sawmill and 31 year-old Lydia was keeping house. Richard Charles was 10 and attending school. Eliza A. was 8 and born in Canada. Six year-old Joshua jr. was also listed as being born in Canada. There was also a Dora Lewis, age 20, living with them as a domestic servant.
Lydia died May 28, 1889. As baby Philip died only 2 weeks later, on June 14th, perhaps there was a connection between the two terrible events. This would have certainly been a bad time for Joshua and the teenage children. Lydia would have been buried in Michigan, as the next year, in 1890, the family moved to Missouri. Nothing much is known of the family during the 1890’s, but by 1900, Joshua was living in Richland Township, Scott County, Missouri. Joshua was enumerated as a widower, in the 1900 Census. He was living with his daughter Anne and her husband, Samuel Gossett. Joshua died February 6, 1910. notes. kwb
Contributor: Ken & Sharon Beecroft (49756938)
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I did not find a tombstone after walking the cemetery many times. I added the information from the death certificate.
On 26 Sept 1867 he married Lydia Pethick, daughter of Phillip Pethick and Eliza Mollon.who are buried in Zion Cemetery in Hope Twp.
Offered by Ruth Waite
Suggested edit: Joshua Best (Abraham1) was born February 15, 1845, in St. Austell, Cornwall, England. Joshua also travelled to Upper Canada with his parents in 1848, as a young boy. The Durham County Marriage Register lists Joshua, age 22, marrying Lidia /Lydia Jane Pethwick, age 18, September 26, 1867. Lydia was born May 5, 1849, in Upper Canada. The 1871 Ontario Census has Joshua, Lydia and new son Richard, farming in East Wawanosh Township. His father, Abraham may have moved with him to settle in East Wawanosh Township. Joshua’s daughter Eliza was baptized in late 1872 in East Wawanosh. Joshua and family moved to Cass County, Michigan in 1979, according to one account. Joshua most likely had been working in Michigan since 1875. The family is listed in the 1880 Census of Michigan, for Silver Creek Township. Thirty-five year-old Joshua is listed as working in a sawmill and 31 year-old Lydia was keeping house. Richard Charles was 10 and attending school. Eliza A. was 8 and born in Canada. Six year-old Joshua jr. was also listed as being born in Canada. There was also a Dora Lewis, age 20, living with them as a domestic servant.
Lydia died May 28, 1889. As baby Philip died only 2 weeks later, on June 14th, perhaps there was a connection between the two terrible events. This would have certainly been a bad time for Joshua and the teenage children. Lydia would have been buried in Michigan, as the next year, in 1890, the family moved to Missouri. Nothing much is known of the family during the 1890’s, but by 1900, Joshua was living in Richland Township, Scott County, Missouri. Joshua was enumerated as a widower, in the 1900 Census. He was living with his daughter Anne and her husband, Samuel Gossett. Joshua died February 6, 1910. notes. kwb
Contributor: Ken & Sharon Beecroft (49756938)
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I did not find a tombstone after walking the cemetery many times. I added the information from the death certificate.
Suggested edit:
On 26 Sept 1867 he married Lydia Pethick, daughter of Phillip Pethick and Eliza Mollon.who are buried in Zion Cemetery in Hope Twp.
Offered by Ruth Waite
Suggested edit: Joshua Best (Abraham1) was born February 15, 1845, in St. Austell, Cornwall, England. Joshua also travelled to Upper Canada with his parents in 1848, as a young boy. The Durham County Marriage Register lists Joshua, age 22, marrying Lidia /Lydia Jane Pethwick, age 18, September 26, 1867. Lydia was born May 5, 1849, in Upper Canada. The 1871 Ontario Census has Joshua, Lydia and new son Richard, farming in East Wawanosh Township. His father, Abraham may have moved with him to settle in East Wawanosh Township. Joshua’s daughter Eliza was baptized in late 1872 in East Wawanosh. Joshua and family moved to Cass County, Michigan in 1979, according to one account. Joshua most likely had been working in Michigan since 1875. The family is listed in the 1880 Census of Michigan, for Silver Creek Township. Thirty-five year-old Joshua is listed as working in a sawmill and 31 year-old Lydia was keeping house. Richard Charles was 10 and attending school. Eliza A. was 8 and born in Canada. Six year-old Joshua jr. was also listed as being born in Canada. There was also a Dora Lewis, age 20, living with them as a domestic servant.
Lydia died May 28, 1889. As baby Philip died only 2 weeks later, on June 14th, perhaps there was a connection between the two terrible events. This would have certainly been a bad time for Joshua and the teenage children. Lydia would have been buried in Michigan, as the next year, in 1890, the family moved to Missouri. Nothing much is known of the family during the 1890’s, but by 1900, Joshua was living in Richland Township, Scott County, Missouri. Joshua was enumerated as a widower, in the 1900 Census. He was living with his daughter Anne and her husband, Samuel Gossett. Joshua died February 6, 1910. notes. kwb
Contributor: Ken & Sharon Beecroft (49756938)
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I did not find a tombstone after walking the cemetery many times. I added the information from the death certificate.
On 26 Sept 1867 he married Lydia Pethick, daughter of Phillip Pethick and Eliza Mollon.who are buried in Zion Cemetery in Hope Twp.
Offered by Ruth Waite
Suggested edit: Joshua Best (Abraham1) was born February 15, 1845, in St. Austell, Cornwall, England. Joshua also travelled to Upper Canada with his parents in 1848, as a young boy. The Durham County Marriage Register lists Joshua, age 22, marrying Lidia /Lydia Jane Pethwick, age 18, September 26, 1867. Lydia was born May 5, 1849, in Upper Canada. The 1871 Ontario Census has Joshua, Lydia and new son Richard, farming in East Wawanosh Township. His father, Abraham may have moved with him to settle in East Wawanosh Township. Joshua’s daughter Eliza was baptized in late 1872 in East Wawanosh. Joshua and family moved to Cass County, Michigan in 1979, according to one account. Joshua most likely had been working in Michigan since 1875. The family is listed in the 1880 Census of Michigan, for Silver Creek Township. Thirty-five year-old Joshua is listed as working in a sawmill and 31 year-old Lydia was keeping house. Richard Charles was 10 and attending school. Eliza A. was 8 and born in Canada. Six year-old Joshua jr. was also listed as being born in Canada. There was also a Dora Lewis, age 20, living with them as a domestic servant.
Lydia died May 28, 1889. As baby Philip died only 2 weeks later, on June 14th, perhaps there was a connection between the two terrible events. This would have certainly been a bad time for Joshua and the teenage children. Lydia would have been buried in Michigan, as the next year, in 1890, the family moved to Missouri. Nothing much is known of the family during the 1890’s, but by 1900, Joshua was living in Richland Township, Scott County, Missouri. Joshua was enumerated as a widower, in the 1900 Census. He was living with his daughter Anne and her husband, Samuel Gossett. Joshua died February 6, 1910. notes. kwb
Contributor: Ken & Sharon Beecroft (49756938)
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I did not find a tombstone after walking the cemetery many times. I added the information from the death certificate.
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