From the book “How Dear to My Heart” by Walter Kilborn Billings It was nearly the last week of haying. Father and a neighbour, Chris Bateson, had done this work together on both farms, and I drove the rake. This day we were on our neighbour’s farm, and I was following the wagon, cleaning […]
My Cousin
From the book “How Dear to My Heart” by Walter Kilborn Billings My cousin Eck Kilborn, a boy of about my own age, and doubly related to me, (his mother was a first cousin of my father and his father a brother of my mother), was an only child and so for companionship was always […]
The Bear Story
As told by Marble Billings many years ago, about 1879 Shortly after I was married and moved to my farm east of Lyn, I was called to the door one morning in November by a neighbour, William Judson, who said that he had left his horses out in the back pasture the day before, and […]
Random Memories of Lyn
Random Memories of Lyn By Jessie Kilpatrick My first drive in Eastern Ontario was on a June afternoon. My Mother, my two brothers, Herbert and Roy, and myself had arrived at Brockville only that morning and had been met by my father who had several months before accepted a position of district manager of the […]
The Tramp’s Funeral
The Tramp’s Funeral Long ago, the death of an unidentified tramp led to a merry wake by the farmers of the region west of Lyn. In the early 1800’s, two farmers found the body of a transient in a field north of Jones Creek. While they were discussing their find and wondering whether or not […]
Growing up in Lyn
Remembrances of Growing up in Lyn By Mamie (Stillwell) Robinson I have been reliving those old days and getting a great deal of pleasure in doing so. We didn’t know it then, but those were very happy days, with loads of fun and very little responsibility. Our main worry was to make the grade and […]
Christmas – 1886
Christmas 1886 By Walter K. Billings It was Christmas morning about the year 1886. We had been up early to get down to the kitchen where the eight stockings had been hung the night before. Now we were all in one big bedroom looking at the candy elephants, pigs, sheep and rabbits that were already […]
Row’s Corners – A Hamlet in Elizabethtown
Row’s Corners While the United Empire Loyalists of 1784 opened up the St.Lawrence River areas of Elizabethtown and Augusta late in the 18th Century, it was not until the early 1800’s the tide of immigration reached the ‘back40’s’ of these townships. One of these early homesteaders was farmer Peter McEachron who proved up on a […]
Gosford – A Forgotten Hamlet in Elizabethtown
Gosford This old community, lying in both Elizabethtown and Augusta Townships is reached by the Gosford Road which leads off the Brockville-North Augusta road eight miles northeast of Brockville. The early history of this old Elizabethtown township community has been lost in the mists of time, but it is known that settlers were living here […]
Edna’s Scrapbook – News Stories of Elizabethtown
“Edna’s Scrapbook” is a paperback book written by Edna B. Chant and was published in 1998. Edna Chant was a reported with the “Athens Reporter” for 23 years and she is the author of four books. Her book, which is made up of news clippings from various sources, from which we have taken excerpts, gives […]
Edna’s Scrapbook – News Stories of Lyn
“Edna’s Scrapbook” is a paperback book written by Edna B. Chant and was published in 1998. Edna Chant was a reported with the “Athens Reporter” for 23 years and she is the author of four books. Her book, which is made up of news clippings from various sources, from which we have taken excerpts, gives […]
Genealogy
We have spent time going through our various scrapbooks, books of obituaries and special events of the people who lived in and around Lyn. From this we have managed to compile lists of names of the various people in these books and placed them in one central location in our upstairs Mary Hudson Room. The […]