Relationship Record 245

Male/Husband}   Detwiller, Alexander     Family History} Olson
  Female/Wife}   French, Agnes Relationship Type} Marriage
Marriage: Date} Exa 28 Feb 1900 Place} Fullarton Twp., Perth, Ontario
Ended:   On Date} Fam  7 Jan 1950
                        By} Death of wife
Source 1}   71 = Family notes
Source 2} 281 = Family notes
Source 3}1357=Family hstry
Source 4} 905 = Marriage rec
Source 5} 930 = 1901 CAN cen
Source 6} 918 = 1906 MB cen
Source 7} 919 = 1911 CAN cen
Source 8} 933 = 1916 MB cen
Source 9} 1537=1921 CAN cen
Source 10} 1360=Voter record
Source 11} 406 = Cemetery rec
1st Household No.} 369 = Hayfield, Brandon RM, Manitoba
Photographs} None
Last Updated
        by} Karen Hancock
Date Updated} 20 Jan 2014
Date Created}    5 Jun 1993
Notes:  Alexander Detwiller married Agnes French on 28 Feb 1900 in Fullarton Twp., and the couple moved to Manitoba.  Alexander was a farmer.  In the 1901 Canada census, they were living south of Brandon near Glenwood.  In the 1906 Manitoba census, their postal address was Hayfield, which is a short way from Glenwood.  E.H. Rimand, age 1, was living with them, listed as their son.  In the 1911 Canada census, Earnest H. now carries his adoptive name Detwiller.  The family's residence is described as being in Twp. 8, Range 20, West 1st Meridian, and a laborer named Arthur Bird is living with the family.  In the 1916 Manitoba census, their place of residence is on 1st Street, in Souris Town.  This is a short distance from Hayfield.  It is unclear if all of these census records pertain to the same farm or place.

Click to enlarge Family sources report that Agnes and Alexander adopted two children.  One was Earnest, noted above, who moved to British Columbia as an adult.  The second was a daughter named Doris, noted below, who married Ernest Rennick.  Both Alexander and Agnes had grown up as Presbyterians.  However, upon their marriage and move to Manitoba, they became Methodists.

In the 1921 Canada census, Alexander and Agnes, both 50, and Earnest, 16 and Doris, 4, are all found together, in Glenwood Municipality, Brandon, Manitoba.  Alexander is still farming, and Earnest is listed as "farmer's son".

The Canada Voter Lists in 1940 records Alex. Detwiller, farmer, Mrs. Alex. Detwiller, and Doris Detwiller, spinster, as living in Hayfield, Beresford, Brandon, Manitoba.  Nothing more is known about the family until the death of Agnes on 7 Jan 1950, and Alexander's on 3 Dec 1954.  The locations of their deaths are unknown.  Both are buried in the Woodland Methodist Cemetery, Mitchell, Ontario.
Children: Total # of Children} 2 Seq. # of Primary}  
  1st Child} Detwiller, Ernest Henry
  2nd Child} Detwiller, Doris Kathleen
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