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- One of first settlers in Point Leamington. Beverly Warford's gg grandfather.
From an article in Decks Awash, Vol 10, No. 5, October 1981:
'Another old-timer that John Stride likes to remember is Ephriam Rowsell, local fur-buyer from about 1880 to 1920. Eph Rowsell would travel to the various settlements in the Bay each February to buy furs, relay news, and get into long conversations. "One night in Charles' Brook," explains Johnny, "there was John Hutchings, Danny Decker, and Skipper George Perry all got together when Eph Rowsell arrived, and they talked about the Bible all night long. They were sitting around the wood stove smoking Home Rule tobacco. It was a Waterloo Number Three stove with a rim around it, and by four in the morning, they had the top of that stove filled right level with matches from lighting their clay pipes. After they had a couple of hours sleep, Eph packed up his furs to head across the Bay to Uncle Bobby Porter's house. Just after he left, Danny Decker remembered some point he had forgot to bring up in the discussion the night before, so he put on his snowshoes and caught up to Eph Rowsell out the tickle just to have the last word. That's the kind of fellas they were in them days!
Once when I was going on the spring drive, about 1927 or '28, I went over to Point Leamington to visit Eph Rowsell and court a girl there at the same time. We were sitting in the kitchen and the girls were singing a new Pentecostal hymn, singing right loud. I could see that Eph, who was about 80 years old, was getting angry. Suddenly he was ups with the big size 13 boot and stamps down on the floor, letting out a big roar. "I wants to be talking," he says, and puts the rum on the women. He wanted to talk to me and find out how many of the old guys had survived the winter, and how they were doing."
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Our Family Forest
1855 - 1936 (80 years)