* 1818-1904 *
(The following article/obituary copied from the FOREST STANDARD, Aug 18 1904)
Obituary of William CLIMIE
The death of William CLIMIE of this village on Sunday morning (Aug 7) of last week,
lessens the number of the few remaining first settlers of Plympton,
born in Scotland 86 years ago this month.
He, with his parents, emigrated to this country in early life.
Dalhousie and other townships in the county of Lanark was the goal at the time,
to which many of the Scottish emigrants looked as the field
in which their fortunes were to be made.
Thither the CLIMIE family wended their way and took up land along with the others,
but finding the soil there not adapted for farming purposes as they had expected,
they with several others moved west to Lambton
and took up 200 acres on the 2nd line of Plympton, in the year 1834.
(William's parents were Andrew CLIMIE and Janet TURNBULL)
Early as this date in the settlement of our county,
it is surprising to find the name of CLIMIE
associated on the Plympton assessment roll for 1834
with no fewer than 60 ratepayers, all recently settled in the township,
and this number is said to be 25 short of the total ratepayers in Plympton.
Many of these names will still be remembered and a good many of them
are still retained in the township through their children and grandchildren .......
Mr. CLIMIE was a man that never had much to say about himself,
and his memory failing in recent years,
it was only by hard drawing that anything of an eventful nature could be got
of the 70 years he spent in our township.
When quite a lad, he volunteered as a protector of the lives and homes of the settlers
during the McKenzie Rebellion
and was stationed with other Lambton farmers at Sarnia,
but as we know nothing eventful took place there, they all returned with their lives.
The deceased was a most obliging neighbour,
and when there was a log house, a frame house or a logging bee on hand,
Mr. CLIMIE was one of the best men to call on.
When the owner of the lot on the west side of Wyoming, Broadway wanted his first fallow chopped,
Willim CLIMIE was the only man who would take the job,
though nearly 4 miles from his home.
This was the first chopping done in what is now the village of Wyoming,
and lay where the Catholic Church now stands.
Several years ago he sold his farm and retired with his daughter, Harriet, to Wyoming,
where he was a familiar figure on the street.
His sickness was short.
On the Saturday before his death, he complained after eating dinner,
of a sharp pain in the stomach.
On calling on a physician, nothing could be done to relieve or remove the pain
and about 4 am the next day, death relieved him of his sufferings.
His only son Andrew, married to Mary McMURPHY, lives in Fort Gratiot;
Joseph CAIRNS of Camlachie is married to a daughter (either Margaret or Glorianna),
but your correspondent is not acquainted with the disposition of the rest of the family.
The funeral took place on Tuesday,
a large attendance following the corpse to the old Mandaumin cemetary,
Rev. Mr. Haines of Wyoming, officiating.
Visit: William's 1861 Agricultural Census
CLIMIE Direct Ancestor Line
Andrew Climie & Janet Turnbull - William's parents
