tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6132898085410789426.post3103748379008148645..comments2024-03-23T05:35:06.468-04:00Comments on ancestral roofs: Boyle on BrantAncestral Roofshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16755249835071665091noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6132898085410789426.post-89627023047809851732018-07-23T11:39:43.281-04:002018-07-23T11:39:43.281-04:00Hello Terry Boyle, Most interesting. Especially th...Hello Terry Boyle, Most interesting. Especially the photo of the BRANT HOUSE which I had trouble finding. I donated 3 original 1861 to 1870 journals that belonged to Rev. Eben Muir Rice. He had been a student at the Woodstock Literary Institute in 1861. On Jan.3 1862 he and Mary Ann Bailey his fiance, John Richards Bill Lockerman, Annie Rice, Miss Midwinter and young Herbert Morton, left Hamilton and drove almost past Copetown, near Col. Cope's home where they encountered rain that turned to sleet, then snow. They arrived in Brantford, hours, covered in mud. later he left his young sister Annie Rice and cousin Herbert Morton and went to the BRANT HOUSE for a delicious supper that cost 25 cents. They booked a room and feed for the horses for 75 cents. He penned "The horses acted nobily." They then went to a tea and meeting with Dr. Robert Fyfe, Mr. Davidson and other faculty from the institute. Robert Morton, Eben's Uncle Andrew Morton's father build their house where they lived with his aunt Lizzie Muir Morton. The home was later sold to Alexander Graham Bell. From the journals, I have written several novels under the title THE LONGWOODS SAGA (c). Eben died at age 31 of an enlarged heart. He was from Martinsburg, New York, orphaned at age 9. He became a minister in Bothwell for about 3 years, married a classmate named Mary Bland from Embro had three children and returned to Martinsburg N.Y.after the Civil War. Bev Campbell, Ajax, On.SHOPFRONTShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15858039006800976365noreply@blogger.com