535-03 Page 121Place Cornerstone For Tillsonburg Church
Presiding as the cornerstone was
Paul's United Church, Tillsonburg,
right, Roger Geerts Harry Pratt,
Mrs. Lnngroll said rdisonbui
was founded in 1825 by Gros
Filson, but was then called Palo
ham bodge. In 1836 the land, v'as /.
survey.., surd the name I ilsoq Vrg
chosen. It wasn't until 10 p_Zlhat
'Tillsonburg was spelled w,th two
i's. In 1831there were. shout 12,
settlers' families, mostly on the
Ingersoll road and one at Delmer.
"We owe our wide streets to
those who owned file land at that
time who persisted with their
Ideas in spite of Surveyor Bill] de-
claring that it was a sinful waste
OF good land," said the speaker.
The streets are named after hon-
orable and illustrious gentlemen,
Brock, Rolfe, Bidwell, Elgin. Rid.
!out and Baldwin. The first home
on the hill was built by W. B. Wil-
cox in the spot where the Ustran-
:der funeral home stands today.l
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The Second house wets located
where the Imperial Oil Station
stands, which land was bought by
Phillip Fall for the stir of $to. In
1871 there were .Ili tavorns bV
tween Port Burwolltand Ingersoll.
In 1872 Tillsonburg was incorpm'-
aled and today has a population or
4,727.
Mall was delivered on horse-
back in those days and later by
l stage -coach from Port Burwell to
Ingersoll. The first post office was I
erected here in 1841called the
Dereham post office. and Ben-
jamin Van Norman was postmas-
ter. He was also the first warden
Of Oxford and a great-grandfath-
er of the late W. McGuire.
Medical care cost each familyj.
$5 a year in the old days, but it
wasn't until 1926 the Momorial
hospital was built.
Tillsonburg has sufforcd groat
loss from fires. In 1902 a block
each side or Broadway was burn--
,d. In 1901 the Dalrymple block; l
r Ir the Queen's Hotel where
it Bank is today and when
es were lost; in 1912, the
sf. ch arch, and in 1936
on Unt: Mill. Fkwd los.:
gat in April, 1937,aa;hcn
is were taken outphe the .1
hers of the Otter u life
rd to, form Lake i ar,
placed at St. Miss Poulino Hogarth, R. C. Crandall, W. H. Gib -
were, left to son, Miss W. Maddock, P. H. Keays, the Rev W. E.
Dick Norman, Aldworth and E. R. Pearce (Photo by Seldon)
Sca'rord Home Recalls Time
SOord Man, 82, Ncalls J'
kmee Semple McPhers n
SAI,FORD, Dre. 27 — It is a big b4r. Piper's acquaintance with
)milling whirr clapboard farm-. the
arse, typical of hundreds through-
Kcnrredy Family stretched back
t the countryside, but its hough•
to evs.
a kePore they were married.
Perch, atop a hill overlookin 'And
g'
while they lived across the 9
road from
e little crossroads villageof Ss]-
the Piper home he /
rd, is somehow in keeping with
keepi
spoilt as much time at their place '
e girl who once lived there and
as I did at my own.,,
:er became one offter
Al.
A1.-rica's most
Aimee Kennedy married
lobert Semple, itinerant
moos women.
an Pente-..
In that house once- lived a girl
costal preacher, and meved to
med Aimee ElizabetY: Kennedy,
Chicago, Mr. Piper still keptin
io later, as Aimee Semple Me. /
touch with her for she ret7ned / t
erson, won fame'and fortune as
often to visit her parents,
a of the greatest evangelists of
Then the Scruples went to China
time,
as missionaries, whew Robert
.'he story of Aimee's rise from
Semple died, and the Kennedy
roor farm girl to the leadership
family moved to Now York.
thousands throughout North "Sawdust Trail"
wrica is very familiar to 82- Even after she had embarked on j
.r-old Herb Piper, the oldest i what was then termed the "saw- Y
[dent of Salford, who sat down-//%//% dust revival trar}I and built the
!re in her home while dhe was huge Angelus 'Temple in Los
h upstairs. Angeles, Aimee Semple McPherson
Wed at 17 still r,� rued occasionally to visit
:e knew her as a neighbor's girl - hor e4', home,
n the time Of.her birth until she I n c October, Mr. Piper traveled
married at. 17 and moved alahfornia with friends and
.y, but Mr. Piper will take no I, ' ited the grave of the fpmou
in the controversy over her angelist, Soho died In 19iifat 4/
that still rages on even after I age of 54. -
death. _L
' it Isn't a good thingtosay any-1 r
ing about your neighbors whether
ey arc good, bad or indifferent,"
r. Piper said, summing up ,Wit 1 1 I
...thudc towards tquestion. he ' f .
The only observation that he
would make was: "She was just '
like a lot of other girls — a bit of
a tomboy — but a Fine looking
-, woman."
of Aimee Semple McPherson
1,4-
t. r
tiara kitchen of his little brown stucco cottac_„od-
Solford, the famous evangelist, Aimee Semple Piper, no,# cegido..nt of So,for, li„ lived for ng a magazine account of the life of the
McPherson, lived for severol, `tears as a young years In t e house across tl' road from great evangelist,
girl. Probably the only living man who re- Aimee's home. He is shown here in the