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Jesse Raymond Sider

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Birth	:	7 Jan 1909 Welland, Niagara Regional Municipality, Ontario, Canada
Death	:	15 Jul 1999 Welland, Niagara Regional Municipality, Ontario, Canada
Burial	:	Bertie Brethren in Christ Cemetery, Fort Erie, Niagara Regional Municipality, Canada
Coordinate	:	42.9413400, -79.1003600
Description	:	Interviewed by Shelley RIcher for Fort Erie Public Library, August 12, 1985 --------------------------- This is Shelley Richer interviewing Mr. Jesse Sider in his home at 3626 Bowen Road on August 12, 1985. S.R: Hello Mr. Sider and how are you? Oh, I'm fine. J.S: What is your date of birth? January the 7th, 1909. S.R.: Where were you born? J.S.: I was born in Bertie Township, east of Stevensville. And what would the street be? It would be on Acadia now, where my brothers still live, on the Sider farm. S.R: Have you lived in the area all... Read More	Interviewed by Shelley RIcher for Fort Erie Public Library, August 12, 1985 --------------------------- This is Shelley Richer interviewing Mr. Jesse Sider in his home at 3626 Bowen Road on August 12, 1985. S.R: Hello Mr. Sider and how are you? Oh, I'm fine. J.S: What is your date of birth? January the 7th, 1909. S.R.: Where were you born? J.S.: I was born in Bertie Township, east of Stevensville. And what would the street be? It would be on Acadia now, where my brothers still live, on the Sider farm. S.R: Have you lived in the area all your life then? J.S: Yes. As I have told you previously, I was fifteen months old when I went to live with my grandmother who was on a farm west of Stevensville. That farm was bought in 1834, and was in the family, the same family until I sold it in 1972. So it was in the family for all those years and it was bought for a hundred and twenty-five pounds. Apparently we had... we didn't have dollars in those days. S.R: Would you know how much a hundred and twenty-five pounds was? J.S.: Well, we used to say when I was a boy, about five dollars a pound, but it isn't that much now. But I think that's what we used to figure, five dollars a pound. S.R: Would you know who your family bought it from? J.S: From a Haun. His name was Haun. Someone had got it from the Crown and had cleared eleven acres and that gave him the right to have the title to it. You could get land from the Crown and you had to improve it, every year clear so much, for two or three years and then you could get a deed for it. As soon as he got his deed, then he wanted to sell it. He sold it to my great, great grandfather, who bought it for my great grandfather. There were no buildings on it and just eleven acres cleared. The rest was all bush. S.R: How large was it? J.S: The original one was a hundred acres. About two years later they bought another ten acres, and a few years later another twenty-five. So that made it up to about a hundred and thirty-five acres. And ( 1) then some years later another ten acres was bought. That was my uncle that bought that. S.R: What kind of farming was done on it? J.S: Oh, we had mixed farming, wheat and hay and cattle. We had some cows, made butter, and had a route in Fort Erie and sold... we had about three hundred hens usually, and sold eggs, and sold butter. We had som.e sheep, and we'd slaughter the lambs in the fall and sell them on the route in Fort Erie, and we had some pigs. We had a little bit of everything. S.R: What about the sheep, did you make your own wool? J.S: They used to. Later on, one time I had three hundred sheep myself, and we sold the wool. As far back as I can remember most of the wool was sold, but there would be some saved for... to take away and get carded and what not, to use either for ourselves or the neighbours. But, by in large ... we used to wash the sheep before we clipped them. We used to take them into a pond and... it was quite an ordeal. We would go in the pond and the sheep were forced into the water, and then they worked the wool with their hands and washed it and got it clean. Then it would take about a week for the wool to dry, right on the sheeps back, before you clipped them. Then you got rid of a lot of the dirt and chaff and stuff from the wool. When we started selling it to... we usually sold it to the Wool Growers. We never washed it or anything, just throw it in. They bought it as raw wool, just the way it was clipped off the sheep. S.R: Was it a family project or, for things like that, and when it came plowing time, or harvesting time, did you have to hire peop_le in? J.S: Well, my uncle wasn't a very strong man. He only weighed about 1 10, 125-30 pounds and he would... until I was old enough; he would sometimes have a Bernardo Boy and sometimes he would hire neighbour, young fellows who were... when they were eighteen, to come and plow for him or something, with the horses, until I was old enough to do it myself. Then, we didn't keep•••sometimes we had a hired man anyway, but not as a rule. I usually done the plowing with the horses... S.R: What kind of equipment was there? J.S: Oh, a binder, and the hay we cut with a mower, raked it and had (2) a hay loader. We'd throw it into the barn•..loose, took it off the wagon with a hay fork, then put it in the mow, off the ground. The wheat, we would usually haul it in in machines and put it in the mow, and we'd get a threshing machine in and thresh it out in the barn. We had a big shed in the back of the barn and you could throw it inside. With the oats we would do the same. S.R: What do you mean by threshing? J.S: Well, we got an old steam engine and one of these big threshing machines. We'd set that up in the barn running on a pully•.. S.R: I don't know what threshing is. J.S: You don't know what threshing is. Oh, separating the wheat from the, the grain from the straw. The grain came out of the spout. You pitched it in at the front of the machine and then the straw would come out the back and the grain come out an elevator at the side... S.R: J.S:

frequently asked questions (FAQ):

Where is Jesse Raymond Sider's memorial?
Jesse Raymond Sider's memorial is located at: Bertie Brethren in Christ Cemetery, Fort Erie, Niagara Regional Municipality, Canada.
When did Jesse Raymond Sider death?
Jesse Raymond Sider death on 15 Jul 1999 in Welland, Niagara Regional Municipality, Ontario, Canada
Where are the coordinates of the Jesse Raymond Sider's memorial?
Latitude: 42.9413400
Longitude: -79.1003600

Family Members:

Parent

Andrew D. Sider

(1875 - 1964)

Lydia Gingrich Sider

(1877 - 1953)

Spouse

Abigail “Abbie” Nigh Sider

(1921 - 2015)

Lydia Mabel Winger Sider

(1910 - 1971)

Children

Anna Mae Sider Fretz

(1933 - 1993)

Flowers:

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Coordinate: 42.9413400, -79.1003600

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