VoLJ 33$ HORACE CLARK Lot 7, Concession 16 GREENOCK TOWNSHIP Lot 7, Concessionlé now owned by Horace Clark was bought from the Crown in 185h by Wm. Young. It passed through the hands of Robert Young, George Sawyer, Henry Cargill and to Harvey Clark in 1899. It has been in the Clark family ever since. Harvey Clark's father, William Clark came from Scotland in 1852, and married Sarah Griffin of U. E. Loyalist stock from Nova Scotia in 1856. They bought land near Cargill and had six sons and two daughters. Harvey Clerk married Flore MacDonald of Bruce Township and after living a few years near Cargill, bought Lot 7, Concession 16, Greenock. They had four sons and five daughters; Elsie (Mrs. Ernest Webb) of Port Elgin, Zeta (Mrs. Geo. Wylie) who died in Detroit in 1959, Margaret, (Mrs. Lloyd Pinkerton) who died in 1919, Horace of Greeuock, Donald of Detroit, William of Orangeville, Florence,(xrs. Ben Ball) of Detroit, Mary, who died at age 1A in 192a, 2nd Jack who was killed in action in l9h5- There was originally 20o acres in the farm consisting of Lot 7 of Concession 16, and lot 7 of Concession 15. There is no“ 150 acres, half of the lot of Concession 15 having been sold before 1899. There was a 105 house on the farm in which the family lived until 1920, when a brick home, 30 x 36, with bathroom Wis built in 1921. Dug wells were used until l92h when typhoid fever struck and a well was drilled. Electricity was installed in 1939 and the Bruce Telephone System in 1912 Dial phones were installed in 1969 . The present barn 58 x 68, or Flank Treas:wes built in 1956 after a tornado destroyed the one built in 1913. It too, replaced one destroyed by wind. There are 22 acres of uncleared land part of which is bush, and mixed farming has been carried out, on the remainder of the farm.