JACOB CLINE--JANE FINNIE FAMILY
by Mary Cline Campbell (wife of Eldon)

 

Jacob Cline and his wife, Jane Finnie Cline, were among that large group of Worth Township settlers who moved here from Markham Township, York County, Ontario. They are on the Markham census of 1851 living in Concession 5, Lot 30 with two young sons, John and William, and a Finnie sister age sixteen. They are on the 1860 census of Worth with Jacob's seventy-seven year old father, John, living with them.
 
Jacob and Jane settled in Section 15 of Worth on 120 acres on Gardiner Line a little east of the Wildcat Road. There were three more children, Tena, Lillie and Sewall. By 1864 they had built a frame house at the cost of $1800. In 1878 this was destroyed by fire. A new house was built on the same site. Jane died in 1892 and is buried in Croswell. Jacob died in 1906 at the age of 95 and is buried in Harbor Beach.
 
Son John married Mary Rocelia Wixson, daughter of the Honorable Daniel and Eunice Sample Wixson.
 
Daniel Wixson was born in 1822 in Jersey Township, Steuben County, New York. His family had emigrated from England in 1634. In 1858 he and his famiily came to Lexington Township where he was a justice of the peace and a supervisor before moving to Worth Township where he was also supervisor. In the fall of 1864 he was elected a member of the State Legislature as a Republican, serving two terms. In 1872 he was again elected and served through 1874.
 
John and Mary settled on a farm on Mortimer Line in Section 3, given to them by her father. This farm, still in the family for over a hundred years, is now owned by their great granddaughter, Theodora Putz Cronin. The children of John and Mary were Daniel, Jenny, Cora, and Lena.
 
Son Daniel was born in 1871 and died in 1940. He married Eva Louise Caswell and settled on the family farm. Eva died in January, 1941. Eight children were born: Sewell Maitland, John Caswell, Nora, Theda Rocelia, Mary Alice, Elmer Daniel, Bonnie Elnora, and Murray J.
 
Sewell married Grayce Ridley of Lexington in 1930 and had no children. John married Bessie Polak in 1930 and had three children- Daniel, Earl and Antonia. Nora died at age eight years. Theda married Paul Putz in 1935 and had one daughter, Theodora. Mary married Elson Campbell in 1928 and had four children- Sally Ann, Patricia, Paul and Rosemary. Bonnie married Gordon McVey in 1933 and had two sons, Rchard and Gary. Murray married Leona Decker in Detroit and had six children- Sandra, Karen, Robert, Carl, James and Katheryn.
 
(Article taken from the book, Sanilac County History, part of the Sessquicentennial Celebration for Sanilac County, 1984.)

Early Settlers