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- Was educated at schools in Egremont Township near Mount Forest, Ontario, Canada. Mark was involved with building a church in Mount Forest. When it was completed, Mark climbed on the ball of the steeple and waved his hat. The family moved to Mulmur Township, Dufferin County, Ontario, to a fruit farm where they had ducks, geese and 2 log houses. Mark purchased land at Grafton, North Dakota, USA in 1882 and near Hoople N.D. in 1886 (from Sherman Gauley research in Land Records Office at Grafton N.D.). They had a house/store in Hoople on the Red River. Was a carpenter and hardware storekeeper in Hoople, then homesteaded at Buford, N.D. The family moved from Hoople to Buford, N.D. on June 9, 1902. They also lived in Grand Forks and Park River, N.D. Homesteaded SE Section 9 Township 4 Range 22 West 2 Meridian and NE 4-4-22 W2 and NW 3-4-22 W2 at Maniska in the Bengough area of Saskatchewan, Canada, October 15, 1912. Mark, son Ralph and daughter Olive came to Canada that fall with a hayrack loaded with furniture, machinery, and household effects which Olive drove, Ralph drove a democrat and they brought six horses and eight cows. There was only a 10 x 12 tar roofed shack with no floor in it. They build a sod barn, dug a well, put up some hay and sodded part of the shack. They had to cut holes in the ice to water the cattle. In 1913, Mark returned to North Dakota, sold the farm, six mares and a black stallion named Pharoh and brought wife Helen and daughters Jean and Gwenny to Saskatchewan in October (Alice and Norman stayed in N.D.). Jean and Gwenny rode horses and Mark and Helen rode in a wagon. Jean and Gwenny slept in a tent after they arrived at the homestead. They built a sod shack that fall. The walls were several feet thick and plastered on the inside with a natural potter's clay from the near Eagle Butte, which was white and very hard. There were two bedrooms and one (or two) other rooms. It was warm in winter and cool in summer. In 1918, lightning struck the barn and cattle shed, killing sixteen horses, a colt, a young Percheron stallion belonging to Bob Gauley, the barn, cattle shed, the loft full of hay, a fanning mill, and tools burned. He operated his very large ranch until 1932 when he retired to Regina, Saskatchewan. Mark accompanied his brother Roland, from Pelly, Saskatchewan to Toronto, Ontario to visit his sister, Mrs. James Higgins whom he had not seen in forty five years. Three days after arriving he took ill with pneumonia and passed away within a week at his sisters home, 82 Durie Street. His tombstone stated he died at age 81 years, 33 days. That would make his birth date May 23, 1853. Buried with his parents in St. Andrews Section, Plot H-13, Shelburne Cemetery. Sherman Isah Gauley had birth date as May 24, 1852.
Mark Alfred Hewitt
M. Alfred Hewitt, eldest son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hewitt, of Mulmur Township, passed away after a short illness at the home of his sister, Mrs. James Higgins, 82 Durie street, Toronto on Tuesday, June 26th. Interment took place in Shelburne Cemetery, Thursday, June 28. The late Mr. Hewitt came from Regina, accompanied by his brother, Roland Hewitt, of Pelly, Sask. to pay his sister, whom he had not seen in forty-five years, a visit. Three days after his arrival he took ill with pneumonia and passed away within a week. He came here expecting to be able to visit in the old neighbourhoods which had been so familiar to him in his early life. He was born on May 24th, 1853, in Egremont Township, near Mount Forest, the town which was named by his grandfather R. Cholner, an early settler there. He received his education in the schools there, then he moved to the Mulmur Township, Dufferin County, thence to Hoople, North Dakota, where he married Helen Thomson, formerly of Harriston, Ont. He conducted a hardware business there for some years, giving this up later to go to Burford, N. Dakota, June 9, 1902 to live on a homestead. He moved to Bengough, Sask. October 15, 1912, where he bought a very large ranch which he worked until two years ago, when he retired to live in Regina. He led a very active life, having possession of all his facilities until the time of his death in his eighty-second year. His wife predeceased him five years ago.
There remain to mourn his lose four daughters, Mrs. Chas. Akers (Berford, North Dakota), Mrs. J. Shaver (Bengough, Sask.), Mrs. Robert Gauley (Roan Mine, Sask.), Mrs. Chas Bryan (795 Nassau St., Winnipeg, Man.); one son, Norman L. Hewitt (Chicago, Ill.); three brothers, Richard Hewitt (Ardath, Sask.), Roland and Llewellyn (Pelly, Sask.), and one sister, Mrs. Jas. Higgins, Toronto.
1900 Census, North Dakota, Walsh, Glenwood Township, Hoople Village list Mark Alfred's birth year as 1852. He became a US Citizen in 1880, was a hardware merchant, owned his house with a mortgage.
According to www.glorecords.gov (then search land patents)
Mark A. Hewitt received Land Patent on 1 November 1886, North Dakota, County Walsh, from Montana State Office, Document #10886 Accession/Serial #NDMTAA101718 for 160 acres of NE Section 11, Township 155N, Range 55W, West 5th Principal Meridian.
Mark A. Hewitt received Land Patents on 21 May 1908, North Dakota, County Mckenzie, from Montana State Office, Document #228 Accession/Serial #NDMTAA080793 for 160 acres of W1/2 NE Section 12 and E1/2 NW Section 12, Township 152N, Range 104W, West 5th Principal Meridian.
Saskatchewan Homestead Records, Archives of Saskatchewan Microfilm R8.1481 Patent Application 2691959:
Mark Alfred Hewitt, 63, farmer, Bengough, Sask., British Subject. Application for Patent for SE 9-4-22 W2.
Obtained entry to homestead 22 May 1912. Built house 1 November 1912. Lived there 1 November 1912 - 14 December 1915 with his wife and 5 children. In 1913 broke 20 acres and had 20 acres in crop. In 1914 broke additional 15 acres and had 35 acres in crop. In 1915 broke additional 15 acres and had 50 acres in crop. In 1915 had a frame house 14'X30', $200, a frame stable 26'X52', $300, a well $50, fenced 80 acres $75. Application signed and sworn 14 December 1915 in Radville, Sask., Land Agent recommendation 12 January 1916 in Weyburn, Sask., Accepted in Ottawa 29 January 1916. Sworn statements by John R. Gilmore, NE 9-4-22 W2 of Pangman, Sask. and Fred Spooner NW 12-4-23 W2 of Maniska on 14 December 1915 that Mark Alfred Hewitt had lived on and improved the property as stated.
The application for entry to SE 9-4-22 W2 stated Mark Alfred Hewitt was a citizen of USA. Male adults aged 60 and 18, female adults aged 54, 25, 20, 15 &12. He was born in Canada in Mount Forest, Ontario and last residence was Buford, N.D.
Saskatchewan Homestead Records, Archives of Saskatchewan Microfilm R8.1479 Patent Application 2737020: Mark Alfred Hewitt as Personal Representative of the late Ralph Emerson Hewitt.
Surrogate Court. Ralph Emerson Hewitt, late of Big Muddy, Sask. who died 15 April 1915 at Big Muddy of 9-4-22 W2, sworn administrator Mark Alfred Hewitt, 14 July 1915 in Estevan, Sask.
Mark Alfred Hewitt, 63, farmer, Bengough, Sask. Application for Patent for NE 4-4-22 W2.
Ralph Emerson Hewitt, single, had a 12'X16' sod house. Application signed and sworn 14 December 1915 in Radville, Sask., Land Agent recommendation 12 January 1916 in Weyburn, Sask., Accepted in Ottawa 4 February 1916. Sworn statements by John R. Gilmore, NE 9-4-22 W2 of Pangman, Sask. and Fred Spooner NW 12-4-23 W2 of Maniska on 14 December 1915 that Ralph Emerson Hewitt had lived on and improved the property as stated.
The application for entry to NE 4-4-22 W2 dated 5 August 1912 stated Ralph Emerson Hewitt aged 18, born N. Dakota, last residence, Bengough, Sask.
Application for a minor, signed by Mark A. Hewitt, 15 July 1912 swearing Ralph Emerson Hewitt would reach full age of 18 on 27 July 1912.
Saskatchewan Homestead Records, Archives of Saskatchewan Microfilm R8.1502 Patent Application 2755926: Mark Alfred Hewitt as Personal Representative of the late Ralph Emerson Hewitt.
Mark A. Hewitt, 68, farmer, Bengough, Sask. Application for Patent for NW 3-4-22 W2 Pre-Emption.
Obtained entry to homestead 5 August 1912. Built house 5 August 1912. Took up residence November 1915. Lived 1 November 1912 - 14 October 1920 with his wife and 5 children on homestead SE 9-4-22 W2. Did no breaking on the property. In 1915 had 15 horses and 15 cattle. In 1916 had 18 & 20. In 1917 had 30 & 35. in 1918 had 30 & 40. In 1919 had 32 & 35. In 1920 had 32 & 38. Had a 14"X 32" sod house. 160 acres value $250 Pre-Emption, no minerals, grazing land. Application signed and sworn 14 October 1920 in Bengough, Sask., Land Agent recommendation 28 May 1921 in Moose Jaw, Sask., Accepted in Ottawa 1 December 1921. Sworn statements by Micheal Tracy SE 7-4-22 W2 of Maniska, Sask. and Thomas Robinson NW 1-4-22 W2 of Maniska on 14 October 1920 that Mark Alfred Hewitt improved the property as stated.
Original application for entry to NW 3-4-22 W2 by Ralph Emerson Hewitt on 5 August 1912.
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1853 - 1935 (82 years)
