Springwater - On the 5th day of March, 1818, in the town of Denmark, county of Lewis, this State, Charles P. Wemett was born. He was of French descent, his ancestors having been among the earliest settlers of Upper Canada, from whence his father, Andrew Wemett, came to the “Black River Country”.
When Charles was five years old they came to the present town of Canadice and settled on Bald Hill, where he resided until he went to Springwater a few years since.
In January, 1843, he married Mahala Perry, who died in 1859. A few years after, he married the wife that survives him, and of the ten children by both wives four are living - Mahala, the wife of Guy Baldwin; Mary, the wife of F. H. Stuart; Herman and Henry.
He was an honest, industrious man; a hard worker in his able days, but badly crippled by rheumatism for a number of his last years.
It can be said emphatically that he was one of the best of neighbors, and indulgent husband and father, kind and generous to the needy, and ready and willing to assist any one that called for help. It seems he was born to be otherwise than wealthy, for, besides the sickness and deaths in his own family, he also paid all the expense incident to the lingering and deaths of five of his first wife’s relatives, and a single murmur, so far as we know, never escaped his lips. Gentle reader, can you do likewise?
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