Jacob Norman Feir (Jake)
1870-19??
Was a millwright and moved to Buffalo in the US. His son Julian Feir later moved to St Petersburgh, Florida.
James Albert Feir (Albert)
1865-1943
Worked as a flour miller in Cambray, Fenelon Falls and Peterborough, where he retired. He owned his own home along with three others that he rented out.
Isaiah Feir
1857-1930
Lived and worked in Janetville for a few years running a milling business after selling this business he moved to Peterborough where he lived and worked until 1918. After an accident prevented him from further work he then returned to Feir’s Mill and took over the operation of the business.
After the death of his wife in 1925 and the marriage of the last daughter that was living at home in 1927 he sold the mill property and moved into Omemee to live with his daughter Mrs. R.H. (Euphemia) Johnson and her husband.
In the summer of 1928 he took an extended trip through the United States where he
visited his brother (Jacob) and two married daughters. In July 1929 in Omemee he suffered
a paralytic stroke from which he never fully recovered and was later transferred to
Peterborough Hospital.
John Ferguson Feir
1855-1924
John Feir, fourth child of Alexander and Jane Feir was born in 1855. In 1883 he married Mary Burke, the daughter of Edward Burke who was born in England, and Rachel Blaylock. John and Mary had three daughters - Mabel Gertrude 1884, Emma Grace 1885 and Mary Edith 1889. Mary died soon after the birth of Mary Edith in 1889.
In 1891 John Feir married Elizabeth Shea and they had two more daughters, Alma 1892 and Gladys 1900. Gladys died at age two from accidentally taking sleeping pills.
John Feir owned a farm of 150 acres in Ops Township across the road from Feir's Mill property. Here his livelihood was derived from mixed farming. He also kept bees and produced honey.
When John's first wife died, the three girls went to live with their paternal grandparents. After John remarried, Mabel and Emma went back to the farm to live with their father and step-mother, Edith stayed at the Mill with her grandparents. She was present when family members came home to visit and watched while her grandfather redressed the mill stones when they became too smooth to grind the grain effectively. She accompanied her grandmother in the horse and buggy on various trips to Omemee and when she went to visit friends. Most of my information has come from her stories of those early years.
In 1917 John sold the farm and lived for a short time just west of Omemee. By 1920 he had bought a house in Mount Pleasant. Here, he kept a cow, raised chickens and tended a good garden. Mabel lived only a few miles away and her children often stopped by after school to visit. In the winter months they kept their horse in Grandpa's barn while attending school in Mount Pleasant. Ruth and Roy remember him as a very kind man. Like many of the Feirs, he had excellent carpentry skills
In 1924 John Feir died of a leg injury that turned to gangrene. His constitution could not withstand the shock of the amputation that ensued.
This brief account is written by John Feir Brown (Jack), son of Mary Edith.