John Fletcher Dix, son of Ann CLARKE & John DIX, husband of Julia Ann Hewett BROAD

John Fletcher Dix

Birth: 08 Aug 1854, Little Britain, Mariposa Township, Victoria County, Ontario, Canada
Married: Julia Ann Hewett BROAD, 23 Sep 1884, Little Britain, Mariposa Township, Victoria County, Ontario, Canada
Death: 03 Feb 1945, Little Britain, Mariposa Township, Victoria County, Ontario, Canada

Children of Julia Ann Hewett BROAD & John Fletcher DIX

1. Crystal Vivian Wilhelmene DIX 
Born: 10 Oct 1886 Little Britain, Victoria County, Ontario, Canada
Died: 24 Sep 1976 Cambridge, Ontario, Canada,  Buried: Little Britain United Church Cemetery
Spouse: George Percy PROUSE, Marriage: 25 May 1909 

2. Florence Beetha Clarke DIX 
Born: 06 Feb 1888 Place: Little Britain, Victoria County, Ontario, Canada
Died: 05 Nov 1972 Buried: Calvary United Church Cemetery, Dashwood, Huron County, Ontario, Canada
Spouse: Arthur H. TRUEMNER, Marriage: 2 Apr 1920

3. John Stanley DIX 
Born: 06 Oct 1889 Little Britain, Victoria County, Ontario, Canada
Died: 1974 Buried: Little Britain United Church Cemetery
Spouse 1: Florence CLEMENS, Marriage: 01 Sep 1915 
Spouse 2: Candace CLARE, Marriage 03 Sep 1921

4. Ethelwyn Beatrice DIX 
Born: 28 Jun 1891 Little Britain, Victoria County, Ontario, Canada
Died: 14 Jun 1980 Buried: Little Britain United Church Cemetery
Never married

5. Julia Blanche DIX 
Born: 14 Dec 1893 Little Britain, Victoria County, Ontario, Canada
Died: 01 Mar 1974 Buried: Little Britain United Church Cemetery
Spouse: Everett MARK, Marriage: 21 May 1921 

6. Ada Hazel May DIX 
Born: 17 Oct 1895 Little Britain, Victoria County, Ontario, Canada
Died: 09 Jan 1981, Buried: Little Britain United Church Cemetery
Never married

7. William Gordon DIX 
Born: 14 Feb 1898 Little Britain, Victoria County, Ontario, Canada
Spouse: Louise FLETCHER
Died: 03 Mar 1986, Buried: Grandville Cemetery, Grandville, Kent County, Michigan, USA 

• Excerpt from: Mariposa, the Banner Township : a history of the Township of Mariposa, Victoria County, Ontario page 61: The Mariposa Telephone Union was formed at a meeting held in the Oakwood Temperance House in January, 1901…The Union named J. F. DIX as President and located the central telephone at Oakwood in the home of Mrs. Alfred Hughson…
  
• Excerpt from: Mariposa, the Banner Township : a history of the Township of Mariposa, Victoria County, Ontario page 51: Fletcher DIX, of Little Britain, tapped over 1,000 trees in 1897 and made maple syrup, using a new process he saw at the World's Fair in 1893. Almost every farmer tapped a few trees in the woodlot at the rear of the farm or along the lane and fences to make maple syrup and maple sugar which was used sparingly during the winter.
  
• Excerpt from: Mariposa, the Banner Township : a history of the Township of Mariposa, Victoria County, Ontario page 49: The Mariposa Farmer's Club held its first meeting at Oakwood in July, 1882, with John Campbell of Woodville at President and J. F. DIX of Little Britain as Secretary…A West Victoria Farmers' Institute was at Woodville in 1887. J. Fletcher DIX was Secretary, and President in 1896…

John Fletcher Dix

John Fletcher Dix (tin-type photo)

John Fletcher Dix

Julia Ann Hewett Broad & John Fletcher Dix wedding photo 1884

Julia Ann Hewett Broad & John Fletcher Dix

Julia Ann Hewett Broad & John Fletcher Dix

Julia Ann Hewett Broad & John Fletcher Dix 50th Anniversary

Julia Ann Hewett Broad & John Fletcher Dix - photo taken at Elm Grove Farm in the early 1930's. Note the old log cabin in the background long abandoned to the barnyard but once inhabited by Ann Clarke & John Dix (parents of John Fletcher Dix).

John Fletcher Dix funeral notice