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- The December 30, 1897 Flesherton Advance newspaper reported that he had just return home from working in nearby Bolton, ON. From web site of Curtis Boyle, Jan 2011.
- Markdale paper of 12 Jul 1906, p8, "Mrs Isaac Holley & dau Edna left for the west last Tue."
- no mention of Isaac in his dads obit of 1917
- He returned to Vandeleur for a visit in July of 1919.
Isaac never seemed to stay in one place for long. After his 2nd wife left him, he took his youngest daughter and moved to Heffley Creek, BC in 1924, leaving his oldest daughter by herself in Lintlaw. His brother George lived at the next small town over (Vinsulla). They moved back to Saskatchewan in 1926. He was a United (Protestant) church member.
Strangley, Isaac is not mentioned in his dad?s obituary of 1917. The Markdale paper for July 12, 1906, on page 8 mentions ?Mrs. Isaac Holley and daughter Edna left for the west last Tuesday? (July 3rd or 10th, depending on when the article was written).
In the 1906 Saskatchewan census, he is listed as 29 years old (which would be off by half a year), and the census was done literally within weeks of their leaving Ontario (July 27,1906). Also, the census lists Charley (his brother Charles) as a brother living with them, age 21 or 27 (27 would be correct), and he is single at the time. At the time, they were living with George Sewell and his family (A.E. Surwell, Charles Surwell and Wilbert R. Surwell...ages 84,24,22 and 20 respectively). Other Sewells lived on the next household over as well, and they were originally from Grey County,ON, the same county as the Holley?s, and probably knew each other.After Louisa died, Isaac met with her sister Carrie (also recently widowed) and married her in Winnipeg, to help raise the kids. They split up in 1924, with her moving back to Detroit.From Violetta?s recollection in 1988: Around 1912, they moved to Invermay, where Isaac ran a livery barn for about a year. After he married Carrie in 1912, they moved to White Sand River Bank (Silver Lake) around 1914. Schools mentioned were Nebern and Dunrobin (sp?) school 4-5 miles from Tuffnell. This is just off of highway 16, southwest of Lintlaw,SK. After Carrie left in 1924, Isaac and Etta moved to Heffley Creek, BC (near Isaac?s brother George), while Edna stayed behind in Saskatchewan (I believe with the Boyles). From the Lintlaw History book (from the George Sewell section:)
?My Dad [Charlie Sewell] freighted for the surveyors in the early days. He brought supplies for them from Wadena, Margo, Sheho. He used to tell us of some of his trips. Once he said he and a neighbor named Holley, who had homesteaded with them, went for load each. They had two teams of oxen. They got one team stuck in a slough and Ike Holley had to walk out on the wagon tongue and hold the oxens nose out of the water until Dad got the other team hooked on and pulled them out.
One night my Dad was called to drive to Wadena fifty miles away to get a doctor with horses for Ike Holly?s wife who was going to give birth to a baby. They got back in time to save the baby girl but too late for Mrs. Holley. The girl, I believe still lives in Saskatchewan someplace.? This is referring to Louisa and Violetta.
In 1926, Isaac and Etta moved back to Lintlaw and stayed with Thomas Boyle and his new wife, Isaac?s eldest daughter, Edna.
Ike went to visit Flesherton in early June, 1948, according to the Flesherton newspaper.
From his nephew?s (Elmer Howard) family history:
Isaac was a good matured harem-scarem sort of fellow. He married and went west when I was a boy of 10 or 11, so I knew little of him personally. He had three wives (all legitimate), and was the father of two girls. He died a year or so ago in 1958 I think, aged around 86. He made his home for many years in and around Lintlaw, Saskatchewan. From the web site of Curtis Boyle, Jan., 2011.
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1877 - 1959 (82 years)
