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Thomas Lucas

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Thomas Lucas

Birth
Ontario, Canada
Death
12 Mar 1920 (aged 90)
Ontario, Canada
Burial
Wyoming, Lambton County, Ontario, Canada Add to Map
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WATFORD GUIDE ADVOCATE 26 MARCH 1920
THOMAS LUCAS

On Friday 18th March there passed away after two weeks of intense suffering one of
the oldest of the pioneers of Plympton. To these men of the early days, we owe much
They manifested indomitable courage and displayed untiring energy in cleaning the
forests and laying the foundations of this country. Mr. Lucas was born in the township
of Beckwith, Lanark County near Ottawa in the month of Decmber 1825. When, as a
young man he came with his parents to the township of Brooke, and from there moved
to Plympton in 1851 where he hewed out for himself a home in the primeval forest. After
spending six months in Plympton, he took his bride, Miss Mary Luck, of Wanstead to
Port Huron, where they were married by a Methodist Minister. The trip to Sarnia being
made in a lumber wagon drawn by oxen. His wife predeceased him on the 13th August
1908. The family was an old fashioned one consisting of ten children: John of London
road, Andrew, Matilda ( Mrs. John Bryson ) of Reece's Corner, Thomas 2nd line
Plympton, George and William, London Road, James ( Deceased ), Robert on the old
homestead ( with whom his father resided ), Mary Ellen ( Mrs. Richard Bryson ) and
Samuel of London Road.
WATFORD GUIDE ADVOCATE 26 MARCH 1920
THOMAS LUCAS

On Friday 18th March there passed away after two weeks of intense suffering one of
the oldest of the pioneers of Plympton. To these men of the early days, we owe much
They manifested indomitable courage and displayed untiring energy in cleaning the
forests and laying the foundations of this country. Mr. Lucas was born in the township
of Beckwith, Lanark County near Ottawa in the month of Decmber 1825. When, as a
young man he came with his parents to the township of Brooke, and from there moved
to Plympton in 1851 where he hewed out for himself a home in the primeval forest. After
spending six months in Plympton, he took his bride, Miss Mary Luck, of Wanstead to
Port Huron, where they were married by a Methodist Minister. The trip to Sarnia being
made in a lumber wagon drawn by oxen. His wife predeceased him on the 13th August
1908. The family was an old fashioned one consisting of ten children: John of London
road, Andrew, Matilda ( Mrs. John Bryson ) of Reece's Corner, Thomas 2nd line
Plympton, George and William, London Road, James ( Deceased ), Robert on the old
homestead ( with whom his father resided ), Mary Ellen ( Mrs. Richard Bryson ) and
Samuel of London Road.

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