Settler of township lots: Lot 18, Conc. 3, Stanhope

Location: Map point is the approximate location within this 12 acre irregular, waterfront lot on the south shore of Beech Lake - Whisky Jack Lane.

Land acquisition: 1911 from Thomas Mark Redner. Ontario Land Parcel Register - Stanhope (Image 316).

Other land:

• Lot 17, Conc. 3, Stanhope: 1925 from James Allen Sisson. Ontario Land Parcel Register - Stanhope (Image 298)
• Lot 19, Conc. 3, Stanhope: 1918 from Thomas Mark Redner. Ontario Land Parcel Register - Stanhope (Image 333)
• Lot 31, Conc. 5, Stanhope: 1918 from Nelson Benjamin Clark. Ontario Land Parcel Register - Stanhope (Image 376)
• Lots 25 & 26, Conc. 5, Stanhope: 1920 from Joseph Fader; 19221 to William Howard Thompson. Ontario Land Parcel Register - Stanhope (Images 203 & 229)

Dates of residency:

• 1918 Stanhope Post Office List: Saml Render, Carnarvon
• 1928 Stanhope Voters List: Samuel & Alma Redner at Lot 31, Conc. 5, Stanhope

Interesting facts:

By January 1921, twenty telephones were installed [Maple Lake area] and in June of that year a switchboard was temporarily set up in a small building adjoining the house on the George Clarke property, later sold to Sam Redner. Source: In Quest of Yesterday by Nila Reynolds. Published by The Provisional County of Haliburton, Minden, Ontario 1973 pg. 329

Robert James Deacon married Lily Louisa Cooper, and Samuel Rednor married her sister, Alma Jane Cooper on the same day in 1908 at the William Cooper residence (Lot 10, Conc. 4, Stanhope).

Preceding landowners:

• 1872 Benjamin Clarke from The Crown
• 1878 George Nelson Clark
• 1907 Nelson Benjamin Clark
• 1917 Adam Henry Sawyer
• 1918 Herbert Soloman Fry

Succeeding landowner:

Link to Settlers of Algonquin Highlands family tree

• Samuel Demill Redner, b. 30 Jul 1883, Stanhope, d. 1972, Stanhope, (Age 88 years), Buried: Maple Lake Cemetery
  Parents:
  • John Demill Redner, b. Abt 1837, Ontario
  • Elizabeth Ann Draper, b. 1840, Ontario,
• Wife 1. Alma Jane Cooper, b. 3 Nov 1877, Stanhope, d. 25 Mar 1948, Haliburton, (Age 70 years). Buried: Maple Lake United Church Cemetery
  Parents:
  • William Cooper, b. 29 Sep 1843, England d. 22 May 1926, Stanhope, (Age 82 years)
  • Fanny Sims, b. Mar 1843, England d. 29 Sep 1923, Stanhope, (Age ~ 80 years)
• Wife 2. Anna Pearl (Demill Redner), b. 1900, d. 1990  (Age 90 years)

Photo 1: Samuel Redner with his prize horse in the 1920's. Source: Ancestry.ca johnmar131 originally shared this on 11 Mar 2013

Photo 2: Samuel and Alma Redner with Sydney. Courtesy of Dorothy Rivers. Source: Ancestry.c Johnmar131 originally shared this on 11 Mar 2013

Photo 3: Alma Jane (Cooper) Redner 1948 obituary. Owner/Source Lydia Coulter Scrapbook Collection - Book 8, Pg 30