Samuel Gordon INNIS

                   Reference
Griffin Family Records

Hayward, George H.  US/Can
The Nevers Family   Film Area
Fredericton, N.B.   1597957

Ann Jane Innis as the wife of Francis Edward Griffin and the mother of five children must have experienced daunting challenges with their many moves and the prolonged illness of her husband. Allen Christensen, son-in-law, when asked to describe her said that she was sweet woman of even temperament. She was a devout Christian and required that her family attend services whenever possible. She survived her husband by twelve years. She spent the last winter of her life living with her sister-in-law, Isabelle Perkins Griffin Murray in Drumheller, Alberta.

(Research):      Ann Jane Innis as the wife of Francis Edward Griffin and mother of five children must have experienced daunting challenges with their many moves, losing their home by fire, and her husband's illness. Allen Christensen - a son-in-law described her as a sweet woman of even temperament. She was a devout Christian and required that her family attend Church services whenever possible.She survived her husband by twelve years. She spent the last winter of her life living with her sister-in-law Isabelle Perkins Griffin Murray in Drumheller.
                  

                   William was Sarah's and Samuel's eighth child and Harold Innis' father.  Quoted
from Harold Innis' autobiography:  while education was undoubtedly restricted
the Bible and such religious material as Spurgeon's sermons were read aloud to
the family, as my father's ability to quote scripture on almost every occasion
attests.  My father certainly acquired, as one of the younger members of the
family knowledge of farming and particularly in the handling of animals."
William had enough education to enable him "to read and to do the necessary
fractions in the conduct of ordinary farm business."

At the age of 28 William was described as "slight, nearly six feet tall, with
dark hair, a short dark beard and moustache and a quiet slow spoken manner."
He with others of Samuel's family, had a reputation for "temperance, probity,
hard work and honest sobriety."  These attributes recommended him very
favourably to Mary Adams who became his wife in 1893.

Reference
Innis, Wendy
The Innis Family of Blenheim and Norwich Townships, Oxford County, Ontario
1990

BIRTH-PARENTS-CHILDREN-DEATH-BIOGRAPHY
Descendants of William Gray, James Innis and
William Sipprell, 1728-1985, privately published
1985 by Jean Bluhm, Chehalis, Washington,
Section 3 - Innis Family History - p 29
Copy available in Film #1598155 Item 14 at the
Family History Center in Salt Lake.
                  

                   Samuel born in 1906 was the youngest of Mary and Williams family.  Being the
only son left at home, it fell to him to help his father with the ninety
acre farm, and ultimately to farm it himself.  In 1936 Samuel married Doris
Gertrude Gould.  They had two children.

When the time came for Samuel Innis to retire from the farm it was bought by
the Harold Innis Foundation of the University of Toronto to use as a retreat
for scholars.

Reference
George Hayward     US/Can
The Nevers Family  Film Area
Fredericton, N.B.  1597957
                     Hem 10

Reference
Innis, Wendy
The Innis Family of Blenheim and Norwich Townships, Oxford County, Ontario
1990

BIRTH-PARENTS-CHILDREN-DEATH-BIOGRAPHY
Descendants of William Gray, James Innis and
William Sipprell, 1728-1985, privately published
1985 by Jean Bluhm, Chehalis, Washington,
Section 3 - Innis Family History - p 29
Copy available in Film #1598155 Item 14 at the
0amily History Center in Salt Lake.
                  

                   Reference
George Hayward     US/Can
The Nevers Family  Film Area
Fredericton, N.B.  1597957
                     Hem 10

Reference
Innis, Wendy
The Innis Family of Blenheim and Norwich Townships, Oxford County, Ontario
1990

BIRTH-PARENTS-CHILDREN-DEATH-BIOGRAPHY
Descendants of William Gray, James Innis and
William Sipprell, 1728-1985, privately published
1985 by Jean Bluhm, Chehalis, Washington,
Section 3 - Innis Family History - p 29
Copy available in Film #1598155 Item 14 at the
0amily History Center in Salt Lake.