MARGARET STYLES 1839 -
1908
Notes from Necia Reynolds Styles and others
- edited Judy (Todhunter) Rosmus
Margaret Caswell Styles
Margaret,
the second daughter of Andrew and Mary Jane, born in Jan 1839 in Altnamachin, Armagh, Northern Ireland.
She died about 1908 in South Traux Town, Williston, ND. She married
Robert Henry Styles in 1858 (born on 21 Sep 1837, Ireland). He died on 16 Mar 1913 in Campbell,
California.
Margaret Caswell
Margaret would have spent
her adolescence at Granton, Ontario. She married tall handsome Robert Henry
Styles. Robert and Margaret had ten
children, two of whom died in infancy, and three of whom never married: Henry,
Albert and Emma. The remaining five
children between them produced twenty-two grandchildren for Margaret and
Robert.
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Robert Henry Styles Family from left to right
top row: Henry, Susan, Emma & Maude
bottom row: Albert Martha, Samuel & Annie
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Andrew Styles, B: 1859 in Ontario.
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Martha Styles, B: 03 May 1861 in Ontario, M: Frederick Skinner,
Bef. 1900 in Williston, Williams, North Dakota
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Mary Ann Styles,
B: 1865 in Ontario, D: Abt. 1919 in Williston, Williams, North Dakota, USA, M: James King, Abt. 1887 in Manitoba.
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Albert Edward Styles,
B: 17 Nov 1865 in Ontario, D: 03 Apr 1956 in Mountain View, California.
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Samuel Lee Styles,
B: 04 Nov 1867 in Muskoka, Ontario,
D: 13 Feb 1954 in Hughson, California, M: Dora Caroline
Mitchell, Bet. 1904-1905
in Williston, Williams, North Dakota
- Margaret Emma Styles,
B: 01 Dec 1869 in Humphry, Medora,
Muskoka, Ontario, D: 04 Jul 1956 in Mountain View,
CA
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Maude Alfaretta Styles,
B: 09 Aug 1878 in Rosseau, Muskoka,
D: 17 Aug 1911 in Stanislaus, California, M: Martin
Leonard Scranton, 1898.
- Susanna Josephine Styles, B: Abt. 1872 in Muskoka District,
Ontario, D: Abt. 1930 in Pacific Grove, Monterey, California
Robert Henry Styles
Robert Styles left his
native Ireland and migrated to Canada about 1850. He met Margaret in the Muskoka area of
Ontario and here they settled. Robert was
a grain farmer. Looking for a better
living the Styles family left Canada and entered the US at Portal, North Dakota
in June 1887.(1) They first lived at Devil’s Lake in the
northeast, then moved to Williston, near the point where the Missouri River
crosses the Montana border. About 1894 they settled in Truax, North Dakota
after having lived in the Williston area.
The site they selected along Long Creek had been abandoned by an early
squatter named Charlie Gaines. Robert
built a log cabin near a spring which had the claim of having the best water in
the area. Robert & Margaret’s children
grew up in the Williston area. In time
Robert filed on this land, proved it up in 1906 and the Styles family became
prominent ranchers.
Robert & Margaret’s
children
In
season, Robert would shear sheep for neighbouring ranchers. When it came time to sell cattle he would
trail them the 15 to 20 miles to railroad points and ship them to the St Paul
or Chicago stockyards. A member of the
family would ride along in the “caboose” of the train to be there at the
stockyards when the cattle were sold. Robert
also worked on the construction of the Great Northern Railroad. One interesting job the boys did was to
collect buffalo bones for a soap factory.
The children had great
respect for their father and affectionately called “Governor” instead of
Father. In 1908, after his wife died, he
and members of his family moved to Saratoga, California, and he lived there
until his death.
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