(submitted by Kay and Harold Dailey)
Laura Chalk (1905 - 1978) married Orville Neil Dailey in 1927. They has one son Harold. Laura and Orville farmed the original 100 acre Chalk farm (south 1/2 of Lot 4, Con. 4 NER) after her father Finley gave it to her in 1932. It had been in the Chalk family since 1853.
Laura was a nurse and worked for many years in St. Joseph's Hospital in Sarnia. She was an active member of the Women's Institute and the Forest Historical Society. She was also on the Forest Fair Board for 40 years.
Orville and Laura celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in 1977. After her death, Orville moved to London to be closer to their son and went on to take university courses there.
Harold and Kay Dailey. Courtesy K Dailey.
The Chalk farm on Chalk Line is still owned and farmed today by Harold Dailey. Harold and his wife Kay have also farmed the south 1/2 of the east 1/2 of Lot 3 Con. 4 NER since purchasing this property from Harold's uncle Harold Chalk in 1979. This property does not have any buildings, and only 13 acres are cleared for farming.
Harold and Kay have a daughter Martha.
Mathew Dailey lived on Lot 6, Con. 6 NER. Born in 1823, he married Mary Celine Underhill sometime before 1850. In 1850 there was a very dry summer. The Underhills needed water and feed for their cattle, so they drove them all to Vittoria in Norfolk County. It took them two weeks to complete this task. In Warwick there was only brush for cattle to eat.
Another story is told of the Underhill family coming to visit Mathew and Mary in Warwick in the spring. The night before they were to leave there was a snowstorm. The snow was too deep for the buggy. So they strapped boards onto the wheels to make runners, like a sleigh. It took three days to get back to Vittoria. The boards were not removed until they reached Tillsonburg.
Martha Core, Orville Dailey's mother, was the oldest girl in her family. Once, while her father was gone for several days, walking to the grist mill with a sack of wheat, Martha was sleeping in a bunk beside the outside wall of their log cabin. A bear ripped the mud from the between the logs and tore her side. Her mother took a burning stick and scared the bear away, saving Martha.
Chapter 24 of 25 - Dailey Family
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