This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/IFB.2ACE/760.2 Message Board Post: Good stuff. This is a great match. We have shared this already I think. So you've got my email address. I am in the process of transcribing the entire Brieger book into computer form. This from Lenore Brieger's Genealogy of the Avoca McCallums. Archie, named after his father's brother was the eldest son of John and Ann McCallum. He married Jane McNeil, daughter of David NcNeil. She was born January 4, 1842 in Avoca and died August 20, 1903 in Alpena, Michigan. Archie left home in his youth to become a tree scaler working in lumber camps. At age 15 his arm was crushed and he was given a new arm at Montreal General Hospital. Later, he went to Alpena, Michigan where he ws employed as a "landlooker". He later became the town's Register of Deeds, a position he held for life. He always carried his artificial arm in a large pocket. His wife was from a neighboring farm in Avoca and his parents were not too pleased with his marriage. He married too young. It is said that another child was born of this union and died of scarlet fever in Avoca at the same time that Archie's sister Isabelle died. Grandfather McCallum carved two little caskets for their burial. Archie and Jane were playmates in their youth and they were drawn to Alpena because she had family living there. Two of her sisters married into the MacArthur family (Archie and Alex). Lumbering was the chief means of livlihood and Alpena was called the "Sawdust City" and lived up to its name. Archie did not have children to perpetuate his name but daughter Mary, who also married a MacArthur, left a legacy of a large and prsperous family. Jane's two sisters Mary (McNeil) MacArthur and Margaret (McNeil) McKenzie gave an interesting interview to the local newspaper in 1930. They were then in their 80's. A copy of this will be included in the McArthur history. Note that this MacArthur family use the Scottish spelling of their name though they were related.