Notes: Lanark County Origins

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101	"DIED. On the 29th ult., a few hours after giving birth to twins, both stillborn, Mrs. Julia Nicol, Ramsay, daughter of the late Red. George Buchanan of Beckwith." [Pg. 40-9, "Genealogical Extracts from The Perth Courier", Vol. 1, 1834-1869, Louise I. Hope, compiler, 2013, Global Heritage Press, Milton](Record cites 9 Apr 1844 issue but it is likely the 2 Apr 1844 issue which is missing from The Paper of Record)	Buchanan, Julia (I17647)
102	"Died. . . Stilwell. At Morristown, May 26th, Mrs. Isabell Stilwell, in the 56th year of her age." [Ogdensburg (NY) St. Lawrence Republican and Ogdensburgh Weekly Journal, 6/11/1884]	Miller, Isabel M. (I6647)
103	"Died. ... At his residence here, on Sunday last, very suddenly, Mr. Robert McLaren, Distiller." [Col. 3, Pg. 3; The Bathurst Courier, Friday, 1 Dec 1848; Vol. XV, No. 6]	McLaren, Robert (I35705)
104	"DIED. ... Rutherford. At Perth, on Tuesday, 7th inst., William Rutherford, in the 85th year of his age. Deceased was a native of Scotland, and emigrated from the neighbourhood of Dundee in 1815 with the early Perth settlers. He was appointed an elder of the first Presbyterian Church under the pastorate of the late Rev. Wm. Bell, which office he held successively under the Rev. Thomas C. Wilson and Rev. Dr. Bain. He was exemplary in his conduct and much respected by all who had the pleasure of his acquaintance. The funeral will take place from his late residence, Brock St., to-day (Friday,) at 3 o'clock, p.m." [Col. 7, Pg. 4; The Perth Courier; Friday, 10 Apr 1874; Vol. XL, No. 29]	Rutherford, William (I43776)
105	"DIED. ... Wilson - In Elmsley, on Saturday, May 3rd, Mary Jane McKay, wife of Mr. James Wilson, aged 72 years." [Col. 1, Pg. 7; The Perth Courier, Friday 9 May 1924, Vol. LXXXIX, No. 39] Wilson, James 1860-1935 & M McKay H1-1 [Elmwood Cemetery Transcript]	McKay, Mary Jane (I17567)
106	"Died. Allen--Suddenly, March 21, Oscar D. Allen of Northfield, N. J., formerly of Delmar, husband of Doris Holland Allen; father of David W. Allen, Delmar, Mrs. Barbara VanSlyke, South Schodack and Mrs. Linda Kroth, Delmar; son of Jennie B. Allen and the late Oscar H. Allen; brother of Mrs. Ruth Newbury, Albany; also survived by 6 grandchildren. Funeral service was held at First Church in Albany (Reformed), Tuesday morning." [Altamont Enterprise and Albany County Post, Altamont, NY, 3/28/1975]	Allen, Oscar D. (I7968)
107	"DIED. Tovey. On Sunday, 14th Dec, 1873, Mr. Thomas Tovey, 2nd line Cathurst, aged 73 years. A native of County Kilkenny, Ireland." [Col. 8, Pg. 4; The Perth Courier; Friday, 2 Jan 1874; Vol. XL, No. 25]	Tovey, Thomas (I44231)
108	"Donald Buchanan was born in 1820 at Loch Tayside, Perthshire, Scotland. He came to Canada with his parents in 1829 settling in Beckwith Township in Lanark County. In the early 1840's, Donald married Grace Stewart who was born in 1822 in Perthshire. In 1854, Donald and Grace decided to take their seven children and travel to the Queen's Bush to start a new home. When they reached Guelph, Donald hired a teamster and a wagon to take his family and their belongings to Goderich. From there they came to Inverhuron by sailboat. For temporary shelter Donald put up a log shanty (on Lot 7, Concession 3) beside the blazed trail, east of the present lane. The shanty was later replaced by a log house north of the shanty, east of the present lane (opposite the house today). There was a log stable built west of the house ... Donald had been a weaver in Scotland; he had brought his loom from Scotland and did some custom weaving in his home. Donald built a second stable (measuring 36 feet by 56 feet) in 1877 or 1878. His son-in-law Malcolm McFadyen was the framer ..." [Bruce Township Historical Society, compiler, Anne Judd, manuscript ed. Bruce Township tales and trails : from early days to 1983 (St. Jacobs, Ontario, Canada: St. Jacobs Printery, Ltd, 1984), p. 234]	Buchanan, Donald (I52721)
109	"DRUMMOND PIONEER DEAD. Walter McIlquham Died on Tuesday Aged 96 years. The news of the death of a truly pioneer resident of Drummond, Mr. Walter McIlquham, sr., was received in town on Tuesday night. Mr. McIlquham departed this life on Tuesday afternoon in the 96th year of his age. He had been ill a week, suffering from bronchitis. He was one whose life includes all the years of Lanark history, says the Era. Coming over from Scotland with his parents on the ship Commerce [sic - George Canning], he arrived to find Lanark the centre of a vast forest of pine. But to a boy of his years this was but adventure of the sort that appeals to the average British youth. Settling on a favored spot in Drummond Township there was much to be done clearing away those giant obstructions to farming - the pines. Fortune favored and Mr. McIlquham lived to see one of the best homesteads in the whole countryside identified as his own. He was born in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1810. When ten years of age he came to this country with his parents, they settling on the farm now occupied by his nephew, Mr. Walter S. McIlquham. Early in life he married Margaret Kerr and to them were born Peter J., now of Mountain Mill, Alta.; Walter, of Carleton Place; John K. and Maggie, of Drummond. His second wife was Elizabeth Rankin, by whom he had five sons and daughters - George, on the homestead; William, in Carleton Place; Mrs. John Neilson, Ramsay; Mrs. Henry Blair, Fitzroy, and Mrs. John Menzies, Carleton Place. The funeral took place to Lanark cemetery on Thursday afternoon at twp o'clock. Mr. McIlquham was a strong man municipally and politically and was well known in the community of Perth." [Col. 4, Pg. 5; The Perth Courier; Friday, 24 Nov 1905; Vol. LXXII, No. 14] Contributor: Bruce Gordon (48010981)	McIlquham, Walter (I15861)
110	"Eleazer was born in upper New York where his parents had settled for a short time. He was the son of George Washington Hastings and Margaret (Gay) Hastings, both of his parents were children of Revolutionary War Patriots. When Eleazer was 11 years old his family moved to Canada and settled in a new and wild land, being the first settlers west of Newboro, cutting the first log down in 1812. In 1830 Eleazer built the first Baptist church, a wood frame building in their small town of Westport. Eleazer married in 1830 Ann Deacon, the daughter of another early settler who came from Kilkenny, Ireland. They had but one child, John L. Hastings. In 1829, Eleazer built his home on the 7th concession at the extreme western extremity of the town of Westport. His lovely 2 story brick home is still standing (2010) Ann Died in 1879 and Eleazer married Elinor Susanna (Ellis) Adams who died in 1895." [Doneva Shepard?] His 1880 marriage to Eleanor Ellis records his place of birth as St. Lawrence Co., NY	Hastings, Eleazar Harding (I43362)
111	"Ernest famred the original homestead and later retired to Melville.	Moen, Ernest M. (I61435)
112	"Esther Irenen Currie was 13 when her mother died and her 3 sisters were sent to Detroit to be raised by Sam's sister. Esther remained on the farm inEast Wawanosh, Huron County, and helped raise her 3 younger brothers. from Sharon Deacon Begg, April 25, 2023	Deacon, Esther Irene (I55032)
113	"Farm for Sale The undersigned offers for sale the front half of Lot 16, in the first Con. Bathurst, containing 100 acres. The buildings consisst of a first-class brick veneer house (two stories), kitchen and woodshed, one bank barn 40 x59 feet, with stables in basement and silo attached; one barn 31 x 38; one frame stable, and other buildings. The farm is well fenced, has an abundance of good water, a fine orchard of about 206 trees, and a good supply of small fruit. It is situated on the Scotch Line, 1/4 mile from cheese factory, blacksmith shop, waggon shop, general store and post office; one mile from school and roller mill. Also bush lot, 100 acres, 6 miles from homestead, well timbered. For terms and further particulars apply to W.M. Gibson On the premises The Perth Courier Perth, Ontario, Canada February 15, 1901, pg 3.	Gibson, William Murray (I366)
114	"For 20 years, from the time he first went into the bush in the winter of 1844, Peter McLaren had no permanent residence. Initially he passed his winters in the lumber shanties along the Clyde and Mississippi, and the summer seasons back on the family farm in Lanark township. As he became more deeply involved in the Gillies Lumber Company business, cruising new limits, and then as a partner from 1853, he seemed to have lived periodically at Carleton Place, Lanark, Snow Road, and at the shanties he supervised. In the census of 1851 he was living with his widowed mother and siblings in Lanark township. The census taker af 1861 failed to find him, probably deep in the bush somewhere in the Mississippi River basin." Mississippi Lumber Baron, Ron Shaw, 2016	McLaren, Sen. Peter (I13416)
115	"Found Drowned. Last Sunday [17 Feb 1884] the body of a man was found in the flume back of the woolen-factory, Haggart's Island, and judging from appearances it had been under the water for some weeks. It was soon pretty well identified as being all that remained earthly of Patrick Flaherty, a well-known character; and this supposition was the next day confirmed by members of his own family. The deceased had been missing for nearly two months, but as he was latterly a sort of wanderer upon the earth, his absence caused no comment or alarm, and no one supposed that poor Pat had met with the sad and premature end that had over taken him. It is surmised that while in a state of inebriety Pat stumbled in the flume, where sure death awaited him. His remains were buried on the farm he formerly occupied in North Burgess [Lot A, VIII Concession], on Tuesday. He was about fifty-five years of age at death." [Cols. 3-4, Pr. 2; The Perth Courier; Friday, 22 Feb 1884; Vol. L, No. 24]	Flaherty, Patrick (I51974)
116	"Frank Miller was in Morristown Saturday afternoon to attend the funeral of his brother, Edward [sic] Miller, who died Thursday of influenza." [Hammond (NY) Advertiser, 10/24/1918]	Miller, Edwin J. "Edward" (I6773)
117	"Gillies, in the informal way of the day, told him they would work henceforth as partners, and such was the basis of an agreement on which the Gillies and McLaren Company was founded, and on which a generation later, the adjustment o hundreds of thousands of dollars turned." A Hundred Years A-Fellin', 1842-1942, edited by Charlotte Whitton (1942). Peter McLaren was 22 years of age.	McLaren, Sen. Peter (I13416)
118	"Grandma tried to hire help and carry on the farm. She got herself in an awful muddle so Dad decided to help his Mother carry on. It was very hard on Dad but he believed it was his duty and I don't suppose anyone ever heard him complain.	Morrison, Jane "Anne" (I7444)
119	"He was for many years the secretary-treasurer of the Lethbridge school board, served for ten years as secretary of the Lethbridge Board of Trade, and in various positions with other organizations. Among these were: Secretary of the Lethbridge Agricultural Society from 1896 to 1901 and president of the society in 1902, secretary of Galt Hospital for a number of years after 1903, and a member of the local board of control of the Dry Farming Congress here in 1912. Fraternally Mr. Bowman was a member of North Star Lodge No. 4, A.F. anad A.M., and Shekinah Chapter, R.A.M. He and his family identified with the Church of England. He was one of the founders of St Augustin's, and also assisted in establishing St. May's in North Lethbridge. While a Conservative in politics, he was generally classed as an independent Conservative.	Bowman, Charles Broughham (I1867)
120	"I'm sure he didn't get much out of his rent money but the three children adored Earl who was the Rock in their storm tosssed life. They must have lived with him for ten years and really in spite of broken down verandas etc. they were good company for him."	Miller, John Earl "Earl" (I33574)
121	"If the marriage is annulled I will re-marry him when I am 18." Fifteen-Year-Old Bride Tells Her Own Story as told by Marjorie Marion Lalonde (Exclusive to Perth Courier) "I do not want my marriage annulled, I am completely happy with Jack and want to remain married to him, and if the marriage is annulled I will re-marry him when I am 18", stated the pretty brown haired, 15 year old bride of nine days. These words wer emphatically and sincerely spoken by Marjorie Marion Lalonde as she demurely sat by her mother and told her life story and the circumstances that preceded her marriage to John Michael Lalond, 42 year old bachelor, to whom she was married on February 7th at Watson's Corners. Mrs. Lalonde and her husband reported to the Perth Headquarters of the Ontario Provincial Police on February 13th at 9:15 in the morning and informed Inspector T.W. Cousins that they had heard the Police were looking for them. Inspector Cousans informed the newly-weds that the bride's mother had laid a charge of abduction under the criminal code, against Mr. Lalonde and that a warrant for his arrest had been issued. Mr. Lalonde surrendered himself to the Police and was placed in temporary confinement in the County Jail. The young bride readily answered all questions that were asked her in this personal interview and was aided by her mother on some matters. Everything she stated was voluntary. Marjory Marion McGonegal was born on Christmas Day, 1936, the eldest of four children of Mr and Mrs Elwood McGonagal, in Lanark Village. Here the infant grew and developed into a young, attractive well-mannered girl who made friends easily and always willingly and ungrudgingly helped her m other about the house. Marjorie moved to Minden, Ontario, at an early age and with the family resided in a substantial seven-roomed house. Here the father worked as a carpenter and here also wa born William, Marjories eldest brother. In 1940 the father joined the Army and, after 15 months over-seas he returned to Canada and was discharged because of a bad case of asthma. When he returned to Minden it was soon discovered that climatic conditions were not the best, so the family decided to return to Lanark County and settled in Balderson. Wnen Marjorie became of school age they again moved back to Lanark Village so that she might attend the Public School. I liked Public school very much, made friends very easily and took an active part in the school sports", said Mrs Lalonde as a faint glow developed in her brown eyes and fond memories evidently crossed her mind, "but I was not too fussy about continuation school." when asked what her ambitions for the future had been, she said that she had either wanted to become a teacher or a hairdresser. "I always enjoyed styling the hair of the other kids at school and felt that this was what I would like to be". Mrs. Lalonde took an active part in the United Church CGIT Groups and always assisted her mother with work at home. "How did I first meet Jack? My mother introduced me to him at a wedding reception and we danced together. Mother knew him when she was young and they grew up together. After our first meeting Jack came to the house to see me and we went out together for 18 months before we were married." "Before I met Jack, things at home went very well, I helped about the house, got the evening meals and assisted with the dishes and inside chores. My parents always treated me well and gave me a little spending money. We lived in a seven-room house in Lanark and had plenty of food and heat. Ours was not a rich family, nor were we poor". "But, after I met Jack, things at home changed and mother began to forbid me to see him." At this point Mrs. mcGonegal explained that when the two began to go together neither she nor her husband objected because they never dreamed that it would develop into anything. However the majority of the time that the couple went out, the mother and father usuallly accompanied them. Only on a couple of occasions did they go out themselves and then they phoned to inform the parents that everything was allright and told them where they were. "No definite action was taken by my mother or father until some person complained to the Children's Aid Society that I was staying out late with an elderly man and visiting his room in a hotel in Perth," frankly stated Mrs Lalond, "but this report was ----- On the night in question I was with my mother, it was about eleven o'clock, and mother asked me to return some car keys to Jack's room. I took the keys to him and then rejoined by mother and we returned home. This complaint was the cause of the objections of my parents and from then on they forbade me to see Jack." Soon after we first met, Jack came to se me about once a week we usually stayed at home or went to a friend's house and played cards, other times we came to Perth and went to the show. Jack stayed at the house on the occasional wee-end before the complaint was lodged, but after this he was forbidden to come to the house." What did you do then? "We used to meet after school and Jack would pick me up in his car, on Sundays he would meet me on the street and w would then go for a drive and visit a friend's house and play cards. I did not want to stop seeing him nor did he want to be separate from me." How long were you planning to get married before you did? "For about two months, even if mother had not gone away we would have married. Jack and I talked it all over and we realized the difference in the ages, that the marriage would likely be annulled and that we were doing so against my parent's wishes". If you realized all this why did you go ahead? "We hoped that it might not be annulled, but if it is, when I am 18 we will re-marry. We had the rings ordeered early last February and decided that when mother was away would be our best chance. We went toCarleton Place on the 4th of February and applied for our licence. Jack told that his age was only thirty seven because if there was another war he wanted to rejoin the army. He was overseas for 6 years in the last war and injured in action." Where were you going to live? "Jack owns property in Carleton Place and is having lumber cut in the bush so that we can build our own home". Did you intend to work? "No. Jack does not want me to work, he says that he is quite capable of keeping both of us. He works in the bush in the winter and is now cutting ties for the railroad, he purchases the trees from the farmer and then resells them to a firm that supplies the rairoad with ties. In the summer he sell magazines andmakes very good money. There was no question in my mind that he could not properly support me." When asked if she could keep house, Mrs McGonegal said that her daughter could cook, sew and keep house as well as she, a woman who had been married 18 years. If the marriage is annulled what will you do? "If it is, I really do not know what I will do. My mother wants me to go back to school, but I will not go to school agian in Lanark or Perth, and, I will not go back to school unless I am made to. I imagine I would look for work and put in the time until I was 18. Did you receive any money from Lalonde before you were married? "He gave me a bit but I received a small allowance from my parents. After we were married Jack gave me some money for a wedding present and extra spending money. I really did not need it but he gave it to me anyway. He was going to give me so much each week for the up-keep of the house and I know that it would have been enough." Where and when were you married? "We were married on February 7th at Watson's Corners in the United Church by the Reverend D.J. Campbell. After the wedding they borrowed a car because the groom's had no brakes and was in need of repair. The couple went north for their honeymoon and reached North Bay before they heard the Police were looking for them. For the ceremony the bride wore a wine suit, white blouse, grey hat and accessories. While being interviewed she wore her wedding ensemble and a smartly tailored green coat. when looking at mrs. lalonde no person would ever think that she was only fifteen yers old, nor would anyone think that Mr. Lalonde was 42, both are deceiving in their ages. Are you completely satisfied that wat you did was right? "Yes, I feel that we did the rignt thinbg, we loved each other and wanted to get married, nothing could have stopped us. We were going to do it anyway whether mother was away or not. I have been very happy since I have been married and do not want it to end. We have a place to live until we build a house in Carleton Place." During the interview Mrs McGonegal said very little but was in general agreement with her daughter. The one thing that she was insitent on was that her daughter complete her education at school, and after she reached the age of 18, Mrs McGonegal did not mind what her daughter did. The mother said that they never realized that teh meeting with Lalonde was so serious and only after a complaint was laid against them did they begin to worry. Mrs McGonegal was of the opinion that, if the complaint had not been laid, by some person unknown, the marriage and romance would never have taken place. The young bride was not upset by the interview and readily annswered all the questions and was glad that she could explain things as she saw them. She frankly concluded - "I do not want my marriage annulled, I am completely happy and want to remain married to Jack. If it is annulled we will re-marry when I am 18. That is what we want and that is what we intend to do." The Perth Courier Perth, Ontario, Canada Thursday, February 21, 1952, pp. 1, 12	Family: John Michael "Jack" Lalonde / Marjorie Marion McGonegal (F1634)
122	"In 1910 he opened with Sells Floto at Albuquerque, New Mexico, April 17-19. He wasn't there long. Due to a misunderstanding with the manager he suddenly departed, going to the Al G. Barnes show at Wenatchee, Washington in late April or early May	Pennock, Murray Alexander (I47227)
123	"In ansr to the petition of George & Frances Addams, humbly desiring the favour of this Court to confirme vnto them a certeline parcell of vpland & meadow seuerall yeares since given to them by Shoniow, sachem of Nashaway, deceased, called by the name of Washaame Hill, being about the quantity of two hundred acres," granted ?i?(Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England 5:39) ?/i?On 24 May 1715, George Adams of Lexington and Mary Adams of the same place, spinster. "the Son and Daughter of George Adams formerly of Lancaster glover deced" sold their rights in this tract to "our elder Brother John Adams of Colchester in ...Connecticut; and on the same day John Adams of Colchester, "Son of George Adams formerly of Lancaster Glover decd," deeded three fifths of this tract to Francis Fullam, "Gentleman", of Weston, Massachuscetts. On 7 November 1723, Samuel Aadams of Windsor, Connecticut, Son to George Adams formerly of Lancastar deced," and Joseph Adams of Simsbury Connecticut, "in Right of his father Daniel Adams also Son to the aforesd. George Adams of sd. Lancastar or Nashaway" and for the children & heirs of his father Daniel Adams aforesd deced," deeded the remaining two fifths to Mr. Fullam. The deed states that Samuel and Joseph were "Invested with two fifths of the whole of a Certain Tract of Land formerly granted or given by Shoinow Sachem of Nashaway unto the sd George Adams and Frances his Wife which was confirmed by the Genl. Court held at Boston May 12th 1675 containing Two Hundred Acres at Washcomhill.	Adams, George II (I13963)
124	"In Drummond, Sat. Aug. 12th, 1916, Duncan Buchanan, aged 94 years." [The Lanark Era, Wed., Aug. 23, 1916, Births, Marriages & Deaths, pg. 32 (source: Lanark Co. Genealogy Society Archives)]	Buchanan, Duncan (I52730)
125	"In Montague, Mon. May 31 Jane McGREGOR, wife of late James BUCHANAN sr, aged 83 yrs 10 mos. Born in Drummond Husb died 52 yrs ago. of 5 chn only 1, James, on the homestead, survives. She was 1 of 8 chn and was last survivor ... Baptist. To family burying ground Drummond." [Genealogical Abstracts from The Perth Courier, Births, Marriages & Deaths, pg. 484 (Source: Lanark Co. Genealogy Society Archives)]	McGregor, Jane (I52724)
126	"In November 1936, Mother when out with Earl to help pick up the potatoes she was afraid he was letting freeze. She took a sick spell and the Doctor said she should have her gall bladder out, so on Monday morning November 10, 1936 she was operated on but didn't come out of the operation. On the noon mail I had got a letter from her and supper I got the telegram that she was dead. She was buried from Doug's house."	Small, Eliza Jane "Betty" (I33567)
127	"Iver erected a house on his place and they all moved into it. This, however, was a mistake as the homestead laws then were that a son could live with his parents, but a father could not live with his son. This made it necessary to also build on Erick's homestead. It also became necwssary to spend some time at each place. So spring and fall became moving days for the next three years.	Selland, Erick Inverson (I61379)
128	"Iver erected a house on his place and they all moved into it. This, however, was a mistake as the homestead laws then were that a son could live with his parents, but a father could not live with his son. This made it necessary to also build on Erick's homestead. It also became necwssary to spend some time at each place. So spring and fall became moving days for the next three years.	Selland, Iver E. (I61373)
129	"Iver's parents continued to live with them	Selland, Iver E. (I61373)
130	"Jack" Miller was being forced into a shotgun marriage. He stole his father's car and drove to Flin Flon. NEVER MARRIED.	Miller, John Biggar "Jack" (I1878)
131	"Jean G. Shields (nee Torbert) of Glenside, formerly of Havertown, PA Mrs. Jean G. Shields, 85, of Glenside, passed away Friday, November 26th, 2010 peacefully at Abington Memorial Hospital, in Montgomery County, PA. Jean was born in Columbia, PA on June 18, 1925, the daughter of the late James and Catherine (Carman) Torbert. Jean was a registered nurse at St. Francis Country House in Darby, PA. She was an avid Phillies fan and enjoyed genealogy especially in the Lancaster area. She is the widow of Dr. William E. Shields. She is the Mother of Deborah (Edward) Lennon of Abington, PA, William Scott (Shawn) Shields of Colorado & Steven (Janice) Shields of Havertown, PA. Also survived by 10 loving Grandchildren. Visitation after 10 AM Wednesday, December 1st, at Kish Funeral Home Ltd., 1998 Sproul Rd., Broomall, PA 19008. Religious Service at Kish Funeral Home Ltd. at 12 Noon. Interment Arlington Cemetery In lieu of flowers, family requests donations to Alex's Lemonade Stand, 333 E. Lancaster Ave., Wynnewood, PA 19096." Lancaster Newspapers Inc., Lancaster, Pennsylvania Tuesday, November 30, 2010	Tobert, Jean Gloria (I69003)
132	"John Allan's birth in 1816 was synchronous with the first settlement on the Scotch Line, being the first male child in this settlement. He was engaged almost all his life in the milling business, having a sawmill and carding mill on the Scotch Line. "Later, he ran a sawmill and a grist mill on the Tay River (formerly Pike), and also engaged in the milling business in Perth. From Hilda Geddes' book, The First One Hundred Years, Snow Road Presbyterian Church 1885-1985 : "In 1877, he moved from Perth to Palmerston Township at Snow Road, where he operated a sawmill for several years on Antoine Creek at what was later known as the Louis Tremblay place. In 1841, he was married to Anne McLean while still in the Perth area and this union was blessed with 11 children.... He died on May 5, 1900 at the home of his son Isaac Allan at Mississippi."	Allan, John (I13492)
133	"John Ashby Senior of Bugbrooke yeoman" made his will in 1719 leaving to his son Richard half a quateerne of a yardland and directing him to get him a stone at the head of his grave. "Richard Ashby of Bugbrooke Yeoman" died in 1748 leaving his half quarterne of a yardland to his wife Lydia together with all the rest of his property.	Ashby, John Sr. (I28434)
134	"John Ashby Senior of Bugbrooke yeoman" made his will in 1719 leaving to his son Richard half a quateerne of a yardland and directing him to get him a stone at the head of his grave. "Richard Ashby of Bugbrooke Yeoman" died in 1748 leaving his half quarterne of a yardland to his wife Lydia together with all the rest of his property. This is the last notice I have seen of any of the Ashby's of Bugbrooke (except those with whom we are concerned) holding the position of yeoman.	Ashby, John Sr. (I28434)
135	"March 21, 1863 - Thomas Ferguson and Hugh Hunter here today asking for the privilege of a grave at the church for old Mrs. Ferguson who died yesterday at her son Allan's. I gave them a grave beside J. Baillie." An impressive number of sleighs (15) attended her funeral. This graveyard has recently been restored with a fence and large granite marker giving the history of the St James Ferguson Cemetery. Kenwell Ferguson and Amelia Jean Ferguson were instrumental in doing this. Source: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~onlanark/NewspaperClippings/Mason/FergusonOne.htm	Barr, Mary (I46113)
136	"Marriage 1802 August 10th. James Ralton and Margaret MacLean both of the parish of Cadder."	Family: James Ralston / Margaret MacLean (F12463)
137	"MARRIED. On the 10th inst., by the Rev. Wm. Bain, Mr. John Robertson of New York to Miss Lydia Fraser, of the Township of Drummond." [Col. 2, Pg. 3; The Bathurst Courier, Friday, 12 Dec 1851; Vol. XVIII, No. 8]	Family: John Robertson / Lydia Fraser (F14671)
138	"Matilda was my great-grandmother. Her grandchildren called her "Meme," which I'm told is French for grandmother. She was a daughter of Joseph Pigeon (or Pidgeon) and Matilda Julliet. She taught school in Montreal, Quebec. She married William Warner and they had six children. They immigrated to the United States and settled in Au Gres, Michigan. After she was widowed, her son, Loren's wife died while their children were quite young. Matilda stepped in and helped him rear the children. She died of kidney disease while visiting my grandparents in Flint.	Pigeon, Matilda M. (I52011)
139	"Morristown, Aug. 26.--. . . Mrs. John Miller died on Friday last after a lingering illness which she bore with Christian fortitude and patience. Mr. Miller, who is also in failing health, has the heartfelt sympathy of this whole community. The funeral took place on Sunday last and was largely attended by sympathizing friends; services were held in the Presbyterian church. The Rev. Mr. Booth of New Hartford, N. Y., officiating and who also preached Sunday in the Presbyterian church." [Ogdensburg Advance and St. Lawrence Weekly Democrat, 8/29/1889]	Cora A. (I6775)
140	"Mr. Bowman was most active in municipal affairs, serving during those years as secretary-treasurer for the town, and then the city when Lethbridge advanced in its standing, and as the city assessors. During that time his real estate office was located in the city hall. He resigned his civic posts in 1907 to devote his entire time to the real estate business, which had grown to large proportion. From 1907 onwards for several years with the exception of 1906, Mr. Bowman was an alderman. He also held the position of acting mayor at one time in 1909, but was unsuccessful at the polls when he one sought election as the city's mayor."	Bowman, Charles Broughham (I1867)
141	"Mr. Foster was born Aug 20, 1853 at Perth, Ontario, Canada. One of a family of 6 boys and 5 girls with whom the parents Henry and Margaret Foster were blessed. As Archie he was more commonly known to his family and friends spent his boyhood with his family at Perth and later Marksdale, Ontario. And the year of 1873 he came to the state of Michigan plying his trade in the lumber woods. And as time went on entered into all phase of lumber industry and finally ran his own camps. In the year of 1882 he met and wed Sarah Richardson, the couple making their home in Rolland township, clearing the land and enduring all the privations and hardships mixed with the joys which confronted pioneer families. 13 children were born to Archie and Sarah, seven boys and six girls, all of whom survive, except Charles who passed away in the year of 1931, although the children grew up and scattered to make their own homes. Archie and Sarah have always resided in this locality with the exception of a few years spent in the state of Oregon. On April 10, 1933 Mother Foster passed away a loss to which Archie could never become accustomed. Although he was in ill health during his declining years he refused to leave, except for a short period, the home which contained so many memories of a long life well spent."	Foster, Archibald (I27267)
142	"Mrs. Catherine Buchanan, mother of Ald. John G. Buchanan, died yesterday morning at 4:55 at the Campbell house, where she had been visiting with her son for over ten months. She was aged upwards of 71 years and had been an invalid for some time. The funeral will take place this afternoon ... The interment will be in Elm Lawn. Deceased was born in Glasgow, Scotland, October 6, 1826, and removed with her parents to Lanark county, Ont., when a mere child. For the past 17 years she had been a resident of the United States, making her home in Virginia, Dakota and Minnesota at different periods ... she was the mother of 12 children, 6 of whom survive her: Alexander Buchanan, of St. Thomas, N. D.; James, Daniel and Thomas, of Drayton, N. D.; John G., of this city; and Mrs. A. J. Ross, of New Brighton, Minn." (Bay City Tribune, October 28, 1897, pg. 5)	Galbraith, Catherine P. (I52712)
143	"Mrs. Isabel Jane Wilkie Bard (1877-1956), 79, a Crescent City winter visitor, who died yesterday morning, will be sent to South Norwalk, Conn., with local arrangements by Clayton Frank Funeral Home, Crescent City. (Palatka [Fla.] Daily News Obituary dated Monday, 23 Apr 1956.)=Mack Wills	Wilkie, Isabel Jane (I32899)
144	"Mrs. Mary Louise Selleck, wife of Rev. Willard C. Selleck, and sister of Gilbert A. Blackmon, Lowville, died on February 28 at Fernwood Rest Home, Hollywood, Calif., after an illness of three years. She was born in Hammond, St. Lawrence county, New York, May 19, 1852. She was the second of three children of Frederick William Atwater Blackmon and his first wife, Diadama Franklyn Blackmon. Her mother died when she was only four years of age and her father later married again. She spent her early life at home and attended the public school at Hammond. On October 27, 1881, she married Mr. Selleck and went with him to his first parish at Clifton Springs, N.Y. In 1883 they removed to Norwood, Mass., and the next year to Franklyn, Mass. In 1890 they went to Denver, Colo.; in 1895 back east to Providence, R.I.; in 1915 to Utica and to Riverside in 1919. Besides her husband she is survived by one son, Martineau Selleck, of Compton, Calif., and one brother, Gilbert A. Blackmon, of Lowville. Funeral services were held on March 1 at the J. H. Flinn funeral parlors, Dr. Carl S. Henry, pastor of Throop Memorial Universalist church, Pasadena, and Dr. John Gardner, of the First Congregational church, officiating. Mrs. Minnie Mansfield, former organist of the Church of the Reconciliation, Utica, played Handel's "Largo" at the opening service. The six trustees of the All Souls Universalist church [in Watertown, NY] were pall bearers. The body was placed in the vault in Evergreen cemetery and in the spring will be taken to Providence, R.I. for burial. " (The Journal & Republican, Lowville, Lewis Co. NY, Thu. 15 Mar 1928)	Blackman, Mary Louise (I12633)
145	"Mrs. Walter Best. Gouverneur -- Alice Spooner Best, 51, wife of Walter Best, died Monday afternoon at her home in Richville. Mrs. Best was the daughter of Frederick and Lettie Chandler Best." [Ogdensburg, NY, Journal, 12/28/1944] Her obituary appeared on 27 Dec 1944 in the Tribune Press in Gouverneur, St. Lawrence, New York, as follows: "Mrs. Walter C. Best. Mrs. Alice Best wife of Walter C. Best, died at the home on Main Street the afternoon of Christmas day following many years of ill health and for several years was confined to a wheel chair by partial paralysis. She was born in Richville, July 6, 1893 the only child of A. Frederick Spooner and Lottie Chandler Spooner. "On September 16, 1919, she was married to Walter C. Best of Cape Vincent in a home wedding. Three children were born to this union: Ensign Frederick A. Best, U. S. N. R. stationed in the Aleutians, Mrs. Robert S. (Georgiana) Butterworth, Mrs. Reginald (Betty) Smith who survive with her husband and two grandchildren, Robert S. Butterworth, junior and Chandler Smith. "Mrs. Best was a graduate of the Lowville Academy, Class of 1912, and of Elmira College in 1916. "Although Mrs. Best had been badly afflicted for so many years she was always cheerful and took a keen interest in her home life and thoughtfulness of others, even to the last. She was a member of the Richville United Church, Order of Eastern Star and Richville Grange. "Funeral services will be held from the home Thursday afternoon at 2, with Rev. Edward J. W. Burston officiating. Burial will be at Maple Grove Cemetery." [http://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/lccn/sn83031312/1944-12-27/ed-1/seq-6/]	Spooner, Alice Chandler (I6902)
146	"Mrs. [sic] C. Chandler Of Richville Dies Suddenly. Richville -- Friends here were shocked to hear of the death of Miss Carrie Chandler which occurred at the home of a cousin, Miss Thena Townsley in Gouverneur. Miss Chandler was a native of Richville and at one time taught in the Richville high school. Funeral services were held from the Townsley home on Thursday and the body was brought here for interment in the Maple Grove cemetery." [Ogdensburg, NY, Journal, 3/24/1943]	Chandler, Carolyn "Carrie" Belle (I6897)
147	"Obituary. Mr. William Rudsdale. The oldest native and resident of Bathurst, Mr. William Rudsdale, died at his residence, 3rd line, on Saturday last, at the age of 81 years. Deceased was born on the farm on which he died, and which was drawn from the Crown Lands by his father, the late Richard Rudsdale, and scarcely had the young settler and his wife settled on this place, when a son was born to them, now just deceased. This was in 1817, when the township was first settled and the pioneer's axe had scarcely made an impression on the introdden forest stretching over this new township. The elder Mr. Rudsdale was a bluff Yorkshireman, coming from near Scarborough, and possessed all the special characteristics of that part of merrie England; and his son William was an apt copy of his father in this respect. Mrs. Rudsdale, sr., was also an Englishwoman and the twain were married before crossing the ocean for Canada. The deceased married Margaret McKerracher, who survives him, together with their son Richard M. on the homestead; and two sisters Catherine (Mrs. George Fletcher) and Ann (Mrs. Herman Fowler), both residents of the United States. The late Mr. Rudsdale was a staunch Reformer all his days. The funeral took place on Monday to Elmwood Cemetery, and was a very large one. The services were conducted by Rev. D. Currie, of Knox church." [Col. 3, Pg. 5; The Perth Courier; Friday, 7 Oct 1898; Vol. LXV, No. 6]	Rudsdale, William (I9386)
148	"OBITUARY. Palmer. Mr. Andrew Palmer, of this town, had received word of the death of his brother, William, at Chicago a few days ago. His age was about seventy-six years. He was born on the homestead farm, 4th line of Bathurst, and when a youth learned the carpenter trade with the late Mr. John Lister, and when he left here for the West was employed in building the Crosbie barn on the 3rd con. Bathurst, near Glen Tay, so that his departure from Perth was very many years ago. He has two surviving brothers, Alexander, 3rd con. Bathurst, and Andrew, town." [Col. 6, Pg. 8; The Perth Courier; Friday, 9 Nov 1917; Vol. LXXXIV, No. 14]	Palmer, William (I56141)
149	"OBITUARY. Consitt. On Tuesday morning, January 28th, 1930, there passed away at her home one of the oldest and most highly respected residents of Perth, Mrs. A. F. Consitt. The late Mrs. Consitt was born at Scranton, Penn., 75 years ago. She was a daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Charles White and was the last surviving member of a family of four children. A devout Catholic and a patient sufferer for several years her patience and sincere piety were the edification of all who had the pleasure of knowing her. All that medical aid and kindness could do was done to alleviate her sufferings but God willed otherwise and fortified by the sacraments and consolations of her Church she had a most peaceful, happy death. Of a gentle and kindly nature she was loved by a large circle of relations and friends. 'Dear Grandma' as she was best known not only by her grandchildren but by many of their friends and associates will be sadly missed now. However, her beautiful Christian life, her patience and consideration for others and her thoughtfulness for those around her even to the hour of her death leaves a lesson well worth remembering. The immediate members of her family who are left to mourn her loss are two sons Frederick and Thomas and one daughter, Miss Louise at home, and three step-daughters, Mrs. Wm. Howe, Worcester, Mass., Mrs. Carrie Tovey, Detroit, and Mrs. P. J. Lee of Perth. Deceased members were her late husband Adolphus Consitt who passed away eleven years ago, Jan. 7th, one son Francis Hugh, killed in Herald disaster, June 13th, 1910, at Montreal, and another son, Dr. Ed. H., who passed away seven months ago. The funeral was held on Thursday morning at 9.30 o'clock from her late residence to St. John's Church where solemn high mass of requiem was chanted by Rev. Dean Hogan. After mass the funeral cortege proceeded to St. John's cemetery. The high esteem of a large circle of relatives and friends was shown by the numerous floral tributes, mass cards and spiritual bouquets and the many expressions of sympathy that came from far and near.The pallbearers were Messers. Jas. Sheriden, Ed. Burke, R. H. Hughes, Ed. Enright, Frank McGowan and Geo. Noonan. Relatives from a distance at the funeral were Mr. Carroll Consitt, Detroit; Mrs. Wm. Howe, Worcester, Mass.; Mrs. Dan. Carroll, Smiths Falls; Miss Catherine Consitt and Mr. Peter Cavanaugh, Brockville; Mr. F. H. Consitt, Ottawa; Mr. Frank McGowan, Smiths Falls. The entire community join in extending deepest sympathy to the relatives of deceased. ..." [Cols. 4-5, Pg. 8; The Perth Courier; Friday, 7 Feb 1930; Vol. XCVI, No. 26] Inscription Ann White 1855 - 1930 wife of Adolphus F. Consitt Family Members Parents Catherine Nagle White 1831?1904 Spouse Photo Adolphus Frederick Consitt 1837?1919 (m. 1876) Siblings Infant White 1849?1849 Michael White 1851?1901	White, Ann Julia (I44084)
150	"Obituary. Died at this residence, in Beckwith, U. C. on the 12th of September, the Reverend Doctor Buchanan, in the 74th year of his age, and 45th of his Ministry. His sufferings previous to his death which were long and painful, he bore with great patience and christian resignation to the will of his heavenly Father. By his death the church has lost an eminent Presbyterian Minister - his wife, an affectionate husband - and his family, an indulgent parent. He was indeed a faithful servant of Christ, and has left a widow and nine children to lament his loss." [Col. 4, Pg. 3; The Bathurst Courier, Friday, 25 Sep 1835; Vol. II, No. 2 ] The youngest son of Donald Buchanan and his second wife Catherine Menzies he was born at Coupar Angus in 1761. He studied medicine and for the church at Edinburgh University.	Buchanan, Rev. Dr. George (I17518)

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"DIED.
On the 29th ult., a few hours after giving birth to twins, both stillborn, Mrs. Julia Nicol, Ramsay, daughter of the late Red. George Buchanan of Beckwith."
[Pg. 40-9, "Genealogical Extracts from The Perth Courier", Vol. 1, 1834-1869, Louise I. Hope, compiler, 2013, Global Heritage Press, Milton](Record cites 9 Apr 1844 issue but it is likely the 2 Apr 1844 issue which is missing from The Paper of Record)

Buchanan, Julia (I17647)

102

"Died. . . Stilwell. At Morristown, May 26th, Mrs. Isabell Stilwell, in the 56th year of her age." [Ogdensburg (NY) St.
Lawrence Republican and Ogdensburgh Weekly Journal, 6/11/1884]

Miller, Isabel M. (I6647)

103

"Died. ... At his residence here, on Sunday last, very suddenly, Mr. Robert McLaren, Distiller."
[Col. 3, Pg. 3; The Bathurst Courier, Friday, 1 Dec 1848; Vol. XV, No. 6]

McLaren, Robert (I35705)

104

"DIED. ... Rutherford. At Perth, on Tuesday, 7th inst., William Rutherford, in the 85th year of his age. Deceased was a native of Scotland, and emigrated from the neighbourhood of Dundee in 1815 with the early Perth settlers. He was appointed an elder of the first Presbyterian Church under the pastorate of the late Rev. Wm. Bell, which office he held successively under the Rev. Thomas C. Wilson and Rev. Dr. Bain. He was exemplary in his conduct and much respected by all who had the pleasure of his acquaintance.
The funeral will take place from his late residence, Brock St., to-day (Friday,) at 3 o'clock, p.m."
[Col. 7, Pg. 4; The Perth Courier; Friday, 10 Apr 1874; Vol. XL, No. 29]

Rutherford, William (I43776)

105

"DIED. ... Wilson - In Elmsley, on Saturday, May 3rd, Mary Jane McKay, wife of Mr. James Wilson, aged 72 years."
[Col. 1, Pg. 7; The Perth Courier, Friday 9 May 1924, Vol. LXXXIX, No. 39]

Wilson, James 1860-1935 & M McKay H1-1
[Elmwood Cemetery Transcript]

McKay, Mary Jane (I17567)

106

"Died. Allen--Suddenly, March 21, Oscar D. Allen of Northfield, N. J., formerly of Delmar, husband of Doris Holland Allen; father of David W. Allen, Delmar, Mrs. Barbara VanSlyke, South Schodack and Mrs. Linda Kroth, Delmar; son of Jennie B. Allen and the late Oscar H. Allen; brother of Mrs. Ruth Newbury, Albany; also survived by 6 grandchildren. Funeral service was held at First Church in Albany (Reformed), Tuesday morning." [Altamont Enterprise and Albany County Post, Altamont, NY, 3/28/1975]

Allen, Oscar D. (I7968)

107

"DIED. Tovey. On Sunday, 14th Dec, 1873, Mr. Thomas Tovey, 2nd line Cathurst, aged 73 years. A native of County Kilkenny, Ireland."
[Col. 8, Pg. 4; The Perth Courier; Friday, 2 Jan 1874; Vol. XL, No. 25]

Tovey, Thomas (I44231)

108

"Donald Buchanan was born in 1820 at Loch Tayside, Perthshire, Scotland. He came to Canada with his parents in 1829 settling in Beckwith Township in Lanark County. In the early 1840's, Donald married Grace Stewart who was born in 1822 in Perthshire. In 1854, Donald and Grace decided to take their seven children and travel to the Queen's Bush to start a new home. When they reached Guelph, Donald hired a teamster and a wagon to take his family and their belongings to Goderich. From there they came to Inverhuron by sailboat. For temporary shelter Donald put up a log shanty (on Lot 7, Concession 3) beside the blazed trail, east of the present lane. The shanty was later replaced by a log house north of the shanty, east of the present lane (opposite the house today). There was a log stable built west of the house ... Donald had been a weaver in Scotland; he had brought his loom from Scotland and did some custom weaving in his home. Donald built a second stable (measuring 36 feet by 56 feet) in 1877 or 1878. His son-in-law Malcolm McFadyen was the framer ..." [Bruce Township Historical Society, compiler, Anne Judd, manuscript ed. Bruce Township tales and trails : from early days to 1983 (St. Jacobs, Ontario, Canada: St. Jacobs Printery, Ltd, 1984), p. 234]

Buchanan, Donald (I52721)

109

"DRUMMOND PIONEER DEAD. Walter McIlquham Died on Tuesday Aged 96 years. The news of the death of a truly pioneer resident of Drummond, Mr. Walter McIlquham, sr., was received in town on Tuesday night. Mr. McIlquham departed this life on Tuesday afternoon in the 96th year of his age. He had been ill a week, suffering from bronchitis. He was one whose life includes all the years of Lanark history, says the Era. Coming over from Scotland with his parents on the ship Commerce [sic - George Canning], he arrived to find Lanark the centre of a vast forest of pine. But to a boy of his years this was but adventure of the sort that appeals to the average British youth. Settling on a favored spot in Drummond Township there was much to be done clearing away those giant obstructions to farming - the pines. Fortune favored and Mr. McIlquham lived to see one of the best homesteads in the whole countryside identified as his own. He was born in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1810. When ten years of age he came to this country with his parents, they settling on the farm now occupied by his nephew, Mr. Walter S. McIlquham. Early in life he married Margaret Kerr and to them were born Peter J., now of Mountain Mill, Alta.; Walter, of Carleton Place; John K. and Maggie, of Drummond. His second wife was Elizabeth Rankin, by whom he had five sons and daughters - George, on the homestead; William, in Carleton Place; Mrs. John Neilson, Ramsay; Mrs. Henry Blair, Fitzroy, and Mrs. John Menzies, Carleton Place. The funeral took place to Lanark cemetery on Thursday afternoon at twp o'clock. Mr. McIlquham was a strong man municipally and politically and was well known in the community of Perth."
[Col. 4, Pg. 5; The Perth Courier; Friday, 24 Nov 1905; Vol. LXXII, No. 14]
Contributor: Bruce Gordon (48010981)

McIlquham, Walter (I15861)

110

"Eleazer was born in upper New York where his parents had settled for a short time. He was the son of George Washington Hastings and Margaret (Gay) Hastings, both of his parents were children of Revolutionary War Patriots. When Eleazer was 11 years old his family moved to Canada and settled in a new and wild land, being the first settlers west of Newboro, cutting the first log down in 1812. In 1830 Eleazer built the first Baptist church, a wood frame building in their small town of Westport. Eleazer married in 1830 Ann Deacon, the daughter of another early settler who came from Kilkenny, Ireland. They had but one child, John L. Hastings. In 1829, Eleazer built his home on the 7th concession at the extreme western extremity of the town of Westport. His lovely 2 story brick home is still standing (2010) Ann Died in 1879 and Eleazer married Elinor Susanna (Ellis) Adams who died in 1895."
[Doneva Shepard?]

His 1880 marriage to Eleanor Ellis records his place of birth as St. Lawrence Co., NY

Hastings, Eleazar Harding (I43362)

111

"Ernest famred the original homestead and later retired to Melville.

Moen, Ernest M. (I61435)

112

"Esther Irenen Currie was 13 when her mother died and her 3 sisters were sent to Detroit to be raised by Sam's sister. Esther remained on the farm inEast Wawanosh, Huron County, and helped raise her 3 younger brothers.

from Sharon Deacon Begg, April 25, 2023

Deacon, Esther Irene (I55032)

113

"Farm for Sale
The undersigned offers for sale the front half of Lot 16, in the first Con. Bathurst, containing 100 acres. The buildings consisst of a first-class brick veneer house (two stories), kitchen and woodshed, one bank barn 40 x59 feet, with stables in basement and silo attached; one barn 31 x 38; one frame stable, and other buildings.
The farm is well fenced, has an abundance of good water, a fine orchard of about 206 trees, and a good supply of small fruit. It is situated on the Scotch Line, 1/4 mile from cheese factory, blacksmith shop, waggon shop, general store and post office; one mile from school and roller mill.
Also bush lot, 100 acres, 6 miles from homestead, well timbered.
For terms and further particulars apply to
W.M. Gibson
On the premises

The Perth Courier
Perth, Ontario, Canada
February 15, 1901, pg 3.

Gibson, William Murray (I366)

114

"For 20 years, from the time he first went into the bush in the winter of 1844, Peter McLaren had no permanent residence. Initially he passed his winters in the lumber shanties along the Clyde and Mississippi, and the summer seasons back on the family farm in Lanark township. As he became more deeply involved in the Gillies Lumber Company business, cruising new limits, and then as a partner from 1853, he seemed to have lived periodically at Carleton Place, Lanark, Snow Road, and at the shanties he supervised. In the census of 1851 he was living with his widowed mother and siblings in Lanark township. The census taker af 1861 failed to find him, probably deep in the bush somewhere in the Mississippi River basin."
Mississippi Lumber Baron, Ron Shaw, 2016

McLaren, Sen. Peter (I13416)

115

"Found Drowned. Last Sunday [17 Feb 1884] the body of a man was found in the flume back of the woolen-factory, Haggart's Island, and judging from appearances it had been under the water for some weeks. It was soon pretty well identified as being all that remained earthly of Patrick Flaherty, a well-known character; and this supposition was the next day confirmed by members of his own family. The deceased had been missing for nearly two months, but as he was latterly a sort of wanderer upon the earth, his absence caused no comment or alarm, and no one supposed that poor Pat had met with the sad and premature end that had over taken him. It is surmised that while in a state of inebriety Pat stumbled in the flume, where sure death awaited him. His remains were buried on the farm he formerly occupied in North Burgess [Lot A, VIII Concession], on Tuesday. He was about fifty-five years of age at death."
[Cols. 3-4, Pr. 2; The Perth Courier; Friday, 22 Feb 1884; Vol. L, No. 24]

Flaherty, Patrick (I51974)

116

"Frank Miller was in Morristown Saturday afternoon to attend the funeral of his brother, Edward [sic] Miller, who died Thursday of influenza." [Hammond (NY) Advertiser, 10/24/1918]

Miller, Edwin J. "Edward" (I6773)

117

"Gillies, in the informal way of the day, told him they would work henceforth as partners, and such was the basis of an agreement on which the Gillies and McLaren Company was founded, and on which a generation later, the adjustment o hundreds of thousands of dollars turned."
A Hundred Years A-Fellin', 1842-1942, edited by Charlotte Whitton (1942).
Peter McLaren was 22 years of age.

McLaren, Sen. Peter (I13416)

118

"Grandma tried to hire help and carry on the farm. She got herself in an awful muddle so Dad decided to help his Mother carry on. It was very hard on Dad but he believed it was his duty and I don't suppose anyone ever heard him complain.

Morrison, Jane "Anne" (I7444)

119

"He was for many years the secretary-treasurer of the Lethbridge school board, served for ten years as secretary of the Lethbridge Board of Trade, and in various positions with other organizations. Among these were: Secretary of the Lethbridge Agricultural Society from 1896 to 1901 and president of the society in 1902, secretary of Galt Hospital for a number of years after 1903, and a member of the local board of control of the Dry Farming Congress here in 1912.

Fraternally Mr. Bowman was a member of North Star Lodge No. 4, A.F. anad A.M., and Shekinah Chapter, R.A.M. He and his family identified with the Church of England. He was one of the founders of St Augustin's, and also assisted in establishing St. May's in North Lethbridge. While a Conservative in politics, he was generally classed as an independent Conservative.

Bowman, Charles Broughham (I1867)

120

"I'm sure he didn't get much out of his rent money but the three children adored Earl who was the Rock in their storm tosssed life. They must have lived with him for ten years and really in spite of broken down verandas etc. they were good company for him."

Miller, John Earl "Earl" (I33574)

121

"If the marriage is annulled I will re-marry him when I am 18."
Fifteen-Year-Old Bride Tells Her Own Story
as told by Marjorie Marion Lalonde
(Exclusive to Perth Courier)

"I do not want my marriage annulled, I am completely happy with Jack and want to remain married to him, and if the marriage is annulled I will re-marry him when I am 18", stated the pretty brown haired, 15 year old bride of nine days.

These words wer emphatically and sincerely spoken by Marjorie Marion Lalonde as she demurely sat by her mother and told her life story and the circumstances that preceded her marriage to John Michael Lalond, 42 year old bachelor, to whom she was married on February 7th at Watson's Corners.

Mrs. Lalonde and her husband reported to the Perth Headquarters of the Ontario Provincial Police on February 13th at 9:15 in the morning and informed Inspector T.W. Cousins that they had heard the Police were looking for them. Inspector Cousans informed the newly-weds that the bride's mother had laid a charge of abduction under the criminal code, against Mr. Lalonde and that a warrant for his arrest had been issued. Mr. Lalonde surrendered himself to the Police and was placed in temporary confinement in the County Jail.

The young bride readily answered all questions that were asked her in this personal interview and was aided by her mother on some matters. Everything she stated was voluntary.

Marjory Marion McGonegal was born on Christmas Day, 1936, the eldest of four children of Mr and Mrs Elwood McGonagal, in Lanark Village. Here the infant grew and developed into a young, attractive well-mannered girl who made friends easily and always willingly and ungrudgingly helped her m other about the house. Marjorie moved to Minden, Ontario, at an early age and with the family resided in a substantial seven-roomed house. Here the father worked as a carpenter and here also wa born William, Marjories eldest brother.

In 1940 the father joined the Army and, after 15 months over-seas he returned to Canada and was discharged because of a bad case of asthma. When he returned to Minden it was soon discovered that climatic conditions were not the best, so the family decided to return to Lanark County and settled in Balderson. Wnen Marjorie became of school age they again moved back to Lanark Village so that she might attend the Public School.

I liked Public school very much, made friends very easily and took an active part in the school sports", said Mrs Lalonde as a faint glow developed in her brown eyes and fond memories evidently crossed her mind, "but I was not too fussy about continuation school."

when asked what her ambitions for the future had been, she said that she had either wanted to become a teacher or a hairdresser. "I always enjoyed styling the hair of the other kids at school and felt that this was what I would like to be". Mrs. Lalonde took an active part in the United Church CGIT Groups and always assisted her mother with work at home.

"How did I first meet Jack? My mother introduced me to him at a wedding reception and we danced together. Mother knew him when she was young and they grew up together. After our first meeting Jack came to the house to see me and we went out together for 18 months before we were married."

"Before I met Jack, things at home went very well, I helped about the house, got the evening meals and assisted with the dishes and inside chores. My parents always treated me well and gave me a little spending money. We lived in a seven-room house in Lanark and had plenty of food and heat. Ours was not a rich family, nor were we poor".

"But, after I met Jack, things at home changed and mother began to forbid me to see him."

At this point Mrs. mcGonegal explained that when the two began to go together neither she nor her husband objected because they never dreamed that it would develop into anything. However the majority of the time that the couple went out, the mother and father usuallly accompanied them. Only on a couple of occasions did they go out themselves and then they phoned to inform the parents that everything was allright and told them where they were.

"No definite action was taken by my mother or father until some person complained to the Children's Aid Society that I was staying out late with an elderly man and visiting his room in a hotel in Perth," frankly stated Mrs Lalond, "but this report was ----- On the night in question I was with my mother, it was about eleven o'clock, and mother asked me to return some car keys to Jack's room. I took the keys to him and then rejoined by mother and we returned home. This complaint was the cause of the objections of my parents and from then on they forbade me to see Jack."

Soon after we first met, Jack came to se me about once a week we usually stayed at home or went to a friend's house and played cards, other times we came to Perth and went to the show. Jack stayed at the house on the occasional wee-end before the complaint was lodged, but after this he was forbidden to come to the house."

What did you do then? "We used to meet after school and Jack would pick me up in his car, on Sundays he would meet me on the street and w would then go for a drive and visit a friend's house and play cards. I did not want to stop seeing him nor did he want to be separate from me."

How long were you planning to get married before you did? "For about two months, even if mother had not gone away we would have married. Jack and I talked it all over and we realized the difference in the ages, that the marriage would likely be annulled and that we were doing so against my parent's wishes".

If you realized all this why did you go ahead? "We hoped that it might not be annulled, but if it is, when I am 18 we will re-marry. We had the rings ordeered early last February and decided that when mother was away would be our best chance. We went toCarleton Place on the 4th of February and applied for our licence. Jack told that his age was only thirty seven because if there was another war he wanted to rejoin the army. He was overseas for 6 years in the last war and injured in action."

Where were you going to live? "Jack owns property in Carleton Place and is having lumber cut in the bush so that we can build our own home".

Did you intend to work? "No. Jack does not want me to work, he says that he is quite capable of keeping both of us. He works in the bush in the winter and is now cutting ties for the railroad, he purchases the trees from the farmer and then resells them to a firm that supplies the rairoad with ties. In the summer he sell magazines andmakes very good money. There was no question in my mind that he could not properly support me."

When asked if she could keep house, Mrs McGonegal said that her daughter could cook, sew and keep house as well as she, a woman who had been married 18 years.

If the marriage is annulled what will you do? "If it is, I really do not know what I will do. My mother wants me to go back to school, but I will not go to school agian in Lanark or Perth, and, I will not go back to school unless I am made to. I imagine I would look for work and put in the time until I was 18.

Did you receive any money from Lalonde before you were married? "He gave me a bit but I received a small allowance from my parents. After we were married Jack gave me some money for a wedding present and extra spending money. I really did not need it but he gave it to me anyway. He was going to give me so much each week for the up-keep of the house and I know that it would have been enough."

Where and when were you married? "We were married on February 7th at Watson's Corners in the United Church by the Reverend D.J. Campbell.

After the wedding they borrowed a car because the groom's had no brakes and was in need of repair. The couple went north for their honeymoon and reached North Bay before they heard the Police were looking for them.

For the ceremony the bride wore a wine suit, white blouse, grey hat and accessories. While being interviewed she wore her wedding ensemble and a smartly tailored green coat. when looking at mrs. lalonde no person would ever think that she was only fifteen yers old, nor would anyone think that Mr. Lalonde was 42, both are deceiving in their ages.

Are you completely satisfied that wat you did was right? "Yes, I feel that we did the rignt thinbg, we loved each other and wanted to get married, nothing could have stopped us. We were going to do it anyway whether mother was away or not. I have been very happy since I have been married and do not want it to end. We have a place to live until we build a house in Carleton Place."

During the interview Mrs McGonegal said very little but was in general agreement with her daughter. The one thing that she was insitent on was that her daughter complete her education at school, and after she reached the age of 18, Mrs McGonegal did not mind what her daughter did. The mother said that they never realized that teh meeting with Lalonde was so serious and only after a complaint was laid against them did they begin to worry. Mrs McGonegal was of the opinion that, if the complaint had not been laid, by some person unknown, the marriage and romance would never have taken place.

The young bride was not upset by the interview and readily annswered all the questions and was glad that she could explain things as she saw them.

She frankly concluded - "I do not want my marriage annulled, I am completely happy and want to remain married to Jack. If it is annulled we will re-marry when I am 18. That is what we want and that is what we intend to do."

The Perth Courier
Perth, Ontario, Canada
Thursday, February 21, 1952, pp. 1, 12

Family: John Michael "Jack" Lalonde / Marjorie Marion McGonegal (F1634)

122

"In 1910 he opened with Sells Floto at Albuquerque, New Mexico, April 17-19. He wasn't there long. Due to a misunderstanding with the manager he suddenly departed, going to the Al G. Barnes show at Wenatchee, Washington in late April or early May

Pennock, Murray Alexander (I47227)

123

"In ansr to the petition of George & Frances Addams, humbly desiring the favour of this Court to confirme vnto them a certeline parcell of vpland & meadow seuerall yeares since given to them by Shoniow, sachem of Nashaway, deceased, called by the name of Washaame Hill, being about the quantity of two hundred acres," granted ?i?(Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England 5:39)
?/i?On 24 May 1715, George Adams of Lexington and Mary Adams of the same place, spinster. "the Son and Daughter of George Adams formerly of Lancaster glover deced" sold their rights in this tract to "our elder Brother John Adams of Colchester in ...Connecticut; and on the same day John Adams of Colchester, "Son of George Adams formerly of Lancaster Glover decd," deeded three fifths of this tract to Francis Fullam, "Gentleman", of Weston, Massachuscetts.
On 7 November 1723, Samuel Aadams of Windsor, Connecticut, Son to George Adams formerly of Lancastar deced," and Joseph Adams of Simsbury Connecticut, "in Right of his father Daniel Adams also Son to the aforesd. George Adams of sd. Lancastar or Nashaway" and for the children & heirs of his father Daniel Adams aforesd deced," deeded the remaining two fifths to Mr. Fullam. The deed states that Samuel and Joseph were "Invested with two fifths of the whole of a Certain Tract of Land formerly granted or given by Shoinow Sachem of Nashaway unto the sd George Adams and Frances his Wife which was confirmed by the Genl. Court held at Boston May 12th 1675 containing Two Hundred Acres at Washcomhill.

Adams, George II (I13963)

124

"In Drummond, Sat. Aug. 12th, 1916, Duncan Buchanan, aged 94 years." [The Lanark Era, Wed., Aug. 23, 1916, Births, Marriages & Deaths, pg. 32 (source: Lanark Co. Genealogy Society Archives)]

Buchanan, Duncan (I52730)

125

"In Montague, Mon. May 31 Jane McGREGOR, wife of late James BUCHANAN sr, aged 83 yrs 10 mos. Born in Drummond Husb died 52 yrs ago. of 5 chn only 1, James, on the homestead, survives. She was 1 of 8 chn and was last survivor ... Baptist. To family burying ground Drummond." [Genealogical Abstracts from The Perth Courier, Births, Marriages & Deaths, pg. 484 (Source: Lanark Co. Genealogy Society Archives)]

McGregor, Jane (I52724)

126

"In November 1936, Mother when out with Earl to help pick up the potatoes she was afraid he was letting freeze. She took a sick spell and the Doctor said she should have her gall bladder out, so on Monday morning November 10, 1936 she was operated on but didn't come out of the operation. On the noon mail I had got a letter from her and supper I got the telegram that she was dead. She was buried from Doug's house."

Small, Eliza Jane "Betty" (I33567)

127

"Iver erected a house on his place and they all moved into it. This, however, was a mistake as the homestead laws then were that a son could live with his parents, but a father could not live with his son. This made it necessary to also build on Erick's homestead. It also became necwssary to spend some time at each place. So spring and fall became moving days for the next three years.

Selland, Erick Inverson (I61379)

128

Selland, Iver E. (I61373)

129

"Iver's parents continued to live with them

Selland, Iver E. (I61373)

130

"Jack" Miller was being forced into a shotgun marriage. He stole his father's car and drove to Flin Flon. NEVER MARRIED.

Miller, John Biggar "Jack" (I1878)

131

"Jean G. Shields (nee Torbert) of Glenside, formerly of Havertown, PA

Mrs. Jean G. Shields, 85, of Glenside, passed away Friday, November 26th, 2010 peacefully at Abington Memorial Hospital, in Montgomery County, PA.

Jean was born in Columbia, PA on June 18, 1925, the daughter of the late James and Catherine (Carman) Torbert.

Jean was a registered nurse at St. Francis Country House in Darby, PA. She was an avid Phillies fan and enjoyed genealogy especially in the Lancaster area.

She is the widow of Dr. William E. Shields. She is the Mother of Deborah (Edward) Lennon of Abington, PA, William Scott (Shawn) Shields of Colorado & Steven (Janice) Shields of Havertown, PA. Also survived by 10 loving Grandchildren.

Visitation after 10 AM Wednesday, December 1st, at Kish Funeral Home Ltd., 1998 Sproul Rd., Broomall, PA 19008.

Religious Service at Kish Funeral Home Ltd. at 12 Noon. Interment Arlington Cemetery

In lieu of flowers, family requests donations to Alex's Lemonade Stand, 333 E. Lancaster Ave., Wynnewood, PA 19096."
Lancaster Newspapers Inc.,
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Tobert, Jean Gloria (I69003)

132

"John Allan's birth in 1816 was synchronous with the first settlement on the Scotch Line, being the first male child in this settlement. He was engaged almost all his life in the milling business, having a sawmill and carding mill on the Scotch Line.

"Later, he ran a sawmill and a grist mill on the Tay River (formerly Pike), and also engaged in the milling business in Perth.

From Hilda Geddes' book, The First One Hundred Years, Snow Road Presbyterian Church 1885-1985 :

"In 1877, he moved from Perth to Palmerston Township at Snow Road, where he operated a sawmill for several years on Antoine Creek at what was later known as the Louis Tremblay place. In 1841, he was married to Anne McLean while still in the Perth area and this union was blessed with 11 children.... He died on May 5, 1900 at the home of his son Isaac Allan at Mississippi."

Allan, John (I13492)

133

Ashby, John Sr. (I28434)

134

"John Ashby Senior of Bugbrooke yeoman" made his will in 1719 leaving to his son Richard half a quateerne of a yardland and directing him to get him a stone at the head of his grave. "Richard Ashby of Bugbrooke Yeoman" died in 1748 leaving his half quarterne of a yardland to his wife Lydia together with all the rest of his property. This is the last notice I have seen of any of the Ashby's of Bugbrooke (except those with whom we are concerned) holding the position of yeoman.

Ashby, John Sr. (I28434)

135

"March 21, 1863 - Thomas Ferguson and Hugh Hunter here today asking for the privilege of a grave at the church for old Mrs. Ferguson who died yesterday at her son Allan's. I gave them a grave beside J. Baillie."

An impressive number of sleighs (15) attended her funeral. This graveyard has recently been restored with a fence and large granite marker giving the history of the St James Ferguson Cemetery. Kenwell Ferguson and Amelia Jean Ferguson were instrumental in doing this.

Source: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~onlanark/NewspaperClippings/Mason/FergusonOne.htm

Barr, Mary (I46113)

136

"Marriage 1802 August 10th. James Ralton and Margaret MacLean both of the parish of Cadder."

Family: James Ralston / Margaret MacLean (F12463)

137

"MARRIED.
On the 10th inst., by the Rev. Wm. Bain, Mr. John Robertson of New York to Miss Lydia Fraser, of the Township of Drummond."
[Col. 2, Pg. 3; The Bathurst Courier, Friday, 12 Dec 1851; Vol. XVIII, No. 8]

Family: John Robertson / Lydia Fraser (F14671)

138

"Matilda was my great-grandmother. Her grandchildren called her "Meme," which I'm told is French for grandmother. She was a daughter of Joseph Pigeon (or Pidgeon) and Matilda Julliet. She taught school in Montreal, Quebec. She married William Warner and they had six children. They immigrated to the United States and settled in Au Gres, Michigan.

After she was widowed, her son, Loren's wife died while their children were quite young. Matilda stepped in and helped him rear the children.

She died of kidney disease while visiting my grandparents in Flint.

Pigeon, Matilda M. (I52011)

139

"Morristown, Aug. 26.--. . . Mrs. John Miller died on Friday last after a lingering illness which she bore with Christian fortitude and patience. Mr. Miller, who is also in failing health, has the heartfelt sympathy of this whole community. The funeral took place on Sunday last and was largely attended by sympathizing friends; services were held in the Presbyterian church. The Rev. Mr. Booth of New Hartford, N. Y., officiating and who also preached Sunday in the Presbyterian church." [Ogdensburg Advance and St. Lawrence Weekly Democrat, 8/29/1889]

Cora A. (I6775)

140

"Mr. Bowman was most active in municipal affairs, serving during those years as secretary-treasurer for the town, and then the city when Lethbridge advanced in its standing, and as the city assessors. During that time his real estate office was located in the city hall. He resigned his civic posts in 1907 to devote his entire time to the real estate business, which had grown to large proportion.

From 1907 onwards for several years with the exception of 1906, Mr. Bowman was an alderman. He also held the position of acting mayor at one time in 1909, but was unsuccessful at the polls when he one sought election as the city's mayor."

Bowman, Charles Broughham (I1867)

141

"Mr. Foster was born Aug 20, 1853 at Perth, Ontario, Canada. One of a family of 6 boys and 5 girls with whom the parents Henry and Margaret Foster were blessed. As Archie he was more commonly known to his family and friends spent his boyhood with his family at Perth and later Marksdale, Ontario. And the year of 1873 he came to the state of Michigan plying his trade in the lumber woods. And as time went on entered into all phase of lumber industry and finally ran his own camps. In the year of 1882 he met and wed Sarah Richardson, the couple making their home in Rolland township, clearing the land and enduring all the privations and hardships mixed with the joys which confronted pioneer families. 13 children were born to Archie and Sarah, seven boys and six girls, all of whom survive, except Charles who passed away in the year of 1931, although the children grew up and scattered to make their own homes. Archie and Sarah have always resided in this locality with the exception of a few years spent in the state of Oregon. On April 10, 1933 Mother Foster passed away a loss to which Archie could never become accustomed. Although he was in ill health during his declining years he refused to leave, except for a short period, the home which contained so many memories of a long life well spent."

Foster, Archibald (I27267)

142

"Mrs. Catherine Buchanan, mother of Ald. John G. Buchanan, died yesterday morning at 4:55 at the Campbell house, where she had been visiting with her son for over ten months. She was aged upwards of 71 years and had been an invalid for some time. The funeral will take place this afternoon ... The interment will be in Elm Lawn. Deceased was born in Glasgow, Scotland, October 6, 1826, and removed with her parents to Lanark county, Ont., when a mere child. For the past 17 years she had been a resident of the United States, making her home in Virginia, Dakota and Minnesota at different periods ... she was the mother of 12 children, 6 of whom survive her: Alexander Buchanan, of St. Thomas, N. D.; James, Daniel and Thomas, of Drayton, N. D.; John G., of this city; and Mrs. A. J. Ross, of New Brighton, Minn." (Bay City Tribune, October 28, 1897, pg. 5)

Galbraith, Catherine P. (I52712)

143

"Mrs. Isabel Jane Wilkie Bard (1877-1956), 79, a Crescent City winter visitor, who died yesterday morning, will be sent to South Norwalk, Conn., with local arrangements by Clayton Frank Funeral Home, Crescent City. (Palatka [Fla.] Daily News Obituary dated Monday, 23 Apr 1956.)=Mack Wills

Wilkie, Isabel Jane (I32899)

144

"Mrs. Mary Louise Selleck, wife of Rev. Willard C. Selleck, and sister of Gilbert A. Blackmon, Lowville, died on February 28 at Fernwood Rest Home, Hollywood, Calif., after an illness of three years. She was born in Hammond, St. Lawrence county, New York, May 19, 1852. She was the second of three children of Frederick William Atwater Blackmon and his first wife, Diadama Franklyn Blackmon. Her mother died when she was only four years of age and her father later married again. She spent her early life at home and attended the public school at Hammond. On October 27, 1881, she married Mr. Selleck and went with him to his first parish at Clifton Springs, N.Y. In 1883 they removed to Norwood, Mass., and the next year to Franklyn, Mass. In 1890 they went to Denver, Colo.; in 1895 back east to Providence, R.I.; in 1915 to Utica and to Riverside in 1919.
Besides her husband she is survived by one son, Martineau Selleck, of Compton, Calif., and one brother, Gilbert A. Blackmon, of Lowville.
Funeral services were held on March 1 at the J. H. Flinn funeral parlors, Dr. Carl S. Henry, pastor of Throop Memorial Universalist church, Pasadena, and Dr. John Gardner, of the First Congregational church, officiating. Mrs. Minnie Mansfield, former organist of the Church of the Reconciliation, Utica, played Handel's "Largo" at the opening service. The six trustees of the All Souls Universalist church [in Watertown, NY] were pall bearers. The body was placed in the vault in Evergreen cemetery and in the spring will be taken to Providence, R.I. for burial. "
(The Journal & Republican, Lowville, Lewis Co. NY, Thu. 15 Mar 1928)

Blackman, Mary Louise (I12633)

145

"Mrs. Walter Best. Gouverneur -- Alice Spooner Best, 51, wife of Walter Best, died Monday afternoon at her home in Richville. Mrs. Best was the daughter of Frederick and Lettie Chandler Best." [Ogdensburg, NY, Journal, 12/28/1944]

Her obituary appeared on 27 Dec 1944 in the Tribune Press in Gouverneur, St. Lawrence, New York, as follows: "Mrs. Walter C. Best. Mrs. Alice Best wife of Walter C. Best, died at the home on Main Street the afternoon of Christmas day following many years of ill health and for several years was confined to a wheel chair by partial paralysis. She was born in Richville, July 6, 1893 the only child of A. Frederick Spooner and Lottie Chandler Spooner.
"On September 16, 1919, she was married to Walter C. Best of Cape Vincent in a home wedding. Three children were born to this union: Ensign Frederick A. Best, U. S. N. R. stationed in the Aleutians, Mrs. Robert S. (Georgiana) Butterworth, Mrs. Reginald (Betty) Smith who survive with her husband and two grandchildren, Robert S. Butterworth, junior and Chandler Smith.
"Mrs. Best was a graduate of the Lowville Academy, Class of 1912, and of Elmira College in 1916.
"Although Mrs. Best had been badly afflicted for so many years she was always cheerful and took a keen interest in her home life and thoughtfulness of others, even to the last. She was a member of the Richville United Church, Order of Eastern Star and Richville Grange.
"Funeral services will be held from the home Thursday afternoon at 2, with Rev. Edward J. W. Burston officiating. Burial will be at Maple Grove Cemetery." [http://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/lccn/sn83031312/1944-12-27/ed-1/seq-6/]

Spooner, Alice Chandler (I6902)

146

"Mrs. [sic] C. Chandler Of Richville Dies Suddenly. Richville --
Friends here were shocked to hear of the death of Miss Carrie Chandler which occurred at the home of a cousin, Miss Thena Townsley in Gouverneur. Miss Chandler was a native of Richville and at one time taught in the Richville high school. Funeral services were held from the Townsley home on Thursday and the body was brought here for interment in the Maple Grove cemetery." [Ogdensburg, NY, Journal, 3/24/1943]

Chandler, Carolyn "Carrie" Belle (I6897)

147

"Obituary.
Mr. William Rudsdale. The oldest native and resident of Bathurst, Mr. William Rudsdale, died at his residence, 3rd line, on Saturday last, at the age of 81 years. Deceased was born on the farm on which he died, and which was drawn from the Crown Lands by his father, the late Richard Rudsdale, and scarcely had the young settler and his wife settled on this place, when a son was born to them, now just deceased. This was in 1817, when the township was first settled and the pioneer's axe had scarcely made an impression on the introdden forest stretching over this new township. The elder Mr. Rudsdale was a bluff Yorkshireman, coming from near Scarborough, and possessed all the special characteristics of that part of merrie England; and his son William was an apt copy of his father in this respect. Mrs. Rudsdale, sr., was also an Englishwoman and the twain were married before crossing the ocean for Canada. The deceased married Margaret McKerracher, who survives him, together with their son Richard M. on the homestead; and two sisters Catherine (Mrs. George Fletcher) and Ann (Mrs. Herman Fowler), both residents of the United States. The late Mr. Rudsdale was a staunch Reformer all his days. The funeral took place on Monday to Elmwood Cemetery, and was a very large one. The services were conducted by Rev. D. Currie, of Knox church."
[Col. 3, Pg. 5; The Perth Courier; Friday, 7 Oct 1898; Vol. LXV, No. 6]

Rudsdale, William (I9386)

148

"OBITUARY.
Palmer. Mr. Andrew Palmer, of this town, had received word of the death of his brother, William, at Chicago a few days ago. His age was about seventy-six years. He was born on the homestead farm, 4th line of Bathurst, and when a youth learned the carpenter trade with the late Mr. John Lister, and when he left here for the West was employed in building the Crosbie barn on the 3rd con. Bathurst, near Glen Tay, so that his departure from Perth was very many years ago. He has two surviving brothers, Alexander, 3rd con. Bathurst, and Andrew, town."
[Col. 6, Pg. 8; The Perth Courier; Friday, 9 Nov 1917; Vol. LXXXIV, No. 14]

Palmer, William (I56141)

149

"OBITUARY. Consitt. On Tuesday morning, January 28th, 1930, there passed away at her home one of the oldest and most highly respected residents of Perth, Mrs. A. F. Consitt. The late Mrs. Consitt was born at Scranton, Penn., 75 years ago. She was a daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Charles White and was the last surviving member of a family of four children. A devout Catholic and a patient sufferer for several years her patience and sincere piety were the edification of all who had the pleasure of knowing her. All that medical aid and kindness could do was done to alleviate her sufferings but God willed otherwise and fortified by the sacraments and consolations of her Church she had a most peaceful, happy death. Of a gentle and kindly nature she was loved by a large circle of relations and friends. 'Dear Grandma' as she was best known not only by her grandchildren but by many of their friends and associates will be sadly missed now. However, her beautiful Christian life, her patience and consideration for others and her thoughtfulness for those around her even to the hour of her death leaves a lesson well worth remembering. The immediate members of her family who are left to mourn her loss are two sons Frederick and Thomas and one daughter, Miss Louise at home, and three step-daughters, Mrs. Wm. Howe, Worcester, Mass., Mrs. Carrie Tovey, Detroit, and Mrs. P. J. Lee of Perth. Deceased members were her late husband Adolphus Consitt who passed away eleven years ago, Jan. 7th, one son Francis Hugh, killed in Herald disaster, June 13th, 1910, at Montreal, and another son, Dr. Ed. H., who passed away seven months ago. The funeral was held on Thursday morning at 9.30 o'clock from her late residence to St. John's Church where solemn high mass of requiem was chanted by Rev. Dean Hogan. After mass the funeral cortege proceeded to St. John's cemetery. The high esteem of a large circle of relatives and friends was shown by the numerous floral tributes, mass cards and spiritual bouquets and the many expressions of sympathy that came from far and near.The pallbearers were Messers. Jas. Sheriden, Ed. Burke, R. H. Hughes, Ed. Enright, Frank McGowan and Geo. Noonan. Relatives from a distance at the funeral were Mr. Carroll Consitt, Detroit; Mrs. Wm. Howe, Worcester, Mass.; Mrs. Dan. Carroll, Smiths Falls; Miss Catherine Consitt and Mr. Peter Cavanaugh, Brockville; Mr. F. H. Consitt, Ottawa; Mr. Frank McGowan, Smiths Falls. The entire community join in extending deepest sympathy to the relatives of deceased. ..."
[Cols. 4-5, Pg. 8; The Perth Courier; Friday, 7 Feb 1930; Vol. XCVI, No. 26]

Inscription
Ann White
1855 - 1930
wife of
Adolphus F. Consitt
Family Members
Parents
Catherine Nagle White
1831?1904

Spouse
Photo
Adolphus Frederick Consitt
1837?1919 (m. 1876)

Siblings
Infant White
1849?1849

Michael White
1851?1901

White, Ann Julia (I44084)

150

"Obituary. Died at this residence, in Beckwith, U. C. on the 12th of September, the Reverend Doctor Buchanan, in the 74th year of his age, and 45th of his Ministry. His sufferings previous to his death which were long and painful, he bore with great patience and christian resignation to the will of his heavenly Father. By his death the church has lost an eminent Presbyterian Minister - his wife, an affectionate husband - and his family, an indulgent parent. He was indeed a faithful servant of Christ, and has left a widow and nine children to lament his loss."
[Col. 4, Pg. 3; The Bathurst Courier, Friday, 25 Sep 1835; Vol. II, No. 2 ]

The youngest son of Donald Buchanan and his second wife Catherine Menzies he was born at Coupar Angus in 1761. He studied medicine and for the church at Edinburgh University.

Buchanan, Rev. Dr. George (I17518)

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