John Geddes

1854 - 1938  (84 years)

• Name	John Geddes
  Birth	21 May 1854	Elphin, Dalhousie Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada
  Gender	Male
  FindaGrave Memorial ID	103757706
  	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/103757706
  _UID	130C8DD5E49D420C88F97952E3A60FCAFEBF
  Death	5 Sep 1938	Pilot Mound, Pilot Mound District, RM of Louise, Manitoba, Canada
  	John Geddes was born May 21, 1854 at the parental home, Lot 12, Concession 1, Township of NorthSherbrooke about one mile south west of Dalhousie Lake. He attended school in the area and worked on the farm, in lumber camps and mills and then went to Western Canada. The following is an excerpt from the book "Echoes of Rural Canada" written by his son William John Geddes about 1967: He grew up at Elphin with lots of work. He was in the shanty when he was fifteen years old and helped take a raft of logs down the river that spring to Ottawa. In 1886, John Geddes and Bob Geddes came west to Pilot Mound, Manitoba. Bob was an uncle to John. John spent part of the year butchering in Winnipeg then came out to Munros at Wood Bay. That fall he and Bob Geddes took up homesteads west of Pilot Mound. John got the S.W. 1/4 of 10-3-12 and Bob the N.E. 1/4 of 10-3-12. They built a log shanty and stayed the first part of the winter of 1886 and 1887. While there, there was a bear bothering them which Bob shot and they used the skin for a rug on the earth floor. They left in February 1887, Dad to get a wife and Bob a carload of lumber for two houses. Dad married Emily Hannah, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Hannah of Elphin, Ontario, on March 16, 1887. There were ten in mother's family; 8 girls and 2 boys. John Geddes and wife came west that spring by way of East Grand Forks, Minnesota. Dad had two brothers, Dave and Adam, and a sister Tena who made that their home a few years later. Dad and mother spent the first two years in Crystal City, Manitoba, where Dad was butchering. In the summer of 1889 they got the two houses built with some ground ready for crops the next spring and moved out onto the homesteads that fall where they stayed until the end of 1898. In July 1898, Dad bought the N.E. 1/4 of 3-3-12 and that summer he and Bob Geddes built a log house. Bob was an extra good axeman. It was he who squared the logs and did the dovetailing on the corners. So, with the help of neighbours, they were not long in getting the house built, which is still standing. For the next twenty years it was a happy home as Dad and Mother were the best. They moved into Crystal City that fall of 1918. I rented the farm for the next three years. In the spring of 1922 I moved into Pilot Mound where we have been ever since. Jim rented Dad's farm until the fall of 1928, when it was sold to Doug McKay. Mother and Dad bought the Herb Howard house. It was a large brick house so they had lots of room when family came home. They spent another twenty years there. Dad died Septenber 5, 1938 and Mother in August 1940.
  Burial	Crystal City Cemetery, Pilot Mound District, Manitoba, Canada
  Person ID	I12481	Lanark County Origins
  Last Modified	18 Oct 2017

  
  

  Father	Daniel Geddes,   b. 14 Apr 1823, Glasgow (Glasgow Cathedral or High), Glasgow City, Scotland d. 22 Oct 1908, Belgrave, Huron County, Ontario, Canada (Age 85 years)
  Mother	Agnes "Nancy" Ferguson,   b. 23 May 1830   d. 27 Oct 1908, Elphin, Lanark Highlands (North Sherbrooke), Lanark County, Ontario, Canada (Age 78 years)
  Marriage	18 Oct	St Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Perth, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada
  Family ID	F3786	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Emily "Emma" Hannah,   b. 7 Jan 1862, Sherbrooke North Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada d. 9 Aug 1940, Crystal City, Pilot Mound Census Division, Manitoba, Canada (Age 78 years)
  Marriage	16 Mar 1887	Mississippi Station, Palmerston Twp, Frontenac County, Ontario, Canada
  Family ID	F3816	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	4 Mar 2024

  
  

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  Birth - 21 May 1854 - Elphin, Dalhousie Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada Marriage - 16 Mar 1887 - Mississippi Station, Palmerston Twp, Frontenac County, Ontario, Canada Death - 5 Sep 1938 - Pilot Mound, Pilot Mound District, RM of Louise, Manitoba, Canada Burial - - Crystal City Cemetery, Pilot Mound District, Manitoba, Canada  = Link to Google Earth