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John Cumming Mather |
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17 May 1888 |
Middleville, Lanark Highlands (Lanark), Lanark County, Ontario, Canada  |
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John Cumming Mather Birth Record
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1891 |
Lanark Highlands (Lanark), Lanark County, Ontario, Canada [1] |
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1891 Census Lanark Lanark Henry Mather
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1901 |
Lanark Highlands (Lanark), Lanark County, Ontario, Canada [2] |
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1901 Census Lanark Lanark Henry Mather
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1911 |
Tay Valley Twp (Bathurst), Lanark County, Ontario, Canada [3] |
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1911 Census Bathurst Lanark Henry Mather
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1911 |
Tay Valley Twp (Bathurst), Lanark County, Ontario, Canada |
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1916 |
Tay Valley Twp (Bathurst), Lanark County, Ontario, Canada |
| Farmer |
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1921 |
Perth, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada |
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- Living on North Street, Perth, ON
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1921 |
Perth, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada |
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1924 |
Tay Valley Twp (Bathurst), Lanark County, Ontario, Canada |
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8 May 1979 |
Perth, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada |
- Mather, John Cumming - At Lanark Lodge, Perth Ontario, Perth Ontario, Tuesday May 8, 1979 John Cumming Mather in his 91st year, husband of the late Isabella Ashby; dear father of Harry of Balderson; John, Perth; Evelyn (Mrs. Ernest Miller) Glen Tay; and Gordon of Rexdale; brother of William Mather of Perth. Resting at the Blair and Son Funeral Home, 15 West Gore Street, Perth. Funeral service will be conducted in the chapel on Friday May 11 at 2 pm. Interment Elmwood Cemetery. A Masonic service will be held Thursday evening at 9 pm.
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John Cumming Mather
After a short illness, John Cumming Mather died at Lanark Lodge, Perth, on Tuesday, May 8, 1979, in his 91st year. He was the husband of the late Isagella Ashbby who predeceased him in July 1965.
Born at Middleville on May 21, 1888, he was the eldest son of harry Mather and Ella Baird. After receiving his early education in the Middleville school, he worked in agriculture in Western Canada, and in the forestry industry in Quebec and northern Ontario, with several firsm, including the Gillies Bros. Company.
Following his marriage at Asbury Methodist Church, Perth, on April 26, 1916, he farmed initially near Lanark, and later near Balderson. Always interested in community activity, Mr Mather served as Secretary and Livestock Shipper for the Balderson Farmers' Club beginning in 1928. He became the first president of Perth District Co-Operative in 1941 and served in that capacity until 1955, but continued on the Board of Directors until 1973. Mr. Mather served as a Director of the Lanark County Federation of Agriculture and also on the Board of Lanark Co-Operative Medical Services.
After being a trustee in S.S. 15 Bathurst, his activities in municipal affairs began in 1929 with the election to Bathurst Township Council. He was Reeve of Bathurst from 1939 until 1948 and served as Warden of Lanark County in 1945. Committee work while on County Council included membership in the Senior Citizens and Roads Committees. Following retirement he served as County representative on the Suburban Roads Committee.
In 1933 he was elected to the Board of Lanark Mutual Fire Insurance Company, and from 1939 to 1958 was Treasurer of that company.
An Honorary Life Member of True Britons Lodge A.F. & A.M. No. 14 G.R.C. where he served as treasurer for many years, John C. Mather was admitted to Honorary Mmbership in Prince of Wales Chapter No. 226 R.A.M. in appreciation for faithful service. The Masonic Memorial Service was conducted on Thursday evening.
When Mr. Mather left the farm at Balderson, he resided for many years on Clyde St., Perth, until moving to the Lodge last year.
A loving and considerate father, he will be greatly missed by his four children; Harry of Balderson, John of Perth, Evelyn (Mrs Ernest Miller) of Glen Tay, and Gordon of Rexdale; as well as twelve grandchildren and fifteen great grandchildren. also surviving is one brother, William A. Mather, D'Arcy St., Perth.
He Was predeceased by an infant son, Clarence; sisters Margaret (Mrs. John McCurdy) and Irma (Mrs. Wm. McLean; brothers Scott and Harold.
Funeral services were conducted at Blair & Son Funeral Home by his minister, Rev. George Richardson, Interment was at Elmwood Cemetery.
Pallbearers were grandsons: Douglas Mather, Fred Mather, John Miller, Paul Berges, Garry Kirkham and Donald Duncan.
Honorary pallbearers were: P.O. McLaren, Dawson Kerr, Robert Anderson, Lyall Richardson, Mervyn Ferrier, Chris Bell, Urban Haughian, and Ray Poole.
Miller Clipping File
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Elmwood Cemetery, Perth, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada |
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- In 1905, when Scott his brother was able to plow for the family, JC went to work for his uncle Willie (Sommerville, Robertson, Robinson,?) on the 10th line of Lanark Township and Harvey McCue, one mile north of Balderson. He also cut wood on the Bathurst Line during the winter months.
In the summer of 1906, JC and three other young men went to Moose Jaw and worked for a man named Phinneas Lowe, threshing with a Ted Heath. Came home the fall of 1906, and at the age of 17, JC decided to go to northern Ontario to seek work in the shanty. Returning from the west, he stopped in Sturgeon Falls at 4 am, slept on couch in hotel until JR Booth boss woke at 7 am and asked for a job. He caught a train to Cache Bay to the Booth boarding house and headed to the shanty to meet the foreman the next morning. He was told he looked young for a shanty man but was given a team to work for the day and had 90 logs up by dinner so the boss let him stay. In February 1907 he got a letter saying Scott was ill with pneumonia so had to leave for home. When Scott got back from the western harvest, JC was hired for Gilles mill. When the mill closed in the fall he caught the local to Pembroke, then headed north to Cache Bay on Lake Nipissing to work in the Booth shanty for the winter.
After one summer in the mill, he headed to the western prairies for the next three years. In 1908 he went to Moose Jaw, SK. In 1909 he went to Reston, MB to Bullock's and stayed in the west until the spring of 1911. One winter he stayed in Winnipeg and worked at the Burns Meat packing plant and at that time studied for his Steam & Hoisting Engineers Certificate. He operated the steam threshing machine for a family named McCullough afterwards.
Harry, his father later bought Long Bill Keay's (George Ennis') and wrote to JC asking if he wanted to farm. JC farmed for a year and sold it to Allan Keays.
In the fall of 1909, with Scott, and Bill McLean, he went to Gilles' Depot where Scott had been a loader the winter before. They wanted someone in the blacksmith shop. He worked for five months as a helper, doing the nailing and said he nearly broke his back shoeing horses. He stayed with Gilles for three years until the timber limit was cleared, loading logs that were shipped by train from Rib Lake to Montreal River. In 1914, the first year of the war, Gilles did not have much work so JC returned home but got a call asking him to put a group together to put supplies at Coulonge - 110 miles upriver. He stayed with Gilles until 1916.
For three year after his marriage in 1916, he lived on a farm one mile south of Lanark village, (the Stafford place in Drummond east of the Cheese factory) where son Harry was born. In 1919 the family moved to Balderson to the [Cameron Brothers] Harold Cameron farm (father Harry owned) and farmed, with brother Bill, buying cows from his father. [Large white brick house with long lane] That fall, while cleaning a ditch JC was hit in the stomach by a scraper handle and developed a hernia. Dr. Cameron and Dr. Scott operated for the hernia on the kitchen table in the upstairs corner bedroom with a western exposure to give lots of light. That summer, Bella got a hayfork in her head while helping unload hay at Harry and Ellen's house in Hopetown. At this point they had rented a red brick house in the village.
JC and family moved to Perth and lived in a red brick house on North Street (across from Moss Motors) for 3 years. At one point he worked in the Atcheson garage doing auto repairs before returning to work for Gilles as camp clerk at a camp near Cobalt. About this time, he applied to Toronto to get his Engineer's papers. He wrote he exam in Smiths Falls for a examiner sent from Toronto. At this point he became an engineer on the steam powered 'alligator' used during the summer hauling logs across Lake Temiskaming. At the mill, JC was in charge of the yard engine, a used railway steam locomotive which drew carloads of different grades of lumber from the sorting tables to the yard where it was stored according to grade. At one point , he had to get repairs on the engine and was given a special permit to drive the engine five miles on CPR lines to the McLaughlin Lumber's machine shop in Arnprior. He was probably one of only non-CPR engineers to use the tracks! During this time he drove home to Perth on the weekends for two years. The family moved to Braeside where they lived for one year.
In 1924 they moved to a farm near Fallbrook. Harry left school to farm at age 14 as both parents were in ill health. JC underwent sergery in Feb 1933 and Bella in April 1934.
In 1936 JC bought the Fisher farm, on the north side of the 5th line of Bathurst, about 3 miles out of Perth. The house was a two story brick house but the barns were log and in poor condition. Gordon remembers hauling equipment back and forth between this and the Fallbrook property as they used one set of equipment for both farms. In 1939 JC decided to replace the log buildingd with a hipped-roof bank barn. He owned a bush lot on the Bathurst Line so that winter Harry and a hired man cut logs. On Saturday, Gordon would take a team and sleigh to the bush lot. The men used the team to skid the logs out and load the sleigh. Then Gordon would take the logs to Anderson's saw mill on the river a couple of miles west of Fallbrook. Harry and the hired man came by on their way home to do the evening chores and unloaded the logs. The resulting timber was used to build the barn. Gordon also remembers running the cement mixer when the foundations were being constructed. The farm was sold in the early 1950s.
JC also owned a farm on Hwy #7 known as the Chaplin place. Gordon thinks it was acquired as a mortgage default held by JC.
JC and Bella built a house on Clyde St. in Perth and moved to this house about 41-42. However, JC commuted from the farm, spending weekends in town until about 1945.
JC was on the Board of Directors of the Lanark County Farmers Mutual Insurance Company for many years. In 1938 or 39 he resigned his position on the Board and became treasurer of the Lanark County Farmers Mutual Insurance Company in Perth, a position he held until retirement twenty years later at age 70. Because those were years of deep snow and gas rationing, the family moved to Perth in 1943 and Harry remained on the farm for the next three years on a share basis. JC, John, and Evelyn all worked in Perth and Gordon was in high school at this time.
He was elected to municipal council as a Bathurst Township Councillor in the early 1930s, becoming Reeve about 1938. He served as Lanark County Warden in 1945.
- (Research):Notes from talk with Grandpa (John Cummings) Mather:
Born at Middleville, ON, on a farm as you drive towards Rosetta. The Mather house was a large square house on the left side of the road near the end of the street as you head towards Herron Mills. His parents originally lived in the kitchen extension and built the main house at a later date. He remembered that his Grandmother would argue about anything!
He went to the Middleville school but completed grade 8 from the Lanark Continuation School to which he drove a horse and buggy in to school.
There was one telephone in the village - at the general store.
He worked with his father when young, loved to play base ball. He was pitcher and his brother Scott was catcher.
In 1906-8 he made his first trip to the west. He spent a winter in western Canada working in a meat packing plant in Winnipeg. (Mentioned a Patty Burns). He worked harvest excursions and mentioned the Bullock family at Reston, MB. Their son Clyde was close to his age. He got his engineers papers by studying at night while in Manitoba. He later got his Steam and Hoisting Engineers papers in ON as a result. He kept his licence active until 1927.He married 26 Apr 1916 and went west each year until then.
In the summer he ran an 'alligator' on timber drives. J.R. Booth was first employer. He worked in northern Quebec back of Campbell's Bay, Fort Colonge area, the Temiskiming area and south of New Lisgard. He had a high regard for Patty Dillleau. D.A. Gilles often told him "You have an idea, don't be afraid to put it down on paper."
Married in 1916 and first lived on Stafford place, at time of interview, the Lenard Munro farm (near Lanark). Past the Davidson, Hedricks, mobile park, then Stafford place. It was small with a well out back. Harry was born here. They were there about 2 years. Had 7 cows and teams of horses. He needed a hernia operation. His father had bought the McIntyre (Harold Cameron) place at Balderson. They moved in with them for a time (about 1 year). At the same time Grandma Mather (Bella) got a hay fork through her finger. (later noted as head - brain injury; Evelyn's small finger damaged in a chain)
Moved to a small red brick house at 68 North St. from a Mrs. Drew. John and Evelyn were born there. John in 1919 and Evelyn in Sept 1922. He worked for George Atcheson in his garage 1919-20. Atcheson was also a Dodge Brothers (or Ford) dealer. Then he commuted weekends for a while from Brayside.
Moved to Brayside in spring 1923. Noted that they tented for a while at Brayside. Harry started school there. (note: Lillian Grey, possibly his teacher? there). While at Brayside he drove the switching engine , 'the dinky' in the Gilles yard.
In 1924 he bought the Keyes place at Balderson and moved from Brayside. Grandpa Mather had held the mortgage and Allan Keyes defaulted so Grandpa took over the farm and the mortgage. There was a barn on the property. It was later raised and a concrete foundation poured. In 1943 the roof was changed. After Harry married he stayed on this farm.
He bought the Fisher farm on the 5th line, at time of interview the James place. At first he rented the place but then he had a hired man (Cliff Majoury) living there. It was mainly a dairy farm. Sold it circa 1952.
He became Treasurer of Lanark Mutual in 1938 after having served on the Board of Directors for a number of years. He was Councillor and Reeve of Bathurst Twp in the 1930's, Warden of Lanark Cty in 1945.
From Gordon Mather December 2015
Grandpa purchased the Fisher farm in 1937 - 95 acres workable. The price - 0 down and $2000 payable in the fall from the last cheese factory milk cheque. Harry and a hired man spent the winter in the bush lot and Gordon (age 10) spent weekends drawing logs to the sawmill.
When the family moved to Perth they lived at 15 Clyde St. in the area known as Fairhome Park. The house they purchased was built after WW1.
Her doctor was Dr Wichware. Congestive heart failure.
Grandpa worked with Kirkham to restore a fixer upper behind the house after he retired from Lanark Mutural at age 70.
At one point Grandpa worked as a mechanic at the Atcheson car dealership (Chrysler).
GORDON MATHER
Tue, Mar 30, 2010, 6:34 PM
to me
Sorry that we did not get together longer when in Perth but I was travelling on other people's schedule. I had not been east since David's wedding - only more than 25 miles from home once ( to Don Slinger's funeral) since then. Wanted to take as much available time with Harry.
Thanks for copying me in on the attachments to your Email. As most of Harry's involvement in community and civic matters took place after I left the area in '45 I found that attachment particularly enlightening and shared it with Rob and Cathy.
Now a couple of points.
Dad's ownership of the Chaplin farm on #7 was left to him by Grandpa Mather. The acreage on the south side of #7 was left jointly to Uncles Bill and Harold Mather while he left the home in Lanark to Uncle Scott. I believe but am not certain that Grandpa gained possession when he foreclosed a mortgage he held on the Chaplain farm.
Re Clyde Street home.
The house was bought from a widow (Mrs. Sinclair). Originally the area of Clyde Street and surrounding area was vacant land called Fairholme (sp) Park. When I was growing up Mom showed me a photo of her taken at a baseball diamond which she said was shot in what later became that area so I assume the houses were built up in the booming '20s and not the hungry '30s.
Most of the houses on Clyde Street were built with the same floor plans so they were probably by the same developer. One exception was the house immediately west of ours. It was built by a local carpenter - Fred Hanna - your Aunt Ivey's father.
You mention that you would like more detail on John. Possibly your best source would be Lorna. Fred still seems to be extrenely busy with his practice. Cathy was telling me that she is active on some committee regarding aging and was surprised in her research to discover that Fred heads up a CMA Group studying the same subject.
Re Grandpa Mather and the gold peice: I'm not sure where where Rob got the idea that it was split. The story came to me from Harry Mather (originally from Minn) while sitting in his study in Dunwoody Georgia about 1970. Jean and I were taking Dad with us on his first trip to Florida. He insisted we stop to visit his distant cousin Harry. Harry showed us the coin that Grandpa had given to him in the 1920s while Harry was visiting Grandpa and Grandma Mather in Lanark and relayed the tale of the Indians running off his horses etc. He made the visit because he wanted to meet the man he had been named after. It seems that Harry's father Dudley had been a small boy the winter that Grandpa had worked for Harry's grandfather and had been very impressed by Grandpa.
I wrote up the tale as Harry told it and circulated it to family. Then in the late "70s I was in Atlanta attending a Board meeting of FFR Research. I attempted to find Harry but he was no longer in the Atlanta area and I did not followup to see what had happened to him.
Cathy and Paul have asked me for my bio. If and when I get it written up I will send you a copy. Right now I am working on Income Tax and preparing a paper that I have agreed to present on Covered Call Stock Options but have added the bio to my "to do" list.
I uderstand that you and Don expect to become grandparents this summer.
Hope all goes well with you folks.
Keep in touch
Uncle Gord
Grandpa's western harvesting excursions
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Diane Duncan
Thu, Aug 27, 2009, 9:04 AM
Hi, Hope all is well with you and aunt Jean. Don and I got back to AB on the weekend and have settled in near Welling, south of Lethbridge for the final push. I
GORDON MATHER
Fri, Aug 28, 2009, 2:37 PM
to me
As I understand it J.C. in his late teens and early 20s went to Resden (Sp?) Manitoba and worked on the harvest with a family named McCullough. Most years he returned east and worked during the winter as a camp clerk with Gillies Bros. The rest of the year he worked with his father on the farm on the 8th line of Bathurst. When I was young that farm was owned by the Cameron Brothers.
One winter he stayed in Winnipeg and worked in the Burns Meat plant. I am not sure but think that year he studied up and successfully got a Steam & Hoisting Engineers Certificate. From then on he operated the steam engine powering the McCullough's threshing machine. Summers he operated the Gillies owned steam towboat that hauled log booms across Lake Temiskaming for the various logging companies working in the area.
After he married he bought a farm near Lanark just in time for the depression following WW1. After a couple of years he called it quits and used his mechanical skills working for Achison Motors in Perth. Gillies needed someone to run their yard engine at the Braeside mill so he went back with them until he built enough capital in 1924 to buy the farm where I grew up.
A lot of detail here that you didn't ask for but I remember as a kid finding a copy of the 1928 renewal of the Steam certificate. I asked him why he kept it renewed after becoming a successful farmer. His response was that there was no guarantee he would be sucessful in his second try at farming so he kept it renewed until he was confident he didn't need it.
Your grandma Mather had two brothers who homesteaded in northern Alberta about 1910 They were Archie and Russell Ashby and farmed in the Westlock and Barrhead areas. I never met Russell but visited a couple of times with Archie.
Will follow up later
Uncle Gordon
Diane Duncan
Fri, Aug 28, 2009, 2:56 PM
to GORDON
Thanks muchly! I've been watching my e-mail closely hoping to hear from you.
Wow! This is more info than I have ever had! One clarification. You mention the 8th line farm ? was that on the right not far past the village of Balderson ? two story brick? Do you know where the farm near Lanark was? Mom used to say that for a while there was also a farm on the 4th line Bathurst? (the one Carl James ?) was on. Am I remembering this correctly? When did they move to Perth? When did he join Lanark Mutual? When was he on County Council? So much that I have heard and not noted over the years.
Did I mention that I now have a computer program that helps to organize pictures and stories to go with the genealogy info and assembles it ready for publication. This is one of my 'retirement' projects. I don't have a lot of written data on the Mather or the Ashby families. Do you know where I might find some of this info?
Westlock and Barrhead are north of Alberta so I must note this for the future.
How are you and Aunt Jean doing? I know that there has been some rough times for you this past year but haven't had an update for a while.
Love,
Diane
Diane & Don Duncan
28-6503 Ranchview Dr. NW
Calgary, AB, T3G 1P2
Cell Don: 613-858-9853
Cell (Alberta) Diane and Don: 403-669-6615
and sometimes (computer): 480-639-4345
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Art showing at Mill Street Gallery, Mill St., Almonte, ON, K0A 1A0
GORDON MATHER
Sat, Aug 29, 2009, 9:14 PM
Apologies for closing off the last Email so abruptly but I had not watched the time and the supper call had been made the other evening. Also my hands are getti
Diane Duncan
Mon, Aug 31, 2009, 9:17 AM
to GORDON
Hi,
Thanks so much. I am going to save your e-mails in the genealogy program and make sure that they are available to others. Any time you are feeling like reminiscing, send something my way! I should also ask you about Grandma Mather and the Clark/Ashby's. It is interesting to note the discrepancies between what Nancy, Ruth and I remember as none of us have written much in the past and of course, Mom is pretty well past providing info. At least the photo albums have names on most photos. Nancy may have made some notes over the past couple of years as she was the only one brave enough to take Mom for rides through the countryside. (Her nurse's training in lifting etc. came to the fore!)
We expect to be back east later this fall and I will connect with Bill. I imagine he has an e-mail and I will be able to maintain contact that way once we connect.
This summer I have focused on meeting some exhibition commitments with my fibreart so the genealogy took second place. I'm now going to split my time somewhat between it and the 'creative stuff'.
After a summer of minimal contact with people outside the harvest crew, we have had back-to-back visitors here in Lethbridge. Thursday night a highschool classmate of Don's was passing through on their way to Calgary and stopped. The wheat field provides lots of parking room now that it is harvested. Just as they were leaving, friends that we met in AZ last winter stopped by on their way to SK and are still here. The last few days have been spent in some sightseeing ? Waterton Park yesterday.
By the way, are you able to access the blog?
Diane
Diane & Don Duncan
28-6503 Ranchview Dr. NW
Calgary, AB, T3G 1P2
Cell Don: 613-858-9853
Cell (Alberta) Diane and Don: 403-669-6615
and sometimes (computer): 480-639-4345
Diane's Art Sites
http://picasaweb.google.com/DianeDuncan01
http://dianeduncan.blogspot.com/
Art showing at Mill Street Gallery, Mill St., Almonte, ON, K0A 1A0
From: GORDON MATHER [mailto:mather@globility.com]
Sent: August 29, 2009 9:13 PM
To: dianeduncan01@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Grandpa's western harvesting excursions
Apologies for closing off the last Email so abruptly but I had not watched the time and the supper call had been made the other evening. Also my hands are getting a few shakes so the typing is slow.
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Lanark County Origins | This is my Maternal LIneage, My maternal grandmother's Lineage, My Maternal Great Grandmother's Lineage, Maternal Great Grandmother's Lineage, My 2 Great Grandmother's Lineage, My 2 Great Grandmother, My 2 Great Grandmother's Lineage |
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Isobella Elsie Ashby, b. 28 Feb 1891, Tay Valley Twp (Bathurst), Lanark County, Ontario, Canada d. 22 Jul 1965, Perth, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada (Age 74 years) |
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26 Apr 1916 |
Perth, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada |
- Mather-Ashby Wedding
A very pretty wedding took place in the Methodist Parsonage, Perth, on Wednesday, April 26th, when Isobelle Elsie, daugher of Mr. and Mrs. John Ashby, Fallbrook, and Mr. John Mather, son of Mr and Mrs Henry Mather, Balderson, were united in marriage by the Rev. W.E. Reynolds. The bride was attended by her sister, Miss Sarah Ashby, while the groom was ably assisted by his brother, Mr. Scott Mather.
The bride wore her travelling suit of navy blue serge, with white overlace blouse trimmed with satin, and wore a very pretty picture hat. After the ceremony the bridal party motored to the home of the bride's parents where a dainty supper was served to the near relatives. In the evening a reception was held at the home of the groom's parents, where about 100 guests were assembled to tender their congratulations to the young couple. The splendid array of valuable and useful gifts, including linen, silver and china, was an evidence of the esteem in which the young couple are held. The groom's gift to the bride was a handsome gold watch bracelet; to the bridesmaid a gold pendant, and to the groomsman a tie pin.
Mr. and Mrs Mather have settled down in Drummond, on the farm recently purchased from Mr. Peter Sattofd, where their many friends wish them a long and happy married life.
from Miller Clipping File
with note that it was a newspaper clipping
in Isobel Ashby's scrapbook.
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| + | 1. Harry Clark Mather, b. 24 Feb 1917, Tay Valley Twp (Bathurst), Lanark County, Ontario, Canada d. 23 Dec 2012, Perth, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada (Age 95 years) |
| + | 2. John Harvey Mather, b. 31 Dec 1919, Perth, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada d. 2 Apr 1988, Perth, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada (Age 68 years) |
| + | 3. Mary Evelyn "Ev" Mather, b. 9 Sep 1922, Perth, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada d. 5 Mar 2010, Perth, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada (Age 87 years) |
| | 4. Clarence Everett Mather, b. 26 Aug 1924, Tay Valley Twp (Bathurst), Lanark County, Ontario, Canada d. 11 Oct 1924, Tay Valley Twp (Bathurst), Lanark County, Ontario, Canada (Age 0 years) |
| + | 5. Gordon Robert Mather, b. 13 Nov 1927, Perth, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada d. 16 Feb 2018, Peterborough County, Ontario, Canada (Age 90 years) |
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1 May 2024 |
1888 - 1979 (90 years)
