Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Tombstone Tuesday: SMART, William

FC0020 - SMART, William
William Smart
1919 - 20091

These are some facts gleaned from Our Harvest of Memories (1983)2:
William Smart was born in the Brightholm district to George Smart of Midlem, Roxburgshire, Scotland and widow Marjorie (--?--) Danger Smart of Iowa, United States. William had four elder half siblings from his mother's previous marriage and three younger full sibling.
William met Mary Wall at Hague, SK, and they were married at Parkside on 16 December 1941. While cattle and grain farming in the Foxdale district they had three sons and two daughters.
Sources:
[1]Foxdale Cemetery (Foxdale, R.M. of Shellbrook no. 493, Saskatchewan, Canada; in SW Section 26, Township 51, Range 3, West of the 3rd Meridian), William Smart burial mound, photographed by Alanna Carswell, September 2009.
[2]Coles, Cathy, ed. "The Smart Family." Our Harvest of Memories: Foxdale, Sturgeon Valley, Silver Cliff, Three Creeks, Rayside, Rich Valley. Shellbrook: Shell River North Book Committee, 1983. pp. 130-131. Print.

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