Tombstone Tuesday: HENDERSON, Hugh

Hugh Henderson's full grave site.¹

In Loving Memory
Hugh K. Henderson
1888 - 1939
At Rest

Father

From Our Harvest of Memories (1983)² we learn that Hugh Henderson was an assistant gardener at Onedeen Castle,  Berwichshire, Scotland before he immigrated to Canada, arrived in Quebec on 10 June 1910. From Quebec he travelled to Winnipeg, Manitoba, to Bredenburg, Saskatchewan and eventually Foxdale district where he homesteaded NE 27-51-3-W3.

Following the death of his brother Ralph (who was homesteading in neighbouring Lone Spruce district) Hugh moved his family to the Lone Spruce district. Additional information will be added when this blogger get's their hands on that district history book.

It is known that Hugh "came to an untimely end, the result of a fire in his house"² which he perished from several months later.

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), Hugh Henderson markers, photographed by Alanna Carswell, September 2009.
[2]Coles, Cathy, ed. "History of Hugh Henderson by Brother Dave." Our Harvest of Memories: Foxdale, Sturgeon Valley, Silver Cliff, Three Creeks, Rayside, Rich Valley. Shellbrook.: Shell River North Book Committee, 1983. p. 77. Print.