Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Tombstone Tuesday: MYERS, Otto

Otto
Myer1

Otto Myers was born about 18832 or 18843 in Germany. Otto immigrated to Canada in 1910 and nationalized in 1914.3 A bachelor throughout his life, he was found dead by a neighbour in 1923 and was buried about a mile from his little log home on NW 13-50-2 W3 in Wild Rose North Cemetery.4

EDIT: 29 Nov 2012

Sources:
[1] Wild Rose North Cemetery (Wild Rose, R.M. of Shellbrook no. 493, Saskatchewan, Canada; in SW Section 14, Township 50, Range 2, West of the 3rd Meridian), Amelia Cowles grave markers, photographed by Alanna Carswell, July 2011.
[2] 1911 Census of Canada, Prince Albert, Saskatchewan; Page: 22. Digital image, online Ancestry.ca subscription database. (http://www.ancestry.ca : accessed 29 November 2012).
[3]1916 Canada Census of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta Record,Saskatchewan, North Battleford, 19; Roll: T-21941; Page: 24; Family No: 272.Digital image, online Ancestry.ca subscription database. ( http://www.ancestry.ca : accessed 29 November 2012). 

[4] Footprints of Our Pioneers: Briarlea, Crutwell, Holbein, Nisbet, Rozilee, Wild Rose. Shellbrook: Wild Rose and Area History Book Committee, 1990. p. 586. Print.

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