Tombstone Tuesday: MEAD, Fred

Fred Mead¹

Full excerpt from Our Harvest of Memories (1983):²

Meade, Fred

Fred Meade[sic] came to Canada from Minnesota, U.S.A. in the early nineteen hundreds. He worked as a blacksmith for the Sturgeon Lake Lumber Co., also The Pas Lumber Co. He farmed in the Sturgeon Valley district on land bordering the Sturgeon Lake Reserve near the Mission. He served on the rural municipality council for several years. He also operated a blacksmith shop just south of the Leo Harris store where he was living at the time of his dead, April 18, 1942, at the age of seventy-four. He was laid to rest in Holy Trinity Cemetery.

He was predeceased by his wife, the former Alice Charles, several years before. His seven year old son, Pat who was living with him at the time of his father's death, stayed at the Peterson home for a short time and was later adopted by foster parents.

Source:
[1]Holy Trinity Anglican Cemetery (Sturgeon Valley, R.M. of Shellbrook no. 493, Saskatchewan, Canada; in NE Section 16, Township 51, Range 2, West of the 3rd Meridian), Fred Mead marker, photographed by Alanna Carswell, September 2009.
[2]Coles, Cathy, ed. "Meade, Fred." Our Harvest of Memories: Foxdale, Sturgeon Valley, Silver Cliff, Three Creeks, Rayside, Rich Valley. Shellbrook: Shell River North Book Committee, 1983. p. 563. Print.