Tombstone Tuesday: HALLIDAY, Alice & W. Alex

Halliday
In Loving Memory Of
Mother                         Father
Alice M.                   W. Alex
July 16, 1886            April 11, 1885
March 25, 1943          Jan. 12, 1973¹

From the community history book, Our Harvest of Memories (1983)² was gleaned these facts.

W. Alex Halliday was born 1885 in Smith Falls, Ontario, Canda, son of  Wellington and Caroline(?) Halliday and had at least one brother. He married Alice M. Ross of Prince Albert in 1909.

Children of Alex and Alice were:

i. William - passed away in infancy
ii. Harold - buried in Holy Trinity Anglican Cemetery
iii. Cecelia - married Gust Johnson, buried in Holy Trinity Anglican Cemetery
iv. Mabel - married Conrad Hammer
v. Betty - married Thomas Howrie
vi. George - was killed in France during World War II
vii. Albert - married Lil Yockey
viii. Leslie - married Vi Bucknel
ix. Ruth - married Alf Williams 

Alice (Ross) Halliday died at age 56 years, 8 months, and 9 days. 

Alex Halliday died at age 87 years, 9 months, and 1 day.

Sources:
[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), Alice & W. Alex Halliday marker, photographed by Alanna Carswell, September 2009.
[2]Coles, Cathy, ed. "Halliday, Alex and Harold" Our Harvest of Memories: Foxdale, Sturgeon Valley, Silver Cliff, Three Creeks, Rayside, Rich Valley. Shellbrook: Shell River North Book Committee, 1983. pp. 540-542.Print.