Holy Trinity Mystery: Lot 4 and Lot 10, Part II

The solution to the confusion can be puzzled out with the help of the local history book, Our Harvest of Memories.

Grace Featherstone and Rose Robarts were sisters¹, the daughters of Algernon Holmes I.² Puzzling over the history entries has lead me to the tentative conclusion that Algernon II (1884-1935), Rose (1897-1975), and Grace (1906-1928) are siblings. It is explicitly stated in Algernon II's entry that "Algernon" was the first name give to each first born son in the Holmes family.³

Grace married Walter Featherstone and they had four children, two sons, Dennis and Lawrence, and two daughters, Rosalie and Gladys, who died in infancy.¹

The daughters are not named in the history book entry, but it is reasonable to assume that Rosalie and Gladys are Grace and Walter's daughters as they are the only Featherstone in the area. This is also an example of information error on tombstones because they were commissioned and installed at a much later; Rosalie's dates are "1906 - 1906" and Grace's dates are "1906 -1928."

Rose married Ernest Robarts and they had two sons, Leslie and Bernard, that died in infancy.²

As for the "Niece" on Rosalie and Gladys, the "son" on Leslie and Bernard, and "Sister" on Grace, "Mother" on Rose's inscriptions on the foot of the wolf stones of respectively, it was most likely the Rose that commissioned/purchased the grave markers. Resulting in some very confused cemetery enthusiasts years later!

Algernon II married Clara J. and we have our second information error on a marker. Clara J's marker reads "Clara J. Wells (nee Holmes)" but that is definitely incorrect as she was not born a Holmes but married one. I am uncertain about the Wells surname in relation to Clara J's. In the book her maiden surname is never stated and it is not stated that she remarried after Algernon II's death.³

The "Father" of Algernon II and "Mother" of Clara J's foot epitaphs reflects that it was their children, Algernon III, Clifford, Connie (Holmes) Ash, and Ronald, that decided upon the marker inscriptions.

Sources:
[1]Coles, Cathy, ed. "Featherstone, Walter and Grace." Our Harvest of Memories: Foxdale, Sturgeon Valley, Silver Cliff, Three Creeks, Rayside, Rich Valley. Shellbrook, Sask.: Shell River North Book Committee, 1983. pp. 531-532.
[2]Coles, Cathy, ed. "Robarts, Rose." Our Harvest of Memories: Foxdale, Sturgeon Valley, Silver Cliff, Three Creeks, Rayside, Rich Valley. Shellbrook, Sask.: Shell River North Book Committee, 1983. pp. 579.
[3]Coles, Cathy, ed. "Algernon and Clara Holmes." Our Harvest of Memories: Foxdale, Sturgeon Valley, Silver Cliff, Three Creeks, Rayside, Rich Valley. Shellbrook: Shell River North Book Committee, 1983. pp. 644.