John BANNERMAN (1904-1940)

John
Son Of
S. & A.
Bannerman
Dec. 18, 1904
Oct. 18, 1940
Rest In Peace

John James Bannerman died age 35 years and 10 months.

Source: Briarlea North Cemetery (Briarlea, R.M. of Shellbrook no. 493, Saskatchewan, Canada; in SE Section 21, Township 50, Range 1, West of the 3rd Meridian), John Bannerman's grave marker, photographed by Alanna Carswell, September 2014.

Lydia WATSON (1852-1952) & Thomas WATSON (b.1865)

Lydia and Thomas Watson full grave site.

Watson
Rest In Peace

Lydia
1852 – 1952

Thomas
1865 – 19__

Source: 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), Lydia and Thomas Watson grave markers, photographed by Alanna Carswell, August 2013.

Frederick STUART (1885-1935)

Frederick
Stuart
Born Nov. 5 1885
Died Jan. 1 1935
To Memory Ever Dear

Source: 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), Fredrick Stuart grave marker, photographed by Alanna Carswell, August 2013.

Diana CAMPBELL (1917-1918)

Diana
Beloved daughter of
Elign & Maud Campbell
Died May 5, 1918 Aged 8 Mos
Suffer the little children to come
to me

Source: 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), Diana Campbell grave marker, photographed by Alanna Carswell, July 2011. Clearer photograph taken May 2013.

Mark McGARVEY (1874-1911)

In
Memory Of
Mark
McGarvey
Died
Sep. 23, 1911
Age 37 Yrs.
At Rest¹

Mark McGarvey has a story for "Mathew [sic] was killed in Shellbrook crossing the railway with team and sleigh."² And I would love to read more, especially a newspaper report, but of course 1911 is the year before the town of Shellbrook's newspaper was established in 1912!

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), Mark McGarvey grave marker, photographed by Alanna Carswell, July 2011. ↩
2. Footprints of Our Pioneers: Briarlea, Crutwell, Holbein, Nisbet, Rozilee, Wild Rose. Shellbrook: Wild Rose and Area History Book Committee, 1990. p. 555. Print. ↩

Tombstone Tuesday: COWELS, Orrin

Orrin Marchellus
Cowles
Born March 5, 1854
Died Dec. 15, 1935.
At Rest,
Gone but not Forgotten

Orrin Marchellus Cowels grave site,
upright tablet stone in upper right corner.

In Loving Memory
Orrin Marchellus Cowels
Dec. 15, 1935
Age 81 Yrs
May He Rest In Peace

Father

Orrin Marchellus Cowles died at age 81 years, 9 months, and 10 days.

Source: 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), Orrin Cowles grave markers, photographed by Alanna Carswell, July 2011.

Tombstone Tuesday: COLES, Donald

Donald Coles' full grave site.¹

In Loving Memory Of
Donald Lewis Coles
Born Hamstead, England
Feb. 5, 1897
Came to Foxdale In 1920
Served His Country
In Two World Wars
1915-1978      1941-1946
Died July 14, 1964
Beloved Husband Of
Frances Mary

Rest In Peace

Like all pioneers, Donald lead an interesting life that involved a fair amount of travel abroad as learned from from Out Harvest of Memories (1983)².

Donald Lewis "Don" Coles was born 5 February 1897 to Alexander Coles and Annie (Lea) Coles of London, England. His service in WWI was with the British Army and WWII with the Royal Canadian Air Force.

Donald immigrated to the Foxdale district in 1919-20 where he filed on homestead SE 6-52-2-3-W3 and purchased the quarter section, with house, of NW 19-51-2-3-W3.

Donald returned to England to wed Frances Mary "Fay" Harding on 2 July 1925. Together they had three children, one son and two daughters.

The newlyweds returned to Canada within the year and in spring 1928 the family of three returned to England for Don to receive medical treatment for his WWI injury. After that time, he joined an engineering firm and demonstrated tractors in exhibitions across Europe, the Middle East, and Egypt before returning to Foxdale in 1931.

In the community Don served for many years on the school board, was for a time a Justice of Peace in the area, was active in the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool and Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) political party. He had just retired from farming in the spring of 1965 when he died at age 68 years, 5 months, 2 days.

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), Donald Coles grave markers, photographed by Alanna Carswell, September 2009.
[2]Coles, Cathy, ed. "Don and Fay Coles." Our Harvest of Memories: Foxdale, Sturgeon Valley, Silver Cliff, Three Creeks, Rayside, Rich Valley. Shellbrook: Shell River North Book Committee, 1983. pp. 52-54. Print.