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Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Tombstone Tuesday: NELSON, Louis

Louis

Nelson

Source: 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), Louis Nelson marker, photographed by Alanna Carswell, September 2009.

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Tombstone Tuesday: TAYLOR, John

Child

John

Taylor

Source: 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), John Taylor marker, photographed by Alanna Carswell, September 2009.

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Tombstone Tuesday: ANNABLE, John

John
Hannibul¹

Locally compiled history book excerpt from Our Harvest of Memories (1983):

Annable, John
by Charlie Bruce

John Annable came to Canada and to the Sturgeon Valley district about 1906. He filed on his homestead, S.E. 16-51-2-W3, and lived in a cave, dug on the south side of the hill until his death.

He had a fine, well care for, big team of bays. They pulled a wagon (no box) -- just planks on the running gear. For lines he pulled two ropes from the outside of each horse and a short rope from one horse to the other. He would sit on the planks and put his feet against the bolster on the wagon, wrap the rope around each hand and hang onto them.

He had a housekeeper, Mrs. Rosenblade, from England, who stayed for a short while then went to Western Canada.

John had told my dad when he died he wanted to be buried on his own place. Approximately two or three years later [in 1922*], the horses ran away with him, and the pole came down and threw him into the air. He came down and broke his neck. He was laid to rest in the southwest corner of the cemetery, next to his homestead, in Holy Trinity Churchyard, the nearest location possible to being buried on his farm.²

The reason for the misspelling on the Paulhus Funeral Service aluminum plaque marker is that it, along with the others like it in the churchyard, were commissioned and installed years later by the cemetery committee and there was obviously a clear miss-communication regarding John's last name.

*Death year provided by a great-granddaughter in 2016.

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), John Hannibul[Annable] marker, photographed by Alanna Carswell, September 2009.
[2]Coles, Cathy, ed. "Annable, John." Our Harvest of Memories: Foxdale, Sturgeon Valley, Silver Cliff, Three Creeks, Rayside, Rich Valley. Shellbrook: Shell River North Book Committee, 1983. pp. 509. Print.

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

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.