Cemetery Report: July 15, 2009, Perth, Ontario List user
7/24/2009, 1:57:55 PM Out the motel door at 6:54am and headed to Tims for breakfast. :) Breakfast sandwich and coffee fortifies me for the day. 7:30am brings me to St Paul's, Old Methodist Burying Ground, in Perth, Ontario, Canada. Established 1843. Mary Ann Tetlock died Dec 17, 1891 age 70 years. Walter Castle Born at London, England June 6, 1803 and died May 29, 1870.(<what better place to have a castle than in England...........) Ann Spedding Born at Cumberland, England and died May 11, 1887 age 51 years. Most all the stones in this cemetery are tipped over and in bad shape. Its a mess and needless to say I can only read the side of the headstones that are exposed as they lay on the ground. Walked .4 miles in this "Carcass Coral" and vacated at 7:55am. 7:57am brings me to Craig St. Cemetery right next to the "Last Duel Park". < I got the book on that duel while there and will read it in the near future..............and I did.............and I found out it was between John Wilson age 23 and Robert Lyon aged 19..................... And then they each fired and blew each others brains out..........................not really, you'll have to read the little book as I did to find out the details.......................................LOL Its called "The Memorable Duel at Perth". Christover H. Bell Born at London, England Oct 28, 1864 age 48 years and 6 months. Lieut. of the Royal Navy, Christopher Bell, died Dec 23,1836 aged 10 years. < I checked that stone every which way, and it did say, 10 years old......................?????? Bet it was supposed to read 70 years old. John Moodie died Jan 31, 1909 age 90 years. "Friend, in your epitaph I am grieved So very much is said One half will never be believed The other never read." Jane Cooper died Jan 21, 1867 age 79 years Born at Southsheilds, England. Thomas Oliver Born at Jedburgh, Scotland and died Oct 31, 1858 age 61 years. Ruth Pounder Born Oct 7, 1811 and died May 13, 1848. (P) isabella Graham Born at Portree, isle of Skye, Scotland 1816 and died 1875. Richard Hogan died Jan 22, 1831, age 52 years, Born at Co. Kilkinny, Ireland. John Campbell died Oct 26, 1818 age 63 years Born at Glenlyon, Scotland. Alsoher Ferguson died Dec 17, 1867 age 25 years. John Haggart Esq. Born at Breadabane, Perthshire, Scotland and died Sept 11, 1855 age 72 years. Robert Ferguson Born at Balquidder, Perthshire, Scotland and died March 31, 1850 age 79 years. George Lister died Dec 7, 1851 age 21 years (P). Thomas McKinlay died July 16, 1893 age 74 years Born at Galloway, Scotland. William Brooke Esq. Born at Yorkshire, England and died Oct 11, 1861 age 78 years and 8 months. Walked .8 miles in this "District of Dust" and vacated at 9:05am. Now heading to the next cemetery, a quick stop at Algonquin College to check on Denis & the Librarian we befriended. He's doing the paper work and I'm doing the leg work........................or is that the dead work..............? He gets to drink coffee with the librarian and I get to drink coffee with..............the dead. Next at 9:14am is St John's Catholic Cemetery, Perth. Unnamed Boy Triplets, sons of James & Gertrude Larocque Born & died Nov 8, 1920. Clara Josephine Major died Aug 28, 1938. (< Joyce alert) "My name, and my place,and my tomb,all forgotten The brief race of time well and patiently won So let me pass away,peacefully, silently Only remembered for what I have done." Margaret T. Major died Nov 19, 1955. (< Joyce alert) John C. Flood 1884-1940. (< Lois alert) Daniel Vincent (< GiGi alert) 1893-1971 wife Catherine Bernice Noonan 1906-1971. Wilbert E. Leclaire 1899-1991 (< Jack alert) wife Mary Florance Noonan 1902-1996 son David Eugene Leclaire 1937. (P) Daniel McParlan Born at Co. Armagh, Ireland 1884-1971. Mary Rainboth 1862-1910. Norma E. M. Goodbody 1919-2004 nee Hermer (P). (< remember nurse Goodbody???) David Charland Born April 29, 1833 at St Paul de Joliette, Quebec and died March 10, 1913. Charles P. Gallery 1895-1973 (P). Carolina Julia Stranges 1920-1998. Emmanuel Major 1838-1922 (< Joyce alert) "Here lies my wife in earthly mould Who, when she lived did naught but scold Peace, wake her not, for now she's still She had, but now I have my will." Denis McNamara Born at Askeaton, Co. Limerick, Ireland and died March 18, 1892 age 72 years. Walked 2 miles in this "Relic Ranch" and vacated at 10:51am. 11:16am brings me to Brooke Methodist Cemetery on Rt 7. Wilbert R. Trypick 1896-1986. Fanny Fleming died Dec 27, 1919 age 72 years. Walked .2 miles in this "Homestead for the Dead" and vacated at 11:26am. 12:13pm brings me to Elmwood Cemetery about a block off of Rt. 7 in Perth and its 75F now. Shirley A. Fairbrother 1929-_ _ _ _ . (P) Angela M. Applejohn Born Dec 21, 1930 and died _ _ _ _ (P).(applejohn sounds like a desert) Isabella Samways 1901-1985. Martin John Leonard Friend Born at Croydon, England Nov 14, 1924 and died Aug 19, 1989. Kenneth Alfred Male 1913-1990 (P) Vincent H. J. Price 1932-1982.(< celebrity for the day.............) Simon Falla died May 6, 1901 age 60 years.(< Did he falla to his death???????) James Dock 1854-1923 (P). Robert C. Motherwell Born Nov 15, 1862 and died June 9, 1939. Rice Free (< bet he had problems around Orientals..............) died Nov 18, 1898 age 86 years (P). Alvin S. Wilson 1809-1917 died of wounds, Vimy Ridge, buried in France, WW1. "Some have children, some have none Here lies the mother of twenty-one." Philip Mars 1882-1946 (P).(< a true Martian) Neil McCallum Born at Stewarton, Argyllshire, Scotland 1857 and died 1934. Thomas Smith Born at Co. Westmeath, Ireland Feb. 5, 1848 and died Feb 15, 1902. Rae Lenore Gix 1897-1972.(< did you ever have to have your gix adjusted on your car????????) John Campbell Born at Glenlyon, Scotland May 30, 1813 and died Jan 30, 1882. Emeline Grap 1870-1942. Mary Olive Rowbottom 1909-1985. Joseph Warren Born at Co, Wexford, Ireland and died June 19, 1883 age 77 years. John Weston Born at Crossmalina, Co. Mayo, Ireland died April 8, 1849 age 50 years. Andrew W. Playfair Born at Paris, France May 1790 and died Sept 1, 1868 age 78 years. Fleetwood Gray Born Aug 1, 1900 and died Nov 23, 1986. Elizabeth Watson Seabrooke 1870-1950. (P) Nathaniel McLenaghan Born at Co. Derry, Ireland 1800 and died Oct 7, 1896. Lieut. Col. Rene de La Bruere Girouard Born at Quebec Jan 29, 1882 and died at Ottawa Jan 10, 1941. James Thompson former Sheriff of Co. Lanark died Oct 28, 1912 age 101 years. Cornelius Neilson Born at Carrickfergus, Ireland Sept 14, 1818 and died April 30, 1868. David Lowe Born at Fettercairn, Scotland and died March 4, 1904 age 65 years. William Wordie died Oct 15, 1850 age 49 years. Francis Hall Born at Clackmannan Scotland Sept 19, 1813 and died Sept 6, 1892. William James Pink Born at Northfleet, Kent, England Oct 19, 1843 and died April 26, 1922. "The bitter cup that death gave me Is passing 'round to come to thee." Archibald Walter Monnery Born at Reading, England and died Aug 29, 1957 age 77 years. John Watson 1849-1925 wife Elizabeth Jane Moore 1867-1944 & Caroline F. Watson 1982 & Ellen W. Brownlee 1853-1935. (P) Edith Jean Fife 1909-1971 (P) Robert Richard Seed Born Sept 7, 1915 and died March 9, 1984 (P). Another chipmunk just posed. Eileen Honey 1924-_ _ _ _ (P). John Amour Born at Linwood, Renfrewshire, Scotland Dec 10, 1813 and died Aug 20, 1899. William Hogg 1878-1958 "Here lies one, a sailors bride Who widowed was because of the tide It drowned her husband, so she died." Walked 4.8 miles in this "Life's Unemployed Parcel" and vacated at 4:33pm Returned to the motel at 4:36pm Another great day with the dead. Best Bill looks like 8.2 miles walking for the day.
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