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Event Date : Thursday, August 11, 1949
Event Type : Death
Municipality : Woodbridge
Community : Other - Bradford
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Description : At the home of her daughter (Mrs. A.V. Cole), in her 82nd year. Wife of the late Joseph Fizzell. Mother of Dr. Mervyn (deceased), Calgary; Margaret (Mrs. John Jarvis), Kettleby, ON; Leister A., Toronto; Mabel (Mrs. A.V. Cole), Woodbridge, and Harley M., Schomberg. Funeral August 13. Interment Bond Head Cemetery.

Event Date : Wednesday, August 10, 1949
Event Type : Death
Municipality : Toronto
Community : Other - Bradford
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Description : Suddenly, in his 59th year. Husband of Jean Faris, 5 Chadlegh Ave., Toronto. Father of Walter and Jack. Brother of Alexander, William James, and George Gibson of Toronto, and Mrs. Robert Davidson of Glasgow, Scotland. Funeral August 13 at the Trull Funeral Home, 2704 Yonge St. Interment Aurora Cemetery.

Event Date : Saturday, August 13, 1949
Event Type : Death
Municipality : Toronto
Community : Other - Bradford
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Description : At St. Michael's Hospital. Wife of the late James Prince. Mother of Emily, Alma, Jack, Ida, Gordon, Roy, Caldwell, and the late Albert Prince. Formerly of Cookstown. Funeral held August 16 at St. John's Anglican Church, Cookstown. Interment in St. John's Cemetery, Cookstown.

Event Date : Tuesday, August 16, 1949
Event Type : Death
Municipality : Lonsborough
Community : Other - Bradford
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Description : Wife of Albert Scanlon. Funeral August 18 at home. Interment in Blythe Cemetery.

Event Date : Wednesday, August 10, 1949
Event Type : Death
Municipality : Toronto
Community : Other - Bradford
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Description : Died at home following a lengthy illness. Born 75 years ago at Clover Hill, Tecumseth Township. Married Wm. Donaldson and spent most of married life in Western Canada. Returned to Ontario twelve years previous and spent six years living on Highway 11 before moving to Toronto. Wife of Wm. Donaldson. Mother of Ivan and Mrs. Walter Eves, all of Toronto. Sister to Maud (Mrs. D.H. Coleman), Barrie; Minnie (Mrs. George Parks) Cookstown; H.F. Graham, Bradford; John E., Cookstown; Frederick L., Conn; and Robert L. on the homestead. Predeceased by daughter Vera and brothers William and Joseph. Funeral from Toronto to Cookstown Anglican Church and cemetery on August 13 by Rev. B. Atkinson.

Event Date : Monday, July 25, 1949
Event Type : Death
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Community : Cookstown
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Description : At home in Cookstown in his 81st year. Had sustained injuries in a fall outside his residence two weeks prior. Born in Mulmur Township, farming at Honeywood until 1920, when he purchased and moved to the Morrison farm on
Concession 13, Tecumseth. Retired eleven years previous. Predeceased by his first wife, Margaret Ann Wilkinson, at Honeywood, and by his second, Mary Agnes Laverty of Orangeville, on January 28, 1938. Married Mary Leslie in October 1938, who survives him. Also surviving are children Hector, the only child from his first marriage, Honeywood; Lillian (Mrs. Ernest Hodgson), Bradford, and Alexander, of Cookstown, from his second marriage. Also a brother, Robert, of Brampton, and sisters Mrs. Neil Rayburn and Mrs. Robt. Reid of Shelburne, and Mrs. Benjamin Lloyd, of Horning's Mills. Five grandchildren and two stepchildren. Funeral July 28 in St. John's Anglican Church, Cookstown, Rev. B. Atkinson officiating. Interment Alliston Union Cemetery.

Event Date : Monday, August 01, 1949
Event Type : Death
Municipality : Bradford
Community : Other - Bradford
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Description : Died at Brantford General Hospital August 1 in her 64th year. Born near Bradford, she had lived in Brantford for 32 years. Wife of Wilfred A. Thorpe.Mother of Margaret, at home; Ernest K., Hamilton, and R. Bruce, Brantford. Sister to Mrs. A.B. Wagg, Toronto; Mrs. J.A. Goodall, Buffalo; Miss Blanche Kneeshaw, Buffalo; Edgar Kneeshaw, Schomberg, and E. Kneeshaw, Detroit. Funeral at Brant Avenue United Church by Rev. W.C. Almack. Private service at Thorpe Brothers' Funeral Home. Interment in Mount Hope Cemetery.

Event Date : Saturday, August 20, 1949
Event Type : Marriage
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Community : Dunkerron
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Description : Eleanor Elizabeth Dolena, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wilbert D. Grant, Dunkerron, to Bruce Turner, oldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Victor Turner of Bradford. At the home of the bride's parents by Rev. John McEwen of Penetanguishene. Matron of honur: Mrs. Grenville Hudson. Groomsman: Mr. Arthur Turner, brother of the groom. Couple will live in Bradford.

Event Date : Saturday, August 27, 1949
Event Type : Death
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Community : Scotch Settlement
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Description : Suddenly in the early morning. Awakened by a storm, he asked his wife whether she thought they should close the windows. She said she didn't think it was necessary. A few minutes later she heard him having difficulty breathing and he died. Born at Sainta Leita, Saskatchewan, 44 years ago. Came to this area with his parents and sister 29 years previous. He attended school at Mount Pleasant, which his future wife also attended. Farmed with his father until his marriage to Annie Elizabeth Belfry in January 1941, upon which they moved to a farm in the Scotch Settlement. Member of the Orange Lodge, Past Master of L.O.L. 885 (Coulson's Hill). Husband of Annie. Father of Twila, 6, adopted. Son of Mr. and Mrs. R.F. Mills, Bradford. Brother of Beatrice(Mrs. Reg. Bowles). Funeral on August 26 at home, conducted by Rev. F.G. MacTavish.

Event Date : Saturday, September 17, 1949
Event Type : Marriage
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Community : Bradford
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Description : Muriel Isabel, daughter of Mr. John Gibney of Bradford and the late Mrs. Gibney, to Howard Cambell Fairty, son of Mrs. and Mrs. E.H. Fairty, Toronto. At Trinity Anglican Church by Rev. H.G. Blake.