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From: "Legacy Lane (RR2, Merrickville)" <>
Subject: [WENTWORTH] Fw: Toronto Star Obituaries: 1914, 1919, 1920
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 06:28:52 -0500


Forwarded for information only (not looking for research contracts) in the
event your district is mentioned therein. Appreciation is expressed to
Juanita for sharing her findings.

-----Original Message-----
From: Juanita Roussel, Toronto, Canada (Researching: GREENSIDES, BEWLEY,
GARDINER, MAINS, WHITE, POWELL)

To: <>
Date: Tuesday, March 07, 2000 2:21 PM
Subject: Re: Some Obituaries from the Toronto Star


>These obituaries are taken from the same newspaper page as the obituary of
>my ancestors that I am researching. I am not looking these up just to post
>to the list. Please do not assume that this is the case.
>
Obituaries from the Toronto Star - 1920

>??? - means the information was cut off on the photocopy of the newspaper
and couldn't be read
>
>CLARK -- Death came suddenly Sunday morning (February 8th, 1920) after a
lingering illness to Martha Ann Clark (Gower), dearly beloved wife of
Frederick W. Clark, of 14 Howard avenue, age 44. Funeral to Mount Pleasant
Wednesday at 2 p.m.
>
>CULL -- On Saturday, Feb. 7th at his mother's residence, 23 Dearbourne
avenue, Michael Joseph Cull. Funeral Tuesday, Feb. 10th at 10:30 a.m. to
St. Ann's Church, thence to St. Michael Joseph Cull. Cornwall, Detroit, and
Chicago papers please copy.
>
>DE ROCHER -- On Sunday, February 8th, 1920, at her late residence, 243
Bathurst street, Olive Hayes, widow of the late Julian De Rocher, in her
65th year. Funeral Tuesday, 8:30 a.m. to St. Mary's Church. Interment
Mount Hope Cemetery.
>
>DICKINSON -- On Saturday evening, February 7th, 1920, at his late
residence, 592 Jarvis street, Toronto, Frederick P. Dickinson, beloved
husband of Winnifred Barber, in his 53rd year. Service today, Monday, at 11
a.m., at A.W. Miles' funeral chapel, 396 College street. Interment in Mount
Pleasant Cemetery.
>
>DONNELLY -- At the residence of her daughter, Mrs. Jones, 540 Bathurst
street, Ann Donnelly, in her 90th year. Funeral Tuesday morning at
nine-thirty o'clock, to St. Francis' Church, thence to Mount Hope Cemetery.
>
>DOUGLAS -- At the Cottage Hospital, on Feb. 3, 1920, to Mr. and Mrs. M.E.
Douglas, a son. (This is definitely listed in the obits, but maybe it is a
birth. It is hard to tell.)
>
>GARDINER -- At the Private Pavilion, Toronto General Hospital, on Sunday,
Feb. 8th. Stanley Walter, beloved husband of Susan Mains, in his 49th year.
Funeral service at the family residence 358 Delware avenue, on Tuesday, Feb.
10, at 3 o'clock. Interment at Prospect Cemetery.
>
>KLINGER -- On Saturday, Feb. 7th at 25 Edna avenue, of pnemonia. Harold
Louis William, infant son of Dr. Harold E. Klinger and Mrs. Klinger (Sydney,
??? S.W., Australia), aged six months. Funeral private, Monday.
>
>LARKE -- At the home of her sister, ??? Isabella street, Toronto, on
Saturday, Feb. 7th, 1920, Fanny, widow of the late Samuel Larke. Funeral
service Tuesday evening at ??? o'clock. Interment at Woodstock, Ontario,
Wednesday, the 11th inst., upon arrival ??? C.P.R. leaving Toronto at 8 a.m.
>
>MANN -- On Sunday, February 8, 1920, Mrs. Alwin Mann, widow of the late
James Mann, of Cobourg and Whitby, in her 86th year. Funeral from the
residence of her daughter, Mrs. G.H. Robinson, 304 Gra??? street, Toronto.
Interment at Union Burial Grounds, Whitby, Tuesday, February 10th, 2:45 p.m.
>
>MENZIES -- On Sunday, February 8th, Louise Eileen, age 21 years, dearly
beloved daughter of George and Mary Menzies, of 111-1/2 D'Arcy street.
Funeral Tuesday at 9 a.m. to St. Patrick's Church. Interment Mount Hope
Cemetery.
>
>MIDDLETON -- At Grace Hospital, Sunday, February 8th, Cecilia Middleton,
beloved wife of Horace Middleton, 1564 Bathurst street. Funeral from above
address (private). Owen Sound paper please copy.
>
>MONKHOUSE -- On Feb. 7th, 1920, at Olive avenue, Russell Monkhouse.
Funeral Tuesday, Feb. 10th at 2 p.m. Prospect Cemetery.
>
>MORONEY -- On Sunday, Feb. 8th, at Toronto General Hospital, William
Moroney, beloved husband of Annie Rea???. Funeral on Wednesday, from the
late residence, 65 Oxford street, at 8:30 a.m. to St. Francis' Church,
thence to Mt. Hope Cemetery.
>
>MORTIMER -- On Monday, Feb. 9th, 1920, at her late residence, 81 Fermanagh
avenue, of pneumonia, Beatrice Sarah Mortimer, dearly beloved wife of Joseph
Mortimer, in her 42nd year. Service at Norman A. Craig's funeral chapel,
1255 Queen west, this evening 7???. Remains will be shipped to Magnetawan,
Ontario, for interment, from Parkdale Grand Trunk Station to-night, 9:15.
>
>MOUND -- On Monday, Feb. 9, at his late residence, 28 Algonquin avenue,
Charles Mound, in his 76th year, beloved husband of Mary Mound. Service at
the above address on Tuesday at 11 a.m. Funeral leaving on ??? G.T.R. train
for interment at Kingston, Ontario.
>
>MULHOLLAND -- On Monday, February 9th, 1920, at her residence, 285 Russell
Hill road, Agnes Jeanette Curtis, beloved wife of H. McCraney Mulholland.
Funeral Wednesday, at 2 p.m. from ??? residence to Mount Pleasant Cemetery.
>
>MULL -- Suddenly on Sunday, February 8th, at his late residence, 2551 Yonge
street, John Mull, in his 55th year. Funeral Wednesday, Feb. 11th, at 2
p.m. to Mount Pleasant Cemetery.
>
>NEILSON -- At the residence of his son-in-law, Norman McLeod, Riverside
drive and Second avenue, Westmount, Weston, Ont., on Sunday, Feb. the 8th,
John Neilson, late engineer C.P.R., aged 80 years. Funderal from the above
address on Tuesday at 3:30 p.m. to Prospect Cemetery.
>
>NELSON -- On Feb. the 7th, 1920, Toronto, Western Hospital, of heart
trouble, Curtis I. Nelson, beloved husband of Gladys Moore, and formerly
science master of North Toronto High School. Remains will leave J. Deavitt
and Co. funeral home, 1631 Bloor west, on Monday, Feb. the 9th at 12
o'clock. Interment will take place at Brantford ??? arrival of G.T.R. train
leaving the Union Station at 1:20.
>
>Some Advertisers from the Same Page of the Newspaper
>
>Undertakers
>Nelson B. Cobbledick
>Funeral Director, Private Motor Ambulance.
>Phones Beach 73, 676.
>2068 Queen Street East.
>Residence, 1508 Danforth Ave.
>
>Norman A. Craig
>Undertaker and Embalmer.
>First-class motor equipment.
>1255 Queen Street West.
>Phone Parkdale 2950.
>
>Ross J. Craig
>Successor to Craig and Son.
>Funeral Directors, has returned from military service in France, and is
re-established at his old premises, 1357 Queen street west.
>
>G.W.C. Graham & Co.
>Funeral Directors.
>Complete Motor equipment.
>715 Dovercourt road.
>Phone Kenwood 667

Obituaries from the Toronto Star - 1919

>Mrs. E. Greensides
>Following an attack of diabetes and many years of poor health, Mrs. Eliza
Greensides, wife of William Greensides, died on Monday, July 7th, 1919 at
2:30 p.m. in her eightieth year. The funeral will take place from her late
residence, 92 Greenwood avenue, on Wednesday, July 9th. Interment at Mount
Pleasant Cemetery.
>Mrs. Greensides was born in Shropshire, England, on Feb. 15th, 1840. When
four years old, her people brought her out to America. They left England in
a sailing vessel, when out on the ocean a week they encountered rough
weather; after being in this for some time they gave up hopes of ever
reaching land. The captain reported that the gale had blown them back one
hundred miles. After thirteen weeks of sailing they landed at New York,
where they lived for nine years before coming to this country. In 1853 they
started a brick manufacturing concern north of Davenport road off Yonge
street. When Mrs. Greensides got married her husband carried on her
father's business until he died on October 17th, 1913. A staunch Methodist,
Mrs. Greensides was a member of the Zion Church on St. Clair ave., for a
number of years. Three sons and two daughters survive.
>
>Mrs. (Dr.) MacLaren
>The death occurred in London on June 21st, of Mrs. (Dr.) MacLaren. The
late Mrs. MacLaren was the third daughter of the late G. W. Girdlestone,
K.C., of Kelling Hall, Norfolk, England, and is survived by her husband, Dr.

Alexander MacLaren, two daughters, Mrs. Walter Hungerford, and Mrs. James
Murton, both of London, and two sons, Major G.P. MacLaren, District Engineer
Canadian National Railways, this city, and Mr. R.A.S. MacLaren, manager of
the Bank of Montreal, Reston, Manitoba.
>
>Partial Obituary for John Russell
>Death removed one of Toronto's oldest citizens yesterday in the person of
John Russell, 278 Crawford street, in his eighty-ninth year. Born in
Scotland, the late Mr. Russell came to Canada with his parents when he was
six years of age, and was brought up on a farm at Carluks, Wentworth County.
He began his business career in a wholesale house at Hamilton, but in 1896
he moved to Toronto, where he has lived ever since, and where he was a
jobber in the paper business.
>It was only last year that the late Mr. Russell and his aged wife, who is
now in her eighty-second year, celebrated their diamond wedding. Besides
his wife, one son and three daughters survive. Mr. J.W. Russell of the
Massey-Harris Company; Mrs. A.G. Hewish of Hamilton........... (The rest was
cut off of the photocopy.)

Obituaries from the Toronto Star - 1914

>CAPRON -- Suddenly, on April 12th, 1914, at the residence of of her
sister, Mrs. Burnett, 576 College street, Toronto, Barbara Cynthia Capron,
daughter of the late Chauncey Capron, of Paris, Ont. Funeral service at
above address on Wednesday at 11 a.m.. Interment at Paris, Ontario, on the
arrival of G.T.R. train leaving Toronto at 12:15 noon.
>
>CLUSKEY -- Suddenly, on Monday, April 13, 1914, Edward Cluskey, aged 79
years. Funeral on Wednesday, at 3:30, from his late residence, No. 7 Wyatt
avenue, Toronto. Interment in the Necropolis.
>
>GRIFFIN -- On Easter Sunday, April 12th, 1914, Doris Aillene, infant
daughter beloved of Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Griffin, aged ten months. Funeral
service held at her home, 179 Macdonell avenue, Monday evening at 8 o'clock.
Interment at Smithville Tuesday, 14th April, 1914.
>
>MAINS -- On Monday morning, April 13, 1914, at the residence of her
son-in-law, Mr. Percy Batt, 966 Dovercourt road, Mrs. Mary Jane Mains, widow
of the late Alexander Mains, in her 77th year. Funeral from the above
address on Wednesday, April 15, at 2 p.m. Interment in Humbervale Cemetery.
>
>McCOMBE -- On Monday, April 13, 1914, at the residence of his son-in-law,
E.E.W. Reynolds, 28 Rusholme Park crescent, John, beloved husband of Jane
McCombe, in his 80th year. Funeral private, Wednesday, April 15, at 2:30
p.m. Interment in Prospect Cemetery. Kindly omit flowers.
>
>PARTLOW -- On Monday, April 13th, 1914, at her parents' residence, 111
Roncesvalles avenue, Toronto, Leotta Muriel, beloved daughter of Howard and
Annie Partlow, in her 18th year. Funeral from above address on Wednesday,
at 2 p.m. Interment in Mount Pleasant Cemetery.

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