Another post of Carolyn Wallace ~ >From: "Carolyn Wallace" <[email protected]> > >Eastern Chronicle, New Glasgow, N.S. > >Tuesday, March 17, 1942 >Thomas Tanner > Death yesterday removed one of the last surviving members of a Pictou >family whose history goes back to the early days of the town, when Thomas >Tanner passed away at the Masonic Home, Windsor, where he has resided for >the past few years. > He was born in Pictou July 8, 1851, a son of the late Richard and Janet >Tanner. He married Martha G. Dodson, Dartmouth, whose death occured only a >few months after her marriage. > During the greater part of his life Mr. Tanner was in the commission and >shipping buisness in Pictou, engaged first with the late Cornelius Dwyer, >then as a partner and later owner of the buisness. Subsequently he served >for a few years as as a Custom Officer at a Hudson's Bay port. > After his retirement he resided in Pictou with his sisters, Mrs. William >MacKenzie and Miss Rachel Tanner, one of whom died in 1935 and the other in >1936. A brother William F. Tanner, died in 1934. His brother, Senator >Charles (E.?) Tanner, Ottawa, is now the only surviving member of the >family. > Throughout his life he was a devoted adherent and worker in St.James' >Anglican Church, and was a member of the building committee under whose >direction the present beautiful church was erected. He was the oldest member >of New Caledonia Lodge No.11, AF and AM, and a Past Master of the Lodge. > In accordance with his own wish he will be buried at Windsor. >xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > >Thursday, March 19, 1942 >Victor McKeen >Sherbrooke > The death occured at St. Martha's Hospital, Antigonish, on March 7th, of >Victor McKeen, age 9, son of David McKeen of Country Harbour. His mother >predeceased him less than a year ago, and he and his sister were tenderly >cared for at the home of their uncle, Ernest McKeen, Fisher Mills. Taken ill >with tubercular meningitish at Sherbrooke while visiting with Mr. and Mrs. >Ernest Mckeen, the lad was taken to the hospital. Teachers and schoolmates >deeply feel the loss of the lovable little lad. He is mourned by his father, >two brothers, Lloyd and Douglas, and by one sister, Lois. >xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > >Thursday, March 9, 1942 >Mrs. D.D. MacDonald >Antigonish > Mrs. MacDonald, widow of Donald D. MacDonald, Antigonish, who prominent >in the buisness life of the county for almost 40 years , passed away >suddenly at her home Monday night. Mrs. MacDonald had not enjoyed good >health for some time, at 8 o'clock she had just entered the sitting room and >was talking with her daughter, Miss Mary Agnes MacDonald, when she suffered >a heart attack as she sat on a chair. The Rev. George Kane of St Francis >Xavier University administered the last rites of the Catholic Church. She >was 74 years of age. > Mrs. MacDonald will be remembered for her fine qualities, the C.W.L. knew >her as a faithful worker and she was a devout Christian. Charity in word and >deed characterized her long and useful life. A daughter of the late Angus >MacDonnell and Mary Fraser MacDonnell, she was born at Fraser's Mills. Her >husband who operated a men's furnishings store in Antigonish for many years >died in June 1941. > Surviving are seven daughters, Mrs. David J. Belland, Fraser's Mills; >Mary A., Central Book Store, Antigonish; Mrs. David Stevens, White Plains, >N.Y.; Mrs. D.C. MacDonald, Glace Bay; Sister Mary Annette, Lethbridge, Alta; >Teresa, Halifax; Nursing Sister Katherine, R.N., No.7 Military Hospital, >Canadian Army in England; Captain Daniel L. MacDonald, C.A.D.C., Dartmouth >and Angus R. MacDonald, merchant, Antigonish. >xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >Carolyn Wallace >___________________________________________ >nsroots mailing list >[email protected] >http://mailman.ednet.ns.ca/cgi-bin/listinfo/nsroots