Daisy May Smith was born 24 Mary 1890 in Eugenia Falls, Grey County, Ontario [D04858]. She was the youngest child of Adam Smith and Kate Williams, and like her older three brothers and two sisters was born in family home [D04832].
She married William Earnest Morgan, a bricklayer from Artemesia 5 June 1912 [D04739, D04874]. The wedding was held at her parents' home with a prepared altar set up in the drawing room [D04874]. The service was performed by Daisy's uncle, William Madden and her sister, Georgina played the bridal march [D04874]. Many guests from out of town attending the wedding including Mrs. Dyer from Toronto (sister of Kate Williams Smith), Georgina Smith of Toronto and George Graham of Parry Sound [D04873].
After the honeymoon trip, William and Daisy May moved into the house opposite her parents' house on Inkerman St. N. in Eugenia [D05025].
William and Daisy May had one daughter, Patricia Victoria Morgan, born on 24 May 1913 [D04888] and one son Douglas, born in 1921 [D04882]. Patricia married Glenn Ross MacDonald and died on 3 May 1966 at the age of 66 [D04886].
William Morgan died on 16 September 1930 at the age of 50 [D04883].
In her later years, Daisy May moved to Owen Sound and later Mount Forest in 1969 [D04826]. She died 24 December 1973 at the age of 83 [D04829]. At the time of her death, she had five grandchildren and six great-grandchildren [D04826, D04829].
Sources:
[D04739] Ontario Archives of Ontario, Ontario, Canada Marriages, 8882, Morgan-Smith; digital images, Ancestry.ca, "Ontario, Canada Marriages,"(accessed 21 Oct 2018).
[D04826] Grey County Surname Collection , Dec 28 1973; digital images(accessed 2 Nov 2018), Grey County Surname Collection.
[D04829] Grey County Surname Collection ; digital images.
[D04832] Grey County Surname Collection , 25 Feb 1936; digital images(accessed 9 Nov 2018).
[D04858] Ontario Archives of Ontario, MS 929, reels 1-245, MS929 Reel 98: 683, 10773, 30; digital image, Ancestry.com, "Ontario, Canada Births," (28 Oct 2018).
[D04873] "Eugenia Paragraphs," Flesherton Advance, June 6,1912, p. 1, col. 3; digital images(accessed 18 Nov 2018), Grey Highlands Newspaper Collection.
[D04874] "Morgan-Smith," Flesherton Advance, June 13, 1912, p. 4, col. 1; digital images(accessed 18 Nov 2018), Grey Highlands Newspaper Collection.
[D04882] 1921 census of Canada, district 84, sub-district 7, Artemesia, p. 8, dwelling 84, family 84; RG 31; digital images, ancestry.com (accessed 3 Nov 2018).
[D04883] Ontario Archives of Ontario, Ontario, Canada Deaths, MS935, Reel 382: 323, 6526; digital image, Ancestry.ca, "Ontario, Canada Marriages," Ancestry.ca (4 Nov 2018).
[D04886] Mount Forest Cemetery (Southgate, Grey, Ontario).
[D04888] Ontario Archives of Ontario, MS 929, reels 1-245, MS929, Reel 240: 25934; digital image, Ancestry.com, "Ontario, Canada Births," (4 Nov 2018).
[D05025] Mildred Young Hubbert, editor, Split Rail Country: A History of Artemesia Township (Owen Sound, Ontario: Stan Brown Printers Limited, 1986).
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