Dora Evalena Smith (or Evalena, as she was later known) was born in Eugenia Falls 30 May 1885, the second daughter and third child of Adam Smith and Kate Williams [D04857]. Like her brothers and sisters, she was born in the family home in Eugenia Falls [D04832].
She married George Wellington "Well" Graham, the second son of George Graham and Elizabeth Ellis on 3 Dec 1915 in Flesherton, Ontario [D04871, D04738].
George Wellington "Well" Graham was born 26 April 1877 in Vandeleur in Grey County Ontario [D04738, D04879, D04887, D04810]. His parents were George Graham and Elizabeth Ellis [D04738, D04887]. His parents were immigrants from Scotland who settled in the Grey Highlands area just south of Eugenia in the 1850s [D05025 p105]. Well worked in a sawmill in his early days [D04738] but later become a photographer of events in Eugenia [D05025 p105, D04879]. The two had two children together: Gordon and Phyllis.
Well died 9 November 1928 of influenza [D04887] and is buried in Flesherton cemetery [D04810].
Dora died 26 Aug 1979 in her 95th year, outliving all of her brothers and sisters [D04834]. At the time of her death she was living in Collingwood and had four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren [D04834]. She is buried in Flesherton cemetery along with her husband[D04834, D04810]
Sources:
[D04738] Ontario Archives of Ontario, Ontario, Canada Marriages, 5218, Graham-Smith; digital images, Ancestry.ca, "Ontario, Canada Marriages,"(accessed 21 Oct 2018).
[D04810] Flesherton Cemetery (Fleshterton, Grey, Ontario).
[D04832] Grey County Surname Collection , 25 Feb 1936; digital images(accessed 9 Nov 2018).
[D04834] Grey County Surname Collection , 1979; digital images(accessed 2 Nov 2018), Grey County Surname Collection.
[D04857] Ontario Archives of Ontario, MS 929, reels 1-245, 1845873: 27, 10469, 53; digital image, Ancestry.com, "Ontario, Canada Births," (28 Oct 2018).
[D04871] "Eugenia Paragraphs," Flesherton Advance, 9 December 1915, p. 1, col. 3; digital images(accessed 3 Nov 2018), Grey Highlands Newspaper Collection.
[D04879] 1921 census of Canada, district 84, sub-district 7, Artemesia, p. 8, dwelling 81, family 81; RG 31; digital images, ancestry.com (accessed 3 Nov 2018).
[D04887] Ontario Archives of Ontario, Ontario, Canada Deaths, MS935 Reel 359: 435, 16379, 2; digital image, Ancestry.ca, "Ontario, Canada Deaths," Ancestry.ca (2 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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