Profile: Daisy May Smith Morgan [1891-1973]

Daisy May Smith Morgan [1891-1973]

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].

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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).

Profile: Georgena Viola Smith (1883-1978)

Georgena Viola Smith (1883-1978)

Georgena Viola Smith was born 22 December, 1863, the second child and eldest daughter of Adam Smith and Kate Williams [D04856, D04833]. In her younger years, she worked as a seamstress in Toronto [D04880] and lived in Buffalo, New York for a time between 1904 and 1905 [D04881]. She later worked as a practicing nurse back in Eugenia Falls where she grew up [D04881]. She also played organ at the Methodist (later United) church, including at her sister's wedding [D04874].

In 1941 she moved to San Leandro, California to live with her aunt Edith Bostaph. A border crossing card from 1941 describes her as being five feet, eight and a half inches in height, with brown eyes, medium complexion and grey-brown hair [D04881]. The card also mentioned a slight scar on her nose [D04881]. Although she never married, she remained close with her family and made frequent visits to see her parents, aunts and uncles [D04873, D04923, D04881]. She died 18 March, 1978 at the age of 95 [D04833, D04811] and is buried in Flesherton Cemetery along with her younger sister, Daisy May [D04811]

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Sources
[D04811] Flesherton Cemetery (Flesherton, Grey, Ontario).

[D04833] Grey County Surname Collection , 1978; digital images (accessed 2 Nov 2018), Grey County Surname Collection.

[D04856] Ontario Archives of Ontario, MS 929, reels 1-245, 1845867: 622, 9996, 70; 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.

[D04880] 1911 census of Canada, Ontario, district 128, sub-district 87, Toronto, p. 1, dwelling 4, family 4; RG 31; digital images,Ancestry.com (accessed 3 Nov 2018).

[D04881] "Detroit Border Crossings and Passenger and Crew Lists 1905-1963," online images, Ancestry.ca (accessed 16 Jan 2019), 3 Feb 1941.

[D04923] "Eugenia," Flesherton Advance, October 22, 1930, p. 1, col. 1; digital images(accessed 17 Nov 2018), Grey Highlands Newspaper Collection.