Harry Sanford Gofton

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-39066
• Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Congregational
• Occupation: 1926, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Tire Builder

Harry married Rose Marie Heinbecker 27 Oct 1926, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Rose (daughter of William John Heinbecker and Dorothea Agnes Harlen) was born 21 Nov 1902, Magnetewan, Parry Sound District, Ontario, Canada; died 1982; was buried 26 Mar 1982, Woodland Cem., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

1. Delphine May Gofton was born 3 May 1927; died 12 Jan 1987; was buried , Woodland Cem., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.

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• Name: S. F. Gofton
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-39064P
• Residence: 1871, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Wesleyan Methodist
• Occupation: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; United Brethren
• Occupation: 1896, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Teamster
• Occupation: 1901, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Machine Hand
• Occupation: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Machinist, Shop
• Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Congregational
• Elected Office: 1917, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; councillor - Kitchener

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Elected Office:
Years Served: 1917-19

Samuel married Mary Jane Copley 23 Dec 1896, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Mary (daughter of John Copley and Clara, daughter of John Copley and Clarissa Battler) was born 12 May 1861, New Dundee, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 28 Aug 1944, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , New Dundee Union Cemetery, New Dundee, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Mary Jane Gofton
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-39065
• Residence: 1891, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Anglican
• Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Congregational

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MRS. MARY JANE GOFTON

A lengthy illness terminated last night in the death of Mrs. Mary Jane Gofton, 114 Water St. S. at her residence She was born 83 years ago in New Dundee, a daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs John Copley. Her husband, Samuel, predeceased her in 1936.

Surviving are one son, Harry, of Kitchener, three grandchildren Delphine, Gloria and Douglas Gofton three brothers, Joseph Copley of Airdrie. Alta, William Copley of Plattsville, and Harry Copley of New Dundee, and three sisters, Mrs Addison Taylor of Waterloo, Mrs Alice Hallman of Kitchener and Miss Adelaide Copley of Plattsville.

Funeral service will be held at the Ratz-Bechtel Funeral Home on Thursday at 2 o'clock Rev. Arthur Eissfeldt, pastor of St. Paul's Lutheran Church, will officiate Burial will be made in New Dundee Cemetery.

Kitchener Record Tue, Aug 29, 1944 Page 11

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• Eby ID Number: 00117-7327.1
• Residence: 1859, Blenheim Twp., Oxford Co., Ontario, Canada
• Occupation: 1861, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Residence: 1861, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; No religion
• Occupation: 1871, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Residence: 1871, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Wesleyan Methodist
• Occupation: 1881, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer

Robert married Rosannah Fonger 1 May 1859, , Oxford Co., Ontario, Canada. Rosannah (daughter of William Fonger and Mary Regne Day) was born 25 Oct 1841, , Ontario, Canada; died 21 Apr 1918, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Rosannah Gofton
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-39015
• Residence: 1859, Blenheim Twp., Oxford Co., Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1861, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; United Brethren
• Residence: 1871, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Wesleyan Methodist
• Residence: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; United Brethren
• Occupation: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Income
• Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; United Bretheran

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Mrs. Rosana Gofton Has Been Called

RELICT OF THE LATE R. G. GOFTON

The Deceased Had Resided in City Thirty Years

Another of the community's worthy residents has departed this life, Mrs. Rosana Gofton, relict of the late R. G. Gofton, being called. Home yesterday after a lingering illness.

About four months ago Mrs. Gofton suffered with a stroke and during the greater part of that time had been confined to her bed. Her condition became more critical and during the last two weeks she was unconscious. While Mrs. Gofton during recent years had been handicapped and had to take to the us of crutches, yet it wasn't until last fall that serious illness overtook her.

The deceased, before her marriage, was Rosana Founger [sic] and was born in Brantford on Oct. 25, 1841. Her husband predeceased her thirty years ago. For many years the family. conducted a farm near Mannheim and after the death of the husband Mrs. Gofton removed to this town and had resided here ever since. During her residence here and at Mannheim she made many aequaintances among whom the intelligenre of her passing away will kindly regret. Possessed of pleasing and gentle qualities, kindness and sociableness, the deceased lady was be loved by all who knew her. Her demise means a loss to the community as well as to the family, who will have the sympathy of citizens.

The age of the deceased was 76 years, 5 months and 23 days. Surviving her are six sons and three daughters; four children predeceased her, three in infancy and one daughter about five years ago. The surviving children are: Roger, Samuel and Smith, of this city; Robert, of Brantford: John and Isaac, of Orillia: Mrs. M. Godbold, of Gilbert Plains. Man: Mrs. Geo. Nyland, Sault Ste. Marie: Mrs. Alf. Meyer of Waterloo. There are forty-two grandchildren and eleven great grand- children.

The funeral will be held at 2.15 p.m. Sunday at the residence. 45 Schneider Ave.. to the United Brethern Church of which the deceased was a valuable member. Interment will follow in Mount Hope Cemetery.

The News Record Fri, Apr 19, 1918 Page 6

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-75974P
• Immigration: 1850, , Ontario, Canada
• Occupation: 1852, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; labourer
• Occupation: 1861, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Residence: 1861, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Anglican
• Occupation: 1871, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Residence: 1871, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Church of England
• Occupation: 1881, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Occupation: 1891, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Residence: 1891, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Anglican
• Occupation: 1901, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Immigration: 1911, , Ontario, Canada

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CELEBRATED 60TH ANNIVERSARY OF MARRIAGE

Mr. and Mrs. John Copley of New Dundee, celebrated their diamond wedding on Saturday, March 3, surrounded by their family of nine children. This is the first time that all of the members of the family have seen one another for about twenty years. There has only been one death in the family.

Mrs. Copley is in her 83rd year and is still spry and hearty and doing her work about the house as usual. Mr. Copley suffered a paralytic stroke about six years ago and has been laid up since that time.

The diamond jubilee celebrants lived near New Dundee ever since their marriage until about eleven years ago when they moved into the
town.

Those present were Joseph, of Irricanna, Alberta; John of New Dundee William of Plattsville: Mrs. Fred Cockerton, of Plattsville: Harry of New Dundee; Mrs. Samuel Gofton of Kitchener, Mrs. Israel Hallman of Bloomingdale Mrs. J. A. Taylor of Waterloo Adelaide at home.

The Chronicle Telegraph, 8 Mar 1917, p. 5

John married Clarissa Battler 1857. Clarissa (daughter of William Battler and Emma Cook) was born 15 Sep 1837, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 26 Oct 1922, New Dundee, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , New Dundee Union Cemetery, New Dundee, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Clara
• Name: Clarissa Copley
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-75975P
• Residence: 1861, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Anglican
• Residence: 1871, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Wesley Methodist
• Residence: 1891, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Anglican
• Residence: 1911, New Dundee, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Anglican

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Mrs. Clarissa Copley

The death occurred on Thursday, Oct. 28th, of Clarissa Battler, widow of John Copley at their residence in New Dundee, aged 85 years. She is survived by several children.

The funeral was held Sunday afternoon at 2.30 o'clock. A brief service was held at her late residence, after which interment took place in the New Dundee cemetery.

The Chronicle Telegraph 2 Nov 1922, p. 5

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-29894
• Residence: 1815, Sigglesthorne, , Yorkshire, England
• Residence: 1815, Sigglesthorne, , Yorkshire, England
• Residence: 1817, Sigglesthorne, , Yorkshire, England
• Residence: 1822, Sigglesthorne, , Yorkshire, England
• Epidemic: 1834, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Cholera

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Family lore indicates that Samuel died coming from from a circus and died of cholera and was buried at the side of the road, His horse was brought to his widow.

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From an account of the cholera epidemic in which Samuel perished is below.

"The most striking and melancholy example within our knowledge of the generations and effects of the local infection occurred in this vicinity in the summer of 1834.

On the 28th of July, 1834, Galt, a village on the Grand River, U. C. was visited by Showmen with a Menagerie. It was exhibited under an awning of canvass, nearly enclosed at the sides, and drawn together in a conical form almost to the top. The day was excessively warm, and the crown suffocating. The exhibition lasted about 3 hours. It is estimated that about 1000 persons were present, and that not less than 200 of them died of Cholera within ten days. The population from which the assembly at the exhibition was composed, in the Township in the vicinity of Galt, it supposed to be about seven thousand.

The first case was in one of the Showmen, who sickened on that day, which was Monday. No other case occurred until the following Wednesday morning - on that day not less than thirty were attacked all of whom had been at the show - The greatest number of cases were on the Thursday and Friday following - but new cases occurred for several days. In speaking of an attack, we here allude to the time the patient supposed the attack commenced - the time he was "taken down" . The average length of time the disease lasted after this event was about sixteen hours.

Four days previous to the exhibition of animals at Galt, two children of Mr. J. G., on the Governor's Road, 12 miles south east of Galt, were attacked with Cholera, one of which died. On the same day (24th July,) two cases of what we shall call second grade Cholera came under our care, being the first that occurred of that form of the disease within our knowledge that season - About this time also, many were affected with first grand symptoms, - but with the exception of the children alluded to we have not been able to learn that any case of fully developed Cholera occurred in this part of the province previous to the exhibition of animals at Galt, and for several days subsequent to that event, and in which more than two hundred were attacked with Cholera, all had been at that exhibition with only two or three exceptions. From the 6th of August the disease became more general and not confined to such as were at the Menagerie; but this time it appeared at Hamilton and Dundas - situations more low and marshy than Galt, and adjacent to Burlington Bay of the Head of Lake Ontario. From these facts it is evident that a deteriorated state of the atmosphere existed previous to the 28th July, yet the fatal catastrophe following the exhibition at Galt was mainly attributable to the highly vitiated, or imperfectly oxygenated air, produced by the numerous and sweltering crowd under the canvas - the ventilation being altogether inadequate for so numerous and crowded assemblage. It also appears that at Hamilton, Dundas and several other situations the Epidemic influence was the product of the more common causes of general infection, united with a local infection, which last is caused by the action of heat upon putrescent vegetable matter...."


Elam Stimson, MD, The Cholera Beacon, being a treatise on the Epidemic Cholera: as it appeared in Upper Canada in 1832-4:

Samuel married Elizabeth Hall 17 Apr 1815, Sigglesthorne, , Yorkshire, England. Elizabeth was born 9 Jun 1794, , England; died 21 Sep 1853, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Elizabeth Gofton
• Name: Elizabeth Willson
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-29895
• Residence: 1815, Sigglesthorne, , Yorkshire, England
• Residence: 1815, Sigglesthorne, , Yorkshire, England
• Residence: 1817, Sigglesthorne, , Yorkshire, England
• Residence: 1822, Sigglesthorne, , Yorkshire, England
• Residence: 1835, Blenheim Twp., Oxford Co., Ontario, Canada

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-37047

William — Mary Regne Day. Mary was born Abt 1811, , Brant Co., Ontario, Canada; died Bef 1845. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Mary Regne Fonger
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-38255

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-105457P
• Occupation: 1852, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; farmer
• Occupation: 1861, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Residence: 1861, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Anglican
• Occupation: 1871, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Residence: 1871, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Church of Engand
• Occupation: 1881, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer

John married Elizabeth Spowarge 1825. Elizabeth was born 1802, , England; died 17 Jul 1882, , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , New Dundee Union Cemetery, New Dundee, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Elizabeth Copley
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-105458P
• Residence: 1861, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Anglican
• Residence: 1871, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Church of England

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-75740 
• Occupation: 1861, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Residence: 1861, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist
• Occupation: 1871, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Residence: 1871, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Wesley Methodist

William married Emma Cook 1820. Emma was born 1797, , England; died Bef 1871. [Group Sheet]

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-133636 
• Residence: 1861, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist