Sarah Melissa Evans

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-93443

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EVANS, SARAH M.

After an illness of several months, a former resident of Hespeler, in Windsor, about 7: 30 on Saturday evening, December 28, 1940. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Evans of Puslinch Township. She had made her home in Windsor for many years, where she had been an employee of the Bell Telephone Company for twenty years. Survived by her parents; three brothers and two sisters, Lewis and Calvin of Puslinch Township; Leonard of Sudbury; Miss Nina and Miss Margaret of Windsor. A memorial service was conducted at Windsor on Sunday and the funeral was held at the Stager and Co. Funeral Home in Hespeler on Tuesday at 2: 30, by Rev. J. R. Armstrong, a former pastor of the Hespeler Baptist Church, who is now in Montreal, assisted by Rev. J. H. Peer of Galt. Interment Hespeler Cemetery. Pallbearers: Leonard Evans of Sudbury; Louis and Calvin Evans of Puslinch Township; Vincent Ryan and William Coulter of Windsor; and C. Burrows of Hespeler.

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-87133
• Residence: 1861, Puslinch Twp., Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1945, Pine St., Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

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EVANS, THOMAS

In Galt, on Wednesday morning, December 19, 1945, after a short illness, in his 91^st year. One of the district's oldest, best known and most respected residents, son of the late Mr. and Mrs. William Evans, he was born in Puslinch Township. He was a member of the Baptist Church. His wife predeceased him in July of this year. Three sons and two daughters survive, Lewis and Calvin of Puslinch Township; Leonard of New Liskeard; Mrs. McCreary and Miss Margaret of Detroit. Funeral on Fri., Dec. 21 from Stager & Co. Funeral Home, Galt Street in Hespeler at 2. Rev. W. L. Hisey of the Hespeler Baptist Church officiated. Pallbearers: Arthur Evans, Robert Evans, Edward Leyman of Guelph, Walter Holm, Carl Gruetzner and C. P. Bond. Interment Hespeler Cemetery.

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Thomas — Anna Jackson. Anna was born 20 Sep 1869, Puslinch Twp., Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada; died 1 Jul 1945, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , New Hope Cemetery, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Anna Evans
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-87134
• Residence: 1945, Pine St., Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

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EVANS, ANNIE (Nee Jackson)

The funeral service on July 3^rd at 2, with Rev. W. L. Hisey officiating, was from her Pine St., Hespeler home. She was buried in Hespeler Cemetery. Born on September 20, 1869, she died in her home on Sunday, July 1, 1945, after an illness of nine weeks. She was the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. S. Jackson of Puslinch Township. A lifelong resident of this locality, she was a member of the Hespeler Baptist Church. Surviving are her husband, Thomas Evans; three sons, Lewis and Calvin of Puslinch; and Leonard of Sudbury; two daughters, Mrs. A. B. McCreery and Margaret Evans of Detroit; a brother Thomas Jackson of Puslinch; three sisters, Mrs. T. Amos of Guelph; Mrs. E. Lehman of Guelph; and Miss Sarah Jackson of Puslinch. Pallbearers: Arthur and Robert Evans, Edward Lehman, Melvin Wilson, Karl Gruetzner of Kitchener and Alan Wilford.

-Information from the marriage certificate of Jane Jackson: She married Thomas Amos.

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-462309
• Occupation: 1861, Puslinch Twp., Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada; farmer
• Residence: 1861, Puslinch Twp., Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada

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EVANS, WILLIAM

At his home in Puslinch, on Wednesday, on the evening of the 21^st January 1896, at the ripe age of 80 years, following his wife to the grave within eleven days, another who braved the pioneer life in Puslinch. Mr. and Mrs. Evans were married for more than fifty years. Mr. Evans emigrated from Staffordshire, England in 1839, locating on lot 2, concession 4, Puslinch. About five years afterwards, he moved to lot 7 of the same concession, residing there till his death. By constant application and excellent judgment, the home became one of the finest in the township, farm after farm being added. He always took more enjoyment in developing the resources of his home, than in aspiring to positions of public trust or seeking municipal honours. He was a kind and obliging neighbour and always charitable when charity was merited. Though he had been in poor health for some time, his death was rather sudden. His funeral on the 23^rd to Kirkland Cemetery was very largely attended by people from far and near.

-Information from the death certificate: Death ensued after 7 months with la grippe. Informant - Thomas Evans.

-Information from the 1906 Atlas of Wellington County: Succeeded his father, John Evans to lot 5, concession 3, Puslinch. Married Mary Kidd. Children were William F. of Waterloo; John of Guelph; Mrs. John Taylor of Guelph; Alfred (born 1852); Annie; Thomas; and David

-Information from the death certificate of Mary Jane Taylor: Born in Puslinch on March 3, 1853, daughter of William Evans and Mary Kidd. Died in the Guelph General Hospital on April 1, 1924, aged 71 years. Informant - John Moses Taylor of 2 Hardy St. in Guelph, her husband. Burial in Kirkland Cemetery, Puslinch.

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William married Mary Kidd 22 Dec 1831, Home District, Ontario, Canada. Mary was born 10 Jul 1822, Seamer Near Scarborough, Yorkshire, England; died 10 Jan 1896, Puslinch Twp., Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada; was buried , Howitt Memorial Cemetery (formerly Kirkland Cemetery), Puslinch Twp., Wellington Co., Ontario. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Mary Evans
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-462310
• Residence: 1861, Puslinch Twp., Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada

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EVANS, MARY (Nee Kidd)

Mrs. William Evans, on Friday, January 10^th 1896, in the 74^th year of her age, after an illness of a little more than a week, another of the honoured pioneers that helped to make Puslinch Township and our country at large, what it is today. She came to this country from England with her father, the late John Kidd, in 1830 and settled on a farm on the Brock Road, where she resided for several years. In 1847, she married William Evans of the 4^th concession of Puslinch, the home she went to being her home till her death, a period of forty-nine years. Here the work of pioneer life was carried on with such intelligence and energy, that the farm was soon made one of the best in the township and as years elapsed, farm after farm was added, upon which most of the different members of the family are now situated. The family consists of five boys and two girls: Phenton, living in Waterloo Township near Hespeler; John, with his sister, Miss Ady, living on Manitoulin Island; Miss Evans, at home; Alfred and David, on farms near by; and Thomas, on the homestead. The members of the family are all highly respected and well known throughout the township and surrounding country. Mrs. Evans was a lady of that benevolent disposition, of whom it may truly be said, no one was ever sent hungry from her door. She was modest and retiring in her demeanor, a desirable neighbour, a good wife, an affectionate mother, her greatest ambition ever centring in the promotion of the best interests of her family and home. Her funeral on Sunday, notwithstanding the inclemency of the day, was one of the largest seen in the township. She was interred in the Kirkland Cemetery. The family have the sympathy of the entire community, rendered doubly great by the fact that their aged father is, at present and was at the time of the mother's death, in an apparently dying and unconscious condition.

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