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Margaret Carter

Female 1838 - 1902  (64 years)


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  • Name Margaret Carter 
    Born 1838  , Berwickshire, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3, 4
    Gender Female 
    FindAGrave https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/215071179 
    Name Margaret Todd 
    Residence 1871  Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    C. Presbyterian 
    Residence 1881  Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Residence 1891  Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [4
    Presbyterian 
    Eby ID Number Waterloo-105061 
    Died 14 Sep 1902  Regina, , Saskatchewan, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Buried Mount View Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Person ID I105061  Generations
    Last Modified 7 Nov 2024 

    Father Robert Carter,   b. 26 May 1789,   d. 18 Nov 1845, Cockburnspath, , East Lothian, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 56 years) 
    Mother Janet Wishart,   b. 1795, of, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 8 Jun 1854  (Age 59 years) 
    Married 4 Oct 1818  Coldingham, Berwickshire, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location  [5
    Family ID F15772  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Thomas Todd,   b. 14 Oct 1831, Thurlstone, Ettrick, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 11 Jan 1899  (Age 67 years) 
    Children 
     1. Janet Carter,   b. 1863, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
     2. Todd,   b. 1865, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 3 Mar 1865, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 0 years)
     3. Mary Carter Todd,   b. 1870, Guelph City, Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
    Last Modified 12 Nov 2024 
    Family ID F26865  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • MRS. THOMAS TODD. Mrs. Todd was a kindred spirit to Mr. Todd. If she had one predominant characteristic it was this, that she was bent on doing good. Kindness was her distinguishing quality. That in her was always seeking expression. And she gave it expression constantly in secret unobtrusive ways. With her own hands she ministered to the poor and needy. And those in straitened circumstances deserving people found in her a warm friend. But few knew the extent of her beneficence. She hated the pharisaic spirit of sounding a trumpet before one in the work of charity. With her it was pure Christian charity. She did it for its own sake. But this in her sprang from religious principle, that was its source. She loved the pure gospel of the grace of God, and would tolerate nothing else. And as years rolled by she clung to it with firmer and firmer grasp. Nothing but the gospel would satisfy her soul. She must hear of Christ and His work, otherwise she was unsatisfied. Christ s name was to her full of music, and life came into her soul through it. A sermon that did not have something of Christ in it was utterly worthless to her.

      Her heart went out after the salvation of souls What hungering and thirsting she had in reference to this! Often when I have called on her our conversation would be of nothing else. One could not but feel the intensity of her spirit in regard to this, and be mightily stirred by it. There was in her no worldly spirit, dwelling upon the frivolities of life and the empty vanities of time. Another light shone in her sky, that was brighter than the light of the noonday sun, and that dimmed all else. Many listening to her talk might think her narrow and out of harmony with her mundane relations, but she was simply coming down upon them from a higher sphere to lift them up. To lift anything higher we must be above it. And one can elevate the world, not by conformity to it, but by being better than it is, and higher than it holds itself. You cannot reform a drunkard by drinking with him, or a worldling by being of the same mind. No, you 18 must be sober and spiritually minded to do both.

      Mrs. Todd had strong faith in prayer. When Mr. Todd crossed the Atlantic, as he did often on business, she never failed to accompany him with her prayers Once he had to cross in mid winter, and she was much opposed to his tempting the stormy sea at such time. She entreated him not to go, but he persisted in going. When he would not on any account give up his intention, her greatest conceivable threat of evil was put in these words: " Now, I'll not pray for you, Todd; remember that, I'll not pray for you."

      She went out to the North-West to visit Dr. and Mrs. Lowe, and while there was called home. Some years before she had been seriously ill, indeed hopelessly ill, but she recovered, and lived on, with all the experiences of that time as a preparation for the Lord's coming, whenever that might be. She was found waiting and ready to go in to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.

      Ebenezer: A History of the Central Presbyterian Church, Galt, Ontario, with brief sketches of some of its members who have passed on the the other side, The Rev. James A. R. Dickson

  • Sources 
    1. [S336] Census - ON, Waterloo, Galt - 1881, Galt Division 2 Page 4.

    2. [S122] Cemetery - ON, Waterloo, Cambridge - Mount View CC#4495 Internet Link .
      Margaret Carter / wife of / Thomas Todd / died in Regina / Sask / September 14,1902 / infant son of / Thomas & Margaret / Todd / died March 3,1865 / Janet / wife of / Robert Carter / died June 8,1854 / aged 58 years

    3. [S570] Census - ON, Waterloo, Galt - 1871, Div. 1, Pg. 70.

    4. [S1800] Census - ON, Waterloo, Galt - 1891, Section 2 Page 8.

    5. [S2181] Scotland, Select Marriages, 1561-1910.
      Name:Robert Carter
      Gender:Male
      Marriage Date:04 Oct 1818
      Marriage Place:Coldingham,Berwick,Scotland
      Spouse:
      Janet Wishart
      FHL Film Number:1067869

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    Link to Google MapsBorn - 1838 - , Berwickshire, Scotland Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - C. Presbyterian - 1871 - Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - 1881 - Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - Presbyterian - 1891 - Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDied - 14 Sep 1902 - Regina, , Saskatchewan, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBuried - - Mount View Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
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