Margaret Carter

1838 - 1902  (64 years)

• Name	Margaret Carter
  Born	1838	, Berwickshire, Scotland   [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Gender	Female
  FindAGrave	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/215071179
  Name	Margaret Todd
  Residence	1871	Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [3]
  	C. Presbyterian
  Residence	1881	Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [1]
  Residence	1891	Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [4]
  	Presbyterian
  Eby ID Number	Waterloo-105061
  Died	14 Sep 1902	Regina, , Saskatchewan, Canada   [2]
  Buried	Mount View Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [2]
  Person ID	I105061	Generations
  Last Modified	25 Apr 2024

  
  

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

  
  

  Family	Thomas Todd,   b. 14 Oct 1831, Thurlstone, Ettrick, Scotland ,   d. 11 Jan 1899  (Age 67 years)
  Children	1. Janet Carter,   b. 1863, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. Yes, date unknown   2. Todd,   b. 1865, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 3 Mar 1865, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 0 years)   3. Mary Carter Todd,   b. 1870, Guelph City, Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Last Modified	26 Apr 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

  [S336] Census - ON, Waterloo, Galt - 1881, Galt Division 2 Page 4. [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 [S570] Census - ON, Waterloo, Galt - 1871, Div. 1, Pg. 70. [S1800] Census - ON, Waterloo, Galt - 1891, Section 2 Page 8. [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

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - 1838 - , Berwickshire, Scotland Residence - C. Presbyterian - 1871 - Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - 1881 - Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - Presbyterian - 1891 - Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Died - 14 Sep 1902 - Regina, , Saskatchewan, Canada Buried - - Mount View Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  = Link to Google Earth