Catherine Johnston

1841 - 1909  (~ 67 years)

• Name	Catherine Johnston
  Born	Aug 1841	Puslinch Twp., Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada
  Gender	Female
  Name	Catherine Murray
  Residence	North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
  Eby ID Number	Waterloo-132006
  Died	3 Apr 1909	Arkell, Puslinch Township, Wellington County, Ontario, Canada
  Buried	Farnham Cemetery, Arkell, Puslinch Township, Wellington County, Ontario, Canada
  Person ID	I132006	Generations
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2025

  
  

  Family	John Murray,   b. 5 Aug 1838, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 6 Oct 1926, Puslinch Twp., Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada  (Age 88 years)
  Last Modified	4 Mar 2025
  Family ID	F63637	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  MURRAY, CATHERINE (Nee Johnston) At 1 the morning of April 3rd 1909, at her home in Arkell, in her 68th year. On Sunday, while preparing for church, she was stricken with a paralytic stroke, from the effects of which she gradually succumbed. She was born in August 1841 on the farm on which she died and where she had lived the greatest part of her life. After marrying John Murray, who survives, they lived for six years in North Dumfries, after which they moved back to the old homestead, when they purchased it from her father. Her industry assisted her husband to increase his farm from one hundred to three hundred acres. Survived by children, Margaret, a nurse in Winnipeg; Mrs. Alexander Stewart of Clyde; Robert, at home; Mrs. R. J. McFarlane of Puslinch; Mrs. John A. McPherson of Schaw Station; Mrs. John Rae of Arkell; James and George, at home; and Finlayson in Ladner, BC. She was a member of Chalmers Church and was a most earnest and devout Christian woman. Funeral on Tuesday at 2: 30. Pallbearers were her three sons, Robert, James and George; three sons-in-law, Robert McFarlane, John Rae and Alex Stewart. All the members of her family, with the exception of her youngest son, Finlay who is in BC, were present. The funeral cortege included friends from Hamilton, Dumfries, Guelph and Toronto. Interment Farnham Cemetery. -Information from the transcription of Farnham Cemetery: Children, Jane (1869-1871) and John (1870- 1871) are buried with them. A Celebration of Lives Obituaries of Puslinch Township, Wellington Co., Ontario Vol 2 Anna Jackson & Marjorie Clark Used with kind permission of Marjorie Clark

  
  

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  Born - Aug 1841 - Puslinch Twp., Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada Residence - - North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  = Link to Google Earth