James Deans

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-122619
• Occupation: 1861, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Residence: 1861, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Free Church
• Land - Directory: 1864, North Dumfries Concession 08 Lot 17, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Occupation: 1871, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Residence: 1871, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; C. Presb.
• Residence: 1881, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; C. Presbyterian
• Occupation: 1891, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Gentleman
• Residence: 1891, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian
• Misfortune: Apr 1896; killed by train

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MR. JAMES DEANS was a man of fine, sweet nature and cheery disposition, and evangelical spirit. He had a singular love for the Gospel of God's grace, and nourished his soul on its blessed truths. He could get no higher theme of converse and none other to him was satisfying. While here he lived in the palace of the King. He was always bright and happy, and you had no need to ask him, " What is your best word ? " for he always gave you that. He stood in the light that never fails or fades away, satisfied with its revelation and its rest. He enjoyed his religion, finding in it comfort and strength to serve God now, and the inspiration of a blessed hope for the future. All my recollections bring him back to me as a profoundly happy man, and that always flowing out of his living faith in the Saviour of sinners. He took great delight in reading C. H. Spurgeon s sermons, with their clear exposition of divine mysteries, their forceful illustration of doctrine, their uplifting spiritual power. They furnished to him strong meat, and materially helped to develop a sterling character.

He was a regular subscriber for The Metropolitan Pulpit, which, when he had read and feasted on himself, he gave away, that others might enjoy the rich banquet they spread for the hungry soul. God had blessed and prospered him in his work and he was generous in his use of what God had given him. He held it only as one who administered God's bounty. He regarded himself as the steward of God. From more quarters than one have we heard of his generous gifts bestowed with a lavish hand.

His end came unexpectedly one day. His advancing years increased a deafness, with which he had been troubled for a long time past, so that it was very difficult for him to hear at all. He was staying with his daughter, Mrs. Helen Telfer, in Galt, and he liked to go up town and see his old friends, and hear the news, and get the mail at the post-office. In going there he had to cross the railway track, where there are many lines of rail laid. And one day, as he was crossing, a train was shunting in the yard, and a loose, single car moving along the track, entirely unobserved by him, came upon him, and though the people shouted a warning with loud cries, yet he heard them not, and there met his end, being killed instantly. The appointed time had come, and in this way God called him home. But for this he was waiting and prepared. In conversations had with him some time before it was evident that he was looking forward with joyous hope to the time when he would enter in and go no more out

In memory of him, his son Mr. Thomas Deans, North Dumfries, has given a memorial bell, one thousand pounds in weight, to be one of the chimes for the Central Church.

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. pg 252-254

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In Memoriam Died. In Galt, on Friday afternoon, at 3 o'clock, James Deans, Aged 89 years and 9 months. The Funeral Will take place from the residence of his daughter, Mrs. Telfer, State street, at 2 o'clock, on Monday afternoon, to Mount View Cemetery. Friends and acquaintances will please accept this intimation. Galt, April 18th, 1896.

Funeral Card of James Deans

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INSTANTLY KILLED

JAMES DEANS KNOCKED DOWN AND KILLED BY A FREIGHT CAR.

Several Saw His Danger and Called Out - Being Deaf, He Did Not Hear Them, The Wheel Passed Over His Neck, Severing the Head From the Body.

At a few minutes after three o'clock, Friday afternoon, Jas. Deans, an old gentleman nearly ninety years of age, was instantly killed at the G.W. station. The old man, who was very deaf, was crossing the track at the station, when a car, which was shunted down from Todd's mill struck him. The wheel passed over his neck, completely severing his head from the body. Before the car reached him, some bystanders, who were too far away to save him, warned the unfortunate man of his danger, but he did not hear them and so met a violent death. When the fatality occurred, the brakeman was standing at the back end of the car and so could not see that there was anything on the track. While the car was a short distance away from where the old man was standing, the brakeman was informed of the deceased's perilous position, but though he put on the brakes, was unable to stop the car. A doctor was at once summoned, but all that he could do was to have the remains removed, the body being taken to the house of Mrs. Teller, daughter of the dead man, with whom he had been living. Fortunately, no blame can be attributed to any one for the accident, the old gentleman seeing the engine standing down the track and his deafness preventing him from hearing the slowly approaching car, evidently thought the track was clear and went to his death. Mr. Lewis, the brakeman and the other trainmen and station employees, feel the unfortunate occurrence very keenly. An inquest was held, the result of which will be found in another column. The late Mr. Deans was born near Jedburgh. Roxburghshire, Scotland, nearly 90 years ago. When a young man, 24 years of age, he came to Canada and a year later was followed by the remainder of the family, four sisters, a brother and his mother, his father having died some thirteen years before. On his arrival in this country, the deceased first resided in Toronto, where he remained for a few months. After spending a short time in London, he took up land in North Dumfries, and settled on the farm now occupied by his son, Thomas Deans, West River road. Her he remained until ten years ago, when he retired from farming. Since then he had made his home alternately with his daughter, Mrs. Teller, State Street, town and with his son on the homestead. He was twice married, his first wife being, Miss Jane Brydon, who predeceased him many years, dying when about 32 years old. His second wife has been dead for many years. By his first wife, he had six children, only three whom are living, Mr. Thos. Deans, on the homestead; Mrs. John Telfer, State. The subject of this sketch was the last of a family of six, all of whom lived to an old age, the most of them exceeding four score years. He was a Reformer to the backbone and one of the men who have made the party what It is today. He never aspired to civic honors, the only public office he ever held was that of school trustee. In religion was a Presbyterian, being the oldest and one of the most highly esteemed members of the Central church. The funeral took place from the residence of his daughter, Mrs. Telfer, State Street, at 2 o'clock, on Monday afternoon, to Mt. View cemetery.

The Weekly Reformer 23 Apr 1896 pg 3

James — Janet Brydon. Janet was born 1817, , Scotland; died 15 Feb 1851; was buried , Pioneer Pergola Cemetery, St. Andrew's Park, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

James — Janet Beattie. Janet was born 1809; died 20 Aug 1869, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Mount View Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• FindAGrave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/248642858
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-195820
• Residence: 1861, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Free Church
• Land - Directory: 1864, North Dumfries Concession 08 Lot 17, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Occupation: 1871, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Residence: 1871, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; C. Presb.
• Occupation: 1881, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Residence: 1881, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; C. Presbyterian
• Occupation: 1891, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Residence: 1891, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian
• Occupation: 1911, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Residence: 1911, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian
• Residence: 1917, North Dumfries Concession 08 Lot 17, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

Notes:

Died In North Dumfries on Sunday, October 7th, 1917 at 6.30 a.m. Thomas Deans In His 78th Year The Funeral Will take place from his late residence, Lot 17, Con. 8, on Wednesday Afternoon, October 10th, at 2 o'clock. to Mount View Cemetery. Friends and acquaintances please accept this intimation.

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Thomas married Margaret Telfer 29 Mar 1877, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Margaret (daughter of George John Telfer and Helen Shiel) was born CALC 24 Sep 1840, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 11 Apr 1927, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried 13 Apr 1927, Mount View Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Margaret Russel
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-122621
• Residence: 1861, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Free Church
• Occupation: 1881, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Residence: 1881, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; C. Presbyterian

Margaret married Cornelius Russel 5 Nov 1868, Paris, Brant County, Ontario, Canada. Cornelius was born CA 1840; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Mary Nelson
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-63853
• Residence: 1861, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Free Church
• Residence: 1864, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1881, Glenelg Twp., Grey Co., Ontario; Presbyterian

Mary married Paul Nelson 3 Mar 1864, , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Paul (son of Paul Nelson and Elizabeth Currie) was born 1 Jan 1841, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 1 Sep 1901; was buried , Durham Cemetery, Durham, Bentinck, Grey Co., Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Ellen Deans
• Name: Helen Telfer
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-105077
• Residence: 1861, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Free Church
• Residence: 1871, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; C. Presb.
• Residence: 1891, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian

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MRS. HELEN TELFER was the daughter of Mr. James Deans, and inherited many of his qualities. She was quiet and retiring, shunning publicity, and loving most the peaceful seclusion of her own fireside. She answered to the Apostle s injunction to the young women: " To love their children, to be discreet, chaste, keepers at home." She was deeply religious, devoted to the truth, seeking always to exemplify the obedience of the faith. She fed upon the hidden manna, and bore abroad in the kindliness of her spirit, and in the sweet charity of her disposition, a benediction wherever she went. Her children rose up to call her blessed. Her life made no great stir, but, like the movement of the silent sunbeam, and the refreshing dewdrop stealing down upon the thirsty plant, it made impressions that abide, and that nourish the higher and better life of the soul. She sought constantly and earnestly to approve herself to God, and she and her children lived in the fear of God.

She suffered long from a malignant disease, which eventually ended her pilgrimage. But all through it she was patient, and endured what God sent her without a murmur. When I called to see her she would ask me to sing for her, which I did. One day I asked her if there was any hymn she would like, and she said: " Sing Rock of Ages, cleft for me. " I sang it, and when I came to the last verse, and to this line, " When I soar to worlds unknown," etc., I shall never forget her look. She was near her end, and I realized the thorough unscripturalness of the thought here, and how unsuitable it was, because untrue. We go not to " worlds unknown," but to our Father s House, where a place is prepared for us; and we go not unattended. Jesus says: " I will come again, and receive you unto Myself, that where I am, there ye may be also." That is not soaring to worlds unknown. No! No! It is going home to a loving heart, and a sweet fellowship, and unspeakable joy. Taking Christ s own representation, of which Paul s is just the echo, " Absent from the body, present with the Lord," there is in it warmth and comfort and upholding, just what the parting soul needs. When our feet are crossing the threshold the Lord comes to meet us and give us welcome. Ever since singing that verse at that time I have had a feeling much averse to it, and would never again sing it in like circum stances. We should sustain the heart with truth at that trying time.

At the extremity of her suffering she was full of blessed confidence and sweet peace, and died as she had lived, trusting in the mercy of God through her Saviour, Jesus Christ.

She loved all good things, the Word of God, the house of God, the place of prayer, the fellowship of Christian hearts, and the blessed hope, and now, in the faithfulness of God, she is enjoying to the full the Everlasting Kingdom of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ.

1aEbenezer: 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. pg 256-158

Helen married John Telfer 25 Dec 1873, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. John (son of George John Telfer and Helen Shiel) was born 1838, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 4 Sep 1884, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Mount View Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-122636
• Occupation: 1861, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Laborer
• Residence: 1861, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Free Church
• Occupation: 1871, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Residence: 1871, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; C. Presb.
• Occupation: 1881, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farm Servant
• Residence: 1881, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; C. Presbyterian

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Died, Near Alma Station, on Wednesday, July 11th, at 4.20 p.m., Robert Deans, Aged 37 Years, 6 Months and 2 Days. Funeral, On Friday afternoon, at 3 o'clock, from his sister's residence, Mrs. Telfer, State street, Galt, to Mount View Cemetery. Friends and acquaintances are respectfully invited to attend. Galt, July 12, 1888.

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-195853
• Residence: 1881, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; C. Presbyterian
• Residence: 1891, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian
• Occupation: 1911, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer, on Shares
• Residence: 1911, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian

James married Margaret Chisholm "Maggie" Turnbull 7 Sep 1927, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Margaret (daughter of James S. Turnbull and Isabella Turnbull) was born 17 Nov 1887, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 3 Apr 1939. [Group Sheet]

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-72483
• Occupation: 1901, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Domestic Servant
• Occupation: 1907, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; farmer
• Occupation: 1911, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Residence: 1911, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian

William married Margaret Rutherford 2 Oct 1907, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Margaret (daughter of Thomas K. Rutherford and Margaret Smith) was born 18 Nov 1860, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 4 Apr 1940, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Mount View Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Janet B. Rutherford
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-72472
• Residence: 1881, Glenelg Twp., Grey Co., Ontario; Presbyterian
• Residence: 1911, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian

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Died In North Dumfries on Monday, August 7th, 1911, at 9 p.m., Janet B. Nelson Beloved wife of Hugh Rutherford In her 39th year. The Funeral Will take place from her late residence, Reidsville Road, on Wednesday afternoon at 2.30, to Mount View Cemetery, Galt. Friends and acquaintances will please accept this intimation.

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Janet — Hugh Rutherford. Hugh (son of Thomas K. Rutherford and Margaret Smith) was born 30 Jun 1865, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 3 Feb 1921, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Jessie Brydon Murray
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-105078
• Residence: 1891, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian

Jessie married Donald Alexander Murray 18 Jun 1902, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Donald was born 6 Jan 1870, East Zorra Twp., Oxford Co., Ontario, Canada; died 2 Jun 1942, East Zorra Twp., Oxford Co., Ontario, Canada; was buried , McTavish Cemetery, East Zorra Township, Oxford Co., Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Ellen Margaret Telfer
• Name: Helen Margaret "Nellie" Cowan
• Name: Nelly Telfer
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-63784
• Residence: 1891, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian

Helen married Dr. Walter D. Cowan 9 Jun 1917, East Zorra Twp., Oxford Co., Ontario, Canada. Walter (son of William Cowan and Agnes Turnbull Dunn) was born 2 Jul 1865, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was christened 1 Sep 1865, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 15 Oct 1925, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried 17 Oct 1925, Mount View Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Mary Deans Smith
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-63785
• Residence: 1891, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian

Mary married Rowland Whillier Smith 19 Dec 1901, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Rowland was born 1874, , Canada; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-30635

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• Military: WW1
• Name: Gordon Rutherford
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-72474
• Residence: 1911, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-195759
• Residence: 1911, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian