Heavrin McDonald
McDonald Family 1912 Curdsville

Heavrin McDonald

Ernest Heavrin McDonald, 24 Oct 1884 to 04 Nov 1885 Curdsville, Daviess County, Kentucky. Buried McCain Cemetery, Curdsville. Fifth child of Hiram Columbus and Sarah Clementine (Brogan) McDonald. Sarah wrote…

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Seven Brothers

Seventy years ago, in 1954, seven brothers lived quietly on their family farm near Port Stanley in Elgin County. They shared it with their three sisters. None of them ever…

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Burwell UEL Marker, Fingal
Fingal Cemetery, Fingal, Elgin County ON Google Maps

Burwell UEL Marker, Fingal

In my clippings file is this St. Thomas Times-Journal article from 2007. It is about a marker in the Fingal Cemetery honouring the Burwell UEL family of Elgin County. UEL…

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Farm Aerials

My Anger grandparents and aunts and uncles had large aerial photographs of their properties hanging in their living rooms. Always pride of place. I loved them. We didn’t have one,…

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Christmas Song

Eighty years ago my grandfather, Charles Hercules Burwell, wrote this Christmas song. My mother said that, in November 1941, she spent the evening before her wedding getting her dad's copy…

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