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…
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…
Mrs. Elizabeth Keckley was fashion stylist to the stars of Washington DC in the mid-1800s. As dressmaker and companion of Mary Todd Lincoln, she worked in the White House during…
My grandmother wrote this short history of the Burwell family on Eden Line in Bayham Township, Elgin County, Ontario. My guess is she wrote it about 1966. I came across…
Aunt Maria (pronounced Mariah) Burwell Johnson was my grandfather's aunt. Born near Fingal and died near Eden, she homesteaded in Michigan during the Civil War and later had a fruit…
“Minnie and Charlie’s daughter must be visiting. I saw that strange girl of hers, and the dog’s gone.” Now, over forty years later, that’s what I imagine people on Pine…
I have never seen the Bible that belonged to my great-grandparents Hercules and Ada Ann Burwell. But I know what was written in it, thanks to their daughter-in-law, and my…
I have always loved Dylan Thomas’ exhortation to his dying father: Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Yes, I thought,…
Each link below goes to a pdf of pages of my grandfather's poetry book, 3rd edition, published 1974. C. H. Burwell: Poems 1974 ed. (3 PDF format - new as…
Burwell family, Dec. 26th 1910. Back row, from left, brothers Silas, Wilson, Peter and Fred. Middle row, from left, Silas' wife Alice (Kennedy), brother Charles and wife Minnie May (Lymburner),…