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…
Harness Racing Mabees
Looking into a branch of the Mabee family led me to harness racing in Tillsonburg during the early decades of the 1900s. Three names stood out: Jack M. Climie, Charles…
Visits to the Grandparents
“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…
Burwell Photos
See Burwell family tree here. Ada and Ruby, daughters of Charles and Minnie (Lymburner) Burwell, in London 1944. Wow! C. H. Burwell Cement Products on corner of Tillson Ave. and…
Lymburner Photos
Click for Lymburner Family Tree. Ada and Ruby, daughters of Charles and Minnie (Lymburner) Burwell, in London 1944. Wow! C. H. Burwell Cement Products on corner of Tillson Ave. and Pine…
Poems by C. H. Burwell
It took a year but I have my grandfather’s poems in pdf format. If you would like to print it out, click here and download the file links on the…
C. H. Burwell Poems
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…