Hi I work at the Queens Park hospital and stumbled upon Alfred’s headstone. I googled the picture and that lead me here. I didn’t see any others but I wasn’t looking all that hard
Finding Agnes Ebenal's final resting place puts the final touch on a tragic story of Jacob and Agnes's journey with their four girls. Tragedy struck along the way and they all wound up at the Provincial Asylum for the Insane in 1931. Unfortunately Agnes passed in 1932 and her husband Jacob wound up being sent to Delview Hospital in Vernon, BC where he passed in 1949. All four girls survived and lived good lives.
This is the final chapter in a months long search for my wife's grandparents and without the help of Michael de Courcy's history and documentation, we would have some but not all the information. For that we sincerely thank you Michael.
My brother, sister in law and myself started last week on a homage of sorts to visit as many of our ancestral resting places as we could in a short amount of time. They drove their fifth wheel camper from Okla and met me Billings, Montana, after my flight from Texas. We visited cemeteries where our father’s side of the family tree were located fist finding the resting places of Greats, Great-greats, Great-great-greats, cousins and uncles/aunts in Montana and Idaho before traveling north to Bew Westminster, BC. Our first stop was the New Westminster Archives where their search yielded nothing for our great grandfather. But the lady at the desk said it didn’t mean they had nothing. It just wasn’t in their database. The three of us spread out to find something….ANYTHING! After about an hour, my SIL found a book listing his burial plot information. However, we didn’t know which cemetery. I asked a very nice gentleman we had just met in the reading room if he could help us figure it out. He looked at the IOOF and stated, “That’s in Frazier!” After using the old card catalog with the references for Bowell Funeral Home, we had his full burial information confirming the plot record.
So we went to Frazier with a very limited map. Fortunately the caretaker was there and printed off the plot map. Within 3 hours of starting our research, we were at his grave site. Now we are looking to get a permanent marker. From what they’re telling us, we’ll probably have to get our proof of lineage so we can claim the deed to the plot. And then we can get with Fraser Cemetery about placing a marker unless someone else knows a little easier way of going about it.
Going back to see if there was any further input on my great grandfather, Arthur Alderson, it occurred to me I had not replied back to you comment directly. On the death certificate, I believe Sam (?) Bowell is listed as the undertaker. I will have to go back and find the death certificate to confirm the first name. The last name was definitely Bowell from the Bowell Company. The name on the DC as the undertaker is the same as the person who I read had dug up some of the bodies and literally 'carted' them out of the cemetery. Seeing as he passed in 1915, it would seem he was buried in the Douglas Cemetery as the Woodland Cemetery had its first internment in 1920.
Thank you again SO MUCH for your input!! Hoping to locate the his DC before leaving on our adventure next week. Still planning a trip to the BC archives to see what they have there.
Darlene
Maiden name LaRue, daughter of Gilbert and Anne LaRue of St. Paul, Alberta. Sisters Bernice, Vivian, Lorraine, brother George. Family business St. Paul Journal weekly newspaper, which she wrote for. Worked as a government telephone operator, sang soprano. Married November 20, 1934 in Vancouver.
Event Type: Death
Registration Number:1927-09-388633
BC Archives Mfilm Number:B13131
GSU Mfilm Number:1927350
Event Date (YYYY-MM-DD):1927-03-26
Event Place:ESSONDALE
Age at Death:66
Person:ALEXIS BRAT
happy to hear you found the Alfred's headstone, this was installed in 2011 as part of my Dead and Buried / Woodlands Cemetery project thank you.
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Hi I work at the Queens Park hospital and stumbled upon Alfred’s headstone. I googled the picture and that lead me here. I didn’t see any others but I wasn’t looking all that hard
Finding Agnes Ebenal's final resting place puts the final touch on a tragic story of Jacob and Agnes's journey with their four girls. Tragedy struck along the way and they all wound up at the Provincial Asylum for the Insane in 1931. Unfortunately Agnes passed in 1932 and her husband Jacob wound up being sent to Delview Hospital in Vernon, BC where he passed in 1949. All four girls survived and lived good lives.
This is the final chapter in a months long search for my wife's grandparents and without the help of Michael de Courcy's history and documentation, we would have some but not all the information. For that we sincerely thank you Michael.
WE FOUND HIM!!!
My brother, sister in law and myself started last week on a homage of sorts to visit as many of our ancestral resting places as we could in a short amount of time. They drove their fifth wheel camper from Okla and met me Billings, Montana, after my flight from Texas. We visited cemeteries where our father’s side of the family tree were located fist finding the resting places of Greats, Great-greats, Great-great-greats, cousins and uncles/aunts in Montana and Idaho before traveling north to Bew Westminster, BC. Our first stop was the New Westminster Archives where their search yielded nothing for our great grandfather. But the lady at the desk said it didn’t mean they had nothing. It just wasn’t in their database. The three of us spread out to find something….ANYTHING! After about an hour, my SIL found a book listing his burial plot information. However, we didn’t know which cemetery. I asked a very nice gentleman we had just met in the reading room if he could help us figure it out. He looked at the IOOF and stated, “That’s in Frazier!” After using the old card catalog with the references for Bowell Funeral Home, we had his full burial information confirming the plot record.
So we went to Frazier with a very limited map. Fortunately the caretaker was there and printed off the plot map. Within 3 hours of starting our research, we were at his grave site. Now we are looking to get a permanent marker. From what they’re telling us, we’ll probably have to get our proof of lineage so we can claim the deed to the plot. And then we can get with Fraser Cemetery about placing a marker unless someone else knows a little easier way of going about it.
Going back to see if there was any further input on my great grandfather, Arthur Alderson, it occurred to me I had not replied back to you comment directly. On the death certificate, I believe Sam (?) Bowell is listed as the undertaker. I will have to go back and find the death certificate to confirm the first name. The last name was definitely Bowell from the Bowell Company. The name on the DC as the undertaker is the same as the person who I read had dug up some of the bodies and literally 'carted' them out of the cemetery. Seeing as he passed in 1915, it would seem he was buried in the Douglas Cemetery as the Woodland Cemetery had its first internment in 1920.
Thank you again SO MUCH for your input!! Hoping to locate the his DC before leaving on our adventure next week. Still planning a trip to the BC archives to see what they have there.
Darlene
Maiden name LaRue, daughter of Gilbert and Anne LaRue of St. Paul, Alberta. Sisters Bernice, Vivian, Lorraine, brother George. Family business St. Paul Journal weekly newspaper, which she wrote for. Worked as a government telephone operator, sang soprano. Married November 20, 1934 in Vancouver.
Hi Brianna,
I'm also a Great-Great Grandaughter of George and Jessie Polden through their son Frederick Arthur Polden, though he went by the name George.
Event Type: Death
Registration Number:1927-09-388633
BC Archives Mfilm Number:B13131
GSU Mfilm Number:1927350
Event Date (YYYY-MM-DD):1927-03-26
Event Place:ESSONDALE
Age at Death:66
Person:ALEXIS BRAT
I have Juliana's headstone. It's been safe with me for a couple decades.
John is my Great, Great Grandmother's nephew. I was wondering if his stone is amoung the missing?
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