Coral Leader

Notes:

CHILDREN OF SOLOMON DURKEE OLMSTEAD AND LOUISA HARRIS

1. Richard - born 3 Nov. 1839 Burritt?s Rapids, Ontario, died 25 Sept 1906 Parry Sound, Ontario (heart attack while hunting), married Eliza Strain 11 July 1866 Thornbury, was a wealthy sawmill owner in Walter?s Falls.
4 Children (all born and buried in Walter?s Falls):
Francis William- 30 April 1867- 25 Aug. 1948, m. Mary Etta Saunders 30 Dec. 1896.
Children: Vera Gwendalene 9 Feb. 1904 ? 26 Aug. 1927 cancer, Richard Oliver , William
Howard, Oliver Richard.

Richard Henry- 11 July 1873- 2 Nov. 1954, m. Olive Etheleen Brown 28 Oct. 1896.
Children: Cora Evelyn 5 Feb. 1899 - 1953, Mabel Muriel 16 Nov. 1902, married Russell
Templer, Edward Harris 19 March 1904 ? 1905 meningitis.

Oliver Austin-17 Sept. 1883- 4 May 1886

Laura Strain- 7 Nov. 1885- 27 Sept. 1905 TB
2. Lavina - born 21 March 1841 Burritt?s Rapids, enumerated with her parents in 1851 Thornbury census, married Isaac Jones and resided in Hurdville, McKellar Twp, Ontario. Lavina died 28 Oct. 1923 in Toronto. Isaac died 27 Feb. 1916 in McKellar. 5 Children:
Lucy Clarissa ? 8 March 1859 Owen Sound, m. Howard Barnes 27 Feb. 1879 McKellar. Howard died
2 October 1903 from cancer. Lucy later married a man by the surname of Bryant. Children of Lucy
and Howard: Lillie May 13 July 1880, Mabel Blanche 30 Dec. 1881, Eva Ethel 14 Aug. 1884.

Willis B.- 23 June 1860 Smith?s Falls- 1 Dec. 1943 McKellar, m. Emily Moore 24 March
1884 McKellar. Children: Myrtle Louisa 13 Feb. 1885, Albert Isaac 1 Oct. 1887, Lillian Agnes 2 Apr
1889, Walter Edmund 20 June 1891, Willis Carl 14 April 1893, Herbert Arthur 20 Aug. 1895, Earl
William 2 April 1898, Ada Clarissa 3 Oct. 1900, Minnie Sarah Lovina 5 Feb. 1903, Mary Elsie May
29 Sept. 1907.

William John ? 13 July 1864 m. Elizabeth Harris 5 July 1892 Parry Sound. Children: Pearl Gladys 24
Nov. 1893 ? 21 Dec. 1893, Frank Boice 5 Nov. 1894, Cora Ethel 6 March 1898, Elizabeth Caroline 9
Aug. 1900, Charles Edward 22 Dec. 1904, Edith Lovina 23 March 1907, Aubrey John 1910 ? 1913.

Mary Jane ?1869, m. Matthew Cooper Quinn 25 March 1884 McKellar, William Sheridan,
M. Bagley. Children: Gertrude Lavina Quinn 15 July 1887, Ida Lucy Quinn 6 April 1890, Howard
Roy Quinn 21 March 1893, William Sheridan 26 Nov. 1897, Cecil Gordon Sheridan 9 June 1904.

Albert/ Bertram Ed ? 11 March 1884, married Ethel Mary Hill 31 July 1907 Parry Sound
3. Ruth - born Sept. 1842, Burritt?s Rapids, died 22 Feb. 1886 Parry Sound, m. Frank Strain (he was a
carpenter/ contractor in Parry Sound and a brother of Richard Olmstead?s wife, Eliza Strain). 12 Children:
Wilhelmine- born 7 Aug. 1859 (in 1861 she is enumerated as an Olmstead with Solomon &
Louisa Olmstead family in Thornbury and in 1871 she is a Strain enumerated with Frank
and Ruth in Parry Sound). She was either Solomon?s daughter adopted by her sister Ruth, or she
was an illegitimate child of Ruth. Married George B. Collis 5 Sept. 1878 Parry Sound. Twin girls
were born to them on 24 April 1879. In 1881 she and George were living in Little
Saskatchewan, Manitoba, with no children. In 1901 Mina was in Burrard, Vancouver, BC, a
widow with one son, William F. who was born 24 June 1882 in Manitoba.

Louisa Jane- born 1862 Thornbury, married Thomas Albert Clark 24 Nov. 1880 Parry
Sound. Children: Bert, Irene, Carol, Charles.

Minerva Ruth- born 19 June 1864 Thornbury, died 29 June 1890 Parry Sound, married
William S. McKinley 16 Oct. 1885 Parry Sound.

Annie Eliza- born 1866 Thornbury, married Edward Christopher McKinley 18 Aug. 1866
Parry Sound.

Margaret Ellen- born 1869, died by 1881.

Francis Henry- born 9 April 1871 Parry Sound, died 29 Nov. 1969 Vancouver BC, married
Emma L. Olmstead (1st cousin) 22 Nov. 1897 Victoria BC. Children: Robert, Cyril Thomas,
Lillith Margaret, Gwen, Herbert.

William Robert David- born 6 Mar. 1873 Parry Sound, died 9 May 1915 Vancouver,
married Louisa Viola Olmstead (1st cousin) 24 Oct. 1893 Nanaimo, BC. Children: Harold,
Eva Maud, Francis Percy, Robert C., Edward Stanley.

Carrie May- born 14 May 1875 Parry Sound, died 15 May 1876 Parry Sound.

Mabel Lavina- born 14 April 1878 Parry Sound, died 6 August 1907 Niagara Falls, Fairview
Cemetery, married G. Herbert Lewis 20 June 1900 Toronto.

Rose- born 1881 Parry Sound, married Charles Devine 24 June 1905 Niagara Falls.
Children: Francis James 13 July 1906 Niagara Falls, Welland

Thomas McDonald- born 1883 Parry Sound, died 1959, married Christina V. Brown 7 Feb.
1906 Walter?s Falls and Janet Gilcrest.

David- born 1885 Parry Sound, died 17 Feb 1885 Parry Sound.
4. Mary - born 1844 Burritt?s Rapids, died Aug. 1895 Thornbury, married James Young Chapman 13 Feb.
1861 Thornbury. He was a fisherman. After wife?s death he moved to Detroit with dau. Lavina Brady.
7 Children:
Emeline- born 1861 Thornbury, married David Mitchell 8 Oct. 1884 Clarksburg. He was a
carpenter. Their daughter Hazel was born 18 Jan. 1885 and died 10 March 1885 in Milton,
Ontario. She was their only child. David died in Windsor, Essex County, 6 Sept. 1932 from
diabetes. Emeline was still living at that time.

Lavina- born 1863 Thornbury, married William Thomas Brady 2 June 1886 Clarksburg.
Thomas was a baker. By the 1900 census they were living in Detroit, Michigan.
Children: Noble Young Brady born 22 Aug. 1886 Meaford, a baker in Detroit, married
Dorothy, Thomas Aubrey born Jan. 1887 Meaford, a baker in Detroit, married Emily and had a
daughter Marjorie. The WW1 draft registration records for both Noble and Thomas A. state
that they were bakers, with Noble owning his own business. Noble was supporting his mother
and a wife. Thomas was supporting a wife and baby. Noble was tall with gray eyes and black
hair. Thomas was medium height with brown eyes and dark brown hair. The birth dates of
Noble and Thomas suggest that Thomas may have been adopted. There is no birth record for
him and he could not have been born just 5 months after his older brother.

Clarissa Lillian- born 7 Apr. 1865 Thornbury, died 1946, married Matthew Gelston 11 April
1884, John Smith. Children (Gelston): William James, Lillie May.

William- born 1868

Louisa Loretta- born 7 July 1870 Meaford, married Duncan McLeod 20 Dec. 1893
Thornbury. Children: Seymour Roy, Albert Duncan, Lawrence Chapman, Edward Allen,
Vera Emiline.

James Seth- born 15 Mar. 1875 Meaford, died 6 Oct. 1939 South Bay, Ont., married Hazel
Bailey 25 April 1898 Gore Bay. Children: William Ivan, Clifford Maxwell.

Seymore Young- born 28 Aug. 1880 Meaford, died 6 Sept. 1936 Parry Sound, married Mary
Cross. Children: Ross, Claire.
5. David - born 10 Aug. 1845 Burritt?s Rapids, died 12 Jan. 1912 Markdale in the House of Refuge (poor
house). He had been admitted on 11 Dec. 1911 as having lost control and in poor health. He married
Jane McAleer 17 May 1865 York County. David was a farmer and agent for agricultural implements
in Meaford. David and Jane and their two youngest children moved to Battleford, SK in 1906. His
wife died there the first winter and he later returned to Meaford. 15 Children:
Francis Law Luke Montgomery- 10 March 1866 Meaford, died 9 Nov. 1928 Meaford, married
Mary Emily Doherty 8 Dec. 1886 Meaford. Frank was an engineer. Adopted Frank?s cousin Alberta
McAleer (m. Charles McPhail 3 Dec. 1913 Meaford) and later adopted Della born Oct. 1909, died
1999, (married Frank Meneray and had 3 children: Mamie, Frank and Marjorie).

Charlotte Ann- born 28 March 1868 Meaford, died 28 Jan. 1893 in Rudyard, MI of TB,
married Oct. 1889 Joseph Gillespie in Rosedale, MI. Children: Violet Isabella born 5 June
1891 Meaford, died 8 June 1892 in Rudyard, MI of congestion of the brain.

* Louisa- born 18 Oct. 1869 Meaford, died 27 Jan. 1906 Meaford of TB, married Alfred Leader
4 Nov. 1891 Owen Sound. Children: Bessie (4 Oct. 1893 Meaford ? 18 Feb. 1894 whooping
cough), Coral (15 Dec. 1894 Meaford ? 16 Oct. 1917 Nelson, BC, suicide, m. Robert Branter,
Victor Litzgus), Alfred Clayton (10 June 1899 Meaford ? 6 Dec. 1961, Vancouver, BC, m.
Rose Cawietzl 17 July 1919 Calgary, Loa Thompson), infant girl stillborn 4 Feb. 1902
Meaford, and *Margery (16 Jan. 1903 Meaford - 7 Oct. 1971 Seattle, WA, m. Joseph Harris
26 Oct. 1921 Seattle, James F. McCarthy 19 Aug. 1950, William Hunt 20 Aug. 1955 Seattle).

Margaret Isabella- born 2 March 1871 Meaford, died 13 Oct. 1904 Meaford of TB,
married William Doherty 6 May 1891 Meaford. He died when dragged by his horse. Maggie
married second, Hugh Devlin on 25 March 1903 in Meaford. Her children were given away
to other families in Meaford when she remarried. Children: Oliver 1 Sept. 1892 Meaford,
died in 1906 or 1907 Battleford, SK, Noble 20 Jan. 1894 Meaford ? 23 March 1974,
married Lylia Barnie Irwin 23 July 1921, Russell 18 March 1896 Meaford ? 1965, married
Laura Jenkins 1 Dec. 1928, Garnet 7 June 1897 Meaford ? 1975 Clair, SK, married Myrtle
Turner Patton .


William- born 16 Sept. 1873 Meaford, died 1935 Meaford, married Mary Julia Oliver 17
Aug. 1898 Meaford. Children: Stewart Clarence born 24 March 1897 Meaford, Bessie born 7 Oct.
1903 Meaford, Jean, Stella.

Olive- born 5 Nov. 1875 Meaford, died 2 Sept. 1899 Meaford of TB, married Frederick
Wickham 28 Aug 1893 Meaford. Children: Guy born 14 Feb 1895, died 1972, married Anna
May Mc Millen..

Edward H.- born 5 Sept. 1878 Meaford, married Henrietta Hayden Wilson 1904. They immigrated to
Detroit in 1906 and were still living there by the 1910 census. Edward was a clerk in a sugar company.
Henrietta returned to Canada and was living with her parents in Moosomin, Sask. in 1911. Do not
know what became of Edward. Children: Edward James (Ted) born in Oct. 1905, died 7 Oct. 1980
Vancouver, B.C. and Olive Rhoda born in July of 1910 U.S. Henrietta died 17 July 1959 in
Vancouver, B.C.

David Arthur- born 7 Aug. 1879 Meaford, died 2 Feb. 1896 Meaford. His obit stated that he
had a short but painful illness, of a disease in the head which produced delirium.

Sylvia Jane- born 21 Aug. 1880 Meaford, died July 1949 Edmonton, AB, married William
Blanchard 31 Dec. 1896 Woodford. Children: Cecil, Merle James, Orval, Gordon Clare, Earl
Borman, William Roy, Douglas Stanley, Bernard Bruce.

James Garfield- born 16 April 1882 Meaford, died 1 Sept. 1900 Meaford.

Walter Earl- born 29 Dec. 1883 Meaford, died 6 March 1899 Meaford.

John (Jack)- born 30 Sept. 1886 Meaford, lived in Simcoe. He married Annie Clark in 1909, probably
in Michigan, as there is no Ontario record of their marriage. Annie was born in 1886 in Chicago. In
1909 both John and Annie immigrated to Detroit. The immigration records state that John was a
commission dealer. Annie was 5?3 and had light brown hair and blue eyes. They were in the 1910
Detroit census and John?s occupation was a carpenter contractor. By 1918 John was drafted in the
Canadian military. At that time his residence was Simcoe, Ontario and he was single. His recruit
papers state that he was 5?6, dark, hair, blue eyes and was a cleaner and brasser. There is no clue as
to whether Annie died or they were divorced.

Stella- born 26 May 1888 Meaford, died 27 Feb. 1976 Calgary, AB, married Patrick Cousins
17 Nov. 1909 Vermilion. AB, Robert Branter 29 Nov. 1922. Children: Nora, Gordon,
Lorraine.

Harold H.- born 7 May 1889 Meaford, died 7 March 1949 N. Battleford, SK, married Nora
Prongua 1910 Prongua, SK. Children: adopted Berenice Prongua.

Freddie- born 18 Feb. 1892 Meaford, died 4 Jan. 1893 Meaford.
6. William Curtis - born 11 Sept. 1847 Burritt?s Rapids, married Margaret Hayes in 1866 in Collingwood. In the 1871 Walter?s Falls census William and Margaret were enumerated next to his brother Richard and wife Eliza. William was a carpenter. By 1873 they were living in Osprey Twp. in Grey Co. Their names appear as witnesses in several marriage records in Osprey. Have found no record of Margaret?s death, so do not know if she died or they were divorced. William married 2nd Charlotte Victoria McAleer (daughter of William McAleer and Nancy Brown). William moved to Chippewa County, Michigan in 1872. On June 28, 1883 William declared his intention to become a United States citizen. His father Solomon had applied the previous year. Charlotte died 18 April 1889 in Pickford, Michigan from TB. 2 Children:
Beatrice (born 5 Sept. 1885) and Jetta (born 20 Feb. 1889). Beatrice was raised by William A. and
Margarita Smith of Richmond, Lennox County, Ontario. She married Robert Bertram Thompson on 25
Sept. 1905 in Richmond. Her sister Jetta Gould was a witness to her marriage. Beatrice had five
children : Marjory (married Merle Denison), Claire (married Arnold Rogers), Marion (married
William Sharon), Jetta (married Walter Wilson) and Maurice Thompson. Beatrice died 27 October
1978 in Deseronto, Ontario.

Jetta (born 20 Feb. 1889) was adopted by Peter and Mary Maranda Dorn Gould of Napanee, Lennox
County, Ontario. She married Hugh Charles Lyons in Belleville on 13 March 1916. Hugh died in
Assininboia, Sask. On 23 Oct. 1918 of Spanish influenza. Jetta then married Ross Lavell Sexsmith 7
February 1923 in Napanee. She died of TB in Belleville, Ontario on 11 April 1929.
William resided in Harvey, Cook County, Illinois for a time after Charlotte?s death. He was a carpenter and probably moved from place to place because of his work. On 24 Aug. 1893 in Roulette, Potter Co, PA he married Florence Card, daughter of Benjamin Card and Louisa Grimes. In the 1900 census they were living in Buffalo, NY. They later returned to PA and lived both in Potter Co. and neighboring Liberty Twp. in McKean Co. William died 27 Feb. 1918 , his body found floating in the Allegany River. Florence died 24 Aug. 1931 and both are buried in Card Cemetery in Burtville, Potter Co. They had three children :
Louisa Beagie- born 4 Nov. 1894 Louisa Olmstead married Lester Byron Simar in 1915. They had a
daughter Thelma B., born 5 Jan. 1921 and died 15 Dec. 2003. Louisa died 14 June 1967 and Lester
died 5 Feb. 1969. All three are buried in Card Creek Cemetery.
Ennah Belle -born 7 Sept. 1897. Ennah Belle married Chester Franklin Simar (twin brother of Lester
Simar)in 1915. They had one son Delton W. Simar born 20 May 1921. Chester and Enna Belle were
divorced and she later married Theodore R. Naegely. Both are buried in Fairview Cemetery in Port
Allegany. Ennah Belle died in 1967 and Theodore in 1973.
Zerell - born 1 March 1898 in Silver Creek, NY. Zerell appears in the 1930 census in Liberty Twp.,
married to Fossie Moore, with daughters Helen and Patricia. He was a driller in the oil fields. He died
March 1940 in a hospital in Olean, New York where he was taken after being struck by a wrench
which fell from a drilling mast in Port Allegany. His wife, who was named in his obit was the former
Ruth Wicks Coleman. He was buried in Fairview Cemetery at Port Allegany.

7. Chesterfield - born 29 Jan. 1850 Thornbury, died 15 Aug. 1917 Vancouver, BC, married Sarah Wilson
1 Nov. 1871 Parry Sound, married her sister Emma Wilson 16 Dec. 1895 Nanaimo, BC. He was a carpenter. 10 Children:
Saaron David Dufferin- born 28 July 1874 Parry Sound, died by 1881.

Louisa Viola- born 27 Oct. 1875 Parry Sound, died 22 April 1906 Vancouver, BC, married
1st cousin William Robert David Strain 24 Oct. 1893 Nanaimo, BC. Children: Harold, Eva
Maud, Francis Percy, Robert C. Edward Stanley.

Emma Lavinia- born 5 April 1878 Parry Sound, died 28 Jan. 1962 Vancouver, married 1st
cousin Francis Strain 22 Nov. 1897 Victoria, BC. Children: Bob, Cyril Thomas, Lillith
Margaret, Gwen, Herbert.

Chesterfield- born 5 Sept. 1879 Gordon Mills, Ont., died 14 Dec. 1904 Vancouver, married
Ellen Wilkinson. Children: Charles Henry, Harry, Gilbert, Pearl Minnie, Mabel Aileen.

Oscar- born 17 Oct. 1880 Gordon Mills, died 2 July 1940 Vancouver, married Olive
Gwenevere Foote 17 Feb. 1904 Vancouver. Children: Alma Winnifred, Dorothy, Harry.

Girard- born 13 April 1884 Gore Bay, died 23 April 1956 Vancouver, married Winifred W.
Chambers 17 Aug. 1911 Vancouver. Children: Lawrence Wilson, Allan G., Lloyd, Martin.

Royal- born 23 July 1886 Gore Bay, died 26 Feb. 1920 Kamloops, BC, unmarried.

David Lawrence- born 23 Feb. 1891 Gore Bay, died 1 June 1907 Vancouver.

Ernest Wilson- born 12 July 1896 Vancouver, died 12 Oct. 1959 Campbell River, BC.,
married Elsie Johnson 9 June 1916 Vancouver.

Dorothy Aileen- born 25 April 1901 Vancouver, died 7 Feb. 1972 Trail, BC, married Alfred
Arnold Archibald 23 Dec. 1920 Vancouver. Children: Nancy Jean
8. Louisa Viola - born 2 March 1851 Thornbury, died 8 Sept. 1933 Toronto, married Henry Samuel
Armstrong 17 Nov. 1871 Parry Sound. He was the first sheriff of Parry Sound. 13 Children:
Charles W.- born 1872 McKellar Falls, died 2 Oct. 1917 CA. Children: Henry, Louisa.

Laura Louisa- born 21 Feb. 1873 McKellar Falls, died 23 Aug. 1873 first death in McKellar.

Errol Everard- born 20 April 1874 McKellar Falls, died 21 Feb. 1962 Parry Sound, married
Mabel M. Stock, Parry Sound. Children: Helen, Bernice, Ruth.

Eva Aletta- born 18 Nov. 1875 McKellar Falls, died 14 March 1956 Parry Sound, married
Hiram Erskine Stone 3 June 1902 Parry Sound. Children: Evelyn, Muriel Lovina, Harold,
Arthur, Wilfred, John, Gordon Lloyd, Gerald.

Harriet Ethel- born 1 March 1878 McKellar Falls, married Thomas Begg. Children: George,
Eleanor.

Cecil Samuel- born 14 July 1879 McKellar, died 1958 Edmonton, AB, married Elizabeth
Bannatyne 22 June 1911 Calgary, AB. Children: Violet Louise, Beth, Jean.

Alfred Francis (Frank)- born 13 Aug. 1880 McKellar Falls, married Lillian Rose.

Amy Louisa- born 2 Feb. 1883 McKellar Falls, married Albert Francis Clark 12 April 1906
Parry Sound. Children: Cyril, Reta, Jack.

Nathaniel Ira- born 19 Sept. 1884 McKellar Falls, died January 1964 Abbottsford, BC, married Mary
Pierce. Children: twin girls, Eva & Ethel, Lorraine, Enid, Alvin Pearce.

Infant male- born 18 Oct. 1885 McKellar Falls, died 20 Oct. 1885 McKellar Falls.

Chester Fred- born 12 Jan. 1889 Parry Sound, died 1913 CA, unmarried.

Robert John- born 27 Feb. 1890 Parry Sound.
9. Solomon Harris - born 2 Aug. 1853 Thornbury, died 30 Dec. 1922 Deer Park, WA, married Isabella Jayes in Thornbury by 1875, Bertha in Montana by 1900, and Margaret Dora Romanczycz 13 May 1903 Spokane, WA. Solomon?s first wife Isabella was still alive and remarried at least 2 more times (Noble Harper 27 September 1900 in Calgary and Frederick A. Parker 4 February 1911 in Vancouver, BC). His third wife and children never knew of the existence of his first family.
Children (first six are by wife Isabella and last six are by wife Margaret)
Mary- born 1875, married George Gartshore 26 Aug. 1890 Parry Sound. They had twin
daughters Edith and Bertha born 26 May 1892 in Wiarton, Ontario.

Mabel Lavinia- born 11 Nov. 1878 Parry Sound, m. William E. Jackson 6 Aug. 1895 Toronto.

Ethel- born Oct. 1880 Thornbury, married Edward Jones 2 Oct. 1912 New Westminster, BC.
They lived in Blaine, Washington. Ethel was enumerated in the 1920 census without her
husband. He was a logger.

Baby boy - born 3 July 1883 in Parry Sound. This son died young as he is not on the 1891
census with the rest of the family.

David Gordon - born 29 May 1884 Parry Sound, Ontario. In 1891 he was living with his
parents and siblings in Parry Sound. At some point in the 1890?s his parents separated. In
1901 he was living in Priddis, Alberta with his sister Myrtle Olmstead, his mother and her
new husband Noble Harper. As a young man David worked in a logging camp as a cook in
Crescent City, California. He married Mary Etta Morey who was from Oregon. From 1914
to 1917 David and Mary lived in Blaine, Washington and ran a boarding house called
the Blaine Hotel. At the end of World War 1, David had the hotel moved by barge to
Seattle and located it on West Marginal Way. In 1918 David?s draft registration card lists him
in Seattle as a boarding house manager. He was 5?10 with gray eyes and light hair. In the 1920
census David was a cook in a restaurant in Seattle. In the Seattle City Directories from 1919
to 1940 David was listed as manager of the Blaine Apartments. His wife and family were with
him until 1936. By 1937 Mary had left and was living at a different address, her children with
her. She was a cook in a department store. David and Mary divorced. She died 17 November
1944 and is buried at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Seattle. David married again to a Huldah A.,
by 1942. She died in 1949. He then married a Martha L. by 1951. In his later years he moved
to San Diego, CA and died there 25 June 1967. David and Mary had four children: Evelyn M.
(born 23 Feb 1912 in BC, died 13 June 1999 in Sequim, WA, married John B. Kiehl), Larry
Ellis (born 26 February 1914 in Blaine, married Marion Selset), Creta Willena (born 14 Jan.
1917 Blaine, WA, died 10 July 1951, married Albert Brux), and Marcella June (married
Richard Ellington and John Murray).

Myrtle- born 1886 Parry Sound, married Mr. Ivis, Lionel Edward Harvey 23 Oct.1913
Vancouver BC,Vernon Banis Palmer 23 February 1919 Vancouver, BC. Myrtle and Vernon lived in
Campbell River on Vancouver Island. They were divorced in Victoria in 1928.

Frank David- born 16 Sept. 1904 Deer Lake, WA, died 29 Aug. 1952 Onion Creek, WA,
married Katherine Marie Anderson. Frank was a logger and died when a load of logs broke
free and rolled off the truck killing him.

Charles David- born 2 March 1906 Deer Lake, died 27 March 1992 Post Falls, ID, married
Alice Mathews Welever 18 Sept. 1926 Hoquiam, WA.

Margaret May- born 4 Oct. 1907 Deer Lake, died 13 Dec. 1999 Post Falls, ID, married Fred
Kotzian 9 Oct. 1937 Newport, WA.

Mary Louise- born 17 May 1910 Deer Lake, living, married Cecil Sylvester Taylor 31 July
1930.

Rose- born 12 July 1912 Deer Lake, died 21 Feb 1992 Grants Pass, OR, married Doc Rogers,
Tiny Combest, ---Lighthouse.

Violet Ruth- born 10 March 1923 Deer Lake, died 7 June 1972 Seattle, married Vernon Edgar
Lewis.
10. Minerva - born 14 April 1856 Thornbury, still alive in 1913, married John James Hooey 9 June 1871
Thornbury. 5 Children:
Maggie May- born 13 Oct. 1872 Thornbury, married David Joseph Hooey 22 March 1905
Thornbury.

David Herbert- born 1873 Thornbury, married Rachel Jane Myers 16 Jan. 1900 Thornbury.
Children: Eula, Errol, Vera May, Alice Louise, Mildred.

Minerva Laura- born 9 Sept. 1874 Thornbury, died 13 May 1904 Thornbury.

Leslie Victor- born 1876, died 24 Sept. 1951 Alameda, CA, married Ada Louise Smirl 28 Oct.
1902 Vancouver. They had a son Williard Hooey and grandchildren Jacqueline Burge,
William and Lloyd Hooey.

James Bertram- born 15 Jan. 1882 Thornbury, died 30 Aug. 1943 Vancouver, married Helen
Corpan.

Research by Doreen Dolleman

The Family of Coral Leader Litzgus

Alfred Leader was the son of Johnson Foster Leader and Mary Lowder. He was born in Meaford, Ontario 26th April 1872. He married Louisa Olmstead, the daughter of David Olmstead and Jane McAleer. She was born 18 October 1869 in Meaford. They were married 4th November 1891. Their children were:

Bessie was born 4 October 1893, died of whooping cough on
18 February 1894.

Coral Leader was born 15th December 1894 in Meaford and died 16th October 1917 in Nelson, B.C. She committed suicide. Her mother died from TB when she was 12 years old. Her father took his 3 children to western Canada and settled first in Lloydminister, Alberta, then Carstairs, and finally Calgary. He was a traveling farming implement salesman and was seldom home. Coral cared for her younger siblings and was forced to grow up quicker than her years. She was afflicted with epilepsy when a child. Her father remarried in 1910 to Annie Callin. She did not get along with his children. Coral did not waste any time getting away from home and married Robert Branter by 1911. She then married Victor Litzgus by 1913. Between the loss of her children, her broken marriage and her health she became despondent, which led to her taking her own life.

Coral and Victor had 2 children:

Alfred Clayton Litzgus was born 22 January 1914 in Calgary, Alberta. Just before his first birthday he was taken to Ontario to live with Victor?s parents. The plan was for him to return to his parents, but it did not happen.

Lucille Margery Litzgus was born 23 May 1916 in Vanguard, Saskatchewan. Just before her mother?s death she was taken in by the Robert and Nellie Foster family of Calgary. They later adopted her and her name was changed to Eleanor Foster. She was married to Maynard Ball of Calgary.

Alfred ?Clayton? Leader was born 17 June 1899 in Meaford and died 6 December 1961 in Vancouver, B.C. He married Rose Cawiezel on 17th July b 1919 in Calgary, AB. They were divorced. He then married Loa Thompson. Their children are still living.



Died:
British Columbia, Canada, Death Index, 1872-1990

Name: Caral Litzgus
Gender: Female
Birth Year: abt 1895
Death Age: 22
Death Date: 16 Oct 1917
Death Location: Nelson
Registration Number: 1917-09-186606
BCA Number: B13109
GSU Number: 1927137

Coral married Victor Litzgus. Victor (son of August Litzgus and Margaret Bleiler) was born 25 Feb 1889. [Group Sheet]

1. Alfred Clayton Litzgus was born 22 Jan 1914, Calgary, Alberta, Canada; died 8 Jun 1994, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada.
2. Lucille Margery Litzgus was born 23 May 1916, Vangard, Saskatchewan, Canada.

Alfred married Louisa Olmstead. Louisa was born 18 Oct 1869, Meaford, Ontario; died 27 Jan 1906, Meaford, Ontario. [Group Sheet]