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Home My WebLink AboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1981-09-16, Page 7The Huron County Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society 'bas made good - progress with the recording of the load cemeteries, and now has the townships of East and West Wawanosh aknost complete: According to the cemetery co- ordinat.or, Mrs. Donald Lobb ot R.R:. 2, Clinton, they located nine burying grounds in these townships and will have these all transcribed this fall. - Once the physical recording of theinformation from the tombstone is. • completed, the material must be typed up• in a prescribed manner, 'corn- plete with a map of the cemetery plus an alphabetical indexing. Copies of this will be lent to the township council and to the Toronto office of 0.G.S. .Photostats will, then be located at the provincial archives in Toronto and the National Archives in Ottawa so' 'they Ail be easily available researchers. Before these final copies are sent out however, we hope to locate burial records for the cemeterie,s and a little bit of historical background. An opportunity to crosi-chedt the burial records Is 'particularly important to the accuracy of Such a study for quite often we locate obvious graves without any marker. Burial records would give us the •names of the person in- terred.. For instance; in Westfield cemetery, which consists of only 58 stones, were were able to note the burial of 25 people for whom stones have not been Ibcated. And these records, were for only 40 years of the 62 that • the cemetery operated! If you know of anyone who has, or might be able to help us locate, these burial records please notify Alison Lobb at 4824167: 'The cemeteries we hope to complete in 1981 are: St. Augustine Roman Catholic, Con. 6 Lot 24; Bethel, Con 41, Lot 24; West Wawanosh Twp., Con 2, Lot 13; Don- bowling tournament The Lucknow Lawn Bowl- Lucknow; Jas. Coultes, Brus- ing annual Labour Day Tour- nament was held on the local greens on Monday, Septem- ber 7 with the following winners.. • ' Three GUM WhIJIMS Walter Westbrook, Mit. chell; John Scullion, Water- loo; Mel Brody, Seaforth; Ken Primmer, Chesley; Geo- rge Marklenitch, Chesley; Jack Broughton, Atwood. Two Game Winners EL Mutter, London; P. Mutter, London; Glen Rath - well, Atwood; Art Holler, Hanovek; Walter Newcomb, Clinton; Dave Colclouck, Clinton; Bill Law, Waterloo; Tom Kidd, Seaforth; Terry Gardner, Wingham; Bert Gray, Clinton; Hugo Rouser, Hanover; Jack MacDonald and Keith Cbllyer, Lucknow; George Johnston, Brussels; Don McTavish and. George Moncrief, Lucknow; Orville Elliott and A. J. Wilson, neybrook United, Con 6, Lot 27; ; and St. Helen's, Con 12, Lot 19. In East Wawanosh - • Westfield United, Con 4, Lot 31; Blyth Anglican (Pot- ter's), Con L Lot 42; Brandon Cemetery, Belgrave, Con. 9, Lot 42; and a memorial plot at Con 11, ' IA 33. If you know of any further burial grounds in these townships, please let us ktrow immediately. We are interested in recording them regardless of their. size. If anyone is able to tell us anything about the background of these plots we would . appreciate it, Quite often they are known locally by a conunon name and we like to include these. Often too, we are not aware of the religious denomination of the burying grounds and need local help here. We, have also completed' some cemeteries' in Ashfield, Tuckersmith, Howich, and ; Stanley Townships, and will be proceeding. ,these areas next. We would like to emphasize that any help whatsoever is appreciated when 'we are recording the tombstone inscriptiors. It is time-consuming and tedious work andis NOT' limited to our society members. We encourage local people to come and assist us and if anybody is interested, please notify the regarding the cemetery you would like to help with. Then we would phone you in.advance request your assistance! Come and bring a friend! sels; Alex MacNay and Omar Brooks, Lucknow. One Game Winners Bill Amos, Waterloo; Jas. Liw, Waterloo; Lloyd Hall and Donald MacKinnon, Lucknow; Jack Treleaven and Len MacDonold, Luck - now; Gary Neilson, Walker- ton; Doug ivIcCory, Hanover; Ken McDougal, Clinton; Ed, • Malouski, Cheiley; Fred Til- ley, Seaforth; Jack. Fisher. and Harry Lavis, Lucknow; Wm. Lenhman, Walkerton; Dr. Leahy,' Teeswater; Gor- don Leask, Paisley; Harry Williams, Goderich; Lloyd Pletch, Walkerton; Reg Rob- inson-, Mitchell; George Manery, Cliesley. At a recent -ticket , draw held by the lawn bowling club, the winners were Stu. Simpson, London; George Anderson, Lucknow; Frank Cummings, Clinton; Frank Carter, Hanover. 1 discuss justice Mrs. Cecil Humphrey wel- comed the Pine River U.C.W. to her home in Point Clark for their September meeting. President, Mrs. ,Jack Campbell, read an ap- propriate poem, The First Day of /SchooL Mrs. Delbet Wilson was convener of the evening's program. During the worship. period, Mrs. Lester Fergus- on read the scripture, fol- lowed by a meaningful medi- tation by Mrs. Wilson, For the 'remainder of the meoting, the topic for discus- sion was Justice. An article read by Mrs. Wayne Lowry expressed the views Of Rev. Clarke McDonald. The .in- justice in Canada and throughout the world was noted and discussed. The closing poem WAS, Partners in Justice. Mrs. Iii Farrell reported for the Bazaar committee. The annual Kountry Kitchen Bazaar will be held on Oct- ober 3rd. The ladies are working toward making it a successful day. The social committee served a dainty lunch. WHILE YOU ARE MERE—PICK UP YOUR QUALITY ANDERSON FERTILIZER Ho need to try-thoro's only on place to buy Wo con cove you money! Fern MacDonald bowled the high single with a 256. Barb Ross bowled the high triple with a 619, Games of 200 and over: Fern MacDonald 256, Barb Ross 251, 223, Betty Stanley 202. Team points and stand- ings: Sharon Culbert - Beets, 5, 5; Bernice Kemp Pump- kins, 5, 5; Dorothy Hamilton Peppers, 5,5: Betty Stanley - Carrots, 2, 2; Maudie Fisher - Beans, 2, 2; Linda Andrew, - Tomatoes, 2, 2. eftegfagfeilMEWOMOK014,0560mgle.,