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91 -year lifespan of Lucy
der was the most
entous in the history of the
race, measured by
cc in living conditions.
telephone, the "wireless,"
lectricity for light, heat
power were invented or
eloped in that single
me. She crossed the
is before the propeller
invented and lived to see
travel by air.
e year of her birth coin -
with the incorporation of
da's first railway. The
combustion engine
hed. the Motor Age, and
afterward a demand for
roads. Two years before
Widder's death, the
o government laid the
stretch of paved highway -
te. Above all in im-
nce, the advance in
al science, even in the
half of that 91 -year
, exceeded all that had
achieved in the centuries
e.
r as the fast of the Rich
, the Star said, listing as
ceased sisters and
hers Mrs. William Geary,
.George Brown. Mrs. Hugh
nston, Mr , 13ernard
bane, Mrs. George Morphy,
George W, Meyers,
am andRoveri Rich.
illiam Campbell, onetime
clerk, in his published
niscenses said Charles
Rich conducted a drug
in the Huron Hotel block,
mg out to Francis Jordan.
went to St. Thomas, and
we lose him. Robert
ed in Port
e a Charles Albert
GeorgEdward,
Albert and a second
rt seem to have left no.
one article of the William
ett Rich series in the
al -Star particulars were
n of the marriages of the
eldest daiig-hters to
am Jones Geary, George
m and Hugh Johnston,
g with pictures of the
wnandJohnston houses,
rY's residence has eluded
ification, He was an early
rot, dealing in real estate,
his name is noted in a
action as late as 1853, but
mthe 1858 voters' list. W.B.
in his will (1864) excluded
daughter, Elizabeth Geary,
his IN quests, presumably
se shy was already well
care of. ' Geary was a
tor, and operated stage
es between Goderich and
on and Stratford: Rich in
1 mentioned a grandson,
islikely eary'
Y that William Jones
Ta member of the
amil
nent in the
ement years of a London and
lesex, William G, Geary
out in 1812. John, a
Weoilgh t to put down the
as a
er for six practisedenthen
Into the nil business. It is
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recorded in the county history
that John "received his
primary education in the
Grammar Schools of London
and Goderich."
George Morphy, who
married Emily Annie Rich in -
1857, when she was 19, was
described as of Toronto. No
more has been learned about
him.
Bernard Haldane married
Sarah Cobb Rich on February
3, 1857. "By license," Rev. EL,
Elwood wrote in the hook. The
Haldane residence has not been
identified --perhaps not in
Goderich.
Of George W. Meyers, who
married Eleanor, Rich's fifth
daughter, it is known only that
they lived in Detroit. Meyers,
with Hugh Johnston, Nought in
1856 the lot at Lighthouse and
Wellington, on which Pr.
Wallace's - house is situated
now, and they sold it in 1860 to
Charles Code Rich.
Third of Rich's daughters to
leave Wellesley. House in 1857
was Lucy, and there is no
trouble in identifying her
house. Charles and Lucy
Widder had three sons and
three daughters, subsequently
scattered widely. A son Charles
died in New York. Sophie Maud
Elliott Widder became the wife
of Dr. Arthur Jukes Johnson,
chief coroner of Toronto, and
for many years they were
summer residents at Wellesley
House.
The Goderich paper's
obituary did not state with
whom Mrs, Widder had .been
living in Toronto; perhaps the
Dr. Johnsons, but Ethel and
Blanche Widder had also been
living in Toronto. These all
came to the funeral, along with
Fred W. Widder, who at the,
time was Bank of Montreal
manager at Paris, Ont. Lionel
Widder was reported living in
California.
The service in St. George's
was conducted by the rector,
Rev. S.S. Hardy, assisted by
the Ven. Archdeacon Jones -
Bateman. Lucy's casket was
borne by Judge E.N. Lewis,
Dan Macdonald (a neighbor
of ''Lyndhurst), John Galt
(postthaster) and Dr. Taylor.
Lyndhurst, at the end of Wellington north, was built by Charles Widder for his bride, Lucy
Bennett Rich. Construction date has been given as 1853, but the house was not built all at once,
and Widder did not marry Lucy until 1857. The verandah shown was on the original front of the
house, before the elevator affected the view of harbor and river. The residences of two other
Rich daughters were pictured in an earlier article, but those of the Geary, Meyers, Morphy and
Haldane families have not been identified. Morphy was a Toronto man, and Meyers lived in
Detroit.
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