Post updated November 29, 2024, to include further details about the couple’s family and correct Cecelia’s death date. When Cecelia Agatha McPhail was born on
While researching the death of my 2x great uncle, I found a cluster of deaths related to a particular hotel in Seattle. So, I dug deeper.
Alexander McPhail, born in 1865 in Ontario, led a nomadic life as a laborer in Canada and Seattle. His life ended in a tragic accident in 1933.
Alice Webb married Charles Edmund Truscott on June 28, 1911, in Wentworth, Ontario, Canada when she was 20 years old. The couple had no children.
Just a week after enlisting, Arthur Bird Griffin married Lily Moore on September 8, 1915, at St. Luke’s Church in Hamilton, Ontario.
After being widowed with two young boys, Mary Anne Whelan remarried quickly, on September 26, 1922, to Frederick Samuel Gardiner.
