Cecelia Agatha McPhail and William Black
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
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.
Joseph Eagan married Mary Ellen Duffield on February 4, 1902. They had six children, moving from Providence, Rhode Island, and settling in Hamilton, Ontario.
Both of John Trainor’s wives were taken by mental illness – one before her time, and one who suffered for a very long time.
Michael Eagan married Catherine Trainor four years after emigrating to Rhode Island. The couple had seven children but only two survived to adulthood.
Isabella Theresa McPhail left Montreal for the Bethany Convent in St. Paul, Minnesota, becoming a postulant and eventually taking the name Sister Mary Bernadette.
When William Anthony Webb was born in 1915 in Ontario, Ontario, Canada, his father, James Edward Webb (1887-1972), was 28 and his mother, Sarah Kathleen (née Payne) (1888-1947), was 27.
William Alfred Webb married Alma Leona Beckler on September 30, 1930. At the time of the marriage, William was a Funeral Director.