Gas Poisoning Deaths at The Harborview Hotel, Seattle
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.
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.
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.
Both of John Trainor’s wives were taken by mental illness – one before her time, and one who suffered for a very long time.
Frances Dorothea Bowen married William Guy “Red” Hill on June 12, 1935 in Tonawanda, New York. She was dead less than three months later.
When Edward Visheau was born on April 19, 1891, his father, Ezeph Visheau (1861-1931), a shoemaker, and his mother, Caroline (née Harvey) (1862-?), were 29.
I found this military photo amongst my Grandmother’s things. I’ve tried to identify the men in the picture back to their army records.
Alfred James Webb Dyke was a war hero – with a checkered past.
Leading Aircraftman Leonard Joseph Gray was killed in a tragic, preventable accident that led to changes in the way night flying is conducted in the military.
Private Charles Owen Griffin’s medical records show a number of injuries, including a “contusion” on his thigh and a chest contusion from a bomb.
When George Leonard Archibald McPhail (known as Leonard or “Nipper”) was born on February 11, 1898, in Soulanges, Quebec, his father, Archibald James Jacob McPhail (1870-1941),
Mary Ellen married William Edward O’Brien on June 24, 1925, in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. They had three children.
Daniel Whelan married Bridget Phillips on August 10, 1888, in at St. Carthagh’s Roman Catholic Church in Tweed, Hungerford, Ontario.