This is most of the graveyard next to the United Church in downtown Chatsworth. The stone on the far right is that of John David Dobie and Mary Isabella Russell. Peter is trying to decipher the inscription because even though it
has been recently cleaned, it was still hard to read on the cloudy day we were there.
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Please note the faint ghost standing just to the left of Peter. That is an artifact of the Autostitch software (promise!).
One weekend in mid-October, 2005, my partner Peter Zorzi and I drove to Owen Sound, mainly to check out real estate prices (expensive!) but also to take some photos of the graveyard where my great-great grandparents, John Dobie and Mary Isabella Russell, are buried. The graveyard side of the church is shown above and the opposite side is shown below. The church's front steps at the far right in the picture above can be seen at the far left of the church in the picture immediately below, and also centre right in M. J. McCarron's black & white photo further below.
There was no direct sun when I took the photos so there were no shadows. This resulted in the gravestone photos being so flat that the inscriptions are virtually unreadable (they were hard enough to read just standing there, and the photos are even harder to decipher). Unlike most of the older stones in the graveyard, the Dobie stone has been cleaned of dirt and lichen by visiting Dobie and McEachern relatives. The stone and base are in excellent condition.
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| John David Dobie and Mary Isabella Russell. | |||
 John Dobie's inscription. |
 Both inscriptions. |
 Mary Russell's inscription ("Isabel Russell"). |
 Legible inscription. Photo © Copyright M. J. McCarron |
| The stone is engraved on two sides only. | |||
The black & white photo of the church below and of the legible inscription on the gravestone (right, above) were sent to me by M. J. McCarron who is a descendant of James Barnes Dobie of Bruce Mines and Thessalon.
Photograph © Copyright by M. J. McCarron
| John McKessock and Elizabeth Dobie. | |
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| The stone has been partially cleaned. | |
I had hoped to add the links for each name to their respective entries in the 1901 and 1911 census, as well as to each person's military attestation papers and the Virtual War Memorial website. However, this is not possible with the common names (too many James Ryan's, for example, for me to know which is the correct one. You can search for your ancestors yourself on the Automatedgenealogy.com website. Please let me know about any of the men below who you have found so I can add their links to the list below.
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| WORLD WAR ONE VETERANS (names are carved into the stone) | |
| James Ryan | |
| Fred C. Merriam | |
| Hugh McDonald | |
| S. Thomas Brooks | |
| R. Wellwood Crane 1901 census Attestation Papers | |
| J. Harold Mihorgan | |
| George H. Grindley Attestation Papers | |
| Howard A. McD-Marsh Attestation Papers | |
| William J. McKessock Attestation Papers | |
| G. Clarence Sutherland | |
| Samuel A. Love | Joseph J. Byers |
| Victor Morrison | D. Clayton Fraser |
| Frederick A. Barker | Norton McD Fraser |
| Thomas Brooks | James N. Bowman |
| Alfred J. Simpson | Clifford D. Froud |
| Cecil H. Sparrow | G. Bertram Scott |
| W. Earl Foster | J. Milton Dobie |
| Robert W. Foster | Melville G. Henry |
| William J. Finney | Edward A. Howey |
| Russell A. Dennison | Thomas A. Chisholm |
| Otto Molson | Percy Evans |
| A. Clarence W. Hopkins | C. Wilmer Galbraith |
| J. Gershin Galbraith | Melville S. Nicholson |
| Lloyd Kirktown | Murray McClure |
| James F. Mathison | Howard L. Elliott |
| John A. McLeod | John E. Tuck |
| WORLD WAR TWO VETERANS (names are on a bronze plaque) | |
| John A. Shouldice | |
| Scotty MacIntosh | |
| Clayton B. Howey | |
| Aaron G. Bittorf | |
| Gordon A. Powell | |
| Maurice W. Collins | |
| William A. Doyle | |
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