James McEwen

(1844-1928)

"Death of James McEwen Of the County of Lanark"

On Thursday morning, December 20th about 9 o'clock, death entered the home
of Abe McEwen and claimed his aged father, Mr. James McEwen. Sr. who
reached his eighty-fifth birthday in November.  Mr. McEwen was well known
throughout the county of Lanark and surrounding districts.  When
twenty-three years of age, he married and two years later settled on a farm
one mile south-west of the village of Bolingbroke, where he lived until the
time of his death.  To this union ten children were born, his youngest
daughter, Lizzie Ellen having predeceased him thirty-two years ago.  He
leaves his widow, five sons and four daughters, John L., Toledo, Ont; Mrs.
J. Tompkins, Vancouver B.C.; James E., Burridge, Ont; Mrs. George H.
Pearson and Mrs. James E. Hartman, Kingston, Ont; Abraham C., and William T., Bolingbroke, Ont; Mrs. George E. Lunn, Tichborne, Ont; and Joseph W., Trenton, Ont.; and a number of grandchildren and great-grand children, also one brother William of Bolingbroke.  Death was due to weakness of the heart, following "flu" and double pneumonia.  His illness was of short duration and his death came as a great shock to the family.  The funeral took place on Saturday December 22nd at 1 o'clock from his son's residence and was largely attended by relatives, friends and neighbors, who gathered to pay their last tribute of respect to an aged and respected resident of South Sherbrooke.  The funeral service was conducted by Rev. G.A. Mitchell, Free Methodist minister of Westport, Ont., at the residence of his son, Abraham McEwen, homestead of deceased.  The remains were borne to their last resting place in the Bolingbroke cemetery.  The floral tributes
included wreathes from the family and a spray from Mr. and Mrs. Bert
Bouder, Mrs. Bouder being a grand-daughter of deceased.