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Annie Ranson  (1869 ~ 1964)

 

2.2.1. First child of Thomas Ranson and Sarah Ann Mortimer, Annie Ranson, was born August 20, 1869, in Anson Twp., Victoria Co., Ontario.

  She married William Hamilton Wright, son of James Wright and Hannah McKenna, July 13, 1887, in Minden, Haliburton Co., Ontario and had 12 children:

 

 

  Annie Ranson Wright died May 20, 1964, aged 94 years, in Barrie, Ontario and William H. Wright died April 19, 1946, aged 83 years in Alliston, Ontario and are interred at Alliston Union Cemetery.  

 

 

----- OBITUARIES -----

 

Annie Ranson Wright

A resident of Alliston until advancing years forced her to give up her home, Mrs. William H. Wright died at the Inniswood Private Hospital, Barrie, on May 20, 1964, in her 95th year. She was Annie Ranson before her marriage and her husband and four of their twelve children (James, Hannah, Gordon and Thomas) predeceased her.

 Surviving are Mrs. Robert Anderson (Tillie) and Mrs. Thomas Cartwright (May) both of Toronto; Mrs. William Leetch (Sadie) of Thornton, Mrs. Cecil McMulkin (Mary) of Barrie, Mrs. James Dermott (Margaret) of Alliston, William of Cookstown, Sidney of Collingwood and Joseph of Beeton. There are also 21 grandchildren, 52 great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren.

  The Rev. J. F. Shilton conducted the funeral service in the Thomas Funeral Chapel and burial was in Alliston Union Cemetery. Six grandsons served as pallbearers, Ivan, Donald and Bill Wright, Fred Cartwright and Alvin and Harold Dermott. Alliston Herald, May 28, 1964.

 

 

William H. Wright

June 3, 1862 ~ April 19, 1946

Occasionally there passes through the veil of death one whose departure is mourned, not for the great amount of good deeds that he or she performed in life or for the largesse he or she distributed, but because of their general good nature, honesty of purpose and Christian influence. Such an one was William Hamilton Wright who, in 84th year died at his home on Victoria Street in Alliston on Good Friday, April 19, 1946.

  The late Mr. Wright was a sturdy citizen who had experienced a life of hard work in the days when this country abounded in forests and lumbering was the chief industry of the neighborhood. He was a native of Mono Mills, born on June 3, 1862, the son of the late James Wright and Hannah McKenna, of Irish descent from County Down, N. Ireland.

  While he was a boy Mr. Wright with his parents and others of the family moved to Minden where large lumber mills were being developed. He became a river driver when logs were taken by water from Dorset to Peterborough when it took five months to make the journey with the boom.

  After his marriage to Annie Ranson of Minden on July 13, 1887, Mr. Wright moved to Lisle, Tosorontio Twp., Simcoe County, where he was employed with lumber firms in that district but he usually returned to Minden for the winter months for the log cutting. Around 1914 he took up farming on the Rogers farm in Tosorontio township opposite Burns Church. He was there five years and then moved to the Thompsonville district where he was on two or three farms in a period of ten years retiring to come to Alliston in 1929.

  He was a member of the United Church and was for 59 years a member of the Orange Order.

  He was predeceased by one son and one daughter, Gordon, who died at the age of nine, and Hannah who was Mrs. Harvey Alderson of Alliston. Also one brother, James A. Wright, and two sisters, Mrs. George Hay (Mary Ann) of Detroit, and Mrs. Walter Hay (Margaret) of Minden.

  Mrs. Wright survives with four sons and five daughters: James of Innisfil, William of Cookstown, Sydney of Collingwood, Joseph of Beeton; Mrs. R. J. Anderson (Tillie) and Mrs. T. Cartwright (May) both of Toronto, Mrs. W. Leitch (Sadie) of Thornton, Mrs. C. McMulkin (Mary) of Barrie, Mrs. J. Dermott (Margaret) of Alliston. Also one sister, Mrs. W. J. Kidd of Melancthon. There are 24 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. 

  Rev. James Dorrian of Alliston had charge of the funeral service which was held at the home on Monday afternoon under Orange auspices. Members of L.O.L. No. 676, Thompsonville and No. 66, Alliston, revited the Orange ritual at the graveside in Alliston Union Cemetery and also tendered floral offerings.

  The pallbearers were Messrs. Ed Agnew, H. Graham, R. Black, G. Gillham, Thos. Goddard and Jesse Smalley.

  Friends present from a distance included the Misses Kate and Sarah Ranson, Mr. Ardley Ranson and Miss Rena Ranson all of Minden; Mrs. R. Armstrong of Honeywood, Mr. J. Hay and Mr. F. Rupert of Barrie and Mrs. Oshier of Parry Sound. Alliston Herald, Apr. 20, 1946.

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