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Thomas Adams

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Maria Adams and daughters, Maude and Lizzie

Thomas Adams  (1847 ~ 1928)

 

5.3. Third child of Robert Adams and Jane Patterson, Thomas Adams, was born April 15, 1847, in Clarke Twp., Durham Co., Ontario.

  He married Maria Bullied, daughter of Samuel Bullied and Harriet Ashby, October 23, 1879, in Clarke Twp., Ontario and had 14 children:

 

 

  Thomas Adams died September 13, 1928, aged 81 years, in Clarke Twp., Ontario and is interred at Pontypool Cemetery and Maria Bullied Adams died January 4, 1931, aged 70 years in Port McNicoll, Tay Twp., Simcoe Co., Ontario and is interred at Lakeview Cemetery, Midland, Ontario.

 

 

 

----- OBITUARIES -----

 

Maria Bullied Adams

August 11, 1860 ~ January 4, 1931

Port McNicoll, Jan. 19—A well known and highly respected resident of Clarke Township, passed away at the home of her son, Mr. Zack Adams, in this village on January 4, 1931, in the person of Mrs. Thomas Adams in her seventy-first year.

  Deceased was a daughter of the late Samuel Bullied and Harriet Ashby. She was born in the Township of Hope in 1860, and lived there until her marriage with Thomas Adams in 1879. From that time she lived on the Adams homestead in Clarke. After the death of Mr. Adams, two years ago, she spent most of her time at Port McNicoll, till Christmas day, when she was stricken with a stroke followed by another a week later. Her patient and loving manner won for her many friends. She was always trying to be of some benefit for others, being a kind and loving mother.

  She leaves seven sons: James, Ernest, Wesley and Oscar of Burketon; Sam of Hamilton; Fred of Oshawa and Zack of Port McNicoll, with whom she made her home, and three daughters: Mrs. Richard Winch, Eyebrow, Sask.; Mrs. George Patterson, Orono and Mrs. Leonard Bullied of Weston; also two brothers, Sam and Charlie of Treherne, Man.; four sisters, Mrs. Lizzie Gibson and Mrs. Addie Thompson, Oshawa; Hattie Adams of British Columbia and Mrs. Cynthia Pascoe of Manitoba.

  The funeral was held on January 6, 1931, at the home of her son, service being conducted by Rev. A. J. Eagles of Victoria Harbour. The remains being laid to rest in Midland.

  The pall-bearers were: Messrs. Sam, Joe and Thomas Evans, George Montgomery, W. M. Callan and Allen Laidlaw of Midland. Midland Free Press, Jan. 26, 1931.

 

Samuel Bullied

October 22, 1833 ~ March 20, 1905

On Monday last, March 20, 1905 another of Holland’s old timers was called to join the great majority in the person of Mr. Samuel Bullied, who passed peacefully away at his son James’ home after a lingering illness of a year’s duration, nine months of which he was confined to his bed in a perfectly helpless condition. Deceased was seventy one years and five months of age, and had, up to the time of his illness, been a strong, hardy man, always enjoying the best of health, and one well capable of enduring the hardships of the pioneer settlers of this district.

  Internment took place in Brookdale Cemetery on Wednesday afternoon, the remains being accompanied to their last resting place by a large number of friends and acquaintances.

  Deceased was born in the county of Devonshire, England, October 22, 1833 where he resided until he was 15 years of age when he, with his parents, migrated to Canada settling at Port Hope, Ontario. Three years after their arrival in Canada, then a lad of eighteen, he married Miss Harriet Ashby, of Port Hope.

   In 1887 he came west and took up a homestead about nine miles north of Holland, Manitoba where he resided for a number of years, but of late he has made his home with his son James.

   He leaves to mourn his loss a wife, five daughters and five sons: Mrs. W. Gibson of Pontypool, Ontario; Mrs. T. Adams of New Park, Ontario; Mrs. T. Thompson of Raglan, Ontario; Mrs. W. R. Adams of Leskard, Ontario; Mrs. Fred Pascoe, of Killarney, Manitoba; Thomas Bullied of Toronto, Whitney of London, Ontario; Samuel of Treherne, Manitoba; and James and Charlie of Holland, Manitoba. Funeral services will be preached in the Methodist Church on Sunday evening next, by pastor, Rev. J. C. Switzer. Holland Observer, Mar. 24, 1905.

 

Harriet Ashby Bullied

September 29, 1835 ~ February 28, 1925

The funeral of the late Mrs. Harriet Bullied of Holland, Manitoba was held in the Union Church there on Wednesday, March 4, 1925. Rev. C. Finnemore conducted the service and spoke very highly of the deceased who, in spite of her advanced age, retained all her faculties until the last, and passed away [February 28, 1925] quietly in her sleep at her home of her daughter, Mrs. Pascoe at Killarney, Manitoba with whom she made her home recently.

  The late Mrs. Bullied was born in Northamptonshire, England, on September 29, 1835. She came to Canada when five years of age with her parents, who settled on a farm near Port Hope, Ontario.

  On September 16, 1851, she married Samuel Bullied, there being ten children born to this union. Mr. Bullied came to Manitoba in 1887 and settled on a farm north of Holland, where Mrs. Bullied joined him later. Mr. Bullied predeceased his wife 20 years ago and a son, Thomas, died in 1916. She leaves five daughters and four sons: Mrs. W. H. Gibson of Peterborough, Ont.; Mrs. Thomas Adams of Toronto; Mrs. T. G. Thompson of Ragland; Mrs. W. R. Adams of Vancouver; Mrs. Fred Pascoe of Killarney; Whitney Bullied of London, Ontario; Samuel Bullied of Treherne, Manitoba; James and Charles Bullied of Holland. There are also 54 grandchildren and 61 great-grandchildren. Treherne Times, Mar. 12, 1925.

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