Kathryn:
THANK YOU.
Dave
on 8/24/07 5:47 PM, Kathryn Jeffers at
kjeffers@... wrote:
OBITUARY
On Saturday afternoon, Sept. 3rd the funeral of the late Famicha Chase,
was held from the Anglican Church, Parrsboro. Mrs. Chase was a daughter
of the late Ebenezer Kerr of Fox River, a granddaughter of Colonel
Gesner Kerr of Cornwallis, N.S., Colonels Kerr and Gesner were united
Empire Loyalists and both fought in the revolutionary war and were later
sent by the English Government to establish a militia at Cornwallis.
Private Chipman Kerr, formerly of Fox River and now of Spirit River,
Alta., Canada's first Victoria Cross hero was a nephew of the deceased.
Mrs. Chase leaves to mourn her loss, one brother, Ebenezer Kerr of Fox
River, one sister Mrs. Ephriam Seaman of Minudie. Capt. Robt. Kerry,
Gesner Kerr, Henry G. Kerr, John Kerr and Harry Lake of Fox River are
nephews of the deceased and were pall bearers. Two sisters, Mrs. David
Pettis of Montreal and Mrs. John C. Spicer Spencer's Island both died
within a day of each other last year. Mrs. Spicer's funeral being held
one day and Mrs. Pettis the next. Mrs. Chase was a woman of very
estimable qualities and will be much missed by all who knew her. Her
husband the late Reuben Chase of Sackville, N.B., predeceased her many
years ago.
Amherst Daily News Newspaper, published Wednesday, 14 September 1921,
page 4.
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