Black & White photo is of East Galt looking out across the valley to the St Andrew's Church in the background. Photo courtesy of Wayne Serbu June 2021
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Messrs. Angus Stewart and Abraham Walker were the contractors for St. Andrew's Church. The former was killed, one summer evening in 1848, by falling from a limb of a tree on the hill south of Craigie Lea. Walker afterwards returned to New York State, where he formerly resided, and survived until the year 1877.
Page 85 Reminiscences of the Early History of Galt and the Settlement of Dumfries in the Province of Ontario, by James Young
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STEWART (Galt) - We have this week suffered the loss by a violent death of one of our most estimable and industrious residents, and we sympathize with survivors so deeply in the town that we can hardly permit ourselves to tell the tale. On Wednesday afternoon, Mr. Angus Stewart, carpenter, of this village, was employed in cutting some branches from a tall pine tree on the property of Mr. Andrew Elliot near the distillery when the branch suddenly gave way and he lost his balance and fell to the ground, a distance of from 20 to 30 feet. He alighted on his back and lay motionless. His wife, who was standing at her own door, saw him fall, and his brother also, who was working close by, saw the accident and hastened with others to give assistance. They found the poor man senseless with a deep cut in the back of his head and many severe bruises on the spine, and it was evident also that some internal injury had been received, for although Dr. Richardson was immediately brought and the wounds dressed and fomented, the patient never rallied, but gradually sank into death without apparent consciouness. He has left a wife and one child with, under the sudden bereavement, the inhabitants of the whole village have evinced the deepest sympathy.
Hamilton Spectator 12 Apr 1848
Both entries courtesy of Waterloo gnerations
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Messrs. Angus Stewart and Abraham Walker were the contractors for St. Andrew's Church. The former was killed, one summer evening in 1848, by falling from a limb of a tree on the hill south of Craigie Lea. Walker afterwards returned to New York State, where he formerly resided, and survived until the year 1877.
Page 85 Reminiscences of the Early History of Galt and the Settlement of Dumfries in the Province of Ontario, by James Young
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STEWART (Galt) - We have this week suffered the loss by a violent death of one of our most estimable and industrious residents, and we sympathize with survivors so deeply in the town that we can hardly permit ourselves to tell the tale. On Wednesday afternoon, Mr. Angus Stewart, carpenter, of this village, was employed in cutting some branches from a tall pine tree on the property of Mr. Andrew Elliot near the distillery when the branch suddenly gave way and he lost his balance and fell to the ground, a distance of from 20 to 30 feet. He alighted on his back and lay motionless. His wife, who was standing at her own door, saw him fall, and his brother also, who was working close by, saw the accident and hastened with others to give assistance. They found the poor man senseless with a deep cut in the back of his head and many severe bruises on the spine, and it was evident also that some internal injury had been received, for although Dr. Richardson was immediately brought and the wounds dressed and fomented, the patient never rallied, but gradually sank into death without apparent consciouness. He has left a wife and one child with, under the sudden bereavement, the inhabitants of the whole village have evinced the deepest sympathy.
Hamilton Spectator 12 Apr 1848
Both entries courtesy of Waterloo gnerations
Black & White photo is of East Galt looking out across the valley to the St Andrew's Church in the background. Photo courtesy of Wayne Serbu June 2021
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Messrs. Angus Stewart and Abraham Walker were the contractors for St. Andrew's Church. The former was killed, one summer evening in 1848, by falling from a limb of a tree on the hill south of Craigie Lea. Walker afterwards returned to New York State, where he formerly resided, and survived until the year 1877.
Page 85 Reminiscences of the Early History of Galt and the Settlement of Dumfries in the Province of Ontario, by James Young
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STEWART (Galt) - We have this week suffered the loss by a violent death of one of our most estimable and industrious residents, and we sympathize with survivors so deeply in the town that we can hardly permit ourselves to tell the tale. On Wednesday afternoon, Mr. Angus Stewart, carpenter, of this village, was employed in cutting some branches from a tall pine tree on the property of Mr. Andrew Elliot near the distillery when the branch suddenly gave way and he lost his balance and fell to the ground, a distance of from 20 to 30 feet. He alighted on his back and lay motionless. His wife, who was standing at her own door, saw him fall, and his brother also, who was working close by, saw the accident and hastened with others to give assistance. They found the poor man senseless with a deep cut in the back of his head and many severe bruises on the spine, and it was evident also that some internal injury had been received, for although Dr. Richardson was immediately brought and the wounds dressed and fomented, the patient never rallied, but gradually sank into death without apparent consciouness. He has left a wife and one child with, under the sudden bereavement, the inhabitants of the whole village have evinced the deepest sympathy.
Hamilton Spectator 12 Apr 1848
Both entries courtesy of Waterloo gnerations
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Messrs. Angus Stewart and Abraham Walker were the contractors for St. Andrew's Church. The former was killed, one summer evening in 1848, by falling from a limb of a tree on the hill south of Craigie Lea. Walker afterwards returned to New York State, where he formerly resided, and survived until the year 1877.
Page 85 Reminiscences of the Early History of Galt and the Settlement of Dumfries in the Province of Ontario, by James Young
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STEWART (Galt) - We have this week suffered the loss by a violent death of one of our most estimable and industrious residents, and we sympathize with survivors so deeply in the town that we can hardly permit ourselves to tell the tale. On Wednesday afternoon, Mr. Angus Stewart, carpenter, of this village, was employed in cutting some branches from a tall pine tree on the property of Mr. Andrew Elliot near the distillery when the branch suddenly gave way and he lost his balance and fell to the ground, a distance of from 20 to 30 feet. He alighted on his back and lay motionless. His wife, who was standing at her own door, saw him fall, and his brother also, who was working close by, saw the accident and hastened with others to give assistance. They found the poor man senseless with a deep cut in the back of his head and many severe bruises on the spine, and it was evident also that some internal injury had been received, for although Dr. Richardson was immediately brought and the wounds dressed and fomented, the patient never rallied, but gradually sank into death without apparent consciouness. He has left a wife and one child with, under the sudden bereavement, the inhabitants of the whole village have evinced the deepest sympathy.
Hamilton Spectator 12 Apr 1848
Both entries courtesy of Waterloo gnerations
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