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Do you keep in touch with Florence. She has catarracts
forming. And Mary has had to be |
| placed in a nursing home. |
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Women are certainly stronger than men. Clinton and
Fred are both gone. Also the three men |
| of the Reynolds family. Lois keeps me posted on their
family. |
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Not long ago I realized with a shock - I haven’t a
relative within 40 miles. And I had so many. |
| I only have Frank and his family, a cousin I’ve never
seen in Toronto and 2 coz. In Hamilton. |
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I am afraid I’ve not been much help. If I should think
of some Lowe stuff, I’ll let you know. |
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[no date, probably 1985/86] |
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Your letter arrived the same day as Louise’s 2nd. She
had written me on the 12th. She’d be |
| here on the 19th. I was picking Autumn raspberries
behind the house that aft. Her letter did not get here till the 24th.
On the 25th I got her 2nd. And yours written on the 18th. Her 2nd
was written on 21st. I think that must have come by pony express.
Louise and Ross have a winter home in Fla, and say it takes 2 weeks
to get a letter from here. |
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Once I had a letter from Ottawa post marked the 5th,
of the month. I received it on the 20th. |
| Awhile later I get a letter from the Phillipines dated
the 5th. and here on the 21st. Just one day longer than Ottawa. |
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Louise and Ross were here yesterday. We discussed your
work from A to Z. She suggested |
| you get in touch with Eva and have her do you a book.
I don’t quite understand the two Journalls Dorothy gave you. Between
1863 and 1900. Did they have family trees? Had different branches
of the family in the book I had by Rev. John Crawford. Who wrote the
journals Dorothy gave you? |
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Florence gave David - Louise’s son. Some kind of a
case with old letters etc. She said she will |
| bring it over for me to see. Ross said the letters
are very old. |
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As far as I can figure out Fred Lowe had a falling
out with his mother over giving the land |
| which became Brookside to Grandmother after she married.
Grandfather had a drug store in galt. He was educated at Oxford as
a chemist. He was no farmer, Grandmother Lowe just had the 2 boy and
2 girls. Mrs. Paddock, He was buried at sea as the came over. The
girl died around twenty the son Richard became a drunken bum, he later
lived in Pt. Maitland with Uncle William he never had to work. I remember
Uncle William when I was about 5. Dad had taken us all to Port. It
was the 24th of May. While Dad and Bud fished. Mother took us into
see Uncle William. I’ll never forget. He sat holding a basin for the
blood to drip from a cancer on his cheek. Some years before he’d triped
over a cat and struck his cheek on the corner of the table. |
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Uncle Dave was married for about 20 years, to a widow
whose husband was lost with all hands |
| going north to Yukon or Alaska. Twenty years later
he turns up at the front door, he [U. Dave] went out the back that’s
how Uncle Dave told us. She had a beautiful daughter who died of T.B.
before she was twenty. As to the Connors, He was Isobel’s husband,
and Carl Fagerstrom Her sister Emma’s husband. We used to visit back
and forth a lot with them. They lived in Jamestown N.Y. When uncle
Freddie died The aunts took Ronald and Isobel. Emma was given to her
mother’s sister Mrs. Hogsblat in Jamestown. As the aunts were not
R.C.’s Ronald and Isobel were taken back as Sarah could take them.
But Emma was left with her aunt. When we were out for a drive one
aft. We passed a cemetary and Emma said her uncle was buried there.
He was not an R.C. |
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I believe in Rev. John’s book, he went back to around
1040. The Crawfords in Scotland goes |
| back into antiquity. You know we are related to the
Queen. Thro the Bowes. A friend of mine is related thro |
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