George PARSONS

   Cause of his death was Typhoid Fever.

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  Research Notes:

MEMORIES OF THE PARSONS FAMILY -- as told by Doris Parsons November 11, 1984

George Parsons was born in England. He and his wife Minnie Heaton went to Shelby, Montana, where he worked for the railway. While there,
James Edward, George Bertram, and William Alford were born. Alice Gertrude may have been born there. John Stanley was born in Calgary.

George Parsons continued to work for the railway. He worked out of Calgary with the C.P.R. until his death when Stan was five months old.
This was August of 1904. George Parsons died of typhoid fever which it is believed he contacted from contaminated water. This left Minnie
with five children from five months to nine years of age.

While in Calgary, Minnie met Harry Edward How~g and married him May 11, 1905. They lived in Edmonton for a while. On April 15, 1906, they
filed for homestead on s.E.i 32-43-l0-W4, along Iron Creek northwest of Hardisty. This was in the Hazelwood district. The homestead was
approved in 1910.

William Arthur Geage Howard was born in Hardisty. We know him as Bill Howard, but his mother called him Arty. His birth was registered by
Edward in Hardisty but the records were never forwarded to Edmonton.

In recent years, Stan Parsons contacted Mrs. Thorpe at the Hardisty Post Office and she found the birth registry for Bill in a box stored in the
basement of the post office. At a late date, it was forwarded to the Vital Statistics branch and was recorded.

Being a large family it was felt best the Alice Gertrude live with Mrs. Mugridge, a good family friend, and wastreated as her daughter and
went to school in Hardisty. She lived there until her grandmother Heaton became ill. Mr. and Mrs. James Heaton were living in Winnipeg
where he had worked for the railway. Alice went to Winnipeg and stayed wi th her grandparents. While in Winnipeg she met and married
Arthur Stonebridge. They never had any children. Arthur was away in the war.

Alice joined the WAC as a Red Cross Ambulance driver. At some point after the war, Arthur and Alice were separated. She returned to he
work with the Red Cross.

When first on the homestead, there was no town at Hardisty. They used oxen to drive to Sedgewick for groceries and retell the story of
oxen running into a slough and refusing to move on.

William Alford was accidently killed near the,r home along Iron Creek in 1906 at nearly 7 years. He was dragging a shotgun which he was
told to get, when it accidently went off. He was buried 10 cally.
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Harry Edward Howard was overseas in World War I. While in enemy territory, Harry was swimming a river to escape from the enemy and
was shot. The army refused to pay a pension to Minnie as they claimed Harry had deserted the army. He died in 1917.

On August 7, 1917, Minnie married Art Woodward. Walter and Laurel 'II. were born to them. Bill lived~~hem. In 1928, Minnie hemorrhaged with
a tumor of the uterus and died. She died in the hospital in Kerrobert, Saskatchewan. The funeral was held in Salvador and she was buri ed in
Winnipeg. This left Arthur with boys of five and nine. Fifteen year old Bill went to live with Gertrude and Art Stonebridge in Winnipeg. It was
here that he met and married Louise. ~ert Parsons spent part of his youth with a bachelor in the Hazelwood area. He really enjoyed dancing
and parties. Bert worked for Mursells and then went with the railway. Bert married Mabel Mursell in 1918 and they lived on Bert's land near
Hardisty. Ed and Bert had bought adjoining land. Ed gave Bert his land as a wedding gift. Ed lived in Winnipeg. Later that year Robert was born.

When he was a baby, Mabel moved out to live with her mother and later took him with her to Ellensburg, Washington.

When AIvina left Gustave Fagin, she went to live with a widowed sister, Josephine Redman. At Redmans she met Bert Parsons and they
were married in 1931.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Residence, 1894, Shelby, Toole, Montana, USA.

• Residence, After 1895, Calgary, , Alberta, Canada.

George married Minnie HEATON, daughter of James HEATON and Betsy WAUMSLEY, in 1894. (Minnie HEATON was born in 1874/1875 in Great Grimsby, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom, died in 1928 in Kerrobert, , Saskatchewan, Canada and was buried in 1928 in Winnipeg, , Manitoba, Canada.) The cause of her death was Hemorrhaged with a tumor of the uterus.