Funeral Card Friday: David Williams, Warwick, Ontario, 1901

Blessed are they that do His commandments for they may have right to the tree of life and may enter in through the gate into the city. ---Rev. 22:14.

In Loving Remembrance of 

David Williams,

who died at Warwick, Ont., on Monday

June 3rd, 1901,

Aged 92 years, 10 months, 16 days.

Interred in Arkona Cemetery,

Thursday, June 6th, 1901

David Williams (born July 18, 1809, Ontario) left behind a wife, Nancy A. (Rogers) Williams (born 1838, Ameliasburg, Ontario) and a daughter, Phoebe S. Williams, when he died in 1901¹.  He and Nancy were married on the 1st of January 1871 in Warwick, Lambton County, Ontario.  Both had been married previously and were widowed.  The brides' parents were John Rogers and Sarah Benson Rogers.  David was the son of Welshman, John Williams, Nancy McCorigan Williams².  I've been unable to locate David's prior marriage in the records or learn if he had other children. 

Nancy Rogers Williams passed away 4 1/2 years after the death of her husband on the 13th of December, 1905 at age 67³. 

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1 1901 Census of Canada, Warwick, Lambton East, Ontario, population schedule, enumeration district (ED) 78, p.4 (penned), dwelling 32, family 32, David Williams; digital image, Ancestry. ca (http://www.ancestry.ca : accessed 8 June 2012); citing Library and Archives Canada microfilm T-6428 through T-6556^↩

2 "Ontario, Canada Marriages, 1801-1928," online database, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com), Nancy A. Rogers and David Williams, Registration No. none given, page 243 (stamped), Lambton County, 1 January 1871; citing original data at Archives of Ontario; citing microfilm MS932, reel 4. ^↩

3 Nancy Williams, Death Registration 015080 (13 Dec 1905); “Ontario, Canada, Deaths, 1869-1938 and Deaths Overseas, 1939-1947,” digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 8 June 2012), citing microfilm MS935, reel 120, Archives of Ontario, Toronto. ^↩

Cartes de Visites and Lovely Collars

The carte de visite photograph is one of my favourite image formats.  These calling-card sized photos often contain interesting fashions and hairstyles.  They were most popular between 1860-1890.  If you have a carte de visite, and don't know when the photo was taken, you can sometimes determine the approximate date of the photograph by analyzing the thickness of the cardstock.  The thinner the card, the earlier the photograph.   Portrait styles, the use of cheek tinting, and even the photographer's imprint on the reverse of the photograph can provide clues as to the photograph's vintage.

I just love the collars worn by the two young women below.  I found these photos at an antique show in the 1990s.

Above left:  "Sarah Buckley (Rose's Mother)" taken  at the W.B. Miles Studio, 151 High Street, Holyoke, MA.  I would guess that this photograph was taken in the 1890s.

Above right:   "Annie Williams, Brown Hair 12 yr, Sept 19, Black eyes, 2 watercolors" The photograph was taken at the Morton Artistic Photographer, 75 Westminster Street, Providence, Rhode Island circa 1890.  This photograph may have accompanied Annie's entries in an art show. 

Above left:  The dapper man in the photograph is "W. M. Lawson" and we know this because he was kind enough to sign his CDV.  Though it is not visible in the scan above, there is a faint photographer's imprint in the lower right corner that reads, "Sheldon & Davis."  

Above right:  This little girl was photographed at G. Wilson's Photographic and Portrait Gallery on Water St. in Mary's, Ontario, Canada, probably sometime after 1877 and before 1885.  "Annie Lytle" is written on the back in pencil.