{"id":949,"date":"2012-01-14T19:27:53","date_gmt":"2012-01-15T00:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ethelingalls.com\/Digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Picture_045.jpg"},"modified":"2012-01-14T19:27:53","modified_gmt":"2012-01-15T00:27:53","slug":"picture_045-2","status":"inherit","type":"attachment","link":"https:\/\/ethelingalls.com\/Digest\/photos\/photo-gallery-monuments\/picture_045-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Grafton Monument, Grove Cemetery, Dundas Ontario"},"author":3,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"spay_email":""},"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/a1NYwc-fj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"description":{"rendered":"

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Grafton Monument <\/p>\n

It’s a little hard to read but you can make it out if I give you some cues.<\/p>\n

Charles S. Grafton M.D.
\nsecond son of
\n James B. & Charlotte
\n Grafton
\ndied March 7th 1893
\nin the 32nd Year of his age
\nJean Douglass
\nwife of
\nCharles Stewart Grafton
\n born March 21, 1859
\n died April 24, 1939
\n Stewart Douglas
\ninfant son of
\nCharles S. & Jean Grafton
\n died Aug. 17th 1890
\naged 8 months<\/p>\n

The Graftons have several large monuments in Grove cemetery in Dundas. This monument has inscriptions for Sydney Grafton’s father, mother and baby brother. (Sydney Grafton was a partner in the Oswald Brothers brokerage firm in Montreal that I wrote about in the Sept 2006 Digest)<\/p>\n

Jean Douglass was the eldest daughter of Dr. Robert Douglass so it is not surprising that she married Charles Grafton, a doctor. Their first son died in infancy and Dr. Grafton, himself, succumbed to consumption, that scourge of the nineteenth century that even wealth and education could not thwart.<\/p>\n

Jean’s unmarried sisters lived with her and Sydney for many years. Their Grandfather Sproat’s will had provided a trust fund for the sisters as their mother, his daughter, Eleanor, had predeceased him. The trust fund allowed them to live comfortably without the need to work.<\/p>\n

The youngest of Jean’s sisters, Helen, married Malcolm Oswald.<\/p>\n"},"caption":{"rendered":"

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