You know your in Canada when you wake up to MINUS 23*. It's so cold the snow doesn't melt. Even now in the late afternoon there is still a thin layer of snow on the roads. And cars still have the puff of white blowing behind them. Snow has come early this year. I am pretty much stranded inside now. I can't get a walker through the snow so I have to get everything delivered until spring.
In doing my headstone, I got interested in my ancestry again. I actually started the whole thing to find my Grandma Idas grave. We never found it as she was interned in a paupers unmarked grave. It's the whole reason I have choosen to buy a headstone for myself. So I can memorialize her finally.
I also couldn't find my great grandmother "Lizzie" Ball's grave. We found my Great Grandfather and his first wife,... but couldn't find her. Until today. Today I found her grave. She is buried in the Old Brampton cemetery (the one on Wilson Street) I could not believe it. I know that cemetery well and have been there often. Infact as a teenager I went to a high school just down the street from it. If only I had know way back then in the late 1970's that I would be walking through the cemetery of my Great Grandmother Elizabeth Ann Ball. Not only is she buried there, but also her babies that passed away as well. Lillian and Reby. Both only months old. So many lost babies in this line of women. Myself included,... makes you wonder,... hmmmm,...
So now I have accounted for all of these women. My mothers ashes were scattered in BC by her son,... Ida is in an unmarked grave,... and now Lizzy is found, buried in the Brampton Cenetery in Block B, Range 13, Lot 17. I wish I could find a picture of it but noone has uploaded it to the "find a grave' website. Anyone reading this live near here?????
I think it's time I brought all these women back together. Validate them on granite. Prove we all existed.
At least I've done one thing in my life right. I am bringing the family back to rest in peace together.
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