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ANN CLARKSON
[Welland Tribune, 19 January 1900]
There passed away on Sunday morning, the 14inst., one of Crowland’s oldest and most respected residents, in the person of Mrs. John Clarkson, at the age of seventy years and six months.
Mrs. Clarkson, whose maiden name was Inman, was born in Yorkshire, England, and came to this country with her parents when four years of age, who settled in Haldimand county. She married John Clarkson, Esq., on December 7th, 1853, and resided in the township of Wainfleet until the year 1873, when they moved on the farm in Crowland where she has since lived until her death. Mrs. Clarkson had a very wide circle of friends and acquaintances, and was beloved and and respected by all who knew her. She was kind and charitable to all with whom she came in contact, a kind and affectionate mother, and a life-long and consistent member of the Methodist church, by whose members she will be remembered for her many amiable and christian qualities. She leaves a husband, one son and two daughters to mourn the loss of a good wife and kind mother.
The funeral on Tuesday was very large, many attending from Dunnville, Essex and other points in Western Ontario. Burial at Fonthill cemetery.
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