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WIILIAM D. LEWIS: THE LATE WILLIAM LEWIS INTERNATIONAL BRIDGE
[Welland Telegraph, 9 January 1891]
New Years day was a sad one to the many friends of our late townsman Wm. Lewis, who in the morning of life, at the age of 30 years, was after a brief illness called in that bourne from which no traveller returns. Mr. Lewis was a native of Streetsville, Ont., where he was born on the 2nd of December 1861. His father, Mr. John Lewis, is at present foreman in the blacksmith department of the M.C.R., at St. Thomas. Deceased was married on July _th, 1881, to Miss Sarah Gibson, of Fort Erie, who with their only child, a daughter, survives him. He entered the service of the Canada Southern Railway at this place about 14 years ago as a blacksmith, at the end of four years he was transferred to the shops at St. Thomas where he remained five or six years when he severed his connection with the C.S.R. and returned to this place and entered the service of the Grand Trunk railway at their shops, where he was employed until his fatal illness closed his services. Besides his widow and daughter, his father, mother, one brother, George J. Lewis, baggageman, M.C. R., and one sister, Mrs. F.M. Waldo, of Seneca Falls, N.Y., survive him. The funeral took place on Sunday last from St. Paul’s church, Fort Erie, and was one of the largest ever witnessed here. The burial was under the auspices of the I.O.O.F., of which fraternity Mr. Lewis was an esteemed member. The Oddfellows of International Lodge were assisted by large delegations from two sister lodges of Buffalo. Deceased was respected and esteemed as a citizen, won the good will and friendship of his associates in the railway service, and his sudden and early death will be regretted by all who knew him. His many relatives have the sympathy of the village.
CARD OF THANKS-The family of the late William D. Lewis wish to tender heartfelt thanks to the members of International Lodge, I.O.O.F., to the G.T. Employees, to the workmen in the M.C. Blacksmith shop and to the neighbors and friends for their many words of condolence, acts of kindness and handsome floral tributes.
SARAH A. LEWIS
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