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ABIGAIL WAUD
ST. CATHARINES’ OLDEST RESIDENT, DEAD
Remembered the War of 1812 and the Rebellion of 1837
[People’s Press, 12 June 1900]
St. Catharines, Ont., June 8-Mrs. Abigail Waud, the oldest resident of the city, died here this morning. She was in her 93rd year, having been born at Fonthill, November 7, 1807. She was of U.E. Loyalists origin, her paternal grandfather, Robert Spencer, having fought in the revolutionary war as an officer on the British side. In the war of 1812 the homestead in Pelham was occupied several time by the British troops. Gen. Brock gave Mrs. Waud a gold dollar, which was long preserved as one of her treasures. She was an eye-witness of the fleeing of the Americans at Beaverdams when the Mohawk Indians rushed to attack them. She witnessed bloody scenes during the Mackenzie rebellion in 1837, and also the distressing events occasioned by the outbreak of malarial fever among the laborers employed on the construction of the first Welland canal when 600 perished from the disease. One son and two daughter survive her.
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