Death of John Thomas Forsyth - 1948

The following information was received from the New Westminster Library which has the records for the Bowell Funeral Home (no longer in business).  It seems that John T. Forsyth died of some kind of accident.


S. Bowell and Sons - 1948 No. 434  September No. 42

JOHN THOMAS FORSYTH
1549 Burke Rd., Surrey, BC
Died at Royal Columbian Hospital
Date of Death Friday September 24, 1948
Male / Canadian / Scottish / Married
Date of Birth:  May 22, 1868 Age: 80 years, 4 months, 2 days
At place of death for how long:  1 day
In Province:  2 years    In Canada:  Life
Farmer - Date last worked: 1948 Number of years: 48
Wife :  Euphemia Chalmers
Father:  John Forsyth b. Scotland
Mother:  Mary Dales, born Canada
Informant:  Mrs. J.T. Forsyth
Place of Burial:  Surrey Centre Cemetery
Date of Burial:  Thursday Sept 30, 1948
Service at Cloverdale Chapel - Presbyterian
Minister:  Mr. Clark
Physician:  Dr. E.H. McEwan, Coroner
Cause of Death:  Lacerations and contusion of brain
Wife, 3 sons, and 2 daughters, 9 grandchildren

Notice from newspaper:
John Thomas Forsyth, laid to rest at Surrey Centre Cemetery

Euphemia's Death is on the BC Death Index as December 8, 1955 at 78 years of age
Both are included in the index for the Surrey Centre Cemetery


FORSYTH, Euphemia

Surrey Centre

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FORSYTH, John Thomas

Surrey Centre

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Family Tree - John Forsyth

Family Tree - Charles Forsyth

Family Tree

Updated July 2013 with information about Janet Forsyth (bottom right)

Border Crossing for Annie and Margaret Forsyth -1924

In June of 1924, Annie Elizabeth Forsyth and Margaret Forsyth, crossed the border at Port Huron, Michigan en route to Kansas to stay with their brother,William, for an indefinite period of time.  Annie was 52 years old, in good health, stood 4 '11"and had brown hair and blue eyes. 

Margaret was 57, in good health, was 5'3"with brown hair and brown eyes. In the Charles Forsyth family history, it is stated that it was Margaret, the music teacher, who went to Kansas for a few years and taught piano there.  It doesn't mention Annie. Perhaps Margaret stayed for an extended period, and Annie came back sooner.

Charles Leslie Forsyth, grandson of Charles of Weston

                        Marriage of Charles Cockburn Forsyth, son of Charles of Weston, Ontario to Annie  Nixon

 and the  birth of Charles Leslie Irwin Forsyth (below centre).  Charles Leslie I.  was raised by his Forsyth grandparents in Weston and went to Kansas as an adult. He is shown in the census in Canada as Charles, but in later life he appears to have used Leslie. His wife's name was Estelle.


1930 Census - Medicine Lodge, Barber, Kanasas
Leslie C. Forsyth, 33, b. Canada 1897
Estelle Forsyth, 32
William A. Forsyth, 6

Information from Census - Owned house valued at 4,000; Radio in house - yes; Residence was not a farm.
He was a retail furniture merchant. He became a citizen in 1903

1940 Census - Location as above

Leslie Forsyth, 43, Furniture Dealer and Undertaker of funeral home
Estelle Forsyth, 42
William Forsyth, 16
Robert Forsyth, 6

Birth of Charles Leslie Irwin Forsyth, February 6, 1897 in Toronto.

   The father, Charles, was a carpenter at this time.

Annie Elizabeth FORSYTH

                                                                         1942

Isabella Allison Forsyth JEWELL of Oklahoma

Isabelle Allison Forsyth, Mrs. Thomas Jewell

1868-1958

                                                              Isabelle Jewell, 1940

1871 Census - Ontario,Canada -Toronto, St. John's Ward 

Peter Wood, 60, carpenter, b. Scotland

Mary A. Jewell, 28, b. Ontario

Jennie Jewell, 7

Thomas Jewell, 5

1881 - Census - Ontario, Canada - Toronto, St. George's Ward

John J. Jewell, 40, upholsterer, b. Ontario

Mary Jewell, 37

Thomas Jewell,  16

Jennie Boyle, 32

Marriage:  June 30, 1890, York County, Ontario

Thomas Jewell, 24, son of John Jewell and Mary Ann Wood, Grocer

to Isabel Forsyth, 22, daughter of Charles Forsyth and Margaret Pirette

by W. Peritte, Methodist Church

1891 Census - Ontario, Canada - Toronto, St. Andrew's Ward

Thomas Jewell, 25, Retail Grocer

Isabelle Jewell, 23

1895 - USA Census - Pratt, Kansas

Thomas Jewell, 29,

Belle F. Jewell, 27

Clifford Jewell, 2

1910 - USA Census - Enid, Garfield Co, Oklahoma

Thomas Jewell, 45

Belle Jewell, 43 Canadian/Gaelic

(They were lodgers in a boarding house)

(Clifford is in Toronto with his grandparents in 1911 Census)

1920 - USA Census - Custer Co, Thomas Town - Census taken Jan 6/7

Clifford Jewell, 26, b. Kansas, Salesman, working on road

Faye Jewell, b. Canada

Thomas C., 5, b. Oklahoma

James L., 4/12, b. Oklahoma

1920 USA Census - Enid, Garfield Co. Oklahoma

Thomas Jewell, 54, wholesale grocer, salaried, b. Canada

to the USA in 1892, owned own home

Belle F. Jewell

1930 USA Census - Medicine Lodge, Kansas

North Walnut Street

Thomas Jewell, 64, 24 when first married, own home worth 6500, has radio, not a farm, to USA in 1892, retail merchant of grocieries

Belle, 57

(appears to be among other shops)

From Highland Cemetery, Medicine Lodge, Barber County, Kansas

Sons of Charles and Margaret Forsyth, Weston

                                Brothers - William R. and John K. Forsyth as young men

This photo is marked William Forsyth.

                                                    Probably William R. Forsyth as a young man.

John Knox Forsyth and Jane Elizabeth Hunter

John Knox Forsyth, son of Charles of Weston, was born 1862 and died in Weston in 1934.

He was a millwright.  His daughter, Mary, became a nurse and married a George Shellhorn.  Ray Hunter Forsyth married firstly, a Gertrude Porter who was American, in Winnipeg.  Their divorce record and Ray's remarriage are on ancestry.com in the state of Florida.  He apparently died in Florida, although both he and his sister Mary, are buried in Weston

W.R. Forsyth of Medicine Lodge, Kansas

William Robert Forsyth was the son of  Charles Forsyth and Margaret Pirritte.  He married Elizabeth Jackson .

                             Photo taken in Toronto of Wm R Forsyth and wife Elizabeth Jackson

                   Photo taken in Wichita, Kansas of Wm R. Forsyth and his wife, Elizabeth.

                                         W.R. Forsyth and Elizabeth Jackson in later years.

1895 Census - Kansas, Barber Valley (County?)
Census taken March 1st
W.R. Forsyth, 34, Merchant
Elizabeth J. Forsyth


1920 Census - Kansas, Medicine Lodge
William R. Forsyth, 59, b. Canada 1861, Immigrated 1894 (citizenship1905)
Furniture store / Undertaker
Elizabeth Forsyth, 55
Charles L. Forsyth, 22, nephew



1925 Census - Kansas, Medicine Lodge
W.R. Forsyth, 64, widower, furniture dealer, own store

Forsyth Monuments at Riverside Cemetery, Weston, Ontario

                                            Monument for John Knox Forsyth family.

Monument for Charles Foryth family.