Headstone Maple Leaf Cemetery, Chatham, Kent Co., ON, transcribed by the Kent Branch of the OGS:
Bessie Stover July 27, 1872 - July 1, 1955.
Frederick Stover Nov. 1, 1869 - Oct. 17, 1934.
Irwin Stover M.D. August 9, 1894 - April 20, 1962.
Commemorative Biographical Record of Kent County, Ontario, J.H. Beers & Co., Toronto, 1904, pg. 229:
William H. and Thomas Irwin, prosperous farmers of Raleigh township, are sons of Thomas and Jane (Carter) Irwin, the former of whom was born in County Monaghan, and the latter in County Armagh, Ireland.
Thomas Irwin was born in 1822, and at the age of twenty-five years came to America. For a short time afterward, about six months, he was employed at Hartford and New Haven, Conn. In 1847, he came to the County of Kent, where he was employed by Henry Reynolds, and later, on the settling of the estate, he purchased two tracts of land of the Reynolds estate, of 100 acres each, and resided on the one now owned and occupied by his son Thomas, at what is familiarly known as Irwin's Corners. As a farmer he prospered. Politically he was a Conservative. Religiously he was a member of the Church of England. When a post office was opened at the Corners he was made postmaster, and served several years, until his death, in fact, until the office was discontinued. His death took place Oct. 21, 1891, when he was aged sixty-nine years, his wife, who preceded him, dying in June, 1877, aged forty-seven years. Both were buried in Maple Leaf cemetery. Their children were: Margaret, wife of Clark Park, of Raleigh township; Alice, wife of W. H. Fuller, of Minneapolis, Minnesota; Mary, wife of W. S. Dean, of Sauk Center, Minnesota; John, who conducts a plumbing business at Sauk Center; William H., Thomas; Alexander Francis, a physician at Minneapolis; Miss Jennie; and Bessie, wife of Fred Stover, of Raleigh township...
Bessie
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Irwin Stover 1894-1962
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