, 1906-06-20
Death of MIR. MartindaIe's Mother

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Mrs. Ann Martindale, aged 81 years,
mother of Thomas Martindale. died at
her home in London, Ontario, Canada,
on June 8, 1906. Mrs. Martindale's
maiden name was Watson, the daughter
of Rev. George Watson, an English
preacher. She was born in Weardale,
County of Durham, England, in 1924.
She married Joseph Martindale and in
1888 they with their four children sail
ed for America, leaving Liverpool in
the good ship "Sarah Janeu for New
York. Six weeks and three days, says
The London advertiser, were required
t. complete the passage, as the vessel
encountered a succession offieroe gales,
and after them followed provoking
Gains. -Four children bad been born
to them before they left the heather
covered hills of Weardale, and these
rosy checked and rugged youngsters
Thomas, George, Ralph and Sarah
thrived on the voyage in spite of the
hardships and short rations. Arriving
in New York the family fell victims
TO sharpers, who sold them bogus
tickets to Pittsburg, their objective
point, and 10 further add to their
troubles, Thomas, the eldest son,
wandered away from the shipon reach
ing terra firma and o got lost on the
street called Broad way. He wandered
here and there satisfying his eager
curiosity until the shades of night and
the pangs of hungerdrove him towards
h river front and by continually
asking for the Sarah Jane,n the
family was again united. Genuine
tickets having been purchased they
started for the then boundless west.
After a journey of a fortnight or more,
made mostly on canal boats, the Al
leghany Mountains We're crossed, and
the valley of the Monongahela River
was reached. Here a s%ojourn of a year
was made, and the family then trekked
to Canandaigua, New York, where
another year was passed, and where
another daughter-Annie-wa born,
who afterwards became the wife of
MIR. w. Yates, of this city. Again
Dame Fortune led them upon another
pilgrimage, and the third a'd last
stage of home-seeking was reached
here in London, Canada West, where
in the latter part of 1856 the family
settled OF Grey street. Here Phoebe,
now Mrs. George Rowntree, was born.
Joseph Martindale, the head of the
family who was killed by a boiler ex-
plosion on Talbot street in 1879 found
employment in the Great Western rail-
road shops, and by being saving of his
money, and being bravely seconded by
the subject of this sketch, and helped
materially by the united efforts of the
children, as they grew up, the family
proSpered. The "old homestead resi-
dence at AS Horton street, became the
mecca which has year after year drawn
the children, the grandchildren and
the great. grandchildren to unite i'll and
around the old dining-room and
sitting-room to handle the old house
hold goods and tell over and overa again
the stories of the early struggles, when
hope ran high ana achievement SEEM
ed of microscopic Importance. In this
house six more children first Saw the
light of day, four of whom died in in-
fancy, and of the remaining two
fVatson-the eldest, now DIR. Watson
M~artindaie, of Camden, n. J., and the
youngest now Mrs. II. w. Atkinson,
of Philadelphia II ale all that are left of
these six children. So this z od
mother in Israel was the mother of
twelve, of whom six survive, and there
are 81 grandchildren and 3great-grand-
children. The second son, George
Martindale, was on the Grand Trunk
INdllIOdu us euSlleeI lOT over % years,
and is well-knoWn in the city by his
unselfish and earnest work in the
religious and charitable field. Ralph,
the next, lived to become the vice
president and general manager of the
Joseph Campbell Preserve Company,
of Camden. n. j. He passed away in
1900, while Mrs. VIM. Yates was
stricken three years later, Sarah,
Mrs. Edwin Crawford, lives in New
castle, Pa. Mrs. Martindale, thedeceas-
ed, was blessed with a grand cOnstitu-
ton, which stood her in good stead dur
ing herlong and busy life. tits related
that when her eldest Sol was one year
old that she carried him upon her back
fourteen good English miles. There
are few women nowadays that could
carry such a burden even one short
Canadian mile. In caring for such a
large family her judgement, her plan
ming, her unselfish devotion, her capac-
ity for strenuous housekeeping, all
to give TO the various menu
bers OF her home circle the best training
possible that they could have had, to
fit them for the stern realities of life,
and their success in life is largely due
TO this fact. Like her father and her
mother she was a consistent follower
in the footsteps of the sanity John
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