The Globe of Friday
last contained an item to the effect that on the day previous there had
passed away at Los Angeles, Cal., Mrs. Frances McDonald, at the advanced
age of [8]2 years.
The deceased was a granddaughter
of the well-known pioneer U. E. Loyalist, Col. Joseph Ryerson, of
Charlotteville, father of the famous Ryerson brothers, John, William and
Egerton.
Her father was Captain James
Mitchell, who commanded a company of the Norfolk Milita at the battle of
Lundy's Lane, and who was afterwards made judge of the London District.
He was the occupant of that post when the district capital was removed
from Vittoria to London in 1826.
Mrs. McDonald's husband was Hon.
Donald McDonald, a member of the Legislative Council of Canada for
Tecamach Division from 1863 to Confederation.
She was the mother of fourteen
children, of whom nine survive, some in Toronto, but the greater number
of them in California
