The Late Mrs.
Gunton
An aged and respected
resident of Simcoe, in the person of Eliza Jarvis, widow of Mr. John
Russell Gunton, passed to the Great Beyond of Saturday evening after
a short illness.
For some time past Mrs.
Gunton had been suffering from the ills incidental to old age, but
her final sickness was not of long duration.
Mrs. Gunton would have been
77 years of age had hshe lived until Tuesday, the day of her burial.
The funeral took place at 2
o'clock prayer being offered at her late home on Talbot Street, and
the service proper was held in the Baptist Church, of which Mrs.
Gunton had long been a member. Rev. H. C. Newcombe conducted the
ceremony.
Mrs. Wm. Gunton of Baltimore
rendered a solo in keeping with the sad occasion. Interment was made
in Oakwood Cemetery, where 16 years before, Mr. Gunton had been laid
to rest.
Deceased leaves eight
children:
Robert E. Gunton, police magistrate of Simcoe;
Rev. W. A. Gunton, an official of the Children's Aid Society in
Toronto, now in Baltimore;
Walter Gunton of Port Dover;
Captain David D. Gunton, quartermaster of the 58th Battalion, now
overseas;
Lewis Gunton of Woodhouse;
Mrs. E. A. Buchner (Nellie) of Hespeler;
Mrs. Schafer (Ruth) of Buffalo;
and Miss Lucy at home.
With the exception of Rev.
W. A. Gunton and Captain D. D. Gunton, all the children were in
attendance at the funeral.
Rev. A. J. Loveday and Mrs.
Loveday of Inwood, the latter a granddaughter of Mrs. Gunton, were
also present.
The bearers conveying the
body of the aged lady to its last resting place were Messrs. Newton
Challen, Manus Beaupre,
J. G. Fleming, Emerson Ramsey, Wm. Wark and A. W. Baldwin.
