Another
link with Simcoe's past history was snapped last Thursday, 28 Feb
1935, when William Thompson Foley died at his home in Saginaw,
Michigan.
Deceased was a younger son
of the late Michael Hamilton Foley, many years ago a Simcoe
lawyer, and who became Postmaster-General of Canada before
Confederation.
The family left here more
than 50 years ago, some of the members going to the United States,
and another son, Charles, making his home in Paris, Ontario, where
his widow and daughter still live.
Still another brother,
Bernard Hamilton, was at one time a member of the staff of the
Norfolk Registry Office during the regime of the late Francis
Leigh Walsh, registrar for 75 years, and his beautiful handwriting
in perhaps the sole memento of the connection of the Foley family
with Simcoe.
Now that William has died,
the sole survivor of the family is Miss Kate Foley, who lives in
Saginaw.
William Foley was born in
Simcoe in 1850, and had therefore passed his 85th birthday. The
funeral services took place in Saginaw last Friday, 1 Mar 1935,
the officiating clergyman being Rev. G. W. Laidlaw of St. Paul's
Episcopal Church.
