One more of the old residents of Talbot Street in Middleton has passed from this world's activity to the veiled destiny of the future at an age of departure few but those most favored physically reach. 

Mrs. Ronson, as Mary Jane May, was born in St. Catharines in 1823, and came into Middleton when 12 years of age, settling with her parents at the Talbot Brown Corners, two miles west of Fredericksburg, when this street was an opening of sunlight and shadow just emerging from wildwood life. 

There was her girlhood spent amid the simple delights of a forest settlement, which was one of the first to make itself known to travellers [sic] from Niagara to Sandwich. 

In 1842 Miss May was married to William, the third son of James Ronson senior, one of the earliest settlers in Middleton, the ancestors [sic] of many worthy descendants now.

The young couple went into Goshen, settling on a farm, with the late John Macdonald as a neighbor on one side and his uncle, the late Thomas Sandham, on the other. There they lived, rearing a young family, for a few years, when they exchanged homesteads with William Reid, at Middleton Centre, where a long life of ceaseless labor in the betterment of farm and family affairs merited much from those they have left to bear them in filial memory.

Mrs. Ronson was in her 86th year and was predeceased by her husband some years ago, when the farm was taken by their eldest son, Roger, with whom the mother has spent her declining years in quiet and pleasant content. Mrs. Ronson enjoyed comparatively good health all her life, and was ill but a short time before death, which took place on Wednesday of last week.

She was buried in the Baptist cemetery in Courtland, on Saturday, the Rev. J. S. Silcox [sic] officiating at these last sad services..