My Ancestral Journey » Freda Watson (1898-1988)

Persoonlijke gegevens Freda Watson 

• Zij is geboren op 28 februari 1898 in Guelph,Ontario.
• Zij is overleden op 15 september 1988 in of Vancouver,British Columbia, zij was toen 90 jaar oud.
• Zij is begraven in Forest Lawn Mem.,Burnaby,British Columbia.
• Een kind van David Bain Watson en Mary Ellen Jordan

Gezin van Freda Watson

(1) Zij is getrouwd met Colin Alexander Edie.

Zij zijn getrouwd op 7 december 1920 te Edmonton, zij was toen 22 jaar oud.

(2) Zij heeft/had een relatie met Colin A. Edie.

Notities over Freda Watson

The Jordan/Stanchfield Family History written by Linda Von Rueden Troolin
& Jan Jordan Lokensgard, 1994, Chapter III has:

13. FREDA WATSON was born February 28, 1898. When she was nine years old
she moved from Guelph, to Rhylolite, Nevada, with her mother and new
step-father Jack Holly, and her two siblings Grace and Edwin. Freda's son
Ralph Edie wrote, "Through teachers in both Rhyolite and Guelph, who
identified wild flowers for her, she developed a life long interest in
flowers. Also in Rhyolite, Freda's teacher took her and the rest of the
class up the side of a mountain to view Halley's comet in May, 1910." In
1979, Freda wrote in a letter to Linda Troolin about what was blooming in
her garden. Freda penned these lines, "I don't grow vegetables but we
have two fruit trees, two pear trees, two cherry and one apple tree. I
have a lovely flower garden, mostly perennials, have a lovely magnolia
tree and two camellia trees. The yard is real pretty right now with
daphne, sedum, forget-me-nots, tulips, euphorbia, wallflowers, bleeding
hearts, liver wort, and primroses."

Jack Holly died and her mother married Richard Fisher in 1910. Freda,
her parents, and brother Edwin moved to Tonopah, Nevada briefly. Her
mother, Mary Ellen didn't like it there. Grace who had stayed in Rhyolite
because she had a good job there with the phone company, joined the
family about six weeks later.
They moved to Mason Valley, now Yerington, Nevada, in about 1911.

The spring of 1912, the family moved to Sprucefield, Alberta to
homestead land. While in this area Freda went to school in a horse drawn
bus.

Quoted from Ralph Edie, "Early in 1914, At the Sprucefield Post
Office, on Neeland's farm, Freda met a gentleman with long black hair
from Ontario, Colin A. Edie. When Colin went away to the First World War,
he and Freda corresponded with each other and in one letter Colin asked
for her photograph. This request required a trip all the way from
Edmonton to a photographer's studio, and to earn money for this trip,
Freda, with the help of her brother Edwin, trapped and skinned muskrats.
After waiting five years Colin returned from overseas. Freda married him
in McDougall Methodist Church, Edmonton, on December 7, 1920 A wedding
dance was held at Freda's mother's home after the couple returned to
Sprucefield."

The following paragraphs have been extracted from a piece written by
Ralph Edie: "Colin Alexander Edie was born on January 6, 1890 at South
Cayuga, Ontario. Colin lived on a farm along Grand River, near Dunnville,
Ontario where he attended a country school. During several autumns,
beginning in 1911, he took a harvest excursion train to western Canada
to work on threshing crews near Oban, Saskatchewan. In 1913 he filed on
a homestead at Sprucefield, SW21-60-19-4, and built and lived in a cabin
there during the winter of 1913-1914".

"In November, 1914 Colin joined the 20th Infantry Battalion in
Toronto and went overseas early in 1915. He fought in the trenches in
France, was awarded the Military Medal and the Distinguished Conduct
Medal and then was promoted to Lieutenant".

"On the homestead Colin and Freda built a two story frame house whose
exterior was sheathed with vertical rough lumber boards. The house was
later modified by its present owner Nick Zinyk and still stands on the
original location."

"Like other pioneers in the area, Colin worked hard with axe, horses,
plow and dynamite to clear land. To earn extra money he often was away
from home for the months of October and November on threshing crews as
far away as Fort Saskatchewan."

"When Colin was away threshing, Freda was always concerned about
leaving the children alone when she went to the barn to milk the cows. On
one occasion, when left alone, Ralph, age two, poked most of the knives,
forks, and spoons through the small hole in the top of the air tight
heater. On another occasion Ral

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