John Wood Buchanan

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Family/Spouse: Margaret Miller Wood. Margaret (daughter of Walter Y. Wood and Mary Anne Young) was born on 22 Mar 1833 in Pakenham Township, Lanark County, Canada West; died on 21 Feb 1903 in Cedar Hill, Pakenham Township, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; was buried in Auld Kirk Cemetery, Ramsay, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Died:
1940, Thursday December 12. The Almonte Gazette page 8
Mr William D. Buchanan
Impressive tribute was paid to the memory of William D. Buchanan of Pakenham Township by a large circle of friends and relatives who attended his funeral on Saturday afternoon, Mr Buchanan passed away on Thursday morning, Dec 5, and was in his 70th year. Rev H.A. Turner, pastor of Zion United Church of which deceased was a valued member officiated. The funeral was held from the home of his son-in-law, Mr Howard Lowry and interment was in the family plot in the Auld Kirk Cemetery. The pallbearers were Jno Dowdall, William Lawson. John Lawson, Stewart Boal, Ernest Miller and Wm Y. Wood, Mr Buchanan was born in Utica, N.Y., the son of John Buchanan and his wife Margaret Wood. Following the death of his father, he came to Canada at the age of three years with his mother and made his home on the 9th line with his uncle Mr Wm Wood On reaching manhood, he took up farming and followed that occupation all his life. in 1894 he married Miss Elizabeth Reid of Pakenham and they settled on the 7th line of Pakenham. Mrs Buchanan passed away in 1932, of a family of three, two survive, one son John R. of Syracuse, N.Y. and one daughter Lucy, Mrs Howard Lowry of Pakenham, with whom he made his home, for the past few years. A daughter died in infancy. One sister, Mrs David Georgeson of Ottawa, also survives. Many beautiful floral tributes testified to the esteem in which deceased was held. Among them was a piece from the Cedar Hill W.I. Present at the funeral were his son John R. of Syracuse, his sister, Mrs David Georgeson of Ottawa and his nephew, W.E. Hamblin, Detroit Mich.

William married Elizabeth Sophia Reid in 1894. Elizabeth was born on 24 Apr 1872 in Pakenham Township, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; died on 3 Mar 1932 in Cedar Hill, Pakenham Township, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; was buried in Auld Kirk Cemetery, Ramsay, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]