Marker is in section 26, grave 27.
N 45° 26.885 W 075° 39.544
In Loving Memory of
JAMES FERRIS
DIED 27 SEPT. 1915 IN HIS 74 YEAR.
HIS WIFE
MARGARET WRIGHT
DIED 24 JAN 1930 AGED 87 YEARS.
THEIR DAUGHTER
MAY FERRIS
1886-1989
According to the Beechwood Cemetery burial registers and the 1901 census of Ottawa (Wellington ward), May was born in June 1886. Robert Louis Stevenson, also from Scotland, published his Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde in 1886.
May died 4 August 1989. The following death notice was published in The Ottawa Citizen, 6 August 1989, page D4. At Beacon Hill Lodge of Friday, August 4, 1989 in her 104th year. Daughter of the late James Ferris and Margaret Wright. Requiem Eucharist at St. George's Anglican Church, 152 Metcalfe Street, Ottawa, on Tuesday, August 8, 1989 at 10:30 a.m. Interment Beechwood Cemetery.
The Canadian-American Free Trade Agreement came into effect in 1989.
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