John Granger {1408}

  Research Notes:

The 1851 Census states that he was a Blacksmith by trade. John is mentioned as such in the "Ontario Directory" of 1869-70 under the Brooklin section. This Directory is available for email in John's archive upon request.

John, his wife Almira, his son James and his daughter Olive are all buried in Groveside Cemetery - located in Brooklin, Ontario. All four of them share the same headstone. At the base of the headstone is the following inscription:

"Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord"

John married Almira Dewey {1409} [MRIN: 478], daughter of Unknown and Unknown. (Almira Dewey {1409} was born in 1820 in Ireland, died in March 1880 in Brooklin, Ontario and was buried in March 1880 in Groveside Cemetery, Brooklin, Ontario.)