Edith Mabel (Godfrey) Sproul (1879 - 1919)

Born 25 Jun 1879 in Olden, Frontenac Co., Ontario, Canada

Ancestors

Wife of David Henry Sproul — married 19 Apr 1899 in Auburn, Ontario, Canada

Descendants

Died 29 Oct 1919 at age 40 in Near Goderich, Huron County, Ontario, Canada

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Biography

Edith was born 25 June 1879, the eldest child of John Godfrey and Aseneth M. Sanderson. ^[1]

She was married at Auburn, Huron County in 1899 to David Sproul. ^[2]

Edith passed away from Pyaemia in 1919 at the Alexandra Hospital. Her death registration indicates that she was buried at Dungannon, however some sources give her burial at Maitland Cemetery in Goderich, Ontario about 25 km away.^[3]

- (From "The Signal" obituary, below): "Edith was born at Mountain Grove, near Kingston. At 17 she came up to a farm near Dungannon and three years later was married to David Sproul, who survives her, with nine children . . . , [7 listed, and] Annie and Lloyd, all at home but the youngest who are at the home of their grandfather, (Matthew Sproul, Sproul-62). She is survived by her parents . . . . Among those present were Mr. J. Godfrey-1851 . . . ; a brother John Godfrey-6719 of Wilkie Sask.; her sisters Anna Godfrey-6718, of Toronto, and Grace Godfrey-6721, of Mountain Grove . . . ."

Sources

1. ↑ Frontenac County, Ontario, Registrations of Births and Stillbirths – 1869-1913, 7 Jul 1879, Birth Registration 006048, Edith Mabel Godfrey; MS 929, Reel 37, Archives of Ontario:Toronto, Ontario, Canada. [Registered at Olden Twp]
2. ↑ Huron County, Ontario, Registrations of Marriages, 1869-1928, Huron County 1899, Marriage Registration 007938, Edith M Godfrey and David Sproul; MS 932, Reel 98, Archives of Ontario:Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
3. ↑ Huron County, Ontario, Registrations of Deaths, 1869-1938, Huron County 1919, Death Registration 016225, Edith Mabel Godfrey; MS 935, Reel 255, Archives of Ontario:Toronto, Ontario, Canada. [Registered at the Town of Goderich by husband David Sproul]

See Also:

• 1881 Census of Canada, Addington, Ontario, Schedule No. 1 Return of the Living, Olden, 27, ED 118, Sub I, family 127, line 18, Edeth M Godfrey; [digital image], Library and Archives Canada, (http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/)  
• 1891 Census of Canada, Addington, Ontario, Schedule No. 1 Nominal Return of the Living, Olden, 34, ED 45, Sub K, family 171, line 25, Edith Mabel Godfrey; [digital image], Library and Archives Canada, (http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/)  
• 1901 Census of Canada, Huron West, Ontario, Schedule No. 1 Return of the Living, Wawanosh West, 4, ED 75, Sub G, Div. 1, household 40, family 40, line 32, Edith Sproul; [digital image], Library and Archives Canada, (http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/)  
• 1911 Census of Canada, Huron West, Ontario, Schedule No. 1 Population by name, personal description, etc., Wawanosh West, 5, ED 83, Sub 15, Div. 1, household 57, family 57 line 19, Edith M Sproul; [digital image], Library and Archives Canada, (http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/)
• Find a Grave: Edith Mabel Godfrey Sproul, (burial at Dungannon): https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/239409889/edith-mabel-sproul
• The Goderich Signal, Nov. 13, 1919 page 5, obituary of Mrs. David Sproul, (formerly Edith Godfrey), found in Findagrave.com: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/239409889/edith-mabel-sproul#source