Ralph Lloyd Tracy (1866 - 1958)

Born 1866 in Pickering, York, Canada West

Ancestors

Biography

Ralph was born in 1866 to Alfred Tracy and Eliza Gostick. His wife was Florence Annie [maiden name unknown]. Ralph passed away in 1958. ^[1]

"Alfred [Tracy], who married Eliza Gostick, daughter of Rev. Thomas Gostick, and lived on Lot 26, Con. 9. He was eleven years old when he came to Canada with his parents. As a young man he helped to chop out the Ninth Concession line west of Claremont. While not a public man, being rather of a retiring disposition, he was a deacon and Bible class teacher for many years. He took much interest in education and was school trustee and secretary of the section for many years. In later years he lived in Claremont. Mrs. Tracy still lives with her daughter at Homing's Mills. Their family were as follows: Arthur (in the States); Harriet (Mrs. Pringle of Markham) ; Eliza (Mrs. Thomas Atkinson of Horning's Mills) ; Alfred (Arrow Park, B. C), David (Lacombe, Alta.), Caleb (Allegheny, Pa.), Priscilla (Mrs. C. J. Brodie, Claremont), Frederick (Professor, Toronto University), Frank (Denver) and Ralph (Lacombe, Alta.)." ^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ Birth and death dates taken from headstone monument.
2. ↑ Past Years in Pickering: Sketches of the History of the Community, William R. Wood, 1911

• Canada Census, 1911: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV9P-G31R
• Canada, Prairie Provinces Census, 1916: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KM55-J7C
• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/126675528