Archibald Azariah Dennis (1856 - abt. 1919)

Note: - I am quite positive that the death date for Archie A Dennis on FindaGrave is wrong. Both his birth date and his death date were identical to those of his wife (on that site), so I suspect a mistake was made. I could find his birth registration so I submitted a correction for his birth date and it was accepted and changed by FaG. I have not yet found his death date. It would, however, appear that it was sometime after 1916 and before 1920. The SK homestead record index has the following information:

1910391 (NW Section 1, Twp 23, Range 23, W 3rd Merridian) & 1905912 (SW quarter section of the same section of land) were homesteaded by Archibald A Dennis. Both have a notation associated with them - see Dennis, Floyd C - legal representative of above deceased). The 1916 census for SK has an A A Dennis living on 23 23 W3 which is the same land description. Thus, it would appear that Archibald was alive and living on his homestead in 1916. He was living in MN at the time of the 1910 census. I have not ordered the actual homestead records from the SK archives, but I have found further information on a homestead map that I have - the NW quarter was granted on 6 Jan 1921 and the SW on 24 Nov 1920. There was also a homestead filed separately by Floyd C Dennis - SW 12 23 23 W3. This last quarter section was not listed on the homestead map, so I am thinking that he never stayed long enough to do all of the work necessary to obtain possession of that land. I think it usually took about 5 or 6 years to make all of the necessary improvements to gain ownership of the granted land. By 1926 Floyd was living in Edmonton, Alberta and that census indicates that his 4 year old son had been born in Alberta. This leads me to think that Floyd likely sold the homestead land shortly after 1921 and moved to Alberta. He later moved to British Columbia. It is possible that Archie died in Saskatchewan sometime between 1916 and 1921. I couldn't find him in the SK 1921 census record. I found the people who had been living around him in 1916 and manually searched that section of the census in 1921, but could not find him. I checked the online SK death index and could not find him there either, but that index only has entries to the end of 1919 and I am not sure that people always recorded the deaths that early in time. They should have, but I suppose some may have been missed. Alternately, Archie may have returned to the States and died there.