Eliza J. Padginton headstone, Lakeport Cemetery, Cramahe Township
Description
- Media Type
- Image
- Text
- Genealogical Resource
- Item Type
- Photographs
- Notes
- Cramahe Archives does not hold the original item in its archives, but has a digital image.
- Inscriptions
- Eliza J. Padginton (1862-1961), Canada's first female postmistress and a life-long supporter of Canadian Armed Forces personnel, is buried in Lakeport Cemetery. Her stone, at the eastern fence line near the top third of the cemetery, indicates she was born at Lakeport in 1862 and died in Colborne 1961. Under those dates is "At Rest". In a second block are carved the words, "Remembered by friends and the veterans of Boer War, World Wars I & II and Korea".
- Subject(s)
- Local identifier
- 31ce
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 44.00012 Longitude: -77.8828
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- Copyright Statement
- Copyright status unknown. Responsibility for determining the copyright status and any use rests exclusively with the user.
- Contact
- Cramahe Township Public LibraryEmail:cramlib@cramahetownship.ca
Website:
Agency street/mail address:6 King Street West
PO Box 190
Colborne, ON K0K 1S0
