Etc. -- Margaret (Ferguson) (Jackson) McCall's 1927 obituary
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A transcription of a page 5 article from 27 May 1937 Simcoe Reformer.
[Some paragraph breaks added by the transcriber]

Wife of Former Town Clerk Dies

Succumbing to an attack of influenza and its subsequent complications, Mrs. Walter Charles McCall died on Friday, May 21, at the home of her son, Clayton Jackson, Edmonton, Alberta. Her husband died just ten years ago, plus a day, on Mar 23, 1927.

Mrs. McCall was born Margaret Smith (Madge) Ferguson, daughter of the late Alexander Ferguson, for many years stationmaster at the Air Line depot, Simcoe, and Mrs. Ferguson, and in Simcoe she spent her entire adult life up to three years ago, when she removed to Edmonton to live with her son.

In her seventy-fifth year, deceased has been in poor healt of late months. During her residence in Simcoe she was a member of Trinity Anglican Church.

She was twice married, first to Charles Jackson, a brother of Ernest H. Jackson and son of the late George Jackson, contractor, and he died about fifty years ago. Later she married Mr. McCall, a member of the Canadian Voyageurs who went up the Nile to the relief of General George Gordon in 1884, and who for a long period was Simcoe's Town Clerk.

Mrs. McCall is survived by her only son Clayton; two brothers, Dan Ferguson of Memphis, Tenn., and Alexander Ferguson of Winnipeg; one sister, Mrs. W. Y. Wallace of Simcoe; and four grandchildren of Edmonton.

Two sisters predeceased her, Mrs. Watson, who died in Granby, Quebec, in 1921, and Mrs. Frank Reid, whose death occurred in 1924. Mr. F. M. Reid, Simcoe, and Wm. A. Wallace, now in California, are nephews.

The last rites were held on Tuesday afternoon, with burial being made in Edmonton Cemetery.

 
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