Mrs. Margaret Jackson, widow of Mr. Geo. Jackson, died at the residence
of her daughter, Mrs. W. W. Livingstone, Tillsonburg, on Friday the 14th
inst., after a brief illness.
She was at church on the previous Sabbath but was stricken with double
pneumonia causing her death on the following Friday in the 78th years of
her age.
She was quite conscious till a short time before she died and conversed
with those around her bed, among whom were her daughter, Mrs. W. W.
Livingstone, Mr. Eli C. Jackson, Tillsonburg, and Mr. Ernest H. Jackson,
Simcoe.
The deceased calmly and quietly passed away entering the dark valley
and shadow of death into the arms of a loving Savior [sic], without a
doubt or a fear, sustained by a firm faith in the promises and an
unclouded hope of a glorious immortality.
The deceased was a daughter of Rev. Eli Chadwick of Grove House,
Charlotteville, who for ten years, in an early day, was the teacher of the
District school at Vittoria.
She was born at Huddersfield, England, on January 17th, 1825, and was
brought to Canada by her parents in 1826 when they made a settlement in
the woods not far from Fisher's Glen. She was married to Mr. Geo. Jackson
on the 24th February 1847. She was the last member of a family of whom the
late Chas. Chadwick, Police Magistrate of Ingersoll, was a distinguished
member.
Mrs. Jackson was a lady of wide intelligence and refinement of manner, kind
and genial to all with whom she had to do, a true friend, a faithful wife
and a loving mother to her children. She was a valued member of the
Presbyterian Church and her daily life was in strict conformity to her
Christian profession.
The funeral took place from her late residence on Colborne street, on
Sunday last to Oakwood cemetery. There was a brief simple religious
service at the house by her pastor the Rev. W. J. Dey. The casket was
literally buried in beautiful floral offerings from loving relatives and
friends.
The bearers were her two sons E. C. and E. H. Jackson, W. W. and L. B.
C. Livingstone and Drs. Wm. and A. W. Smith.
The following persons from a distance besides a large number of our
citizens attended the funeral: -- Wm. Smith and wife of St. Thomas, Mr.
David Gibson of Stratford, and Mr. Frank Bain of Tillsonburg.
One by one the few links which bind the Simcoe of the past with the
Simcoe of the present, are gradually being broken. A small number only are
left that formed the salt of the town fifty-five years ago when the
deceased came here as a young and happy wife.
