‘Her Life and Her Beginnings’ a century later

There will be an event of community and historic interest happening this Saturday, September 14th at the Walkerton Cemetery.
For more than 100 years, Phoebe Hollingshead has gone unrecognized in the Bruce County Pauper Section of the Cemetery.  On Saturday however, her great great grandson, local historian G. William (Bill) Streeter of Southampton and other descendants will gather at her gravesite, where he has arranged for a grave marker 104 years after her death.
Nearby are the graves of her daughter, Emma Jane Jewell, Streeter’s great grandmother, and her son Fred, a WWI wounded veteran.
Streeter has also arranged to distribute a booklet, to her descendants, about Phoebe’s granddaughter, his grandmother, Sarah Mabel Jewell (Granny Streeter) “Her Life and Her Beginnings”.