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Research in Other Countries => Canada => Topic started by: Les Hamilton on Saturday 11 February 12 13:02 GMT (UK)
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I read on the site that some kind soul lives near pinehills cementery and managed to find a grave for someone!!!I wonder if someone would do the same for me? I lost my sweetheart 52 years ago in a tragic accident when 4 young people were killed by carbon monoxcide gas in a garage in Toronto on 25th Jan 1959 .
I know she was buried in Pinehills and I had the grave number and plot from the cementery records, which they kindly sent me. I believe the plot was in section 7 or 8,(to the s.e. of the center, I visited toronto on a tour 4 years ago and only had a one night stay and no time to investigate . Her name was Mary(May) Davis and she died on 25/01/1959 could anyone please find the grave and let me know if there is even a stone and give me a position or a foto so that I can find it on google earth or maybe if i can revisit toronto find it your help will be most appreciated ..Les Hamilton Glasgow Scotland
email les(a)gm3itn.co.uk
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Hi Les,
I am not the person you mention, but I have a suggestion for you. Perhaps you can get some info from the cemetery administration. Here is the link to the cemetery; http://www.mountpleasantgroup.com/deathoccurred/cemeteries/locations/ph
Hope this helps you,
jdc
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Thanks JDC, yes they sent me the info and I have mislaid it, it gave the grave number and the section which I can see on google earth its just to find the right one , guess the summertime would be better to find it, be pretty snowy over there now thanks anyway maybe someone local can do me a foto
yours Les
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Hi Les,
Yep, likely uder quite a bit of snow at the moment.You may want to contact local gealogy group to take a pic? JDC
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Thanks again JDC I have sent an email to the Pinehills Cementery Center to ask for the grave number and location in section6, so when I have that it should be no problem for someone to go and take a foto in the springtime when all the snows have gone..hope someone will see this and can do this for me!!yours Les
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I have just received from the Pinehills Cemetry Office the details of the grave.
It is in Section 6 and is Lot 799.
Could someone in Toronto /Scarborough please try and find it and take a foto when the weather improves in the spring, I would be most appreciate of that and any costs my email is
les(a) gm3itn.co.uk
Thankyou It would mean very much to me !!!
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I'm your guy. I've gone to Pine Hills on behalf of a couple of Rootschatters. There's a bit of snow on the ground right now but Thursday's weather might make that disappear. Friday looks like a good opportunity.
mat
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Hi Mat Thats very kind of you to answer , I have been in touch with Tina Acuavita in the Pinehills Center and she went out last week to have a look for me, sadly there is no stone to mark May's grave , I am going to Spain for a winter break till April 17 and I know a girl here in Glasgow who makes acrylic plaques and things like that and I am hoping maybe she can do a marker for me and send it to and you or Tina who will place it for me , Its a long story but she was my sweetheart in Glasgow and she had promised a fellow from Glasgow to marry him in Cleveland Ohio and we parted when she arrived she found that it really was me she loved and called it all off and he took her to stay with relatives in Scarbourgh and she was on a nite out with her pal and they both plus 2 italian guys died in a garage in Toronto from carbon monoxide gas and I was in between leaving my ageing parents and coming over to Toronto so God put his hand in the way to fix it all for ever ..but although I am happily married and have grand children I am with her every night ...I do believe in ghosts !! thank you kindly Les hamilton ....have a look at my webpages its for radio hams but there are a lot of interesting items www.gm3itn.co.uk yours Les
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Les,
That's such a touching story.
It wouldn't have been the first gravesite in Pine Hills that I'd have found unmarked. I always feel rather sad when I encounter one. You might want to ask Pine Hills what their rules and standards are for markers first. I'm sure that they will place it for you once it's provided to them. I can take photos for you when it's in place.
mat
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hi Mat,
I just got back from Spain a three weeks ago and was checking my emails etc and found your last message to me .I spoke with Tina at the cemetery and she said the title deed holder would be needed to be asked re a placement of a plaque and I think its probably a daughter of the uncle and aunt away back in 1959 where she stayed .I have had second thoughts as the person might not want to do anything or to be reminded of the tragedy or even may not have been born then ....but I can see section on google world and if you could take a foto of the surrounding graves i think i could probable find it that way its section 6 and lot 799 .I will attach a plan and if you could mark it or if you couls send me a area foto I will try to place it .
my email is * If i can take a copy of googlei will try and put it on here or send to you thanks in advance, no hurry just if you can make it sometime Yours Les
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Hi Mat have enclosed a foto of section 6 if you could pinpoint the grave here that would be excellent
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Hi Les- not sure how this Rootschat works. The grave site does not have a marker. This plot was purchased by my Dad & uncle when their cousin May died. Since then my uncle, aunt & cousin have been interred there. My cousin Lynn was interred in Sept and I don't know if she left any instructions for a headstone.
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Hi , You didnt give me your name but I am so delighted to hear from you, as you see from all the messages I finally traced May's resting place, its taken me years and a kind person last year finally took all the fotos of the grave although unmarked, I was told by the Pinehills people that to even put a small marker it would need Lynn's permission , and I didnt want to get in touch as it may have upset the family, so I just left it as that ,I would love to keep in touch with you if I may as I have had so much to tell them ,I did get a letter at the time and it was a Mrs. Hamilton who wrote to me I was only 24 at the time and I really was near to finishing my life off as only 2 weeks before I had May's letter telling me that she didnt know when she left Scotland that she really did love me.Anyway its a long story and I would like to keep your connection.Now I am 78 and almost married 50 years to a Spanish girl with 2 daughters and 3 grandchildren,but May is never far from my thoughts.....
if you could reply to me to les(at)gm3itn.co.uk
I would be so grateful ...love Les
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I am hoping that this will attach