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1851 - 2005 (Creation)
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- Wilson, Florence Mary
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2.3 m of textual records and graphic materials
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Florence Mary Wilson (nee Reid) was born January 4, 1911 in Odessa, Ontario to her parents Stanley (1880-1957) and Elizabeth Reid (nee McFarland) (1877-1965). Florence grew up on a homestead in Odessa with her siblings Hazel (m. Denyes) (1905-1993), Vernon (1916-2003), and Harvey (1907-1987). Florence attended Fellows Public School, S.S. 12 and Odessa Continuation School in Ernestown Township before going on to teachers’ college at The Peterborough Normal School with the Class of 1930-1931. She taught briefly in Ernestown until marrying Meredith MacFaul Wilson, son of Thomas Wilson (1859-1943) and Margaret Blanche Wilson (1875-1962), on October 16, 1935. Together they lived in Enterprise, Ontario until Meredith’s death on June 9, 1959 at the age of fifty. Meredith’s death led Florence to return to teaching, working first as a supply teacher in Ernestown, and then as a teacher of students with mental and physical disabilities in the Kingston area from 1963 until 1971. Florence was an active community member within Emmanuel United Church, Odessa and as a volunteer with the Lennox and Addington Historical Society and Helen Henderson Care Centre in Amherstview. Florence was a hobbyist genealogist and great appreciator of history, devoting much of her time to studying her family’s history and that of Lennox and Addington County. Florence Wilson died February 28, 2005 in Kingston at the age of ninety-four, and is buried at Reidville Cemetery with her late husband Meredith.
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The fonds consists mainly of personal documents, correspondence, clippings, genealogy notes and records, family photographs, and published works. Personal documents and receipts are mainly those of Florence Wilson, as well as her husband Meredith Wilson and his father Thomas Wilson. Most correspondence is addressed to Florence Wilson, including letters from her brother Vernon during World War II and various correspondence relating to Florence Wilson’s genealogical research. Newspaper clippings, some arranged into scrapbooks, are primarily obituaries and wedding announcements of friends and relatives of Florence Wilson, as well as some local news items. The genealogy notes and research documents are accompanied by a number of family histories and scrapbooks compiled by Florence Wilson. A large portion of the fonds consists of family photographs dating back to the 1850s, some originally organized into scrapbooks and albums. Loose photographs have been categorized primarily by family name. Published works include sheet music, song books, children’s books, and bibles. There are also autograph books and day journals belonging to Florence, her sister Hazel Denyes, and her mother-in-law Margaret Wilson.
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