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1926-1946 (Creation)
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- Graves (family)
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5 photographs
1 funeral card
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Lloyd Graves was born in Kentucky in 1824. He used the Underground Railroad to flee the United States from Cleveland, Ohio, where he boarded a boat that crossed Lake Erie and arrived in Port Stanley. He was later hired as a driver for Lindop's Grocer in St. Thomas and settled in a log cabin on River Road.
He married Mary Irons and they had a daughter, Martha Ann. Mary died at the age of 28, when their daughter was three years old. After the death of his first wife, Lloyd married Amanda Irons on August 19, 1868. Martha Ann died at the aged of 24 from tuberculosis.
Amanda Mahali Irons was born on October 4, 1840 in her family's home on River Road, Township of Southwold. Her father was Samuel Irons, who was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and was raised in slavery. He escaped to Niagara Falls, Canada, and eventually settled in St. Thomas. Here, he married Annie Leonard and they lived in a log cabin on River Road. They had ten children including Amanda, Samuel, George, James, Annie, John, Dan, Mary Elizabeth, Charlotte and Caroline.
Lloyd and Amanda eventually settled in Mount Salem and had twelve children together: Oliver, Ernest, George, Walter, William, Emma, Hattie, Etta, Martha Jane, Frank, Bertha and Norman. Lloyd died at the age of 104 in 1928 and his wife, Amanda, died at the age of 99 in 1939. Along with ten of their children, they are buried in Dunboyne Cemetery, Township of Malahide.
The Babcock family lived next door to the Graves family in Mount Salem, and the families were very close. Martha Babcock's (nee Irish) (1865-1947) children were: Oviet Babcock (1895-1965), Mina May Babcock (1892-1968), and Orvis Babcock (1887-1968).
Orvis Babcock married Gladys Matthews (1897-1933) and they had four children, including Marjorie (Crawford) (1919-2017), David (1924-2000), Stanley (1929-1999), and Oral (Segui) (1918-1998).
Oral married Francisco (Frank) Segui (1894-1977; born in Beniarbeig, Spain), and their children were Roscita (1939-1945), Louis (1940-2015), Paul (1941-2021), John (born 1942), and Thomas Bilardino "Bil" Segui (born 1950). Bil Segui was the former Chief of Police in Aylmer.
The donor's grandmother, Oral Segui (nee Babcock) grew up next door to the Graves family in Mount Salem. Amanda Graves was a midwife and delivered his grandmother and her siblings, including Marjorie (Crawford), David and Stanley. Amanda's daughter Bertha Craig (nee Graves) babysat the donor's father, Thomas Bilardino Segui (born 1950; known as Bil Segui) and his siblings, and the donor visited Norman Graves as a child.
Custodial history
The records were collected by Oral Segui and were eventually passed down to her grandson, Michael Segui, who donated the records to Elgin County Archives.
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Records include photographs of the Graves and Babcock families of Mount Salem, and a funeral card for Lloyd Graves (1824-1928). Item-level description is available.
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- Graves (family) (Subject)