Eliza Jane WATSON

OBITUARY FOR ELIZA JANE WATSON-MAJURY
Paisley Advocate, July 1948.
The funeral of the late Mrs. Edward Majury was held on Friday afternoon from the residence of her daughter Mrs. Robert Alexander at Eden Grove. Services were conducted by Mr. Arthur Brown, student rector of the Church of the Ascension, Paisley. Interment was in Stark Vale Cemetery. Casket bearers were Robert, Ross and Burton Majury, Percy and George Gregg and Don Ross Parrott.
Mrs. Majury, the former Eliza Jane Watson died in Owen Sound General and Marine Hospital on July 6th following an illness of only a few hours. She had been spending a few days at the home of her son near the city when she suffered a stroke at the evening meal with her family. She was removed to hospital immediately, but passed away six hours later, without regaining consciousness. She was in her 92nd year.
A daughter of the late Jane Ritchie and William Watson, the subject of this sketch was born in Elderslie Twp., on the Elora Road South, on the farm now occupied by Chester Teeple. She was educated at Ellengowan School. In 1877 she married Edward Majury, and the couple farmed in Greenock Twp. for a few years and then moved the farm across the road to Con A, Elderslie, where they continued to reside until his passing in 1933. For the past number of years Mrs. Majury made her home with her daughter, Mrs. Robert Alexander of Eden Grove. Her health was remarkably good, and she enjoyed visiting with other members of her family, while her principle occupation was knitting, at which she was particularly adept. She was a member of the Church of the Ascension, Paisley, and so long as health permitted was a regular attendant at service.
The last surviving member of a family of ten, six brothers and three sisters, she is survived by five sons and one daughter: Edward, Owen Sound; John, Manitoba; Clifford, Eden Grove; Leslie, Paisley; Lawson, Elderslie Twp. and (Annie) Mrs. R. Alexander of Eden Grove. Three daughters: Margaret, Nancy and Minnie and one son Robert, predeceased their mother.

Eliza married Edward MAJURY, son of Robert MAJURY and Janet CARR, on February 27, 1877 in Paisley, Bruce Co, Ontario, Canada. (Edward MAJURY was born on April 12, 1849 in Lanark Twp, Lanark Co, Ontario, Canada,² died on September 2, 1933 in Greenock Twp, Bruce Co, Ontario, Canada and was buried in Starkvale Cemetery Paisley, Bruce Co, Ontario, Canada ⁴.)