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SAIDA Sarah Elizabeth SHEPARD

Female 1854 - 1924  (70 years)


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  • Name SAIDA Sarah Elizabeth SHEPARD 
    Born 1854  Lansing, North York Twp., Ontario Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Died 10 Jan 1924  Toronto, York Co., Ontario Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • 92 Quebec Avenue, Lansing, ON, (Sheppard & Yonge sts.)
    Buried Thornhill Cemetery Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • emaplasyia 7 days, hypertension 3 years.
    Person ID I442  John Willson, Piscataway, NJ and Ontario Family Tree
    Last Modified 24 Nov 2019 

    Father Joseph SHEPARD, Jr.
              b. 20 Jun 1814, Willowdale (Toronto), York Twp., Ontario Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 24 Apr 1899, Lansing, North York Twp., Ontario Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 84 years) 
    Mother Elizabeth N WILLSON, .5
              b. 23 Feb 1826, Willowdale (Toronto), York Twp., Ontario Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 24 Oct 1885, Lansing, North York Twp., Ontario Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 59 years) 
    Married 1847  York Twp., York Co., Ontario Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F313  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Abraham Smith Hilton JOHNSON
              b. 10 Apr 1848, Willowdale (Toronto), York Twp., Ontario Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 2 May 1942, Willowdale (Toronto), York Twp., Ontario Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 94 years) 
    Married 26 Oct 1875  Willowdale (Toronto), York Twp., Ontario Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Edna Shepard JOHNSON
              b. 11 Oct 1880, Willowdale (Toronto), York Twp., Ontario Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location
     2. Abram Hilton JOHNSON
              b. 3 May 1878, Toronto, York Co., Ontario Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 11 Mar 1880, Willowdale (Toronto), York Twp., Ontario Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 1 years)
    Last Modified 19 Dec 2010 
    Family ID F316  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • Child: Abram Hilton Johnston b 1878 5 3, York.

      . It was Saida who named the area Lansing, when her father's store was made the postal station also.

      . Saida Shepard told her daughter, Mrs. Charles Mile [Milne] he story of what happened during the 1837 Rebellion. After the fiasco of the failed march down Yonge Street, William Lyon Mackenzie sought rest on Jacob Shepard's farm. Troops were searching everywhere for him. The entered & slashed the quilts on the beds with with swords & set the bedding afire. Mrs Sheppard quickly put each blaze out or the whole house would have burned. MacKenzie escaped on horse back but Colonel Van Egmond was discovered & was taken to jail where he died of pneumonia.

      . Their large brick store that stood at Shepard & Yonge Streets was restored & moved in about the 1990's to Beecroft Empress Avenues. It sits in a park-like setting a few blocks north of its original location.

      . Child of Saida E & Abraham S Johnson is:
      Abram Hilton, Johnson, b 3 May, 1878, York Co., Ontario, d. 11 Mar., 1880 Thornhill, ON. - - -