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THE GEORGE LOTHIAN FAMILY
(Web editor's decendant.)

I really know very little about the family of George Lothian (I). My fathers cousins were years older than I was my father was forty when he married in 1895 and I was not born until five years later. However, the following notes may be of interest.

My fathers Uncle George lived on his farm at EJ..mside, Quebec throughout his lifetime, except during periods when he may have travelled. A picture of the farmhouse taken in 1890 by his son Adam, with a number of the family present, shows him as an elderly man of eighty. He lived until 1901, six years later than his younger brother William. As far as I can ascertain, the cousins were on good terms with each other, and in later years my father had a keen affection for his cousin Dr. William, and for some of his older female cousins. In a letter received by Mrs. Frances Lothian Keeth from my cousin W. George Lothian some years ago, the letter gave a peep into the past. It reads, Our grandfathers, as you know, lived side by side in their respective farms (at Elmside) and as far as I remember were always the best of friends, although their behaviour at times could lead strangers to have some doubts about that. We lived about half a mile from church and they nearly always walked to service before they got too old to do so. When walking home, they always walked alone, one a considerable distance (which varied) behind the other. The one in front would stop occasionally and look behind him to see if the other was gaining too much, and if so, would speed up a little. This was quite well known for all to see. This story was related to me by A.W. McKechnie on his deathbed, otherwise, I would have forgotten all about itTt. I have an original letter written by my father as a boy to his~ sister Matilda in Petawawa or Pembroke, dated July 5, 1869, which contains the following observation, Wonders will never cease, for Uncle George is getting a new waggon. Archie Yuill is making it. Evidently old possessions were never discarded lightly.

Maria
(Web editor's great grandmother.)

I remember my first meeting with Aunt Maria Lothian Hunter. We were camped at Hamilton Bay (present site of Pine Lodge) on the Ottawa about three miles up-river from Norway Bay in the sunxner of 1914, following the disastrous fire which wiped out the Town of Bryson and destroyed our home in April, 1914. Maria drove down to our camp from the farm where she had been visiting her brother Robert and her sisters, and my father, who had not seen her in years, was greatly moved by the reunion. Later, Aunt lvlaria went to Ottawa where she lived with her sister, Mrs. Susie Lothian McDonald, until her death in 1931. Maria Hunter had lost her husband early in life, and her daughter, Margaret Hunter, was reared by Susannah.

George

George Lothian evidently moved to the vicinity of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, where he died in 1897. His son, Edward, participated in the Klondike Gold Rush, and later settled in Vancouver, B.C. where he died in 1957. Edwards widow, Helen, still lives there. Had I known of my cousin Edwards exLstence, I certainly would