Margaret Jane Price

Notes:

Alex Rutherford & Margaret Jane (Price) Rutherford: 1931

Lanark County friends were shocked to hear of the sudden deaths within an interval of one week of Mr and Mrs. Alex Rutherford of Unity Sask. Mrs. Rutherford died in the hospital at Unity on May 20, after a brief illness of pneumonia. Her husband followed her to the grave one week later as a result of a heart attack. Both Mr. and Mrs. Rutherford were natives of Lanark County, Mr. Rutherford having been born hear Elphin, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Rutherford of that place and she having been born in Darling, a daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Price. Before her marriage she was Margaret Jane Price, and at the time of her death she was aged 54 years and nine months. The Rutherfords went West 22, years ago and farmed in the Adanac district and later took a homestead in the Sunnyglen district where they continued to reside except for the few years they lived in Unity. They were predeceased by a son 11 years ago. Mrs. Rutherford is survived by the following brothers and sisters: Jacob and Ira Price of Sonningdale, Sask.; Thomas, Mrs. Milton McKay and Mrs. Ernest Foster of Galbraith; Mrs Alex Munro of Almonte; Mrs. Stewart Gunn, Winchester; Mrs. Thomas Fife, McDonald's Corners and Mrs. E. R. Lambe of Winnipeg. Mr. Rutherford died on May 27 at the age of 62 years, he leaves a brother, William, of Streamstown, Alta. and two sisters, Mrs. V. J. Munro, Boyds Settlement and Mr. J. Furnier, Snow Road. Mr. and Mrs. Rutherford were members of the United Church. Interment was made in the West.

Birth:
Darling Township, Ontario

Margaret married Alexander Rutherford on 15 Jun 1898 in Lanark, Ontario, Canada. Alexander (son of William Thompson Rutherford and Anne Ferguson) was born on 4 Sep 1869 in Elphin, Ontario, Canada; died on 27 May 1931 in Unity, Saskatchewan, Canada; was buried in Pleasant View Cemetery, Unity, Rural Municipality of Round Valley, Saskatchewan, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]