SUMMERS of Ontario, Canada

     From "OUR WILSON HISTORY", by Melissa Wilson Lambert, 1964...
Our Great Grandfather Summers was clearing a place in the woods and though an experienced woodsman was killed by a tree he had felled. My father used to tell how the neighbors carried him home and the wolves followed and howled around the house all night. Our Great Grandmother, Elizabeth (Tennyson) Summers, had the twins, Eliza and Elijah, James, and Rhoda all small children. My grandmother (Eliza Summers) had a hard life. After her father was killed, she and her siblings worked for neighbors as soon as they could.

A white marble headstone in the Charlton Cemetery, Lobo Methodist Church, Lobo Twp., Middlesex Co., Ontario reads:

• Sacred/ to the memory of/ Jas Summers/
• who departed this life/ Feb 8, 1841/ AE 43 yrs/
• also/ Stephen/ his son died/ Feb 27, 1851/ AE 10 yrs/
• "In the midst of life we are in death"

NOTE: During the 1851 census, Eliza and Elijah Summers were staying with Stephen and Elizabeth Summers of Westminster Twp. This substantiates Melissa's story above. We're still searching for the whereabouts of the rest of the family that year.