Mary Catherine MCDONALD

2nd Mar 1892 - 7th Aug 1978

Life History

2nd Mar 1892	Born in Monteagle Tp., Maynooth, ON
1901	Resident Marital Status: SingleRelation to Head of House: Daughter in Monteagle and Hershel, Hastings (north/nord), Ontario, Canada
18th Sep 1910	Birth of daughter Viola SWITZER in Dungannon
25th Jan 1913	Birth of son Cecil Wellington SWITZER in Ontario
20th Apr 1916	Birth of son Elvin George SWITZER in Ontario
about 1919	Birth of son Curtis SWITZER
about 1919	Death of son Curtis SWITZER
10th Jul 1920	Birth of daughter Vera SWITZER in Ontario
1st Jun 1921	Resident Marital Status: MarriedRelation to Head of House: Wife in Dungannon Tp, Hastings East, Ontario, Canada
20th Nov 1923	Birth of son Alfred Wesley SWITZER in Bancroft, Hastings County, Ontario, Canada
15th May 1933	Birth of daughter Joyce SWITZER in Bancroft, Ontario
15th May 1933	Death of daughter Joyce SWITZER in Hastings, Ontario, Canada
12th Nov 1967	Death of Manson Wesley SWITZER
1970	Death of son Elvin George SWITZER
7th Aug 1978	Died in Peterborough Civic Hospital, Peterborough, ON

	Married Manson Wesley SWITZER
	Buried in Hillcrest Cemetery, Bancroft, ON
	Nationality English
	Religion Church of England
	Birth of child Doreen SWITZER

From June Lee Jan 2005
Mary and Manson had a terrible year in 1919 (approx.) All the children had measles and Mary was expecting a baby when the house took fire. Viola remembers she was writing on her slate and her mother was changing her shoes when they heard a noise and Viola was sent outside to look, and she saw fire rolling over the roof of the house. Viola ran to get her father from the barn, quite a distance away. He was up in the haymow and he jumped down and ran but the house was burned by the time he got there. Thankfully all had got out.Viola was sent to her Grandpa Switzers to inform them and they had heard her calling her father and thought it was a rooster crowing. Her mother Mary had never finished changing her shoes and ran out with one shoe on, everything had happened so fast. When the baby-Curtis was born shortly after this he also got measles and pneumonia and died at three weeks old. Also Manson lost his best horse that year.
Mary was living at 63 Bridge St. E., Bancroft prior to her death. She had been suffering from a prolonged illness.