Samuel Melvin Dennis was a Farmer/Railway Engineer.
2,5 Occupation: Railway Labourer
Samuel Melvin Dennis was a Railway Engineer. He and his wife lived in Bayham Township in 1891. It is said that Sophronia left home by train saying that she was going to visit her aunt. Instead leaving her husband and son she went to live in Hamilton with a former station agent at Corinth, Edgar Prospect Pym. They are believed to have married and adopted a daughter. Although this was quite a scandal, she kept in touch with two nieces Ila Firby Nelson and Vera B. Owen Herman. When Mr. Pym died he left his small estate to be shard by these nieces.
* 3rd great-grandson to Georg Philip (Windemoed) Windemuth
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CENSUS OF CANADA, 1891
Province: Ontario
District No. 60 East Elgin
S District No. c No. 3 Township of Bayham
Enumeration Date: 20 day of April 1891
Page 8
Houses Inhabited: W 1 1/2 / 4
Families: 40
Line: 2-4
Names: DENNIS, MELVIN
Sex: M
Age: 28
Married or Widowed: M
Relation to Head of Family: -
Country or Province of Birth: O
Place of Birth of Father: O
Place of Birth of Mother: O
Religion: Meth
Profession, Occupation, or Trade: Ry Labourer
Employer: -
Wage Earner: y
Read: y
Write: y
Names: DENNIS, SEPHRONIA
Sex: F
Age: 22 [1869]
Married or Widowed: M
Relation to Head of Family: W
Country or Province of Birth: O
Place of Birth of Father: O
Place of Birth of Mother: O
Religion: Meth
Read: y
Write: y
Names: DENNIS, CLARENCE L.
Sex: M
Age: 6
Relation to Head of Family: -
Country or Province of Birth: O
Place of Birth of Father: O
Place of Birth of Mother: O
Religion: Meth
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Ontario, Canada Deaths, 1869-1934
Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010
SCHEDULE C.- DEATHS
County of: Elgin
Division of: Bayham
Page 42
# 013760
No. 11
Surname of Deceased: DENNIS
Full given Name: S. MELVIN
Place of Death: -
Sex: M
Racial Origin: Irish
Single, Married, Widowed: M
Age: 66 yrs
Place of Birth: Bayham
Date of Birth: April 25th
Occupation: Farming
Length of Residence
(a) at place of death: 60 yrs
(b) in Province: Life
Name of Father: LEONARD DENNIS
Birthplace of Father: Ont
Maiden Name of Mother: HANNAH CRANE
Birthplace of Mother: Ont
Name of Informant: C.L. DENNIS
Address: Corinth
Relation to Deceased: Son
Place of Burial: Best Cemetery
Date of Burial: February 16th /29
Name of Undertaker: S.E. Carle
Address: Tillsonburg
Date of Death: February 13th /29
Cause of Death
Primary: Bronco Pneumonia
Duration: -
Name of Physician: H.J. Hart
Address: Bayham
Date of Return: February 15th
Date received by Division Registrar: Feb 15th
D.R. [Division Registrar]: Benj Brian
Address: Straffordville
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Best Cemetery
Bayham Township, Elgin County, Ontario, Canada
54536 Best Line, Bayham, ON
Gravestone Inscriptions and Burials without Monuments
Latest Revision 28 March 2010
Copyright by the Ontario Genealogical Society, Elgin County Branch 1999
Burials without Monuments
DENNIS - St Thomas Times Journal, 15 February 1929, Page 6, c1 - Died - Melvin DENNIS, 67th year, son of Leonard DENNIS; father of Vern DENNIS; brother of Mrs S. FIRBY, Mrs V. BEARSS and Grant DENNIS. Funeral February 17 to Best Cemetery. No monument found - CVH June 2009.