Garden of Stone

In tribute and celebration of the lives of our Ancestors
with affection and gratitude...
 
 

They lie here, beneath the good earth that they cherished,
in the places where they lived, loved, sorrowed, celebrated,
laughed, cried and endlessly laboured for their livelyhoods.
It was here in this land, at times enduring incredible
hardship, that they cleared their acres, built their homes
and raised their children... dreaming of better tomorrows
for their sons and daughters than so often they had
known for themselves in their native country.
And in this land, among their community of family,
friends and neighbours, many times far from the
places of their birth, in God's own time, they died.
They left us with the legacy of their strength,
their endurance, their faith and their courage.

1999
Patricia Elizabeth McCabe
nee Burton

"The gentle wandering breezes
Many whisper o'er their graves,
And they will know that we
remember still"

1976
Mary Ann Elizabeth McGuire
nee O'Brien

GGG Grandparents

Catherine DALY
1778-1854
Native of
Ireland
wife of
John TRAINOR
1772-1869
Native of
Co. Armagh, Ireland
St. Mary's Church Cemetery,
Nobleton,
King Township, York County,
Ontario

Mother's Day, May 1998
 
 

Pictured Above
Patrick Gerrard "Gerry" McCabe (1923-1999)
Great Grandson of
Patrick McCabe and Cecilia Dennis - Patrick Trainor and Catherine Cranny
John McCabe and Jane Lowry - Thomas Hughes and Ann Marshall

The O'Brien farmhouse, barn and outbuildings can be seen in the background

Grandparents

Patrick Joseph McCABE 1880 - 1971 Native of King Township, York County, Ontario Mary Theresa McCABE 1880 - 1962 Native of Tecumseth Township, Simcoe County, Ontario St. Patrick's Church Cemetery, Lloydtown (Schomberg), King Township, York County, Ontario	Christopher Basil McGUIRE 1896 - 1978 Native of Vaughan/Whitchurch Township, York County, Ontario Mary Ann Elizabeth O'BRIEN 1893 - 1991 Native of Tecumseth Township, Simcoe County, Ontario St. Patrick's Church Cemetery, Lloydtown (Schomberg), King Township, York County, Ontario

I saw behind me those who had gone, and before me, those who are to come.
I looked behind and saw my father, and his father, and all our fathers,
and in front, to see my son, and his son, and the sons upon sons beyond.
And their eyes were my eyes.
As I felt, so they had felt, and were to feel, as then, so now,
as tomorrow and forever.
Then I was not afraid, for I was in a long line that had no beginning,
and no end, and the hand of his father grasped my father's hand,
and his hand was in mine, and my unborn son took my right hand,
and all up and down the line that stretched from
Time That Was, to Time That Is, and Is Not Yet,
raised their hands to show the link, and we found that we were one,
born of woman, son of man, had in the image, fashioned in the womb
by the will of God, the Eternal Father.

Richard Llewellyn
How Green Was My Valley
Chapter 24

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