DEATH in the WILDERNESS Joe Stringer was hewing square timber for the Conroy Lumber Company on the south side of the York River about one half mile above Foster’s Rapids. He had partially hewed a stick of white pine. It was Saturday, he had a bad cold, and feeling sick he went home to his […]
Month: June 2022
HENRY TAYLOR – Part 8
Ben Foster “ At the time of those old first settlers, when a person died the neighbours were the undertaker. That was still in effect when I was a young man. I helped to lay away Ben Foster, the last of the Conroy lumberjacks.” Ben lived on lot 23, Concession 8, Carlow. He got up […]