John and I made another trip out to the Merrickville area a couple of weeks ago and of course we stopped for a geocache at a couple of local cemeteries. We took the looong way home and ended up in Plevna at the Holy Trinity Cemetery. A large portion of cemetery is covered in a fragrant Wooly Thyme. This little stone caught my eye.
The bottom inscription lovingly reads. “Budded in earth to bloom in heaven”. Little Lila Card was born to Joseph and Mary on 20 August 1896 and passed away a month later on 20 September. Finding anything about Lila proved tricky. I was able to find her parents in the 1891 census along with her older brother Allen(1). Joseph was 33, Mary 30, and Allan 5 at the time. I find them again in the 1901 and 1911 census records with Allan as their only living child. (2) (3) So far I haven't been able to find a birth or death record for Lila.
(1)Year: 1891; Census Place: Clarendon and Miller, Addington, Ontario, Canada; Roll: T-6322; Family No: 109
(2) Year: 1901; Census Place: Clarendon and Miller, Addington, Ontario; Page: 5; Family No: 48
(3) Year: 1911; Census Place: 7 - Plevna Village, Frontenac, Ontario; Page: 3; Family No: 23
