Mementos
Based out of Philadelphia, William Still was an abolitionist and a conductor on the Underground Railroad. He sheltered and chronicled numerous fugitives who were on their way to Canada. This broadside advertising and script in Still's hand display his connections to St. Catharines, and his fondness for its inhabitants, the Niagara area being one terminus for the Underground Railroad. "Do remember me very kindly to all my enquiring friends. I but seldom hear of late from St. Catherines."
William Still sent this advertising broadside to his friends and acquaintances in St. Catharines.
A memorial card announcing the death of Sarah Taylor, wife of William Taylor of Louth Township.
This memorial card honours Sarah Taylor, a native of Virginia. Susan Jones Taylor's first husband, John William Taylor, may have been the brother to Sarah Taylor's husband William Taylor. After John William Taylor's death, Susan Jones Taylor married Steven Bell. This item was obviously held dear by members of the Bell family.
Charles Henry Bell at work for the St. Catharines Ice and Fuel Company
A blank invoice for the St. Catharines Ice & Fuel Company
Certificate received by Lewis Bell to attend the St. Catharines Collegiate, 1917
Certificate received by Richard Bell to attend the St. Catharines Collegiate, 1925
A handwritten obituary for Edna Bell Johnson, 1945.
Edna Bell Johnson departed this life at 4:30 pm Monday afternoonl, after a very brief illness.
Her sudden demise was a shock to her family and a host of relatives and friends. She was a member of the Zion Baptist Church and took a keen interest in the Sunday School. Always a lover of children she endeared herself to all that came in contact with her.
She was vice-president of the Sunday School convention of the Amherstburg Regular Association which is convening now in Windsor, Ontario.
She leaves to mourn her demise her sorrowing and devoted mother, two sisters and five brothers.
A 1948 registration of birth for Richard Nelson Bell, born 1911.