Millwa who were signed herewith us. He was a resident ofSudbury at time, formerly of Arnprior and Buckingham. The obit notesthat his brother Webster passed away five years previously and thatanother brother, Alexander, lives in Sudbury. Family Bible shows birth date as January 9, also shows "LousiaM. Watson" as name.. Religion: C. Presbyterian Elisabeth L. Min signed James Watson Jane M. Watson marked with an X Anna N R? Census information shows him alternately to be a carpenter and farmer.
In thesummer of he built the house that still stands next to mine. Usher Aunt Millie , ]. After hours he was filing a circular saw, when the machineryunexpectedly started to carry him forward like a log, and cutting thethigh of his right leg through. He almost bled to death as he was brought home on a stretcher, but Dr. Robertson of St. Andrews being at the Cushing residence was soon inattendance. Thomas and George Christie of Lachute were calledand all consulted together for three hours.
Before getting chloroformFather begged to have his leg left on and not be sent to a hospital. When it was thought that he wouldn't live anyway, the doctors got oneof father's hand saws and sawed the jagged edges of the bone smooth,bored two holes in each end with a gimlet, and tied the bones togetherwith wire taken from an old broomstick.
After almost a year Fatherhad recovered enough to get around with crutches, then with only one,and latterly used a cane, eventually being able to carry on his tradeas a builder, climbing ladders as before. In the fall of , father, not being able to do much else, attendedschool next door to our home where a fine teacher was in charge.
Mybrother Willie was going and though I would not be six years of ageuntil March 1, I too began to go in January, so we were always able toboast that we went to school with our father. Indeed, we sometimeshad to pull him over the snowdrifts on our handsleigh. The manymonths spent in bed on his back affected his kidneys and left himdelicate, so that if he ever got chilled he suffered acute attacks ofpain. He died October 19, , after only three days from beingstricken with paralysis while at his work in Government Shops inCarillon.
