JAMES DEVALSON (VALTIE) BAMFORD
Unidentified paper
James Devalson (Valtie) Bamford b:Nov.20,1867 d:July 6,1960
The Island Mourns the Passing of one of it's Oldest Residence. J.D.Bamford
Death occured to one of the Island's (Wolfe Island) oldest residents on July the 6th in the Kingston Hospital where he had been since May 22 at the age of ninty two.
He was the second son of the late William Wells Bamford and Irene (Dixon)Bamford and brother of the late Wells;John;also two sisters the late Mrs.Charles(Isabell) Halliday and Mrs.Robert B.(Grace)Gaskin all of Watertown and vicinity. He is the last of the family. He was born on Wolfe Island and lived there all his life on the farm where he was born. The Island has lost one of their most useful residents as he was the handy man for the commuity. Blacksmith and carpenter he could build boats and many have them for his memory.(Also made wooden duck decoys for hunting.)
A great reader of books and everything in general and his mind so clear until the end.
He never married but had helped to bring up four orphan children(with his mother) who passed away at the age of 82 in 1922.
His funeral was held from his late residence where he had made his home for the past 12 years with Bert and Betty Woodman,and interned in the Cemetary which was on the farm and had been donated by his father also the church which burned a few years ago.
He had lived to see so many changes the Ocean's boats passing by up the St Lawrence and had hoped to live to see a bridge in his time. If the world could have more of such useful and kind people in it there would be better understanding in it.
(This article was written by his niece Irene (Halliday)King. He was also noted for his wooden decoy's and he could play a mean fiddle and played for a lot of the local dances. He was known as a ladies man. He was a very good carpenter and to this day a lot of the kitchens on Wolfe Island can show his handy work. The dates are different as to the month he died.It's not on the tombstone and some places it say's June and others it's July. I know it was summer of 1960.He was not the last of the Bamford line there are many decendants of that family today.)
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Repley to query from Gus Rogers
HI Gus
You are right.There is a J. D. Bamford buried at Sand Bay Cem. There were 2 of them .The most of the Bamfords are eithier in Sand Bay or The St. Lawrence United Church Cem Wolfe Island .The one in Sand Bay was Rachel Dixon's Husband. He drowned in Oct.17,1867 his body was never recovered so the stone was only a memorial stone. Rachel is buried on Wolfe Island.They had a son Albert C.b:1865 & d:1886 after being hit in the head with a baseball. They also had a baby girl Rachel who died young. That J.D. Bamford married to Aunt Rachel (as she was known on the Island)was a son of Albert and Cordelia (Gotham) Bamford. The James Devolsom Bamford I did the obit on today was born a month after the other one,his uncle,died he was son of William Wells & Irene (Dixon) Bamford he is buried on Wolfe Island. He lived down on the South point of The Island Known as Bamford point. I believe if they liked a name they seem to use it often. All the Bamfords in that area are related. That William Wells was my gr,gr,grandfather He had an uncle named William Wells and a son William Wells Who they called Wells, Welly or Wells William (who married Eveline Joslyn,first named spelled different at times) and was also a son of Albert & Cordelia (Gotham) Bamford.I see on the Grindstone Island web site they have them mixed up. Do you wonder why. And that's how I'm related to Nan Dixon. No one can say genealogy is dull.
Another email I received on Jan. 9, 2021
J. D. BAMFORD
Douglas Woodman
To
[email protected]
Jan 9 at 12:21 PM
Hi, I just read your page on "uncle Valtie".
My name is Douglas Woodman. I am the eldest of the children born to Bert and Betty Woodman and was 12 years old when uncle Valtie died and his funeral with visitation was held in our home (the home that was his for all his life).
He lived in the back of the house facing the river.
I have so many fond memories of him and our moments together.
I would on a regular basis sneak into his place and spend time with him. I say sneek for was often cautioned about bothering uncle Valtie. Yes, while not a relative by blood, that is was what we were told to call him. During those visits I would watch him whittle duck heads and work on those decoys you mentioned. I have one!
He smoked a plpe and occasionally a roll-your- own cigarette. He taught me how to make those cigarettes with his little cigarette
maker. .. getting the paper in correctly and taking the right amount of tobacco from his "Players" tobacco tin. I got in trouble once when mom and dad found out he let me smoke one. I suspect dad might have said something to him but can't say for sure.
I often spent time with him sitting, talking, and playing checkers on his homemade checker board with homemade checkers cut from an old broom handle and painted.
He would make us snow candy in the winter, buy us bamboo poles to go fishing at the shore in the spring, and teach me how to use some of his old wood working tools in the shop.
I have the old checker board, the old hoosier from his kitchen (that was his mom's),
and the last boat he built, which he allowed me to be part of its making. I saw him heat up the old shop stove, steam and bend it's ribs and put it all together. Together we put the hundreds of copper nails into its sides. I was just five at the time and he would have been around 82.
Being as old as he was he always kept going and in the later years still spent hours in his garden, planting, hoing, picking and digging up the fruits of labor. He would enlist me and my younger brother Dave to help by picking tomato worms and potato bugs off the plants.
He kept a journal and wrote in it most everyday. Aunt Irene ended up with that after his passing.
I remember the fiddle but never heard him play it other than a couple of notes.
He played a huge part in the lives of my dad, my uncle and my aunts. Dad would sometimes share stories of his days with him.
The article on your page mentions four orphans the Bamfords took in. I'm only aware of the three girls. .. Emma, Edith, and Ethel. Emma was my grandmother.
I am humbled to be able to share a life with a man that was born the year Canada become a nation.
God is good!
Unidentified paper
James Devalson (Valtie) Bamford b:Nov.20,1867 d:July 6,1960
The Island Mourns the Passing of one of it's Oldest Residence. J.D.Bamford
Death occured to one of the Island's (Wolfe Island) oldest residents on July the 6th in the Kingston Hospital where he had been since May 22 at the age of ninty two.
He was the second son of the late William Wells Bamford and Irene (Dixon)Bamford and brother of the late Wells;John;also two sisters the late Mrs.Charles(Isabell) Halliday and Mrs.Robert B.(Grace)Gaskin all of Watertown and vicinity. He is the last of the family. He was born on Wolfe Island and lived there all his life on the farm where he was born. The Island has lost one of their most useful residents as he was the handy man for the commuity. Blacksmith and carpenter he could build boats and many have them for his memory.(Also made wooden duck decoys for hunting.)
A great reader of books and everything in general and his mind so clear until the end.
He never married but had helped to bring up four orphan children(with his mother) who passed away at the age of 82 in 1922.
His funeral was held from his late residence where he had made his home for the past 12 years with Bert and Betty Woodman,and interned in the Cemetary which was on the farm and had been donated by his father also the church which burned a few years ago.
He had lived to see so many changes the Ocean's boats passing by up the St Lawrence and had hoped to live to see a bridge in his time. If the world could have more of such useful and kind people in it there would be better understanding in it.
(This article was written by his niece Irene (Halliday)King. He was also noted for his wooden decoy's and he could play a mean fiddle and played for a lot of the local dances. He was known as a ladies man. He was a very good carpenter and to this day a lot of the kitchens on Wolfe Island can show his handy work. The dates are different as to the month he died.It's not on the tombstone and some places it say's June and others it's July. I know it was summer of 1960.He was not the last of the Bamford line there are many decendants of that family today.)
----------------------
Repley to query from Gus Rogers
HI Gus
You are right.There is a J. D. Bamford buried at Sand Bay Cem. There were 2 of them .The most of the Bamfords are eithier in Sand Bay or The St. Lawrence United Church Cem Wolfe Island .The one in Sand Bay was Rachel Dixon's Husband. He drowned in Oct.17,1867 his body was never recovered so the stone was only a memorial stone. Rachel is buried on Wolfe Island.They had a son Albert C.b:1865 & d:1886 after being hit in the head with a baseball. They also had a baby girl Rachel who died young. That J.D. Bamford married to Aunt Rachel (as she was known on the Island)was a son of Albert and Cordelia (Gotham) Bamford. The James Devolsom Bamford I did the obit on today was born a month after the other one,his uncle,died he was son of William Wells & Irene (Dixon) Bamford he is buried on Wolfe Island. He lived down on the South point of The Island Known as Bamford point. I believe if they liked a name they seem to use it often. All the Bamfords in that area are related. That William Wells was my gr,gr,grandfather He had an uncle named William Wells and a son William Wells Who they called Wells, Welly or Wells William (who married Eveline Joslyn,first named spelled different at times) and was also a son of Albert & Cordelia (Gotham) Bamford.I see on the Grindstone Island web site they have them mixed up. Do you wonder why. And that's how I'm related to Nan Dixon. No one can say genealogy is dull.
Another email I received on Jan. 9, 2021
J. D. BAMFORD
Douglas Woodman
To
[email protected]
Jan 9 at 12:21 PM
Hi, I just read your page on "uncle Valtie".
My name is Douglas Woodman. I am the eldest of the children born to Bert and Betty Woodman and was 12 years old when uncle Valtie died and his funeral with visitation was held in our home (the home that was his for all his life).
He lived in the back of the house facing the river.
I have so many fond memories of him and our moments together.
I would on a regular basis sneak into his place and spend time with him. I say sneek for was often cautioned about bothering uncle Valtie. Yes, while not a relative by blood, that is was what we were told to call him. During those visits I would watch him whittle duck heads and work on those decoys you mentioned. I have one!
He smoked a plpe and occasionally a roll-your- own cigarette. He taught me how to make those cigarettes with his little cigarette
maker. .. getting the paper in correctly and taking the right amount of tobacco from his "Players" tobacco tin. I got in trouble once when mom and dad found out he let me smoke one. I suspect dad might have said something to him but can't say for sure.
I often spent time with him sitting, talking, and playing checkers on his homemade checker board with homemade checkers cut from an old broom handle and painted.
He would make us snow candy in the winter, buy us bamboo poles to go fishing at the shore in the spring, and teach me how to use some of his old wood working tools in the shop.
I have the old checker board, the old hoosier from his kitchen (that was his mom's),
and the last boat he built, which he allowed me to be part of its making. I saw him heat up the old shop stove, steam and bend it's ribs and put it all together. Together we put the hundreds of copper nails into its sides. I was just five at the time and he would have been around 82.
Being as old as he was he always kept going and in the later years still spent hours in his garden, planting, hoing, picking and digging up the fruits of labor. He would enlist me and my younger brother Dave to help by picking tomato worms and potato bugs off the plants.
He kept a journal and wrote in it most everyday. Aunt Irene ended up with that after his passing.
I remember the fiddle but never heard him play it other than a couple of notes.
He played a huge part in the lives of my dad, my uncle and my aunts. Dad would sometimes share stories of his days with him.
The article on your page mentions four orphans the Bamfords took in. I'm only aware of the three girls. .. Emma, Edith, and Ethel. Emma was my grandmother.
I am humbled to be able to share a life with a man that was born the year Canada become a nation.
God is good!
JAMES DEVALSON (VALTIE) BAMFORD
Unidentified paper
James Devalson (Valtie) Bamford b:Nov.20,1867 d:July 6,1960
The Island Mourns the Passing of one of it's Oldest Residence. J.D.Bamford
Death occured to one of the Island's (Wolfe Island) oldest residents on July the 6th in the Kingston Hospital where he had been since May 22 at the age of ninty two.
He was the second son of the late William Wells Bamford and Irene (Dixon)Bamford and brother of the late Wells;John;also two sisters the late Mrs.Charles(Isabell) Halliday and Mrs.Robert B.(Grace)Gaskin all of Watertown and vicinity. He is the last of the family. He was born on Wolfe Island and lived there all his life on the farm where he was born. The Island has lost one of their most useful residents as he was the handy man for the commuity. Blacksmith and carpenter he could build boats and many have them for his memory.(Also made wooden duck decoys for hunting.)
A great reader of books and everything in general and his mind so clear until the end.
He never married but had helped to bring up four orphan children(with his mother) who passed away at the age of 82 in 1922.
His funeral was held from his late residence where he had made his home for the past 12 years with Bert and Betty Woodman,and interned in the Cemetary which was on the farm and had been donated by his father also the church which burned a few years ago.
He had lived to see so many changes the Ocean's boats passing by up the St Lawrence and had hoped to live to see a bridge in his time. If the world could have more of such useful and kind people in it there would be better understanding in it.
(This article was written by his niece Irene (Halliday)King. He was also noted for his wooden decoy's and he could play a mean fiddle and played for a lot of the local dances. He was known as a ladies man. He was a very good carpenter and to this day a lot of the kitchens on Wolfe Island can show his handy work. The dates are different as to the month he died.It's not on the tombstone and some places it say's June and others it's July. I know it was summer of 1960.He was not the last of the Bamford line there are many decendants of that family today.)
----------------------
Repley to query from Gus Rogers
HI Gus
You are right.There is a J. D. Bamford buried at Sand Bay Cem. There were 2 of them .The most of the Bamfords are eithier in Sand Bay or The St. Lawrence United Church Cem Wolfe Island .The one in Sand Bay was Rachel Dixon's Husband. He drowned in Oct.17,1867 his body was never recovered so the stone was only a memorial stone. Rachel is buried on Wolfe Island.They had a son Albert C.b:1865 & d:1886 after being hit in the head with a baseball. They also had a baby girl Rachel who died young. That J.D. Bamford married to Aunt Rachel (as she was known on the Island)was a son of Albert and Cordelia (Gotham) Bamford. The James Devolsom Bamford I did the obit on today was born a month after the other one,his uncle,died he was son of William Wells & Irene (Dixon) Bamford he is buried on Wolfe Island. He lived down on the South point of The Island Known as Bamford point. I believe if they liked a name they seem to use it often. All the Bamfords in that area are related. That William Wells was my gr,gr,grandfather He had an uncle named William Wells and a son William Wells Who they called Wells, Welly or Wells William (who married Eveline Joslyn,first named spelled different at times) and was also a son of Albert & Cordelia (Gotham) Bamford.I see on the Grindstone Island web site they have them mixed up. Do you wonder why. And that's how I'm related to Nan Dixon. No one can say genealogy is dull.
Another email I received on Jan. 9, 2021
J. D. BAMFORD
Douglas Woodman
To
[email protected]
Jan 9 at 12:21 PM
Hi, I just read your page on "uncle Valtie".
My name is Douglas Woodman. I am the eldest of the children born to Bert and Betty Woodman and was 12 years old when uncle Valtie died and his funeral with visitation was held in our home (the home that was his for all his life).
He lived in the back of the house facing the river.
I have so many fond memories of him and our moments together.
I would on a regular basis sneak into his place and spend time with him. I say sneek for was often cautioned about bothering uncle Valtie. Yes, while not a relative by blood, that is was what we were told to call him. During those visits I would watch him whittle duck heads and work on those decoys you mentioned. I have one!
He smoked a plpe and occasionally a roll-your- own cigarette. He taught me how to make those cigarettes with his little cigarette
maker. .. getting the paper in correctly and taking the right amount of tobacco from his "Players" tobacco tin. I got in trouble once when mom and dad found out he let me smoke one. I suspect dad might have said something to him but can't say for sure.
I often spent time with him sitting, talking, and playing checkers on his homemade checker board with homemade checkers cut from an old broom handle and painted.
He would make us snow candy in the winter, buy us bamboo poles to go fishing at the shore in the spring, and teach me how to use some of his old wood working tools in the shop.
I have the old checker board, the old hoosier from his kitchen (that was his mom's),
and the last boat he built, which he allowed me to be part of its making. I saw him heat up the old shop stove, steam and bend it's ribs and put it all together. Together we put the hundreds of copper nails into its sides. I was just five at the time and he would have been around 82.
Being as old as he was he always kept going and in the later years still spent hours in his garden, planting, hoing, picking and digging up the fruits of labor. He would enlist me and my younger brother Dave to help by picking tomato worms and potato bugs off the plants.
He kept a journal and wrote in it most everyday. Aunt Irene ended up with that after his passing.
I remember the fiddle but never heard him play it other than a couple of notes.
He played a huge part in the lives of my dad, my uncle and my aunts. Dad would sometimes share stories of his days with him.
The article on your page mentions four orphans the Bamfords took in. I'm only aware of the three girls. .. Emma, Edith, and Ethel. Emma was my grandmother.
I am humbled to be able to share a life with a man that was born the year Canada become a nation.
God is good!
Unidentified paper
James Devalson (Valtie) Bamford b:Nov.20,1867 d:July 6,1960
The Island Mourns the Passing of one of it's Oldest Residence. J.D.Bamford
Death occured to one of the Island's (Wolfe Island) oldest residents on July the 6th in the Kingston Hospital where he had been since May 22 at the age of ninty two.
He was the second son of the late William Wells Bamford and Irene (Dixon)Bamford and brother of the late Wells;John;also two sisters the late Mrs.Charles(Isabell) Halliday and Mrs.Robert B.(Grace)Gaskin all of Watertown and vicinity. He is the last of the family. He was born on Wolfe Island and lived there all his life on the farm where he was born. The Island has lost one of their most useful residents as he was the handy man for the commuity. Blacksmith and carpenter he could build boats and many have them for his memory.(Also made wooden duck decoys for hunting.)
A great reader of books and everything in general and his mind so clear until the end.
He never married but had helped to bring up four orphan children(with his mother) who passed away at the age of 82 in 1922.
His funeral was held from his late residence where he had made his home for the past 12 years with Bert and Betty Woodman,and interned in the Cemetary which was on the farm and had been donated by his father also the church which burned a few years ago.
He had lived to see so many changes the Ocean's boats passing by up the St Lawrence and had hoped to live to see a bridge in his time. If the world could have more of such useful and kind people in it there would be better understanding in it.
(This article was written by his niece Irene (Halliday)King. He was also noted for his wooden decoy's and he could play a mean fiddle and played for a lot of the local dances. He was known as a ladies man. He was a very good carpenter and to this day a lot of the kitchens on Wolfe Island can show his handy work. The dates are different as to the month he died.It's not on the tombstone and some places it say's June and others it's July. I know it was summer of 1960.He was not the last of the Bamford line there are many decendants of that family today.)
----------------------
Repley to query from Gus Rogers
HI Gus
You are right.There is a J. D. Bamford buried at Sand Bay Cem. There were 2 of them .The most of the Bamfords are eithier in Sand Bay or The St. Lawrence United Church Cem Wolfe Island .The one in Sand Bay was Rachel Dixon's Husband. He drowned in Oct.17,1867 his body was never recovered so the stone was only a memorial stone. Rachel is buried on Wolfe Island.They had a son Albert C.b:1865 & d:1886 after being hit in the head with a baseball. They also had a baby girl Rachel who died young. That J.D. Bamford married to Aunt Rachel (as she was known on the Island)was a son of Albert and Cordelia (Gotham) Bamford. The James Devolsom Bamford I did the obit on today was born a month after the other one,his uncle,died he was son of William Wells & Irene (Dixon) Bamford he is buried on Wolfe Island. He lived down on the South point of The Island Known as Bamford point. I believe if they liked a name they seem to use it often. All the Bamfords in that area are related. That William Wells was my gr,gr,grandfather He had an uncle named William Wells and a son William Wells Who they called Wells, Welly or Wells William (who married Eveline Joslyn,first named spelled different at times) and was also a son of Albert & Cordelia (Gotham) Bamford.I see on the Grindstone Island web site they have them mixed up. Do you wonder why. And that's how I'm related to Nan Dixon. No one can say genealogy is dull.
Another email I received on Jan. 9, 2021
J. D. BAMFORD
Douglas Woodman
To
[email protected]
Jan 9 at 12:21 PM
Hi, I just read your page on "uncle Valtie".
My name is Douglas Woodman. I am the eldest of the children born to Bert and Betty Woodman and was 12 years old when uncle Valtie died and his funeral with visitation was held in our home (the home that was his for all his life).
He lived in the back of the house facing the river.
I have so many fond memories of him and our moments together.
I would on a regular basis sneak into his place and spend time with him. I say sneek for was often cautioned about bothering uncle Valtie. Yes, while not a relative by blood, that is was what we were told to call him. During those visits I would watch him whittle duck heads and work on those decoys you mentioned. I have one!
He smoked a plpe and occasionally a roll-your- own cigarette. He taught me how to make those cigarettes with his little cigarette
maker. .. getting the paper in correctly and taking the right amount of tobacco from his "Players" tobacco tin. I got in trouble once when mom and dad found out he let me smoke one. I suspect dad might have said something to him but can't say for sure.
I often spent time with him sitting, talking, and playing checkers on his homemade checker board with homemade checkers cut from an old broom handle and painted.
He would make us snow candy in the winter, buy us bamboo poles to go fishing at the shore in the spring, and teach me how to use some of his old wood working tools in the shop.
I have the old checker board, the old hoosier from his kitchen (that was his mom's),
and the last boat he built, which he allowed me to be part of its making. I saw him heat up the old shop stove, steam and bend it's ribs and put it all together. Together we put the hundreds of copper nails into its sides. I was just five at the time and he would have been around 82.
Being as old as he was he always kept going and in the later years still spent hours in his garden, planting, hoing, picking and digging up the fruits of labor. He would enlist me and my younger brother Dave to help by picking tomato worms and potato bugs off the plants.
He kept a journal and wrote in it most everyday. Aunt Irene ended up with that after his passing.
I remember the fiddle but never heard him play it other than a couple of notes.
He played a huge part in the lives of my dad, my uncle and my aunts. Dad would sometimes share stories of his days with him.
The article on your page mentions four orphans the Bamfords took in. I'm only aware of the three girls. .. Emma, Edith, and Ethel. Emma was my grandmother.
I am humbled to be able to share a life with a man that was born the year Canada become a nation.
God is good!
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