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Lewis Flath

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Lewis Flath

Birth
Drayton, Wellington County, Ontario, Canada
Death
5 Feb 1931 (aged 74)
Toronto, Toronto Municipality, Ontario, Canada
Burial
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Lewis Flath was a well known and lifelong resident of Drayton having been born on the Flath homestead on the tenth of Maryborough. He was the third son of Mr. & Mrs. Adam Flath who were pioneers of the Queens Bush coming here in 1854. Lewis Flath was educated at the public school of Drayton, at the Rockwood Academy and the Ottawa Normal school. For a number of years he taught school at Grand Valley, Wyandotte, West Montrose, Haysville and Petersburg. Later he farmed on the tenth concession of Maryborough, but several years ago he suffered a major illness and since that time he lived with his brother Adam until his death in October 1929. He then went to live at the at the I.O.O.F. home in Toronto. He contracted pneumonia and died a few days later. He was for many years an active member of the Peel and Drayton Agricultural Society having been its president and for some time an honorary president.
The funeral took place here in the lodge rooms of Britannia Lodge I.O.O.F. of which the deceased had been a member since 1883. The service was conducted by Rev. E.S. Clifton and Rev. F.E. Vipond after which the members of the lodge performed the last rites of Oddmanship and interment was made in the family plot in Victoria cemetery. The pallbearers were W.I. Burrows, J.M. Davidson, N.F. Perkins, A.B. McColgan, Dr. Smiley and Frank Hussey.
Lewis Flath was a well known and lifelong resident of Drayton having been born on the Flath homestead on the tenth of Maryborough. He was the third son of Mr. & Mrs. Adam Flath who were pioneers of the Queens Bush coming here in 1854. Lewis Flath was educated at the public school of Drayton, at the Rockwood Academy and the Ottawa Normal school. For a number of years he taught school at Grand Valley, Wyandotte, West Montrose, Haysville and Petersburg. Later he farmed on the tenth concession of Maryborough, but several years ago he suffered a major illness and since that time he lived with his brother Adam until his death in October 1929. He then went to live at the at the I.O.O.F. home in Toronto. He contracted pneumonia and died a few days later. He was for many years an active member of the Peel and Drayton Agricultural Society having been its president and for some time an honorary president.
The funeral took place here in the lodge rooms of Britannia Lodge I.O.O.F. of which the deceased had been a member since 1883. The service was conducted by Rev. E.S. Clifton and Rev. F.E. Vipond after which the members of the lodge performed the last rites of Oddmanship and interment was made in the family plot in Victoria cemetery. The pallbearers were W.I. Burrows, J.M. Davidson, N.F. Perkins, A.B. McColgan, Dr. Smiley and Frank Hussey.

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