Sunday, November 2, 2014

Marcus Walter Fetterly and Julia Ann Reddick Fetterly - Marjorie's Paternal Grandparents

"I only remember vaguely going to my grandfather's funeral, Marcus Fetterly. I just remember that we went on the train and rode in a jitney to their home and went to the cemetery.  That's all I remember.  I don't remember him as a person.  I believe he had dark reddish hair. I do remember my grandmother.  She was Julia Reddick Fetterly.  She used to come and visit us.  She had a very, very straight back.  She was in her nineties.  She had been a school teacher in Canada, one of the few women school teachers of her time and she would go from Morrisburg to Montreal on the old coach, not in my day but in her day, her early days.  She was determined that her children would have good educations and my father and Phil were sent to high school and to normal school and became teachers. My father became a principal and then he went into the insurance business to make a little more money for a big family."

This is what the jitney may have looked like (http://oldautonews.com/the-jitney-bus/):


 

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