OTD August 3: In Loving Memory of Hannah Moynahan

My daily genealogy practice since 2017 has been to create monthly calendars using my Family Tree Maker 2017 program that lists all of the births, marriages and deaths for the 2,946 ancestors in my family tree.

Each day, I look at the ancestors listed on that particular day and I:

1. honour them by saying their name and then looking them up on my Ancestry Family Tree
2. review all of the information that I have for that ancestor on ancestry.ca
3. search for any new information on that ancestor (shaking "green leaves") that may have become available since the last time I checked

I had been wanting to write about the Warnock family for some time and what better occasion than on the anniversary of Hannah (Moynahan) Warnock's death on August 3, 1948.

Source: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/79808496/hannah-warnock

On August 3, 1955, the following Memorial was posted in the Lethbridge Herald and it indicates that Hannah was loved and missed dearly by her children .

Source: The Lethbridge Herald
(Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada)
03 Aug 1955, Wed
Page 10 (Typo error, should be "Dear Mother, you are NOT forgotten.."

Hannah (Moynahan) Warnock (1879 - 1948) is my 1st cousin 3x removed.

Hannah was born in Tilbury, Ontario daughter of Timothy and Julia Ann (Carr) Moynahan. Following her marriage to William ("Bill") Warnock on the 22nd of June , 1896  in Essex Co., Bill and Hannah moved to Wisconsin, U.S.A. after the birth of their son John Earl in 1897.

Marriage record: 22nd of June , 1896
Source: Archives of Ontario; Series: MS932; Reel: 8;
Ontario, Canada Marriages, 1857-1924

The Warnock family later moved to Alberta where they were pioneer homestead settlers in the Barons district.

Bill Warnock's brother John Kingdom Warnock (1875-1955) also moved to Barons in 1906 and went on to become Mayor for several terms as well as postmaster and operating a hardware store.

 Clipped from The Lethbridge Herald Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada 19 Aug 1955, Fri  •  Page 9

William Warnock died at the age of 65 years on June 30, 1937 and his headstone below is located in a classic prairie landscape in the Bowville cemetery ... this striking image stayed with me for some time after seeing it.

Source: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/79687450/william-warnock

Williams obituary was published in The Lethbridge Herald Jul 2, 1937

WILLIAM WARNOCK Dies at Barons
(From Our Own Correspondent)
BARONS, July 1 - William Warnock, a pioneer homestead settler of the district east of Barons, passed away last night at his home following an illness of several years. The late Mr. Warnock was close to 70 years of age and had resided in the Barons district since about 1906. The family is well known and a host of friends in the east country mourn the loss of a friend and neighbor.
Mr. Warnock is survived by his widow Mrs. Hannah Warnock, five sons William, John, Arthur, Stanley and Truman, and a daughter Florence (Mrs. Harry Orcutt), 

J. K. Warnock of Barons is a brother.

Source: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/79687450/william-warnock

 Mrs. Hannah (Moynahan) Warnock passed away August 3, 1948

Source: The Lethbridge Herald

Source: The Lethbridge Herald

 Hannah (Moynahan) Warnock was my great grandfather John Moynahan's (1866-1933) first cousin and my 1st cousin 3 times removed and she was one of the few Moynahans to leave Essex county at the turn of the last century.

Some interesting things I learned while honoring Hannah on this day:

• Hannah's son Arthur David Warnock was born on the 21st of March 1907 on a riverboat on the Mississippi River, United States (source unknown, Warnock family on ancestry recorded this)
• Hannah's daughter Flora May lived the longest of all the children passing away in Lethbridge, Alberta in 1996
• Hannah's son William Walter Warnock was born in Lacrosse, Wisconsin and later moved to the Barons district and he was one of the first members of the Rural Electrification Association at Iron Springs and Turin. He was a ditch rider for 13 years for the Lethbridge Northern Irrigation District before taking up farming. Mr. Warnock was an honorary member of the Beet Growers Association for 25 years, Royal Canadian Legion and the Turin Mutual Telephone Co.(Source: The Lethbridge Herald February 24, 1965)