The McCallum Family of Portage du Fort:Information about Jessie Evelyn Ross
Jessie Evelyn Ross (b. 06 Apr 1898, d. 30 Jan 1982)
Notes for Jessie Evelyn Ross:
Her Godparents were Annie Ross and Annie Lough.
Mother had a very tough life as a child after her Grandmother died. Since her mother, Grandma Louise had to work outside the home to support her children she had to place them with other people where they worked for their keep. So Mother was out working when she was only 11 years old, at various farms around the village. Grandma tried to place them either at the farm where she herself was working or nearby where she could watch over them.
Mother worked at various times for the Saloways and others on the Quebec side and when the Portage fire occurred she was working over on the Queen's Line at a family called Milne or Millan, I am not sure. It happened that the day of the Fire was to be her last day there and so on the previous day Mr. Milne brought all her belongings over to Portage. Since everything got burnt in the fire all she had left were the clothes on her back.
But all this training served her well in later years when she raised her own family. Mother was the classic homemaker. She cooked, baked, made her own soap from Gillette's Lye and fat and made all our clothes or altered second hand ones to fit us. She braided and sewed together odds and ends of old material to make braided mats to cover the cold wooden floors. Or she could create a hooked mat out of old potato bags and odd pieces of coloured material. She knitted all our socks, mitts and scarves and made bedclothes and even the girls' underclothes out of flour or sugar bags and then tatted lace to make them look a little fancier. Not one piece of cloth was safe around our place; Mother could always find another use for it.
Funeral Mass was said by Rev. Merlon Ethier.
Pallbearers were 6 of her grandsons, Wayne Dagg, Wayne Troke, Wesley Troke, Danny McCallum, Richard Malette and Chris Malette.
Both her and Dad are buried in the old St. James RC cemetery.
In 1901 William, Jessie and Cecilwas living on Mill Street in Portage with Louise and her parents. In 1911 William is missing, as is Louise. Jessie is living with Mrs.John James Dagg ( 790) & family in Clarendon while Cecil is living with Charles & Adelle Toner (783) on Stoney Batter Road in Clarendon.
Witness to:Eleanor M. Lance #925BaptizedJul 29 1918St. James RC, Portage Du Fort, Quebec, Canada
Witness to:Myrtle Mary Nicholas#614 #614BaptizedJul 24 1925St. James RC, Portage Du Fort, Quebec, Canada
Witness to:Myrtle Mary Nicholas#614 #614 & Joseph John Cameron #606MarriedAug3 1925St. James RC, Portage Du Fort, Quebec, Canada
Witness to:Evelyn Mary Mildred Cameron#615 #615BaptizedAug9 1925St. James RC, Portage Du Fort, Quebec, Canada
More About Jessie Evelyn Ross:
Baptism 1: 28 May 1898, St. George's Anglican, Portage Du Fort, Quebec.1853
Baptism 2: 09 Jun 1916, St. James RC, Portage Du Fort, Quebec, Canada.1854
Record Change: 24 Mar 2008
Residence 1: 1901, Mill Street, Portage Du Fort, Quebec.1855
Residence 2: 1911, Stoney Batter Road, Stark's Corner, Clarendon, Quebec.1856
More About Jessie Evelyn Ross and Daniel O'Kane McCallum:
Marriage: 19 Jun 1916, St. James RC, Portage Du Fort, Quebec, Canada.1857, 1858, 1859
Witnessed by: John Armand Dagg & Winnifred McCallum.1859, 1860
Children of Jessie Evelyn Ross and Daniel O'Kane McCallum are:
- Cecil James McCallum, b. 26 Jun 1917, Portage du Fort, Pontiac, Quebec, Canada1861, d. 10 Mar 1939, Portage du Fort, Pontiac, Quebec, Canada1862.
- +Gladys Evelyn McCallum, b. 22 Feb 1919, Portage du Fort, Pontiac, Quebec, Canada1863, d. 26 Oct 2001, Pontiac Community Hospital, Shawville, Quebec.
- +Muriel Olive McCallum.
- +Carmella June McCallum, b. 07 Jun 1924, Portage du Fort, Pontiac, Quebec, Canada1863, d. 01 Dec 2003, Portage du Fort, Pontiac, Quebec, Canada1864.
- Daniel Bert Armond McCallum, b. 24 Aug 1926, Portage du Fort, Pontiac, Quebec, Canada1865, d. 19 Sep 1985, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada1866.
- +Garnet Irwin Joseph McCallum, b. 06 Jul 1929, Portage du Fort, Pontiac, Quebec, Canada1867, d. 11 Apr 2000, Sacre Coeur Hospital, Hull, Que..
- +Gertrude Nora Mary McCallum, b. 20 Apr 1932, Portage du Fort, Pontiac, Quebec, Canada1867, d. 20 Jan 1995, Pontiac Community Hospital, Shawville, Quebec1868.
- +Margaret Helen Janet McCallum.
- Emerson Claude McCallum.