Grave concerns!

I'm so excited to share the above photograph with the rest of the family!  After years of searching and hoping to someday visit that little cemetery in Windsor, Quebec an email I received just this week included this photo!  I can't put into words how grateful I am to a dear friend and 3rd cousin, Anne McCourt Fowlie for sending this to me.  I know she doesn't realize what a significant piece of history this is to me and many other members of the McCourt family who are far removed from the area where our Irish ancestors first settled.  Thanks, Anne!!

This headstone is located in the Protestant Cemetery at Windsor and marks the final resting place of Joshua McCourt, his wife Elizabeth Cave, their eldest son, Moses and his wife, Mary Wood McLeod as well as Moses and Marys' daughter, Isabella Hope McCourt.

The official record indicates that Joshua died 26 March 1901 at Windsor.  His death was mentioned twice in the same newspaper with a few, minor differences between the two accounts.  From page 3 of the March 29, 1901 edition of the Sherbrooke Record newspaper, under the Richmond News heading, it reports that Joshua McCourt died March 27, 1901 in Windsor and that he was the father of Thomas McCourt of Richmond.  The second account is on the same page but under the Windsor Mills News heading and reports that "Moses McCourt Sr. (leading me to believe that his full name may have been Joshua Moses McCourt) of Lower Windsor died March 25, 1901, aged 87 of general debility.  He came to Canada 30 years ago from County Armagh, Irealnd and leaves a large family."

Death Record of Joshua McCourt

After Joshua's death and until her own on 22 September 1907, Elizabeth lived with her son Moses and his family. 

Death Record of Elizabeth Cave McCourt