The Elliot Family Headstone, Necropolis Cemetery

I've walked through the Toronto Necropolis Cemetery many times.  It's a lovely old cemetery with lots of interesting headstones and the graves of some important locals.  I found the Scott family headstone a while back, but the Elliot family headstone has eluded me until today.  Doug and I, celebrating a rare day off together, went for a walk and Doug found it for me.  Yes!

It's actually quite an imposing monument.  There are memorials on all four sides.  Here's the first side:

WILLIAM ELLIOT

BORN AT HAMMERSMITH ENG.

DECEMBER 22, 1812

DIED JUNE 3, 1893

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For if we believe that Jesus died and

rose again, even so them also which 

sleep in Jesus will God bring with Him.

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CYNTHIA JANE ELLIOT

BORN NOV. 22, 1853

DIED JAN. 6, 1931

HELEN ELLIOT GEORGE

1883  -1943

William Elliot, pharmacist and industrialist, is the patriarch of our branch of the Elliot family and everyone on this memorial is somehow related to him.  Cynthia Jane Elliot is his daughter, the only child of William and his wife Mary Oliphant who never married.  Helen Elliot George was born Helen Elliot Scott.  She is the daughter of John Galloway Scott and Mary Elliot (Mary Elliot was another daughter of William and Mary Oliphant, making Helen their granddaughter).  It's interesting that Helen is buried in the Elliot family plot.  Her husband, Ruggles George, is apparently somewhere else.

William's wife Mary Oliphant is commemorated on the opposite side of the monument:

IN MEMORY OF 

MARY OLIPHANT, 

WIFE OF WILLIAM ELLIOT

___________

DIED APRIL 7TH 1890, 

IN HER 78TH YEAR

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HER HUSBAND AND CHILDREN MOURN BUT

NOT AS THOSE WHO HAVE NO HOPE

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LIEUTENANT H. ELLIOT SCOTT

AGED 23 YEARS

FELL AT COURCELETTE

16TH SEPTEMBER 1916

BURIED IN FRANCE

MINNIE LOUISE DAVIS

BELOVED WIFE OF ARTHUR H. SCOTT

BORN AT AYLMER, ONT. 1870

DIED AT DORVAL, QUE. 1923.

ARTHUR H. SCOTT

1864-1939

Arthur H. Scott is another child of John Galloway Scott and Mary Elliot and grandchild of William Elliot/Mary Oliphant.  Lieutenant Howard Elliot Scott is his son, and Minnie Louise Davis his wife. 

Robert Watt Elliot, son of William Elliot and Mary Oliphant, and his wife Catherine Scott are on one of the adjacent sides:

IN MEMORY OF 

ROBERT WATT ELLIOT

BORN AT ERAMOSA ONTARIO

JULY 26, 1835

DIED AT TORONTO

NOVEMBER 12, 1905

______________

CATHERINE ANN SCOTT

WIFE OF 

ROBERT W. ELLIOT

BORN AT DUNDEE, SCOTLAND

OCTOBER 14, 1834

DIED AT TORONTO

JANUARY 8TH, 1921

All five of Robert Watt Elliot and Catherine Scott's children are commemorated on the remaining side, as well as their daughter-in-law  Muriel Lailey Elliot, who was the  wife of William Scott Elliot (directly below her on the monument).

IN MEMORY OF 

HOWARD ELLIOT, 

WHO ENTERED THE BETTER LAND

ON THE 19TH OF MAY 1893

ALSO 

ADELINE NOBLE

ON THE 9TH OF JUNE 1894

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VIOLET

DECEMBER 10TH 1939

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MARY SCOTT BIGGAR

1860-1948

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MURIEL LAINLEY ELLIOT

1875-1951

________________

WILLIAM SCOTT ELLIOT

1870-1964

Howard Elliot died at age 24 of peritonitis.  He was training to be a pharmacist like his father and grandfather before him, and William Elliot's obituary mentions what a blow his death was to his grandfather. Mary Scott Biggar (nee Elliot)'s husband James Lyons Biggar appears to have been  buried elsewhere, as does  Adeline (Elliot) Noble's husband.   Howard Elliot, Violet Elliot, William Scott Elliot, Mary Scott Biggar and Adeline Noble were all children of Robert Watt Elliot and Catherine Scott. Murial Lainley Elliot was William Scott Elliot's wife.

Here's a shot of the snazzy letter E that decorates the top of the monument:

Here I am taking notes:

And here's a long shot, showing the landscape (rather bare at this time of year):

The more I learn about the Elliot and Scott families in Canada, the more I am struck by how closely intertwined they are.  At some point I'm going to write about the many connections between these two closely-knit families.