Tegart, Alexander (Died)

Killed by A Tree

DEATH OF A PIONEER

From the Collingwood Enterprise

On Wednesday Nov. 5, Alexander Tegart, of Singhampton, was engaged falling trees for C. Meckle, near Rosseau. A falling limb struck him and he immediately became unconscious and never recovered. A doctor was brought from Parry Sound, a distance of twenty miles, but could not help the dying man, who on Thursday was taken on board the steamer Nipissing for Gravenhurst, and died shortly after starting. His son Arthur was with him, and the greatest kindness was shown young Tegart by Mr. Meckle and the men in his employ.

The deceased was brought to Singhampton where a funeral service was held in the Methodist church on Sunday, and he was taken on Monday, the 11th, by the 5:40 train to Tottenham, for interment in the family burial ground. He was nearly sixty five years of age, and able to do the average man's work. He leaves a wife and twelve children, the eldest son, Robert, having for years been Deputy Reeve of Essa.

Mr. Tegart was a pioneer of Nottawasaga from about the year 1851, and was deputy reeve and councillor for years. he was a member of the Methodist church, in fact founder of it in his neighborhood, and he raised the body of a church on his farm thirty years ago. his house was then the meeting house, and the home of many of the early ministers of his church. He possessed great kindness of heart, often excessive, and lived to find that many of his acts of kindness were poorly requited. - COM.