Daniel Showers
ID # 2948, (1787-1858)
| Father | Michael Showers (1733-1796) |
| Mother | Hannah Van Tock (1740-1825) |
| Birth | Daniel Showers was born on 22 December 1787. |
| Marriage | He married Elizabeth Lawrason, daughter of Lawrence Lawrason and Rachel Pettit. |
| Death | He died on 29 June 1858 at age 70. |
| Burial | He was buried at St. John's Churchyard, Ancaster. |
| Note | At the time the Hamilton Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society transcribed St. John's Anglican Church cemetery in Ancaster in 1988, a stone for Daniel Showers was not in evidence. In 1924, however, Thomas Farmer wrote A History of the Parish of St. John's Church Ancaster. This includes some transcriptions from the cemetery along with some historical commentary. At the time of Farmer's work, Daniel Showers' stone was still to be seen and readable. The following is to be found on page 244. The entry reads as follows: Sacred to the memory of the late Major Daniel Showers of Ancaster, who died on the 29th day of June, 1859, aged 71 years, 6 months and 7 days. Man soon discussed Yields up his trust And all his hopes and fears Lie with him in the dust. Major Showers, an officer of the Canadian Militia, lived on what was afterwards the John Taylor farm, about two miles west of Ancaster. His wife was a Lawrason, a sister of the wife of John Crooks of Niagara, and through this connection the Showers were related to the Logie family of Hamilton. The Major, bereft of his wife 10 years before, had removed to the residence of his nephew Colonel John Aikman where he died in 1858. While the slab on which the inscription to Major Showers is cut is rapidly yielding to the elements and hard to decipher, the above verse, assuredly better rhyme than sense or poetry, can yet be faintly discerned. On the other hand, the inscription on Mrs. Mary Lawrason Showers' tomb, although ten years older, is much better preserved, and every word of its long adulatory panygeric, so common on this heavy ancient type of memorial, can still be easily read. Unquote The author has not quoted the inscription on Elizabeth's gravestone. Janet Carnochan, who attended the cemetery many years before also did not do so. What Ms. Carnochan does do for us is to transcribe the death year on Daniel's stone as 1858. Whether the death date that is shown by Thomas Farmer, 1859 in one place and 1858 in another we must believe to be a typographical error. |
| Last Edited | 12 Jan 2021 |