My Great Aunt Emily Allinson

My Great Aunt Emily Allinson was married to Private John George Nixon of the Black Watch. He was wounded in France and was killed when his transport ship was torpedoed, Oct 10, 1918 at age 34. He left her a widow with 3 small children, and had immigrated to Canada with her parents, William Henderson Allinson and Mary Jane Allinson, son Ernest, and grandchildren Laurence and Doris Robinson to homestead on the shores of Beaver Hill Lake.

Submitted by Sandy Bedford