Isabella Short
Youngest child of John Short and Mary Jeffrey, born at Newcastle, Canada West, in 1848. She married James Hay Jr. of Woodstock, Ontario, in 1878, kept a home there that sheltered her unmarried sisters Mary and Jane, and gave her son the middle name Lyall. She died at Woodstock in 1924, four days after her brother Joseph William. Aunt of Ruth (Short) Ellingwood.
Life
- 1848Born1 Aug 1848, Newcastle, Durham County, Canada West
"Born in Newcastle Ont. Aug. 1-1848," on her gravestone.
documentedprovenSources
- Gravestone of James Hay Jr. and Isabella (Short) Hay, Woodstock Presbyterian Cemetery
- Find a Grave memorials of the Short family: John Short and his children, and John G. and Mary (Pattullo) Short at Spokane
- WikiTree profiles for the Ellingwood line's ancestors (Woodbury, Cheever, Pattullo, Short, Jeffrey, Elliott, Adams, Deyoe, Rice, Warren, Holdershaw)
- 1878Married James Hay2 Oct 1878, Woodstock, Oxford County, Ontario
WikiTree, citing the Ontario marriage registrations; Find a Grave has 1878.
- 1891LivedWoodstock, Oxford County, Ontario
With her husband; her sister Mary was living with them (the 1891 census, as WikiTree has it).
- 1901LivedWoodstock, Oxford County, Ontario
With her husband; her sister Jane was living with them (the 1901 census, as WikiTree has it).
- 1924Died12 Jan 1924, Woodstock, Oxford County, Ontario
"Died in Woodstock Jan. 12-1924," on her gravestone.
- —BuriedWoodstock Presbyterian Cemetery, Woodstock, Ontario
Section 3; Find a Grave 211687063.
Family
- Father
- John Short
"Daughter of John and Mary Short," on her gravestone.
documentedprovenSources
- Gravestone of James Hay Jr. and Isabella (Short) Hay, Woodstock Presbyterian Cemetery
- Find a Grave memorials of the Short family: John Short and his children, and John G. and Mary (Pattullo) Short at Spokane
- WikiTree profiles for the Ellingwood line's ancestors (Woodbury, Cheever, Pattullo, Short, Jeffrey, Elliott, Adams, Deyoe, Rice, Warren, Holdershaw)
- Mother
- Mary Jeffreydocumentedproven
Sources
- Gravestone of James Hay Jr. and Isabella (Short) Hay, Woodstock Presbyterian Cemetery
- Find a Grave memorials of the Short family: John Short and his children, and John G. and Mary (Pattullo) Short at Spokane
- WikiTree profiles for the Ellingwood line's ancestors (Woodbury, Cheever, Pattullo, Short, Jeffrey, Elliott, Adams, Deyoe, Rice, Warren, Holdershaw)
- Spouse
- James Hay
James Hay Jr., born at Woodstock 4 Oct 1848, died 1 May 1912 (their gravestone); "James Geddes Hay III" on Find a Grave.
Pedigree
Notes
Aunt of Ruth (Short) Ellingwood, the youngest of John Short and Mary Jeffrey’s children, born at Newcastle ten years before her father died. She married James Hay Jr., a Woodstock man of her own age, in October 1878, a year before her brother John Gerald married Mary Pattullo there, and their son, Thomas Lyall Hay, was born in 1879. The middle name was her grandmother’s maiden name, as the family accounts have it: Mary Lyall, wife of William Jeffrey (source).
Her home at Woodstock was the family’s: her sister Mary, a bookkeeper, lived with the Hays in 1891, and her eldest sister Jane in 1901 (the censuses, as WikiTree gives them). James Hay died in May 1912. Isabella died at Woodstock on 12 January 1924, four days after her brother Joseph William at High River, whose obituary had named her among his surviving sisters as “Mrs. James Hay.” She and her husband share a stone at the Woodstock Presbyterian Cemetery: “In loving memory of James Hay Jr., born Oct 4-1848 in Woodstock, died May 1-1912; Isabella, wife of James Hay, daughter of John and Mary Short, born in Newcastle Ont. Aug. 1-1848, died in Woodstock Jan. 12-1924” (record).