Find a Grave memorials of the Short family: John Short and his children, and John G. and Mary (Pattullo) Short at Spokane

Screenshots, 10 Oct 2026. The family links are the contributors’ (compiled); the stones and transcriptions are evidence in their own right.

• John Short, memorial 186319808, Lawrence Cemetery, Orono. Born 6 Aug 1808, Northumberland, England; died 4 Oct 1858, Orono, aged 50. “Cenotaph here” (a link to his memorial on the Woodstock stone). Inscription: “Age: 50 years.” Photographs: the Woodstock family stone (Mardelle Monroe; gravestone-john-short-1858) and his own broken stone at Orono (gravestone-john-short-orono-1858). Spouse: Mary Jeffrey Short (1809-1883, m. 1836). Children: Jane (1836-1909), Richard (1841-1904), and the others below.
• Mary Jeffrey Short, memorial 223484854 (Woodstock): children Jane Short (1836-1909), Richard Short (1841-1904), Joseph William Short (1842-1924), Mary Blair Short (1844-1928), John Gerald Short (1845-1916) and Isabella Short Hay (1848-1924); her parents William Jeffrey and Mary Lyall Jeffrey; her siblings Andrew (1800-1863), William (1802-1879) and Catharine “Addie” Jeffrey Hall (1806-1882).
• John Gerald Short, memorial 143119792, Greenwood Memorial Terrace, Spokane. Born 1845; died 20 Oct 1916, Spokane. A flat granite marker: “JOHN GERALD SHORT / 1845 - 1916” (photograph by Barbie Gant). Parents John Short and Mary Jeffrey Short; siblings as above.
• Mary Pattullo Short, memorial 143119849, Greenwood Memorial Terrace, Spokane. Born 17 Sep 1852, Caledon; died 23 Nov 1932, Spokane, aged 80. A matching marker: “MARY PATTULLO SHORT / 1852 - 1932” (Barbie Gant). “Wife of John G. Short; daughter of Halkett and Jane Robson Pattullo.” Mother: Jane Robson Pattullo; siblings Alexander (1835-1880), Thomas Robson (1837-1879), Jane Pattullo Rennie (1839-1896), Margaret Pattullo Campbell (1842-1879), George Robson, and more below the edge.
• Isabella Short Hay, memorial 211687063, Woodstock Presbyterian Cemetery, section 3. Born 1 Aug 1848, Newcastle; died 12 Jan 1924, Woodstock. Spouse James Geddes Hay III (1848-1912, m. 1878); son Thomas Lyall Hay (1879-1952). Her stone: gravestone-isabella-hay-1924.
• Joseph William Short, memorial 61242660, Highwood Cemetery, High River, Alberta, Range C plot 044. Born May 1842, Newcastle; died 8 Jan 1924, High River, aged 81. His stone, “JOSEPH WILLIAM SHORT 1842-1924,” with his wives “JULIA A. CONKLIN” and “ALICE MORLEY 1857-1908”; a portrait “taken from the book Leaves from the Medicine Tree” (the High River local history). His obituary: newspaper-high-river-times-1924-01-10-short. Spouses Julia Ann Conklin Short (1845-1890, m. 1866) and Alice Morley Swift Short (1857-1908, m. 1900). Children: Charles Conklin (1870-1958), Edith Emma Short McIntosh (1872-1964), Julia Anna Short Asher (1873-1962), Mary Jeffrey Short Rice (1875-1965), William Hall Short (1877-1949), Ellwood Clinton (1885-1967) and Alice Mary (1902-1944).
• Richard Short, memorial 106448901, 1841-1904: the South Haven funeral notice (newspaper-south-haven-tribune-1904-09-16-short).

What it shows:

• John G. and Mary Short are buried side by side at Greenwood, Spokane, under matching markers. His gives 1845, as his death certificate does (both very probably from his daughter Beatrice); the 1900 census and his age at marriage point to 1847.
• The six children of John Short and Mary Jeffrey, each with a memorial, born 1836-1848.