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Mary Frankish was five years old when the family moved to Sintaluta to the
farm. She grew up there and went to a country school. After leaving school,
like most girls at the time she took house keeping jobs in the area to make
some money. She did this until she married Robert Paxton.
Robert Paxton was born near Greenknowe, Scotland in 1887. He worked on farms etc. there until he came to Ontario in 1910 and then to Sintaluta in 1912. He worked on farms in the area until World War I broke out and then he joined the army. He arrived back from overseas duly in the spring of 1919. He purchased a farm through Veteran's Affairs near Sintaluta. On the 22 March 1920 he married Mary Elizabeth Frankish in Regina. They farmed until the hard times in the dirty thirties forced them off the farm. In 1935 the family moved to Sintaluta did odd jobs and worked at what ever was available. In 1943 Robert joined the Veteran's Guard and spent the entire war guarding German prisoners in Canadian prison camps. In 1946 Robert and Mary retired to Indian Head and spent the rest of their life there. Robert died suddenly at the breakfast table with a heart attack on the 31st of December 1961. His wife Mary died on the 19th of December 1975. They are both buried in the Indian Head Cemetery. They had five children - 1. Beatrice Elizabeth Paxton b. 13 May 1922 2. Mary Jean Paxton b. 11 October 1926 3. Ronald Paxton b. 9 November 1927 4. Sybil Grace Paxton b. 26 December 1928 d. 11 March 1998 5. James Paxton b. 28 January 1932 d. 26 November 1984 |