Notes for Caroline LAKE
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NAME Caroline /Lake/ SOUR @S026185@
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NAME Caroline /Lake/ SOUR PAGE Page 262,263,278,292,664
Caroline Lake was a woman good to look upon. Handsome, well built, happy
and of good disposition, she was well equipped to be a minister's wife
and helpmate. Quick and with a saving sense of humor, she kept her part
well and controlled her family in such manner as was befitting the family
and home of a Minister of the Gospel. Too, she had a wit to keep her
preacher husband in his place, and so rule him as well, and this for his
own good.
On one occasion when he had brought a barrel of salt to the Alger
farm, he was looking for planks to roll it to the ground. She stood and
watched him for a bit, then said, "What are you trying to do?" He said,
"To get a plank to unload this barrel of salt." She laughed at him. "What
would you do?" he asked. "Why just unload it," she said. With that she
walked over to the rear end of the wagon, rolled the barrel to the back
end, set its rim on her hip, and lifted it to the ground. She said, "It
only weighs one hundred and eighty pounds, what is that?"
When her husband was away on his missionary journeys for his church,
she spent much of her time in the home of her daughter Jane, at Colborn.
There, one June day at the age of 58 she was at dinner, when she quietly
slipped under the table, and was gone, almost before any one could reach
her. She was buried in the Alger plot, in the Union Cemetery on the Alger
farm, at Colborn, Ontario.
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