"Amos Colborne Sparrow"

Amos and his brother Thomas Sparrow came out by train to Lipton with the Evans and Fish families in 1905 to homestead the South half of section 4.31.18.  Amos proved up the South East side but later sold to Bill Morrow in order to buy section 29 in 1916 and marry Eva Armstrong.  Tom settled on the South West quarter, on which corner the Copeland Cemetery was later located.

My friend Jean Sparrow was 15 years old in 1933.  She lived with her mother Eva and her younger brother Billy on the North half of section 29.31.18, four miles south of Dafoe.  Jean's father Amos had died previously in 1931.  William (Bill) Ernest Mason was hired by Eva to run the farm until 1947 when her son Bill took it over when he turned 21.  Jean married Lorne (Bud) Pollen, son of Louis Pollen in 1942 and took over NE.29.31.18 to farm next to her brother Bill.  Bill Mason later moved to Raymore and married Dorothy Felton from Semans.

I first mention Jean on Monday, January 2nd. when Clarence and I picked her up with Francis Bolt, Mary Doidge and Joker Smith to watch us play hockey.  On January 22nd., my mother and father invited Eva Sparrow, Jean and Billy along with Bill Mason and the Fennemores' for Sunday dinner.  My father David and John Blakely took Eva home February 9th. in a severe winter snow storm.

Eva along with our family, was active in the Foote-Copeland United Church which helped keep us close friends.  On March 28th. the nurse from Abernethy stopped off at Sparrows on her way to Doughtertys' to care for 9 month old baby Irene.

Jean and I sang together in the Dafoe choir along with George Fennemore, Doris Crane and others.  In the 30's Jean recited monologues for the Fennemore band.  In 1940, the Sparrows' gave Lila and I a wedding gift and card at our reception at the Copeland community hall.

Amos Colborne Sparrow 1878-1931    Eva Elizabeth Sparrow (nee Armstrong) 1888-1972
Jean Sparrow 1918-?    William (Billy) J. Sparrow 1926-1978
Thomas Edward (Ed) Sparrow    William (Bill) Ernest Mason ? -1968

Diary Jan 2, 22 Feb 9, 11 Mar 28, and other dates?