George Nelson Hedley, the thirteenth child and second youngest of the 14
children of John Hedley and Margaret Grierson, was born in 1847 in Torbolton
Township. He married Ann Grierson, born 1847, the daughter of James Taylor
Grierson and Elizabeth Maclelland. The Belden Atlas of 1879 shows George
Nelson located on Lot 18, Con. 4, near the farm of his widowed mother, Margaret.
Belden Atlas of 1879 The graves of George Nelson Hedley and Ann Grierson
are in St. James Anglican Cemetery, Carleton Place. However, another source
places their graves in Okotokas, Alberta. Six children (iv):
            1 - Addeline Elizabeth Hedley born October 18, 1875 in Torbolton
                 Township. (An Adeline  Hedley married John McClelland on
                  Dec. 30, 1896 in Melrose, Alberta according to the Calgary
                  Herald Weekly of Jan. 7, 1897)
            2 - Mallisa Margaret Hedley born July 27, 1877 in Torbolton Township.
            3 - Ernest Hiram Hedley born March 26, 1879 in Torbolton Township.
            4 - Ida Jessie Hedley born January 13, 1881 in Torbolton Township.
            5- Infant Hedley died 1882.
            6 - James Victor Hedley born February 21, 1884 in Torbolton Township.
                 James Victor died in 1886 at age two, along with three other children
                 of George Nelson Hedley and Ann Grierson in an epidemic of scarlet
                 fever at White Lake, Ontario.

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