Sunshine Cemetery
Sunshine Cemetery
aka Ellis Cemetery - Finmark Cemetery - Dawson Road Cemetery - Rowan
Located Lot 18, Con 1 Dawson Road Lots
Lars & Ann Lofquist donated the land in 1919 for the Cemetery
Thunder Bay Public Library - Newspaper References:
(CJ) - Chronicle Journal - (FWDTJ) Fort William Daily Times Journal - (PANC) Port Arthur News Chronicle
Some Death References marked with * courtesy of - Ancestry.ca
Information & photos courtesy of Bert L. &
William T. - The Boy Scout Leader who with the boyscouts
took on the enormous
task of fixing up the cemetery from 1993 - 1996
Most of the graves ar marked with wooden crosses with no names but a few
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Aho, Harold Wilhem died between 1923 & 1931
Anderson, Anga (Sandstrom) Jan 27, 1885 - May 13, 1934
Anderson, Baby Boy Aug 18, 1927
Anderson, Eric Nov 21, 1919 age 3mos 20dys
Anderson, Oscar Erik *Jan 30, 1882 - Dec 30, 1925
Antti, Henry July 13, 1935 - Mar 15, 1937
Antti, June Marion June 28 - Sept 10, 1931
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Bengston, Theresa
May 26, 1939 Age 45
Emma Theresa Laura Lofquist - courtesy of Bert L.
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Bostrom, Baby Girl *July 28, 1926
Bostrum, Erika Feb 15, 1941 age 52 yrs
Bostrom, Frances Dec 31, 1925 - Jan 2, 1926
Bostrom, John Ben *Nov 23 - Dec 21, 1932 aged 4 wks
Bostrom, Jester Holger *Feb 27, 1919 aged 4 yrs, 9 mos
Carter, Alexander Charles Dec 6, 1919 age 13 mos
Heikkinen, Lassi/Lauri Pekka *July 17, 1909 - Apr 23, 1922
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Hill, Edla
*Apr 10, 1941 age 73
Photo courtesy of William T. |
Kari, Allen Apr 12, 1921 age 12 mos.?
Kari, Arva Frans Askell Feb 12, 1913 - July 29, 1930
Kari, Frank died Jan 17, 1920 age 35 yrs
Kiviniemi, Fanny Jan 10 - 18, 1941
Knox, David Tindale *May 13, 1926 age 72 yrs 6 mos
Koskinen, John Feb 27 - Aug 27, 1926
Koskinen, Sarah [Knox] June 18, 1895 - Mar 21, 1931
Larson, Bernard Elmer Aug 17, 1923 - Mar 1, 1926
Lindstrom, Baby Girl Oct 22 - 23, 1941
Lindstrom, Johanna (Hagglund) Sept 30, 1878 - Dec 31, 1934
Lozinsky, Anthony *Oct 16, 1928 - Nov 4, 1928
Makela, Kauko Baden Mar 17, 1918 - Feb 5, 1920
Matson, Mary (nee Kournaen)[Paananen] *May 4, 1926 age 36
Miller, Barney Peter *May 30, 1915 - June 18, 1920
Miller, Stillborn Female Mar 7, 1919 d/o Peter
Modeen, Olaf Carl (Ole Medin) *May 10, 1928 aged 40
Nelson, Olof *Dec 2, 1917 age 24 years
Nyman, Emma (Parman) *Jan 3, 1897 - July 16, 1928
Paananen, Ero John *Jan 28, 1913 - Mar 6, 1932
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Paananen, Walder Matias
died June 2, 1919
Note - Walder Paananen was Mary Matson's 1rst husband |
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Left - Evelina & Herbert Paulson
Right - Olaf Anshelm Paulson
Read below for metal plate transcriptions |
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Paulson, Anna Fousta Evangeline (Lofquist)
Sept 20, 1894 - *Apr 2, 1928
Paulson, Herbert Allen
Mar 13 - Apr 10, 1928
Paulson, Olaf Anshelm
1891 - *Sept 27, 1932 |
Paulson, Catherine/Karin Sept 24, 1919 age 63
Paulson, Olaf *May 31, 1917 age 58
Rajakisto, John (Plot owner) - died Feb 5, 1966 & is buried in Riverside Cemetery
Rajakisto, Ursula Julia June 12, 1930 - May 1, 1933
Saari, Souma Sanni *Jan 18, 1894 - June 17, 1929
Salo, Allen Armas Feb 2, 1931 - May 28, 1936
Salo, John May 4, 1945
Salo, Waino *May 9, 1938 age 42
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Svenson, Anders Gustaf
1890 - Apr 8, 1942 |
Svenson, John Adolph *Dec 14, 1943
Swanson, Hanna Linea (Lundgren) *1900 - Dec 23, 1932
Talavitie, Isaac, *Oct 9, 1919 age 50
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Wierkko, Oscar
1873 - *Apr 14, 1941
Wierkko, Emelia (Haapa)
Mar 4, 1879 - Apr 15, 1934 |
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Wierkko, Martha Aili Helena
Apr 9, 1928 - Sept 25, 1928
The fence in the background is around Oscar & Emelia's grave
&
the small one in front is for Martha Photo & notes Courtesy of William T.
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Wooden Crosses - many of them unmarked - are the final resting place
of many of the early settlers of the Sunshine area.
