Endnotes for Wilford Loves Lila chapter in Little Sparrows Fall: One Family's Story by Betty Ponder |
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No. | Note (Click on a photo for a larger view) |
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Wilford Loves Lila |
05 |
You can read Wilford's stories about life on the farm in his autobiography, From an Ontario Farm. See, for example, Chapter Seven, Three Years As a Farmer. |
Robert Park | 24 |
05a |
 | The photo of the Vienna Public School, which included the high school, was provided by Sandy Graham, curator of the Edison Museum of Vienna, who Barbara and I met at that little museum in April 2007. If you click on the small photo to see the larger version, you can make out the decorative bricks at the corners, which Wilford used one day to climb up the outside of the 2-story building as described on p. 45 of his autobiography. He said of the escapade that "I don't know what possessed me to do it. I know it was a preposterous thing for me to do. I might well have fallen and killed myself. Even now, whenever I think about it, it still scares me." |
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Robert Park | 25 |
06 |
The third floor room at 18 Grosvenor St. in Toronto can be seen on a photo page in Wilford's autobiography. |
Robert Park | 26 |
07 |
 | Lila and Wilford wedding photo, September 1926. |
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Robert Park | 27 |
08 |
A Nov. 3, 1925 photo of the champion Wearever Aluminum salesman in front of the house on Grosvenor St. is included in The Wilford Park Gallery. In the April 26, 1984 interview tape recorded at Warren's house in Minneapolis, Wilford says that during the summer before his intern year in Toronto he quit his Wearever job after 12 weeks (2 weeks early) to marry Lila. At the time he was the leading salesman, but another saleman who worked the full 14 weeks passed him by and got the $100 prize as the summer's top saleman. Wilford got a $50 prize as second best. The previous summer he had received the $100 prize as top salesman. |
Robert Park | 29 |
09 |
 | Here is the University of Toronto graduation photo Betty describes. |
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Robert Park | 29 |
10 |
 | Wilford's sick bed in the yard in Fairground, Wilford lying and Lila, Leta and Clifford sitting on cot, August 1928. |
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Back of print: "Our first car. Bought Feb 18/29, Toronto in front of Parliament buildings." |
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Wilford with first car, April 14, 1929. |
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12 |
 | The Brownsville house, 1930. |  | After addition of a sunporch above the side door. |
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13 |
 | This name plate, which appears to Wilford's right, has passed from Douglas to Warren to Robert. |
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14 |
 | This is one of the Brownsville churchs as photographed on 4/18/2006. The cornerstone says Erected A.D. 1885, Methodist Church. (It is now affiliated with the United Church of Canada.) |
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Robert Park | 33 |
15 |
Emily (Lucas) Marshman, who died on April 9, 1930, was Lila's mother. Her maternal grandmother was Martha (Wood) Lucas. |
Robert Park | 34 |
16 |
 | The Dodge 6, 1931. |  | Betty at 3 months with Wilford and his mother Lura. |  | Betty with Watson and Lura at Christmas, 1931. See also the first three pictures in The Betty Ponder Gallery. |
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16a |
 | Wilford's bee keeping outfit. |
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Robert Park | 36 |
17 |
Years later in Deep River, I remember Douglas putting a little garter snake in a glass milk bottle and using the bottled snake to chase Betty. |
Robert Park | 37 |
18 |
The first few pictures in The Douglas Park Gallery show Douglas as a baby, Kitty Boy the cat, and Trixie the dog. |
Robert Park | 37 |
19 |
The doll and doll carriage can be seen in the 3rd birthday photo in The Betty Ponder Gallery. |
Robert Park | 37 |
19a |
 | Lila's sister Orpha and her husband Howard with Betty and Douglas, 1936. |
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Robert Park | 38 |
20 |
Here are some family tombstones in the Cultus Cemetery. |  | Lila's parents. |  | Watson and his wives. |  | Lena and Montie. |
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Robert Park | 39 |
21 |
Here is the front side of tombstone in the Tillsonburg Cemetery. Catherine and Winnifred's names are on the other side. |  |
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Robert Park | 39 |
21a |
 | Ethel with Betty and Douglas, May 1935. |
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Robert Park | 40 |
21b |
 | Douglas and Betty at their mother's grave in Tillsonburg, July 22, 1934. |  | At their mother's grave with their father, July 1935. |
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Robert Park | 42 |
21c |
 | Lura 2 months before her death from cancer. |
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Robert Park | 43 |