| An aunt of my mother's, then aged 19, emigrated to the backwoods of BC, to Edgewood in 1914. The only way then into Edgewood was by paddle steamer down the Columbia River. After the war a young C of E parson, Harold Varley arrived. They married, and he moved up in the church hierarchy eventually becoming rector of Christ Church, Surrey. By that time she was ill with TB, and she died in 1928, leaving a daughter, and her husband, both of whom returned to the UK in 1935. As far as I know, I was the first family member to see the grave since then, and was distressed by its bareness and lack of a stone. |
