Liza was born September 8, 1872, in Horton Twp., Ontario, the first child of Richard and Rachel Pennell to be born in Canada. She married John “Jack” James, the brother of William C. James who married her sister Mary Ann. Liza lived in a small house right across the road from our farm in Rutherglen.
Even though I never knew her, “Aunt Liza” was very much a part of my life and I explored her abandoned home many times. Liza died March 6, 1955 in a sanatorium in Gravenhurst, Ontario from tuberculosis. She is buried at St. Margaret’s Anglican Church cemetery in Rutherglen.
Descendants of Eliza Pennell
- Alma Alice James m. George Ewart Latimer
- Mervin Latimer
- Beulah Latimer
- Escar Latimer
- Cecil Frank James m. Marie Tremblay
- son
- Leonard James
- Escar John James b. 1896, d. 1896
- Eric James b. 1902, d. 1950, m. Gertrude Sampson. Eric died after a lengthy illness.
