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Above: Copyright Zuke McLean, age 7, August 2024 Norma Gillespie (grave on right) and her only son, Evan McLean, at Mom’s grave. Zuke is Evan’s son.
Copyright Norma Gillespie, 2020 Grave for daughter, Norma Gillespie, on right side of little garden.
Photo 1994. Photographer unknown
Photos of Mom
Moved to Coe Hill in 1952
Back at the Deer River: Mom, Sam standing, with Norma & Glenn on ground
Glenn, Norma, Mabel, Sam at Bancroft Museum Park about 1985
Left to Right: Mom’s sister’s family: Dave Ross, daughters Robin, and Linda, with Mom’s sister, Winnie, peaking from behind.
McLean family: Evan, Rebecca and Norma, with Allan behind
Tall Sam Gillespie in background middle with his family: wife Heather beside Norma, son Grant, wife Loreen behind Heather.
Glenn Gillespie family, he in back beside son Ryan, wife Carolyn in middle in front of them, and Daniel & Terri on far right front.
Missing: Sam’ s daughter, Christine (Olhauser) & family in Alberta.
Her Miller Family History Summary
Mabel Alveria Miller b April 15, 1915. Died February 18, 1994 in her 79th year. A housewife and mother, and lovely Christian woman.
m Sam Gillespie (1875-1954). Lived in Scarborough where he had a garden tractor manufacturing plant. Moved family to Coe Hill in 1950.
- Their Children: Sam, Norma, Glenn
Daughter of: Frank Miller of Toronto (1887 – 1956) Toronto Policeman from Simcoe County.
Frank married Martha Harvey (1878-1920) in 1914 and they had 3 children Mabel, Ida Winnifred, Elsie Eileen Family lived in Sunnidale/Staynor area of Simcoe County near Wasaga Beach before moving to the City of Toronto where Frank became a policeman (Frank had 2 other marriages, no surviving children) Eileen was a baby when her mother died of breast cancer and Frank gave her to a Christian couple he knew in Stayner, the Siders, who adopted her and changed her last name.
Eileen was a missionary in Nigeria, Africa, then married a farmer, Ken Collins to farm in Sunnidale Twp. One daughter, Ruth, who lost her mother, age 3, to the same cancer that killed her grandmother. The family burials are in Staynor Union, and Ebenezer Church Cemetery.
Frank was son of David Miller (1853-1927) born in Markham, a farmer who married Alfreda Corey (1855 – 1931). They had 3 sons: Herbert (never married. Died California), William, Frank. This couple farmed near Wasaga Beach, but moved to Toronto and then separated. Alfreda helped raise Mom (Mabel) until Frank remarried Martha Pearson, who outlived him.
David Miller was the son of Jonas Miller (1825-1903)
Jonas Miller married Mary Knicely (1822-1875) in 1846, and they farmed in Markham Twp. York Region. They had 12 children including: Samuel, David (6th) Elizabeth, John, Francis Miller. He remarried Mary Reaman an had 4 more children.
Jonas Miller was the son of Abraham Miller 1799-1847 from Germany who settled near Woodbridge, Ontario.
Abraham Miller married Susannah Byer 1800 – 1833. Her tombstone is still standing in a quiet cemetery along the main highway near Stayner, west of the settlement. Nothing is known of their life together, but it was pioneering times in the whole region of Simcoe County. They had five children.
