MARY'S GENEALOGY TREASURES
Eben Williams, originally from Wales, was in Coalhurst for the
They raised two children, one son and one daughter. They
In 1946, their daughter returned to Canada to again make
Mrs. Williams moved to Salt Spring Island, B.C. to live with
sinking of the mine shaft. He served in the army overseas in the
First World War, returning to Coalhurst again to work in the
mine. Eben's wife arrived in Coalhurst from Edmonton in 1921.
attended school in Coalhurst. Disaster hit their small family
when Eben was one of the miners who lost his life in the
explosion of 1935. In 1936, Mrs. Williams, with her son
and daughter, moved back to her native land, Wales, where
they remained during the war years. Their son served for five
years from 1940-1945 in the Royal Army Medical Corp.
Field Ambulance Division in Southern Italy, France, Holland
and Germany.
it her home. In 1948, her brother and her mother also
returned to Canada to live in Ponoka.
her daughter.
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