William Alma Tower (1860 - 1939)

Born 4 Feb 1860 in Rockport, Sackville, Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada

Ancestors

Husband of Minnie Augusta Tower — married 19 May 1886 in Amherst, Cumberland, Nova Scotia, Canada

Descendants

Died 21 Oct 1939 at age 79 in Sackville, Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada

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Biography

William Alma Tower, first son of Simon and Frances Lockhart Tower, born February 4, 1861, married Minnie Augusta Tower, born July 25, 1861, first daughter of Christopher and Dorothy Estabrooks Tower.

Wm. Alma Tower was a sailor most of his life, spending the greater part of his seafaring days upon the now famous Blue-Nose schooners of Nova Scotia. These schooners carried cargo between Halifax, N.S., and numerous ports along the Atlantic seaboard of the United States. When he retired from the sea, he became a farmer and lumberman in Rockport, where he owned a considerable tract of land. William Alma Tower died October 21, 1939, aged 78. Minnie Augusta Tower died November 21, 1948, aged 87. They are buried in Rockport, NB, Canada.

Children born of this marriage were:

1. . Bess Florence Tower Born August 8, 1886. Died 1918
2. . Myrtle Violet Tower Born December 20, 1887
3. . Theresa May Tower Born January 27, 1890.
4. . Ethel Gertrude Tower Born August 27, 1892 Died 1936
5. . Carl Christopher Tower Born November 25, 1895
6. . Eugene Wilbur Tower Born March 11, 1897.
7. . Alma Clifford Tower Born September 23, 1903.
8. . Herbert Harold Tower Born February 27, 1906.

Sources

• Michael M Tower PhD, Related to Two Second Generation Towers in Tower Talk
• Find A Grave: Memorial #31342282
• Death Certificate from New Brunswick Vital Statistics.