La paternité de l'enfant non révélée à son décès

Les registres de la Coaticook Methodist Church pour le 20 mars 1901 font état de l'acte de sépulture suivant :                          

«Burial   Wells. March 1901. 

Olive Wells, daughter of Laura Wells, of the village and County of La Prairie, Province of Quebec, (paternity unrevealed), died on the Eighteenth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and one, aged fourteen years, and was buried by me, in the Mount Forest Cemetery, Coaticook, Quebec, on the twentieth day of the same month, in the same year, in presence of subscribing witnesses.

Thos.A. Barney       J.H. Knapp        Chas. A. Sykes Minister.».

Pour certains enfants nés de parents inconnus, le mystère de leurs origines perdure jusqu'à leur décès.

[Summary :

The church record for the burying of a girl in Coaticook, Québec.]