ST-DENIS/PRIDDLE:  The above tintype features John Priddle (1819-1908), a carpenter and cabinet maker from Somerset, England and his wife Sarah (Johnson) Priddle (1829-1868), whose family hailed from Henley-on-Thames, England.  After Sarah died in 1868, John married a widow by the name of Jane Philips (Bouck) in 1873.  Presumably, it was after John’s second marriage that he erected a tombstone to Sarah, who is described on it as “1st wife of John Priddle.”  After Jane Priddle died in 1874, she was given a tombstone matching Sarah’s, along with the same  epitaph:  “She died in the faith of Christ,” and describing her as “2nd wife of John Priddle.”  John married for a third time in 1877, but Mary Graves (Simmons) appears to have had her own plans for a final resting place.  When Mary died in 1908, outliving John by a week, she was buried alongside her first husband, on whose tombstone she is described not as “3rd wife of John Priddle,” but rather as “wife of John Graves.”

John Priddle and his first two wives are buried in the Baptist Cemetery, Glen Meyer, Ontario.  Mary, his third wife, is buried in the nearby Hemlock Baptist Cemetery.