Alice Elizabeth Lofstrom

School photo is from

http://asalive.archivesalberta.org:8080/access/asa/photo/display/GP...

The first ancestor of Alice Elizabeth Gerow/Lofstrom to die on North American soil was Daniel Giraud. B: 1664 in France. D: 1757 in New York USA. Driven from France in the late sixteen hundreds by religious persecution he escaped death by stealing a boat and rowing across the English channel. From the relative safety of England he made his way to the shores of North America.

His son, Daniel Gerow, B: 1697, New Rochelle, New York married a lady by the name of Catherine Secord, daughter of Dainel Sicard B: France 1672. D: 1742, New York, USA and Catherine Woertman B: 1677. Catherine Secord/Gerow had at least two siblings. Daniel Secord and James A. Seacord. Canadian war heroine Laura Ingersoll Secord's husband James (not this James but one a little farther down the line) was descended from Catherine Gerow's brother Daniel. So there is the (admittely tenuous) distant- cousin connection to a famous person all genealogist are on the look out for. One does not get much more Canadian than that.

Co-incidentally I found this info. a half dozen years ago when I spent some time working on my brother-in-law's commercial potato farm just outside of Edmonton. He gave me a book about his family to read in my long evenings alone in the bunk-house (aka Grandpa's motor home). About half way through the book I realized that some of the people listed in the Keltie / Secord geni-charts were my moms ancestors. Once again proving it's a small world. My husband's adopted sister, by birth, is also his cousin. It seems that her husband is mine - in a round about way.

Quote Alice Lofstrom: "Along the Wapiti." I came to the Wapiti district in 1929 with my parents, Archie & Annie (Walker) Gerow. I first met Harold at a barn dance at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Watts at Pipestone Creek. We were married on June 8, 1945 in Grande Prairie and came home to a nice supper at my parents place. Our first house was a log shack on the Sundin quarter. It was one of the coziest homes I have ever lived in, except for the mice that I never got used to nor was ever able to get rid of.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/76226537/alice-lofstrom