Ella May Prestlien

  Research Notes:

1. source: www.worldconnect.rootsweb.com;
contact: Marvin Knock [marvin@knock.com]; 7 July 2007. Provides no source information.

- also lists 4 children, living (names not provided)

2. source: Shadows of the Neutrals, 1967; Coronation and District history

Transcription: page 202-203 Silver Heights

Homesteaders in the Silver Heights district in 1906.... Until the store and post office was established, Talbot was their shopping center. In 1922, Mr. and Mrs. Hasslett came to visit the latter's sister, Mrs. Bob Gilbertson. They remained to build a store and applied for a post office to be put in the store [however, they decided to return to Ontario]. Mrs. Gilbertson was the first post-mistress.
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The Aberdovery School District was organized as early as 1909 due to the persistence of Mr. Owen Evans, a homessteader of 1906....but due to lack of students it was not until 1925 that the school was built. Doors opened in the fall of 1925 with Mr. Ray Daniels as teacher. Following him were....Ella Prestlein (Mrs. Jack McLarty)....

Miss Ella Prestlein came to the Abverdovy to teach in September, 1928. Her parents had moved to the district in 1924 to farm the land belonging to her grandparents and uncles - the Gedstads - and she welcomed the chance to stay at home for a year or two.

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3. Source: Memories and Milestones, Amisk-Hughenden, 2006; page 1020

- Normal school training in 1922-1923 in Camrose
- first school Lowe, north of Amisk; then New Salem south of Camrose, then Teat Hills south of Czar, then Aberdovey School in the Silver Heights post office
- married Jack McLarty; lived on the farm 2 miles north of where her parents lived


4. Funeral Service: 11 Dec 1989, Trinity United Church, Coronation [broucher, posted by Prestlien Family Tree on Ancestry, sr_homan1
[ died 7 Dec 1989, Coronation, AB]

- born 14 Mar 1903, Standwood, WA
- spring of 1910 the family emigrated - homestead in the Surgar Bowl district south of Hughenden
- high school at Camrose Lutheran College, then Camrose Normal School
- 29 Aug 29, 1930 married John James (Jack) McLarty - farmed, then in 1943 rented the farm and bought store and Post office at Silver Heights; lived there for 10 yrs
- 1953, moved back to the farm; Ella resumed teaching at Brownfield school.
- Jack died in hospital in Edmonton, 4 Dec 1955 - Ella continued teaching and the in 1969 she moved to Camrose and then in 1985 back to Coronation
- Ella was predeceased by her husband Jack in 1955, her father Simon Prestlien in 1959; sisters Louie, Esther, Leonor and brothers, Orville, Gordon, Bertel and George
- survived by her four children: Jean (Stan) Bridge of Sylan Lake, Janet (Jim) Bay of Busby, Gordon [Shirley] of Coronation and Errol [Kaye] of Sylvan Lake ..
grandchildren ... 2 sisters, Amelia (Gordon) Homa and Melvina (Elmer) Jacobs, both frm Amisk ^369,370,2232

Ella married Jack McLarty on 29 Aug 1930 in Alberta, Canada. (Jack McLarty was born on 9 Dec 1907 in Alberta, Canada,³⁷⁷ died on 4 Dec 1955 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada ³⁷⁷ and was buried in Fairfield Cemetery, Brownfield, Alberta, Canada.)