{"id":2392,"date":"2020-08-25T09:57:35","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T13:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/warnerfamily.ca\/?p=2392"},"modified":"2024-03-05T16:47:01","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T21:47:01","slug":"uncle-tom-warner-the-saddest-story-in-our-family-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/warnerfamily.ca\/uncle-tom-warner-the-saddest-story-in-our-family-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncle Tom Warner: the Saddest Story in our Family History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I have a special affection for James [Warner] and Margaret [Quinn]\u2019s fifth child, their third son, Thomas. Our great granduncle was one of the hardest of our relatives to track down in the records. For years he was a mystery. Then, in the spring of 2015, the missing puzzle pieces started to turn up and fall into place. Within a month or so, I was finally able to pull together the story of this elusive uncle.<\/p>\nWarner Stories (unpublished)<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Many of you know that I have been working for years on a book about our family. The working title is Warner Stories: A Narrative Family History for the Descendants and Relatives of Harley Warner and Helen Price<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the book about half finished and a couple of years at least away from being published, I’ve decided that’s maybe it’s time to share some of the chapters that are ready to go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My favourite chapter, so far, tells the story of my great great uncle, Thomas Benson “Tom” Warner<\/a> (1864-1908), an older brother of my great grandfather, Harold Rix “Harry” Warner<\/a> (1874-1944).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It might be the saddest of all the sad stories I’ve discovered while researching our family. Poor Uncle Tom just couldn’t get a break. He died tragically and alone at the age of forty-four.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For reasons you’ll understand when you reach the end of the chapter, the family’s oral tradition included not a single word about Uncle Tom. Even though I only know him from what I’ve found in public records, he has become very real to me. When my wife and I visited his grave in Brooklyn, New York a few years ago, I was very conscious that it was, almost certainly, his first visit from a family member in over a hundred years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m pleased that I was able to reconstruct his story and I urge you, by reading the chapter below, to join me in honouring a family member long forgotten but now remembered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/object>Thomas Benson Warner<\/a>Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have a special affection for James [Warner] and Margaret [Quinn]\u2019s fifth child, their third son, Thomas. Our great granduncle was one of the hardest of our relatives to track down in the records. For years he was a mystery. Then, in the spring of 2015, the missing puzzle pieces started to turn up and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2402,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,73],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/warnerfamily.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/The-Wreck-of-the-Express-at-Monaca.jpg?fit=547%2C308&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/warnerfamily.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2392"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/warnerfamily.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/warnerfamily.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warnerfamily.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warnerfamily.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2392"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/warnerfamily.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10315,"href":"https:\/\/warnerfamily.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2392\/revisions\/10315"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warnerfamily.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/warnerfamily.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warnerfamily.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warnerfamily.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}