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A genealogical mystery brings a family together
Winnie Benson wanted to know the fate of her great-great-grandmother, but she found something much more
Reading Time: 3 minutes For more than a quarter of a century Winnie Benson had dreamed of this moment. With Carstairs’ Dawn Taylor at her side, she knelt down on the sun-scorched ground of a long-forgotten southern Alberta cemetery and caressed the ancient etchings of a flat gravestone marking the final resting place of Drusilla Ennis, the pair’s great-great-grandmother. […] Read more