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Sophia Jessie Clover Phillips MacCallum
1894–1925
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Sophie Phillips MacCallum is commemorated with her husband, Lauchie D. MacCallum, on the family memorial at R2-009 in the Pioneer Cemetery. The monument records Sophie as 1894–1925. By the 1931 census, Lauchie’s household included their children John, Ralph and Helen, providing a strong family bridge between the cemetery and the surviving census record. A nearby footstone marked MOTHER at R3-009 is strongly supported as Sophie’s associated marker because it follows the Ralph and Helen footstones in the same family sequence. The identification remains uncertain because the footstone itself says only “Mother.”
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195 enumerated residents in 37 original census family units. These are source households, not inferred genealogical branches or street addresses. Cancelled entries are excluded; source spellings and recorded ages are retained.
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Selected person’s details ↑Family around Sophia Jessie Clover Phillips MacCallum · 5 generations · 4 of 12 people
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- Laughlin “Lauchie D.” MacCallum ↔ spouse of Sophia Jessie Clover Phillips MacCallum
- Laughlin “Lauchie D.” MacCallum → parent of Ralph C. MacCallum
- Sophia Jessie Clover Phillips MacCallum → parent of Ralph C. MacCallum
- Laughlin “Lauchie D.” MacCallum → parent of Helen Erma MacCallum
- Sophia Jessie Clover Phillips MacCallum → parent of Helen Erma MacCallum
- Ralph C. MacCallum ↔ sibling of Helen Erma MacCallum