Bert Belcher at Woodlawn Cemetery

During my visit to Woodlawn Cemetery in also visited the grave of Bert Belcher. 
I also visited him back and took photos in 2008. 

Bertrum Melvin Theodore Belcher was born August 13, 1897 in the town of Park River, North Dakota. He was the son of Daniel Belcher and Elizabeth Jane 'Lizzie' McCoy. I am not sure what they were doing in Park River. But it was a railway junction a hundred miles south of Manitou, Manitoba where his mother's family lived. So it is easy to imagine his mason/contractor American father travelling there for work.
After Daniel died in 1901, Elizabeth and her children moved to Perdue, Saskatchewan and she married Wesley Kee. 

The first photo shows Bert and his older brother Fred about 1913.
The second shows the young widow Elizabeth Belcher and her children Fred, Bert and Margaret. (Margaret was my grandmother. Bert would have been my great-uncle).