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Niagara Gazette - 11/25/1921

Son of Falls Family Who Enlisted in Canadian Army Is Reported
to Be in Oregon with Rigging Gang, the News
Carried Here Thanksgiving. .

Mr. and Mrs. John Shomers. of No. 339
Sixth street, had their Thanksgiving
joys heightened yesterday by tho receipt
of a. letter from John Shomers,
Jr., 34 y e a r s old. from whom they had
received no word since his enluitment
in tho Canadian army during the summer
of 1918. Young Shomers was working
in Winnipeg, at the outbreak of the
world war, and his parents received a
letter in '1910 stating that ho was going
to enlist. As no farther word was received,
after the signing of tho armis-
tico, they wrote the Canadian Armypersonnel
bureau in Ottawa and a reply
was received stating that all trace i
'of Shomers had been lost. After this
he was given up a s among the missing
dead, lie is now employed as boss rigger,
with the Standard American Dredging
company, who a r e now doing a big
harbor job inOregon. Clarence Shomers
a brother was killed tn France on
August 2S, l^lS, and Harry was wounded
and gassed but is now a t home with
his parents.

John married BOHNACKER, Matilda about 1884 in New York. Matilda was born on 24 Jun 1859 in New York; died on 5 Jun 1927 in Niagara Falls, Niagara County, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Niagara Gazette - 6/6/1927

Was Member of Falls Pioneer
Family; Funeral Tomorrow
Afternoon.

Mrs. Matilda Bonacker Shomers
died at 11:30 a.m. yesterday at her
home, 339 Sixth street. She had
been 111 since last December and
during her long period of suffering
won tho admiration and sympathy of
many friends and neighbors by her
optimistic *pirlt and fortitude,
A member of one of the pioneer
families of the Niagara frontier, Mrs.
Shomers was born in Niagara Falls.
Had she lived until Juno 24, she
would.have bsen S8 years old. Before
Illness prevented she was
prominent in fraternal circles being
a member of Rosebud Re be. .ah lodge,
Flagler chapter. Order of the Eastern
Star, and Niagara Falls court,
Order"0f The Amaranth
Mrs. Shomers Is survived by her
husband, John P. Shomers, veteran
mail carrier of the Falls branch of
the postal service: four sons, Burt,
Joseph F., former La Salle village
clerk and Harry, ail of this • city,
and John P. Jr., of the state of
Washington; a daughter, Mrs. Burt
Cole, Oneida; five grandchildren,
Joseph, Frank, John 1'. 3d., Emily
and Billy; a sister, Miss Catherine
Bonacker, and a brother, George
Bonacker, of this city. Clarence D.
Shomers,' another son, was killed in
action In France during the World
war.
Funeral services for Mrs. Bonacker
will be held at 4 p.m. Tuesday at
the family home, the Rev. Albert S.
Bacon of the First Presbyterian
church, officiating. Burial will be
in Riverdale cemetery.

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Niagara Gazette - 8/9/1913

SHOMERS FUNERAL
MONDAY MORNING
The funeral of Peter Shomers. -ffho
died Thursday evening, will be he'l
from the house, No. 727 Spruce avemii
Monday morning at 9 o'clock. Mr.
Shomers was 79 years old and a veteran
of the Civil War. He was survive!
by two sons, John of this city, anl
Charles of Buffalo, and three daugh.
ters. Miss Catherine Shomers and Mr?.
Albert RommeiJl of this city, and Mrs.
William Glassbrook of Niagara Fa!:s,
Ont Burial will be In St, Mary's cemetery.

Peter + MORAN, Bridget. Bridget was born about 1840 in Ireland; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]