Individual Details

The report of his death reads: "11 February 1864 TEL: On Saturday 30th Ult, Chas. s/o Nathan Ryder, New Canaan (Queens's Co) was killed while unloading logs at the brow of the lower north branch of the New Canaan River. He had left camp at sunrise with a load of three logs, and being absent longer than usual , his brothers went to see if anything was wrong and found him lying dead in the brow with a log on top of him. The deceased was a remarkably able-bodied man, about 20 years of age, and in height not less than six feet eight inches." [Vital Statistics from New Brunswick (Canada) Newspapers, Vol. 21 #2594]

Birth	1847	New Canaan, Brunswick Parish, Queens County, New Brunswick
Death	30 Jan 1864	New Canaan, Brunswick Parish, Queens County, New Brunswick
Burial		Old Methodist Cemetery, New Canaan, Queens County, New Brunswick
Occupation		Woodsman

Father	NATHAN RIDER (1817 - 1896)
Mother	MARY CATHERINE TOLSON (1822 - 1906)
Sibling	JAMES ALEXANDER RYDER (1840 - )
Sibling	LUCINDA RYDER (1842 - 1860)
Sibling	WILLIAM FREDERICK RYDER (1844 - 1916)
Sibling	JOSEPH CHIPMAN RYDER (1850 - 1883)
Sibling	ELIZABETH AMANDA RYDER (1852 - )
Sibling	DAVID HART RYDER (1855 - 1879)
Sibling	CHARLES ERMINE RYDER (1856 - 1940)
Sibling	NATHAN E. (ARMAN?) RYDER (1857 - )
Sibling	THOMAS HANFORD RYDER (1858 - 1887)
Sibling	MARY CATHERINE RYDER (1861 - )