Louis Fecht - Beechwood Cemetery - Ottawa, Ontario - Broken Column Headstones on Waymarking.com

Louis Fecht's remains were removed from the old cemetery in Sandy Hill and reintered in 1906. Shortly before Fecht's death, the 1861 census of Ottawa recorded the music teacher's household which included wife Elisabeth and daughters Louisa and Fanny. Elizabeth McDonald married Louis Fecht in Ottawa, 5 July 1858.

According to the parish registers for St Paul's Presbyterian Church in Montreal, Margaret Marie Louise Fecht, daughter of the late Louis Fecht (professor of music at Ottawa), died 2 April 1870, age eleven. Fannie Augusta Eugenie Fecht married David McKay McGown, 15 April 1891. Elizabeth Telfer McDonald, widow of the late H L F Fecht died 26 February 1894 in her sixty-seventh year.

Headstone/Monument Text: IN MEMORY OF LOUIS FECHT native of Frankfurt in the Oder Prussia. TEACHER OF MUSIC In the City of Ottawa. DIED. NOV. 7 1861 AE 31 YEARS. This monument is erected by the Pupils, and Friends, in appreciation of His worth as a Man and his talents as a Musician. 1866 Noch nicht gestorben Website with More Information: Not listed

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