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11 February 2025

David March © 2014

MARGARET ANN (MAGGIE) FULLER née DOAN

Margaret Ann (Maggie) Doan was born on 8 February 1862 in Brooke Township, Ontario to Ephraim Evans Doan (1863-1913) & Adelia Permillia Slack (1833-1870). Maggie had two brothers, Alvin W (b 1859) and George Wesley (1863-1945). After her mother died, her father married Eleanor Martin (1845-1926) and Maggie had three half-sisters, Ada (Addie) Uret (1872-1926), Permilla Eleanor (1873-1947) & Ethel May (1894-1964) and six half-brothers, James Arthur (1875-1877), John Homer (1878-1959), William Martin (1880-1951), Robert Franklin (1882-1918), Stanley Garfield (1886-1968) & Ernest Ephraim (1889-1972).

Maggie married William Thomas Fuller (1864-1953) on 25 December 1888 in Lambton County, Ontario. William was born on 2 September 1864 to George Fuller (1834-1918) and Sarah Clark (1838-1925). William had one brother, John Clark (1857-1945) and two sisters, Mary (1859-1890) and Ann Jane (1862-1890). William was a Methodist, and a farmer at the time of his marriage.

Maggie & William had four daughters, Sarah Permilla (Millie) (1889-1967), Mary Eleanor (Mamie) (b 1891), Ida Embury (b 1895) & Etta May (1898-1980) and one son, William “Earl” (1900-1973). The family came west to Saskatoon in 1912 and William became a grain buyer. The lived at 521 5th Ave N for many years. Maggie died on 19 December 1918, aged 56 years.

In 1920, William opened a grocery store and several of his family found employment there. Around this time William married Rebecca Jane Clarke (b 1868). Rebecca had had two previous marriages and had three children, Dora Grace Chapman (b 1898), Williard Francis Chapman (b 1900) and Lancelot John James Coulter (b 1906).

After his retirement in 1926, William lived with his daughter Etta and her husband Clare Milton Duffus at 1501 20th St W. William died on 1 June 1953 in Saskatoon and is buried alongside his first wife in Woodlawn Cemetery.

This family tree can be found on Ancestry under the title 3rd Ave Fuller Tree.

This signature may have some special significance in relation to the dating of the quilt, as it appears to be in Maggie’s own hand (the calligraphy being quite distinct from that of other names) and the fact that she died right at the end of 1918.

William Fuller Family
Back Row: Ida, Millie, Mamie
Front Row: William, Earl, Etta, Maggie (Doan)