Register entry 278 - Euphemia Forrest-Clay
Visited the Bell Farm on April 13, 1889.
Euphemia Forrest-Clay (1858-1923) was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, and married John Clay Jr. in 1881. John was a Scottish-born immigrant who became a very successful businessman and managed British cattle companies in Montana and Wyoming. John Clay was the President of the Wyoming Stock Growers Association and established a livestock commission firm at the Chicago stockyards, John Clay and Co.
Little is known about Euphemia, but her father - John Forrest - became wealthy in the Ontario milling business. The text accompanying the painting of her states that she was "an avid gardener, [and] created the spectacular flower garden which Graves brilliantly captures" in his painting. She died in 1923 and was buried in Woodstock Presbyterian Cemetery, Oxford County Municipality, Ontario.
SOURCES:
https://archive.org/details/whoswhoalongnort1915sale/page/248 pg 249 / Mr and Mrs Clay @ Finisterre/North Shore directory
Photo: https://www.vosegalleries.com/works/garden-at-finisterre-eastern-point-gloucester-ma#.XZwACiMrI3E painting source
http://www.wyomingtalesandtrails.com/swan3.html
http://www.dunsehistorysociety.co.uk/clay.shtml
RESEARCH BY:
Michelle Cabana, Saskatoon, Sask. and Frank Korvemaker, Regina, Sask.