Time of Glory

On a hill in a cemetery about a kilometre from here is a testament to a family which was one of the proudest in Ingersoll’s history.

A fine man named Norsworthy arrived from England and married a young woman with the last name of Cuthbert. Her dowry included a grand house which was home to a family of three sons and one daughter. Like so many other families at the time their sense of duty met with the First World War and with it, an unexpected loss and a great thinning of an entire generation, rich and poor alike. One remnant of their story is found on a monument in a cemetery in northeast Ingersoll . . .


. . . . which documents the brief lives of Norsworthy’s sons and nephews who remain buried in Europe.

The story of the family and the deaths on the battle field are told on an Ancestry website.
http://www.annebrooks.ca/getperson.php?personID=I4296&tree=6126
http://www.annebrooks.ca/getperson.php?personID=I4268&tree=6126

The Norsworthy’s story lives into this century in part because of the pride and vision of the family which led them to hire two prominent Canadian sculptors to create the monument.
H MacCarthy - who created the portrait bust.

http://www.goldiproductions.com/thecanadasite/art/art34a_maccarthy1.html

and Henri He’bert - who prepared the plaques.

http://cybermuse.gallery.ca/cybermuse/search/artist_work_e.jsp?iartistid=2602
The gaze of the fallen are directed across the river towards the house where they were raised.