(fl. first half 20th-century), among earliest settlers from continental Europe to enter the GC farm community, preceding the post-WWII Dutch and Swiss. John Freund, a farmer at Glen Roy, aged 28, who was born in Germany and had spent the last three years in Glen Roy, was killed by a bolt of lightning, 24 June 1934, at the barn on the family farm. He was married. (three children) His father Josef or Joseph, born in Hungary, who was badly injured in the same lightning incident, was in ill health for the rest of his life and died on 30 Jan. 1941 in Cornwall. John and Joseph and Joseph’s wife Catherine Schmidt (d. 1952) are buried in St. Raphael’s cemetery.

Standard Freeholder 29 June 1934, Glengarry News 29 June 1934, SFH 31 Jan. 1941 * Fraser, Gravestones, III, 69