Catherine Peacock was the eleventh child and fifth daughter of John Peacock and Mary Ellen Oliver. She was born December 6, 1897 in Macaulay Township and baptized at St. George's Anglican Church at Falkenburg. Kit grew up on the farm on the 9th concession of Macaulay.Her father died when she was about seventeen, and several years later, about 1916, her mother moved to Orillia. 'Kit' apparently worked for a Dr. Elmore at Vineland at one time.
She was the only unmarried child in 1919 when her mother sold the farm property in Macaulay Township, Muskoka. All family members, including Kit signed this document.
Sometime after the First World War, Kit married John Young Whitmore who was born March 6, 1895 in Hamilton, Ontario. (Click on the title above for his military draft record.) Jack was 22 years old when he was drafted in 1918. His next of kin is shown as Curtis Whitmore, father, of Rural Route #1, Ridgeville. He was 5 feet 9 inches tall, with brown hair, medium complexion and blue eyes.The couple had no children; however, as the youngest child, Kit was close in age to her nieces and nephews, the children of her older siblings. She told her niece, Gertrude, stories about the older generations, and when Gertrude protested that the dark details of drinking and political arguments punctuated with cries of 'Derry Walls and No Surrender' shouldn't be recorded, Kit said, "Write it down. That's the way it was!" 'No surrender' was a seventeenth century cry of the people of the Irish city of Londonderry when they were under attack by Catholic troops of King James. Today it is a Loyalist cry in Northern Ireland.
Jack Whitmore was a very successful fruit farmer in St. Catherines, Ontario. He predeceased Kit in 1966. Kit died January 10, 1986 at 88 years of age. Both are buried at the Pleasant View Memorial Cemetery (Section 262), St. Catherine's, Ontario.
