"C en the year 1934 the Point farm changed hands again. John Doyle decided to move to town, fed up with trying to make a living farming. This family rented various homes, their final Charlottctown address being , across from . John became a handyman<arpcnter and about I960 moved to with the Daley family who had moved to Charlottetown from Windsor, Nova Scotia . He and Ellie later moved to the home of his daughter Margaret and her husband Gus Campbell , on Upper . It was in this home that Ellie died, surrounded by her family members, myself included. John died in the Sacred Heart Home in Charlotte- town on April 3, 1975. John sold the farm in 1934 to his brother Joseph ( Joseph Pierce ) who had a prosperous farm at , Lot 6 5. (This community is now known as Cumberland .) Joe had a hard life in many ways. His first wife, Elizabeth Foley , bore him four children, three of whom died young. Their second boy kro died of spinal meningitis at the age of ten. Their daughter Claire, an infant of two i months, and her mother Elizabeth both died in 1918 of the flu. (At the close of World War I, in 1918, adcadly strain of Spanish influenza swept theworld. P.E.I. I was not spared.) A third child, Edward, was to die tragically at the Point farm. Peter, their only surviving son, is the Peter mentioned in the next few pages. Joseph then married Josephine Murphy , only to have her die during the birth of their first child, Joseph. Joseph's third wife was Adcrina Kelly from Kelly's Cross. From this marriage came two girls—Kathleen, who was to marry Athol Mac Donald, and Mary, who married Oswald Murphy . Mary and Kathleen I used to occasionally visit their cousins "LitUe John*, "SkTCFrank), Isabcllc,and Margaret, at the Doyle home in Mermaid , prior to moving there themselves in 1934. Aunt Margaret, tells of an incident which happened on the farm when she was a child. Her brother John found a brood of young ducklings in the barn one cold spring. There was an old trough used to water the horses out in the barnyard, and John proceeded to gather up all the ducklings and carry them to the trough. It was so cold that day that newly-hatched birds died from shock and exposure (hypothermia). By that time, his mother was on the scene. f What did you do that for John?" she said. With big tears in his eyes, not [realizing the consequences of his actions, he murmered "I was thwimin' 'cm.' It"I was swimming them.") I