ed till Neil McIsaac a war veteran married to Julia Arsenault and their family Doris, Jean, Shirley, Norma, Phyllis, Gerald, LeRoy, Reginald lived there for a time and now the present owner is Her- bert Stewart.
South of these farms Thomas MacMicken erected a house and married Lydia Crockett. Their son Bruce and his wife Sadie Doull lived till Bruce died. David Auld bought it and lived there a short time till selling to Stewart MacMicken. After some years Daniel Ross and his son Gordon married to Florence bought it and lived there for a number of years before the present owner Lloyd MacWilliams bought it.
Before coming to the cross roads in the north—east corner was the Alexander MacLeod home. The buildings are gone and only a hollow marks the place where the house stood. The fam- ily was James Roderick and John. James married Sadie War- ren. Their family, Bliss, John, Thomas, Matilda, Cicily, Annie, Elizabeth, Agnes, Janie and Muriel.
Bliss and John went to Western Canada. Matilda married Charles Sharkey and her daughter Edith, Mrs. Edward McLellan lives in Carleton. Cicily and Annie married brothers, Neil and Alec McInnis of Mt. Tryon. Elizabeth married Neil MacNevin, Agnes, Charles McGaughey, Janie, Sylvester McMurrer and Mur- iel lives in Albany.
Roderick MacLeod had two sons, John and Vincent and Bur- pee MacMicken married his widow.
The first home on the shore road was Alex Manson. Their son John lived on this farm and sold it to Thomas McCarville. The Manson and McCarville history will give a fuller account. John Crockett Sr., built the house by the shore. His son John and family lived in it before moving to Alberta and sold it to William Noonan of Albany.
Another arm of the cross roads was what they called the Bay Road leading to Albany. The first home owned in 1869 by Matt— hew Callbeck who had part of the present farm was married to to Charlotte Newsome. Their family Angonetta, Robert, William, Irene May, Caroline, Mary Jane. In later years Thomas Mac- Micken bought the farm and later owned by his son George, who when he retired from farming sold it to Mr. Lasswaugh from Quebec who did not live there very long. George MacMicken then bought it back for his son, Stewart who with his son, Arthur were the owners till James Stewart, a son of Herbert’s bought it and now lives there with his wife, the former Elaine Noonan and their children Kathy, Karen and Stephen. In the early days of this district Black Alec Mansion owned fifty acres of land on the left side of the road.
The next farm was owned by Donald Campbell who sold it to an American, Henry Bramhall. When he retired and moved to Borden, Aden McCarville bought it followed by Arthur Car- ruthers purchasing it who after a few years sold to Stewart and Arthur MacMicken and now the owner is James O’Connell. The
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