Charles and June. Charles married Aletha Large and they have two (2) children, June married Louis MacDonald and they live at Carleton Corner and have four (4) children.

Mary Ann married James Irving and they had one ( 1) daugh- ter, Ann who married Stephen Muttart.

Sophia died from Diphtheria when a young woman.

Jane and Elizabeth both died in their sixties and neither was ever married.

Charles married Ann Dawson from Tryon. He lived on a farm at Carleton Pt., and had two (2) children, Newton who never married and died quite young and Sophia who married William McInnes of Carleton and had eleven (11) children.

Robert married Hannah MacWilliams 1846 - 1923. He lived on the same farm as the first Carruthers settler at Carleton but moved farther up from the shore and built a new house for him— self. They had a family of five (5) sons and two (2) daughters, William, Jan., 1st 1866 - Nov. 17, 1939, Sophia Nov. 1867, Ed- ward 1869 - July 30, 1897, Norman May 6, 1872 - Thomas 1875 - 1955, Major Sept, 23, 1878 — 1955 and Eliza May 4, 1882 — 1934,

, William the eldest son lived on the homestead at Carleton and his father and mother and the rest of the family bought the farm in Augustine Cove now owned by Claire Carruthers. He crossed on the Iceboats between Cape Traverse and Cape Tormen- time for many winters. In 1895 he married Adah Campbell of Searletown and they had two (2) sons and four (4) daughters. Arthur farmed until quite recently when he sold the Carruthers property to John E. Read Who now owns all the lands first settled by the Carruthers family when they came from Scotland and is himself a fifth generation descendant from the first Thomas Carruthers. Arthur has retired and is at present boarding at

the Borden Hotel.

James lives in Borden and works for the C.N.R. He married Eva Williams of O’Leary and they have one (1) daughter, Linda born in 1952.

Aletha graduated from P.W.C. and taught school in Borden, Bedeque and Summerside before going to North Adams, Mass, where she entered a Nurse’s Training School and graduated in 1925. During the last war she served as a Nurse in the Ameri- can Army from which she was retired with the rank of Lieuten‘ ant. She at present is with the Presbyterian Hospital, New York

City.

Mabel attended P.W.C. and taught in Cape Traverse, Borden, North Bedeque and Belmont. She married Arnett Simpson of Belmont and has two (2) daughters, Olga (Mrs. Harley Gamble) Lot 16 who has two (2) sons, Robert and John, and Shirley who is with the Red Cross Blood Donors Clinic in Halifax, NS.

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