Wesley married Eliza Tanton and they emigrated to Boston. 'They had several sons.

Theodore married Flora Tanton and they lived on the )1d Pickering farm in Stanley Bridge.

Mary Jane married John Mayne, Emerald. They had tweve children.

Lydia married Robert Bagnall and, after her death, he mir- ried her sister Edith.

Harriet married Robert Heaney. See Heaney history. Jemima married Thomas Heaney. See Heaney history.

William II married Mary MacKinnon, 1859—1939, Graham’s Road. They lived in Iowa, US He was born in 1858 and died in 1934. They had five children.

James Pickering purchased the property that his grandfather James had leased, from the government of P.E.I. in 1880. He came to be known as “Stonehouse” or Sr. to distinguish him from David’s son James who was nick-named “post office Jim” or “f at roofed Jim”.

James Pickering Sr., 1850-1922, married Catherine MacInt< sh, 1847-1939. They had the following family: Ernest, Alma, Eva and Ruth.

Alma, 1873-1925. See George Dennis farm.

Eva, 1878-1971, never married, lived on her father’s farm, excepting a few years in the U.S.A.

Ruth, 1889-1962, married Wallace Bell, Long River, and 1hel" moved to western Canada. They had two children.

' James Pickering Sr. had an uncle David Pickering who owned land west of his land and he bought the portion of it that exter ded as far as Harding’s Creek.

Ernest, 1876-1962, married Edna Bertram, born 1890. He operated his father’s farm and they had one son George and two daughters: Irene and Katherine.

Irene, born 1921, married Blois MacEwen, Stanley Bridge, and they have two sons.

Katherine, born 1923, married Earl Taylor, Malpeque, and they have one son. Katherine was a school teacher. George Pickering George, born 1922, married Rena Woodside, born 1925, Mar' gate. George built a new barn on this property in 1959.

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