Beals should put in an appearance, but the deed was done before he arrived. The farm of 103 acres was sold in 1879 to Major Schurman ( L 4 F806, Summerside ) and in the same year Schurman sold 15 acres off the west side of the property to John Cairns for $150.00 ( L 14 F370, Summerside ) and in 1 883 he sold the remaining 88 acres to Collingwood Reeves for S 2000.00 (LI 1 F346, Summerside ). John continued to farm his share of the land and raised a family of nine girls and two boys, the latter were William and Elton. William Daniel was killed at in 1891 by rolling logs, and five years later his only son Orin died at the age of thirteen years. Both are buried in the Baptist Cemetery in Central Bedeque . The remainder of William Daniel 's family then moved away and John hauled the old house up to his farm and joined it on to his own house, where it still remains in an excellent state of preservation. In 1947 Howard, Elton's son, the present owner, moved the old kitchen off and replaced it with a new modern kitchen. The old kitchen serves as an implement shelter. After the death of Collingwood Reeves ' son George in 1946, Elton and Howard Cairns rented the Reeves' farm for a number of years, and in 1954 they purchased it. Thus after a lapse of seventy-five years the original Cairns' farm came under the Cairns' ownership once more. William, John's eldest son bought land from MacDonald, immediately north of his father's farm and also in 1926 bought the adjoining Vernon Malone property. He farmed here until his death in 1932. Afterward William's son J. Scott and Grandson William Cecil decided to extend their holdings with the purchase of the properties of Basil Taylor and Louis Cairns , both farms being part of the original Gilbert Henderson Estate of Liverpool, England . This then gave J. Scott and William C. a convenient farm of approximately four hundred acres, where a herd of about thirty milking Holsteins and one hundred and fifty feeder pigs are the main source of income. It is hoped that one or more of William's boys will remain on the farm to carry on the Cairns' tradition. THE SCHURMANS Another family to make its influence felt in the early days on the district was that of the Schurmans. One of the most prominent United Empire Loyalists to settle in Bedeque in 1784 was William Schurman , who secured 350 acres of land in Central Bedeque where now are located the farms of Monty Gardiner and Leith Schurman. William died in 1819 and his grave is probably the oldest in the North Bedeque cemetery. The following is the inscription on his headstone: In this place are interred the remains of WILLIAM SCHURMAN Undeviating in honesty and sincerity 15