Edward Andrews and Museum Charles Brown
Armel Taylor
Mrs. Priscilla Woodside
Blair Buell
Ellsworth Champion
Mrs. Annie Sharpe
James Woodside
Alan Warren
Martin Gallant
Noy Moase
Roland Profitt
Mrs. Frances Henderson
HEARTH AND HOME
He who has a hearth and home And family ties to treasure, And loving arms to welcome him Is rich beyond all measure.
He who has a dwelling place, Where love’s a treasured thing,
Will find he has the best of gifts That life could ever bring.
HISTORY OF SETTLERS
WILLARD THOMPSON
Alexander MacArthur and his wife Ellen Lee lived here. They had a family of five boys and two girls. The farm was taken over by their son Newton and his wife Cathern MacArthur from Grand River. They had seven daughters and one son. Their son John and his wife Edna Mill, farmed for some years before selling and moving to Western Canada. They had one son. Later three daughters were born. William Profitt then bought the farm and he and his wife, Hazel MacMurdo of Kelvin Grove, farmed for a number of years. Their family’s names are Wendell married to Dorothy Allen, Summerside; Georgie (Mrs. Walter Simmons, Traveller’s Rest); David (deceased) and Rowan married to Muriel Mac! Lellan, Halifax. The Profitt’s sold to C. C. Baker, who later sold to John W. Thompson and his wife Pearle Bynon. Their family are, Ella (Mrs. Herbert Simmons, St. Eleanors) ; Keith, married to Gladys Moase. They llved in Margate for awhile before moving to New Annan; Carrie (Mrs. Charles Beairsto, Dartmouth, NS); and Willard, who married Shirley Moase, New Annan in 1954. Willard’s father died in 1954. Willard now
farms there. They have four children: Brian, Beverley, Bruce and Beth— any.
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