Alexander 1843-1916 & Catherine 1853-1923 (MacEachern) MacLauchlan Alva E. Johnson coll.

married on July 10, 1900 in Vancouver to Annie Rippon; 3 c., Ivy (Mrs. Gordon Cavin), Donald and Wade.

6. Mary, b. 1835, Stanhope, d. 6 Jan., 1857, Lot 49, bur. Mermaid; m. 8 Man, 1855, to John MacEachern (b. 17 June, 1831, d. 7 Dec., 1905, bur. Mermaid), son of Alexander and Isabella (Henderson) MacEachern of Lot 49. Mary and John MacEachern lived in Lot 49 when after a marriage of less than two years, she died at age 22.

7. Ann, b. 1836, Stanhope, d. 24 Nov., 1859, Milton, bur. Portage Cemetery; m. 28 Dec., 1858 to John Thomas Rodd (b. 1834, d. 1914, bur. Sherwood) son of Thomas and Margaret (Bell) Rodd of Milton. Ann and John Thomas Rodd lived at Milton, where she died at age 23, after only 11 months of marriage, during the birth of their daughter Ann (Mrs. George B. MacNutt).

8. Mary Ann, b. 1839, Stanhope, d. 17 Apr., 1884, Clyde River, bur. Clyde River Presbyterian Cemetery; m. 5 Feb., 1870 to Ewen Henderson (b. 1837, d. 5 June, 1920, bur. Clyde River Presb.) son of John and Jessie (MacEachern) Henderson of Clyde River. Mary Ann and Ewen Henderson lived and farmed at Clyde River, where their marriage was marked by the deaths of four young children before her own death in 1884 at age 45. 6 c., Charlotte, Mary Jane (Mrs. Albert Duff, later Mrs. Stewart), Florence, James Sutherland, Duncan and Maggie Maud.

9. James, b. 1841, Stanhope, d. 25 Mar., 1871, Stanhope, bur. Shaw Cemetery, Stanhope; m. 8 Aug., 1864 to Lydia Ann Lord (b. 1839, d. 11 Sept., 1867, Tryon, bur. Tryon People’s Cemetery), dau. of James and Charlotte (Callbeck) Lord of Tryon. In 1864 James MacLauchlan purchased 69 acres of land at West Covehead (subsequently Gurney’s), where he and Lydia lived before moving to ’I‘ryon in 1867, where Lydia died. Following her death, James (listed in various documents as mechanic, carpenter, carriage builder) sold his property at Tryon to his brother Donald MacLauchlan, and purchased a property in Clyde River, where he operated a carriage factory prior to returning to his parents’ home in Stanhope in 1870, with his five year old daughter Charlotte; James died here in March, 1871. A

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