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     This imposing house is prominent upot its elevation from which JIS 
     
     folk enjoy the varying faces of sunsets and seamts on the bay. 
     
    
   
   
    
     William .lr. farmed until stricken with ll health, possilbl)‘ due to a 
     
     blow on the head which had caused him pain or a long period of time. Tne 
     
     Hackers moved to North Bedeque to live \xitl William‘s brothter, Thomas, 
     
     and Mrs. Hacker later moved to Summersid: William and Ella had two 
     
     sons and one daughter: 
     
    
   
   
    
     Claude married a lady from Quebec. They hacone son. James. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Louis married, late in life, to Elsie l\r1acLe0d.Following Elsie’s death 
     
     he married Naomi ‘ . 
     
    
   
   
    
     Ruby (1895—1960 married Harry Hall, and hac‘one daughter, Virginia. 
     
     Louis and Claude both were veterans of \r'orld War One. 
     
     SIMMONS 
     
    
   
   
    
     Frederick Simmons (April 1. l867-Jar. 7, 1939) married Bertha 
     
     Hannah Simmons (Feb. 5, l867—May. l95]))f Crapaud. They and their 
     
     family moved front lot l6 to Wilmot Valley it 1903, when they bought the 
     
     Hacker property. Frederick farmed and raisedi‘oxes. He was one of the first 
     
     men in the community to have a gas—engine. Fred and Bertha had a large 
     
    
   
   
    
     family: 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
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     rig/II was lmlll a). INF/t Hip \('l'{/H/I mt I/w lt'/, nu t/m/lezU/H. William (‘rilt'lt/"H' 
     
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