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     Sarah Baker or “Sally” (Sept. 5, 1814-Apri120, 1878) 
     
     Donald (Sept. 5, 1814-Feb. 14, 1911) 
     
    
   
   
    
     Sarah and Donald did not marry. They lived at the homestead in 
     
     Norboro. 
     
    
   
   
    
     STAVERT 
     
    
   
   
    
     Peter Stavert (1841-1906) was the son of Thomas and Margaret (Boa) 
     
     Stavert of Wilmot Valley. Peter married Elizabeth Auld (1846-1910) of 
     
     Covehead, in 1872. They farmed where Ira Arsenault lives, also owning a 
     
     fifty-acre strip of land in Lot 19 where James Smallman lives (1979). 
     
     Thomas had owned the Lot 25 portion since 1863, according to Lake’s 
     
     Topographical Map. Peter and Elizabeth had a family of nine children. The 
     
     family were very quiet; whether their Presbyterian up-bringing was so strict 
     
     as to hamper their courtships is unknown; whatever the case may be, eight 
     
     of the children did not marry. Fred, May and Annie continued to farm after 
     
     their father’s death. The Staverts lived in Wilmot Valley until about 1940. 
     
     The family of Peter and Elizabeth were: Thomas Addison (1873-1897), 
     
     Robert Hensley (1874-1941), Alice Bertha (1876-1928), Joseph Fred (1878- 
     
     1937), Annie H. (1880-1942), Peter Erskine, Nettie (1888-1916), May (1883- 
     
     1953), and Walter D. (1890-1921). Hensley was a Presbyterian minister. 
     
     Annie was a teacher and taught in Wilmot Valley. Nettie became a nurse 
     
     and Peter Erskine married E. Bridges and lived in Sydney, NS 
     
    
   
   
    
     The Stavert house burned in July, 1940. May ran to Irving Hogg’s for 
     
     help, and Jean, Irving’s wife hurried to John W. Hogg’s home. However, 
     
     the house burned to the ground and May and Annie left the community 
     
     shortly afterward. Annie moved to Kensington and May joined her after a 
     
     brief stay at the Harry Simmons home. 
     
    
   
   
    
     SIMMONS 
     
    
   
   
    
     The Stavert farm was sold to Brecken Simmons, of Wilmot, and he 
     
     and his sons farmed the land. The site of the house remained vacant until 
     
    
   
   
    
     1945 when the Simmons family purchased the house of Wyman Clark and 
     
     moved it there. Keith and Ethel Simmons lived there when they were first 
     
     married in 1945 and were joined by Herbert and Ella who were also married 
     
     in the same year. In 1949 Keith and Ethel moved across the Blueshank to the 
     
     Harry Waugh farm. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Herbert Davis Simmons (1918) was the son of Brecken J. and Mary 
     
     (Moase) Simmons. His wife, Lucy Ella Janette Thompson was the daughter 
     
     of John William and Pearl (Bynon) Thompson of Mill Valley. Herb farmed 
     
     until 1969 when he and Ella moved to St. Eleanor’s. They live now in Sum- 
     
     merside and work at Summerset Manor. Herb has become well-known for