150 A Bridge To The Past 
     
    
   
   
    
     HOGG 
     
    
   
   
    
     Herbert Hogg (July 2, 1789-1866) and his wife Margaret (Flood) Hogg 
     
     (1801—1876) came to P.E.I. from Dumfrieshire, Scotland. They settled in 
     
     Wilmot Valley about 1826. Because they were among the earliest settlers in 
     
     this community and because their land stretched through Traveller’s Rest 
     
     and Wilmot Valley into North Bedeque (as can be seen on Lake’s 
     
     Topographical Map of 1863) there are varied opinions on the site of the 
     
     earliest Wilmot Valley homestead. One location suggested is the present 
     
     Irving Hogg farm; the other is the former Hogg farm across the river, where 
     
     Morris Johnston now lives. The latter farm was included in North Bedeque 
     
    
   
   
    
     until recent years. 
     
     Herbert and Margaret Hogg had the following family: 
     
     Jane or Jennie (1825-1917) did not marry. She is buried in North Bedeque. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Walter (1830—1894) married Eliza Hall and farmed on the Taylor Road 
     
     where Morris Johnston now lives. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Herbert (1833—1894) did not marry. He is buried in North Bedeque. 
     
     John (1838-1857) is buried in North Bedeque. 
     
     Sarah (1841-1902) did not marry. She is buried in North Bedeque. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Herbert Jr., Jennie and Sarah farmed on the Irving Hogg farm and 
     
     Jennie and Sarah continued to farm with the help of John W. Hogg. until 
     
     his marriage in 1901. Emmanuel Wedge helped Jennie with the farm for her 
     
     remaining years. John W. Hogg, Walter’s son and Jennie’s nephew, receiv- 
     
     ed fifty acres on the eastern side of the farm in the will of Herbert Jr. John 
     
     W. lived at the present day George Hogg farm and after Jennie’s death 
     
     farmed the remaining part of her farm. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Herbert Irving Hogg (April 2, 1904), the son of John W. and Sarah 
     
     Ada (Clark) Hogg, married Jean Blanche MacEachern on June 16, 1937. 
     
     Jean is the daughter of the late Angus and Bessie (Mann) MacEachern. 
     
     Irving bought the former Jennie Hogg farm. He and Jean built a fine new 
     
     home shortly after their marriage and have a lovely view of the river valley. 
     
    
   
   
    
     WEDGE 
     
     Emmanuel Wedge was the son of Simon and Sophia (Arsenault) 
     
     Wedge of Egmont Bay, P.E.I. He came to Wilmot Valley before he was 
     
     married and worked for Miss Jennie Hogg. Emmanuel married Elizabeth 
     
    
   
   
    
     Arsenault, daughter of Dolphie and Theresa (Gallant) Arsenault of Sum- 
     
     merside. Emmanuel and Elizabeth had five children: 
     
    
   
   
    
     Verno (1909) did not marry.