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Stavert home for four or five years. Later they settled in Traveller’s Rest and raised foxes. They had four children: Doris Lucy (1921-1923), Alma, Virginia and Herbert Davis.

HOGG

In 1936, the Robert A. Stavert property was purchased by John W. Hogg who operated the farm until 1939. At this time Earle, a son of John W., and his wife, the former Velda Caseley, took over the farm, specializing in the growing of seed potatoes. Earle raised a number of Standardbred

horses worthy of note. Two of these horses, which were exported later to the United States, had times of 2.07 and 2.10.

Earle and Velda named their farm home “Sunny Acres” and for years it was a popular tourist home for many visitors to Prince Edward Island. Ill health brought early retirement for Earle and Velda in 1977. Their daughter, Lillian Ann, graduated from Prince County Hospital School of Nursing in 1964. She married R. Garth MacFarlane who is an accountant with MacMillan and Bloedell in British Columbia. They have two children, Lisa and Scott. Garth’s maternal grandmother, Mrs. Colin Ramsay of Hamilton, was born in Earle’s home. (See rural beautification contest.)

WAITE

Across the Blueshank Road from the Earle Hogg farm, and slightly east of it, is the site of the new home which Terry and Judith Waite are con— structing (1979). Judith is the daughter of George and Helen Hogg. (See Hogg.)

Adjacent to Earle Hogg‘s farm on the east is the farm of George and Helen Hogg. The first settlers on this farm were the Lefurgeys. Again, “William Schurman. Loyalist”, by Ross Graves, was a valuable source of information.

LEFURG EY

John Lefurgey was a New York Loyalist of Dutch descent. He married a Miss Joyce and settled on Lot 19 on fifty acres of land purchased from William Schurman in 1811. The Lefurgeys cleared some of the land, and they raised a family of eleven children:

William married Catherine Munro. Mary married Caleb Schurman. Betsy

Jane (1794-1872) married Isaac Schurman.