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     many years. He collected milk from the nearby farms and took it to dairies 
     
     in Summerside. His team of beautiful horses with their load of shining milk 
     
     cans was a familiar sight in the valley and Earle always gave a jovial smile 
     
     and wave to his neighbors as he passed by. When the horses and wagons 
     
     passed from the scene, his son Wendell continued with a truck making the 
     
     daily trip to town for thirty years approximately. When the bulk truck with 
     
     its huge milk tank took over, Wendell retired to farming with his brother 
     
     Gordon. Where Earle called at almost every farm now the bulk truck calls 
     
     at two, as there are only two dairy producers left in operation today. Before 
     
     the days of the grain combine, Earle and his brother Horace did custom 
     
     threshing. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Earle and Effie‘s children were: 
     
     Helen Ruth (March 21, 1922) lives in McAdam, NB. 
     
     Wendell Boyce (July 17, 1923) lives with his mother in the home. 
     
    
   
   
    
     George Gordon (Nov. 12, 1928) owns and farms the home—farm. He 
     
    
   
   
    
     married Florence Boulter (1930-1976) of Summerside. Their children 
     
     were Elaine, (Mrs. Roger Caseley) Kelvin Grove and Deborah (Mrs. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Donald MacLean) Halifax, N.S. Elaine and Roger have two children, 
     
     Michael (July 1975) and Meaghan Denise (Aug. 15, 1978). Gordon’s 
     
     second marriage was to Erma (Raynor) Hogg. They live in a modern 
     
     home south of the homestead. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Gerald Herman (Nov. 23, 1932) married Dallas Ferne Reeves in June, 1957, 
     
     in Kelvin Gr0ve. Ferne was the daughter of John and Laura (Francis) 
     
    
   
   
    
     Reeves, and was born in Glenelle, Manitoba. They live in Summerside 
     
     and Gerald is employed by Island Propane Gas Ltd. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Slightly northeast of the Gordon Huestis property (1979), on the 
     
     opposite side of Route 120. was the early home of Daniel Dickieson. 
     
    
   
   
    
     DICKIESON 
     
    
   
   
    
     Daniel Elijah Dickieson (1783-1863 or 65) was born in Ireland. He 
     
     married Hannah Hall. It is uncertain what year they moved to Wilmot 
     
     Valley but they settled first on what is now Route 120, being the closest 
     
     residents to the present-day community of New Annan. They moved later to 
     
     the Blueshank Road to the farm where Floyd Caseley lives (1979), and they 
     
     and their family will be discussed at that location. It is unknown whether 
     
     any other families lived in the original Dickieson house. There are sugges— 
     
     tions made about the Corishes living there at one time. It seems unlikely 
     
     that we will ever know the facts. A depression in the ground and a row of 
     
     willow trees marked the site of the homestead until after the turn of the 
     
     century. Today there are no markings amid the cultivated fields to suggest 
     
     the hearth and home.