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Yolande Marie (Jan. 23, 1967). (See list of Rural Beautification Contest winners).

East of the Richard home and approximately where Island Foam 1n- sulation (1978) Ltd. is located there was once a log cabin which was the home of William Agnew.

AGNEW

William Agnew was born, according to the census of 1881, in 1815. According to the diary of Mrs. Charles Huestis he died on April 3, 1903. His tombstone shows his death to be in 1905. The name of William’s first wife is unknown, but from this marriage he had a son, Peter. Peter married Harriet Laura Waite on September 15, 1891 in the Baptist Church in Sum- merside. Peter had been in Reddin, Connecticut, U.S.A. prior to his mar- riage. William’s second marriage was to Ann MacCaull (born 1836-1839).

She died in 1930. At the taking of the 1881 census they had three children at home:

John Robert (1871-1944) farmed opposite to his father’s land, where the Hardwicks now live.

Jennett M. (1872) Sarah D. (1874)

In May, 1892, William purchased thirty-five acres of land in Lot 19 from John Palmer; this is the land his son later farmed, across the road from his father’s home. The Hardwicks now live there (1979).

PALMER

John H. Palmer was a native of England. In 1875 he married Eliza Jane (Jennie) Moase (1854-1940). She was the daughter of Henry and Sarah Elizabeth (Dickieson) Moase. Jennie had been on a trip to England and the couple were married in that country. The Palmers were not in Wilmot Valley in 1880; possibly it took some years for the bride to convince her partner of the beauties and benefits of this new society, when compared with the long-established towns and villages of Great Britain. Eventually however they did come to RBI. and settled opposite from the Agnews. They farmed until 1892 when the land was sold to the Agnews. After Mr. Palmer’s death Mrs. Palmer married a Mr. Pridham from western Prince County. They lived in Kensington on or near the location of the Stedman’s Store (1979). Incidentally Robert and Alma Stavert later retired in that home.