196 A Bridge To The Past

As we travel further east along the Blueshank, and begin the ascent to the top of the hill on which the Picketts farm lies, we see, on the south side of the road, the modern home of Denzil and Gladys Hogg, near the road- side, and further back along the driveway, the homestead in which Darius and Fanny live. The first people who were known to have farmed on the

property were the Waites.

WAITE

Thomas Waite farmed on the present-day Denzil Hogg property, and according to the Census of 1861 he was renting the land from the pro— prietor, John Cairns. Few details are known about his family but we do know that in 1861 he and his wife had two sons and one daughter at home, all of whom were between the ages of twenty one and forty-five years. Mr. and Mrs. Waite were between the ages of forty-five and sixty years. By 1880 the farm belongs to John Waite (ca. 1841—1907) who is presumably one of the sons who was at home in 1861. John had a brother Henry J. Waite (ca. 1835) who married Eliza Gay (1830-1908), and who lived at the Lyman Huestis farm (1979) in 1861 and later moved near the schoolhouse. (See Waite).

John married Eliza Burrows (1836-1906) daughter of Thomas Bur- rows of Long River. She was born in Devonshire, England and her family emigrated from that country when she was six months of age. John and Eliza were married in 1862. They are buried in the United Baptist Church Cemetery in Central Bedeque. John and Eliza had nine children and their birthdates are taken from the Census of 1881:

Jabez Oswald (1864) lived in Jacksonville, Florida and in New York City, NY.

Kentford Leonard (1864-5) farmed at home.

Irene (1868) married Walter MacPhail and lived in Bedford, Massachusetts, U.S.A.

William Spurgeon (1870-1887) died after receiving a vaccination.

Harriet Laura (1872-1947) married Peter Agnew. They lived in Kingston, N.Y., U.S.A.

John Maynard (1873) lived in New York City, NY. Henry Austin (1875-1911) died in the P.E.I. Hospital, Charlottetown. Martha Jane or Nettie (1880-1) married J. Frank MacCallum of Bedeque.

Kentford married Mary Alice Knipe (1873-1963) daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Knipe. They were married in Pleasant Valley at the home of Mrs. Henry Murray in 1899. Kentford and his family farmed until 1921. At