210 A Bridge To The Past 
     
    
   
   
    
     BARWISE 
     
    
   
   
    
     George Barwise (1851) married Minnie Picketts, daughter of John 
     
     Picketts Jr. and Emeline (Curtis) Picketts of Wilmot Valley. George pur— 
     
     chased land in Lot 25, from Archibald MacMurdo, in 1887, and then 
     
     bought the former Ching property in 1892. He lost his life when he and Mr. 
     
     George Banks were sailing from Bideford to Malpeque with a load of cedar 
     
     posts. Near Malpeque they encountered bad weather. Being unable to battle 
     
     the rough seas in their small craft, the two men were drowned. 
     
    
   
   
    
     George and Minnie had three children: 
     
    
   
   
    
     Mary (July 6, 1873) married Norman Thompson of Lot 12 on December 25, 
     
     1890. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Betsey Isabelle (Sept. 19, 1879) married Walter Palmer of Freeland. 
     
     Edmund (Feb. 18, 1884) did not marry. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The next person to live on the farm was William Easter. 
     
    
   
   
    
     EASTER 
     
    
   
   
    
     William Easter was a brother of George Easter of Hamilton, who lived 
     
     for several years on the Sobey property near the schoolhouse. William 
     
     married Ellen Found, also from the Hamilton area. Following their years of 
     
     residence at the Douglas Webster farm (1979) the Easters moved to North 
     
     Wiltshire. William and Ellen had the following family: 
     
    
   
   
    
     William married _ Easter of North Wiltshire. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Pearl married a Mr. Mitchell from North Wiltshire. 
     
     Sadie died at about eleven years of age. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Cora married Jim Parsons. 
     
    
   
   
    
     After the Easters sold the farm it was bought by John Waugh who 
     
     farmed the land for a short time. Harry Simmons then bought the property 
     
     and lived there for several years. (See Simmons). The next owner was Cecil 
     
     Forbes; then the farm was taken over by Douglas Webster. (See Forbes). 
     
     When the Forbes children began to attend school the property was 
     
     transferred to the Kelvin Grove School District and is no longer included in 
     
     Wilmot Valley. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The Wilmot Grove Road, or as the highway signs mark it, the Mac— 
     
     Murdo Road, runs in a north—south direction from the Blueshank across the 
     
     Wilmot River, and ends at the Trans-Canada Highway in North Bedeque. 
     
     All of the land in Wilmot Valley, south of the Blueshank, once belonged to 
     
    
   
   
    
     William Schurman, Loyalist.