222 A Bridge To The Past

Following the death of Rebecca, Joseph married a secor.d time to Fannie Webster (1848-1925) daughter of John and Mary Elizabeth (Meryweather) Webster. They had the following family:

Clara (1870-1950) married Frank Chase and lived in Brookline, Mass. They had no family and are buried in the People’s Cemetery, Charlot- tetown.

Wesley Webster (1872-1962) did not marry. He was a pressman for the Summerside Journal from 1890 to 1891. The next year he went west, later settling in Tacoma, Washington, where he became a union organizer. He is buried in South Lacombe.

Edith (1876-1947) did not marry and was office manager for W.K. Rogers Agencies.

Margaret (1878— ) married Alfred Waterman. They lived in Brookline, Mass. and had one child, Effie.

George (1879- ) was a machinist in B.C. He married and had two chi1d~ ren, Nellie and Norman, and died in B.C.

Benjamin (1881— ) married Bessie Lawson. They lived in Westmount, Quebec, where Benjamin was an insurance broker and had two children, Frances and Margaret.

Emma (1882- ) married Ernest Porter. They lived in Brookline, Mass. and had two children, Edith and Virginia. In 1978 Emma was residing with one of her daughters in Riverview, N.B.

Picton and Ralph were twins, born in 1884.

Picton married twice. From the first marriage there were two children, Richard and Ralph. Picton lived and farmed in Botha, Alberta. He died at a nursing home in Stettler, Alberta in 1978.

Ralph was brought up by his mother‘s sisters in Kensington. He married Edith Lawson and had two children, Gwendolyn and Allison. He en— tered military service and was killed at the Battle of Ypres in Belgium in 1916.

HOGG

Robert Weeks Hogg (1874-1955) married Mary Ellen “Mamie” Curtis on December 14, 1898 and farmed on the Taylor Road. In the spring of 1905 they bought land and a house from Joseph Rogers. The farm was one hundred and eighty acres. When Robert purchased it, eighty acres were still wooded. Robert cleared fifty acres and his son Ralph has since cleared about fifteen acres. Robert and Mamie farmed until the time of their retire- ment in 1952, when they moved to Summerside. They are buried in the North Bedeque Cemetery. They had two sons, Walter Lee and Ralph Hall: