Sam Dixon

was one of the richest men in Little Sands as he

owned a grist and saw mill and considerable land. Sam seemed to have inherited most of his money. The land, which Robert had bought from my grand—uncle, was about 150 acres, which had about 100 acres of clear land. It is all grown up by tall trees below the road. I remember my father telling me that he had often seen as many as 40 horses in the field as his Uncle Donald bought horses for the mines in New Brunswick. Just by our gate Donald gave a small piece of land to his brother Sandy who built a small house, which was there until the 1920’s. One calm night it fell to the ground, no doubt by some pranksters, as there was no wind to drop it down.

This property Robert willed to his younger son, Al- bert. In the 1920’s this farm went up for sale and as a teenager, I was at the sale. Sam bid it in for 81200. When asked who bought it, Sam said, “for Sarah Jane Dixon,” his mother. No doubt he did this at his lawyer’s advice, so that she might get the one—third, which was a widow’s right.

Along with this farm Sam owned the family farm where he owned the mill dam and the run—down mills. From our house we could always hear the water rushing down the dam. There were a lot of trout in the dam, but Sam watched that no one fished there. He also owned wood

Sam was the son of Robert Dixon. The latter one

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