Donald MacNeill & Angus MacLean

0 old people lived on the next farm below the I road when I first went to school. They were too old to farm at that time. They had no animals and how they lived without Old Age Security is beyond me. They must have kept a few hens. I remember Duncan MacDonald saying that the woman was, until her elder years, a very neat housekeeper. She would be chasing after you, picking up a drop of water that would fall off one’s boots. When she got in her elder years she forgot all her tidy habits. Donald seemed to be a nice old man and was always kind to the school children. Willie Mac- Donald used to put in their crop, especially oats for the hens.

Above the road belonged to John A. Gillis. No doubt someone lived on the land in the early years. One must consider that it took a lot of hard labour to clear the land of trees and the stumps, and then level the cradle hills. In my memory there was no clearing of land after I went to school, other than that big field opposite the cemetery.

The next farm was that of Angus MacLean (Long An- gus) who left the farm for greener pastures in USA. His mother and sister lived in the house. It was later owned by Peter MacPherson, and then farmed and owned by Neil MacNeill.

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