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     name for fair dealing. He leaves a wife and seven children 
     
     to mourn.” (Island Guardian, May 24, 1894) [See also 
     
     Dailv Patriot, May 17, 1894) 
     
    
   
   
    
     D. "At Boughton Island, on the 7th inst. Neil 
     
     McCormaek, in the 93rd year of his age, leaving one 
     
     son and three daughters." (Summerside Journal, May 30, 
     
    
   
   
    
     1894) 
     
    
   
   
    
     D. “At Georgetown on the 26th May, Mr. Alexander 
     
     Walker, in the 63rd year of his age, leaving two sons, 
     
     two daughters and a large circle of friends to mourn their 
     
     loss.” (Island Guardian, June 7, 1894) 
     
    
   
   
    
     D. "We regret to hear of the death at Georgetown on 
     
     Monday of William Wightman, Esq. Postmaster, after a 
     
     week's illness. He was 54 years of age and had been 
     
     ter for over twenty years. He was always 
     
     obliging and a general favorite with the people. The 
     
     funeral will take place tomorrow at 11 o'clock under 
     
     Masonic auspices." (Daily Patriot, June 12, 1894) 
     
    
   
   
    
     M. "At Georgetown, on July 3rd inst. by the Rev. S.T 
     
     Phelan, John J. Macdonald, of East Point Parish to 
     
     Laura Helena McAulay of Georgetown Royalty." (Daily 
     
     Examiner, July 5, 1894) 
     
    
   
   
    
     M. "On Aug. 23rd, at Georgetown, George F. Owen, of 
     
     Cardigan, to Miss [Mary] Lavers of Georgetown." 
     
     (LA/m, Aug. 23, 1894) 
     
    
   
   
    
     D. “At Georgetown, on the 24th inst, Edward 
     
     MeLaren, son of the late Peter McLaren of Brudenell in 
     
    
   
   
    
     the 34th year of his age." (Island Guardian, Aug. 30, 
     
     1894) 
     
    
   
   
    
     D. “At Georgetown, Saturday, Oct. 61h, age 6, son of 
     
     William Cherry, plasterer, after falling over the Railway 
     
     Wharf while fishing (Part of a longer story, Island 
     
     Guardian, Oct. 11, 1894,) 
     
    
   
   
    
     B. "At Georgetown, on the 9th inst, the wife of DA. 
     
     McKinnon, Esq, M.P.P., of a daughter." (Dailv 
     
     Patriot, Oct. 13, 1894) 
     
    
   
   
    
     D. AtGlouccster, Mass, Mrs. E1i7a B. Campbell, wife 
     
     of Capt. John J. Campbell, on Sept. 30th, 1894, aged 37. 
     
     She was a native of Georgetown. PEI. and was 
     
     interred in a cemetery there. Besides her husband, who 
     
     was a native of Little Harbour, P. El. she is sun'ived by 
     
     her mother and three children. (From Dailv Eatriot, Oct. 
     
     19, 1894) 
     
    
   
   
    
     D. “At Cardigan Bridge, on the 16th inst, at the residence 
     
     of Capt. Jas. McDonald, Mr. James Burke, age 72.” 
     
     (Island Guardian, Nov. 29, 1894) 
     
    
   
   
    
     D. “2 At Georgetown, on the 24th inst, Mary Murphy, 
     
     beloved wife of Alexander McMillan, in the 56th year of 
     
     her age." (Daily Examiner, Nov. 29, 1894) 
     
    
   
   
    
     D. At Georgetown, Nov. 7, 1894, James Miller, at an 
     
     advanced age, brother of Principal Miller of West Kent 
     
     School. (From DailvPatrig, Dec. 5, 1894) 
     
    
   
   
    
     M. “At Milltown, Wilbert R. Heckbert to Mary Ann, 
     
     daughter of George King." (Island Guardian, December, 
     
     1894) 
     
    
   
   
    
     M. At Boston, Mass, on the 27th ult., Miss Emma 
     
     O'Brien to Dr. D.A. Stewart, both of Georgetown. 
     
     (From Dailv Examiner, Jan. 5, 1895) 
     
    
   
   
    
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     D." At Georgetown on the 2nd ult., after a short illness, 
     
     George Parker, Esq. in the 84th year of his age (born 27 
     
     May, 1810) leaving three sons and three daughters to 
     
     mourn the loss. He was born in Ireland and came to 
     
     Georgetown in 1828. “Being a man of more than ordinary 
     
     learning and ability he took an active part in the early 
     
     stining political struggles of his time and was an advocate 
     
     of everything for the religious, moral and civil 
     
     advancement of the place.” He was three times married 
     
     and had 15 children, of whom six survive him. In religion 
     
     he was Presbyterian. (Adapted from longer notices in the 
     
     Morning Guardian of Jan. 5, 1895) 
     
    
   
   
    
     D. "AtBrudenell, on the 28th inst, Jane Norton, widow 
     
     of the late George Moar, aged 88 years.” (Dailv 
     
     Examiner, Jan, 24, 1985) 
     
    
   
   
    
     D. “At Georgetown on the 3rd of March, 1895, Marion 
     
     Logan, wife of Peter Stewart, age 72." (Patriot May 
     
     8th, 1895.) An obituary in the same paper on Mar. 3rd 
     
     said that “ when doing some work at the table Tuesday 
     
     she was stricken with a paralytic stroke and fell to the 
     
     floor” and that she left “a husband and a large family.” 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     D. At Georgetow n, Edgar Stanley, the seven year old son 
     
     of Mark & Eva Henry died suddenly after coasting.” 
     
     (From a longer story in the Patriot, Mar. 3, 1895 and 
     
     Examiner Mar. 6, 1895) 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     D. At Georgetown, March 29, Mr. William Ball, in his 
     
     IOlst year. Born in Leicestershire England in 1795, he 
     
     emigrated at age 29 first to Halifax, then to Boughton 
     
     Island. After his wife, Isabella, died he came to live with 
     
     his daughter, Mary, Mrs. Capt. John McDonald, 
     
     Georgetown. His daughter is the only remaining member 
     
     of his immediate family. (Adapted from a longer story in 
     
     the Morning Guardian, Charlottetown, early April 1895, 
     
     and from other sources. A birthday tribute to William Ball 
     
     in the Patriot 10 Jan. 1895 said he came to this area of 
     
     P.E.I. “when one but comprised Georgetown." N. HM.) 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     D. “At Burnt Point, Georgetown, on the Ist, ult., Mr. 
     
     Charles Hansen, in the sixty—third year of his age, 
     
     leavinga widow and one son to mourn their loss. Quiet, 
     
     inoffensive, honest and upright he was greatly respected 
     
     by all who knew him." (Morning Guardian, Ch’town, 
     
     May. 6th, 1895).An earlier notice on May 3rd in the 
     
     Guardian mentions that the deceased was a native of 
     
     Denmark. 
     
    
   
   
    
     D. “At Boston, Mass, on the 181h ult., A. Sydney 
     
     Knight, phannicist, son of John A. Knight,. 
     
     Georgetown, PEI." (Daily Patriot, May21, 1895) 
     
    
   
   
    
     D. "In this city [Charlottetown] on Wednesday, the 10th 
     
     inst. Mary Louisa, the beloved wife of the Hon. David 
     
     Laird and second daughter of the late Thomas Owen, 
     
     Esq., Postmaster General of P. E.I., aged 62, interment 
     
     in Sherwood Cemetery." [Married in Georgetown] (Daily 
     
     Examiner, July 11, 1895)