CHAPTER 7 
     
    
   
   
    
     Excerpts from The Life History of John Clarey 
     
     By John Clarey 
     
    
   
   
    
     l was born June 13, 1912 in Milltown Cross on the old 
     
     Clarey Mill property. Parents: Andrew Clarey and Sadie Mae 
     
     Bears of Milltown Cross ..... I went to school in Milltown until I 
     
     was 10 years old and then a very sad thing happened. Andrew 
     
     Clarey, my father, passed away and left three orphans. He died 
     
     on June 16, 1922. At that time 
     
     our ages were Peter 8 years, 
     
     John 10 years and George 12 
     
     years old ...... Dad passed away 
     
     on George's birthday, June 16, 
     
     1922. At that time George was 
     
     working in Boughton Island at 
     
     Graham & Llewellyn’s lobster 
     
     factory. My mother was also 
     
     working there, but was home 
     
     the evening Dad died ......... The 
     
     two months that George worked 
     
     in the factory, he got $8.00 
     
     per month ...... he attended 
     
    

    
     ' " Dad’s funeral and returned to 
     
    

    
     CU,,{fiii}7j,fjjfcy,,,,, work the next day at Boughton 
     
    

    
     Island ........ The spring of 1923 
     
     arrived and Mother and George went back to Boughton Island 
     
     factory again, so the old farm was abandoned as we were too 
     
     young to hold onto it ....... 
     
    

    
     MOTHER REMARRIES 
     
    

    
     Well, the months of May and June went, the lobster season 
     
     was over and, of course, we waited for our mother and brother 
     
     to return but we did not hear from them until a week later. 
     
     When my brother George arrived to our old abode, he told 
     
     us that Mother had remarried and would be home later, which 
     
     she did, but this was the bitterest ordeal that we had to accept 
     
     as yet. Mother and step-father just left 100 acres of the best 
     
    
   
   
    
     wood and lumber in Milltown and we boys were too young to 
     
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