It’s a story that’s short but it’s true 
     
     So long to you, Mr. Hayter 
     
     And the best of luck to you. 
     
    
   
   
    
     In 1947 my brother Jack and l working all on our own, hauled Jim‘s 
     
     house at Launching out onto the beach and floated it to Georgetown. 
     
     We towed it with two boats, and then hauled it on to a lot in Georgetown. 
     
     Jim later bought a larger house in the town and sold the Launching 
     
     house to the Yorston’s. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Around 1940 Joe Henry Allen, his wife Elizabeth and son Lem 
     
     moved to Cardigan. Joe and Elizabeth are buried in Cardigan. After 
     
     they died, Lem moved to British Columbia with his daughter, Muriel 
     
     MacKenzie and is buried there. Muriel‘s husband, Wendall, died in 
     
     1944 while in the service and is buried in Georgetown. Muriel first 
     
     moved with her family to Cardigan and later to Charlottetown. Some 
     
     years later she moved to British Columbia where she still lives. 
     
    
   
   
    
     In 1941 Alva Allen, his wife and daughter, Elizabeth, moved to 
     
     Montague and are all buried there. 
     
    
   
   
    
     In 1942 Fred Allen and his family moved to Georgetown. Fred 
     
     and Louise are both buried in Georgetown United Churchyard. Their 
     
     daughter Emma died in Sudbury, Ontario in 2001 and their son Mac 
     
     died in February 2004. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Joseph and Emily Gotell moved to Georgetown in 1943 and are 
     
     buried in the Catholic churchyard. All of their children have since died. 
     
    
   
   
    
     In 1944 the last of the King family living on Boughton Island also 
     
     moved to Georgetown. My father and mother are buried in the United 
     
     Churchyard in Georgetown. My sister Frances (Watts-Bradley) is 
     
     buried in York. My brothers, Lloyd and Jack, are both buried in 
     
     the United Churchyard and Lionel in the Anglican Churchyard 
     
     in Georgetown. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Frank MacCormack and his mother Annie were the last 
     
     to leave the Island. They stayed until 1946. And strangely 
     
    
   
   
    
     enough, I am told the MacCormacks were also the first family 
     
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