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Lot 16. My grandmother, Isabel, is buried there in a plot beside her second husband, Richard Yeo.

Can you describe the St. James Methodist Church?

That was quite awhile ago. I remember it didn’t have a lot of windows and I don’t think there was any stained glass. But it was a nice little church. After the churches combined, we went to the United Church. Mother and I joined that church in

1924.

How did you get to church all the way from the bridge in Southwest?

Horse and wagon or sleigh; one Sunday I’d go to Lot 16, the next I’d go to the church in Wellington. My mother would come with me and sometimes I’d just go by myself. I enjoyed that very much.

You sang in the choir?

Yes,]ean Ramsay was a good friend of mine and she persuad- ed me to join the choir with her. We would sit together. Oh, we were great friends. Mrs. Amy Lockhart was the organist and she and her husband would drive every Sunday to Lot 16 by horse and sleigh, all the way from Lockhart’s Brook. They

were very dedicated to the church.

Was the church cold? Oh no, there was plenty of fire on, it was always comfortable-

It was never cold, those were the good days.

What were some of the hymns you sang? Oh, the good old hymns I call them, “Abide with Me”, “Nearer my God to Thee”, “Lead Kindly Light”.

Were your parents strict when you were growing up?

It was not too bad, Dorothy, but my mother was brought uP quite strict. My grandfather, Kerridge Day, was a Sunda}I School teacher. The ministers came to visit. The Anglicafl minister used to visit too; we had them from both sides! My grandparents and parents would have them in for supper at

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