During the service, it got chilly and someone opened the cover to fill the stove. The room filled with awful, thick, black smoke. Everyone was coughing and gagging. We never told who put the strap in the stove!" Contributed by Dorothy Gamble Carrie Beairsto Miss Carrie Beairsto lived on the southeast corner of Route 2 in Miscouche on the lot where Gillis Heating is now established. She was a faithful attendant of the Presbyterian Church in Lot 16 and often walked to church for the Sabbath service. She was a granddaughter of Margaret MacLaurin and Donald MacLean who lived where Richard and Darlene Gaudet now live (the Monkley property). Taylor and Mary Ann Best Taylor Best, the ancestor of the Lot 16 Bests, arrived on Prince Edward Island from England with his wife, Mary Ann Arnett , in the early part of the nineteenth century. Taylor was very neat and particular. It was said that when Best arrived on PEI , the shore was extremely muddy. To prevent his footwear from getting dirty, he removed it prior to getting out of the boat. Mary Ann and Taylor Best's son, John T, was born in Crapaud in 1840. He married Martha Inman , sister of John Inman (see Inman History ). The couple moved to Belmont prior to 1860 and set up a farm and blacksmith shop on the location of the house now owned by Ernest Inman . Martha and John T. had eight children: William I, Fanny, Mark, Grace, Herbert, Harry, William II , and Oliver. William I died in infancy; Fanny married Ned Simmons and lived in Central Lot 16 . Mark and his wife, Isabelle MacLaurin , died of consumption leaving four young children. Grace married Alfred Simmons and lived in Crapaud . Herbert moved to St . Eleanor's and Harry drowned while fishing oysters. Will, who lived on the home farm, married Annie Yeo ; they had no children. Oliver lived on and farmed the Harry Best place. He also did blacksmithing. He was a kindly man who would stop his work to chat when friends and neighbors dropped in to the 248 United Church and Its People