daughter, Lexy. They attend United and Lynne is presendy on the Board of Stewards. Thelma married Allison Johnson , (see Johnson History ) Contributed by Edward Clark Alexander and Sarah Crossman Alexander Crossman emigrated from Scodand, married Sarah Rayner , and cleared and took ride to land on the adjacent to the Willie MacLean property. In 1907, he was a trustee of St . James Methodist Church. The Crossman's had three sons: William, Hubert and Edward. The 1880 Adas shows both Alexander and son, William, owning property on the . Wlliam married Mar¬ garet McNeill and had seven children: Amelia, Laura, Maude, Alfred, Ida, Mae, and Eliza. Ida and Eliza remained in Lot 16 . Ida married Herbert Best ; they had a son Ernest and a daughter Amy. Herb died in 1922, at the age of forty-two years. His father's diary entry of April 11, 1922 indicates that Herb was sick and that his sis¬ ter Fanny Simmons was helping to attend him at his home. After her husband's death, Ida married Frank Sweet from O'Leary ; the couple lived in St . Eleanor's. Eliza married James Skerry . Shordy after they were mar¬ ried, they moved a house onto the Crossman property and lived there until about 1917. They had two children who remained in Lot 16 , George and Eileen. George was a car¬ penter and a fisherman. He built several houses as well as many fishing boats in Lot 16 . He and his wife, Carrie Broome , had one son, Eric. Eileen married Jack Manderson (see Manderson History). Sometime after 1880, Hubert moved to a property which is now part of the Community Pasture on the . He had a lobster factory at the shore and canned lobsters for many years. Hubert married Ellen MacLean of the (not related to the Allan MacLean family). They had four children: Fred, Nina, Walter, and Ella. All but Ella moved to the USA. During the depression, Fred returned to Lot 16 for a few years and lived at home with his parents. While on PEI, he built the Arnett Simpson house in Belmont. Hubert 256 United Church and Its People