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29. Morris Ea’june MacDougall

This lVIacDougall house is part of a fifty acre farm which was originally settled in the mid 1800’s by Archibald Ferguson and his wife, Annabelle (MacDougall), who moved to the property from Crapaud. They were married in 1846, at the Free Church of Scotland by Rev. Donald MacDonald. They raised eleven children, Katherine, Peter,Joh11, Samuel, lVlary, Margaret, Flora, Duncan, Anne, Allan, and James. The youngest child, James, and his wife, Mary (MacDonald), called Mary Jim, later resided there and had one daughter, Florabel. When Florabel’s first husband, Earle Cooke, died she came back home to live with her parents until her marriage to Spurgeon Moore, a widower with two children. She and Spurgeon also had two children, Brenda and Alan, making a family offour children. They had a cottage in the shore field ofWaldron and Ruby Sellarflhe property was later purchased by john Albert lV’lacDougall in the early 19505. No one lived in the home until the early 1960’s when John’s son, Nlorris, and his wife,]une (Leard), moved in.They raised two children there,]ohn (Diana Bragg) and Sheila (Kevin chlnnis). Archibald and Annabella Ferguson’s son, Peter, lived in a house at the back of the farm. rlhe structure was later moved across from the house where Morris and June now live and used as a storage shed. Still later, it was moved to

John Albert’s home place where Roy Johnstone and Sarah Saunders live today.

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