KIMBALL, KEEPER OF THE
BELL
Prepared by: Etta
Haywood-Faulkner
May, 2003
Fourteenth GenerationPAGE 24:
14TH GENERATION INDEX:
35. ELVERSON HALLETT
36. MARGARET HALLETT
37. IVA "NETTIE KIMBALL *ETTA'S GRANDMOTHER
38. WILLIAM #2 C. KIMBALL
39. GUY #1 KIMBALL
40. LOIS #2 KIMBALL
41. LYNN HUBERT KIMBALL
42. MARTHA LOIS SHARP(e)
43. LEIGHTON #1 FRED KIMBALL
44. MYLES GEORGE 1639 KIMBALL
45. AGNES ETTA KIMBALL
ALMA ELIZABETH KIMBALL (information in 13th generation)
FLORENCE ZELLA KIMBALL (information in 13th generation)
ARTHUR HAROLD SHARPE (information in 13th generation)
46. WILLIAM ORSER
47. LILLY ORSER
48. BEULAH ORSER
49. FOY GILBERT PRATT
50. FERN PRATT
51. GUY #1 A. PRATT
52. EARL PRATT
53. LEONAR ORSER
54. PEARL MYRA ORSER
55. VELMA ORSER
56. PRINCE ARTHUR ORSER
57. RAYMOND BLISS ORSER
58. GRACE GERTRUDE ORSER
59. PHILIP ALEXANDER ORSER
60. HAROLD ROBERT McKINNEY
35. Elverson[14] Hallett.
He married, first, Maude Hamilton.
Children:
i. Helen[15] Hallett.
61 ii. Isabel Hallett.
He married, second, Florence Crawford, 21 Dec 1921.
Children:
iii. Gordon Hallett.
iv. Ruth Hallett.
v. Ronald Hallett.
36. Margaret[14] Hallett.
She married John B Christian.
Children:
i. Kenneth[15] Christian.
ii. Helen Christian.
iii. Ruth Christian.
iv. Maude Christian.
v. Howard Christian.
vi. Ethel Christian.
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37. Iva "Nettie"[14] KIMBALL-LONDON (George 1520 A, 26).
Born, 2 Jul 1882.
Died, 9 Oct 1962, in Woodstock New Brunswick.
Burial in LrBrighton New Brunswick.
Individual flags: *ANC, heart.
Nettie's first name was "Iva", not "Ida" per her family Jan. 2000.
Nettie was interested in her children's education and worked hard
so they could go to school. Elva went to the Carleton County Vocational
School in Woodstock. Mabel went to Hartland High and Acadia University,
Wolfville, Nova Scotia Raymond attended Carleton County Vocational School,
Woodstock, during winter months when the Agricultural course was given.
He drove a team of horses daily the nine miles, with encouragement from
Miss Grace Coughlin, the English teacher there for many years.
Nettie
Etta remembers that her grandmother, Nettie as a very hard working
woman, thrifty and very interested in her family. She could knit, sew,
braid and hook rugs. She would raise their own sheep, shear them, spin
the yarn andf would knit long heavy underwear which Fraze wore winter and
summer. He reasoned that if it keeps the cold out in winter it will keep
the heat out in summer. She also worked in the fields when need be. Etta
remembers one day Nettie was driving the team of horses "hauling off hay"
when the team became frightened and ran. There Grammie was holding onto
the reins and the horses were dragging her across the barnyard.
Nettie raised chickens and ducks and had her own vegetable garden
as well as several flower gardens and apple orchard. They also raised
and sold strawberries.
Nettie cared for "Aunt Lizzie" (Anna Cogswell's sister) who was blind,
for as long as she was able to do so. She also cared for her mother-in-law,
Emmerline Lunn-London-Shaw; her own mother, Anna Cogswell-Kimball;
Mary Craig; Burpee Derrah; and two other elderly people until they died.
The LONDON sisters = Inez, Elva, Ethel, Violet, Mabel
When Clifton was going to school, probably Normal School in
Fredericton (now Teacher's College), Nettie had been saving Clifton's
strawberry money, "bit by bit", for Clifton's education. Why she hid this
money in the attic upstairs over the shed, I don't know. Anyway, the money
disappeared. Nettie had not said much about losing the money.
Quite some time later Nettie was visiting her brother, Lynn Kimball
and his wife, Annie, in Hartford, some 15 miles away. Remember, London's
had no car in those days so a visit this distance was not often enjoyed.
Now Aunt Annie was known as a fortune teller of some renown. Soon the
tea kettle was put on the wood stove to boil, and afternoon tea was made.
This was always the ritual looked forward to by Aunt Annie's visitors! When
the last sip of tea was enjoyed from the cup, the practice was to turn the
cup upsidedown, turn three times, and make a wish. I don't know what
Grammie Nettie's wish was that day, but when Aunt Annie told her "fortune"
it went something like this:
Annie peered into Nettie's tea cup with the leaves arranged in
whatever shape they happened to create. Annie would peer into the cup, turn
it this way and that, and said, "Nettie, you have lost a considerable
amount of money." She went on to describe the person who took the money
and the house that person lived in. Then she told Nettie, "The money will
come back." Well, strange as it may seem, the description of the person
Annie said took the money matched the description of the person and house
that person lived in, whom Grammie had suspected took the money. The money
was hid in a box, where swim suits were kept, and the person suspect had
gone up there to obtain a swimsuit so they could go swimming in the Saint
John River just below the house.
Would you believe it? All the missing money was put back
(mysteriously), all except some change! Aunt Annie was able to predict many
instances that came true, and she certainly had no way of knowing the
circumstances of this case.
Nettie died in Carleton Memorial Hospital, Woodstock, of a heart
attack. She was 80 years, 3 months, 7 days. Her funeral service was at
Hartland United Baptist Church, Rev. D. Ervine Betts, interment at Lower
Brighton Cemetery. Music by United Baptist Church Choir;
hymns "An Unclouded Day", "Beyond the Sunset" and "Glory for Me".
Relatives signed book: Hazen, Minnie and Ruth London; Elva Nixon;
Helen London; Lester London; Earl and Eileen London; Mabel and Gary Gaul;
Clifton and Edris London and family; Allan and Isabel McWaid; Howard
and Pauline McWaid; Etta and Paul Faulkner; Violet London-Haywood;
Lynn H. Kimball; Clarence and Ruby Kimball; Mrs. Guy Kimball; Joyce Kimball
; Clifford and Ethel McWaid; Alma and Vaughn Lawrence;
Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Kimball; Guy Kimball; Inez London-Sloan; Wilza Porter;
Mrs. Charles Cammack; Mrs. Walter Cogswell.
Nettie, Maud Kimball, Willie and Lynn Kimball
BEARERS: Richard Pratt Sr., Gilbert Brown, Fred McElhinney, Roland
Dickinson.
>>>>
FRIENDS WHO CALLED: Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Newman; Mrs. John Kilpatrick;
Mrs. Eveard Craig; Mrs. C. E. Rideout; Mrs. Donald Stephenson; Mrs. Arthur
Quinn; Mrs. Thelma Boyer; Mrs. Minnie Jennings; Mr. and Mrs. Fred K. Brown;
Mr. and Mrs. Sherwood Tidd; Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Kimball;
Mr. and Mrs. Merritt Kimball; Florence Simms; Edna G. Tompkins;
Mr. Frederick Thomas; Richard B. Hatfield; Mrs. C. W. MacQuarrie;
Rev. and Mrs. Gary Lyons; Helen M. Sterritt; Myrtle Farnham; Edith Haywood;
Glenna Clark; Dalta MacLean; Pauline Soucy; Mr. and Mrs. Guy Melvin;
Mr. and Mrs. Willard Kimball; Maude Kimball; Mr. and Mrs. Tom Pennycuick;
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bourque; Mr. Chester Bourque; Margaret B. Barker;
Carol London; Earl, Mildred and Irma Downey; Mr. and Mrs. Edwin E. Hovey;
Mrs. Ida Sherwood; Mrs. Donald Aiton; Mrs. Harold Bradley;
Mrs. James Lovely; Mrs. Richard Pratt Jr.; Miss Mildred Trecarten;
Mr. and Mrs. Roland Dickinson; Mr. and Mrs. Reid McNally;
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Dickinson; Mr. and Mrs. Clair MacLean;
Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Brown; Mr. and Mrs. Roy Robertson; Mrs. John Black;
Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Dickinson; A. G. Nevers; Mrs. Donald Hallett;
Mrs. Scott Hatfield; Mr. and Mrs. Wilmot Dickinson;
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Clark; Mrs. Frank McDade; Mrs. Moncel Clark;
Mrs. Clifford Rideout; Mrs. Gerald Greer; Henry ...ing; Fred McElhinney;
G. A. Day; Robert Rourke; Harley Rourke; Martha and Dick Pratt;
Judy Stephenson; Mrs. Edward Soucy; Mr. and Mrs. Paul Dickinson;
Mrs. Harold Shields, Oakfield, Me.; Donald MacLean;
Mr. and Mrs. William Haywood; Mrs. Israel Boyer; Inez Sloan;
Mrs. Gerald White; Margaret Barker.
1930: Nettie KIMBALL-LONDON probably in 1930's
CARDS RE FLOWERS OR MEMORIALS: Daughters Ethel Elva Inez Violet Mabel
Helen; Sons Hazen Lester Raymond Earl Clifton
Ethel and Clifford McWaid, Isabel and Allan McWaid, Howard and
Pauline McWaid, Margaret and Healey Wilson, Alma and Vaughan Lawrence
Teaching staff of Horton District High School, RR#2, Wolfville,
Nova Scotia
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Haywood; Lynn Kimball, Clarence, Ruby, Mary, Guy;
Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Pelkey, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Saunders, Everett Stairs,
Mrs. Eldon Saunders, Mrs. Tressa Stairs; Maude Kimball, Edward and Dorothy,
Alice and Willard; Mr. and Mrs. Clair MacLean and Family Mr. and Mrs. R. H.
Pratt; Employees of Atlas Construction Co., Woodstock New Brunswick;
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Harper, Mr. and Mrs. Eugene McConnell, Mr. and Mrs.
Colwell Calhoun, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Hayward, Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Culberson,
Mr. and Mrs. Fraser Brewer, Mrs. Charlotte Craig, Miss May Arnard,
Mr. and Mrs. Lorne Albright, Mr. and Mrs. Winston Reid, Mr. and Mrs. Fred
Grey, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Barrett, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Sharpe -
Woodstock RR#6.
To The Canadian Cancer Society from Sons and Daughters of their
mother, Mrs. Nettie London.
1962: Nettie, Mabel, Joan, Connie Gaul
Nettie LONDON at Gamble Mansion
not Nettie KIMBALL-LONDON but these two women certainly
have a family resemblance. Who are they?
Nettie Lester Helen Raymond LONDON
Nettie was interested in her children's education and worked hard
so they could go to school.
Nettie and Helen LONDON 1965
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She married James #2 "Frazer" LONDON, son of James #1 William LONDON
and Emmerline E "LUND"/LUNN, 16 Jul 1899. Marriage(2): 10 Jul 1899 (?).
Born, 26 Apr 1873, in Armond New Brunswick.
Died, 29 Oct 1942, in LrBrighton New Brunswick.
Burial: 1942, in LrBrighton New Brunswick.
Occupation: farmer.
Individual flags: *ANC.
Fraser, Nettie, Helen & Clifton LONDON
James #2 "Frazier" spelled with "z" In 1901 in Armond his neighbour
had the last name "Frazier" so possibly that is how he was called "Fraze"
by his friends. Did he spell it {FrazIer or Frazer}.
His father, James #1 William LONDONdied when Fraze was 14 months old
and his mother remarried to Ammi Shaw.
"Fraze" purchased Lots 65 & 66 in 1905, lots granted to his
father, James #1 William LONDON, in 1862, in Armond. He and Nettie first
lived in Armond. At one time he worked in the winter in a mill and would
walk home, a distance of 30 miles, sometimes crawling on his hands and
knees to keep from going to sleep and freezing, to see his family late
on a Saturday night.
Fraze was a good runner. He would race a friend from Hartland to
Armond.
Then in 1919 he bought the farm of Frank Nixon (deed c 5 July 1919)
age 36, at Lower Brighton for $10,000. He sold the Armond farm to Lynn
Kimball, and Frazer's mother-in-law, Annie Cogswell-Kimball went to keep
house for Lynn but Lynn soon married Annie Freeman.
Nixon had watered his 3 year old bull and the bull was going to the
narrow barn door, and unintentionally the bull jammed Frank in the doorway,
goring him and crushing his chest. That night Frank was breathing
laborously and it could be heard throughout the house and he died.
In the fall the men would go into the woods to cut trees, stay in
camp and just come out at Christmas. Then they would haul the logs to the
banks of the Saint John river to be released to float down river in the
spring. Fraze was considered tops as a workman at the log drive, jumping
from one log to another with peevee to get jams broken up - but he
couldn't swim.
Fraze was frequently asked to do "Jury Duty" in Woodstock and was
highly respected.
The first time that fire destroyed his barns at Lower Brighton, he
burned his head while leading the horses to safety.
Violet could usually win favours from her dad, such as borrowing a
horse and buggy for a trip with the rest of the children.
Fraser, Nettie & grand-children
Etta remembers that her grandfather liked to eat raw eggs.
Etta remembers visiting Grammie London but only remembers Grampie
London as a semi-invalid, sitting in the rocking chair or on the couch in
the kitchen.
In the winter the men would cut ice from the Saint John River, haul it
up with horse and sled, and store it in what was called the "ice house".
This was a lean-to filled with sawdust. Each cake of ice was covered well
with sawdust and this was a very good insulation because the ice was still
frozen solid even in the summer. This ice was used for Grammie's ice-box
which was kept in the 'cellar' to keep foods cool during the summer. The
ice was also used to make home made ice cream.
Usually we visited on a Sunday, along with many other relatives. It
was a great treat when Raymond would go to the ice house to fetch some ice
to make ice cream. The ice was placed in a burlap bag and crushed by
pounding with the side of an axe. Grammie would mix up the cream, milk,
sugar, vanilla, and usuallyeggs were added to make it extra rich. In
season, strawberries were added to the ice cream, and I believe that when
their 40th Wedding Anniversary was celebrated, ice cream with bananas were
added. Etta remembers that once salt got into the ice cream by mistake.
Harry Dyer said that Frazer London went west and did carpenter work.
Did he go to British Columbia where his father's brother was?
In 1911 see postcard Fraze sent from Montreal to his wife.
Children:
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62 i. Ethel Lois[15] LONDON.
ii. Elva Grace LONDON.
Born, 22 Aug 1901, in Armond New Brunswick.
Died, 15 Mar 1993, in Pinellas Park FL.
Occupation: labourer.
She married, first, Roy Hamilton NIXON, son of Robert #2
Adolphus NIXON and Elizabeth Birmingham.
She married, second, Dan Blanding, 26 Jun 1970.
Individual flags: eyes. #1942
Elva LONDON married Roy NIXON
Elva & Roy NIXON
Roy Nixon & his oxen
Roy Nixon & Snake, Sarasota
EGL
Elva & Coley Matthew July 1986
Elva had no children from either her first marriage to
Roy Nixon or from her second marriage to Dan Blanding, although
she has step- children from both marriages.
Elva and Roy lived on a farm in Ludlow, Me., near Houlton.
Roy enjoyed smoking his pipe. Elva and Roy Roy lived in
Roslindale, near Boston, 1945-47 where Roy worked in tool
factory of naval yard. Elva and Roy moved to 1309 33rd Ave.,
Bradenton, Florida 33505 when Roy had cancer.
Elva worked in fruit canning factory until her retirement
in 1967. After marrying Dan Blanding, they still lived at her
Bradenton home in winter and spent summer at Dan's home in
Michigan.
Elva has thyroid problem and glaucoma - had lens implant;
broke hip and arm.
Christmas, 1992: Pinellas Park, FL "Dec. 2, Dear Etta and
Paul,
A few lines to say I am doing very good. I walk much
better then when Clifton was here, better balance, but below
knees kind of poor circulation. I had a blood check; must have
been OK,
We are kept busy if you want it that way. I get into all
I can; go with our bus. This sounds good. I had my first
Christmas card from Earl on Dec. 1st. He said Helen wasn't too
good - going to Dr. Dec. 11 HOLIDAY CHEER SOCIAL - Join Nick and
Martha Edtzi as they entertain you with your favorite tunes. We
will cheer to the Holidays with egg nog, a warm fire, and
lots of laughter. All residents and employees are encouraged
to wear the Christmas colors, red and green.
63 iii. Hazen George LONDON.
Hazen George LONDON
64 iv. Lester James LONDON.
Lester James LONDON, Dan Blanding & Hazen LONDON
65 v. Inez Mae LONDON.
Inez Mae LONDON
29 vi. Violet Lillian LONDON.
The LONDON sisters: Violet Inez Mabel c1927
30 vii. Mabel Geneva LONDON.
31 viii. Raymond Franklin LONDON.
LONDON BROTHERS: Raymond, Earle, Lester, Hazen, Clifton LONDON
32 ix. Earl Lloyd Kimball #1948 LONDON.
Earl & Eileen LONDON'S wedding
Earl LONDON still swims at age 80
66 vi. Violet Lillian LONDON.
67 vii. Mabel Geneva LONDON.
68 viii. Raymond Franklin LONDON.
69 ix. Earl Lloyd Kimball #1948 LONDON.
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x. Helen Audrey LONDON.
Born, 13 Jul 1919, in Armond New Brunswick.
Died, 15 Oct 2001, in Woodstock New Brunswick[21].
Burial: 18 Oct 2001, in Lower Brighton, New Brunswick[22].
Individual flags: lungs, diabetes, heart.
HAL
Helen Audrey LONDON
HEALTH
Helen was seriously ill as a child & required emergency
throat surgery which was done by the doctor on the London
kitchen table, resulting in a speech defect. She is a diabetic
but has been able to keep it under control with pills and diet.
Gall bladder operation summer 1974 Haemorroid operation 2 Feb.
1989 Jan/90 re-examine tumour of bladder and this has been
on-going into 1993. her blood pressure is too high; She had
kidney failure, congestive heart failure, emphasema.
Helen made her home on the family farm where she enjoyed
working outside on the farm, tending the livestock, working in
the garden. She also did heavier farm work when required.
In the 1970's she was badly bitten in the thigh by an old
boar and the injuries took a long time to heal. She still has
pain in this area.
Helen likes to knit and is interested in all her family -
brothers, sisters, nieces and nephews. She remembers everyone's
birthday, including nieces, nephews, great-nieces and
great-nephews. She went to Florida and to Chicago and Detroit with
her mother visiting. She also had a trip to her sister, Mabel's
in Nova Scotia 1980's.
Helen moved to Carleton Manor, Woodstock c1992.
70 xi. Guy "Clifton" LONDON.
GCL
38. William #2 C.[14] KIMBALL (George 1520 A, 26)[17].
Born, 1885.
Died, 1965.
Burial in Armond New Brunswick.
Occupation: farmer.
William Kimball, known as "Willie", farmed in Windsor,
Carleton County, New Brunswick..
After Willie died, Edna moved to Somerville, near her son, Merritt.
Lot 51, Armond, Range 4: 1) Randolph K Jones 2) Mr Thompson 3)
Tom McEwan 1890? 4) Norm Wallace 1908? 5) Bill Kimball and wife Edna
Kimball moved to Lot 54, Range 3, Windsor 6) Jimmy Dyer
Lot 53, 1) James Jones 2) Simonson in ? 3) MeEwan Newt 1890? 4) Guy
Kimball (1526) and sold the quite large barn to Elwood Foster.
There was a baby that died , between Thelma and Merritt. In Armond
Cemetery there is a William W. KIMBALL 1931-1931. Would this be the child?
There was a William Kimball killed 11 Oct 1889 by a train at Muniac.(?)
Willian Charles and Edna (nee LONDON) KIMBALL
Willie and Edna KIMBALL
William Charles KIMBALL c1916
He married Edna LONDON, daughter of Henry #1 LONDON and Eva Spinney.
Born, 1891. Died, 1969. Children:
71 i. Thelma Fern[15] KIMBALL.
72 ii. Merritt KIMBALL.
Merritt & Jenny KIMBALL & family
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39. Guy #1[14] KIMBALL (George 1520 A, 26).
Born, circa 1892.
Died, 5 Jul 1928. Burial in Armond New Brunswick.
Guy Kimball was hit by a tree 4 July 1928 and died a day or two later
- at age 36. Harry Dyer says he died 4 July 1928.
He married[17] Maude Elizabeth KIMBALL, 1911.
Born, 20 Jul 1885, in Newburg New Brunswick.
Died, 1 Oct 1982, in Woodstock New Brunswick[21].
Burial: 3 Oct 1982, in Armond New Brunswick.
Individual flags: eyes.
Maude's maiden name was Kimball, daughter of Henry and Georgie Kimball.
Dorothy Dickinson-Davis
She first married Claude Dickinson and then she married Guy Kimball.
She lived at the Women's Institute Home, Woodstock, New Brunswick for
many years, then moved to Carleton Manor, Woodstock, New Brunswick.
She was blind in later years.
Children:
73 i. Donald #1[15] KIMBALL.
ii. Willard Milton KIMBALL.
Born, 18 Nov 1915.
Resided, 1995, in
Hartland New Brunswick[23].
Occupation: farmer.
He married Alice Jean FAULKNER-KIMBALL, daughter of
Clarence #2 Edward Faulkner and Villa Adeline PROSSER.
Willard and Alice have a poultry farm and sell
produce at the Farm Market, Woodstock, Fridays - meat,
poultry, cream, buttermilk, home made butter, eggs.
Willard is involved the The Boy Scouts.
Aug. 1985: "MARKETING BOARD FORCES COUPLE OUT OF EGG
BUSINESS
Two familiar faces will no longer be seen at the Carleton
Farm Market as a result of pressure being applied from the Egg
Marketing Board of New Brunswick. Willard and Alice Kimball have
been advised they must reduce their flock of 600 to 199 birds
or be taken to court, and for them, this means an end to selling
eggs, the main source of their livelihood for the past 30
years.
The Kimballs sat in their neat, sun-lit farm kitchen and
pondered their fate. "We hate to be pushed out of business
right at the end," Alice said, "we've worked hard all our lives
and now this. This is just not a free country anymore," she
added. She said keeping only 199 hens would not make egg
selling worthwhile. If they have to sell their "extra" hens,
they would still need to heat the same building that houses the
600 birds, with only 199 birds in it, because all their
equipment is in there.
The Kimballs, who live in Somerville, declined to give
their ages, but admitting to being "pretty near the time for
retirement." They have kept meat and laying hens "all our lives",
raising two children to maturity with the income from the
relatively small venture. They have been selling eggs at the
Carleton Farm Market for the past ten years, since taking over
the stall once operated by Alice's parents.
The Kimballs do not have a quota from the Egg Marketing
Board however, because when the board came into existance 11
years ago, they had only been selling from their home and did
not have records of their past five year production on which
quotas were based.
"We inquired about getting a quota now and found out
there's very few for sale. One man wanted $21 a bird. If you
add that to the five dollar cost of the pullet, it just isn't
worthwhile," Alice said. She said in addition, a license must
be purchased, eggs must be sold in a carton which costs nine
cents and a sticker costing 10 cents from the Egg Marketing
Board must be put on each carton of eggs. "We just couldn't
afford that," she said.
The Kimballs feel the Egg Marketing Board is "just for
the big fellows. They're putting the little fellows like us out
of business. We think the little fellows should be fighting
this out together," Alice said.
She pointed out it is impossible for any young people to
start out in the egg business with the Egg Marketing Board
maintaining such strick controls. "Nobody has any chance of
starting out at all now," she said.
Arnold MacLeod, chairman of the New Brunswick Egg
Marketing Board said the Kimballs must reduce their flock to
the 200 bird level because..."it's the law. You can't drive
down the highway at 100 m.p.h. and you can't have over 200
birds without a quota...it's as simple as that," he said.
MacLeod said the quotas that were issued by the federal
government 11 years ago when the Egg Marketing Board was formed
because of over production. He admitted however that New
Brunswick is now importing eggs from other provinces such as
Nova Scotia, P.E.I. and sometimes Quebec, Ontario and the United
States (also issued quotas because of a history of importing
eggs to this country) when the 27 local producers cannot meet
market demands.
He said the 27 producers hold quotas for 417,000 laying
hens, and that the quotas had not been expanded since the board
was formed. He said issuing additional quotas had not been
necessary because even though the population of the country had
increased during the past 11 years, producers had improved the
laying performance of their birds.
"There will never be a shortage of eggs in Canada," he
said. "The market can't be shortened...it's not allowed."
In the meantime, the Kimballs have run a classified ad in
local newspapers advising they have pullets and meat hens for
sale. This is the second major financial setback for the couple
this year. On April 10 a storage barn equipped for a new batch
of chickens was destroyed when a grass fire went out of control
causing about $30,000 damage. The Kimballs had only a small
amount of insurance coverage.
The fire caused the cessation of production of meat birds
over the summer and the Kimballs were "just getting started
again when this happened."
"I think we should fight this," Alice Kimball said. "If
they beat us out it will make it harder for anyone to start up
in the future. That's mainly what we're concerned about. "This
is just not a free country anymore."
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Mr and Mrs Willard Kimball mark 50th Anniversary
Approximately 150 relatives and friends attended the 50th
wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Willard Kimball at the
Waterville Community Hall on Saturday, 14 Sept. 1991. Mr. and
Mrs. Kimball were married on Sept. 13, 1941 at Bath by Rev.
Archibald Hatfield.
They were attended by Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Melvin who
attended the anniversary celebration.
Mrs. Kimball greeted the guests wearing a two-piece blue
suit. Her corsage was of pink roses. Mr. Kimball wore a
charcoal grey suit with a gold boutonniere.
A three-tier anniversary cake was made by Clara Brewster
which was topped with a 50-year emblem decorated with pink and
gold. The hall was decorated with pink and gold as well.
Rev. Otis Shaw offered prayer.
Supper was served at 6pm catered by Clara Brewster, Etta
Whitehouse, Doris Manual and Janet Whitehouse.
Donna Kimball was master of ceremonies. Musical
selections and old-fashioned songs were performed by Donna
Kimball while Edna and Lloyd Davis sang a song by Barbara Raynes
of Saint John. Laura Clendenning recited a poem and had charge
of the guest book. The toast to the couple was given by Lloyd
Melvin.
Several of the guests offered best wishes to the couple.
They travelled from state of Vermont, Saint John, Norton,
Woodstock, Bath, Bristol, Florenceville, Hartland and
surrounding area.
Mr. Kimball worked for Harold Jordan of Upper Brighton
for 20 years on a fox farm. He and Mrs. Kimball lived in
Hartland for one and a half years then moved to Upper Brighton
for four and a half years. In 1947 they moved to Somerville and
began raising pure bred Holstein cattle. In 1955 they expanded
into chickens which they have been in for the past 36 years.
They have two children, David of Woodstock, and Donna at
home. Mr. and Mrs. Kimball wish to extend a big thanks to
everyone who attended or helped out in any way. Thanks for the
cards, gifts, etc. God bless everyone.
The couple also received congratulations from
Carleton-Charlotte MP Greg Thompson, Carleton South MLA Bruce
Smith, Premier Frank McKenna, Prime Minister Brian Mulroney,
Carleton-Centre MLA Allison DeLong and the Governor General Ray
Hinathyshyn.
40. Lois #2[14] Kimball (George 1520 A, 26).
Died, circa 1970.
She married Elwood Foster.
Children:
i. Wilza[15] Foster.
Died, circa 1978, in Fredericton New Brunswick[24].
Occupation: hairdresser.
She married Porter #1840.
Individual flags: lungs.
Wilza's husband died in the early 1930's - young -
bled to death when tonsils removed. Wilza had tuberculosis
two years. She operated a beauty parlour.
Lois KIMBALL-Foster
Elwood, Lois (nee Kimball) Foster, Gordon, Eldon, Wilza & George
ii. Gordon Foster. Occupation: barber.
iii. Eldon Foster. Resided, 1980, in PEI.
Occupation: General Electric.
iv. George Foster.
Occupation: doctor.
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41. Lynn Hubert[14] KIMBALL (George 1520 A, 26).
Born, 27 Jan 1896, in Armond
New Brunswick.
Died, 30 Mar 1981, in Woodstock New Brunswick.
Burial: 1981[25].
Occupation: farmer
Lynn & Will KIMBALL & sister Nettie LONDON & Maude KIMBALL
On 9 Feb. 1980, Etta Haywood-Faulkner visited her great-uncle, Lynn
Kimball, at the home of his son and daughter-in-law, Guy and Mary, at the
old homestead of Annie Freeman-Irvine-Kimball in Hartford, Woodstock, New
Brunswick RR#7 on the Bloomfield Road. Lynn was attending the Exhibition
in Woodstock during his younger days; he lost his overshoe, Annie
Freeman-Ervine found it; that is how they met. (Reminds one of Cindella
and the glass slipper, and Prince Charming.) He was a very kind old
gentleman, as Etta remembers him.
Obit: "Funeral service for Lynn H. Kimball of Lindsay at Lindsay
Baptist Church. Rev. Walter Howe officiated at the service.survived by 2
sons, 15 grandchildren, 15 great-grandchildren, nieces and nephews.
His wife Annie (Freeman) predeceased him March 7, 1948. He was also
predeceased by a step daughter, Inez Dewitt in 1956. Resided in Lindsay
for past 49 years. He made his home with his sons Guy and Clarence.
Pallbearers were grandchildren: Gary, Robert, Richard, Lloyd, Donald and
Darrell Kimball. Buriel took place at the Lindsay cemetery.
Date? Waterville there was a Henry Kimball and Jeddiah who were
farmers 3rd tier of lot
He married Annie Freeman, 27 Oct 1921.
Born, 22 Jun 1892.
Died, 1949.
Children:
74 i. Clarence Hubert[15] KIMBALL.
75 ii. Guy #2 Amos KIMBALL.
42. Martha Lois[14] Sharp(e)[13].
Born, 4 Jul 1883 (?).
Died, 1967.
Birth(2):1885.
She married Edward Saunders Sr[13],
son of Evans Saunders and Jane Wright.
Born, 21 Jul 1875.
Died, 1946.
Birth(2): 1873.
1. Evans Saunders
born 1835-1911 married Jane Wright born 1 Oct 1845-1902
Children:
1.1 Sara A Saunders born 5 Apr 1866
1.2 Mary Saunders born 5 Feb 1868-1934
1.3 Henry Saunders born 25 Jan 1870-1939
1.4 Alfred Saunders born 26 Aug 1871-July 1904
1.5 Edward Saunders #1632
born 21 July 1875-1946
married Martha Lois Sharp
born 1885 d 1967
1.6 Lewis M Saunders
born Sept 1876-1901
1.7 Clara B Saunders
born 1878-1892
1.8 Frances O Saunders
born 5 June 1880-1935
married Coleman M Sharp
born 1878-1950
1.9 Waldo Saunders
born 1885-1946
Children:
i. Eldon[15] Saunders[13].
Born, 1904.
Died, Oct 1967.
married
Elizabeth McHatten
Born 10 Dec 1907
Died 1984
Children:
1. Madeline E. Saunders
Born 1927
Died 1971
married Archie McQuarre
Born 1918-1973
Child
Gordon McQuairre
2. Jackson;
3. Eric;
4. Ralph;
5. Mary married Roderick Taylor
Child:
Paul Taylor Born 23 Apr 1972
6. Cindy; etc
ii. Sadie Saunders[13].
Born, 1905.
Died, 1918.
married Elizabeth McHatten
Born 10 Dec 1907
Died 1984
iii. Carrie Verna Saunders[13].
Born, 4 Jan 1907.
Died, 1982.
60C (7)3. Married 1st Norman McHatten
died 19 Feb 1938;
Married 2nd his brother, Robert McHatten. 1961.
Clarence Edwin McHatten
Born 6 July 1925
Married Mona Stoddard
Born 24 Sept
1924. Clarence died 1982.
(9)c.1. Carl Norman McHatten,
Born. 14 Apr 1945
Married Donna Mullen, 1965;
Virginia Elaine McHatten
Born 11 Dec 1946;
3. David Guy McHatten
Born 11 Sept 1948;
4. Donald Clarence McHatten
Born 24 Nov 1950. (8)
2. Virginia Elaine McHatten
Born 11 Dec 1946
Married John Griffin 1 Nov 1965.
(9)c.1. Michael
Born 11 June 1966 (8) 2.
Clifford Irwin McHatten
Born 14 Aug 1930
Married Lena Snow; lives in Ont. ...
iv. Harry Ronald Saunders[13].
Born, 11 Aug 1908.
Died, 1985.
Married 1st Jennie Elizabeth McGowan
Born 19 Sept 1907 d 27
Feb 1937
Married 2nd Verna Dorothy Hickey
Born 28 Mar 1917
76 v. Edith Della Saunders.
vi. Gordon Saunders[13].
Born, 12 Sep 1911.
Died, 1982. Married
Gertie M Smith
Born 1911
vii. Russell Saunders[13].
Born, 30 Mar 1914.
viii. Edward Saunders Jr[13].
Born, 7 Mar 1916.
Died, 18 Dec 1977.
Married 1st Wyonita Veysey
Children:
1.Paul Roy Saunders
b? - married 30 Aug. 19.. at United
Church Manse, Woodstock by Rev. J. E. Leadbeater, AC1 Paul Roy
- to Marion Elaine, d/o Mrs. Alvin Campbell and late Alvin
Campbell of Islay, Alberta. Attended by Jean Marie Saunders.
AC1 Wilfred Craig was best man. Reception held at home of
groom's parents in Wakefield with groom's aunt, Mrs. Winston
Veysey, served bride's table assisted by Mrs. Donald Veysey,
Mrs. Arthur Bowles poured the tea. Another aunt of the groom,
Mrs. Randolph Veysey and Mrs. Clarence McHatten and daughter
helped. Paul is in the Armed Forces, Comax, B.C., in 1977
2. Marie Saunders married McBride (Campbellton, New Brunswick)
He married 2nd:(?). Has 3 step-sons, Gerald and Robert
Gillis in Halifax and Keith Gillis, North Vancouver.
When Edward died in 1977, he had 14 grandchildren.
ix. Clayton Wendell Saunders[13].
Born, 1918.
Died, 1974.
Married Anna Pearle Wheeler
Born 1918
x. William Saunders[13].
Born, 1920. Married
Jason Herbert MILLER
Born Sept. 1926
xi. Amy Saunders[13].
Born, 1925.
Died, 1925.
xii. Anna Jane Saunders[13].
Born, 30 Dec 1927.
Resided, 1992, in Woodstock New Brunswick.
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43. Leighton #1 Fred[14] KIMBALL (Wilmot, 28)[17].
Born, 1893, in Windsor New Brunswick.
Leighton Sr. died 1 Jan. 1919 at the age 26 of Spanish Influenza
epidemic, Knowlesville. Lot 55 grant to 1) James B. Dickinson 2) to Ace
Dickinson 3) Leighton Kimball and wife
daughter of Ace Dickinson in 1915? 4) to Arthur Henderson in 1919
He married Hazel Dickinson.
Children:
i. Jean[15] Kimball.died c1961. No children.
ii. Leighton2 "Buddy" Fred Kimball. married to (?)No children
44. Myles George 1639[14] KIMBALL (Wilmot, 28).
Born, 1895, in Windsor New Brunswick.
Died, 1961.
Myles George KIMBALL married Lillian HARPER at Jacksonville
Myles George KIMBALL marries Lillian HARPER
He married Lillian Harper.
Children:
i. John 1649[15] KIMBALL married Dora
ii. Dorothy Kimball. Born, circa 1927. married Al Blomquist
iii. Marion Kimball. Born, circa 1927. married Thomas Kaye
45. Agnes Etta[14] KIMBALL (Wilmot, 28).
Born, 24 Mar 1899, in Armond New Brunswick.
Died, 27 Apr 1979, in Woodstock New Brunswick.
Occupation: R/Nurse.
Agnes Etta KIMBALLL-McKELLAR
Agnes Etta KIMBALLL-McKELLAR
She married Donald1 McKellar.
He was born 11 April c1891; died 1958 at age 67.
They had a farm in Lower Waterville, New Brunswick
Agnes Etta KIMBALL and Donald1 McKELLAR
Children:
i. Elizabeth Maude[15] McKellar.
Born, 29 Jan 1928, in Waterville Nurse;
likes to garden, read.
Residence year 2003 in Upper Woodstock New Brunswick.
Elizabeth Maude McKELLAR
ii. Kathleen McKellar.
Born, 24 Mar 1930.
Registered Nurse;
She married and divorced Arthur LAPORTE.
He is deceased. No children.
Kathleen McKELLAR
77 iii. Donald2 Sutherland McKellar; died 26 July 2002.
ALMA ELIZABETH [14] KIMBALL (Wilmot, 28)
FLORENCE ZELLA [14] KIMBALL (Wilmot, 28)
ARTHUR HAROLD [14] SHARPE (Anna J Kimball, 27)
46. William[14] Orser.
Born, 14 Dec 1884, in Carlisle New Brunswick.
Died, 1959, in
Carlisle New Brunswick.
Burial: 1959, in Carlisle New Brunswick[26].
He married Lucretia SHAW, daughter of Bela SHAW and Lilly Wark.
Born, 26 Sep 1888.
Died, 1946, in Carlisle New Brunswick.
Burial: 1946, in Carlisle New Brunswick[26].
Children:
i. Basil[15] Orser.
Born, Dec 1908.
He married Freda Clair.
ii. Charles "Dean' Orser.
Born, 2 Jul 1911.
He married Vera Smith.
iii. Terry Orser.
Born, 23 Jun 1916.
She married Donald Clair.
iv. Marjorie Orser.
Born, Mar 1919.
She married Thomas Bagley.
v. Colby Orser.
Born, 12 Jul 1923.
He married Whitehouse 1681.
vi. Harley Orser.
Born, 4 Jan 1929.
He married Marion Belyea.
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47. Lilly[14] Orser. Born, 24 Feb 1894.
She married Edward Laskey. Child:
i. Dorothy[15] Laskey.
48. Beulah[14] Orser. Born, 1 Dec 1897. Died, circa 1933.
She married Fred Gray, son of Alpheus Gray and Esther Rouke,
27 Oct 1920.
Children:
78 i. Walter[15] Gray.
ii. Eleanor Gray.
Born, 10 May 1926.
49. Foy Gilbert[14] Pratt. Born, 1890.
From The Observer, 27 June 1912: "The home of Mr. and
Mrs. B. B. Shaw of Carlisle was the scene of a very pretty wedding on
Wednesday, June 19, when their daughter, Inez Mabel was united in wedlock
to Foy Gilbert Pratt of Carlisle. Rev. A. L. Tedford was the officiating
clergyman." They lived at Somerville New Brunswick.
He married Inez Mabel SHAW, daughter of Bela SHAW and Lilly Wark,
19 June 1912, in Carlisle New Brunswick.
Born, 29 May 1891.
Died, 1964.
Children:
i. June[15] Pratt. Born, 29 May 1916.
ii. Esther Pratt. Born, Dec 1923.
iii. Beryl Pratt. Born, 27 May 1926. She married Ford Campbell.
iv. Ruth Pratt. Born, 4 Sep 1928.
v. Matthew Pratt. Born, 19 Apr 1931.
vi. Ardath Pratt.
50. Fern[14] Pratt. Died, circa 1982.
Occupation: school teacher.
She married Levi "Lee" E FAULKNER,
son of "George" William #7 Faulkner
and Amelia Cox.
Born, 27 Jun 1886.
Children:
i. Ardith[15] FAULKNER. Resided, 1982, in BC.
ii. Donald #2 FAULKNER. Resided, 1982, in BC.
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51. Guy #1 A[14] Pratt.
Born, 18 Feb 1893, in Carlisle New Brunswick.
Residence in Jacksonville New Brunswick.
Pearl was not born to Guy and Lottie but was brought up by them.
He married Lottie SHAW, daughter of Harry SHAW and Geneva Henderson,
15 Mar 1923.
Born, 1903.
Died, 1947.
Children:
i. Cyril[15] Pratt.
Born, 11 May 1924.
He married Muriel Zwicker.
ii. Virginia Pratt.
Born, 17 May 1926.
She married Redmond Fry.
iii. Pearl Pratt.
Born, 7 Nov 1926.
She married Charles Williston.
iv. Guy #2 Pratt.
Born, 7 Nov 1929.
He married Anna Sharp.
52. Earl[14] Pratt. Residence in Carlisle New Brunswick.
He married Effie Amos, daughter of Harry Amos and Margaret Lyons.
Children:
i. Glenn[15] Pratt. Born, 17 Sep 1929.
ii. Mary Pratt. Born, 11 Apr 1935. She married Ronald Craig.
53. Leonar[14] Orser. Born, 27 Nov 1890, in Colorado.
She married Dave Garland.
Children:
i. Myrtle[15] Garland.
ii. Fred Garland.
iii. Mildred Garland.
iv. Mable Garland.
v. Marjorie Garland.
vi. Ruby Garland.
54. Pearl Myra[14] Orser.
Born, 21 Feb 1896, in Colorado.
"SANDY ORSER FAMILY PIONEERS" by Pearl M. (Orser) Bigham
Our father and mother were married in New Brunswick and then went
to Colorado to work in the fabled gold mines. There most of the family
was born. At my sixth year, my mother, lonely for her own kin, took her
family back east - only three of the six who had been born. Stephen,
the second child, and Bertha, the next one, had both died in infancy,
and the last winter scarlet fever had taken our baby sister, Ruby, who
was two. There were left, Leanor, myself and Velma, who although four
years now, kept saying when asked her age, "I'll be three in June."
We lived in New Brunswick for five years with our grandmother,
aunts and cousins.
When I was eleven we came to British Columbia. My father had
settled at Tappen, having worked his way up through Washington. Finding
the climate of British Columbia favorable, he sent for us. There were
now four children, Prince having been born the first August that we
were in New Brunswick.
Before leaving Tappen two more children were added to the family -
Raymond and Grace.
My chief story is to be our trek from Tappen to Celista.
All I would love to tell of the scenes of my childhood in Colorado,
New Brunswick and Tappen, would perhaps be too tiring to others, and
would make the story too long.
When we lived at Tappen, Isaac Decker, an old man who helped with
chores around the place, had been to Celista. He returned to tell of a
beautiful countryside on the north shore of the Shuswap where land might
be homesteaded. This pleased my father as he thought it a chance to own
land instead of renting as we were.
So, on a certain day - Oh dear! I can't remember the year, but I
think I was thirteen at the time - my father loaded all our household
goods in the big double wagon and with a team of horses we set out from
the Tappen farm. I was frightened going down the first hill just across
the railway, although my father knew well how to balance and arrange the
load, and there was a trusty brake. However, I decided or perhaps my
father did, that Velma and I were to walk when there were hills. I
remember thinking how brave my mother was, sitting up on the seat of the
wagon in front, holding Grace who was ten months old. My father sat
beside her holding the brake and lines.
There was a long level stretch next, and since the horses walked
slowly, Velma and I could walk most of the way. I can't remember exactly
the distance, but there was another long hill, going up this time, and
then another level stretch. We came at last to Sorento on the lake, where
there was a ferry. The horses and wagon were driven onto the scow, and a
motor boat towed us across the lake. I remember being afraid the horses
would jump and rear, but they gave very little trouble with my father
standing at their head.
There seems to be a gap in my memory here. Ray tells me that our
brother-in-law, Dave Garland, (not then but later), towed us with his
little motor boat, but I doubt this as the ferry boat was quite a large
motor boat. I don't think Dave's small boat could have towed such a load.
Ed note: The move to Celista took plalce in the spring of 1910.
However, we must have been towed to Fowler's Landing from Scotch
Creek, since there was no road along the north shore of the lake. From
Fowler's Landing it was only a quarter of a mile to the house that had
already been built on old Isaac Decker's place. He and my father had
agreed to build a house on his place first, in which we would all live
while going back and forth about a mile and a half eastward along the
shore where our house would be built.
It was fun getting settled on the Decker place. I remember we had
forgotten to bring a broom, and my father made us one with cedar boughs
fastened to a handle, Velma and I swept the floor. We soon had the
furniture and other things in and arranged.
We must have lived here longer than intended. I remember two things:
We had quite a herd of cattle. My father and Mr. Decker had brought them
over on a previous trip. These cattle soon had to be sold as there was
no pasture and hay would have cost too dear. They and the horses were
sold in order to buy food. One day one of us went to get soap from a
whole crate of Royal Crown Landry Soap that we had brought with us, when
here, the cows had eaten the most of it!
The second thing I remember was that I had planted a flower garden
in an enclosure on a clearing the old man had already accomplished. I
think it was a package of wild flower seeds I had planted. I wish that I
could feel such a delight now in any pastime.
Every morning we took a lunch and rowed to our own place. We camped
on the beach. There was a sort of shed made of cedar bark. But I am
getting ahead of my story. Previously in the summer I had come to our
place with my father to keep house for them while they worked getting
out logs. Prince was already there with Mr. Decker.
Ed Note: Actually the crossing of Shuswap Lake was made from Blind
Bay toFowler's Landing. The ferry from Sorrento to Scotch Creek was
established some two or three years later.
They put me up a tent. I doubt whether anyone benefitted very much
from my cookery. It was more likely that I benefitted from my father's.
I remember that he made a very good rice bannock. I had brought a green
and red bathing suit with me and I spent my time swimming or reading in
the tent. I had managed, by hook or by crook, to bring a few books along
also. Prince helped around bringing wood. I think Prince stayed with the
old man while I went back to Tappen with my father to fetch the others,
as I have described above.
To continue about our camping and working on our place: the chief
thing I remember is how good the gooseberry jam tasted on my mother's
excellent bread. Having kept only one cow, we were sometimes short of
butter.
Then came the house-raising "bee". My mother had baked several
chickens and pies, and we invited the whole neighbourhood. The walls were
soon up. Then there was the roof to do afterwards. My father had split
what were called "shakes", a sort of shingle out of bolts made from cedar
trees.
I was just puzzling my brains - for I had not thought of this for
a long time - how he drew up the logs, as he had sold the horses. But
I recollect that he had a team of oxen he had saved from his stock. They
were both black, a well-matched pair.
When we were settled, to earn the living and clear the land at the
same time, my father chopped cord wood to be sold to the lake steamers -
the "Andover" and the "C. R. Lamb". I will never regret the years spent
at our home on the beautiful Shuswap. Althogh there was plenty of hard
work, we learned to swim and to row a boat; and there was skating and
sleigh-riding in winter.
My father was always busy; even with all the other work, he found
time to make our dining room table, also a bed which I had in my bedroom
long after his death. It was my most prized possession. It was made of
poles with rounds made of smaller stems. I think it was made of birch and
fir. When I fixed up my bedroom, which was originally built on for the
purpose of boarding the teacher, I fell heir to the bed. I painted it
white and made a flounce of flowered material. One of the city girls from
Kamloops who came to camp in the summer, said that it was the prettiest
room she had seen in the country. There was a dressing table and a little
corner stove. In the end near the bed was a short window which opened and
shut like a door, perhaps what we now call a French door.I had papered the
log walls with heavy blue paper and had put a blue congoleum square on the
floor. Of course, this was after I had become a teacher and could spend
my summer holidays there.
Another anecdote about my father's handiwork: one day when Grace
was still a baby, I was drawing her about in her cart. It was a soap box
with wheels cut from rounds of a birch tree. A city gentleman came to the
house - some sort of land agent or other. He stopped and spoke to me,
looked at the baby's cart and said, "It looks like a relic of the stone
age." I didn't know what to say. He soon doffed his cap and made off.
The Swedish settlers at Magna Bay, farther up the lake, were a
great help to my father with his pioneering farming. They loaned him a
catalogue of all kinds of implements for woodcraft and farming. A handmade
bucksaw was very handy. You could make a bow as for a bow and arrow, and
get a little saw to fit across it like a coping saw, but of course much
larger. That was a Swedish bucksaw. There was a bench and a fro for
making shakes. He also made his own ox bow.
I think my father was a veritable Agricolal, like the one famous
in Roman history. He had extra good judgement, but someone was always
going against him. One of the adjacent settlers took the notion of
burning off the country. He believed this was the royal road to clearing
land. But my father didn't want his wood lot and grove all charred, or
his house burned down either. So when the fire swooped down towards our
place, my father, single handed, dug a trench across his own place and
worked night and day to keep the fire back. When the danger was over,
he stumbled exhausted to the house. He lay on the floor, raging, and in
a high fever. I ran to a neighbor's - in a rage myself - to get brandy.
They would have some; ours was all gone. He became calm after a time and
got well again.
The one that started the fire had a sorry-looking place in the
following years. It was a spectacle; all black stubs, no wood lot, no
grove, the land mossed over, for grass seed would not take for the humus
was all burned off. I don't know if my father ever had the chance to say,
"I told you so." Perhaps he thought it was too self-evident.
So we lived on at Celista on the north shore. One of our
difficulties in the first years was the lack of a school. In most of the
early settlements one of the bones of contention was this same institution
- the country school. I have taught in several districts and have heard
their stories. Our government grafter was a Mr. Fowler, who, in looking
for chinks in the government, gave no little trouble in getting a school
started. He seemed to be the only building contractor, and the length he
spun out this job was a haggled-off bone for a period of two years. In the
end the neighbors all chipped in by force and at last a school was
started. During the waiting time we children grew wild and indolent. Prince
and Velma played in the woods all day and I read books upstairs. We should
have been at work helping our parents. But with the opening of the school
all this was changed. There was the comfort and order of having the
children in school again. With the coming of the young lady teachers,
romances for the young men and bachelors of the district were the order
of the day. Every Friday night a dance was held at the school house.
Cousin Ferne taught either the second or third term and was astonished
that her salary was so much more than in the east. I tried my Entrance
that year. Speaking of the young lady teachers and their romances - our
brother, Prince, much later married the first Meadow Creek teacher, Miss
Mabel Graham. Their son, Duncan, is now married and living near Celista
and has two children of his own.
Another of our difficulties during those early years was the lack
of transportation. Our government grafter got his hoe in here too, and
got the contract for building a road from Scotch Creek to Celista to
connect with the ferry. You may imagine how the years stretched before
this road was ready for use. During all this time our means of reaching
the outside world was by lake steamer or row boat or by an occasional
small power boat in summer. In winter it was over the frozen lake which
was dangerous. One spring it was particularly dangerous when the thaw
set in. Food was getting scarce. At one of our parties our hostess passed
each of us a saucer of stewed apricots and a piece of dry bread as our
midnight repast. One bachelor who was invited to the party never did
arrive. His body was found later after the ice was out, also a frame that
he was using to walk on across the slushy melting ice. Several other
accidents happened from trying to cross dangerous ice, but this as far
as I know was the only fatal one.
My father and the rest of us were still progressing with the years
when Workd War I was declared. That year in July, my mother had just come
from the Kamloops Hospital with a new baby brother, Philip, born on July
12th. A new forest fire threatened us from above. My mother was so worried
that the baby was ill. The smoke was so thick that we thought of going out
on the lake in a boat. But then we thought of the school house. It was
farther away and the smoke would not be so thick. Taking a few things
along, we all camped in the school house overnight. The danger passed and
we returned to the farm the next day. I remember that shortly after this
my father and Prince went to the top of Crowfoot Mountain to get
huckleberries. They brought back several gallons which were dried or
preserved in jars for winter use.
I was due to get back to High School in Enderby, where I was to
take my second year. However, the baby was still sick, and continued so,
until the doctor prescribed Allenbury's Food. On this he picked up very
quickly and I was able to go back to school although I had now missed two
months. I soon caught up to the others who were all younger than I.
Altogether I had missed four years of schooling so that I did not pass
Entrance until I was seventeen.
Ed Note: The Orser family had its experience with dangerous lake
ice during the move to Celista. Papa decided that crossing on the ice
would be a simple way to bring livestock to the homestead. So in early
spring Prince and Velma drove four heifers roped together to Blind Bay.
Papa met them there and they drove them across the ice, still roped
together. Just as they neared Fowler's Landing one heifer broke through.
Jessie Fowler saw what was going on. She called her sister, Kate, and
with the help of those two strong girls Papa was able to haul the
stricken heifer to safety.
The next year my father joined the Home Guards, an honest man that
he was, and being imposed on, had remained on guard at Christmas time for
three days and three nights. He was taken ill. They tried to bring him
home across the ice in zero weather. Seeing that he was very ill, Rev.
Grice-Hutchinson advised that he be returned to the Kamloops Hospital.
My mother went to see him, but was barely in time to see him pass away.
This was my Normal year, and, as I of necessity had worked for my
board, I returned home tired out. I had passed through without any honors.
Early in the spring, in February or March, I think it was, I thought I had
better set out to earn my own living and to help the family, although my
mother would have a pension. I would be one less mouth at the board. I had
no trouble getting a school. There was a new school just opening the
inspector advised me. It was a long way up the North Thompson. I enjoyed
the adventure, and so started my teaching career.
My mother insisted on educating Raymond, although he insisted that
he would rather be a farmer. But he became a teacher with a teaching
certificate higher than mine. He also worked for his board at High School
and at Normal School.
Well, we all loved our home on the Shuswap. One year on coming
home for the holidays, my mother and Velma had calsomined the log walls
all fresh; and with a white cloth on the table, a congoleum square on the
floor, and large bouquets of foxgloves here and there, I declared it was
the prettiest room I had ever seenin my travels.
I should mention what was done in the way of religious training.
From the earliest days of the settlement Rev. Grice-Hutchinson, whom I
mentioned in connection with my father's illness, was our chief instructor
in these matters. In the winter, when the ice was on, he would come across
from his home in Sorrento on any sort of call; and periodically he held
services in the schoolhouse. In summer he had a launch on the lake and was
always ready to help in case of illness or distress.
Most of the time there was a good Sunday School at the schoolhouse.
Grace and Raymond should be able to testify to this. I don't think they
lacked a good and steady instruction in the stories of the Bible and their
interpretation. God help us all to have taken the lessons as they were
intended by Him.
After our mother's death in 1937, and I was in the Mental Hospital,
Grace wrote asking what I thought about selling our Celista home as she
could not live there alone. I advised her to do as she thought best. I
felt sad, as I remembered my mother and Mr. Reddy, our stepfather, how
well they were away at the last. There was plenty now in garden stuff,
especially ever-bearing strawberries, raspberries and tree fruits, a
great variety of vegetables, also plenty of milk and cream, butter and
eggs. My mother had four pure bred Jerseys and a good breed of chickens.
And Mr. Reddy, who in appearance resembled the deposed Kaiser, always
had a good stack of firewood ahead.
On one visit, while they were keeping my little one, Ross, for me,
my mother seated us in a pretty glassed-in breakfast nook at a table on
which was served whole wheat porridge, pancakes, toast or cornbread, and
strawberries with Jersey cream. The strawberries, Mother said, lasted
till October.
Anyway Grace was now alone. She sold the farm and took a trip east
to see all our eastern relatives. When Daniel writes of this one and
that one, Grace can straighten us out about them, since she met all of
them that were living at the time, though that would be over thirty years
ago now.
More might be said of many things; but I shall close with these
few linesof a song I once wrote and had set to music:
"A meadow lark sang a gay little song
By the sparkling Shuswap Water;
'Twas autumn and a gay little throng
Tripped down to the laughing water.
The colors of autumn are in the sky,
They too are on the hill;
To hear him sing near breaks my heart
Whilst thou, dear heart, art still.
So still, little bird, don't sing, don't you sing
By the blue and sparkling water;
Hush! Hark! So sweet yet sad 'twill ring!
By the blue and sparkling Shuswap Water."
Pearl M. Bigham"
("Sandy Orser Family Pioneers" by Pearl M. (Orser) Bigham -
was given to Etta in 1984 by Thelma Kimball-Ogden)
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She married Clifford Bigham. Children:
i. Bruce[15] Bigham.
ii. Ross Bigham.
iii. Robert Bigham.
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55. Velma[14] Orser. Born, 7 Jun 1898, in Colorado.
She married Fern McLean.
Children:
i. Earl[15] McLean.
ii. Norman McLean.
iii. Burton McLean.
iv. Russell McLean.
56. Prince Arthur[14] Orser.
Born, 20 Aug 1902, in Carlisle New Brunswick.
He married Mabel Graham.
Child:
i. Duncan[15] Orser.
57. Raymond Bliss[14] Orser. Born, 21 Aug 1907, in Kault BC[27].
He married Elsie Liddicoat. Children:
i. Rodney[15] Orser.
ii. Harvey Orser.
58. Grace Gertrude[14] Orser.
Born, 31 Jul 1909, in Tappen BC.
She married Harold Weightman.
Children:
i. Mervin[15] Weightman.
ii. Wayne Weightman.
59. Philip Alexander[14] Orser.
Born, 12 Jul 1914, in Celista BC.
He married Holly Reckseidler.
Children:
i. Marvin[15] Orser.
ii. Wayne Orser.
60. Harold Robert[14] McKinney (Carrie Oscar, 34).
Born, 17 Jun 1929, in Woodstock New Brunswick. Residence in ONT.
He married Stephanie Harquail.
Children:
i. Louise[15] McKinney.
ii. David McKinney.
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