Ellen Smallman 
     
     1937 
     
    

    
     Ellen Horne Smallman was born in 
     
     Bloomfield, P.E.I., in 1871. Her parents, 
     
     Sara Gavin and Robert Horne, were 
     
     formerly from Glasgow, Scotland. She 
     
     married James P. Smallman of Knutsford 
     
     and of this union five sons, namely Dan, 
     
     Arthur, Albert, Beecher, and Edgar and 
     
     five daughters, namely, Eva, Edith, Hazel, 
     
    
   
   
    
     Helen, and Margaret were born. She also 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     cared for Leigh Chisholm from childhood and looked upon him as another member 
     
    
   
   
    
     of her household. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Ellen also cared for her two grandchildren, Emma and Aubrey, after their school 
     
     was destroyed by the Halifax Explosion, December 6, 1917. They lived with her 
     
     and her already large family for one year and attended school in Knutsford. Their 
     
     home was also used as a post office, a Maternity Home run by girls, and joyful 
     
    
   
   
    
     place to gather. 
     
    
   
   
    
     She was a faithful member of the Knutsford Baptist Church, also a life member of 
     
     the Missionary Society and served as treasurer for a number of years. Active in 
     
     Community affairs and was a life member of the Knutsford Women’s Institute. 
     
     She was a Christian woman of many fine traits, including a kind and cheerful 
     
    
   
   
    
     personality. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Submitted by her granddaughters, Kathleen (Smallman) MacAusland and Ellen 
     
     Smallman) Campbell 
     
    
   
   
    
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