9 Laura MacDonald Laura MacDonald spent most of her retirement in a new home in Flat River with her son's wife Isabel. The house was built next to the old farm house where she raised her eleven children. Most of her final years were spent with her daughters who live in the area. Until her death, her great pleasures were her family, her visitors and her tea. Iwas always very proud of the lamps. I always cleaned them in the morning, you know, and shined them up. And I had six on the shelf. I was real proud to look up and see those lamps all shining. Those that used a lot of kerosene, we'd have to fill them, refill them. And then we'd trim the wicks so's to get them so they'd burn blue. Wash the globes and shine them and trim the wicks and put them up. You'd have a good light. Yes, I was always proud of the lamps. Settling Down [Albert and I were married in 1912] in the Queen Hotel, Charlottetown , [by] Rev. A.A. Stewart . I can remember the morning so well. Walking out through into the you know. That was from Flat River . From Stewart Ross 's*. Eddie Beaton from Flat River : he stood with Papa. And Mary MacDonald stood with me because she lived with me in Boston . We worked together. She was from Uigg . I don't know whether she's even living today. She married after that. Her name was Mrs. Wallace . But I kinda lost track of her. We used to write together but that dropped off. We were [out West] until 1917. And then we came home because I was hearing from home and my mother's sight, like my own now, was getting bad. I thought, my gosh, wouldn't it be awful if anything would happen to Laura MacDonald 79