20 Cassie MacLeod Cassie MacLeod was noted for making about the best cup of tea in the Belfast area. In keeping with tradition in this open-hearted community, she greeted her company with a hot cup and a warm welcome. The Melville farmhouse she moved to following her 1927 marriage to Campbell MacLeod remained her home until August 1984, when she sold off the place and held an auction on its contents. After her husband's death in 1974, Cassie looked to nearby friends for companionship, but after the sale she turned primarily to her grandnephew Sandy MacRae and his wife Doris. Cassie's mobile home rested on their Mount Buchanan property; the electric stove took a little getting used to but she always made a fine cup of tea. Just one brother and three sisters. But none of them are living. I'm the last of the family. It isn't nice to be last either. No, it isn't. But there always has to be a last one. A My grandparents came from Scotland and then their parents came from Scotland . On the tombstone, there's a generation before my grandfather. My mother didn't have any Gaelic when she was married but she learned it all with those older folks, with my grandfather and grandmother. They had a Gaelic hymn book and she used to read the Gaelic hymn book, the Psalms, and the Gaelic Bible to my grandfather and grandmother. I can remember that right well on Sunday morning, that little hymn book and the Gaelic Bible.... Everybody'd sit quiet and she'd read to them. And of Cassie MacLeod 181