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the year 1934 the Point farm changed hands again. John Doyle decided to ye to town, fed up with trying to make a living farming. This family rented 'ous homes, their final Charlottetown address being 58 Kent Street, across m Rochford Square. John became a handyman-carpenter and about 1960 ved to 5 Falconwood Road with the Daley family who had moved to harlottetown from Windsor, Nova Scotia. He and Ellie later moved to the ome of his daughter Margaret and her husband Gus Campbell, on Upper een Street. It was in this home that Ellie died, surrounded by her family mbers, myself included. John died in the Sacred Heart Home in Charlene- wn on April 3, 1975.

John sold the farm in 1934 to his brotherJoseph (Joseph Pierce) who had prosperous farm at South Shore, hot 65. (This community is now known as (1.) Joe had a hard life in many ways. His first wife, Elinbeth Foley, re him four children, three of whom died young Their second boy Leo died spinal meningitis at the age of ten. Their daughter Claire, an infant of two ths, and her mother Himbeth both died in 1918 ofthe flu (At the close of orld Warl, in 1918, adadlystrainofSpanish influmn swept theworld. P.E.l. not spared) A third child, Edward, was to die tragically at the Point farm. er, their only surviving son, is the Peter mentioned in the next few pages. Joseph then married Josephine Murphy, only to have her die during the of their first child, Joseph. Joseph's third wife was Aderina Kelly from y’sCross. Fromthisnnniageametwogirls—Kathleen,whowastonnrry ol MacDonald, and Mary, who rmrried Oswald Murphy. Maryand Kathleen d to ocusionallyvisit their cousins 'LittleJohn', ‘Slti'CFranlo, Isabelle, and at the Doyle home in Mermaid, priorto moving there themselves in 934. Aunt Margaret, tells of an incident which happened on the farm when e was a child. Her brotherJohn found a brood of young ducklings in the barn ne cold spring. There was an old trough used to water the horses out in the yard, andJohn proceeded to gather up all the ducklings and carry them to e trough. It was so cold that day that newly-hatched birds died from shock d exposure (hypothermia). By that time, his mother was on the scene. at did you do that for John?‘ she said. With big tears in his eyes, not alizing the consequences of his actions, he murmered “l was thwimin’ ‘em.’ ‘1 was swimming them.")

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