m. 9 Nov 1892 as his 3rd. wife Benjamin Webster Howatt, b. 1846, d. 1923, son of Peter Howatt II and Abigail Elizabeth Bowley, St Peters. They had 2 children: Edna Abigail, b. 23 Sept 1893, d. 4/5 Jan 1982, m. Harry MacFarlane, see MacFarlane history; Helen Willard, b. 6 Dec 1897, d. Apr 1972/3, m. Percy Howatt.

Elsie b.c. 1866, d. Boston after 1922, m. Fred Scurrah, b. SaintJohn, NB, (1. Boston. Fred was a brick layer. They had 5 or 6 children including Jim, and a daughter who married Mr. Miller.

Eliza E. Robbie b. 1867, d. 1962, bur. Tryon Peoples Cem., 1st. m. Colonel Charles Dyer, Boston. Robbie nursed Charles’ wife in the hospital, then at home. Mrs. Dyer died from cancer. The Dyer’s owned Dyer’s Whiskey and Mr. Dyer had 1 son from his first marriage. Robbie 2nd. 111. Fred Blanchard, Lowell, Mass.. Robbie had no children.

+AlbertJames A]. b. 16 Oct 1872.

Bessie b.c. 1874, d. young, bur. Tryon Peoples Cem..

Maude b. 1876, (1. young, bur. Tryon Peoples Cem..

Minnie b. 1876, (1. young, bur. Tryon Peoples Cem..

Charles b.c. 1881, d. of diptheria, bur. Tryon Peoples Cem..

Carolyn Bell Carrie b. 1 May 1882, d. Dec 1952, bur. Tryon Peoples Cem., m. as his 2nd. wife in the summer 1917, Charles William Nelder, d. 12 Dec 1943. They had 2 children: Elizabeth Stevenson b. 1 Sept 1919; Jack Frederick b. 8 Oct 1920.

In 1891, a grandson, Frederick, age 11, was living with James and Elizabeth, possibly Alice’s son.

Albert James A.J. b. 16 Oct 1872, d. 17 Sept 1943, bur. Tryon Peoples Cem., son of James Robinson and Elizabeth Callbeck, lst. m. 1896 Flora P. Scruton, d. 23 June 1901, bur. Tryon Peoples Cem., daughter of Mr. Scruton and Miss O’Dell, Farmington, New Hamp- shire; 2nd. m. 22 Apr 1917 Mary MacLuckie Mooney, b. Lcith, Edin- burgh, Scotland, 19 Nov 1889, daughter of Charles Mooney and Margaret MacLuckie.

A.J. left the farm when he was 18, and joined his sister Robbie in Boston. There he worked first as a gardener and janitor, then in the plumbing and steam fitting trade in the hospital where Robbie was employed as a nurse. A.J. married a nurse, a friend of Robbie’s, Flora Scruton in 1896. He planned to settle in Boston, but his father’s sudden illness made it necessary for him to return to his Island home to look after his mother and sister. A.J., Flora, and their son Arthur returned to Augustine Cove in 1899. A.J.’s father, James, died shortly after, a victim of cancer. The same year a daughter Vera was born, but she died of meningitus at 10 months of age. The following year Flora died from tuberculosis. Robbie nursed Flora during her illness. A.J., his son Arthur, his sister Carrie, and his mother, Elizabeth were left on the farm in the fall of 1901. Elizabeth died in 1914, and Arthur was killed in the

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