George Darby Schurman

They, however, must have been pleased with what they found as a large colony, including the William Schurman family, came and settled in Bedeque in July of the same year.

Their son, Thomas Hooper Schurman, married Mary Baxter and went to live in Wilmot, where Lester Baglole now lives. They had the following family: George Darby, Mary Olevia, John Nelson, Howard and Annie.

George married Mary Jane Silliker of Wilmot; he bought a farm from Edward Hogg and came to live in New Annan in 1877.

George Schurman was a very prosperous and up to date farmer; he owned one of the nicest kept homes in New Annan and was a real horticulturist.

People came to him for advice; he was well learned and took an active part in politics. He also had a small bee apiary. He invented a de- vice for measuring angles and a ready reckoner for the measurement of timber etc. for which a patent had been applied for at Ottawa.

Mr. Schurman was possessed of a truly poetic nature. The follow- ing entitled “Some Time” Will give a fair idea of his work in this line:

Sometime the grass will o’er us wave While we shall rest within the grave; Sometime the flowers will sweetly bloom Above the spot which marks our tomb. Sometime the friend we now hold dear For us will shed the silent tear,

And though we yet may know it not

We would not be by them forgot. Sometime our places may be filled;

55