A prized China cupboard and an ottoman remaining in the family, show that as a young man Dan was a capable worker in wood.

+2c Joseph Auld

Joseph Auld spent most of his working years, at least his later ones, in Burlington, Vermont, as a newspaperman with the Burlington Free Press. He married an American, Annie Howe and to them were born three ch.: Marguerite, Lillian, who died young, and Percy.

Joseph’s Christmas gift to the homefolk was invariably a box of books, some of which remain, with his inscription. One of them, “Picturesque Burlington”, he had written himself, an attractive book, with illustrations of some of the homes, public buildings, and local scenes in or near Burlington, a town of, at that time, some 8000 people. He d. 24 June, 1921.

His daughter Marguerite, with her husband, Clement Edwards, visited in Freetown in the late 19305.

+2f Robert Boughton Auld Robert Boughton, known as “Rob”, was the youngest child of Robert and Mary Ann Auld, and the

one who remained on the family farm.

On 7 March, 1888 he and Nettie Found of Found’s Mills were married, and they continued farming at the Birches, and running the post office, the latter until May 1912, when it was transferred to the village. Both were active in the Presbyterian Church. Mr. Auld was a member of the I.O.F. at Freetown and a director

of the Premier Silver Black Fox Company.

Robert Auld d. 31 Dec. 1915, and Nettie Auld d. 6 June 1938. They had four children, all b. in Freetown, surname Auld.

Left to right: Walter Auld, Marguerite Schurman, Brewer Auld, Annie MacQuarrie.

3a 2f Annie Boughton b. 26 Feb. 1889. She attended the local school, and became interested in photography, finishing the pictures she took of local scenes and friends. She attended business college in Charlottetown, but for the most part remained at home until she m. Rev. Waldron A. MacQuarrie on 9 Oct. 1918. They went to’Scotland, where Mr. MacQuarrie studied on a scholarship to New College, University ofEdinburgh. In the years following, they served in different pastorates in the Maritimes, first in the Presbyterian Church, and after 1925 in the United Church of Canada. Annie d. in Hopewell, Pictou County, N.S., on 6 Jan. 1950. They had three ch. surname MacQuarrie.

4a 3a2f Nettie Louise b. 21 Feb. 1923 in Freetown. After completing public school in pastorates in NE. and NS. where her father ministered, and a year in Freetown school, she attended Mount Allison Academy for one year. Later she took nurses training at Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal, and served for a time as an army nurse in Whitehorse, Yukon. There she and John Clement Whalley were married by her father on 3 Sept. 1952. They live in Edmonton, Alta. and have three daughters, Barbara Louise, Elizabeth Jane and Catherine Jean. Elizabeth m. Cam Kjellbotn and have twin boys.

4b 3a2f Robert Waldron b. in Rexton, NE. 26 Nov. 1926, now a lawyer in Ottawa and a member of the Ontario Legislature in 1984. He m. Eleanor MacMurdo of Kelvin Grove. They have five ch.

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