PICKETTS A general outline of genealogy of the Picketts family is as follows.

John Peter Picketts was among the earliest settlers to come to P.E.I. He settled in Wilmot Valley and built a log house. He and his wife, Rebecca (1799—1861), had five children. John Peter Jr. (1825-1897) In. Emeline Curtis and farmed on the homestead. Sarah Ann, a sister of John Peter J r., m. William Maxfield, a Freetown native. They moved to Western U.S.A. about 1850, the other three are of little concern in the history of Freetown. John Peter Jr. and Emeline (Curtis) Picketts had a family of seven children and five of them married into Freetown families: 1. John Rhodes (1856-1938) m. Margaret Jane Cairns (1866-1910), who was a daughter of John and Maria (Crawford) Cairns of Freetown. They had seven ch: (a) Lulu m. Justin Woodside. (b) J. Darrell m. Katherine Clark. (c) Crawford Roy m. Blanche Weatherby. (d) Vera Jane m. Waldon Davison. (e) Myrtis m. William Montgomery. (f) Gladys m. George Frizzell. (g) Willard C., an ordained Minister, who m. Nora MacKenzie. John Leland Taylor (1896-1968) was brought up at the Picketts home. His mother Gertrude (Cairns) Taylor d. when he was two years old. She was a sister of Margaret Jane (Cairns) Picketts. 2. Frederick In. Euphemia Burns, of Freetown, and farmed there before moving to Rimbey, Alta. 3. Rebecca (1859-1935) In. Collingwood Reeves (1856-1937) of Freetown where they lived and had seven children. (See Reeves history.) 4. Dorcas (1865-1909) m. William Arbing (1853-1936) of Freetown and lived in Berwick, Maine. (See Arbing history.) 5. Thurza (1867-1931) m. William Cairns (1864-1932). They lived in Freetown and had five children. (See Cairns history.)

FRED PICKETTS

Fred Picketts was b. in Wilmot Valley and moved to Freetown where he purchased a farm of 76.5 acres (code 38) in 1886 from James Watson. He stayed on this farm until 1907 when he sold it to Charles D. Taylor. Fred also owned the farm (code 72) that he purchased from the Est. of James Hiscox in 1906. In 1907 he sold this farm to Benjamin Deacon. In 1907 Fred decided to move to Western Canada and that fall he and his son William went to Lacombe, Alberta and purchased a block of land in Rimbey, which was about thirty five miles from Lacombe. They stayed there and got some buildings ready for the rest of the family to move into the next spring. Fred was a carpenter and this was a big help in getting established in Rimbey, which was just a bleak place in the country.

Fred Picketts family back row left to right: Ruell, LerIa, Ina, Hattie, WiIIiam. Front row: Fred, Euphemia, HaroId.

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