many of her grandchildren who became missionaries in Japan and elsewhere ... With Sister Alexander Sunday was the longest and best day of the week ... it was well-known in the community that all work was done on Saturday so that not even meals were cooked but were prepared the day before. Besides being a prosperous farmer, Francis Alexander was in the Militia , and had an armoury built on his farm, with a rifle range, used extensively for the training of the P.E.I. Militia and later the 82nd Regiment ; Francis' son George was a Captain in the Militia from 1887 to 1895. On April 1, 1865 Francis deeded his property to his son George and wife Isabella; the parents continued to live at "Erinville", as the farm was called, until their deaths in 1880 and 1896. George and Isabella raised a large family and were very active in the community, particularly in the church; George was a leader and speaker of the church, and was Sunday School Superintendent for many years. A former older resident of Stanhope remembered, as a young boy, seeing the Alexander women in long homespun dresses, cutting the grain with a sickle, and the men coming behind, gathering it up, tying the sheaves and stooking them in the field, ready to be harvested when really dry; then it was gathered off the field and stored in barracks, to be threshed as needed. In 1900 George Alexander deeded his property to his son George Herbert , who sold it in January of 1912 to David Swan and his son Harry, who later (1922) sold it to Herbert Kielly . The old home with a small acreage is now owned by Joe and Louis Roper and David Jay , who use it as a summer home. George and Isabella Alexander were the proud parents of very intelligent and successful children, all born in Stanhope . The eldest, Robert Percival , graduated from and after two years' study at Harvard went to Japan in 1893 as a missionary and teacher. His first wife, Christine Vroom , died in a tragic fire in Hirosaki, Japan, (see below). Robert taught English in a number of schools in Japan; he was at the Methodist School, Aoyama Gakuin, from 1909 until his death in 1940. George Herbert , known as Herbert, was also a missionary; educated at a "Canadian military institution", he graduated from Moody Bible Institute, and spent some years in Japan and India as a missionary, and also as a British Army chaplain. He returned to because of some tropical ailment, and was a Presbyterian minister in Michigan , dying in Detroit in 1954 in a pedestrian-auto accident; he is buried in Stanhope . Their sister Virginia Elizabeth, "Bessie", received her B.A . from and was for most of her life a Methodist missionary in Sapporo, Japan. A third brother, William Webb , was a medical doctor in 268