Alexander and Catherine (MacEachern) MacLauchlan of Stanhope. 6 c. See MacLauchlan family history.

Will Bell operated the family farm under great difficulty owing to his having asthma. In 1937, 90 acres of the farm were expropriated by the National Park, and in 1942 Lewis Kielly bought the remaining 100 acres. In 1941 Will went to live at the home of Will Ross, now Horace Marshall’s property; he remained there until his death in 1947. Will, his parents, and his Aunt Matilda, are buried in West Covehead cemetery.

Children of Coles and Ida (Marshall) Bell

1. James Lloyd, b. 6 Aug., 1901, d. 4 July, 1971, m. 7 Mar., 1932 to his cousin

Edna Belle Marshall (b. 10 May, 1914), dau. of Frank and Matilda (Brodie) Marshall.2c.

2. Robert Frank, b. 8 Mar., 1903, never married. Frank served in the US. Navy. He was in the Philippines working for a construction company and was killed in

a Japanese bombing raid. The last letter his mother received from him was in 1940.

3. Roy Bradford, b. 28 July, 1910, never married. He served with the Royal Canadian Army Service Corps 1943-1946, spending one year in Occupied Europe

after hostilities ceased. He now lives in West Covehead, on the land once owned by Robert Kielly.

4. George Ernest (Bud), b. 22 Dec., 1912, m. 1. Grace Rankin from Glasgow, Scotland, 1 dau., m. 2.Bernadine Dawe Chandler from Topsail, Newfoundland.

Bud served with the Royal Canadian Artillery in WWII and now lives in Charlottetown.

Children of Lloyd and Belle (Marshall) Bell

1. Ernest Bloyce, b. 9 May, 1933, never married.

2. Ina Matilda, b. 16 Apr., 1935, m. 28 Nov., 1952 to Ernest MacMillan. They

live in Covehead and have 4 children: Paul, b. 1954; Barry, b. 1956, m. 1979 to Ann Birt.; Wendy, b. 1960; Jill, b. 1963.

BERNARD

John Harold Bernard (b. Oct., 1875, d. 9 Sept., 1964, son of John Bernard and Annabella Bell of Irishtown) with his wife Lottie (b. June, 1881, d. 20 Mar., 1958, daughter of John and Lottie Biggar of Breadalbane) and their seven children, came to Stanhope in the fall of 1926 from Springfield, P.E.I. John was a road machine operator and was sent here to work on Stanhope Lane, where he used the first mechanical road machine on P.E.I. It was a caterpillar track machine with a scraper blade; previously horse-drawn plows and scrapers were used.

The Bernard family lived in Stanhope for the next 13 years, renting the old Hudson house on the east side of Stanhope Lane, together with some farm land, from the Hudson family. John worked on the roads and also did some farming. Some of the older children

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