Farm”, demolishing David Lawson’s log house in the process. The third daughter, Lydia, married Alexander Marshall, and they lived in Covehead Road. Next in the family came two sons who were in the US. Navy: Lauchlin served 38 years, and owned a very beautiful two-masted boat which he kept in Covehead Bay, named, in Gaelic, “Faugh—a-Balla” — in English, “Clear the Way”; and James Henry, who was in the US. Navy for only 8 or 9 years, then deserted, and worked on American fishing boats in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Later he was captain of a millionaire’s yacht in the States, and eventually ended up in Australia, in the gold rush at Bendigo. The youngest daughter, Clara, married William Pangborn of Sauk Center, Minnesota and lived in the States; she later married William’s brother David. Robert and Mary’s ninth child, George Herbert, born in 1870, married Sarah Ann Wheeler of Murray River in 1900 in Boston, Mass., and they had three children: Wendell, who is our very knowledgeable local historian; Eleanor; and Lewis. In 1905-6, with his brother Lauchlin’s help, Herbert built the house lately occupied by Joe Myers and now by Clark Gallant, in what is now West Covehead; he and Sarah lived there until May, 1922, when he bought the original Alexander farm on the Stanhope East Road from Harry Swan. The Kielly family engaged in mixed farming, with Wendell working on the farm with his father, and continuing there after the latter’s death in 1944; in March, 1974 most of the farm land was sold to Harry MacLauchlan, except for 16 acres which, with the farm house, were sold to Joe and Louis Roper and David Jay, and 10 acres retained by the Kiellys. Wendell moved to the north side of the East Road where he made a home for himself and his mother in a house built by his nephew Harry. Wendell’s mother died on June 21, 1982, aged 103. Herbert’s daughter, Eleanor, married Bernard (Barney) McCabe on May 9, 1925. They lived in Stanhope for a while, later moving to West Covehead, and later still to ‘ Friston Road; they had seven children: Leslie, Lillian, Alonzo, Lewis, Luella, Leo and Lois. . Lewis Kielly was married in 1937 to Mary Arbing of Suffolk. Lewis and Mary bought land on the north side of the Stanhope East Road in 1940 and in 1943. This land was made up of two farms — one of 56 acres, originally owned by James .Curtis Lawson, then by Herbert Marshall, and then by Aeneas MacDonald — and the other, of 100 acres, originally owned by Thomas Foster, then by James Bell, then by his son Will Bell, and lastly by the Eastern Trust Company. Lewis and Mary lived in Aeneas MacDonald’s farm house until May, ' 1971, when they moved into a smaller modern house, built by Lewis, on 3 acres of land reserved from the 156 acre farm, the rest of which was eventually sold to Parks Canada in 1976. Lewis and Mary have

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