Isaac and Ethel Lawson’s three daughters were quite young when they left school to go out to work as waitresses during the summer months at the hotels in the area and in private homes in Charlottetown in the winter. Irene and Helen were married in 1941 and went to live in Charlottetown and Sherwood. Mabel, with the exception of several winters working in Charlottetown, worked as head waitress at Dalvay Hotel from 1947 until her death in October, 1980. She lived all her life in Stanhope with her father and brother.

Henry Lorne, the only son of Isaac and Ethel, was born in 1917 in the home where he lives today. “Harry”, as he has always been called, is the only Lawson still living in Stanhope today in direct descent from the original David Lawson. He completed his education in Stanhope School and worked on the farm until he was old enough to work out as a carpenter. During the early 19403 he worked for a couple of winters as a carpenter in Debert and Pictou, Nova Scotia, on the staff houses of the airport and shipyard respectively. He came home each spring to put in the crop on the family farm. Harry and his father also used to crop the farm owned by Harry MacLeod, who was in the Army in Europe from 1939 - 45.

During the summer of 1945, Harry built on a large addition to the main Lawson house in preparation for his marriage to Shirley Elizabeth, daughter of Cecil and Lilla Campbell of Whim Road, P.E.I. They were married in November and bought Harry MacLeod’s 20 acres of land; in the spring of 1946 Bruce Ellis bought the front 5 acres of this land, and Harry farmed the remaining 15 acres until it was sold to the Stanhope Golf Course in 1969. Harry operated the Lawson farm until 1975, at the same time continuing to work as a carpenter with Ivan Bernard and, since 1964, with Square K Construction Company of Charlottetown. Harry and Shirley became the parents of a son, Lorne, in 1953, and a daughter, Faye, in 1956. Shirley taught in Stanhope School, first from 1947 to 1950 when it was a one-room school with 10 grades, later teaching grades five to eight for eight years, also at Stanhope School; and lastly teaching for four years at Stonepark Junior High School from its Opening in 1972. She retired because of illness in 1976.

In the summer of 1965, Harry and his family decided to pick up the house and buildings from the farmyard and move the whole operation to the part of his farm at Stanhope Corner opposite Horace Marshall’s home, so that they could be on the road and nearer their friends and neigthurs. A few problems were encountered along the way, but there were never any regrets regarding that major move. After selling eight acres in 1970, first to Mr. Sloat and his partner 0f Toronto, and then to Seif Karim, and 18 acres at the back of the

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