farm and home, living and farming here during the next seven decades with his wife “Cassie”. An industrious pair, Cassie made regular trips to market in Charlottetown with produce from the farm and kitchen, while Alexander undertook to erect a new home in 1898, the builder being Herman Jones of Pownal.

Children of Alexander and Catherine (MacEachern) MacLauchlan

1. Lea, b. 3 Aug., 1881, Stanhope, d. 15 Oct., 1946 at Charlottetown, bur. People’s Cemetery; m. 1906 to Goldie Bell (b. 6 Dec., 1883, Milton, d. 21 Feb., 1932, Ch’town, bur. People’s Cemetery), dau. of James and Margaret (Coles) Bell of Stanhope. In 1905, Lea purchased 123 acres of land in West Covehead, the former Ralph Carr property, where he and Goldie lived and farmed and where their six children were born, before moving to Charlottetown in 1923. 6 c., Hilda (Mrs. James Power), Lois (Mrs. George MacLean), Estelle (Mrs. Cecil Campbell), Stuart, Dorothy (Mrs. Wendell MacPherson) and Howard.

2. Rebecca, b. 20 May, 1883, Stanhope, d. 11 June, 1950, Surrey, B.C., bur. Surrey, B.C., m. 28 Aug., 1908 to Edgar Stallard (b. 15 Mar., 1879, England, d. 2 Apr., 1974, North Vancouver). Rebecca went to Western Canada in the early 1900s where she married and lived most of her married life in North Vancouver, returning to Stanhope a few times with her young children, before her father died in 1916. 3 c., Dorothy (Mrs. Alan Kidd), Mildred, Kathleen (m. 1. Thomas Williams, m. 2. Victor Brandt).

3. Alice, b. 4 Man, 1885, Stanhope, d. 28 Jan., 1968, Penticton, B.C., bur. B.C., m. 24 Dec., 1917 to Percival Wish in Vancouver. Alice, deafened as a young child by scarlet fever, missed a few years at Stanhope School, before she was en- couraged to return by Henry B. MacLean, as her hearing improved. She went on to earn a first class teacher’s license at P.W.C., teaching for 3 years at Alexandra and 1 at Brackley Point before leaving P.E.I. in 1911 for teaching positions in Alberta and B.C. where she and her husband spent the last 35 years of their marriage in Penticton, B.C. 2 c., Harold and Eileen (Mrs. John Johnston).

4. Margaret, b. 12 Sept., 1887, Stanhope, d. 20 June, 1973, Winchester, Mass., m. 17 Nov., 1909 to Lee Essery (b. 25 Mar., 1888, d. 19 Dec., 1969), son of James and Suzanne (Holman) Essery of Union Road. Margaret taught school at Brackley before her marriage after which she and Lee lived and farmed at Union Road, later moving to Mass., with her daughters. 5 c., James, Margaret (Mrs. James Gridley), George Abbott, Alva (Mrs. Stephen Johnson), Doris (Mrs. James Emery). .

5. Ashley, b. 12 June, 1890, Stanhope, d. 21 Dec., 1946, Charlottetown, bur. People’s Cemetery, m. Sept., 1916 to Luella MacMillan (b. 4 Jan., 1896, d. 8 Aug., 1981, Charlottetown, bur. People’s Cemetery), dau. of James R. and Kennedy (Rodd) MacMillan of West Covehead. 2 c., Anson and Elmer, see below.

6. George, b. 1894, Stanhope, d. 26 Aug., 1915, Stanhope, bur. W. Covehead.

7. Stuart, b. 1896, Stanhope, d. 20 May, 1917, Calgary, bur. Union Cemetery. Despite every effort on the part of their parents to return these two sons, George and Stuart, to health, they succumbed to the dread disease of tuberculosis at

an early age.

Ashley MacLauchlan (son of Alexander) and his wife, Luella MacMillan, farmed the 100-acre Poplar Grove farm at Stanhope, inherited from his father in 1916, before selling this property to

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