Covehead . Alex fished out of Covehead Harbour for 25 years prior to 1920, working in the lumber woods in New Hampshire during the winters of these same years, and residing with his brother James, while in Stanhope . For about ten years, Alex lived with his sister, Mary Belle , in , and worked at carpentry, returning to Stanhope about 1930 where he was a caretaker at the "Cliff Hotel" for four years. 3. Henderson, b. June, 1878, d. 7 Feb., 1881, Stanhope , bur. West Covehead . 4. James Malcolm , b. Jan., 1880, Stanhope , d. 15 Feb., 1881, Stanhope , bur. West Covehead . While their mother was still in bed after the birth of the next child, Florence, these two sons, Henderson and James Malcolm , were snatched away with diphtheria. 5. Florence, b. 4 Feb., 1881, Stanhope , d. 6 May, 1904, Whitman, Mass. , bur. , Mass. , m. 3 Aug., 1901 to William Holmes (b. 1871, Canton, Mass. ), son of Albert and Mary (Carpenter) Holmes. About the turn of the century, Florrie joined her sister, Mary Belle , in , marrying William Holmes , shoemaker, and living in , Mass. , where she died in childbirth of her second child at age 23. 2 c, Ruth and Charles Burton Holmes. 6. James Henderson , b. 12 Mar., 1882, Stanhope , d. 30 May, 1943, Stanhope , bur. West Covehead ; m. 6 Dec, 1911 to Isabel Jay (b. 1 Jan., 1894, Fanningbrook), dau. of John W. and Mary Elizabeth (MacDonald) Jay of Pisquid ; 11 c, Walter, Edith, ( Mrs. Gregor MacCallum ), Malcolm, Gideon, Elizabeth ( Mrs. Bruce Ellis ), Alvin, Leslie, Harry, Wanda ( Mrs. Walter Mallett ), Marguerite ( Mrs. Kenneth Ellis ) and Joyce ( Mrs. John Skinner ), (see below). 7. Archibald, b. 18 Oct., 1883, Stanhope , d. 25 Nov., 1955, West Roxbury , bur. Dorchester, Mass. ; m. 1919 to Jennie Hodgson (b. 1900, d. 3 May, 1979, bur. Dorchester, Mass. ). Arch fished out of Covehead Harbour for several years before going to in 1911, where he was employed with Bus Co. before apprenticing as a steamfitter, at which trade he worked until his retirement. 8. Christina, b. 8 Aug., 1885, Stanhope , d. 25 Mar., 1945, Philadelphia, Penn. , bur. National Cemetery . After her mother's death in 1909, "Teenie" took her nurse's training at Worcester Hospital, Mass. , and joining the U.S. Army , she saw service with the Harvard Medical Corps in France and Germany during World War I, after which she received peacetime postings to such places as Manila, Honolulu, California , Virginia and Washington. Captain Christina MacLauchlan , R.N ., retired in 1944 due to ill health. James MacLauchlan (son of Duncan and Effie), a life-long resident of Stanhope , tilled the soil on the farm inherited from his father; James and his wife, Isabel Jay , lived in the home, which Duncan purchased with the farm in 1864 from Edward Auld , until it was destroyed by fire in 1933; it was replaced the same year by a new home for James and Isabel and their children, built by Malcolm Jay and Robbie Brown. This home and the previous one, like many neighbouring homes, was the scene of a small manufacturing industry, producing mats from rags; quilts from scraps; yarn from sheep's wool from which socks, caps, mitts and sweaters were knit; practically new outfits for every member of the family made from used clothing; butter from cream (enough to supply a local market as well as the home); flour from wheat 406