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     more than equal to such happenings. One night two Fraser girls from North 
     
     Bedeque were coming to a dance, attired, no doubt in their prettiest dresses, 
     
     and anticipating an evening of fun. Imagine, for a moment, their dismay at 
     
     reaching the brush—bridge, after a long trek, and finding it under water. The 
     
     girls’ indecision seems to have been swayed to affirmative action, no doubt 
     
     aided by the twinkling lights at the Hogg home, less than a quarter of a mile 
     
     away. In any case they pressed onward, and, naturally, arrived at their 
     
     destination dampened both in body and in spirit. Mrs. Hogg, however, was 
     
     undaunted, and after a brief visit to the upstairs of the home, the girls arriv- 
     
     ed down in fresh, dry clothing and footwear to enjoy the dance. 
     
    
   
   
    
     John and Ada raised a large family. To accommodate his sons better, 
     
     John divided the former Stavert farm so that the present day George Hogg 
     
     farm includes the eastern half of the Stavert farm, and Earle Hogg’s farm 
     
     includes fifty acres from the eastern side of the Herbert Hogg farm, or 
     
     present-day Irving Hogg farm. John was bedfast for two years prior to his 
     
     death, and is buried in the North Bedeque Cemetery. John and Ada had 
     
     thirteen children: 
     
    
   
   
    
     Mabel Eliza (Sept. 10, 1902) married, first, Albert Clark, of Wilmot Valley. 
     
     Secondly she married John Weeks, and after his death married Henry 
     
     Mallet. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Herbert Irving (April 2, 1904) married Blanche Jean MacEachern, and 
     
     farmed in Wilmot Valley. 
     
    
   
   
    
     John Darius Everett (Aug. 14, 1905) married Fannie Glover, and farmed in 
     
     Wilmot Valley. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Jennie Wilhelmina (Feb. 27, 1908) married James Neil Clark of North 
     
     Bedeque. in 1928. Their children were Patricia Marion and Neill 
     
     James. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Lillian Alice (June 6, 1909-1957) remained single. She was a buyer for 
     
     MacKenzie‘s House of Fashions in Summerside. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Lucille Belle (March 14, 1911) married Charles Newcombe on Feb. 14, 
     
     1956. They live in Halifax. 
     
    
   
   
    
     George Lemuel (Aug. 28, 1912) married Helen Small and bought his 
     
     father’s home-farm. (See Veterans). 
     
    
   
   
    
     Albert Earle(l9l4) married Velda Caseley and farmed in Wilmot Valley. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Dorothy Alfreda (Sept. 28, 1915) married Clark Caseley and they farmed in 
     
    
   
   
    
     Hamilton. Their children were: John Clark, Noelle Susan and Beverly 
     
     Ethel.