Edward Wyatt and Family

post for the stairway. Ned grew a marketing strawberry crop where children would come and pick by the box. It is said that Ned was the first to do so on PEI.

Ned’s first wife was Diana McIntosh from Belfast. They married on November 11, 1871. A son, Alexander McIntosh, was born to them on September 5, 1872, but the baby didn’t live. According to the publication ARGUS, Diana died in January 1875 aged 33 years of consumption after an illness of 7 months. Ned, kindly, took her remains by horse and sleigh to her home in Belfast for burial with her own people.

Ned married his second wife, Harriet Hardy from Tracadie Rd., on December 18, 1878. They had three children, Minnie May, b. March 18, 1880; Edward Arthur, b. December 1, 1882; and George Herbert, b. September 16, 1886, who died at a young age.

According to THE GUARDIAN of October 25, 1926, p. 3, Ned died October 24, 1926 in Charlottetown and was buried on October 26, 1926 in York Cemetery. THE GUARDIAN on April 20, 1929, p. 3, carried the following death notice, “At Pleasant Grove Friday April 19th Mrs. Edward Wyatt in her 87th year. Funeral from her late residence Monday April 22nd, service starting at 2 o’clock. Interment in York Cemetery.” Harriet’s death was also carried in the THE MAPLE LEAF MAGAZINE of June 1929.

Minnie May (daughter of Ned) died at the age of 21 of consumption, or was it a broken heart? When she fell ill, her sweetheart was told not to have anything more to do with her because a sick woman wouldn’t make a good wife. So he turned his back on Minnie May and broke her heart. Later the lost suitor married, but was childless. It was said that he received his just rewards for the way he treated Minnie May.

Arthur (son of Ned), born December 2, 1882, died May 16, 1958, was a tall slim man who remained on the family farm. Perhaps because of his asthma he never seemed to be well, and it was wondered how he ever made a living. He was a great reader and a gentle man, never known to raise his voice. When his father Ned was old and feeble minded he would wander away. Once when Ned was missing, information was found in a newspaper about a lost person in Moncton. Arthur checked it out, went to Moncton, and brought Ned

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Courtesy of Grace Swan “Uncle” Arthur and “Aunt” Jennie Wyatt. Notice the pillar reflection and the alder chairs, the handwork of

Ned; also, the slant of the chairs depicting the devotion

of Arthur and Jennie.

back home. Sadly, Arthur had to put Ned in the poor house at Falconwood where Arthur visited him until his death October 24, 1926.

Arthur married Janet (Jennie) Dover of Suffolk Rd. on November 4, 1931. They were very fine people who are spoken of with great affection. Children were welcomed, who now as adults fondly remember how Jennie would bring cookies to them when they came to play or were enjoying a visit in her rocking chair. A niece of Jennie’s remembers staying overnight many a time, and Jennie saying that there’s lots of room with three bedrooms here.

Arthur kindly took in Jennie’s parents. He also had Jennie’s aunt, Mrs. Mary Marshall, nee Dover, come back from the States to Pleasant Grove where he and Jenny took care of her. An old record book of the Suffolk Cemetery states that in 1940 Arthur Wyatt paid one dollar for the burial of Mrs. Marshall in the Suffolk Cemetery. In her later years after Arthur’s death, Jennie lived with her niece Grace (nee Watts) and husband Dewar