A History of Elmsdale, Elmsdale West, and Brockton, Prince Edward Island

turning the freezer. Thelma Wells said that ice cream cones sold for five cents and ten cents and sundaes were 35 cents. Abox of 100 cones cost 40 cents. The two most

popular flavours were grapenut and vanilla, although he made other flavours.

THE UNDERTAKER David Williams got interested in the funeral business when Roy Phillips, undertaker in Tyne Valley, came up to Elmsdale or Alberton for a funeral. He would stop in at David’s home and have his dinner then David would go with him to help.

Kay Williams remembers her grandfather telling her that when a person expired in the early days, he and a neigh- bour would go into the home to wash and dress the body for the funeral the next day.

Anna Hardy Coll.

Jean “Jen” (MacPherson) Wells, ice cream maker

There was no embalming of bodies in those days. In the early 19303 David Williams received a letter from Hud- son Moreshead, undertaker in West Devon, enquiring if he would be interested in helping him run his business, as he was getting up in years. Mr. Moreshead was look- ing for a person who did not consume alcohol. David agreed to go and work for him after he took an embalm- ing course at Zinck Funeral Home 1n Halifax. He worked with Mr. Moreshead until Mr. Moreshead’s death 1n 1938.

In 1935 David had set up his own funeral business in his 8 home. People who died were waked in their home and Lmimdmcw sometimes the funeral was held in the home, before the

Jack AdamS’ s 20- -ga110n ice cream body was taken to the cemetery for burial. In the winter freezer, with paddle beside it

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