devoted members of the Methodist Church and attended regularly. Jane read from the Bible each morning and Samuel prayed. He died in 1907.

Their eighth child, Eliza was born on September 15, 1823. How- ever, she died as an infant and didn't live long enough to see her first birthday. She died on April 15, 1824, exactly seven months from the day she was born. Was she a sickly child or did she succumb to some childhood illness? We have no information about that. What we do know is that she was the only child that Vere and Elizabeth lost. A remarkable outcome in an era when there were no doctors, nurses or medicine available to the settlers.

James Irving Beck, the ninth child, | was born on July 30, 1825, at Guern- | sey Cove, PE.I. He was a tall man, but he was noted most for his large feet. He © was sometimes referred to as “Jimmie Broadfoot” because his feet were much wider than normal. On March 28, 1854, he married Jane Sencabaugh, daughter of Benjamin Sencabaugh and Elizabeth Windsor LeLacheur. They bought a farm in White Sands, and had eight children, six boys and two girls. James went to a Bible Christian Church as a young man, but later joined the Methodist Church. He died in 1899 at the age of 74, after undergoing surgery at home. He is buried in the Murray Harbour Cemetery.

Then there was William who you've already met. He lived at home and cared for his parents. He was a quiet man and never smoked nor drank. William served as an elder in the church for many years.

Thomas Marfleet Beck was the eleventh child. He was born in Guernsey Cove, on September 10, 1830, and attended the new school and worked around the farm. As an adult he worked for several years as a ship’s carpenter until he was 31. He married Mary Margaret Hawkins of White Sands and they settled on a farm owned by Capt.

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