Thomas (1835-1920) married Rachel MacMurdo (1835-1926) on Nov.
18, 1862, and farmed on the homestead. Thomas was also a furniture-
maker. Thomas and Rachel had a family of twelve children:
Lulu Ada (1863-4-1949) married George Easter (1854-1924). Their children
were Carrie (1892), Edna (1902) and Erskine who died in his youth.
Judson (1864-5-1906) married Minnie Orr (1864) and their children were
Addie, Vera, Edwin and Albert.
George Whitefield (1867) married Annie MacLean, and their children were
Edith, Edgar and Ruth.
Eliza Jane (1869-1952) married W. Sheen (1867-1940). They had a son who
died in infancy.
Rachel (1871-1940) married Charles O. Huestis. They farmed on the
present-day Lyman Huestis farm.
Carrie (1872-1899) married N. Hooper (1855-1910). They had one son,
Lloyd.
Jessie Ellen (1874-1956) married Colin Campbell (1880-1945). Their
children were Mary and Eva.
James Archibald (1877).
Margaret (1878) died at two months of age.
Albert Edward (1879-1898).
Janette Adelaide (1881) married Colin Ramsay. They had two children,
Patricia and Lloyd.
Robert, born following 1881, married Alma Moase, (1881-1957), daughter
of Robert and Lucy (Burrows) Moase of Kensington. Robert farmed
on the homestead until the early 1930's when he and Alma moved to
St. Eleanor's where they had a fox ranch. Robert sold his farm to
John W. Hogg. Robert and Alma retired later in Kensington and are
buried in the Kensington Peoples' Cemetery. While Robert was
farming in Wilmot Valley he was helped by Davis Moase.
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