MARY'S GENEALOGY TREASURES
In 1912 at the ripe old age of nineteen, Adam left Scotland
While on leave in Scotland, he met Margaret McIntosh
Then in 1926, they bought one hundred and sixty acres,
During the thirties we managed to keep a phone at the
All three children were educated in Coalhurst and later,
In 1946, mom and dad sold the farm and moved to Lethbridge
and all his family and came to Lethbridge. When the First
World War started in 1914, he joined the Canadian Army
and served in France for the next four years.
and they were married in Edinburgh in 1919. In 1920,
Adam returned to Canada and settled in Coalhurst.
Margaret and a daughter followed in 1921. In 1922,
they had another daughter.
three miles north-east of Coalhurst and had to fence it
and plow the virgin prairie. They built a house and planted
their first crop in 1927. In 1930, a son was born in
Coalhurst and the family was complete.
farm so the neighbors for miles around came to use
the phone and visit. This way we kept in touch with
the affairs (sometimes happy and sometimes sad)
of the surrounding farmers, and it never ceased to
amaze us kids how much our mother and dad would
do for others when the need arose. Everyday in the
summer, our ditch-rider, George Black would stop by
on his rounds and mother always had a cup of tea
ready for him. We didn't have much money in those days
but we always ate well and had fun as a family.
Lethbridge. We had three long cold miles to go to school,
and either rode horses (bareback) or rode in an Irish jaunting
cart, which dad made for us -complete with rubber tires which
were forever getting flats. In the spring and fall the horses
were needed on the farm, so we walked.
where they resided until Adam passed away in February, 1972
and Margaret in April, 1978.
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