Dunrobin WI Tweedsmuir Community History, Volume 2, [1972], page 5

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-- -_-r.-" I LIN aavdLs.:f.i.uvsl':,rsslscl:s2' 1000 935$? Saree colon, who settled on the south half of lot l, tT/ f, W Harriet Charlotte Anderson. lhey had four ooys end three Jill, _ 7 .n {Iii/x» firls but one of the girls, Mary, died in early childhood. a?“ James himself died in Lry2' when the youngest child was only ET: fig 1; eight. Charlotte, with the help of her older toys, carried 'ijrdlliiilllMl!l'iiii'i'siiipj: on, The eldest girl, Sarah, Married 33m leir and went to . lilillillr'c:idiii,iil!l$jiiiiii'r2 Saskatchewan to live but died in l?12. Jimmie married Lizzie Nltmit+ r, . 'yGiirrr,'mr,rd e El Ill ll I Ilffiiiiiii'iiiiiili 1515110951201 went to troodroffe to live. Johnnie: nerried lily 'lllll Ill IllilNilllll ..owe and remained on the hone fern. Christine married Coorge r' I . " aishop end moved to Carp. ._orry harried Alice, hows- end Vault Tk, Ja-aD-SH-ste- to Vancouver. Emmy was overseas from ills to his but not long after his return he bought ..len's fort. .ith honey got through the Veteran's Land Act which was helping to settlr. V returned soldiers. In l922 he harried nuby LJUSkill- 1" ‘ Tr, the early days Tommy and huby v ere engaged most- ly in dairy fanning, neeping as “any as fifteen cows whic“ 'f were milkeo‘ by hand. Later Tommy developed an interest in Eb', f - local politics and with less time to spare turned lore to R 4?”; raising calves for beef. In 1928 he first entered 5f Ib'" d a, if Torto1tCr, Council. [at that title the .ieeve was John w:.ryij:'i,- i. l) 'tr tege and the other councillors were Andrew iilson, Jim 5 l = ”fileon and Justin Davie. Tommy was daytle:eted in the next ll' , , ' . election but ceme back two years later and remained in b . h T office till Lecember 1962. In 19;)? he became Reeve on the i \\ ‘1? Ic, death of John Armitege and was, 1»;-oeve ccrnt'inrous1y for the if _ . next twenty-rite years being "arden of Larleton Gounty in ‘ N45 and 1:59.. t.ytrs-tts'nes-etrvv,sss dsrw,,,,c, DU” Bxgk. Hon-v“) Balm. LAIIE‘Rnw‘. Johnnie an: Lmily rented the lender-sol. 12;qu not tremout lEEE so cs to .5,- “her school . and their old log touee was never occupied main and fell i;.to c‘ecey. Their family, coli- eisting of Ehyllis, Lelson and Herion grew up in the .mnderson house. in M40 ohnnie bought a fern: up in Fitzroy and so moved out of' the neighbourhood although they still kept the old farm on the mountain. ihyllie Lcirried ellie Carr and moved to .-.lL;.0nte, nelson married Lois - :lford and lived on the Liiford place and nor-ion married .lilllerd .ilson. Charlotte '2vpent the last ten years of her life with i‘ommy and muby and theit deughter. Irene. In 1:"28 they had enlarged. their house by the addition of a tvx)-rtoreey lito'wen. The main ei.srtic1vrntage to the location of their farm was the distrnce from gmblic school. [my or $705119 of their neighbours, had to nuke the trip twice a; (”my to Butter fs., during Ti-r-ters-g,

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