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- ?Before we left the Hamilton place, in 1857, my eldest sister, Eliza Jane, was married to Alexander Buchanan, a tall handsome man, but one whom she had not known for very long. We were great friends and I missed her sorely. She was very lonely, leaving her parents, to whom she was devoted, and the home where she and her sisters had such a happy time with their young friends. At St. Giles there were few Protestants, so she was happy when they moved near Quebec at Cap Rouge, a lovely place, and later to a farm on the Little River Road opposite the Hossacks. She was near home again, but with a large family to care for and a dairy to manage she had little time for visiting.
Some time after Mother?s death they moved to the Eastern Townships near Stanstead, where her daughter, Maggie, now Mrs. Louis Schwab, attended the College. From that place they moved out to Michigan, where my dear sister died when only sixty-four. Several of her eight children are still there near Flint. Mary, the eldest daughter, remained in Montreal, living with us in the St. James? parsonage, and when we moved to Toronto her sisters, Maggie and Aggie, lived with her while attending Normal School, until they secured Model School diplomas and began to teach.? [1]
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