Tradition has it that their new home in the new world not only was blessed with eight children altogether but was also graced by women servants therein. John's prosperous acres were also alive with oxen, cattle, sheep, and poultry, all of which were attended by male help who toiled in fields and woodlands. John and Jane's children were; John, James, Samuel, Robert, Eliza, Jane, Margaret, and Thomas. Eliza, or Elizabeth and Robert remained unmarried. Probably the same for John; James and wife Mary, had six children; Samuel and wife Ann LINTON, raised six children; Jane also married a LINTON, and reared five children; Margaret married John CURRIE, no children; Thomas who married Rachael (MONTGOMERY), had nine children.
This family lived at the corner of the McMinn and Rollingdam roads. Their farm burned several years ago. The CRAWFORDS family built their new home on the site of the old Thomas CATHCART house. The children of Thomas and Rachel CATHCART were; Margaret, Jane, Robert Montgomery, Charlotte (Lottie), Thomas Christie, Samuel Creighten and Rachael Almeda (Meda).
The gravestones of the original settlers read as follows; "John Cathcart, died October 3, 1860, aged 72. Wife Jane, died December 31, 1878, aged 86. Erected by their children Eliza and Robert." The children's stones read, " Eliza, 1818-1908; Robert, 1832-1914."
John CATHCART had a brother, James who apparently came to Canada about the same time as he and his family. James was a bachelor and is believed to have lived in McMinn. His gravestone in the old Presbyterian cemetery on Whittier Ridge (about the only one now visible) reads as follows; "James CATHCART, died 1860, aged 75, from Antrim, Ireland.
Written by Rev. Charles M. Smith, Rollingdam,
NB
Found in October 5, 1972 edition of
the Saint Croix Courier.
By permission of the Saint Croix Courier Page
Loaded Dec. 16, 1999
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