Picnic on Cherry Hill – Harvey Station, 1904.

Picnic on Cherry Hill. Source: Mrs. Edgar Coburn.

Back row: Emma Robinson, Melvin McGee, Elizabeth Robinson, Ken Robinson, Celia Coburn, Miss MacMillan, David Smith. David and Nellie Smith were brother and sister. Jim and Nellie Robinson were brother and sister. Grace and Emma Robinson were sisters and cousins to Jim and Liz. Kenneth Robinson was an uncle to Jim and Lizzie and first cousin to Grace and Emma. He was also a second cousin to David and Nellie Smith. Grace Robinson married Maunsell Tracey from Tracy, NB. Jim Robinson married Florence Searle of St. John, NB. Nellie Smith married Amos Bowen of Providence, R.I. Emma Robinson married John Saunders of Portland, Maine. Melvin McGee married a Miss Phillips. Elizabeth Robinson became a Registered Nurse and never married. Celia Little married Edgar H. Coburn. David Smith did not marry and Minnie Mersereau married a Dr. Murray. Grace and Emma Robinson were both married in 1907 Front row: Willie Donahue, Grace Robinson, Alice Donahue, Jim Robinson, Nellie Smith. Willie and Alice Donahue were brother and sister. Their parents were Michael and Ellen (McGinn) Donahue. Willie Donahue married Miss O’Brien from Fredericton. Alice Donahue married Simon Burns of Fredericton in 1909. Alice Donahue Burns died October 1st, 1977 aged 96 years. She was the last of this group to die. Nellie Smith became a Registered Nurse. Kenneth Robinson moved to Vancouver – was living there in 1911 and there in 1949 married a widow, Mary Ross, when they were both aged 70. 

Source: Mrs. Edgar Coburn.

Posted by David Watson, Old Harvey Photos

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