>Delivered-To: [email protected] >From: "Carolyn Wallace" <[email protected]> >To: "ns roots" <[email protected]> >Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 20:52:32 -0300 >Subject: [nsroots] <snip>Roderick , Daniel Macdonald, > Antigonish <snip> > >Eastern Chronicle, New Glasgow, N.S. ><snip> > >Thursday, 11 June 1942 >Macdonalds of Antigonish > Last week the death of Mr. Roderick Macdonald was reported from >Campbellton, New Brunswick, at the age of 107 years. He was a blacksmith by >trade and belonged originally to the eastern part of Antigonish County. He >was very highly regarded and counted the oldest man in New Brunswick. > During the past year another Antigonish man died in California at the age >of 107. He was Daniel Macdonald, who hailed from Middleton, near Lachaber >Lake, in his younger days and was a carpenter by trade. > The two sons of one county reach such an age is not only unusual but a >great tribute to the stoutness of the race there and that they were both >Macdonalds tells a story of the Stalwartness of that great clan. >xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ><snip> >Carolyn Wallace >___________________________________________