>From: "Douglas Sinnis" <dsinnis@ns.sympatico.ca> >To: "CAN-NS-OBITS@ROOTS" <CAN-NS-OBITS@rootsweb.com> >Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 12:24:37 -0300 >Subject: [CAN-NS-GUYSBOROUGH] Obituaries - # 236 to # 239 > > ><snip> > > >OBIT # 239 - EASTERN CHRONICLE - 7 JANUARY 1943 > >The death of Mr. John A. MacMillan of Albert St., New Glasgow, >occurred at the Aberdeen Hospital on December 11th 1942. Mr. >MacMillan was born at Willowdale and was the youngest and last >member of the family of Angus MacMillan and Ann Fraser which >comprised, Mrs. George Cunningham, Springhill, Messrs. Malcolm >MacMillan, Springhill, Donald MacMillan and Hugh MacMillan of >Vancouver, Mrs. Thomas McBain, Green's Brook, Mrs. Henry Williams, >Goldenville. In his immediate family he is survived by his wife >Cordelia Boomer of Brookfield and two sons and two daughters, >Forrest MacMillan, merchant of New Glasgow; Malcolm MacMillan, >attorney of Detroit, Michigan, Mrs. David Wilder of Detroit and Miss >Lydia MacMillan of New Glasgow. Mr. MacMillan's Scottish maternal >grandfather was the first settler of the East River St. Mary's >Valley, coming from Scotland with his cousin Bishop Fraser, who >settled in Antigonish. Relatives who came from out of town were >Norman Boomer, Truro, brother-in-l! > aw and D. A. MacMillan, Supt. Cumberland Railway and Coal > Company, Springhill, nephew, Mr. A. H. Williams, Montreal, > Superintendent Canadian National Training Schools is also a nephew > of the deceased. Interment was in Lorne St. Cemetery, New Glasgow. > > >Doug & Jean Sinnis