OBIT # 5330 - EVENING NEWS - 15 JUNE 1953 Barney's River- The sudden death of WILLIAM SUTHERLAND, retired farmer, occured at the home of his niece at Rossfield on May 2, following a few days of illness. Funeral service was from the church at Kenzieville, and conducted by Rev.Messers. Morrison, Grant, MacKinnon, Wilson and Rollins, the church being filled to the doors. Mr. Sutherland was born at Rossfield Oct.20, 1854, and in his early years served his time as a wheelwright in New Glasgow, later moving to the United States, where he worked at his trade in a carriage factory, his pay amounting to $2.50 a day. Coming home he tried to purchase a farm in Polling Section 20, but could not find one for sale, but determined to make a home here, he took up a lot of forest land in Groveland, and with his axe started to clear off the wood, and built a log cabin to which he brought his wife, JANET IRVING, where they spent happy and prosperous years until her sudden death in 1922. From then until 1946 he continued alone, when he moved to the home of his niece, MRS. PETER T. CAVANAGH at Rossfield, until his death in his ninety-ninth year. Mr. Sutherland was interested in all things Scottish. The community's last Gaelic speaker, he could tell tales of the Highland Class, and was a great student of Burns poems and letters. A lover of flowers, he had a show place at Groveland from which many friends were presented with bouquets