d. Granville, N.S., 3rd ult., age 81, Elvina RALSTON, born at Westchester, Cumberland Co., N.S., March 2, 1810. Her father, Gabriel PURDY was a U.E. Loyalist and one of the pioneer settlers of the county. Her mother's maiden name was Elizabeth RICHARDSON of Westmorland, N.B. She was married in 1829 to Wm RALSTON of Dumfries, Scotland. They settled on a farm at Lower Granville in the year 1834. The Rev. David Harris baptized herself and husband and received them into the Baptist Church at that place and for nearly half a century she remained an adherent of that church. Her husband went to his work early in the morn. apparently enjoying his usual health but died within a mile of his home as he was returning the same eve. Her second son was smitten down in the Rocky Mountains as he journeyed to California, and all the particulars the poor widowed mother got was a bill from the undertaker for the funeral expenses. Typhoid fever carried away the third son and young wife within three weeks of each other. Joseph RALSTON was stricken down at Acadia College whither he had gone to prepare himself to teach the gospel. The eldest left the family at breakfast and went to his daily toil, but was carried back a corpse in less than an hour.