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Daniel F. Johnson : Volume 66 Numéro 2419

Date 6 avril 1886
Comté Westmorland
Lieu Moncton
Journal The Times

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Says an Annapolis correspondent of the 'Herald': On 23rd of this month there will assemble at the residence of Walter WITHERS, Granville Centre, one of the largest gathering in Nova Scotia. On that day Joseph WADE will have reached the age of 100 years. His relatives have decided to celebrate the event by holding a grand family reunion. The old gentleman is living only one mile from the house in which he was born, and from which he moved only two years ago. He is remarkedly smart and able to go about and help himself. His mind is good and he relates scenes in his boyhood when Granville was once a vast forest. When the American war was going on, a report reached his settlement that a Yankee man-of-war was coming up the river. As he was a militiaman, took his musket and marhced off on foot to the ferry, carrying with him a loaf of bread to guard against hunger. When he reached the ferry he found that the report was false one and that only a fishing vessel had arrived and the crew getting drunk were making things lively among themselves. Mr. Wade has never been away from Nova Scotia. In his younger days he made a trip to Halifax. He was born at what is now known as Wadeville, Granville on 23rd April 1786 and where he has always lived. His father was John WADE who was born in Bridgetown, Mass. and who afterwards moved to Granville. At the age of 27, he married Miss CHURCHILL of Halifax. He had three wives, all of whom are dead. and now lie side by side in the cemetery, formerly part of his own farm. For 40 years he has been a deacon in the Baptist Church and was baptized by Rev. John Chase, then of Bridgetown.

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