lessard

CORRECTIONS: Shown in this photo are Wilfred Lessard with his sister Ellen (Lessard) Woodcox. This building was never owned by Joshua Stone. It was never a casket factory. It was not built in the late 1800s. It is the last home of my maternal great-grandparents, James "Halley" Stone and Edith May (Sedgewick) Stone. They had it built in 1925 as their retirement home. This house encompasses part of a pre-existing house which was built in the late 1900s. Halley Stone was one of Joshua Stone's two sons. Halley was a general store owner, cattle drover, and an undertaker. The house was constructed across the road from my great-grandparents' General Store. It was inherited by my mother Lorraine (Lessard) Bleecker and my aunt, E. Maxine (Lessard) Tettman, from their grandparents, Halley and Edith Stone. It was the last residence of their son-in-law (my grandfather) Wilfred L. Lessard. Respectfully submitted by Jackie Bleecker

I was baptised here, and attended sunday school with Elaine Carkner teacher and The Rev LE Hawkes minister,

T1he people in this photo are my grandparents, Wilfred Laurier Lessard and Olive Kathleen (Stone) Lessard). This photograph was taken in front of my maternal great-grandparents' general store in the looking north toward the Skootamatta River above the dam in the village of Flinton, c.1925. My great-grandparents were James Halley Stone and Edith May (Sedgewick) Stone. My great-grandparents purchased the store from the original proprietor, E. J. Matthews. When they retired it was sold to and operated by Arthur Carkner (the music teacher at Flinton Continuation School) and his wife Ina Carkner. It was later sold to Doug and Betty (Delyea) Davison (of Davison's Garage) and is where they raised their family in the 1960s and 1970s.