Martha Lena McFeters Horsman
Stilesville, Westmorland County, New Brunswick, Canada
Canadian, 1899 - 1998
Canadian, 1899 - 1998
| Biography: | Martha Lena McFeters Horsman was the daughter of Joshua McFeters (1862-1904) and Annie Electa Colpitts [McFeters] Briggs (1868-1955). Annie married Olo Briggs in 1905 after Joshua passed away. Martha married Percy Richard Horsman, December 24, 1918, in Sunnybrae, Moncton, NB. The family moved to Ammon and the family farm (close to where Martha grew up on the adjacent property). The family were dairy farmers. They had three children; Ruby, Victor and Jean. Martha was active in her church, Gorge United Baptist, as organist and soloist for over fifty years until the church closed in 1974. She was also active in the Ammon Orange Lodge. She loved to knit, quilt and was a talented seamstress making her own clothes. She saved old clothing to make mats. She had learned to make mats from her mother and passed the love of hooking onto her daughter and granddaughter. Victor married Mildred Jean Horsman in 1951 and took over running the dairy farm. Martha and Percy had moved to a smaller farm to pursue market gardening. In 1959, Percy and Mildred had Shelley, an only child. The family farm was sold in 1974. |
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