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INGLISVILLE BACK THEN
It is safe to say that three of Abel Beals' sons, Joshua,
Arod and Elijah, were the first settlers of Inglisville
which was appropriately then known as Beals Mountain. (It is
assumed that Inglisville was named after Bishop Inglis the
first Anglican Bishop of Nova Scotia). The boundaries of
their combined land was roughly, on the east side, the
north-south section of the present road through Inglisville
and on the west side, in the vicinity of the Prim Whitman
farm (later owned by his son Roland). There are two sources
of information to help us see how Inglisville grew from this
early beginning. First we have the A.F.Church maps which
were drawn in 1876, nine years after Confederation and
about 65 years after the arrival of Abel's sons. Mr. Church
spent a good part of his life mapping Nova Scotia in
sufficient detail to show the location and name of each
resident. These maps have been of great assistance to anyone
researching family history. The second source is the writers
memory (which is far from infallible) of Inglisville in the
period 1935 to 1945 or 65 years after the Church maps were
drawn. Added to this mix are tales told to me by my mother.
Legend in text below:
A = 1876
B = 1935-1945
C = the present
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1. | This road went east then north around the north end of
Parker Hill and met the Middleton to Albany road at
Nictaux Falls. It may have been well travelled in the
early days but by the 1940's was not passable by
automobile.
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2. | A - James Albert Whitman (John,Isaac,Daniel,Deacon John)
His mother was Sarah Beals, daughter of Joshua and
Rebecca. James married Sarah Jane, daughter of Amos
Whitman.
B - My grand parents, William and Freelove (Callahan)
Beals, bought this farm when they were married in 1882.
My father, Archie, and his brother, Dudley, were born
here. Uncle Dud was born October 14, 1885, lived all his
life on this farm and died on his 104th birthday. His
wife was Amanda (Mailman).
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3. | C - Dudley's son Vernon and his wife Dora (Connell).
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4. | C - Vernon's son Ricky and his wife Karen (Johnson).
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5. | A - My maternal great grandfather, Obediah Naugler, son
of Paulas. Obediah married Susan Beals, daughter of
John Strong (Isaac, Abel).
B - Obediah's youngest son, Eugene and his wife Nettie
(Salsman). After Eugene's death the house crumbled and
was torn down.
C - Vernon Beals now owns this property.
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6. | A - Charles Curtis.
B - My grandfather, Fred Naugler, oldest son of Obediah.
He married Rosemond Miles daughter of Dora Beals (Jacob,
Elijah,Abel). About 1899 he bought this farm from Mr.
Curtis. The long driveway to the house passed beside a
large blueberry patch. My mother and her sisters and
brothers were all born there. After grandfather retired
and moved to Lawrencetown the house and other buildings
crumbled and were torn down.
C - Vernon Beals now owns this farm.
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7. | A - My great grandfather, Caleb Beals (Elijah, Abel). He
married Eliza Whitman, daughter of Benjamin. His son,
Milledge, and his wife Lucy (Durling) took over the
farm.
B - Milledge's son, Gordon, and his wife Pearle (Hines).
Milledge's retarded son, Benjamin, lived with Gordon's
family.
C - Vernon Beals now owns this farm.
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8. | A - Robert Hatt and his wife Christiana (Beals) (Isaac,
Abel).
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8.5. | B - Ernest and Ethel (Naugler) Hirtle.
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9. | A - John Strong Beals (Isaac, Abel) and his wife Sarah
Jane (Dennison).
B - Elvin Beals, son of Milledge, and his wife Elizabeth
(Burns).
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10. | A - My great grandfather, Joseph Callihan, and his wife
Annie (Kniffen). Their daughter, Freelove, married Henry
Beals. (See location 2).
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11. | B - Ralph and Myrtle Connell.
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12. | A - This road is not shown on the 1864 map.
B - Jerusalem Road. It went down over the mountain and
met the South Williamston Road. It was in direct line
with the Hanley Mountain Road that went across the valley
to Mount Hanley. It was a wagon road at best and was not
fit for automobile travel.
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13. | The Alpena Road with the southern end connecting to
the Middleton/Bridgewater Road.
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14. | B - Willis Gates (Joseph, Robert, Elias, John, Oldham)
and his wife Pearl (Sanford).
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15. | B - Wallace Naugler, son of Obediah, and his wife
Isobelle (Medicraft). They were the parents of 16
children. He operated a saw mill which was located just
south of his home.
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16. | B - George Malcolm and Charlie Harris. (This location is
actually further south than indicated on the "map"
above).
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17. | A - Asa Whitman (Oldham, Edward, Deacon John). He
married Mary Eliza Beals, daughter of Isaac and
Catherine.
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18. | A - Benjamin Whitman (Oldham, Edward, Deacon John), his
wife Ann (Longley) and his son Henry. They operated a
post office from time to time depending on the
government party in power.
B - Gilford Whitman (George Avery, Asa, Oldham, Edward,
Deacon John) and his wife Lynda (Malcolm).
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19. | B - Frank Salsman and his wife Evelyn (Daniels).
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20. | A - G. Warner, perhaps the son of John.
B - Avard Leonard.
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21. | B - Saw mill owned by John Naugler. The stream by the
mill ran in front of the Leonard place, down over the
mountain and crossed the South Williamston Road on its
way to the Annapolis River. It is referred to in Abel's
will as the "Beals Brook".
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22. | B - John Naugler, son of Obediah. He did not marry. At
the age of five I recall listening to his radio which
was the first one in the village. On June 29, 1962,
Uncle John was attempting to straighten the tombstone on
his parents grave when it toppled and pinned him under
it. He died eleven days later from injuries incurred in
that accident.
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23. | A - Albert Dunn and his wife Martha Ann Whitman (Levi,
Oldham, Edward, Deacon John).
B - Carmen Stoddart, son of James. He married Bessie
Beals (Robert, James, Andrew, Abel). Lemuel Beals,
Bessie's brother, lived with this family.
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24. | B - Lindsay Stoddart, the son of Carmen. He married
Elizabeth (Lizzie) (Burns) Beals, widow of Elvin. (See
location 9).
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25. | A - George and Angeline Wright. Their daughter, Mary
Ann, married Robert Beals. (See location 27). Isaac
Beals (See location 34) lived here later.
B - Percy and Edna (Hines) Connell. Their daughter,
Dora, married Vernon Beals. (See location 3).
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26. | B - Eldridge Wood and his wife Sylvia (Whitman)
("Le", Charles A., Amos, Oldham, Edward, Deacon John).
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27. | A - Robert Beals (James, Andrew, Abel) and his wife Mary
Ann (Wright).
B - Edward Beals (John Cooper, Abel). When he died
around 1934 my father bought this farm.
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28. | B - William Wood and Lucy Gaul. This house was once
occupied by Asa Beals (John Strong, Isaac, Abel) who was
a bachelor and kept store there. (See location 78). The
occupant before Bill Wood was Andy Hatt, brother of
John.
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29. | B - My father, Archie Beals (Henry, Caleb, Elijah, Abel)
and my mother Pearle (Naugler) (Fredrick, Obediah,
Paulis). I was born and spent my first 19 years here.
John Hatt built the original house but it was destroyed
by fire. About 1909 he moved another house from Albert
Dunn's property (location 23) to this location. Deacon
Dunn had built it for his son Norman who was a school
teacher and later a minister. The move was accomplished
using rollers under the house and sets of winches and
pulleys attached to stakes placed on each side of the
road in advance of the house. Horses were used to do the
pulling and the move took two days. A clock on the wall
in the house survived the trip without stopping. John
Hatt's father-in-law, John Strong Beals, lived with the
family. In 1913, being senile at the age of 91, he left
the house in his underwear on a cold February night,
curled up in a sleigh behind the barn and froze to
death. Around 1922 John Hatt traded farms with Carmen
Bishop who lived at the south west corner of the
Inglisville and South Williamston roads. In 1926 my
father bought the farm from Carmen Bishop. My mother
and I planted the Horse Chestnut tree in front of the house in 1933.
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30. | A - Elizabeth ("Betsy") Bush and her son Georgie. In the
1881 census they were referred to as "African" i.e.
Black.
B - In the 1930's there was still considerable evidence
of ashes in the ground at this location indicating the
house burned at some time.
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31. | A - R. Banks. (This may have been Robert Banks and his
wife Nancy, daughter of Arod McNayr). Edward Beals (see
location 27) once lived here and kept a store.
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32. | A - School house. It is not known when the first school
was established in Inglisville. Prior to 1865, when the
public school system was introduced in the province, all
schools were private.
B - I attended this one room school for nine years.
C - The building is now a community hall.
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33. | B - Baptist Church. Building of the church began in 1879
and it was finished in 1882. Before the church was built
services were held in the school house. Rev. R.D.
Potter was the minister at that time. The first deacons
were Albert Dunn and Charles Crisp. In the early 1930's
there was still a shed at the back of the church to
shelter horses while their owners were at church.
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34. | A - Isaac Beals (Isaac, Abel) and his wife Mary (Gates).
They later lived at location 25.
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35. | The present road to Albany.
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36. | Charles Crisp and his wife Susan (Whitman) (Edward F.,
Jacob, Edward, Deacon John). (This location was actually
further south than indicated on the "map" above). Their
oldest child, Mary was a missionary in Cuba. A son was a
school teacher and photographer who lived in Phinney's
Cove. When he went on photography trips he always took
his own tin plate, cup and eating utensils. Another
eccentricity was his habit of chewing his food exactly
forty times.
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37. | A - James Beals (Andrew, Abel) and his wife Mary Ann
(Elliott). His younger brother, Samuel, and his wife
Ellen (Powers) lived here later. Ellen was a midwife.
When she died Samuel walked off into the woods and was
never seen again.
B - "Biddie" and Nellie McGill.
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38. | B - United Church.
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39. | A - The original alignment of the road to Albany. There
is no trace of that road now.
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40. | B - Vilotte (McGill ?) and her twin daughters Vera and
Vivian. Vivian was an invalid as a result of having been
dropped as an infant. Violette, as a widow, married Otis
Wood, son of William.
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41. | A - Cooper Beals (Elijah, Abel) and his wife Sarah Ann
(Ruggles). He operated a post office here when his
political party was in power. His crippled daughter
Katie helped with the post office.
B - Robie and Orabelle McGill.
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42. | A - William L. Beals (Priestly, Elijah, Abel) and his
wife Ruth (Banks). His younger brother, John E. and his
wife, Amanda (Edgett), owned this farm later.
B - Vernon D. Beals (son of John E.) and his wife,
Flossie (Young).
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43. | A - Priestly Beals (Elijah, Abel) and his wife Hannah
(Phinney).
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44. | B - Renford Naugler (Fredrick, Obediah, Paulas) and his
wife Leola (Viditto).
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45. | B - Rayburn Leonard, son of Avard, and his wife Jossie.
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46. | The road to South Williamston and Lawrencetown.
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47. | B - A Woodworth family (wife's name was Nora). Later an
O'Neil family including Loyd who married Isobelle Beals,
daughter of Elvin (See location 9).
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48. | A - W. Whitman.
B - Leander Beals (Jacob E., Elijah, Abel) and his wife
Annie (McKeown).
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49. | A - My maternal great-great-grandfather Jacob Beals
(Elijah, Abel) and his wife Phebe (Barteaux), daughter
of John. This location was probably where Elijah first
settled. Jacob's son, Arod, took over the farm but later
sold it to Arthur Miles and moved to Lawrencetown.
Jacob's daughter, Dora, was the wife of Arthur Miles.
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50. | This was probably the original road to South
Williamston. There is no trace of this road now.
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51. | A - A Banks. (Perhaps Ambros L.)
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52. | A - Edgar Barteaux, son of John, and his wife Annie G.
(Whitman) (Amos, Oldham, Edward, Deacon John).
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53. | B - Mr and Mrs Robert Rowter.
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54. | C - Carroll Corkum and his wife Laura (Beals) (Elvin,
Milledge, Caleb, Elijah, Abel)
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55. | B - Ernest Richardson and his wife Evelyn (Whitman)
(Primrose, Edward, Amos, Oldham, Edward, Deacon John).
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56. | A - Edward R. Whitman (Amos, Oldham, Edward, Deacon
John) and his wife Phoebe Warner.
B - Primrose Whitman, son of Edward R., and his wife
Katherine ("Kittie") (Daniels, daughter of John Henry).
C - Roland Whitman, son of Primrose.
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57. | A - Charles A. Whitman (Amos, Oldham, Edward, Deacon
John) and his wife Mary (Sprowl).
B - Robert Best. His wife was the granddaughter of
Boyd and Rachel (Beals) McNayr. Carl Ruggles owned this
farm later.
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58. | A - Amos Whitman (Oldham, Edward, Deacon John) and his
wife Mary (Hannam).
B - Ambrose ("Am") Whitman (Charles, Amos, Oldham,
Edward, Deacon John). This farm was taken over by Am's
son, Clarence, and his wife Olive (Corkum).
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59. | B - John Banks (son of George C.) and his wife Emma (Beals)
, (Isaac,Isaac,Abel).
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60. | A - Arod McNayr son of Boyd and Rachel (Beals) (Abel).
He married Diadama Whitman (Oldham, Edward, Deacon
John).
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61. | Trout Lake Road to Lawrencetown, an extention of
Lawrencetown Lane. This road was on the west border of
Edward Whitman's 3000 acre lot.
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62. | This was the original road to Lunenburg laid out about
1802 by Elias Wheelock. It joined with the road through
Albany just east of Trout Lake. In the late 1800's a
twice weekly stage coach running between Lawrencetown
Liverpool used this road.
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63. | A - Saw mill.
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64. | A - A. Whitman.
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65. | A - George Clark Banks.
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66. | A - T. Durling.
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67. | A - F. Dunn.
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68. | A - School house.
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69. | A - W. Durling.
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70. | A - J. Wilson.
B - Isaac Durling and his wife Mildred (Beals) (John E.,
Priestly, Elijah, Abel). Isaac's oldest son, Raymond,
and his wife Doris (Whynot) took over this farm.
C - Doris Durling.
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71. | This road goes down the mountain and meets Highway 201.
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The junction of the Inglisville and South Williamston roads
is shown in the "map" below. While this area is not part of
Inglisville, it is important for our considerations because
this is where Abel Beals homesteaded and raised his family.
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72. | A - Miner C. Beals (John Cooper, Abel) and his wife
Evelyn (Bishop).
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73. | A - "Lower" Jacob Beals (John Cooper, Abel) and his wife
Sarah Jane (Miller). This may have been Abel's
homestead.
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74. | The original road to Inglisville. There is little or no
trace of this road now.
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75. | A - William Beals (Abel, Abel) and his wife Marry
(Hamm).
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76. | A - Elias Beals (Arod, Able) and his wife Seraphina
(Dodge).
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77. | A - F. or E. or P. Beals.
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78. | B - Asa W. Beals (John Strong, Isaac, Abel). (See
location 28). Asa did not marry. A store he operated at
this location was reconstructed and displayed during
1992 at the MacDonald Museum in Middleton. As a young
teenager "a bunch of us boys" would go to Uncle Assie's
store on Saturday evenings for "banana splits" and annoy
him by "sampling" dulce from the barrel he kept in front
of the counter. When he died in 1943 his nephew Harry
Hatt took over the store.
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79. | The road to Inglisville.
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80. | B - Enos Daniels, son of Whitfield and Kate (Beals)
(John Strong, Isaac, Abel). He married Mildred
(Medicraft).
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81. | B - John Hatt (see location 29) and his wife Euphemia
(Beals) (John Strong, Isaac, Abel). His son Harry
inherited the farm from his father.
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82. | A - E. Rice Whitman (Oldham, Edward, Deacon John). He
married Susanna Beals (Arod, Abel).
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83. | A - The Valley West Meeting House. It was built in 1845
and was the first Baptist Church in the area. (The one
in Lawrencetown was not built until the mid 1870's).
This church was sponsored by the Nictaux Baptist Church
(founded in 1809) and accommodated the Beals families of
Inglisville and South Williamston for many years. The
building was torn down in 1897 and reconstructed as a
barn on the Carl Ruggles property in Inglisville (see
location 57).
B - The Valley West or Whitman Cemetery. The church was
situated in front of the cemetery.
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84. | A - Oldham Whitman, youngest son of Oldham (Edward,
Deacon John). This was Edward Whitman's homestead.
B - Jimmie Ed Whitman (George R., E. Rice, Oldham,
Edward, Deacon John). He lived with his sister, Annie
Gertrude and her husband Brad Eaton.
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Copyright © 2005 by Donald W. Beals, author.
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