fairly judge there would be about sixty people. I regret very much that I must present to them, and their friends, their incomplete family tree; but all will readily know, that it has not been for want of effort on my part. All that may yet come in before the final printing will be embodied in the tree.

CHARLOTTE TROUT MCKEE

This was grandfather's seventh child and fourth daughter, and since we have no picture to present we must give a brief description. She was a little less in stature than her sisters, rather slightly built, had dark hair, and eyes that were moderately deep set, aquiline nose and distinctive chin, a good, strong but pleasant face. My acquaintance with her was more limited than with some others of my aunts, but their common characteristics were her's without any very marked distinction. Samuel McKee, a son of one of the old pioneers in the great Queen's bush which extended northward from Gara fraxa, made her acquaintance, and she united with him in marriage. She began life's responsibilities at the then ripe age of twentythree. She accompanied her husband into the woods far beyond the Erin settlements into the township of Garafraxa. They were beyond and out of touch with all of us. More than ten years were spent in this seclusion. But after grandmother's death, grandfather, no doubt, invited them to come with him, and take care of himself and the farm. Aunt Harriet, as usual, was in the needed place when grandmother died, and was caring for grandfather. But the place needed a farmer as well as care for the household. I have not been informed as to the arrangements regarding this; the result was that at grandfather's death Uncle Sam owned the farm, Aunt Charlotte having grandfather under her kindly care for about seven years. Uncle Sam cleared more of the land, and enlarged the cultivated portion, and built a large barn capable of holding his entire crop, with a substory of stone, of which a small part formed a cellar for his root crops, the remainder being a great stable and shed for all his live stock; through this there flowed in conduits pure spring water that did not freeze in winter.

To Mrs. William Davidson, Sr., formerly Mrs. Wm. McKee, who has preserved so many mementos of grandfather and his family, we are indebted for this good picture of this aunt and her boys. Made from a small photo taken probably in the late seventies of last century.-W. H. T.