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Facts and Events
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 E. Murray Mosher. The Leslie Family of Port Mouton, Queens County, Nova Scotia. (Queens County Museum, Liverpool, Queens, NS, 17 July 2002 (date found)).
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Tim McDonald. Laurel Hill Cemetery, River Road, Port Mouton, Nova Scotia. (1996)
Page 13.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Liverpool Advance (1). (August 15, 1917).
- ↑ His obituary in the Liverpool Advance, Aug 15, 1917:
After many months of failing health, Mr. Isaiah Leslie passed away on Thursday morning of last week. In his removal Port Mouton has lost one of her most active, progressive and discreet citizens.
Mr. Leslie was born in Port Mouton, where he spent his boyhood days. When merely a young man he entered the employ of Freeman Payzant, of Lockeport, and soon became manager of his lobster factor at that place. He left then to continue the same business at his home village with his brother, John, who died about a year ago, after a stroke of paralysis. For some twenty years he had been engaged in mercantile life, in which he had been successful. As a business man and in many other ways, he served his day and was respected by all his brother citizens.
In 1879 he married Miss Edith Dexter, of Milton, who survives him, and who has been a worthy and efficient helpmeet in his business life.
The funeral took place on Sunday afternoon, the Rev. H.H. McNeill conducting the service. The grief of immediate relatives, especially that of the bereaved widow, cannot be shared by others, but deepest sympathy for them is felt by all who knew the deceased. Mr. Leslie was laid to rest in the cemetery at Broad River , beside his mother.
Among the numerous and beautiful floral tributes was a wreath of roses from Mrs. George Cooke, and purple and white astors from Mrs. W. H. Coombs of Chelsea, Mass, a sister of Mrs. Leslie.
The accident by which Mr. Isaiah Leslie of Port Mouton lost his life was a perfectly natural one. The bucked had fallen into the well on Wednesday and when the efforts of the young lad, the evening previous had proven futile, Mr. Leslie told him to give it up and that he would get it himself on the morrow. On Thursday morning early he made the attempt, the curb being removed, but it would seem one of the stones of the well gave way and Mr. Leslie, who had been subject to faint spells was no doubt unable to recover his balance and must have fallen head-first... The Coroner after careful en...and examining the spot considered that under the circumstances no inquest was required.
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