Heritage by A.C. Kerr Sexton

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September 10, 2021

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Heritage: Raising My Children & My Parents Final Years

January 17, 2016

by Annie Coleman (Kerr) Sexton, published in Stanton Stats February 17, 1995 When I was thirty-one, in the year 1920, [my first daughter,] Kathleen, was born. She was followed in quick succession by four brothers and two sisters. Ruth was born in 1930 on my parents’ golden wedding anniversary. I wasn’t the efficient housekeeper my Mother was,…

Heritage: Father Goes to Mayo Clinic

by Annie Coleman (Kerr) Sexton, published in Stanton Stats February 17, 1995 Then, at the age of sixty-eight, [in 1918] a Brandon doctor found [Father] had cancer of the rectum. He didn’t give up, [but] went to Mayo doctors in Rochester. The operation was successful. Three inches of back bone was removed to make sure no…

Heritage: My Ambition to Teach Was Fulfilled

by Annie Coleman (Kerr) Sexton, published in Stanton Stats February 17, 1995 My ambition was to teach school and Mother’s thrift in saving pennies enabled me to attend high school in Deloraine to get Grade 11 (highest grade taught there then), and then three months of Normal School in Winnipeg. How I loved Winnipeg. I’m eternally…

Heritage: My Younger Brother and Sister

by Annie Coleman (Kerr) Sexton, published in Stanton Stats February 17, 1995 My only brother, Walter, who was two years younger than I, was a studious, very religious boy and the joy of my parents’ hearts. At the age of twenty he was studying Grade 12 in Deloraine and, for some reason I’ve never known, he…

Heritage: Father Tries New Things

by Annie Coleman (Kerr) Sexton, published in Stanton Stats February 17, 1995 In 1890 Bidford School District was formed. There was a Board of three Trustees and a Secretary. After a few years Father was a Secretary. Later he was a Councillor in our Rural Municipality of Winchester. Then he became Reeve and succeeded in getting…

Heritage: Santa Comes Disguised as a Hunter

January 16, 2016

by Annie Coleman (Kerr) Sexton, published in Stanton Stats February 17, 1995 Then the Fall I was eleven years old a wonderful man, a real Santa Clause, came to hunt. He was a well-to-do lawyer from New York City. He had a tent put up beside our house. From Bottineau, North Dakota he brought a chap…

Heritage: My Sister’s Romance

by Annie Coleman (Kerr) Sexton, published in Stanton Stats February 17, 1995 When my sister, Millie, was fifteen, she became engaged. The engagement was finally broken off, mostly because Millie was having a romance. This time it was Ben Topping, who worked for us. When Father found it out, he put his foot down. He…

Heritage: The Hunting Accident

January 8, 2016

by Annie Coleman (Kerr) Sexton, published in Stanton Stats March 10, 1994 [Father] was a very strong man and overcame several bad attacks of sickness. One time he was hunting near the Lake with a party of men. One man had a hammerless gun and when he picked it up out of the long grass…

Heritage: Our Manitoba Farmhouse

by Annie Coleman (Kerr) Sexton, published in Stanton Stats March 10, 1994. The house described was on the homestead Section 4-4-22 a mile and a half north of Whitewater Lake in Manitoba. [Father] built a small house [with] not the best of lumber, [and] between the two walls he put groat, [which] was a mixture of…