March 29 - Bessie Patterson, wife of Arthur James Fancy,dies at age 73.
March 31 - Bessie's funeral service is held from Pleasant River Church.
April 19 - Joseph Claude Herman, the 21-year-old son of Joseph Herman, dies in Pleasant River.
April 21 - Joseph Claude is buried in Pleasant River Cemetery.
May 18 - Funeral service for 80-year-old Jacob W. Waterman, North Brookfield, is held at Pleasant River Church. He is buried at North Brookfield.
June 20 - Funeral service for 84-year-old Isaiah Hebb of Middlefield is held in Pleasant River. He has died the previous day.
Aug. 22 - Four-month-old Royden Edward Selig is baptized by Rev. G.W. Ball. Born on April 23, he is the son of Rufus Selig and Alma MacKay, East Clifford.
Sept 2 – Six-year-old Eldon Colp and four-year-old Mildred Colp die of cholera infantum. (An often fatal form of gastroenteritis occurring in children; not true cholera but having similar symptoms.) The children of Archibald Colp and Violet Haines have been under the care of Dr. W.H. Cole of New Germany from Aug. 26 until the day of their death. Eldon is six years two months and 17 days old. Mildred is four years 11 months and two days. Information is filed by undertaker, Oran Woodworth of Hemford.
Sept. 4 - The children are buried in Pleasant River Cemetery, (not Brookfield as filed).[2]
Sept. 27 - Sixty-three-year-old Joseph Herman is killed in a barn accident in Pleasant River.
Sept. 29 - Joseph is buried in Pleasant River Cemetery.
Sept. 30 - One of the first children born in Pleasant River Settlement - Amelia Gordon (Colp) Demmons dies in Melvern Square, Annapolis County, at the age of 74. She and her husband,
Elijah, have been married almost 45 years. Cause of death is acute dilation of the heart, accompanied by asthma and hardening of the arteries. She has been ill for three years. The couple have been living in Melvern Square for 15 years.Oct. 22 - Twenty-eight-year-old Parke Harry Smith of Pleasant River is married to Elaine Fisk Dailey, 18, of North Brookfield. The ceremony takes place at the Baptist parsonage in Mahone Bay.
[1] Halifax Herald Obits http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/th/read/LUNEN-LINKS/2007-02/1170628054
[2] Province of Nova Scotia – Certificate of Registration of Death
