"The Wrights of Bedeque, A Loyalist Family" Doris Haslan

In 1840 the harvest was a good one and Stephen anticipated a busy winter threshing the oats and wheat stored in his barn and in the stacks beside the barn, built carefully to shed the rain. and snow. The threshing was done on the bar floor, the doors open for the wind to blow out the chaff, while the thresher beat out the grain with his flail. This farm chore was to have been Stephen’s winter pastime but while standing in the barn talking to a young man he suddenly dropped to the barn floor and died in a few seconds. Shortly before, he had been remarking on his good health and his intention to thresh all the grain in the barn himself. he was buried near his brother Nathaniel in the Methodist cemetery across the river. Fanny was a widow for twenty-two years before her funeral procession wended its way from Middleton to the same cemetery at Lower Bedeque. She died at the home of one of her sons "after a lingering illness which she bore with Christian fortitude and resignation", according to her death notice in Ross’ Weekly for Feb. 26, 1863. She was ninety-two years old, the last surviving member of her family.

Fanny’s parents, John and Elizabeth (Cottrell) Lord, with children John, Nancy and Fanny , came to the Island of St. John in 1773 from England. They settled on the farm along the Tyron River which later was occupied by Warren Lord and his son Rich. Fanny had 5 brother and sisters.