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• Census: 1881, Tatamagouche, Colchester, Nova Scotia
• Census: 1901, Hants, Nova Scotia

Minetta married Leslie Emerson EATON on 28 Oct 1905 in Wolfville, Kings, Nova Scotia. Leslie (son of Stephen W. EATON and Addie M. SANFORD) was born on 19 Feb 1877 in Canning, Kings, Nova Scotia; died on 20 Aug 1953 in Wolfville, Kings, Nova Scotia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Gerald Leslie EATON was born on 6 Oct 1906 in Madras, Tamil Nadu, India; died on 22 Mar 1960 in Pennsylvania.
2. Elizabeth Mary EATON was born on 28 Jan 1908 in Madras, India; died in 1964.
3. Isabell EATON was born in 1912 in Madras, India; died in 1914 in India.
4. Ella Barbara EATON

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• Census: 1881, Tatamagouche, Colchester, Nova Scotia
• Census: 1901, Hants, Nova Scotia
• Census: 1911, Kings, Nova Scotia

David married Mary Katherine McHENRY on 11 Mar 1870 in Calais, Washington, Maine. Mary (daughter of Thomas McHENRY and Mary Ann BILL) was born on 4 Feb 1854 in Saint John, Saint John, New Brunswick; died in 1913 in Bridgewater, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census: 1881, Tatamagouche, Colchester, Nova Scotia
• Census: 1901, Hants, Nova Scotia
• Census: 1911, Kings, Nova Scotia

Thomas married Mary Ann BILL on 14 Sep 1851 in Saint John, Saint John, New Brunswick. Mary (daughter of Rev. Ingraham Ebenezer BILL and Isabella LYONS) was born about 1828 in Nictaux, Annapolis, Nova Scotia; died on 17 Nov 1865 in Salisbury, Westmorland, New Brunswick. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Memorial Sketch of Mrs. Mary Ann B. McHENRY — She was born at Nictaux, Annapolis, N.S. the second child and only d/o Rev. I.E. and Isabella BILL. He father had been ordained to the pastorate of Nictaux church on 20th March preceding. On the removal of her parents to Fredericton (York Co.) at the close of 1839 to take charge of the Baptist church in that place, Mary Ann entered the Female dept. of the Fredericton Seminary, then in charge of Miss BENNET who had been brought out from England by late Rev. Frederick MILES to fill that position. On the retirement of Miss BENNETT, her position was filled by Mrs. W. NEEDHAM and the daughter continued to enjoy the best advantages which the Seminary could impart until her father’s return to Nictaux. Having no prospect of a school at Nictaux adapted to her advanced stage of progress, she was placed under the tuition of Mrs. MILES, now the wife of Rev. R.W. CUSHMAN of Boston. On the marriage of Miss MILES, the daughter returned to her parents at Nictaux where she remained until the autumn of 1844 when she was taken by her father to Boston and placed in the Baptist Seminary at Charleston. In the 17th year of age, she opened superior school for young ladies in her father’s house at Nictaux. This, so far as we know, was the first Baptist female school of superior type opened in Nova Scotia. On 14th Sept. 1851, she became united in marriage to Thomas McHENRY, Esq., removed to St. John, N.B. and not long after was received by letter from the Nictaux Church into the Germain St. Baptist Church. In married life, she became the mother of six daughters and a few months before her death gave birth to her first and only son. (Source: Christian Visitor Saint John, N.B., Dec. 7, 1865)

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• Census: 1881, Saint Martins, Saint John, New Brunswick
• Census: 1891, Saint Martins, Saint John, New Brunswick

Notes:

BILL, INGRAHAM EBENEZER   Baptist minister, journalist, and author; b. 19 Feb. 1805 in Billtown, N.S., son of Asahel Bill and Mary Rand; m. first 20 April 1826 Isabella Lyons in Cornwallis Township, N.S., and they had at least five children including one daughter; m. secondly 14 May 1873 Mrs Susan L. Dove in Boston; d. 4 Aug. 1891 in St Martins, N.B.
 Because his father died when he was about nine years old, the major influences on Ingraham Ebenezer Bill’s early life were his older brother Caleb Rand Bill and his minister, Edward Manning. By both men he was directed along the path of Christian commitment and public duty. On 8 Aug. 1824 he was baptized by Manning and joined the Cornwallis Baptist Church.
 After a long and intense struggle with his own fears and doubts, Bill began preaching in Cornwallis Township in 1827. The following year he moved to Nictaux, N.S., to assist the elderly Thomas Handley Chipman. Of Bill’s ordination on 2 March 1829 Manning recorded in his diary, “I never saw a more solemn and joyful lad ordained.” On Chipman’s death the following year, Bill became minister of the large and sprawling pastorate of Wilmot-Nictaux. He quickly established himself as one of the most effective and popular young ministers in the Maritimes. In a series of dramatic revivals he increased the size of his church until by 1837 it was the largest Baptist church in the Maritime colonies. Except for some 18 months as pastor of the Fredericton Baptist Church in 1840-42, he would remain at Nictaux until 1852. In that year he returned to New Brunswick to serve as pastor of the Germain Street Baptist Church in Saint John. In later years he ministered to churches in Carleton (Saint John) and St Martins.
 Given his effectiveness as a preacher, it is not surprising that Bill should be looked to for leadership in other areas of denominational affairs. Although he lacked much formal schooling himself, he developed an early and deep respect for education. His known sympathies for Baptist involvement in education made him a natural ally of the aggressive Halifax Baptists who by the fall of 1838 were determined to establish a denominational college. At a meeting with Edmund Albern Crawley and John Pryor, held at Bill’s house in Nictaux in October, the decision was made to found Queen’s College (renamed Acadia in 1841). When the decision was formally approved by the Nova Scotia Baptist Education Society on 15 November, Bill was named to the society’s managing committee and appointed financial agent for the new college.
 For the next 50 years Acadia would have few more dedicated or hard-working supporters. Between 1838 and 1884 Bill served first on the managing committee and then on the college’s board of governors. He repeatedly canvassed the Maritime colonies seeking financial support and students for the institution. In 1844-45 he travelled as far south as Georgia in his efforts to secure funding. The governor of South Carolina gave him $50, but most other Southerners would not contribute because Maritime Baptists supported the abolition of slavery. In 1849 and again in 1874 he travelled to Great Britain to raise funds. In recognition of his years of dedication to education, Acadia conferred on him an honorary doctorate in divinity in 1881.
 Bill’s visit to the United States had made him strongly aware of the need for “female education.” He had provided a good education for his only daughter, Mary, and in the fall of 1845, with his help, she opened a boarding-school for young ladies in her father’s home in Nictaux, the first such school run by Nova Scotia Baptists. Bill would campaign long and hard for greater educational opportunities for females and would live to see women graduating from Acadia College in the 1880s.
 Bill was clearly unafraid of change in society or in his church. He was one of the leaders of the temperance cause in the Nictaux area, and by 1834 he could proudly report that all dispensers of alcohol in the district had been forced to close their doors. During his brief ministry in Fredericton, he presided over a church that introduced organ music into the service. Several scandalized members transferred to other, more conservative churches.
 Bill was an enthusiastic advocate of Maritime Baptist involvement in foreign missions. He tried unsuccessfully in the 1850s to organize a Baptist mission to Australia, perhaps because two of his sons had gone there to settle. In 1870 he was one of the first to call for the establishment of a separate Maritime Baptist mission field in Asia; for 25 years the church had supported American Baptist work in Burma.
 Virtually every aspect of denominational life saw Bill’s energetic leadership. For ten years (1846-56) he served as secretary of the newly formed Baptist Convention of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island, and later he was president of that organization. In 1852 he became editor of the Christian Visitor, a Baptist newspaper in New Brunswick, and he tirelessly filled this office until 1872.
 His long experience with the Baptist church, his central role in its development, and his intimate acquaintance with the founding fathers of the denomination led him as “a sacred duty” to compile a history of the Regular Baptists of the Maritime provinces. Aside from John Mockett Cramp’s series of articles in the Christian Messenger in the 1860s, Bill’s Fifty years with the Baptist ministers and churches of the Maritime provinces of Canada (Saint John, 1880) was the first attempt at such a compilation. Although the work is largely narrative rather than analytical, its publication was none the less an important event in the development of Maritime Baptists’ awareness of their past.
 An effective evangelist, pastor, and denominational organizer, Ingraham Ebenezer Bill was foremost among what might be termed the second generation of Maritime Baptist leaders.

Barry M. Moody
Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online

Ingraham married Isabella LYONS on 20 Apr 1826 in Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia. Isabella (daughter of Thomas Ratchford LYONS and Ann SKINNER) was born on 28 Jan 1806 in Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia; died in Apr 1872 in Carleton, New Brunswick. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]