Ruben married Viola Genevieve HERCHENRODER on 5 Jun 1929 in Hotel Teresa, 125th. St., & Lenox Avenue, New York, New York. Viola was born on 18 Jul 1908 in New York; died on 25 Oct 1963 in Troy, Rensselaer, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. James Alexander MACDONALD
2. Fauster Daniel MACDONALD was born on 4 Oct 1933 in New York, New York; died in 1984 in Troy, Rensselaer, New York.
3. William John MACDONALD
4. Mary Ann MACDONALD

James married Wilhalmina GRAHAM on 15 Jun 1903 in Heatherton, Antigonish, Nova Scotia. Wilhalmina (daughter of Capt. William Fraser GRAHAM and Marcelina MAHONEY) was born on 16 Mar 1873 in Nova Scotia; died on 9 Mar 1961 in Kentville, Kings, Nova Scotia; was buried in Saint Ninian’s Cemetery, Antigonish, Nova Scotia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

According to MacLean, History of Antigonish, vol 2, p 182: living in New York.
“Before I was born and as a small child (maybe 4, which would have been 1950) my grandmother had a flat at 110 St. and Amsterdam Avenue in NYC. She stayed there in the Winter and returned to Heatherton in the Summer. I do not know the exact dates, but I do know she was doing this before 1945. At the time, my father, Fauster and his brother Wallace both lived in NYC. Another brother, Graham lived in Albany, NY or just north of Albany in Brant Lake, NY. But, then she stopped coming to NY and we would go to Heatherton every summer to see her. She died at the Sanitarium in Kentville in March of 1961.” [Mary Ann McDonald McConnell, Dec. 2000]

Notes:

D.G. Widden, “History of The Town Of Antigonish”; the casket, Aug 10,1934 States:
Followed the sea for a time, but settled down on a farm in Bayfield.
Buried in Heatherton old Cemetery.

He resided at Bayfield, Nova Scotia. Ship captain and farmer. Children all baptized in the Anglican church at Bayfield. In 1871 they were listed in the census as “Presbyterian” the dominant protestant religion in Antigonish
where William came from. In the 1881 census William was listed as “Baptist,” and wife Marcelina was listed as “Catholic,” and yet all the children were listed as “Church of England.”

Douglas Graham wrote:
RELIGION: converted to Roman Catholic; Baptist [Census 1891]
HOME: Bayfield, Antigonish, Nova Scotia [1886 voters’ list] Heatherton [Census 1891]
BURIED: possibly Heatherton as wife is buried there.

William married Marcelina MAHONEY on 27 Nov 1856. Marcelina was born on 25 Jul 1838; died on 17 Sep 1895 in Heatherton, Antigonish, Nova Scotia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

David married Mary Elizabeth BIGELOW on 6 Feb 1827. Mary (daughter of Reuben BIGELOW and Lavinia SKINNER) was born on 5 May 1809 in Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia; died on 1 Dec 1890 in Antigonish, Nova Scotia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

See :
D. G. Widden, "History of the Town of Antigonish", The Casket, Aug 10, 1934

Douglas Graham writes:
AGE: @ death 81 yrs.
AFN: STPK-BR
SERVANT: Mary Dunn 20 yrs, R Cath, English.; Donald McAngus 22 yrs, farm labourer in 1871 census.
SIBLING: probably Rosina Bigelow who married James Lyons in Cornwallis 10 Apr. 1806. [A.W.H. Eaton, The History of King’s county Nova Scotia, Heart of the Acadian Land giving a Sketc h of the French and Their Expulsion, and a History of the New England Planters Who Came in T heir Stead With many Genealogies 1604-1910, Mika, Belleville, 1972. (Salem Press, Salem, 1 910) pp. 738-9]