I recently learned that Robert Salter Ripley's second wife Edith Hyatt was buried at the Union Grove Cemetery in Scotchtown N.S. A Maureen Jordan has done a fantastic job of photographing the stones in that cemetery and posting them online. In viewing Edith's gravestone for the first time I discovered that an adopted daughter Emma (Heffler) Ripley 1919-1938 is buried with Edith there. This is a person that we have never known about. I called one of the phone numbers on the website to thank them for putting the information online and ended up talking to a Keith Watts who happened to be the son of former New Waterford Fire Chief Earl Watts. Keith said the old Ripley store was likely in what they call 14 Yard, the oldest part of New Waterford and that fellow named Louie Allen, who also had a store there, would likely know all about the Ripleys. He also gave me lots of great information about the R. S. Ripley Firetruck and about the wonderful tradition of firefighters' funerals in New Waterford which has resulted in updates to the Photos and Robert Salter Ripley Obituary pages.
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AuthorHi there! My name is Mallory Burton and I started researching the Ripley family in 2011. I'd describe myself as a careful amateur who's more interested in story than names and dates. I hope you enjoy my website and blog. I also have a public Mallory/Ripley tree on Ancestry with over 4,000 names. To contact me, please comment on any one of my blog posts. Archives
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