Your grandparents, Lena Belle (Johnson) Wixtead and Thomas E. Wixtead left the United States and moved to Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada around 1905. Thomas E. Wixtead worked as a station agent and telegraph operator for the Dominion Atlantic Railway in Yarmouth.
Your grandparents had three additional children, all born in Yarmouth Nova Scotia, Canada. Madeline (your mother, my Grammy) in 1909, Margaret in 1911, and James in 1912.
Birth record of Madeline Wixtead, (your mother, my Grammy), born in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada on September 19, 1909.
Your grandparents lived at several addresses in Yarmouth, moving as their family grew
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