Frank W. McCully h/o Sarah Edith Mason

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Former Truro Carriage Maker Passes
Frank W. McCully a former carriage maker of Truro, and a native of Masstown died at Sydney June 1 in his 78th year, at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Edwin N. McKinnon. Burial was made at Port Hawkesbury.
The deceased was the younger son of the late Robert McCully and Harriett McNutt of Masstown. At an early age he went to Parrsboro when he spent some years with Mr. and Mrs. S. Jenks to learn the carriage building trade. While there he married Edith Sarah Mason, a daughter of the late John W. Mason and his first wife Sarah MacAlonan. Mr. McCully then established a carriage shop at Great Village and later moved to Truro where he carried on his trade until 1904, when he started to travel for the Frost and Wood Company, with Newfoundland included in his territory. In 1907 he moved his family to Port Hawkesbury, and later represented the Gibson Manufacturing Co. of Guelph, Ont. He was widely known and respected by a large circle of acquaintances when he retired from the road about fifteen years ago and built an up-to-date filling and service station next to his residence. A fire seven years later destroyed the service station after it had been sold to the Super Service and Oil Company. Mr. McCully's house was destroyed at the same time and his youngest son, John, then a well-known photographer, lost his life in the fire.
Children who survive are: a son, E. W. McCully, postmaster of Port Hawkesbury; and three daughters, Mrs. Edson Martin, Port Hawkesbury (Greta); Mrs. Hugh Cheyne (Martha), Newton Centre; Mrs. E. Philpott, (Bessie) Port Hawkesbury; a sister, Mrs. Isa B. Wallace, Hantsport; a brother, Ernest of Masstown; an uncle Loran McNutt, Fredericton, N.B., and twenty-three grandchildren as well as 11 great-grandchildren.
(Source: Truro Daily News June 8 1944, page 5)