O'Brien-Jeffery House, Lauretta/Elmsdale

     I always thought this house was a 1970's bungalow, but no.  My father, Wilbert Jeffery, told me this house once belonged to Peter O'Brien of Lauretta.  It was located on the south side of Centerline Road behind (west) of Bona McLellan's farm.   In Cumin's 1928 Atlas of Prince Edward Island it shows that 50-acre property being owned by Geo. Barnett.  The house was small with two rooms, a large kitchen and a bedroom.
      Peter used the house when he was working over on the farm.  His main homestead was beside Abram/Louis/Kerras Jeffery's - the first property in Lauretta on the north side of Centerline Road.  

     In 1947 Gordon Jeffery (son of Louis Jeffery) and his wife Freda Barnett moved this house to the Western Road in Elmsdale (across from the Griffins) and fixed it up.  In recent years the house was raised and added to.

     Not long after Gordon and Freda moved this house, Gordon went to Montreal for back back surgery - a disk problem.  Wilbert thought it was 1948 or 1949.  After surgery Gordon arrived by train and came off on a stretcher - he was in full body cast.  A big surgery in those days, however, he recovered well.   

     After a few years Gordon and Freda sold the house and moved to Alberton.