By the way, Olive was descended from the Hitchens family that set up the first light on Seal Island - Richard and Mary Hitchens I believe.  I recall her brother (or perhaps father - Frank Hitchens) had a home across the street, just to the north of the Smith and Watt garage.  We would play there when we were kids.

Before anyone lived on Seal Island, shipwrecked mariners lucky enough to have reached its shores alive often died of starvation and exposure during the harsh winter months. By the early years of the nineteenth century a grim spring tradition had evolved, as preachers and residents from Yarmouth and Barrington came to the island to find and bury the dead. There was much concern about the loss of life (on one occasion 21 people were buried in shallow graves in a single day) and in 1823, two families, the Hichens and the Crowells settled on the island in the hopes of assisting the unfortunate souls cast ashore during the winter storms. Richard Hichens himself had been shipwrecked on Cape Sable in 1817 and later married Mary Crowell, who had heard firsthand many stories of the deaths on Seal Island from her father, a Barrington preacher.

All three brothers died tragically - Walter of Rheumatic fever, John of “suicide” and their oldest brother, Arthur, in a plane crash (https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19650317-2) .  Imagine the grief for the parents.