Abell

(submitted by Shirley Albinson)

Roy Carmen Abell (1919–) is the son of Robert Samuel Abell and Etta Wilkinson (1899–1996) who farmed in Plympton Twp.

In 1940 Roy married Lorna Pearl Vivian. He was the only Abell to be in Warwick, although many of his mother's family lived and worked in Warwick Twp.

Roy remembers growing 18 acres of broom corn on his farm on the Forest Town Line in 1940. This corn grows just like regular corn, but rather than producing ears it produces a large spray of seed heads. The seeds are combed out; then the stalks tied together to form a straw broom. Roy also used to make maple syrup.

Roy and Lorna's children are: Shirley Blanche (1940–), Wayne Roy (1945–), Kenneth Wesley (1952–) and Paul Robert (1956–).