Sutton

(from Watford Historical Society Collection)

Rosella Sutton (1901–1993) was the second daughter of Robert and Nancy (Higgins) Sutton. At an early age, she went to live with her mother’s sister and her husband, John and Ann King, who had no children of their own.

Rosella never married. She was employed in the Watford Post Office as assistant postmistress for most of her life. In her early eighties, an illness forced the amputation of her leg just above her knee, requiring her to move to the Watford Quality Care Centre.

Rosella remembered the Maxmobile as it went up the 4^th Line one Sunday morning. She and her parents were coming to town in the horse and buggy. The horse was very scared as the car came toward them. Mrs. Maxwell was sitting straight up in the car with her duster, a linen coat and a veil over her head flying out.