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Note: he late Michael Walsh. Moses was left the responsibility of running the farm. Patrick, his older brother had already moved away. Bertram, age twenty-one, and David, age nineteen, were helping Moses to farm the land.
!Moses left the homestead eventually to Bertram and moved away to farm fifty acres of land on Centre Road, Hope River, St.Ann's Parish. When Moses's daughters were in their early teens and the boys were younger, they all lived through the tragedy of a fire. Moses and Mary Ellen watched their house burn to the ground while visiting Bertram and their family after a Sunday morning church service. Johnny, Louis and Annie were at Sunday Mass with their parents. Katie was home cooking dinner. When Mary Ellen and Moses dropped in to see Bertram and the family, they looked across the fields to see the house on fire. Luckily Katie escaped the fire, but nothing was left but the ashes.
!Moses and his family moved to the home on the Greenan place after the fire. He purchased 50 acres of land located between Millvale and Centre Road on the left hand side driving into Millvale. They stayed there for a year or two until they rebuilt the small house back home on Centre Road. They moved into their new home around 1912 when Johnny was about fourteen years old.
Note: !The census of 1881 revealed that Moses Walsh and his mother Mary were farming the land of t
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