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... set aside a site for St. Matthew's Church, later selling the farm to John F. Read, a retired sea captain, who had sailed the southern seas. His grandson lives in the old home with his mother, Mrs. Agnes Sinclair Read, both contributing interesting items for Aldershot History. A great great granddaughter, Mrs. Anne Klodt Bendetti, and her brother, Robert live on a section of the David Fonger farm. The sixth generation is now attending St. Matthew's Sunday School. Their grandmother, Mrs. Henry Klodt, and Mrs. Wilbur Nicholson are experts in the pioneer art of quilt-making, raising substantial sums of money for church maintenance and also for the community welfare projects of the Aldershot Women's Institute by the sale of their handicrafts. A daughter-in-law Mary Newport Klodt, is an active leader in church and community work. John Frederick Read and family Harriet Bingham Read was born at Rajcoti, in Gujerat province, India, just south of Karchi, which figured largely in her life. She was the daughter of Lieut. Thomas Bingham, Deputy Assistant Commissary of Ordnance, Bombay Residency. She experienced the Indian Mutiny. I recall the story that she, her children and an Indian nurse were rushed to the barracks for protection. Her husband was conveying prisoners across the bay in his boat. She was married at the age of sixteen to John Frederick Read, who was born in England, entered naval service and was then stationed in India. She left India for England with six children (one a baby). On the long sailing voyage around the Cape of Good Hope, the sailors taught the baby to walk. (At this time the Suez Canal was not completed). She remained in England for several years until her husband's retirement from the service. The older children were placed in schools and later on the two older boys were apprenticed as midshipmen in the Marine Service. Then in 1870, they came to Canada and bought "Herberton House", which the Wyatts' had built. One child was born in England, three in Canada (ten in all). There she lived until she died at the age of 87 in 1920. Her husband predeceased her in 1889. They were church going people and strong supporters of St. Matthew's Anglican Church.