- Meet Alathea Asselstine (Vedder) (1830–1892) — came to the Sardis area of Chilliwack from Ontario in 1871 with husband John Sicker. After John’s accidental drowning in Luckakuck Creek (1875), Alathea married early Sardis settler and dairy farmer Adam Vedder in 1877. Adam served as warden of the Township of Chilliwack, a Member of the Provincial Parliament, and postmaster. Alathea named Sardis after the ancient capital of Lydia.
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