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May 2003

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That photo looks like it was taken on the Northwest Miramichi, John.  Would that be correct?

Spring is starting to come to N.S.  A couple of great days but still a little on the cool side.  The lobster fishers were supposed to set their traps today but it was delayed for one day because of high winds in some areas.  Good luck with the black salmon fishing, John.  Do they really taste good or do you do it just for the joy of fishing (and even before the flies start!)

Love to all,
Brenda

Sunday, May 4, 2003 - 09:26:56 am:
Message from John Vickers at johnvickers03@yahoo.ca:

Hello Again,

Sure is great to get home..out flyfishing on the river last few days....my salmon rod snapped in two while fighting a spring salmon yesterday...to claim you broke your rod fighting a black salmon is not a claim I think I shall promote with any gusto....my hunch was right about my inquiry about bringing a black salmon home to cook..mother says I am welcome to bring it home to at least the back step and I also can keep it outside until I cook it on the BBQ...

I went and bought the folks a computer yesterday and they should have the Internet hookup by Wednesday.  I was telling Mother it will be nice to get her on here once and a while.

Regards,

John

Monday, May 5, 2003 - 07:35:34 am:
Message from Anne Marie at :

It has been snowing off and on since Saturday and could continue until Friday....Calgary in the spring time.  I envy you folks in the east. As usual I have been out listening to live music, especially the blues.  Plans for Sam's wedding are falling into place.  Bethy is sending her daughters to Canada for 3 weeks just in time for the wedding. She and her family are now in Las Vegas.  My brothers will be here to help celebrate.

AM

Happy Mothers Day to all you wonderful mothers out there I know there are lots of you.  Bill and Monica you look great in those photos. Hope all is well along the Miramichi.

Have a Good Day
Fred Quinn, Jr.

Hi, Fred, yes I want to say Happy Mother's Day also!

Love Patty
P.S. Hi, Big John.

North Shore Leader, July 1965

SAMUEL A. KINGSTON
 

Samuel A. Kingston, a prominent lumberman of the Miramichi for many years, died at the home of his daughter, Mrs
William Vickers, Lawlor Lane, on Saturday July, 17 after a lengthy illness.  He was 73 years of age and was born in
Wayerton, a son of the late Paul and Mary (Crowe) Kingston.

As a young man Mr Kingston was associated with his father, in lumbering operations on the Northwest Miramichi
and later carried on his own lumber business for many years.  He had lived in Newcastle for about 40 years, first at
Chaplin Island Road and later on King George Highway.  Mr Kingston was a member of St Mary's Church and of the
Holy Name Society.

Surviving are his wife, the former Lillian Loggie of Napan, six sons and six daughters: William of Wayerton; (Anne
Marie) Mrs Joseph Weisler of Appleton, Wisconsin; George, Three Rivers, Quebec; (Monica) Mrs William Vickers,
Newcastle; (Rita) Mrs Peter Byberg, Greenwood, Ont.; (Carmel) Mrs Donald Leslie, Ferry Road; (Bernadette) Mrs
Patrick Sullivan, Port Credit, Ont.; Aloysius, South Nelson; Frank and Paul, both of Newcastle; Joseph, Oshawa,
Ont. and Patricia ,Toronto.

Two brothers and four sisters, also survive: Paul Kingston, Wayerton; Dr Louis Kingston, Barre, Vermont; (Ann) Mrs
 A. L. Larner, Burlington Vermont; (Margaret) Mrs Patrick O'Shaughnessy, Burlington, Ont.; (Kate) Mrs Jerry Howe of
 Mount St Joseph, Chatham, and (Suzanne) Mrs. George Johnton, Newport News, Virginia.  There are also 45
 grandchildren.

The funeral was held Tuesday morning from the family home on King George Highway to St. Mary's Church where
High Mass of Requiem was offered by his nephew, Rev. Paul Kingston of Montreal. St Mary's High School Choir was
in attendance and priests present in the sanctuary were: Rev. D. J. Warner, parish priest at St. Mary's; Rev. T. J.
Mckendy, Douglastown; Rev. B. M. Broderick, South Nelson; Rev. J. C. McKinnon, Loggieville; Rev. R. H. Munroe,
Chatham Head; Rev. Donald Harriman, Saint John; Rev. Dr. D. C. Duffie Csc., President of St Thomas University, and
Rev. James MacDonald Csc., superior of Holy Cross House, Fredericton.

Interment was made in the family plot in the old St. Mary's Church cemetery, the pallbearers being his five sons,
William, George, Aloysius, Frank and Paul and a grandson, Barry Kingston. The honorary pallbearers were W.
Stafford Anderson, Harrison Gunn, Edwin Brown, Albert Vickers, Harvey Shattuck, Earl McAllister, John Ryan and
Alex Baisley.

A Pumpkin Update!  I have been contacted by Firefly/Boston Mills Press who have expressed interest in publishing a coffee table book of my pumpkin carvings - even proposing a $10,000 advance on royalties.  A guy could pay the bills and flyfish for a couple of months with that loot!  :-) JV

Reading Grandfathers obituary prompted me to ask if anyone knows exactly how many cousins we have as a result of being Sam & Lillian's grandchildren.  Has anyone done a count?  My children are always amazed that when we meet anyone, I can tell them that they are a cousin, married to a cousin, etc. etc.  Just wondering.

That is so cool, John, about the pumpkin carving book!  Congratulations and keep us posted...all that pumpkin carving is paying off and the neat thing about it is that you always do it for a worthwhile cause...

Spring hasn't sprung in N.S. yet....still miserably cold and there's a Scottish mist out there this a.m.  The weekend (long one at that) sounds very promising with warmer temps and sun.

Love to all,
Brenda

P.S. I am waiting for the day when there is an e-mail from Aunt Monica on here...go for it, Monica with that new computer!

This is what I came up with:

55 grandchildren
79 great grandchildren
54 cousins
78 2nd cousins

Not sure if there are any great great grandchildren, any one know of any?
John you gave me food for thought.
Love Patty

Paul Kingston was at the peak of his success as a woodman.  His cuts were always good, his drives were always
successful. At about that time there appeared an anonymous poem in the North Shore Leader, one of the Newcastle
newspapers, which described very well the manner of man that Paul Kingston was and is.

"The North Branch of Sevogle, all Nor'westers will agree,
Is the toughest tributary of the Nor'west Miramichi.
It's a treacherous, rocky torrent, from the Narrows up above
It's a roaring, foam-decked outlaw, and a stream the drivers love.

Where the white "P's" jam the ledges till there isn't room for more.
When the old Sevogle takes the bit in her rush out to sea,
There is always great excitement on the Nor'west Miramichi.
She's a roaring, foam-decked outlaw, but to one man she must bow,
Only one man understands her, knows her when and why and how,
Understands her at her wildest, knows so well her changing moods,
Curbs her when she gets unruly, soothes her when she frets and broods.

He is very understanding, uses no pretense or gloss,
Patient, firm, and never changing, woodman know him as "The Boss,"
Know him firm, unchanging purpose, with a will to dare and do,
Know that when he takes a contract he'll be there to see it through.
Much like this unruly river in his strange and hidden ways,
Free, majestic, never changing, firm and fresh and unafraid,
Ever faithful to his calling, carrying out God's holy will,
Loved his work from early childhood, loves it now and ever will.

Linked together in my memory, ever will these two remain,
The North Branch of Sevogle, and I guess you know his name.
He's up there on that river now, with a hardy crew of men,
God grant that he may live to go there many times again."

Sunday, May 18, 2003

I received the following photo's from Mary Ellen and thanks ME for sending them....JV

Rebecca & Katie Rose
 
 

Allie and Eleanor at Easter

Mary Ellen & Katie Rose

Sam

It is cold here on the Miramichi this evening after a few days of summer weather.  We got locked out of our house today.  No problem for Bill Vickers - how about taking off a basment window and going in that way?  He did with his wife telling him a stretcher could not go through the window.  Needless to say we got in with Mary to the rescue!

John, your mother just waited to have something exciting to tell.  How many elderly couples do you know, climb in basement windows, to jazz up their day? Love Patty.

Regarding the "P" log stamp, I believe my father found one of them and gave it to Aunt Sue in the early or mid '70s.  Aunt Sue was very grateful and sent Dad a picture of grandfather(?) and his crew in a boat coming down the river.  The picture is in Mom & Dad's Living Room.

KINGSTON REUNION
August 5th Weekend
2005

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Reunion 2000

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The following copied from the book "OLD NORTH ESK on the Miramichi" by W. D. Hamilton, 1979.

"Paul Kingston and his wife Lydia Byrd would have been married about 1810 in Ireland, at which time she was about thirty years of age and he only about nineteen - a fact which may explain why they had only four children in a time of universally large families. In any case, about 1826, they and their four children settled at Sprigs Brook, an isolated site on the North West, above the mouth of Tomogonops, and remained there until 1835, when Paul quick claimed the property to Joseph Dennis and moved to three Islands (Wayerton). There he was a moderately successful lumberman in the 1830's, but he confined himself largely to farming in the '40's.

He was a Fence Viewer in 1840 and an Overseer of Highways in 1841, and in 1851-52, while living with his son Samuel's family, he taught school at Copp's Settlement (Trout Brook), as returns now in the Provincial Archives, completed by "Paul Kingston, Senr." in his own excellent handwriting show. He was an untrained "third class" teacher.

Paul did not prosper at school teaching, and by 1858, although they were still living with their son Samuel, he and Lydia were receiving relief from the Overseers of the Poor.  In 1861, he was living with their granddaughter Margaret Rolfe, and Lydia spent her last years with their daughter Susannah.   Although the Kingston Genealogy states that she died at the home of her son Samuel in 1863, the Advocate of June 10, 1869, reveals that she died on May 16, 1869, in her eighty-ninth year at the home of her son-in-law William Allison, leaving four children and thirty-eight grandchildren.  According to the census of 1861, Paul was an Episcopalian and Lydia a Methodist. Of the children Avisa and Samuel became Catholics.

Paul, their youngest child, was still in New Brunswick in 1849, according to a notice published in the Gleaner of September 3 of that year, but the Kingston Genealogy states that he died in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, about 1877, after raising a family in that state.

Hello Kingston Clan,

As a child I recall that Mr.Ben Hachey gave the P log stamp to Dad and I remember how pleased Dad was to get it back in the family.  Ben had some amazing story how it was used over the years but Ben was always one to "spin some yarn " when he came over to our house.  Anyways when I was first married, my father in-law had a book of the log stamps registered in North America and was proud as could be to see Paul's Log stamp with all the other major lumber producers of the time.  Mark

John:

Do you remember the poem my mother sang to us as children and I sang it to you children?

Little robin red breast sat upon a tree
Singing cherries were you made for me?
No said little Billy whom the robin heard
God did not make cherries for such a foolish bird

Then that little robin hung her pretty head
Feeling very badly before she went to bed
Come back little robin you may have a few
God made the cherries for Billy and robin too
Then that little robin sang that summer day
Thank you thank you Billy and then she flew away

There was another one my mother used to sing:

Good little Lucy tied up her hair and said on her
knees her evening prayer
She did not say to the sun good night
Though she saw him there in a ball of light

The rest I cannot remember - it would be nice if all these new mothers could sing it to the next generation.

God bless
Mom

I'm game for a reunion in 2005.  At least this time I won't have to worry about getting pregnant and can put more energy into helping with the planning.  I would like to motion that we have an organizing meeting over the summer.