Avery, Eliza Jane (Carson)
Henry Harrison Avery Jr. (1887-1983)
Father: Robert Carson (c. 1842-1911)
Mother: Eliza Jane (Magee) Carson (c.1853-1931)
Sons: Clifford Henry Carson Avery (1910-1060); Leonard Ernest Avery (c.1917- )
Daughters: Margaret, Elsie Gwendoline (Avery) Burnett
Eliza Jane (Carson) Avery was born at Pavilion, BC on January 27, 1884. She married Henry Harrison Avery, Jr. on March 24, 1910 at the Presbyterian Manse in Princeton, BC. She died on February 2, 1971 in Shuswap Lake General Hospital in Salmon, BC.
She came to Princeton in the fall of 1909 to teach at the Princeton Public School. She was in charge of the school house on Vermilion in 1909 – 1910.
She is listed in the 1948 British Columbia and Yukon Directory: “Avery, Mrs. E.J. of Avery & Avery”
Princeton 100 Years, page 5; Princeton Our Valley, pages 94, 241, 242; The School on Vermilion, pages 6, 7, 8; Birth, Marriage and Death registrations (BC Archives);
Similkameen Spotlight March 29, 1967; BC Directories