Avery, Eliza Jane (Carson)
Henry Harrison Avery Jr.
__ __ __Clifford, Margaret, Elsie, Leonard
Eliza Jane (Carson) Avery was born at Pavilion, BC on January 27, 1884 and died on February 2, 1971. She married Henry Harrison Avery, Jr. on March 24, 1910 at the Presbyterian Manse in Princeton, BC. She came to Princeton in the fall of 1909 to teach at the Princeton Public School, which was a two room school. In 1918, they built two more rooms and had four teachers.
Her father, Robert Carson had a pack train to the Cariboo and was the first man to blaze a trail from Lillooet to Squamish. He took the first herd of cattle from Pavilion to Squamish. There is a monument to his memory in North Vancouver. Miss Carson taught school in Princeton in 1909 and became Mrs. Avery, the Averys have lived here ever since. She was in charge of the school house on Vermilion in 1909 – 1910.
The General Index of 1946 lists Mrs. Eliza Avery of Avery & Avery
Princeton 100 Years, page 5; Princeton Our Valley, pages 241, 242; The School on Vermilion, pages 6, 7, 8; Marriage registration (BC Archives)
Similkameen Spotlight March 29, 1967