GNB
Provincial Archives of New Brunswick

Daniel F Johnson's New Brunswick Newspaper Vital Statistics

Introduction Introduction | Scope Scope | Name Index Name Index | Full-Text Search Full-Text Search

Abbreviations used Abbreviations used

Daniel F. Johnson : Volume 90 Number 1120

Date September 26 1893
County Saint John
Place Saint John
Newspaper The Daily Sun

info The language of the text is the original used in the newspaper entry and as transcribed by Daniel F. Johnson. Records acquired by the Provincial Archives are not translated from the language in which they originate.

Campbellton (Rest. Co.) Sept. 23 - John FRASER of Cross Point, who died 12th inst., was born at Fort Augustus, Invernesshire, Scotland, 21st Dec. 1799 and came to Nova Scotia in 1820. He studied law in Fredericton, N.B. in the office of the late Hon. J. Ambrose Street, and afterwards removed to Miramichi where he was on the relief committee of the great fire of 1825 and was afterwards in business there, subsequently removing to Bathurst, where he was engaged for several years in the export timber trade. In 1843 he purchased the Cross Point property and has since resided there. On the stablishment of the post office at Cross Point in 1846, he was appointed postmaster, which office he held at the time of his death. He was justice of peace under commission from the Imperial government; collector of customs for the port of New Carlisle from 1850 until superanuated in 1876; held a commission in the New Brunswick militia and was Lt. Col. of Bonaventure militia. He was appointed in 1830, Lloyd's agent for the Bay of Chaleur. For a great many years he was mayor of the township of Mann and several terms warden of the county of Bonaventure. In 1837 he married Elizabeth FERGUSON d/o late Robert FERGUSON of Athol House, who predeceased him three years ago. They had ten children, of whom one daughter and five sons survive, as well as 13 grandchildren. He was a man of clear intellect and great memory and was in perfect possession of all his faculties up to the time of his death. He was rarely sick until his final illness, which commenced about four weeks before his demise, Sept. 12th inst, at the age of nearly 94 years. His funeral was attended by a large number to the place of interment in the old burial ground at Athol House, where lie so many pioneer residents of Restigouche.

4.11.1