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Note: Exerpt from an article about Savona by Edward Villiers, third in a series titled 'Columbia Gold Find Attracts Hundreds of Cariboo Miners': 'At Savona, the Uren family had an attractive 20-year-old daughterliving with them named Elizabeth Jane. Elizabeth was born at Yale in 1861. When Savona's first post office opened on June 1, 1881, she became its first post mistress and during the next 12 months earned the total sum of $16.66. Her salery was computed not on the sale of stamps but on a commission based on the correspondence posted at the office. Her stamp sales for the first year were $63.69. About this time the young woman decided to take on an additional job since the first one wasn't paying too well. She became Savona's telegraph operator. An obliging young man who operated the telegraph key at Cache Creek, began paying her frequent visits ostensibly to teach her Morse code. Apparently she learned quickly, for one evening as the couple sat around her father's living room table playing cards, the young man tapped a message out on the girl's foot with his toe, in Morse code. It said: "Will you marry me?" Without hesitation and looking steadily into his eyes, she tapped back with her foot, "Yes." Startled by such a frank answer, the young man spoke out. "I wasn't fooling. I meant it!" "So did I", she replied. The name of that suitor was James Buie Leighton, a man who was to become loved and respected around Savona for over half a century. He was born in Scotland and came to Barkerville as a boy of twelve, a fact which earned him the nickname, "The Boy of Barkerville." He and Miss Uren were married and lived at Savona in a house located on the spot where the old CNR water tank stood. They had several children born in Savona, and their first son, the late Charles Leighton became the first white child to be born in Savona. Leslie Leighton, who is eighty years old, lives today at Langley, B. C. and is the oldest surviving member of the family.' --------------------------------------------- Jennie was an Episcopalian at the time of her marriage to James.
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Note: Just prior to the marriage James was a Presbyterian bachelor contractor living at Kamloops and Jennie lived at Savonas Ferry. -------------------- 1901 census of Canada, British Columbia, Yale & Cariboo, L9 Savona's, Pg 3, Family 33: LEIGHTON, James B, head, born 8 Nov 1851 in Scotland, 49, immigrated into Canada in 1863, Presbyterian, farmer & stock raiser LEIGHTON, Jennie, wife, born 28 Apr 1864 in BC, 36, C of E LEIGHTON, Charles, son, 31 Oct 1882 in BC, 18, Presbyterian LEIGHTON, Leslie, son, born 27 Jan 1884 in BC, 17, Presbyterian LEIGHTON, Raymond, son, born 18 Jul 1886 in BC, 14, Presbyterian LEIGHTON, Ellen, daur, born 18 Jun 1888 in BC, 12, Presbyterian LEIGHTON, John, son, born 21 Dec 1893 in BC, 7, Presbyterian MACALLUM, Lucy, servant, born 15 Jun 1879 in BC, 21, domestic, Presbyterian AH, Lee, servant, born 1870 in China, 30, immigrated into Canada in 1891, Budhism --------------------
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