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When you find information on your family you have to be careful before you include it in your
genealogy. Even if it looks like it's a fit, you still need to check and try to find sources that can
connect the links. Below, I have listed problems I have with locating Alice Williston Cumming
and her family in Canada and New York.

Even though I have a lot of information on Alice, I haven't found her or her family in Quebec or
Ontario. Here is the information that I have on Alice Williston Cumming.

She was born in Jerusalem, Canada on September 26, 1828 and died in Sauk Centre, MN, USA
on June 24, 1901. She is laid to rest in Greenwood Cemetery, Sauk Centre, MN, USA. Her
parents are Elisha Williston and Edith Davis both born in New York. All this information was on
Alice's death certificate. A relative probably gave the parent's information - so you can't be
positive that her parents were both born in New York.

I found a Walter Cumming and an Elisa Willis?? on Sheet 32 Page 63 Line 14 and 15 of the
Recensement-Canada Est 1851 Canada East Census, Deux Montagnes County, St. Andrew's
Parish. I am not sure this is my Walter because Alice's obituary said they were married in
Jerusalem, Canada on January 1, 1852. Walter Cummings obituary said that he came to La
Chute, Canada at the age of twenty-three and the following year he was married. Walter was
born in 1826 and it would have been 1849 when he came to Canada. If he were married the year
after it would have been 1850. If this information is correct, then it could be them on the 1851
Census of Canada.

In the book "The Kelloggs in the Old World and The New" by Timothy Hopkins, I found an Elisha
Kellogg Williston married to an Eda Davis on page 200. It showed they both died in the Province
of Quebec. There were no children listed. Here again, I can't make a positive connection
because no children were listed for Elisha and Eda.

Alice's obituary said she was the mother of nine children, eight of whom survive her, three sons,
Clark, Walter and George and four daughters, Mrs. J. W. Gray, Mrs. William Gray, and Mary
and Clara, unmarried. Three sons and four daughters add up to seven - so there might have been
2 children that died before or she might have only had eight children.

As you can see, even with all the information collected I have a lot of questions to answer on the
Williston-Cumming family. If anyone with the Williston - Kellogg - Cumming family surname has
any information regarding these families please contact me. I would greatly appreciate it. Good
luck with your family research.