James Edward Lawton, ( Jimmy or Jim ) was the fourth child of Private Edward and Muriel Lawton. He was born during WWII when his father was serving as a volunteer soldier. Jimmy was born and bred on the Old Black River Road and has lived there, outdoors mostly, all of his life. He fed himself and the family from the land, starting as a young boy. he trapped weasels, martins and rabbits. Sold the pelts or the meat and put meat in our cooking pots. he fished trout, ate them boiled in the woods or brought a mess home for supper. Soon he was providing deer meat and moose meat for the family.

Jimmy lived outdoors, playing in the woodpile, in the watery ditches, skating on the pond, riding bikes to Mispec Stream, swimming in the lake on the Proud Road, camping in hand made camps in the middle of winter and eating small animals for weeks at a time. he made a camp well with dynamite, played with marbles, traded comics, listened to Boston Blackie, collected pop bottles, cut and sold xmas trees, picked berries, knitted his own mittens, tamed a crow and lived for and in the woods.
Jim, walking.




Jimmy and Jimmy and Carole in Old Black River Road landscape.




to be continued