Four Cumming Brothers

Left to right: Alec Cumming, Thos. Cumming, James Cumming, William Cumming; Duncan-Cumming Clan Reunion, Aroostook Valley Park;

Sons of Thomas Cumming and Mary Jack, all four were born in Upper Buckie, Scotland and immigrated to the Scotch Colony onboard the “Sidonian” in May 1874. The date the photo was taken is unknown, but James was the first to pass away in 1938.

Alec Cumming (1868-1948 Houlton, ME) was an electrician. In 1891 in Sherbrook, Quebec he married Maud Mary Jordan (1871 Eaton, Quebec-1959.) They were active in the First Baptist Church of Houlton. They had five children, the first born in Quebec and the other four in Houlton. Alec and his wife are buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Houlton, ME.

Thomas Cumming (1862-1939 Plaster Rock, New Brunswick) farmed a half lot #38 of 100 acres next to his father. He was married three times.

James Morrison Cumming (1860-1938 Nashua, New Hampshire) married Barbara Duncan (1863 Dunnottar, Scotland-1945 Milton, MA) in 1882 at her parent’s home “Carron Brae” in Kincardine, New Brunswick.  James worked the farm for a year in partnership with his brother William and then moved to Washburn, ME to work in the mill. Later the family moved to central Maine, New Hampshire, and finally Massachusetts. They had four children, two born in the Colony and two probably in Maine.

William Spence Cumming (1857-1940 Easton, ME) was a farmer in Easton.  As a young man, he worked on his father’s farm on lot # 40 and later bought out his half-brother John Jack Cumming’s farm on lot #38 (John left the Colony to go to West Sullivan, ME.)  In 1884 William married Annie Rae Duncan (1861 Dunnottar, Scotland-1845 Easton, ME) and they had six children born in Upper Kintore. In 1894 the family moved to the Pine Tree State. Three more children were born in Easton, ME. William and Annie were buried at Estes Park Cemetery, Easton, ME.