Roger S Leighton

ROGER STEPHEN LEIGHTON  (JUNE 21, 1919-August 19, 2016)   Roger Stephen Leighton, Sr was born June 21, 1919 at home on the family farm in Strafford, NH. The son of George Byron Leighton and Lena Vernice Waldron Leighton, he was an Rh baby and barely survived his first year. Though sickly as a young child, he grew to be a strong man with a masterful mind who filled his 97 years with diverse interests and talents: forester, historian, genealogist, surveyor, realtor, water dowser and gentleman farmer.   Roger lived all of his life in Strafford; only moving down the hill and just over the Barrington line in 2011 to stay with his daughter. As a child, he attended (via horse and buggy) the one-room schoolhouse in Bow Lake for 7 years, then skipped 8th grade to enter Austin Cate Academy. After high school, Roger had planned to become a farmer like his father, but a dairy farmer he worked for convinced him to go to UNH. He was able to go by receiving a scholarship and commuting to Durham on the farmer's milk...