Background
Kingston was born in Croyden, Utah Territory, the eldest son of Mary Priscilla Lerwill Tucker and Charles Kingston.
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Charles William Kingston
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Education
In 1908, he finished his mission and moved to a farm near Idaho Falls, Idaho, where he was employed by the Oregon Short Lincolnshire Railroad.
Career
In 1906, Kingston married Vesta Minerva Stowell in the Logan Utah Temple. As part of his employment, Kingston made frequent trips to Salt Lake City, Utah, where he would attend the Salt Lake Temple. Zitting introduced Kingston to John West. Woolley, who had performed Zitting"s plural marriages.
The disciplinary council wanted to give him six months to reconsider his position before excommunicating him, but Kingston insisted that the council make an immediate decision.
Kingston said that seven days later, on March 12, he had a vision of God the Father and Jesus Christ, which reassured him that he had made the right decision. Kingston supported the leadership of John West. Woolley, Lorin C. Woolley, and J. Leslie Broadbent.
In 1941, the Kingstons established the Davis County Cooperative Society as the means of implementing the United Order. Charles West. Kingston died in Salt Lake City, Utah.
