The History of Lewis County, Washington, Pt 3 of 10: PAGES 128 - 160 Submitted by: Wes , Feb. 2003 ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgenwebarchives.org *********************************************************************** Source material: Nix, Alma and John Nix, Eds. "The History of Lewis County, WA". Chehalis, Lewis County Historical Society, 1985. The genealogies and stories of pioneers found on pages 63 to 394 of the history were scanned to Word, and saved as .txt files without Photos. Photo captions with names remain. The scanned page with photos is available from Wes upon request. We thank the Lewis County Historical Museum (lchs@lewiscountymuseum.org) for generously granting permission to post this file to the Digital Archives. Page numbers are at the bottom of each page. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Pt 3 of 10: PAGES 128 - 160 DOUGLAS AND ESTHER DAY I was born in Centralia, as was my mother, Dorothy (Ramsey) Wilder. Thirty-four years later, my youngest son, Jonathan, was born in the same hospital as I, the old Centralia General, joining three brothers and one sister. I grew up in the house my grandfather, James William Ramsey, built around 1903, not far from the Oakview School, where I spent my first six years. My favorite teacher was Mrs. Webb. For all those who misspelled February, I can still hear her saying, "Are you (RU) spelling it right?" Mr. Bogan was principal and, twenty years later, was also principal to our older sons, before his retirement. He still remembered me. In town, two years were spent at Edison; one of them was the year of the "big" earthquake. I can still see the school yard moving like waves. In 1953, I graduated from CHS. During those years, I remember the big snow and blizzard. We could not see across the street and snow was up to my waist. I remember deer coming down to feed in the field near our farm house. I still see them where we live now, in the Logan district. I also remember tramping the hill behind our house - Davis Hill, where new homes now overlook both Fords and Waunches prairies. My own children also tramped the hill behind our present home, on Kalien's land. Children do not change, even though times do. I remember Agnew's mill and the fire, and the day the war was over, with horns honking and whistles blowing. I remember sugar and gas ration-books and blankets over windows at night during black-outs. At nineteen, I left home to attend Prairie Bible Institute, Alberta, Canada. There, I met the man I was to marry four years later, Douglas Day, who was born in Calgary, Alberta. In 1957, we came to the states to be married and, two days later went back to Canada for Indian Mission work. I may not have been born during pioneer days, but the ten years we spent in the isolated north country were like stepping back in time. We soon found ourselves in a village, reached only by bush aircraft. At first we used gas lanterns and washing machine. Then we changed to a windcharger for electricity. Water was hauled from the well, wood from the bush and what meat and fish we had, we caught ourselves. Out back was the outhouse and out front was our walk-out freezer, in the winter. In 1967 we came back here to all the modern conveniences; automatic washer and dryer, gas heat, and water on tap (no more laundry frozen on the line), and became caught up in little James William and Edith Belle Ramsey taken circa 1906. The home he built. league baseball, occasional trips to the beach, scouts, music and church clubs for our brood of five. Now I have more time for my special interests; gardening, crocheting, music and working on our family tree. I am proud to be a product of this area and, wherever I live, will always call it home. Centralia is my kind of town. By Esther Day LAURENCE DEACON FAMILY The Laurence Deacon family came to Lewis County in 1931. Mr. Deacon graduated from Willamette University in June of that year. He and Dorothy Brant were married on the 8th of August, packed their wedding presents in their 1926 Essex and moved to Adna, Washington, where Mr. Deacon had been appointed principal of Adna High School. Mr. Deacon was also bus driver. After three very pleasant years at Adna they moved to Mossyrock where Mr. Deacon was employed as high school principal. The salary was $100,00 per month. Mr. Deacon continued at Mossyrock for 33 years. Along with his school work he participated in the incorporation of the town of Mossyrock and served as town clerk for 27 years. Their only child, Patricia Ann, was born in 1938. Patricia, after completing her public school education in 1958, attended the University of Washington for two years. She was married to Charles E. Bowen of Randle, Washington, on December 27,1958. To this union were born three children, Kathy Lynne, Karen Lee, and Keith Charles. JAMES AND IRENE (KNITTLE) DEAN I was born on November 15, 1938, one mile west of Morton, to Otis and Margaret Knittle. The third of four children, I was born in the house built by my parents and now owned by my sister, Dorothy Grose. (photo): Jim, Richard, Sonja, Irene, James Dean My younger brother, Melvin, and I used to play in the woods behind the house and fish the creek that ran through the property. My older brother, Alfred, used to catch salmon in it until it became too shallow for them. As a child I liked to follow Mom and Dad to the barn, find a good straw in the hay mow, and drink warm milk straight from the pail. Early in 1949 we moved to the 160 acre homestead granted to my grandfather in 1895 by President Grover Cleveland. The house had a large bay window and hardwood floors throughout. Dad sold milk to Darigold and also did plumbing for many area homes. One of Melvin's and my chores, besides getting in wood and helping during haying season, was herding in the cows for the night milking. I was 13, and we told Dad the bull was chasing us. He felt we were using this as an excuse so we wouldn't have to do our chores. After several complaints, he stormed after the cows. He 128 (photo): Homestead Certificate returned shortly, out of breath, got the 44-40 rifle, and shot the bull right put in the field. The bull was only 13 months old and it was very unusual for one that young to be mean. I met Jim in December, 1954. He was born James Thomas Dean September 28, 1931, to James (Willie) and Marie Dean in Little Rock, Arkansas, the third of nine children. As a. child, he enjoyed horseback riding and hunting. While his dad worked on the Doane Ranch in Mountain View, Missouri, he attended school in a one-room schoolhouse. Jim and his mother used to cut wood with a cross-cut saw and haul it by horse and wooden sled. They moved to Morton in 1946. Jim joined the Army in 1949 and served six years, thirteen months of that in Korea where his outfit, the 15th Battalion, 7th Infantry Division, earned six major battle stars. We married on June 3, 1955,in the living room of the homestead. The winter of 1955 Jim was laid off from work and didn't have any unemployment benefits, so for seven weeks we ate potatoes and gravy, beans and biscuits three times a day. Finally he returned to work and we charged five dollars worth of groceries; more potatoes, flour, shortening, and beans so we could eat the same fare for two more weeks until payday. Jim has worked as a truck driver, carpenter, and logger. We've lived in Oregon and California but finally settled in Chehalis. We've been blessed with three children: Jimmy Wayne Dean, July 30,1963; Richard Otis Dean, March 24, 1965; and Sonja Marlea Dean, March 18, 1970. The boys graduated from W.F. West and Sonja is a student.there. By Irene Knittle Dean ROMA AND HAZEL DEBOW FAMILY Roma and Hazel were married Nov. 7, 1917 in Guymon, Oklahoma, where they farmed for many years, until the dust bowl forced them to relocate. To them were born five children, Mildred, Rometta, Wilma, Ralph and Christle. Roma and Hazel left the dust bowl in Oklahoma in 1935, arriving in Chehalis, Washington, not knowing anyone. They left many friends and relatives in Oklahoma, but felt they had to get away from the dust as their youngest daughter, one (photo): Back row: Wilma, Roma, Ralph, Dale. Front row: Christie, Hazel, Mildred, Rometta DeBow. year old at the time, had dust pneumonia and was very ill. They bought a farm on Deep Creek from Jim and Mary Vandervort where they farmed and milked a large herd of cows. In 1951 they sold their farm on Deep Creek and moved to Chehalis. At that time Mr. DeBow worked for the Lewis County Road Department for many years, retiring in 1964. On Nov. 7,1982, Mr. and Mrs. DeBow celebrated their 65th anniversary at the Adna Evangelical Church where they had been members since 1936. Mr. DeBow was a sincere Christian and loved the Lord's work. He was a church board member and served as building chairman when the new church was built in 1962. On May 22, 1984 the Lord called him home. ELMER JAMES CLAYTON DECKER Elmer James Clayton Decker married Cora Eliza Swart, who was married to Donald Duncan McLennen before. She had two children, Cora and Alton McLennen. Cora had two daughters. She was married to Frank Mapes. Frances and Margaret Alton had two children, Mary Eliza Decker and Alton Larry Decker. They came to Washington in 1890's and had a timber claim out of La Push. Then they moved to a big farm and hop yard on the Green River near Auburn, Washington. They moved to Toledo, Washington, on a farm in 1916; then to Klaber, Washington in 1922. Their children are: William Claude Decker (Bill), Clarence (Pete) Decker, Leslie Decker, Rhea Decker, Doris Decker, married Joe Bishop, later married Charles W. Elder. By Doris Elder ABRAM AND MARY DELL Abram (Abe) Dell was born of Irish and English parents in 1860 on the Michigan-Canadian border. His father, Jesse Dell, of New York, is buried in Chehalis. (photo): Seated: Mary E. Parsons Dell, Abram Dell. Standing: Thomas Byrne Dell, Frances Dell Eichman Fritts, Mazie Ellen Dell Bilow, Charles Abram Dell. When Abe was a young man, he and his youngest brother, Jack, worked their way down the Mississippi River and over to Texas. They ventured to Salt Lake City, Utah, where Abe broke his leg. While recuperating, he studied the Mormon Bible. From Utah they traveled to Lewis County, Washington, where he and Jack homesteaded. Jack married and his oldest daughter, Maude, was born near the old Connell place. Jack later moved to Traverse, Michigan. Mary E. Parsons was born in Sarnia, Ontario, Canada, in 1864, to Henry Parsons, an Englishman, and Elizabeth (Graham) Parsons, a Canadian. Elizabeth died giving birth to Mary and Henry died when Mary was only 10. Mary was then raised by her grandmother until her grandmother's death. She was then raised by the Bryne family who treated her as their own daughter. They had a daughter named Mazie and Mary named her first daughter after Mazie Bryne. Mary worked for a tailor shop in Chicago before coming to Washington. She married Abe Dell in Olympia and moved to Abe's homestead which was 2 1/2 miles below Dryad. Their home was a two-story log cabin that had two rooms on the first floor and two porches. The cabin was surrounded by trees and Mary was afraid to go outside because she thought a cougar would jump down on her. She was also afraid of a family of skunks that lived under the house. She was definitely a "city gal." Abe cleared the land and then farmed it. They had to get all their supplies from Chehalis, about 17 miles east of Dryad. Abe had to carry all their supplies over a trail, including the stove for their 129 cabin, on his back. Abe also cut railroad ties for the Northern Pacific Railroad which was being built to South Bend. Abe and Mary's first child was Mazie Ellen who was born in 1894 on the homestead. Mazie remembered her mother making butter and then, carrying Mazie on her hip, took the butter to Chehalis for mere cents. Mary later had a three wheeled cart that ran on the rails which she used to get to Chehalis. Mazie married Sherwood Bilow and had two children, John and Alfretta. Their second daughter, Frances, was born in 1895. She first married Arnold Eichman and then Frank Fritts. Frances and Frank had a daughter named Doris who married Ray Woodard. Abe and Mary's third child was named Thomas Byrne Dell. Thomas was born in 1899 on the homestead. Thomas died in France during World War II of black diphtheria, two weeks before he was to come home. Abe and Mary's last son was Charles Abram, born in 1901, also on the homestead. Charles married Bessie Skidmore and they had two children, Gerald Charles and Marie Jean. Abe and Mary belonged to a study club at PeEll and Doty. Mary died January 1, 1928 in Dryad. She was well-known and liked by everyone. Her funeral was held at the Baptist Church. Abe died June 14, 1928 at St. Luke's Hospital in Lewis County, Washington. Both are buried at the Dryad Cemetery. By Loretta Bilow MAZIE E. DELL Mazie Ellen Dell was born March 6, 1894 to Abram (Abe) and Mary Dell, pioneers of Lewis County. Mazie was born on her parents homestead, 2 1/2 miles south of Dryad. In 1904 they sold the homestead and purchased the Dryad Hotel. (photo): About 1918, Mazie Dell Bilow, Alfreta Bilow, Jobn Bilow. Mazie went to school in Dryad's two story schoolhouse. Her third grade teacher was Flossie Coffman. Another of her teachers was Mary O'Laughlin. Mazie went to school through the eighth grade. Her mother Mary was the cook for the hotel and Mazie helped out at the hotel washing dishes and doing other small jobs. Mazie later worked for one of the other hotels in Dryad, the Wakefield Hotel, washing dishes. When Mazie was about 10 years old she went to Alaska with her father's oldest sister Lizzie Ward for a visit. Her Aunt Lizzie was one of the first women over the trails to the Klondike. Mazie and her best friend, Maude Butterfield, used to attend dances at Frances, where Mazie met Sherwood Lafayette Bilow. Mazie and Sherwood were married in 1911 in Chehalis. They moved to Kalama, Washington where Sherwood worked as a logger, and their two children were born, John Abram in 1912 and Alfretta Ellen in 1915. They also lived in the logging towns of Cathlamet and Firdale. They moved to Rainier, Oregon where Sherwood was the conductor on the first train of logs that went from Rainier to Vernonia. They moved to Portland about 1918 where he worked for the Spokane, Portland, and Seattle Railroad. They were divorced several years later and in 1930 he was struck and killed instantly by a train. Mazie then married a man by the name of E.A. Fleck. They resided in both Spokane, and then in Newport, Washington where her children finished school. While in Newport, Mazie's daughter, Alfretta met and married Abe Yonck in 1931. Alfretta and Abe had a son named Richard Sherwood. Alfretta died in 1935. Mazie's son, John Abram Bilow, went to college at Oregon State College. John married Thora Swanson in 1936 in Newport, Washington. Their four children were: John Helmer, born in 1939, Dennis Wayne, born in 1941, Robert Lee, born in 1943, and Susan Kay, born in 1945. John Abram died in 1969. Mazie married Ole Christian Bratvold in 1931 in Coeur d' Alene, Idaho. They resided in Dalkena, Washington until 1939 and moved to Kent, Washington. In 1951 they moved to Emmett, Idaho where he died shortly after. She lived there for a couple of years before moving to Seattle, where she met and married a well known bowler, Herman Katula in 1955. They moved to PeEll in 1958 where he died. Mazie married R.J. Callahan and they lived in PeEll and then in Tumwater. Mazie was a cook and dietician throughout Washington and owned several restaurants. She loved her hobbies of rock hunting and traveling with their trailer. R.J. Callahan died in Tumwater in 1975, and Mazie moved back to Chehalis. She moved to Lewiston, Idaho in 1976 to be near her granddaughter, Susan Hopkins. She died in Lewiston on May 18, 1979, and is buried next to her parents and brothers at Dryad. By Loretta Bilow DEMING FAMILY John Deming was born in Weatherfield, England. He died in 1690. He had four sons and two daughters. His descendants came to this country in the early 1700s. They settled in N.Y., Conn., and Mass. (photo): Deming Mercantile, 1925 From there some of the brothers moved to Michigan where William Henry was born to George Stoddard and Nancy Deming. William H. Deming and Florence Pearl Clifton were married in 1906 at Big Rapids, Mich. They moved to Chehalis in 1907. A son Clifton was born in 1908 and a daughter Florence in 1911. Clifton married Mary Riley in 1937. They live in Galvin. They have a son William Henry born in 1939, a daughter Mary Louise Schreven born in 1941, and daughter Carole Jean Smith. There are seven grandchildren. Florence married Jacob Eko in 1939. Their son Dale was born in 1946. They live in Tacoma. William worked for the Chehalis Door Factory and moved to McCleary where Henry McCleary built a new mill. In 1913 he bought a store from Morgan and Mosley in Lincoln (now Galvin). It was called Deming Mercantile Co. until 1931 when it was sold to C.W. Sharp. It contained groceries, feeds, milk, fresh vegetables, etc. There was a hardware department, dry goods, clothing, and many other every day commodities. The telephone service was not dependable in those days. Mr. Deming went to customers on Fords Prairie, Lincoln Creek, and Michigan Hill taking orders. The merchandise was delivered the next day. Most all sales were charged. Some farmers traded eggs, potatoes, and grain on their accounts. The store was opened from 7 AM to 6 PM six days a week. Mr. Deming was a public minded citizen. He was interested in building the new school house, the new highway and in the community at large. He felt the new stretch of pavement would possibly extend through Galvin and Lincoln Creek and on to Dryad, making a short cut to Raymond and the Willapa Harbor. During the depression in 1932 Mr. Deming and M.L. Dunlap started a sawmill known as the D&D Lumber Co. The mill was sold in 1946 and shut down in 1949, ending the area of sawmills in Galvin. By Clifton Deming BRENT AND DEBBIE DETERING Friday, January 13, 1956, was the day Brent Alan Detering arrived to join the Charles and Loraine Detering household and joined brothers Richard and Douglas. He grew up on the Detering farm four miles west of Adna. He started first grade in 1952 at Adna Elementary school with Mrs. Evelyn Waltar as his first grade teacher. After elementary school he attended and graduated from Adna High School in 1974. He was active in school activities serving on the student council, a class officer and playing both football and basketball. He was a member of the Adna "A" Club. Outside of school he was an active 4-H Club member, first belonging to the Adna Lucky Clovers and later to the Bunny Thumpers for his rabbit project. He showed rabbits at the Southwest Washington Fair, won many prizes and was a member of the rabbit judging team. He also attended the Adna Evangelical Church. After graduating from high school, Brent worked for Ralph Moerke Logging Company, setting chokers and operating logging equipment. In 1975 he went to Alaska to work for the Tyonek Timber Company. He worked there for two years in the sub-freezing weather operating heavy logging equipment. In 1977 Brent decided schooling was the next step. He attended Centralia Community College for two years earning an Associate Degree in Science. In 1979 he went to Mt. Pleasant, Iowa to attend Wesleyan College where he earned a B.S. Degree in biology and chemistry in 1981. Desiring further education Brent applied and received a teaching fellowship at the University of Iowa. 130 In 1983 he obtained a Master's Degree in chemistry. During these years he had kept in touch with a former girl friend, Debbie Nielsen. She was a graduate of Chehalis High School in 1974. Debbie was born on February 6, 1956 and is the fourth daughter of Tom and Virginia Nielsen, former Chehalis residents and now of Fall Creek, Oregon. Debbie worked at the Chehalis J.C. Penney Store for several years and then for Giant "T" when that store opened in Centralia. Debbie also attended Centralia College on a part-time basis. During this time a daughter, Nichole, was born. Later Debbie moved to Iowa and attended the University of Iowa for a year. Then, she moved to Eugene, Oregon, where she attended the University of Oregon to complete her education. In 1983 she received a B.A. Degree in Business Administration and then secured a position with a Paint and Wallpaper Store in Portland. After Brent received his Master's Degree at the University of Iowa at Iowa City, Iowa, he decided to pursue a Doctor of Philosophy degree in chemistry. He is now attending the University of Idaho on another teaching fellowship. Having kept in touch with each other during all of this time, Brent and Debbie decided to get married. They were married on September 1, 1984, in a garden wedding at Brent's Aunt Alice Cripe's home. Brent has now adopted Nicole and they will continue to live in Moscow, Idaho, until Brent is awarded his Doctorate in chemistry. CHARLES DETERING FAMILY On December 4, 1916, the 4th son and 9th child was born to Herman C. and Nellie May Rayton Detering at Wildwood, Washington. Charles Franklin grew up on the family farm at Wildwood, attended Wildwood School until the 4th grade. His first grade teacher was Marjorie Huntting Aldrich. In 1927 Wildwood School consolidated with Central School at Boistfort. In 1929 Herman Detering purchased a farm at Bunker from Ed Pratt, then the family moved there. Charles attended Adna Schools, graduating from high school in 1936. This same year Charles joined Adna Grange. He played basketball in high school and for the Adna Grange team for several years. In 1937 the Adna Grange team won the State Grange championship. Charles was also active in 4-H Clubs. Charles has been a farmer most of his life and a member of Adna Grange for 49 years, serving as master for 8 years. (photo): Charles and Loraine Detering In 1945 he met Loraine VanHoy, who at the time was employed by the Lewis County P.U.D. as bookkeeper. Loraine was born September 22, 1917, in Goldendale, Washington, attended Goldendale schools and graduated from high school in 1935. She was active in 4-H Clubs and the Goldendale Grange joining in 1932. She attended and graduated from Kinman Business University, Spokane, Washington in 1937. She worked for the Klickitat County P.U.D. before joining the staff of the Lewis County P.U.D. in 1943. She was a charter member and past president of the Wesleyan Service Guild of the Chehalis United Methodist Church, past president of the Chehalis Business and Professional Woman's Club, past president of the Lewis County 4-H Leaders Council. Loraine also worked for the Adna School District. Charles and Loraine were married in the Goldendale Methodist Church on June 2, 1946. They purchased the Detering farm at Bunker and have resided there ever since. To this union three sons were born, Richard Larry, March 14, 1947; Douglas Paul, January 11, 1949 and Brent Alan, January 13, 1956. They were active in school activities, playing basketball, Brent in football, also church and 4-H activities. All are Adna High School graduates, Richard in 1965, Douglas in 1967 and Brent in 1974. Richard is a WSU graduate in Electrical Engineering and University of Buffalo with a Master's Degree and works for Emerson Electric in Santa Ana, California. He married Linda Ann Haskin, a WSU graduate in June 1969. They have one son, Timothy Christian. Douglas is a WSU graduate in Chemical Engineering and works for Treetop, Inc. at Cashmere, WA. He married Linda Rae Siedel, a WSU graduate, in August 1975. Brent is a Centralia Community College graduate, has a degree in Biology-Chemistry from Iowa Wesleyan College, a Masters in chemistry from the University of Iowa and is pursuing a Doctorate Degree in Chemistry from the University of Idaho. He married Debbie Nielsen on September 1, 1984, a University of Oregon graduate. Debbie has a daughter, Nichole, whom Brent has adopted. Charles and Loraine have both been active in community and grange affairs. Loraine is now a Deputy State Master for the Washington State Grange. DOUGLAS AND LINDA DETERING Douglas Paul Detering was born January 11, 1949 and the second son of Charles and Loraine Detering. In April 1949 was the big earthquake and Douglas slept peacefully in his bassinet which was parked under a huge wall mirror. Needless to say that bassinet was rapidly moved away from that spot. Douglas grew up on his parents, farm west of Adna. He started first grade in 1955 and his first teacher was Rachel Moon Alleman. He graduated from Adna High School in 1967 and was active in school affairs playing in the high school band a few years and playing basketball. Extra activities included belonging to the Lucky Clover 4- H Club carrying projects in Forestry, Tools and Equipment and Beef. He showed beef animals at the Southwest Washington Fair and Western Washington Fair as well as being a member of the Livestock Judging Team. To earn money to attend college, Douglas spent his summers working for National Fruit Canning Company driving a pea combine and later advanced to crew foreman. Douglas attended Washington State University. In September 1969 he married Connie Nielsen. In 1971 they joined the Peace Corps and were sent to Equador and spent the next two years working around Quito. The marriage ended in 1974. Douglas returned home and soon to WSU to finish his degree in Chemical Engineering. While attending WSU in 1974 he met Linda Rae Seidel. Linda is a WSU graduate with a degree in Wildlife Biology. She also has a degree in practical accounting from Kenway School of Accounting. After Douglas received his B.S. Degree in Chemical Engineering he secured a position with Amfac, Inc. was an Engineering Trainee and he moved to Lahaina, Hawaii to work with the Agriculture Group in processing sugar cane. This position took him to Honolulu and Lihue and back to Lahaina. He worked in the sugar processing plants in Hawaii for 6 years and received advancements to Process Engineer. During this time Linda Seidel arrived in Lihue and they decided marriage was the answer. They were married on August 2, 1975 in the Fern Grotto on Kauai Island. Linda was always able to find positions in the accounting world. In 1980 Doug and Linda decided to return to the Mainland. They arrived in Seattle the night before Mount St. Helens exploded. They first settled in Salem, Oregon and later moved to Corvallis so Douglas could attend Oregon State University for further study in food technology. In June 1981 Douglas accepted a position with American Potato Company in the Research Laboratory. Linda had taken a position with an automobile dealership. Then, Doug's job ended and they returned to Corvallis. He next worked for Smucker's Corporation as a quality control technician. Then, Doug was hired as a process supervisor by a company to process sorgum into alcohol for energy and Linda found a job in Eugene as an administrative bookkeeper for Looking Glass. In July 1984 Douglas secured a position as a production supervisor with Tree Top, Inc. in Cashmere, Washington, the apple juice plant. They now live in Wenatchee. ELMA DETERING I was born March 30, 1912, the eighth child in the family of ten children to Herman C. and Nellie (Rayton) Detering, at Wildwood, Washington. (photo): Herman C. Detering, Nellie Rayton Detering, 1949. We were somewhat isolated, according to many, about twenty-five miles southwest of Chehalis. The closest country store was nine miles away at Klaber. 131 I found pleasure in growing up in a large family doing our own thing for entertainment, plus the household and farm chores as we grew into them. There were neighbors a mile each side of us and on occasions we would walk to their houses and have a good play time. My first eight years of schooling were at a one room schoolhouse a short distance from our house. We went home for our lunch, usually a bowl of home-made soup, plus fruit - fresh or canned at home, with fresh bread and butter. When I finished the eighth grade the spring of 1928, it was a requirement that eighth grade students take state examinations before being eligible to enter the ninth grade. I started the ninth grade at Boistfort High School at Klaber the fall of 1928. After finishing High School in the fall of 1932, I did house work in Chehalis a couple of years, then went to Centralia Business College for nine months, after which I got work at the LewisPacific Dairymen's Association office in Chehalis in the fall of 1935. The first two years I stayed in Chehalis, but then bought a car and lived with my folks who had moved to Bunker. Till the Summer of 1950 I worked at Darigold, with the exception of about a year, when I was at the Lewis County Health Department. Mother died October 22, 1949. In spring of 1950 I went back to the home place where my father and an older brother, Howard, were farming the original Detering farm bought in 1899. My father died February 21, 1960 and Howard died February 21,1975. I then sold the buildings and farming land, and had.a house built a mile south, still on part of the original land purchased in 1899. Living at the same location our mailing address has changed from Wildwood to Klaber to Curtis. The first part of this period, mail came to the Wildwood Post Office once a week, later twice a week. The Wildwood Post Office was a mile north of us and we went to the post office to pick up our mail. Finally mail was delivered daily to our box at the county road from Klaber Post Office. On February 17, 1976 the six Detering sisters, Edna, Georgia, Ruby, Hazel, Elma and Alice joined the Lewis County Chapter of the Daughters of the Pioneers of Washington. This date being the 200th birth date of our great-greatgrandfather, Christian Friedrich Detering, born February 17, 1776 in Tengern- Westfalen, Prussia. He died May 20, 1856, also at TengernWestfalen, Prussia. By Elma Detering FRED H. DETERING Born 2-1-04 at Wildwood, WA, the 3rd child, 1st son of H.C. and Nellie Detering. Aside from a critical attack of pneumonia around seven and using a draw knife to split my knee cap when I was 9 or 10, I had a normal and reasonably healthy childhood. My mother was the farmer and my father was more interested in lumber and construction. We milked cows, as did most farms of the time, because of a dependable market, which assured at least some income. Presumably, I followed my mother's interests and desired to follow farming and dairying. I was milking by the age of seven. There were few days, from age 10 until finishing college, that I didn't help with the milking twice daily, if I was at home. I entered college at O.A.C., 1923, largely because Lewis Duncan was there and it was closer to home than W.S.C. However, for various reasons, I changed to W.S.C. 1924, graduating with the class of 1927. My major was Soils and Crops because the electives allowed me to take the Dairy Production courses I was interested in. I stayed with ROTC and held a 2nd Lt. Commission in the Organized Reserve. I went back to the farm at Wildwood until 1929, when Jewel Smith and I were married at her aunt's home in Vancouver. We went on to Chewelah to honeymoon, for the summer, on a small farm owned by her brother Judd. Our children are - Fredrick Eugene, 1930, Chehalis, WA, who has been counseling small business managers and, at present, is involved selling computers in Kent, WA; Velda Jewel, 1933, Centralia, WA, now Mrs. Theo. Schaissler, living in Portland, OR, who works as a legal secretary; and Arden Lee, 1934, Walla Walla, WA, is a partner in a dealership of A.M.C.'s, Jeep's and Subaru's, in Wenatchee, WA, in charge of the sales department. In September, we returned to Wildwood and bought the home farm. A few weeks later came the Stock Market Crash and the beginning of the Great Depression. We hung on, under difficult circumstances, until 1931, when I became Dairy Herd Improvement Association (DHIA) Supervisor for Lewis and Pacific Counties. This lasted until 1933, when I found work with the Federal Land Bank as appraiser, worked from the Olympia Office with Dr. Staggs and Les Sorenson, who had been offered an opening on a three-man team to do the field work in Lewis County. This developed into what was called Rural Rehabilitation. I continued with it until 1935, when I went to manage Dr. Scott's Bonneville Farm in Yakima. I was let out there in 1936. That fall, I measured farms for Soil Conservation in Lewis County. I got $4.00 per farm and measured 110 farms.. I went back to WSC about mid-November to qualify to teach Voc. Agri. Jobs followed in 1937, Monroe Union High, teaching agriculture and woodworking shop, and in 1938-39, Waitsburg High teaching agriculture and science. Summer, 1939, worked on the Dayton Cannery Retort Hoist Crew. Back in Chewelah, I obtained work in a magnitite quarry from November thru April 1940. Odd jobs: Jack Schurman. Some DHIA testing in Stevens and Spokane Counties. Marriage ended and started Official Testing October 1, 1940. I left Official Testing March 1, 1942, to manage Walker Farms for Mabel Walker MilIebrandt near Gettysburg, PA. Had auction sale July 22. Returned to West Coast and joined Sea Bees, and spent sixteen months in Kodiak and the Aleutian Chain, six months at Tinian in the South Pacific. I was discharged at Bremerton, September 1945, and returned to Official Testing. I married Etta Mae Wells in 1948. Ran Stream Acres Farm, at Forest, one year. I was Show Herdsman for Skagit County Guernsey Men, fall of 1949. September 1949, at Buena Vista. Farm on Greenwood Road from 1955 until retiring in 1974. We have lived in Monmouth since 1974, recently moving to a new home at 751 N. Catron St. By Fred H. Detering RICHARD DETERING FAMILY Records at St. Helen Hospital show that Linda Ann Haskin, daughter of Doris and Ray Haskin of Chehalis was born October 10, 1946 and Richard Larry Detering, son of Lorraine and Charles Detering, of Adna was born March 14, 1947. Growing up in farm families in Lewis County, 4-H was an important activity for both Linda and Richard and it was 4- H activities that (photo): Richard and Linda with son Tim eventually brought them together. After a summer of working together as Extension Service Aids at 4-H Camp and the Southwest Washington Fair, they returned to college at Pullman and began dating. Linda graduated from Washington State University in 1968 with a degree in Home Economics Education, and taught Home Ec. for a year in Bellevue, Washington. Rich graduated with a degree in Electrical Engineering from Washington State University in 1969. Richard and Linda were married June 22, 1969, in the Chehalis United Methodist Church, and began their marriage with a two week trip to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where Rich started a ten year career with Westinghouse Electric Corporation, most of which was spent in Buffalo, New York. During this time Rich completed his Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering from the State University of New York at Buffalo and received several patents for his work on electronic power supplies. Linda kept busy teaching preschool, stripping layers and layers of wallpaper off the plaster walls of an older home they had bought, and shoveling snow off the driveway at least nine months of the year. It was one of the worst winters ever, in the history of Buffalo, and luckily the blizzard of 1977 was over, so that mommy, daddy, and doctor all made it to the hospital on time for the birth of Timothy Christian Detering on February 11, 1977. Rich and Linda, both blondes, were surprised and pleased with their red-headed son, carrying on the tradition of red heads on both sides of the family. By 1979 they decided to leave the snow and cold winters behind and return to their beloved Northwest. In November they moved to Seattle, Washington, where Richard was employed by Rateleo, Inc. Not every parent buys his child a preschool, but Linda, not finding exactly what she wanted for Tim, bought a day care center and hired a preschool teacher. In three very busy years, Linda learned a lot about taxes and quarterly reports. Creative Children's Center grew from 15 to 75 students, with three preschool classes, and Tim went off to kindergarten having had a great preschool education. New advances in computers brought new opportunities in engineering, so in 1983 the Deterings moved to Santa Ana, California. Rich 132 is presently working on microprocessor-based Uninterruptible Power Supplies for Emerson Electric Company, Linda is the Director of Tustin Community Preschool, and Tim attends Grand Avenue Christian School and loves to play soccer. By Linda Haskin Detering DIEHM TWINS OF ROCHESTER Born on October 7, 1928 in Fernwood, Idaho, Carlyle Diehm and his twin brother Carlin were taken, along with their sister to live with their grandparents in Rochester in 1931. At that time Rochester was a prairie covered with wild flowers every spring, a sea of buttercups, violets, wild iris, and fairy bells to the base of the Black Hills. (photo): Carlyle and Carlin Diehm 1933 The boys' grandparents, Fred William Reineke and Margaret Ellen Crowder Reineke came to Rochester in the late 1920's and purchased eleven acres of land on what is now known as 173rd Street. Originally from Wolverine, Michigan, Fred (known as Bobby), was a teamster for the state college in Wolverine. The flat, treeless prairie must have been quite a change. Bobby worked odd jobs in Rochester; butchering, hoeing strawberries, and during the depression the WPA. The twins' father, Frederick Carlyle Diehm, born in Wolverine, Michigan, married Leota Reineke in St. Maries, Idaho in 1925. Leota was born in Okimas, Michigan in 1906. Carlyle's father worked for the Milwaukee Railroad, and Leota operated a cafe in Rochester for several years and then the "Hasty-Tasty Cafe" on South Tower in Centralia. By the time the boys moved to Rochester "Bobby" had planted a windbreak of Douglas firs on the west and south property lines and strawberries to the east and west of the homestead. The strawberries are now gone, but the firs are close to 100 feet tall. Growing up in Rochester during the depression years brings many memories. Grandma Ellen harnessing Carlyle and Carlin to the clothes lines so she could keep track of them, and they undoing each other so that they could roam free. No inside plumbing or electric lights, and a battery radio that never worked well, evenings were spent playing dominoes with Bobby by lamplight. Starting school in 1933 when Mr. Robinson was the principal. Walking to the old white wood school while the brick one on Main Street was being built. Fishing on the Chehalis River with Stanley and Leroy Johnson; salmon so thick in Scatter Creek you could walk on them. Cutting across the fields on the way home from school, and watching Dr. McMillan from Chehalis run his bird dogs there. Bordeaux Logging in the Black Hills closing down and all the children from there entering the Rochester School. Henry Becker, the principal, laying it to his hind quarters with a hose for "being sent to the office." Chet Spencer of the Washington State Patrol coming out and setting up the school safety patrol and the white belts the school patrol wore. Going for penny candy at Mattson's Rochester Mercantile, and Mr. Mattson worrying about missing goods when the gypsies came to town every summer. Riding on the milk truck with Bill Echo; George Betts from the "big house on the hill." Army planes lost in the fog, and never knowing whether they got home safely or crashed in the Black Hills. Going to "Shorty's", one of the two barbershops. Shorty was a midget, and had built a platform all around the chair so that he could cut hair. . Hoeing strawberries and getting so hot and tired that it was years before he would eat another one. Bobby gave the two maples at the end of the driveway a "good whack" whenever coming or going in his 1931 Essex. And now, 50 years later, going into the Country Kitchen in Centralia and seeing the old Brush automobile, and wondering if it is the same one that belonged to Jimmy Cordell's grandfather, Levi Arnold. The boys eventually moved to Aberdeen, served in the Navy during WW II, and went their separate ways. Carlin owns and operates a logging truck in Aberdeen. Carlyle, after working as a high climber in the woods and operating a salmon charter out of La Push, retired from the teamsters in 1984. He resides in Tacoma with his wife Anne, but plans to move back to his "prairies" soon. PAULINE SUNDBERG DILLON I was born 02/ 18/ 15, the first child of Gus and Theckla Sundberg to be born in America. I walked to the one-room Twin Oaks School, where Guy Balfor taught eight grades (27 students). Lowell Rayton and I comprised the first grade. Older girls cooked lunch on the heating stove; we all sang and played together. School ended with a big family picnic with home-made ice cream. For the sixth grade, I was bussed to Adna where I graduated as Salutatorian in 1933. Of 50 freshmen, 18 graduated - ravages of depression. In 1934 I entered Washington State University with a scholarship and financial help from Martha. I worked as secretary, library assistant, and head usher of 45 girls. I lived at the Erani House. I still see my "sisters" now living throughout the states. I was on Varsity Debate team, Fish Fans, Spurs, Psi Chi, Forensic Circle, and Delta Sigma Rho. I graduated June 1938 with degrees in Education and Speech. Following fall, I taught high school in Lebam for $1300 a year, $100.00 above minimum! I loved teaching, but after two years, I informed the school board I was getting married. My contract read "Void on date of marriage." Meeting was called and clause was struck out. On 06/22/40 I married Alfred W. Pope, of Bunker Creek who worked at Washington Veneer Plant, Olympia. As World War II started, Al returned to logging. Later he did custom tractor work. In 1952 he established and operated "Pope Farm Equipment," in Tumwater. Meanwhile, I worked as a social worker in Thurston County. In 1956 we went to Los Angeles where I attended the University of Southern California's Graduate School of Social Work. On 06/19/57, Al reopened our business. I returned to Thurston County Department of Public Assistance, where I worked until 1968 as Child Welfare Supervisor, Supervisor of Social Services, and Administrator. We belonged to Thurston County Posse and Capitol Riders. We spent vacations traveling and riding horseback. In 1967 we divorced. On 06/19/68, I married Samuel E. Dillon, born 10/06/14, Trenton, North Dakota. His children are Lynne Wurzer, Tacoma and Richard Dillon, Houston, Texas. He has two grandchildren and a great-granddaughter. He is a carpenter, construction foreman, plumber, and musician. He built us a home in Tacoma, while I attended University of Washington. I received my Masters Degree in Social Work in 1969. Then, I worked as Assistant Director and Training Specialist of "Family Homes For Adults." The project was sponsored by the state and federal government. Producing the 26-minute film "Bridge Over Troubled Waters" for television and teaching was one of the highlights of my career. I retired in 1974 when I received a call to direct a project "Life Enrichment for the Elderly," Sam encouraged me to do so. This was followed by establishing and directing "Marcourt Day Health Center for Seniors" in the center of Tacoma. We had between 30-50 elderly or handicapped people a day. A most rewarding job! In 1980 I retired for the third time. We are enjoying life in our new home that Sam built in Olympia. We have traveled, including three trips to Europe, and have had some wonderful visits with my brother Tycko and family in Sweden. It was thrilling to go back to my roots, where my beloved family originated. By Pauline Sundberg Dillon ESTHER DIRK Esther Clara Ross was born June 12, 1909 at Central City, Nebraska to Charles William Alfred Ross and Lizzie Ella Graves Diggs Ross. She was the youngest of eight children. Her father was born July 19, 1857 at Augusta, Georgia to William Ross (1832-1904) and Phebe Cartwright (1836-1864) who were from Lancashire, England. He was raised in Brooklyn, New York and went to sea as a youth. He later moved to the Midwest and worked as a cook and house painter. He married Harriett McCall Scanlan and had daughters Nellie and Edith Mae. Nellie died in childhood. Edith was a teacher and lived in Washington and Oregon. She died at Salem, Oregon in 1971 at age 83. Mr. Ross married Lizzie Ella Graves Diggs March 28, 1901 at Central City, Nebraska. She was born January 1, 1872 in Carroll County, Missouri to Rev. Thomas Henry Graves (1847-1910) and Mary Martha Elizabeth Leggitt (1850-1921) who were natives of Virginia and North Carolina respectively. She had previously married Elmer E. Diggs by whom she had a daughter May. Charles and Lizzie had five children together: Thomas A., Charles E., William, Isabel G., and Esther. In 1910 the Ross family moved to Waresboro, Georgia where two children died and they were forced to place William up for adoption. They later moved to Palatka, Florida. Lizzie Ross died at Jacksonville, Florida August 14, 1917 and her 133 husband died at Palatka January 15, 1918. Esther was sent to Montana by train to stay with a step-brother Wilbur Ross and later lived with her half-sister Edith. She spent a number of years in orphanages and in a Catholic girls school in Spokane where she converted to that faith. She was in the Spokane area until about 1946 when she came to Oakville. She married John Edward Vosper that year and a son James Michael was born in 1947. The family lived on 16 acres just south of Oakville on the Chehalis Indian Reservation. Her husband died in 1971. She moved into Oakville where she lived for three years before moving to Centralia in 1974. She lived in the Trailer Village Mobile Home Park until 1984 and now resides at Centralia Manor. She loves singing and entertaining a group. On June 24, 1977 she married August Dirk at Centralia. He was a widower with three grown daughters and was a native of South Dakota. He was of Russian-German background and was a talented accordionist. He was a brother of Irene Bonagofski who with her husband Roy raised a family of 14 children in the Centralia area. August died March 14, 1982 at Chehalis at age 86. His remains were flown to Bismarck, North Dakota to be interred next to his first wife. by Jim Vosper JOHN DOLAN FAMILY The John Dolans came first to Glenoma in 1948, and then to Randle in 1949. John came from Cabinet, Idaho, and Michey from Foley, Minnesota. They raised six children. John L., Bonnie, Denese, Mary Lynn, Jim, and Ann. John was born December 31, 1908, and worked first in the woods and later for the Forest Service and in the mines. He came to the coast and worked as a machinist at Boeings and Tacoma Boat. He married Mickey and they moved to Glenoma. He worked for Brad Clevenger, Karl Bowman, and the Kosmos Timber. They moved to Randle, in 1949. John worked for the Forest Service, for a year, as a packer. They bought some property from the Gardmers family. While having his land cleared, they lived in the small Ed McNek place. After the basement was dug, they made it liveable and moved into it. John was working for Lloyd Sword at the time and had an accident; he crushed his leg and was off work for a year. So, while he was off, he and Mickey tried to help the Mt. Adams Trail Riders build their club house. He also took a lot of pictures: weddings, family Christmas cards, rodeos and scenic. John helped in getting the rodeos started, and as a result, the Trail Riders now have their rodeos as a memorial in his honor. He was also a school board member and tried to help the young people through. Mickey went to work for the Cowlitz Veneer in Randle and, later on, they built their new place out of Randle. It was first owned, and run, by John Moore. Mickey worked for ten years until, in 1968, she got her arm caught in a chain and was off work. Later she worked for the White Pass School as a helper in the kitchen. As a carpenter, John built three homes for them. The first they sold to the Tom Bradys, the second to their youngest daughter and her husband. (It was later sold to the Paul Aulmans.) They moved back to Glenoma on the Frost Creek Road and built a split-level home. He also helped on the White Pass Gym, the Forest Service buildings, and a lot of homes in and around Randle and Bains. He worked on the Mayfield dam and bridge and the Mossyrock bridge. John and Mickey have 13 grandchildren and one great-grandchild. John died on Easter Sunday, March 30, 1968. John L. married Donna McNutty; Bonnie married Robert Blake; Ann married Robert Woolnough; Mary L. married Duane Roulet and later Gerald Nouirl. Denese and Jim are not yet married. WILLIE AND JANE DOLLARHYDE Willie and Jane Dollarhyde and sons, James Billy and Kenneth, drove into Chehalis, April 11, 1947, parked, and sent "JB", aged 10, into the Ben Franklin Store. Ollie, 18, looked up from her work and there stood her little brother, whom she had last seen in Virginia the previous October! Their other daughter, Mildred, 23, (Mrs. Wallace (Jay) Keen, Jr.), welcomed them into her home at Littell. She and baby Barry had met Jay here, 15 months earlier, upon his discharge from the navy. Ken, 6, brought rocks from all across the country for fear there be none here. Jane was impressed by the beautiful flowers. Ollie had fallen in love with the scenery - in spite of garter snakes underfoot! Willie shivered, all through that first summer, in his long johns. JB was thrilled to drive a hay truck and help roof a barn. Midge was afraid those tall trees in the campgrounds would blow down at night. Since they only knew Jay's family and Jane's uncles, Melvin and Tilsman Adams and their wives, Jane and Willie were delighted to find folks from "back East", around Riffe, and an old regular Baptist Church. They have been active members since '47-'48; Willie an ordained minister since 1965. In September, 1947, they bought a place on Grand Avenue in Centralia and have lived there most of the time since. JB and Ken attended Washington Elementary and Centralia High. Willie worked as an auto mechanic, in mills, and made cedar shakes. Today, Midge helps Jay operate their taxidermy shop in Chehalis. Their family: Barry, deceased, 1951. Sharon (Rev. Stephen Jensen), Ronald, Jode, Dustin (Chehalis). Nancy (Richard Young), Angela, Ryan, Russell (Chehalis). Ollie married Wallace Tippery in 1950. He retired from Pay 'n Save Drugs; they live in Centralia. Their family: Gary (Cynthia Bousha'), David, Kathleen, Sarah, Rachel (Portland, Oregon). Dennis (Seattle). Kathy (Rev. James Stegman), Isaac, Abigail (Bremerton, WA). Jim (JB) served in the Army, married Carol Semoner in 1955. He is an electrician and millwright at Humptulips, WA. Their family: Roy (Sheri Anderson), William (Kelly Cullen), Jerimy, Joshua, Monty, and Dale at home. (photo): Mr. and Mrs. William Dollarhyde Ken graduated at Lebam and married Yvonne Smith in 1958. They own KY & J Shake Co,. Chehalis. Their family: Pamela (Hazel Dell, WA). Gregory (Jorgina Platt) Rochester, WA. Twins, Keith and Karen at home. At 81 and 83, "Granny" and "Grandpa" still grow and put up their own food. Granny enjoys cooking, especially for company. She keeps a diary, crochets, makes her own clothes, and numerous pieced or hand appliqued quilts. Grandpa maintains their 3/4 acre lot, takes care of the wood supply, tends the wood heater, helps with the heavier housework and grocery shopping. He entertains with stories about hunting, or the "old days", likes sports and nature shows on TV. William Roaten Dollarhyde, born March 23, 1902, to Robert and Mahala (Kregor), Wise County, Virginia. Nancy Jane Adams, born September 17, 1903, to James and Sarah (Hampton), Letcher County, Kentucky: married November 2, 1922. THOMAS DOYLE FAMILY Thomas Edward Doyle was born near Chehalis to Viola Romayne (Pfirter) daughter of Elsie (McIntire) and Edward Pfirter of Lucas Creek, and Ralph Elmer Doyle on December 23, 1931. His parents were married June 14, 1929 in Lewis County. He was named for his grandfathers Edward Pfirter and Thomas Joseph Doyle. His grandfather Doyle was born in Ontario, Canada and came to Washington State before 1900. He met and married Generva Blanche Hepler May 1899 in Montesano, Grays Harbor County. Blanche Hepler was born in Forest 134 County, Pennsylvania, and came to Cowlitz County with her family around 1890. Ralph Doyle worked as a logger at Grays River and Deep River and purchased property near Castle Rock where he did some logging and built a small home. Later they lived in Chehalis. Thomas Doyle attended Chehalis Schools and graduated in 1949 from Chehalis High School. He later attended Centralia College and from September 1954 until August 1956, he spent in the United States Army. He spent part of his tour of duty in Munich, Germany. After his Army duty he attended College of Puget Sound from 1956 until August 1958, where he met Charlotte Ann Kessler, daughter of Alice (Rudd) and Howard Kessler of Sacramento, California. On April 2, 1958 they were married in Sacramento at her parents' home. After his graduation from college he started employment with the Tax Commission of Washington State. First they lived and worked in Longview from 1958 until 1968 and then he transferred to Vancouver, Washington. He is presently at the Department of Revenue and plans to retire within two years. Thomas and Charlotte Doyle have two children. Teresa Yvonne was born March 22, 1960 in Longview. She was married to Jeffry MacDonald in Vancouver on March 6, 1982. On November 8, a daughter Elizabeth Ann was born to Teresa and Jeff MacDonald. Also born to the Doyles was Timothy Allen on May 25, 1962. He is a 1985 graduate of University of Puget Sound. Ralph and Romayne Doyle also have a daughter Patricia who is married to Ernest Ahrens of Chehalis. By Pat Ahrens LAWRENCE AND MARY E. DRISCOLL FAMILY When I was about 2 1/2 my parents, Ray and Edith Shriner moved to Pluvius, half way between Raymond and Chehalis, a whistle stop on the railroad and so named after the rain god "Jupiter Pluvius" because it rained so much there. Mother often had difficulty drying clothes in the summer. As I got older this cool climate was ideal for growing flowers and vegetables. Mother and I always took many prizes at the Pe Ell Garden Flower Shows, me with my dahlias and she with all the rest. I also had fun at 4-H entering flowers, vegetables and hand work at our Southwest Washington Fair and taking home a handful of prize ribbons. My older brother, John C., was about 6 years old when Charles arrived. My roots go deep into Lewis County as my great uncle Simeon Wheeler was the 3rd settler in Pe Ell in 1879. His sister and family, John and Austa Wheeler Hendricks, came and took out a homestead claim in 1881. She opened the first post office in her home in July 1886. I went to Walville, Francis and Pe Ell Schools, graduating in 1940. I then attended the "Centralia Business College" and have lived in Centralia ever since. I did bookkeeping at General Mills Feed Store and Pioneer Feed. I enjoyed my work as I learned so much about the different varieties of flowers and their care. On May 8, 1943 I married Herbert Walter Smith. We resided on Pine St. for about 17 years before we divorced. A son, Donald Ray Smith, was born Sept. 29, 1955. On November 30, 1962 I married Lawrence Arthur Driscoll. He was born in Wilcox, Nebraska and is also a descendent of a pioneer family. He had been employed as a carpenter before opening his own office, The Lewis & Clark Realty. I became active in selling and as office manager. Larry, as we all call him, remodeled houses along with selling real estate. We now rent several of these houses and own a 31 space mobile home court just 3 blocks south of our home at 2807 Zenkner Valley Road. On this 3/4 acre our family grew up, Arthur Lawrence was born November 16, 1963, Edith Mary August 24, 1965 and Matthew Patrick May 25,1967. Don graduated from high school and followed construction as well as maintenance work on our rentals. He married Patricia Louise Schweisow and live in a mobile home in our court. They have just purchased their first home on South Silver St. Arthur and Edith are currently attending Northwest Nazarene College in Nampa, Idaho where they are taking business courses. Arthur is engaged to Machelle Butkus from Centralia, who is preparing to be a teacher. Arthur has joined the Air Force National Guard and is to continue his college work. Matthew is still in high school and enjoys raising pigs and lambs for FFA. We have just bought an incubator and are in hopes of raising some little ducks. Good luck - I hope. By Mary E. Driscoll DAVE AND ELDAH DRIVER FAMILY David Ellsworth Driver is the eldest son of David and Nina (Levi) Driver. They had eleven children, two have passed on. Ted 1921-1973 and Ava, 1914-1970. The other nine children live in Lewis Co., are married and have families except Raymond. (photo): 25th Wedding Anniversary of Dave and Eldah Driver Dave, born in Wynot, Nebr., 2/4/11 was a "premie." The Doctor said, "Just cover him up, he won't live till morning." His Grandmother Driver took corn, ground it in a coffee mill, put it in sacks, warmed them in the oven and put them around him in a shoe box. About age 7, he pulled a pot of hot potatoes over, scalding himself. At age 14, Dave's family moved to Arriba, Colo. and farmed, but Dave also worked out to support the family. In harvest Dave worked with a man who owned a tractor and thrasher, going from farm to farm thrashing wheat and barley. At age 17, Dave was driving a Model T to work, it jack-knifed going downhill, flipped over, driving the spark lever through his knee-cap, resulting in a long hospital stay. In 1935, Dave joined the C.C.C. Of his monthly pay $25.00 was sent home, $5 was his spending money. After getting out of the 3-C's, he worked for Austin Green, his future wife's uncle. Austin married Ava and his brother Elmer married Mary, Dave's sisters. I, Eldah Marie Gates was born at Platner, Colo., 7/5/19 to Charles and Grace (Green) Gates, in Grandpa John Green's rock house that he and sons built after moving their family from Guide Rock, Nebr. I too, was a "premie." Grandmother put me in a shoe box and covered me with cotton to keep me warm. My parents homesteaded near Last Chance, Colo. Living there until I was 9 years old, then moved to Abbot, where I went to school and met Dave. He was working for Grandpa Green. Dave and I were married 4/9/39 in Akron, coming to Washington with my parents and family in August. I was happy to move to western Wash. No dust storms or cyclones. I think we were more afraid to go to the cellars for fear of rattlesnakes and spiders than the "twisters." Our first home was in Dryad. We bought Slots with a house in 1940 for $200. We moved the house in 1959 onto the Lee Skidmore place east of Rainbow Falls Park, and still live in it. Dave helped dismantle the Dryad Shafer Mill with my father, the fall and winter of 1940. Next Spring, he got a job splitting wood for a steam donkey for $5 a day. He later worked up Hope Creek in a sawmill, and retired in 1973 from the Northwest Hardwood Mill in Centralia. I worked 9 years for Perry Bros. Chicken Processors and 17 years at Sherwood Forest Products making wreaths. We have had six children. Elverta Marie born 7/13/40 married Steve Floyd, has 3 children, Wesley, Kenny and Julie. Elvada Mae born 12/23/42 married Richard (Spike) Capps, has 2 sons, Bradley and Jason. Elvina June born 6/11/44 married Jerry Tolliver, has 2 daughters, Karla and Holli. Divorced, married Nickolas Yakovich II and has a son Nickolas. Donald David born 10/11/48 passed away 12/13/75 at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center with leukemia. Darrell Charles born 3/15/58 married Cindy Elliott, has 2 sons, Kenny and Donald. Doyle Ellsworth born 10/28/61 married Tina Taylor, has 3 children, Tanya, Jessica and Daniel. CLARENCE AND VICY DUNAWAY Like many Lewis County pioneers, Vicy and Clarence Dunaway met on the Trail as they traveled West. While Vicy's family planned on homesteading, Clarence did not. Born in Missouri August 1874, Clarence had migrated to Colorado's silver mines. Sustaining a broken arm there, he was on his way to visit his mother, Carolyn Dunaway, on the Pacific coast. A farmer, for whom he'd worked, suggested he overtake a wagon of young people just ahead. In that wagon was Vicy Stiltner, born in Grundy, West Virginia in 1881, to Milburn and Sarah Stiltner who, in 1887, had started on their journey to find a homestead in the new land. Unsuccessful in the land rush of 1889, the family had pushed on, working when money was low, resting when the fever and chills struck them and rejoining trains when able. Then in 1898, as the Stiltners lunched in the Idaho Desert, a young man in a two-wheeled cart halted his mare and asked if he might join them. Thus Clarence Dunaway met Vicy. The following long trip, over the Blue Mountains, across the Umatilla River, past the Horse Heaven country and into Washington's orchards, gave the young people time to social 135 (photo): Early Pioneers of Lewis County, Washington by their children ize. Soon Clarence changed his plans and decided to continue with Vicy's family. On December 19, 1898, in Yakima, the two were married. Even though the family soon continued their trip, our parents stayed until early spring. Traveling over the Cascades and through Chehalis, they forded the Cowlitz River by Indian-guided canoes on their way to Verndale where the family waited. During the next few years, our parents homesteaded near where Rainey Valley cemetery now lies. Like others, they battled heavy snows, flooding rivers, raging fires, cleared brush, timber, and sod as they built, and they borrowed from neighbors when necessary. They were happiest when children arrived. Arthur, first-born, arrived May 17, 1901. He and his wife, Odell, now of Tacoma, have a daughter. Dora (Geer) arrived January 27, 1903. A retired teacher, she lives in Elma. She has a daughter and 3 sons. Edna (Pittman), born November 14, 1904, lives in Olympia. A retired State employee, she has a son and daughter. Hazel (Berto) was born October 21,1906. Living in Kirkland, WA, she is an author and former teacher. She has a son and daughter. Violet (Temple) born May 10th, 1908, lives in Mossyrock with husband, Clyde. They have one son and two daughters. Luther, born September 14,1910, lives with his wife, Mildred, in Glenoma on the old homesite. They have one son and two daughters. Our parents are gone but their family still pays honor to them on Memorial Day by gathering at Luther's home after visiting the graves in the Rainey Valley Cemetery. Also, in the summer, they and their children gather once more at the Berto home in Kirkland, and, with 4 generations present, they relive the dear, good, long-ago life of being children in a pioneer family. By Hazel Berto I.E. (ELMER) AND HANNAH MAY DAVIS DUNCAN FAMILY The Duncan story, in Lewis County, dates back to 1892, when Edward Duncan and his (photo): I.E. (Elmer) and Hannah May Duncan wife, Agnes Atkins, decided to leave Iowa for the milder climate of Washington. They had been marooned, in a schoolhouse, the previous winter and had to use the furnishings for firewood. In the spring, they loaded their belongings and the children in a box car, where they lived while on the way West. Their children were Charles, Thomas, Elmer, Mary and Ida Myrtle. Agnes had three sons from a previous marriage, Louis, Columbus and William Warren. Edward had a daughter, Ella, from an earlier marriage. The McDonough County, IL, 1880 census lists them as living in one household. This story concerns our ancestor I.E., hereafter known as Elmer Duncan. He was born in Sciota, IL, in 1873. His father, Edward, was born in Pennsylvania in 1831. His mother, Agnes, was born in England in 1838. They were married at Macomb, IL, August, 1868. After arriving in Lewis County, the family lived on Crego Hill. Elmer was nineteen years of age, at the time. He used to walk to Stearns Creek, where he dug ditches for one dollar per day. Elmer Duncan and Hannah May Davis were married July 14, 1897, at the Methodist parsonage in Chehalis. May, as she preferred to be called, was born at Newaukum, Washington Territory, in 1877. Her parents were Austin and Abbie Payne Gates Davis. May's father was born in 1837 at Fort Wayne, IN, and was a son of Lewis Hawkins Davis, who with his wife, Susan, and family, came to the Claquato area in 1853. Elmer made his living as a merchant, salesman and farmer, most of the time in the Klaber area, but did live in Chehalis and in Burton, on Vashon Island, for a time. Six children were born to Elmer and May. They were Austin, Zilpha, Lewis, Pearly, Adrian and Hewitt. May died in 1909, at age thirty-two, from a heart condition and a ruptured appendix. At this time, the youngest child, Hewitt, was one-and one-half years old and Grandma, Abbie Davis, helped Elmer with the care of the family. Elmer's second marriage was to Tyndle Morgan. Children of this union were Robert, Charles and Mildred. The family home was at Klaber, where Elmer operated the Klaber Store and Post Office for many years, later moving to a farm on the LostValley Road. All the Duncan children, with the exception of Austin, graduated from Boistfort High School. Austin left school to join the Army during World War I. Elmer was noted for his generosity and compassion for friends and neighbors and many times, during hard times and adversity, they would depend on credit at Duncan's grocery store to tide them over the rough spots. Eggs were high on the list as trading stock for staples, such as flour, sugar and oatmeal. Elmer died in 1928, at age fifty-five, from arteriosclerosis. Tyndle stayed on the farm and boarded school teachers, for a few years; later worked in Chehalis and Centralia. She took her two nieces, Genevieve and Josephine, to care for, after the death of their mother. They moved to Seldovia, Alaska, where Tyndle owned a clothing store. Her last years were spent in Portland, OR, with her niece, Josephine Van Kleek. She died September, 1974. Austin, the oldest of the Duncan family, was married to Hazel Roundtree. They had four children, Moe, Joyce, Avis and Carol. After Hazel's death, Austin married Gundrun Eide. Zylpha taught school for many years. She married Hugh Harwood and lived in the Eatonville area, where their children, Mary and Elva, were born. Lewis Duncan married Mildred Tucker. They both taught school at Mossyrock and Lewis was superintendent, over a long period. They were the parents of Herbert, Elmore, Joan and Donald. Pearly (Pud) married Mabel Carlson. Children of this union were Richard, Janice and Mary Lou. Adrian (Jabe) married Leona Philips. He barbered in Chehalis for some time before going to Portland, OR, to work in the shipyards, during World War II. They had a daughter, Betty. Later the family lived in Shelton. Leona died in 1965. Hewitt, the youngest of the first family, married Hazel Detering. Their children were Ronald, Marvin and Judith. Robert and his wife, Amelia Gricius, lived in Los Angeles, CA, and had a daughter, Karen. Charles and his wife, Christine Lloyd, were the parents of Maureen and David. Seattle was their home. Mildred trained as a registered nurse and was married to Ernest Carlson. They, with son Charles, made their home in Burbank, CA. At the present time, Adrian is the lone survivor of Elmer and May's marriage. He is living in Bothell, with his daughter. Two of Elmer and Tyndle's children, Robert and Mildred, are living in California. By Adrian and Robert Duncan HEWITT AND HAZEL DUNCAN FAMILY According to documented evidence I, Hazel May Detering was born on a cold, snowy day, January 14, 19l0at Wildwood, Washington, the seventh child of Herman C. and Nellie M. Detering. Our house at that time was built about 1884 by homesteader, Robert Grove. The house was made of split cedar attached to the frame in a vertical position and held together with wooden pegs. I do not remember living in the old house because I was only a few months old when Father built a large two story home from lumber sawed in his mill. My mother must have been delighted in 'our new house because we had hot and cold running water, one and a half baths and large stationary laundry tubs. The water was piped down from a spring up on a hill and the hot water was heated by coils in our wood range and stored in a large galvanized tank. Father's parents were Freidrick and Louise Detering. Herman (my father) was born in Mills County Iowa. Mother's parents were John P. and Angeline Smith Ray ton and she was born at Claquato in 1880. I was one of ten children so there was never a dull moment at our house. Holidays such as Christmas, Fourth of July, Easter and birthdays were special events. My first eight years schooling were in a one room schoolhouse a short dis- 136 (photo): Left to Right: Hewitt Marvin, Hazel, Judith, Hewitt, Ronald Duncan tance from our home. We were required to take state examinations in the seventh and eighth grades before entering high school. I graduated from Boistfort High School in 1929. It was at Boistfort that Hewitt Duncan and I met and became friends. We continued to see each other after graduation, referred to as "going steady." These were depression years and work was hard to find. Hewitt had some work in the Klaber Hop Yard and I did housework in Chehalis for one dollar a day. Hewitt and I were married August 1, 1931 in Chehalis by Rev. Kechley at the Christian Church parsonage. Our first home was on the Klaber hopyard where Hewitt was employed full time as a teamster at $60.00 per month plus living quarters. Neighbors and friends made us welcome with a noisy charivaree. Hewitts' father was I.E. (Elmer) Duncan, his mother Hannah May Davis Duncan was the granddaughter of Lewis H. and Susan Clinger Davis, pioneers in the Claquato area. Hannah May was the daughter of Austin and Abbie Paine Gates Davis. Our first son, Ronald Wayne, was born in 1932 and number two son, Hewitt Marvin, arrived in 1935 while we were living at Klaber. The growing of hops had been discontinued and we moved to our place on what was then called Ocean Beach Highway, one mile west of Adna in the fall of 1935. Hewitt worked for the county, cruising timber that fall, later worked in a tie mill at Klaber and at Cinebar. He also worked for the construction company of Strong-McDonald for several years before being employed by Weyerhaeuser Company. Judith Diane, our daughter was born in May, 1943, during World War II. About this time Hewitt developed a heart condition but continued to work as a dispatcher for Weyerhaeuser. However, in June, 1953 he suffered a fatal heart attack. Eventually I took the Practical Nurse course at Centralia College and Centralia General Hospital. Later I worked at the Veterans hospital in Vancouver, Washington for twelve years. I retired in 1974 and am living in the home we moved to in 1935. The family now consists of Ronald and his wife Edith; Marvin and his wife Janice; Judith and her husband Ric Fuller; plus seven grandchildren and four great-grandchildren and one very proud mother, grandmother and greatgrandmother. Hazel Detering Duncan LEWIS DUNCAN "Where there is no vision the people perish" Proverbs 29:18 Lewis Duncan was a native of Lewis County and lived most of his life in the Baw Faw Valley (Klaber). The valley boasted one of the largest hop fields in the United States covering 200 acres. Herman Klaber, the president of the company, was from California, and he had his summer home in Klaber. Children and young people worked in the yards weeding and training the vines from early spring into the fall when they were joined by hundreds of other pickers. The 12-kiln hop farm continued until the 1940's when disease struck the roots and vines. Also, Mr. Klaber lost his life on the ill-fated Titanic. Lewis Duncan worked in the hop fields for 10 years and eventually ran the tractor for plowing and cultivation. He graduated from Boistfort High School in 1920 where he was the center for the basketball team. His father operated the Klaber Grocery Store and Post Office. The children were responsible for milking the family's herd of cows and shipping out the milk. There were 9 children: two daughters; Zilpha and Mildred, and seven sons; Austin, Lewis, Pearly, Adrian, Hewitt, Robert and Charles. Lewis was also responsible for hauling supplies from the railroad station at Ceres (5 miles away) to the store, as well as keeping the truck running. With the encouragement of teachers, family and friends, Lewis attended Oregon State College At Corvallis, beginning in 1922. He graduated in vocational agriculture. This program was offered in Land Grant Colleges by the Smith-Hughes Act. Lewis held several agricultural and student body offices, worked on the paper and graduated with honors. During his summer breaks, he worked with George Joy as a forest ranger in the Mt. St. Helen's area. In 1926 Superintendent Bruce White started a Vocational Agriculture Department for the Mossyrock Schools. He selected Lewis for the job. His duties included serving as high school principal, basketball coach, science, manual training and vocational agriculture teacher. He lived in the two story hotel owned by Nancy and Tivis England until he married Mildred Tucker in June, 1927. Mildred was also a teacher, but could not continue to teach because of a ban on hiring superintendents' or principals' wives. This rule changed in 1955. She raised their children; Herb, Elmore, Joan and Don in a house on the hill across from the stone school building. The house was owned at that time by Sampson Collins and is now owned by Angie Atkins. . In 1928, Bruce White stepped down from his position as superintendent, and Lewis Duncan was elected to it. He looked after 12 outlying schools on roads which were impassable by car in winter so he would backpack the supplies they needed out to them. Throughout the years, especially in summer, Lewis could be found around the school in a pair of carpenter's overalls and a blue workshirt. One time the fire inspector assumed he was the janitor and asked to be shown through the buildings. When they reached the basement, the inspector asked, "Can you tell me where I will find the superintendent?" Lewis replied, "you are looking right at him." Both men enjoyed a hearty laugh, especially Lewis. Lewis died after a brief illness in 1952. His good friend, Rev. Whisler said of him once that he should have been a minister. "He had so much love, understanding and compassion for people. He was always ready to reach out a hand to anyone who needed a lift." THE ARRIVAL OF THE TUCKER FAMILY Louis Duncan's wife Mildred Tucker was the only child of George Henry Tucker and his wife Nellie Leonard. George Henry's first job as a schoolteacher was at Layton Prairie. He received degrees from the college in Ellensburg and obtained his Superintendent's certificate from Willamette University. He was Superintendent at Klaber and Eatonville until his retirement. He then entered politics on the Democratic ticket and was elected senator from this district. Unfortunately, he died in April, 1937 before he was able to finish his term, so his wife served the remaining part of the session. George Tucker was one of John Tucker and Mary (Hardesty) Tucker's eight children. John Tucker was born in Hampshire, England on January 1, 1828 and came to the east coast of America in 1851. He crossed the plains to Humbolt, California the very next year to try his luck at digging for gold. His individual diggings never amounted to more than $1.50 a day so he turned to farming. The poor irrigation laws in that arid part of California inspired him to move north where "God would do the irrigation, and he could farm in peace." Mary (Hardesty) Tucker came west in 1861 with her brothers after their father died during the early years of the Civil War. Mary married John shortly after their arrival in January of 1862. In 1863, they moved north to Washington. One son was killed in an Indian attack. They lost their team of horses and a wagon in the current as they crossed the Cowlitz River at Toledo. Mary insisted they remain on the Russel farm at Cowlitz Prairie because she could not bear the thought of more river crossings. In 1864, John and Mary homesteaded 160 acres on a small stream from which the town of Silver Creek was named. John built a log home with a stone fireplace and cleared the land with oxen. As the years passed, he accumulated over 100 head of cattle, a large number of pigs and chickens, and 450 acres of land from the railroad at $2 an acre. He kept the Silver Creek Post Office and a small store in his home for over 25 years. Paraphrased by Susan Duncan from histories written by Mildred Duncan in 1975 and Carol Thomas in 1953. By Susan Duncan 137 MARVIN AND JANICE DUNCAN Hewitt Marvin Duncan and Janice Muriel Leonard were married in the Immanuel Lutheran Church in Centralia, WA on October 2, 1959. (photo): Marvin. Jan. Jeff and Jenny Duncan Marvin was born in Centralia, WA July 19, 1935 to Hazel Detering Duncan and Hewitt Quinton Duncan. Both the Duncan and Detering families are mentioned elsewhere in this book. Janice was born in Centralia, WA July 4, 1938 to Eunice Phillips Leonard and John Meston Leonard, both of whom were born in Lewis County; Eunice in 1906 and John in 1903. Eunice taught school for 25 years in Lewis County, mostly in Adna and Boistfort. John was the first manager of the Grange Supply in Chehalis. Both John and Eunice were very active in the Granges in Lewis County. John passed away in 1943. In July 1950, Eunice married Reuben Paul Raschke. Reuben was born in 1896 on what is the "Tramm Farm" near Adna. He was a dairy farmer until his retirement. Both Janice and Marvin graduated from Adna High School; Janice in 1956and Marvin in 1953. After graduation Marvin went to work for Weyerhaeuser Company. Except for three years in the U.S. Marine Corp, he has been, to date, with the company in various positions for 32 years. Janice took dental assistant training in Seattle after high school graduation and worked in Seattle until November of 1958. At that time she returned to live at home and work for Dr. Arthur Forsyth in Chehalis. She stayed in this job full time until early 1968. On May 24, 1968, a son, Jeffrey Marvin Duncan was born in St. Helens Hospital in Chehalis. A daughter, Jennifer Muriel Duncan, was born in the same hospital two years later, on April 11, 1970. Both Jeff and Jenny attend Adna High School and are very active in sports and various other activities. Janice continued to work part time for Dr. Forsyth until she went to work in the Lewis County Treasurer's office in September of 1978. The family attends Westminster Presbyterian Church which was organized on Davis Prairie on October 6, 1855.Marvin's great-great-grandmother, Susan Clinger Davis, was a charter member and helped organize the church. Marvin is active in the Adna Lions Club, Volunteer Fire Department, and as a youth softball coach. Along with the families school and church activities, Janice is a member of Adna Grange and serves as a 4-H leader. We are proud of our ancestors and the roles they have played in the history of Lewis County. Hopefully, our children will carry on the tradition. By Janice Duncan ROBERT L. DUNCAN AND TERESA L. (STEIGER) DUNCAN I, Teresa L. (Steiger) Duncan, youngest daughter of Ralph R. Steiger and Constance V. (Scherer) Steiger, have lived in Lewis County all my life. Born December 11, 1954, in Chehalis, I have grown up in Curtis. I attended Boistfort School all my school years and live in the Boistfort Valley now. After graduating from high school I worked for a veterinarian in Centralia for five years and then worked in a bank for five years. I am now a homemaker. The Curtis Valley is a very special place to me. The memories of growing up here in Lewis County are the many fun times we would have with our friends, attending school functions, the local fairs, 4-H clubs, vacationing in this area and knowing that this is a place where I would want my children to grow up. Robert L. Duncan, son of Ronald W. Duncan and Edith M. (Ray ton) Duncan is the oldest of their three children. Born February 13, 1953 Robert also graduated from Boistfort High School. He started working for C.H. Fenn, a dairy farmer in Curtis, when he was nine. That is one of the best memories in his life. He learned a great deal of respect as a result of his farming experience. Then in 1971 he started work for Weyerhaeuser Timber Company as a logger and is presently with that company. Robert and I were married in 1976 in Chehalis, WA. We live in Curtis and still enjoy the valley very much. We have two sons: Tyler R. Duncan born July 23, 1980 and Cody C. Duncan born July 11, 1982. We reside in Curtis, and know to this day it is a place where we want our children to grow up. RONALD W. DUNCAN AND EDITH M. (RAYTON) DUNCAN Edith was born February 8, 1932, the daughter and first child of Norman Rayton and Hannah (Paine) Rayton. I always felt that I was privileged to have the opportunity to grow up on a farm. How wonderful it is to remember threshing time, with all the neighbors helping each other and the two big meals that were served to the men each day. These were huge meals with everything you can think of. I enjoyed helping on the farm by driving tractor to pull the combine during harvest time and to mow the hay in the barn when horses were no longer the power source. Ronald is the son, and first child, of Hewitt Duncan and Hazel (Detering) Duncan. He was born June 16, 1932, when they lived at Klaber, WA. The family moved to Adna when he was three years old. His father worked for timber companies and stayed in camp during the week. Ron remembers the Sunday drives to take him back to camp and the many people that would be arriving at the same time. He remembers that upon one occasion, he got to stay with him at a camp located by Dog Lake, up on what is now White Pass. At that time, the highway did not go by the Lake and it was a long trip to reach Dog Lake. In the early 1940's we both worked in the "Victory Gardens" west of Chehalis and in the Nisqually Valley. Many acres of beets, carrots, potatoes, and corn were weeded and hoed by young people. These were long days. We worked hard but we had fun too. We went through 12 years of school at Adna together. We were both very actively involved in 4-H Clubs for about 8 years. These were good times and rewarding in a lot of ways. We were both fortunate to have been selected to attend National 4-H Club Congress in Chicago; Edith in 1947 and Ron in 1950. After graduating from Adna High School in 1950, Ron worked at Washington Market in Chehalis as a delivery boy and Edith was employed as a secretary at the Lewis County Extension Service office. We were married November 25,1951 in Chehalis and moved to Wildwood where Ron was working, at that time, on a farm. Ron was a farm worker until 1961 when he went to work at the Boistfort School as a maintenance supervisor. We have three children - Robert L. (2-13-53); Linda D. (Dobbs) and Tamara Jo Duncan. All three of the children went 12 years at Boistfort Schools. Tami was in the last class to graduate from Boistfort in 1977. In 1965 Edith went back to work, this time for the Lewis County Auditor and later (1967) for the USDA, Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service (ASCS) where she still is, 18 years later. Ron went to work for the Lewis County Public Works Department in 1972 and is still employed there. We consider our four grandchildren a wonderful blessing. JOHN H. DUNLOP FAMILY In June 1917 John H. Dunlop moved his family, his wife Georgine, and their children Catherine, 7, Bob, 6 and Genevieve, 5 to Littell from Cascade Locks, OR. The Snow Lumber and Shingle Company had just purchased the defunct Chester Snow Log and Shingle Company and Mr. Dunlop became general manager of the entire operation and also was the firm's salesman. (photo): The Dunlop Home in Littel He was born in Chicago, IL in 1864 but spent most of his youth in La Cross, WI. He began work in a lath mill when he was only 12 years old. However, he completed his education and taught school for 4 years while continuing to work in lumber yards during the summer months. He then switched to full time in the lumber business. >From 1890 to 1900 he was the operating partner for a number of retail lumber yards in Southwestern Wisconsin. In 1901 the partners sold 138 these and bought a sawmill at Cascade Locks. This mill burned in 1902 and another they purchased a few miles away burned in 1903. With additional capital from Wisconsin, they formed the Wind River Lumber Co. (named for the river in Washington where the logging was done) and rebuilt in Cascade Locks. From then until the company sold the operation in 1917, Mr. Dunlop was superintendent, treasurer, and salesman in charge of the company's retail outlets in eastern Oregon, and general manager. Mrs. Dunlop was a native of La Cross, but most of her schooling, including business college, was in Portland, OR. She was employed as a secretary in Portland, then San Francisco and finally New York City - before her marriage. Operation of the mill was Mr. Dunlop's main concern while in Littell, but he and Mrs. Dunlop took an interest in the schooling and welfare of children of the town. He served on the school board as he had done in Glen Haven, WI and in Cascade Locks. Together they were instrumental in getting a deaf girl into the state school for the deaf in Vancouver and a handicapped boy into the Shriner's hospital in Seattle for treatment. When there was a smallpox scare, he arranged for all the children to be vaccinated. In the fall of 1927 with the mill closed due to lack of logs and Catherine graduated from Chehalis high school, the family moved to Eugene, OR. where Mr. Dunlop purchased an interest in a planing mill. A health problem forced his retirement in 1929. He died in March 1941 and Mrs. Dunlop in April 1951, both in Eugene. Catherine received a bachelor degree from the University of Oregon in 1931 and taught school in several Oregon and Washington towns. She ended her career as a biology research assistant to Dr. James Macnab at Portland State University. She died in May 1980. After leaving high school, Bob became associated with the wholesale confection and food business, mostly as a route salesman for himself or other companies in several Oregon and Idaho towns, ending up in Portland. He and his wife, Sadie, have 5 children - 3 in the San Francisco area, 1 in Denver and 1 in Washington, D.C. Genevieve spent some 10 years, after graduating from the University of Oregon, as a reporter on Oregon country weekly newspapers. She and her husband, John Holland, now live in Eugene. they have two daughters - one in Seattle, the other a school teacher at U.S. military bases overseas. DURAN COLUMBUS DAVIS FAMILY Duran Columbus Davis was born in Johnson City, TN, 1874. He was the son of Mark Floyd Davis and Adeline Simcox Davis. He came to Swafford, WA, in the fall of 1898. My father had five sisters and five brothers. They are Rosa, Sarah Emma, Julia Ann, Nora, Laura, John, Mark E., Walter, Cicero and Kernie. Duran was a school teacher in Pikeville, KY. He was a young man when he came west. He was looking for adventure and a new economic way of life. Father bought the Miller farm at Mossyrock, W A. There was a drug store and dance hall in Swofford Valley. The young people rode horses and would go on trail hikes. Father carved his and mother's initials in a tree at Sulphur Creek Falls. There was a dance hall and they would dance 'till dawn. The music was played on violins. The men bought dancing slippers for $1.00 a pair and they would wear out in one evening. They held a white handkerchief in their hand and never touched the young ladies' dresses. He and mother, Fannie Margaret Cox, were married in 1902 at her parents' home. My parents were impressed by the dense forest and the generosity of the people. The house was constructed of handsplit cedar boards. The barn and out-buildings were made of the same material. The foundation was made of hand-hewed cedar. The house was papered with newspaper. Cast iron stoves were used for cooking. My parents rode trails. Some of the trails had large logs across them, and they were hewed out so a horse could jump them. Their first home was destroyed by fire. Father's school books and mother's dolls were the greatest loss. My father was a woodsman, farmer, and he had a general store and the Swofford Post Office. He also had a freight route from Chehalis to Morton. The steel for the Riffe bridge was hauled from the Napavine depot. My father helped haul that steel. Seven children were born to my parents. They were Hazel, Opal, Ray, Leonard, Lowell, Adeline and Ruby. A bus went to Chehalis and returned to Swofford everyday. The first mail carriers rode horses. The early settlers seemed to enjoy their flowers. My mother had a golden chain tree in her yard many years ago. Father added to his original farm by purchasing the Swofford, Hill and Kelley farms. He increased his dairy herd to sixty-five cows. One of the greatest joys of my father's life was hunting and fishing. My parents attended the 1939 World's Fair in San Francisco. During the course of their lifetime, they traveled through the United States. Mother did the driving. Grandfather and Grandmother Cox were charter members of the Cowlitz River Primitive Baptist Church. Father was an elder of the church and made trips to Texas, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina and Canada, accompanied by mother, to preach in their churches. My father passed away in 1967, and my mother died in 1973. They are buried in the Doss Cemetery at Mossyrock, W A. DYSART FAMILY The Dysart family's history in Lewis County parallels that of the state. George Dysart came to Walla Walla in 1887 at age 23 from Lincoln, Nebraska shortly after graduating from law school in Michigan. He moved to Centralia in July 1889, and was admitted to the Territorial Court Bar. Eighteen months later he married Cora Butler and they quickly became involved in the life of Lewis County. He was elected to the 1891 legislature and to the offices of city and county attorney in the 1890's. In 1906 he formed a law partnership with George C. Ellsbury. In those days before dial telphones, the firm had telephone number 1, and his son Lloyd, also a lawyer, later had number 100. George was always active in community affairs, in addition to his law practice which continued until his death in 1945, nineteen months after Cora's death. A prolific reader and historian with an extensive home library, he could discuss almost any topic from sports to political affairs. He served briefly as a judge and carried that honorary title from his many friends the rest of his life. He could be seen almost any warm evening on the porch swing of his large family home at the corner of Iron and Maple Streets, which later became the Hunter House, a fine dining establishment. George and Cora had three children: Avis, who died at age 19; Lloyd, who resided in Centralia his entire 86 years; and Lorna. The latter, an Army nurse in World War I, married Byron Smith in 1920 and they resided with their son George for several years at Onalaska before moving to California. Lloyd B. Dysart graduated from the University of Washington before joining the Marines in World War I. A captain in the Second Division, he was wounded at Belleau Wood and later rejoined his regiment for the Argonne battle and Rhineland occupation duty. Lloyd's return to law school in 1919 was briefly interrupted by the Centralia Armistice Day Massacre. He received a call on that afternoon from the father of his friend Warren Grimm, one of the murdered ex-servicemen. Borrowing a car he and Grimm's brother Bill arrived in Centralia that evening and went to the Elk's Hall meeting of angry townspeople. His father was standing on a chair trying to quiet the group. Local posses were arresting dozens of "wobblies" (alleged IWW members). Lloyd led some of the posses, but he said that he and his father "spent more time getting innocent people out of jail than anything else." In September 1920, Lloyd married Dorothy Dunbar, an Astoria, Oregon descendant of pioneer Northwest settlers, and began his legal career in his father's firm before later opening his own office. Dorothy's maternal grandparents, Prussian immigrants Frederick and Minna Sherman, came to Oak Point on the Columbia River in 1860 via Panama and San Francisco, arriving with two young sons on the sailing ship "Live Yankee." Her grandfather was soon head sawyer at Abernathy's Mill. Later the family, enlarged by three more children, moved to Clatsop Plains where Dorothy's mother, Minna Sherman was born in 1867. One of the Sherman daughters married John D. McGowan of P.J. McGowan and Sons, early Columbia River salmon packers. The eldest son, Frederick H. Sherman, became a captain of river steamers, including the Bailey Gatzert, a famous Columbia River excursion boat. Many of Dorothy's paternal ancestors and relatives were Brewster, Massachusetts sailing captains in the mid-1800's. Her father, Albert Dunbar, was born aboard her grandfather's ship "Enterprise" in the Indian Ocean in 1866. Among those sailing relatives were Captains Clanrick Crosby and Nathaniel Crosby, Jr., brothers who came to Portland in 1844 and settled in Tumwater in 1850. Clanrick was a delegate to the 1851 Cowlitz Landing Convention called to petition Congress to create a Columbia Territory out of Oregon Territory. In 1860 Nathaniel's son, Nathaniel Crosby, III, built the Crosby House, now a historic monument in Tumwater. Dorothy's uncle, Frank Dunbar, was Oregon Secretary of State from 1899 to 1907. A special Dysart family heirloom is the Dunbar Christening Robe which Dorothy's grandmother made in 1860 from hand-embroidered Indian muslin purchased in Calcutta. All of her father's descendants through Dorothy's great-granddaughter, Emily Ogawa of Tacoma, have been baptized in it. Both Lloyd and Dorothy were very active in Lewis County community affairs. He served as Centralia police judge, city attorney, deputy prosecuting attorney and court commissioner. He taught commercial law at Centralia College from 1946 to 1965. In the early days of World War II he was chairman of the local draft board. Then, in 1942 at age 49, he again put on the uniform of his beloved Marine Corps for the rest of the war, this time rising to Lt. Col. 139 Dorothy was active in many women's organizations. She was one of the organizing members of the Washington State Division of the American Association of University Women and remained a member of the Lewis County branch for 58 years. Both were very active in the Centralia Presbyterian Church where they served in many positions and on numerous committees. In 1974, after 55 years of practice, Lloyd retired from the law firm of Dysart, Moore, Tiller and Murray. As the principal speaker at Centralia's 50th anniversary Armistice Day (now Veterans Day) in 1968, he said "It is just as much our duty to serve our nation in time of peace as in time of war." By then he had served in two of those wars and had seen his four sons complete their military service - three of them in overseas duty. The four sons were George, John, Benjamin and Lloyd Jr. George graduated from Harvard Law School after Marine Corps service at Peleliu, Okinawa and Kyushu. A career attorney for the U.S. Interior and Justice Departments in Portland, he has been the lead attorney in the Government's extended Indian fishing rights litigation. John, who along with Ben, saw Marine Corps service in both World War II and the Korean War, retired in 1985 in Tacoma after 35 years in the newspaper business. Ben, a Bainbridge Island resident, also retired that year after 28 years in a labor relations position with Simpson Timber Co. Lloyd Jr. served in the Army and was a youth recreation and scout leader, junior high school social studies teacher and the first Director of the Mayfield Youth Camp before his early death in 1968. Lloyd Dysart Sr. passed away in 1979 at age 86. Dorothy's death at 88 in July 1984, ended a period of 95 years with one or more of the Dysart family in Centralia. By George. John and Ben Dysart EDLUND FAMILY My father, Eric Edward Edlund and his brothers John Fredolph Edlund and Anton Olaf Edlund were Swedish immigrants who came to the U.S.A. in 1889 and 1890. They came to Eastern Lewis County in the spring of 1891 before (photo): Mr. and Mrs. Eric Edward Edlund, Christian A. Buscher and Nellie Linstrom, 1905. there was a town of Morton. The only business establishment was a little store located across the Tilton River known as Fred D. Reed's Store. Here the early settlers could get a few provisions, but the nearest shopping center was Chehalis which took 3 or 4 days by horse and buggy or wagon to make the round trip. George Hopgood built the first general merchandise store and hotel in Morton. My father Ed, and his brother Fred Edlund played their violins furnishing the music for the grand opening in 1894. About this time the Morton Post Office was established and named in honor of then Vice President Levi P. Morton of the Benjamin Harrison administration, with John J. Jones as the first postmaster in Morton. Each of the Edlund brothers homesteaded in that area. My father Ed Edlund located about 1 mile east of Morton. Fred Edlund at the top of Kosmos Hill, and Anton Edlund in Glenoma. They all took an active part in the early history of Morton. I'll only elaborate on my father because of limited space. My father's first marriage in 1899 was unsuccessful, lasting only about one year. To this union Eddie was born. He married again in 1905 to Catherine A. Bucker to which union the following were born: Marie, Victor, Leonard, Evelyn, Oscar, Alma and Geneva. In 1907 he purchased the Henry Clay Temple homestead which was the birthplace of most of us. Like many of the early pioneers my father took an active interest in community affairs. Besides farming, timber and real estate, he served as school director for Dist #214 and Dist. #209 for a total of 16 years. Also, he was a charter member and director of the State Bank of Morton. He also along with his brothers was an early mail carrier by horseback from Mossyrock to Glenoma from 1900 to 1904. In reminiscing about these early pioneers, they were honest, ambitious, hard working people with a positive attitude who never looked back. They knew it was up to them to either swim or sink. There was no welfare, commodities, public assistance or unemployment checks. Each had to provide for themselves. By J. Victor Edlund JAMES RANDALL EDWARDS FAMILY Among the early pioneers in Boistfort Valley, was the family of James Randall and Eliza Jane (McNAIR) EDWARDS. Life for James began in Laurel Co., Kentucky, but where Eliza Jane saw the light of day is not known. Together, they began their migration west soon after the birth of their first child in 1873, in Wyandotte Co., Kansas. James Randall EDWARDS, born 1 Oct 1847 in Laurel Co., was the youngest known son of Andrew and Polly EDWARDS. Family legend says that James, even though very young, fought on the Confederate side during the Civil War. After the death of Andrew, in 1863, James made his way to Missouri, where a number of his cousins lived. There James married Eliza Jane McNAIR, the daughter of Jacob McNAIR. Nothing else is known of her parents. James and Eliza spent some time around Whitechurch, Wyandotte Co., Kansas. Sometime after the birth of their son, James, Eliza and the infant Charles traveled south spending some time around Parsons, Labette Co., Kansas where his sister Delila lived with her husband Calvin SAYLOR and their seven children. James and Eliza and their son then traveled on through Texas to Galveston, where they boarded a boat and sailed around the tip of South America, landing in Los Angeles, CA. By late 1875, the EDWARDS family was in Tehachapi, Kern Co., CA where their second son Ansel was born. Leaving Eliza and the two boys there, James ventured north by ship to Seattle, where he bought supplies and hired Indian scouts to lead him into Skagit country. Apparently, James could not find what he was seeking after a year or so, so he returned to his family in California. The family's next move was by ox team, to Lakeview, Lake Co., Oregon. There Lulu Maude was born in late 1879. Sometime after the 1880 census was taken and before 1882 the family left for the Dalles, OR where they boarded a boat this time heading north. They left the steamer at the Cowlitz Landing, at Toledo. By ox team, James and Eliza and children traveled on to the Curtis-Boistfort area and settled on a farm just off the Curtis- Winlock road. The road leading to their place from the CurtisWinlock road was known as the EDWARDS' road for many years. The next and final move for James and Eliza appears to have been to the farm that was eventually to become the home of their youngest daughter Myrtle and her family. Two more children were born to James and Eliza after they arrived in Lewis Co. A son Irvon and a daughter Myrtle completed the family. Charles Daniel EDWARDS, born 6 March 1873 in Whitechurch, Kansas, was married 6 March 1900 to Jennie COGDILL. Charles, better known as Charlie, was a well known Real Estater in Centralia, for many years. He died there 11 April, 1945. Jennie, well liked by those who knew her, died 3 March 1943. Charlie and Jennie had no children. Ansel Byrd EDWARDS, was born in Tehachapi, CA 20 Dec 1875. He was known to most as A.B. or Byrd. He and Anna Kathryn HANSEN were married in Chehalis, on 19 Nov. 1905. Anna was the daughter of Martin and Maren (THORESEN) HANSEN. She was born in Winger, Polk Co., Minn. and grew up near Keyport, WA. The family moved to the Curtis area and Kathryn taught school in the local schools for a period of time. After their marriage, Ansel and Kathryn lived in the Curtis area for a number of years. There, 3 of their 4 children were born. They were Louis, Stanley, and Delbert. Sometime after the birth of Delbert, the family moved to the area around Medford, OR where in 1917 their youngest son Robert was born. They returned to the Centralia area again living there and in Salzer Valley. They owned the farm now known as the Proffit ranch in the valley. Ansel and Anna were divorced in 1930. She married again and moved out of the Lewis Co. area for many years. She spent the last 10 years of her life in Toledo as Mrs. Frank PERRY. She died 5 Oct. 1967. Ansel remained in Salzer Valley and lived on a farm at the intersection of the Salzer Valley and Alpha roads. In later life he sold this farm and lived in the Columbia Hotel on N. Tower in Centralia. This hotel has long since been torn down. He died there in his sleep 30 Dec 1945. Lulu Maude, third child of James and Eliza EDWARDS, was born 1 Dec 1879 in Lakeview, OR. She married Henry DETERING on 23 Sep 1900. They had one daughter Gladys who married Frank EDWARDS, of CA. Lulu and Henry lived out their lives at Curtis, WA where they farmed. Lulu died 24 April 1957. Henry died 17 Feb 1964. Frank and Gladys (DETERING) EDWARDS had one daughter Patti, now married to Albert John BENA and living in Chehalis, WA. Irvon James, third son of James and Eliza was born 6 Nov 1882 near Boistfort. He married 140 Myrtle WOLF WHITE and they had 4 children, Floyd, Arthur, Vida and Thelma. Myrtle died in Olympia, WA 7 May 1954. Irvon died 5 May 1956. Myrtle Anna, youngest child of James and Eliza EDWARDS was born 10 Oct 1889. She married Robert William RASMUSSEN on 23 May, 1920. They had one daughter, Mildred, who married Virgil PETERSEN. Myrtle and Robert farmed the home place originally owned by James and Eliza for-many years. Robert died in Nov. 1967. Myrtle died in Dec. 1969. Louis Martin, oldest son of Ansel and Anna EDWARDS, was born 18 Aug 1906 at Curtis. On 25 July 1928 he and Velma BLANCHETT of Quincy, WA., were married. They had 4 children, Richard, James, Jean and Donna. Velma died 3 May 1967. Louis died 18 Oct. 1970. Stanley James, second son of Ansel and Anna, was born 2 Jan. 1910 at Curtis. On 6 Sept. 1936, he and Elsie DARRAH of Chehalis were married, They had 5 children; Patricia, Michael, Larmie, Marcia and Charles. Elsie died 14 April, 1971. Stanley died 2 Feb. 1977. Delbert Ansel, third son of Ansel and Anna, was born 11 Jan. 1913 at Curtis. On 26 Sept. 1936 he and Muriel BARKER of Montana, were married. They had 7 children; Anne, Gary, Katherine, Rexford, Ronald, Mary and Terrance. Delbert died 25 Oct. 1951. Muriel is now Mrs. Roe JUSTICE and lives at Orting, WA. Robert Vernon, youngest son of Ansel and Anna, was born 11 July 1917 at Medford, Jackson Co., OR. He grew up in the Centralia area around Salzer Valley. At the age of 15 he was working on ranches near Hermiston, OR. and in Montana. After returning to Washington, he worked at a variety of jobs, including the woods. After several serious injuries, Robert had to give up strenuous work and go into a field of less physical labor. Robert was married to Gladys Violet DOSSER on 13 Sept. 1941. She was the daughter of John Oliver and Mamie (KUPER) DOSSER. Following the death of_her mother in 1924, she and her sister Mary Ellen, were raised by their maternal grandparent, Karl and Mary (MATTHEWS) KUPER on Cowlitz Prairie. In 1946 after being discharged from the Army, Robert and Gladys moved back to Cowlitz Prairie. In 1958 the family moved to Port Townsend to work at Fort Worden Treatment Center, a juvenile institution. After the closure of Fort Worden in 1971, the family moved to Bellevue, WA to work at Echo Glen Children's Center. He retired from there in 1976 and she retired in 1983. They continue to live at Bellevue. Six children were born to Robert and Gladys. Sharon, married to Phil BAKER, and living at Renton, WA. . They have 3 children. Barbra, married to Dennis MORGAN, and living in Bellevue, WA. They have 2 daughters. David Vernon, married to Judi PHELPS, and living in Salem, OR. They have two children. Edward Byrd, married to Susan SCHWANKE, and living in Seattle. They have 2 children. Diane Gay, widowed by the death of her second husband, Philip GILES, lives in Stayton, OR. She has 2 sons by her first husband, James PEDERSEN, whom she divorced. Darlene Kay, single, and living in Bellingham, WA. By Gladys Dosser Edwards J. H. ENGLAND FAMILY James Harrison (J.H.) England was born near Topeka, Kansas on September 24, 1882, to George J. and Belle Staggs England. He was the oldest of their three children, Harry, Myrtle, and Herman, (Jake). He came west in 1899 when he (photo): Donald England. Frances England Wickert, Jessie England Backman, George England was seventeen years old. He was raised on a farm, so he first did farm work, but that was seasonal, so he got into sawmill and logging work. The sawmill paid $1.75 a day and the woods paid $1.85 for a ten hour day. In 1904 he made a trip back to Kansas and married Lizzie May Scotton, daughter of George and Mary Summers Scotton, and brought her back with him on their honeymoon. The next year they bought their first home, a one-hundred acre farm near Evaline for five hundred dollars. Their first son, George was born that year. Lizzie ran the farm and Harry walked three miles to his job in Napavine, at the Emery and Nelson Mill. 1911 was another important year in the family. Donald was born then, and also all of Harry's family moved to the Evaline district, from Kansas. His aunt and uncle, George and Nettie Culbreath came too. They all bought farms on the south side of the Avery road. Jessie was born in 1912, and Bessie was born in 1914. Also in 1914, Harry bought his first sawmill and set it up on his farm. He did his own logging with his team of horses and also used them to haul the lumber to the railroad spur at Evaline. In the next ten years he moved his family and mill three times, to cut timber in the Evaline, St. Urban and Pikes Hill districts. During this time he logged with a steam donkey, and used a truck to haul his products to the dock in Winlock. The last three years on Pike's Hill, the logs were trucked to the mill, instead of moving the mill. It was at this time that George and Donald went into partnership with their father, and Harry became 'J.H.' Frances was born in 1923 and Frank was born in 1928. In 1929 the family bought the former Sprague Lumber Co. in Winlock, and everything changed. They built a large retail lumber building and went into the retail business. The logs were hauled into the mill by trucks and the finished lumber was loaded directly onto railroad cars beside the mill. Jessie, Bessie and Frances took turns working in the office, Frances working from her graduation in 1941 until the mill burned. Frank graduated in 1946 and was soon drafted into the Service, so he missed out on most of the mill work. In 1951 the mill was destroyed by fire, thus ending 38 years of a growing family business. Then came the changes brought about by marriage and grandchildren. Jessie was the first to marry when she married James Backman of Winlock in 1933. They have two sons, LeRoy born in 1936 and Richard, born in 1941, in Woodland. Now LeRoy has three children, and three grandchildren. Richard has three children. The Backmans live in Centralia. George married Isabel Prince Craft in 1935, and they have lived in Winlock their entire life. Donald married Edith West of Ryderwood in 1936, and they have three children; Alan, Barbara and Colleen, and six grandchildren. They live in Longview. Bessie passed away in 1938. Frances married John E. Wickert of Winlock in 1942, and they have lived their entire life in Winlock. They have three children, Evelyn, Jan and Charlie, also four grandchildren. Lizzie passed away in 1946, and in 1947 J.H. married Margaret Wickert Henriot. Frank married Faye Herring of Drain, Oregon, in 1953. They have two children, Kevin and Karen. They live in Colville. J.H. England died in 1971 at age of eighty-eight, after a full and productive life. By Jessie England Backman GEORGE AND MARY ENGLE While George and Mary (Meiners) Engle were living in St. Louis, MO, Mrs. Engle's brother, Dick, returned to visit. He had been working in the state of Washington. He told the Engles of the railroad's plan to move people to the West. The government gave the railroad a section of 141 land for a certain number of people who went to the West. The railroad carried the settlers, their livestock, their possessions and farm and household goods to Washington state. This was in 1890, when the Engle's landed in Chehalis. From there, they traveled to Morton. They filed on a homestead in Hiland Valley about 3 miles west of Morton. The Engle's had no children. In 1914 or 1915, they went to Seattle and adopted a son, Bernard David Knoth, who was nine years old at the time. At that time, children had to walk through the woods by trail, carrying a lantern in the winter. Many times they heard the screams of cougars. Mr. Engle had to walk to Chehalis, about 40 miles, to sell his crops. He raised hay and grain, turkeys, chickens, pigs and cattle. The livestock was driven to Chehalis to the railroad. Fishing was excellent in Hiland Creek. During the 4th of July celebrations, the pioneers had picnics and dances at different homes. In 1925, Mr. Engle fell from a cherry tree. He was taken to a doctor in Eatonville. There, he later died. Mrs. Engle sold the property and went back to Nokomis, IL, to visit her brothers. After several months, she returned to Morton. Mrs. Engle bought a home in Morton and lived there until she died in 1950. In 1925, Bernard joined the United States Navy, where he spent the next four years. While Mrs. Engle was growing up in Illinois, girls were not expected to go to school. Boys were attending regular classes. As a result of this school policy, Mary attended school for just three months. She learned to read but never learned to write. In 1930, Bernard married Frances Mary Pinkham of San Francisco. Four children were born - Mary Louise, George, Eugene and Judy. At one year of age, Judy fell into a tub of water and drowned. By Frances Engle HILMA MANBERG EKO I, Hilma Elvira Eko, am the oldest child of Solomon and Hannah Manberg. I was born in the interior of Alaska, June 10, 1900. I was born in a gold prospector's log house. When I was two years old my parents came to Centralia for the winter to visit my mother's brothers who lived on Lincoln Creek. While down here the folks bought a farm on Lincoln creek, further down the valley. My father quickly built a two-room house so that he could start to clear the place as well as fix the fences. The renter still had one year's time to live on the farm. I started to school the next September when I was six years old. That fall a cold settled in my kidneys and the doctor suggested that it was best that I not continue school that winter because it was a two-mile walk to the school house. The next fall my sister Lillian started with me as she was six by then, for she was only thirteen months younger. We went the eight terms at the country school. The parents were willing that we go to high school, so then rented rooms for us to occupy while going to high school. We graduated in 1919. I attended classes provided by Ellensburg College for teacher applicants for state certification to teach. I taught most of the time in small rural schools. By 1926 I had enough credits to graduate from Bellingham Normal School. As the years went by, I graduated from Ellensburg College. I married Oscar M. Eko December 3, 1922. We bought a house and two milk trucks in Rochester in May of 1924. We have lived in Rochester ever since then. We have three children, Robert Eugene who lives with his family on Fords Prairie, and works at the Steam Plant; John Edward who lives with his family in Aberdeen. He is a librarian in the city school. Our daughter, Lillian Lucille lives with her family at Federal Way. We have seven grandchildren. After the Borden Condenser which was located in Chehalis moved to California, Oscar started trucking for road builders. Then later on he had logging trucks. The last years he drove a small cattle truck hauling cattle to the auction sales. He has not hauled cattle since 1983. So we are both retired and still live on the same place. I had the house reconstructed and now the yard is used for flowers and garden. By Hilma Manberg Eko WILLIAM O. ERCKENBRACK FAMILY I was next to the youngest of five children born to William Shephard and Edna (Wagner) Erckenbrack, December 27, 1908, at home at bottom of Kruger hill, mile northwest Winlock, across road from Flukenger place, across bridge from Togersons, which used to be Becker place. I had three sisters, Laura, Josephine, Stella, and brother Raymond. My childhood recollections are walking to town with Dad when I was six years old, going to Uncle Phil and Molly Erckenbracks Shoe and Harness Shop, near the center of town. Sitting there I could see the old board sidewalks and plank streets. Wooden buildings made up the stores and saloons. As horses and wagons went over the planks, water squirted up between them. The old watering trough was across the street from present City Hall, where they tied their teams in the mud. I was about eleven when Mother passed away. She was in her early forties. Father married again to Iva (Benedict) Green Erckenbrack. Her children were Mary, Margaret, Lucile, and Ivan Green. They had three children, Betty, Cleo, and James Erckenbrack. Twelve children were "his", "hers" and "theirs." They attended the old schoolhouse on the hill until it burned, then Andrew Johnson School, where the Primary School now stands. Our family used to walk up old Mickey O'Connel logging railroad, picking blackberries, past old slaughter house where in early days they killed for Winlock butcher shops. I grew up with the Torgerson boys and George Johnson. I lived with Uncle Orville and Aunt Allie several years. I worked at Black Diamond Mill, near Winlock, then planted trees in Ryderwood hills for Longbell, and picked ferns several years. The youngest Blum girl Hannah, who had worked in Hoquiam, returned home, and we married in 1934. I went back to Ryderwood to work in the woods where I was run over by a logging train. Three cars passed over me, dragging me between the rails. I was smashed badly, bones and ribs (photo): Wm. O. Erckenbrack Family, 50th anniversary, 1984. Front Row, L to R: Mrs. Hannah (Blum) Erckenbrack, William O. Erckenbrack. Back Row: Clinton W., Edwin A., Orville W. Erckenbrack and so forth broken, and not able to work for two years. I needed work so returned to Ryderwood logging and left there to work at Kaiser Shipyard, Vancouver, during World War Two. Left to go into piling business with Jack Miller, then Fred Blum and I had a piling business. Hannah and my children are: Orville, Edwin, and Clinton. Clinton works at Weyerhaeuser Mill, Longview. Edwin served twenty years in the Navy, and now is in Merchant Marine. His daughter Gloria is our only grandchild. Orville is living home, service disability from Navy. My last work was Bonneville caretaker. An operation in 1951 for old injury at Longbell laid me up quite a spell. My wife knew Lord as her savior eight years before me. I came to know the Lord in 1952 and have been a minister several years, visiting nursing homes, county jail, missions, ordained with Assembly of God. I had severe heart attacts in 1969, another in 1982, and pneumonia which has left me with much heart damage. Doctor said it's a miracle I'm alive. My wife isn't well, but we have much to be thankful for to the Lord and friends. My wife was 76, August 4, 1984 and I was 76, December 27,1984. We had our Golden Wedding Anniversary March 13, 1984. We live on the old William Blum place, corner Nelson and Tennessee roads, in a mobile home. The old house where my wife was born still stands there. JACOB AND IMPI ERVING FAMILY Jacob and Impi Erving and infant daughter were living in Laihia, Finland in 1905. They decided that they would come to the United States to seek their fortune so they sold their farm. Jacob, or Jake, as he was called, came first. He got a job working in the shipyards in Raymond. Then he sent for his wife and baby, who is now Taina Erving Nelson. For the rest of his life, when he would hear the frogs in the spring, it gave him a very lonesome feeling that he had when he used to hear them in Raymond and was separated from his wife and child. Soon they moved to Winlock and bought an 80 acre farm with all the dwellings established on it. There their second child, Laila Erving Pearne was born. The community had a good number of Finnish people there. They formed a club house with a stage etc. and for two generations, it became the center of activities for all their social life. It was called the Finnish Hall. Plays, holiday festivities, wedding receptions and the center of their social life. I can remember the countryside filled with forests. When I was a preschool child, about 1912, the forest fires were overwhelming. The forest fires one summer were so heavy that we could not breathe the air in the house. We went out in the yard and put our faces next to the ground in order to make it possible to breathe. The Ryderwood hills were filled with timber then. Impi Erving, always a vital person was raising chickens. She would hatch them under a setting hen. Jacob discovered that she was making more money on chickens than he was in farming and the cows. He purchased an incubator and had it in a spare bedroom upstairs of the house. It was heated with a Kerosene lamp. This kept increasing until he eventually set up a business in downtown Winlock. The incubators got so large that the men worked inside the incubators. They had an egg capacity of about 72,000 eggs for each incubator. The total capacity was about 500,000 eggs. 142 (photo): Jacob and Impi Ening Home In the meantime science made progress on the egg production of laying hens. Heisdorf Nelson produced a hen that broke records on the laying of eggs. Jacob Erving got the franchise for this breed of chickens. Jacob and Impi were the first ones to build chicken coops that had curtains that you rolled up during the day to expose the wire front of the building with the feeding troughs on the outside and the water trough also. The water had been carried by the bucket for the chicks before. One day a reporter from the CHICAGO TRIBUNE came by and wrote a feature story about the Ervings having curtains in their chicken coops. They made a humorous sketch of Jake sitting at a piano and the chickens marching over the piano and laying the eggs in a basket. We were amused at the thought of a Chicago paper having a sketch of humor about Winlock. When Jacob would deliver the eggs in the cases to town he put them in egg cases and then loaded them on his wagon and had his horse draw them into Winlock. His neighbors would count the number of egg cases on the wagon. They could not believe that he could have had that many eggs. Soon there, were more eggs than could be used locally. The station master, Mr. Marcotte made plans to ship them to New York by rail. He made a good fortune doing this. We then had several passenger trains per day that stopped in Winlock per day. Winlock then was called "The Egg Nest of the West." On the death of Jacob Erving, the Associated Press ran a story about him, his life and Erving's Hatchery. The Erving's two daughters, Taina Erving Nelson and Laila Erving Pearne grew up in Lewis County. They still live here. Ralph and Taina Nelson have a daughter and two grandchildren. Laila Erving Pearne has two sons, Gordon and Jack Egbert. Gordon Egbert has two sons and a daughter. Jack Egbert has three boys and a girl. By Taina Erving Nelson CHARLES GILBERT AND MATILDA MONTGOMERY ESHOM Charles Gilbert and Matilda Montgomery Eshom moved to Fords Prairie in Lewis County from Chehalis in the 1880's. The exact date is not known. They had four children: Walter, b. 1876, Arthur, b. 1877, Charles Leslie, b. 1879 and Maggie, b. 1882. Charles Gilbert b. 1849 in Kentucky was the son of Arthur and Eliza Hammond Eshom. After losing their oldest son George in the Civil War, they became increasingly worried about their younger sons. They decided to leave Kentucky for the Washington Territory. They joined a wagon train in Missouri and were six months on the Oregon Trail with the boys riding horseback and standing guard with the men. They settled near Porter in Chehalis Co. where only three other white families resided. If the Indians had not fed them they would have starved the first year. This resulted in a life-long friendship between Charles Gilbert and the Indians. His grandson Charles Edward remembered how his grandfather always came to get him when the circus came to town. They never attended the circus, for Charles Gilbert who spoke Siwash came to see his Indian friends who had come to the Circus. Meanwhile, his grandson played in the hardware store. Charles Gilbert was a carpenter and a farmer and he liked to tell how he got his plow. He traveled to Portland, Oregon on foot, bought the plow and then dismantled it as it was impossible to carry in one piece. He then stashed part at the beginning of the trail, carried the other one about 10 miles stashing it then going back for the first one. He continued this way until he reached home. Matilda Eshom died in 1891, is buried in Mt. View Cemetery in Centralia. In 1892 Charles Gilbert married Ida Stuart, they had two children, Mabel, b. 1894 and Mason b. 1901. They made their home on Chestnut Street in Centralia until their deaths. Charles died in 1924 and is buried in Mt. View Cemetery. There is an Eshom Street in Centralia named for Charles Gilbert Eshom. Walter Eshom made his home in the Centralia area until his death in 1952. He married Julia Schemek in 1895 and later married Anna Van Ronk. He had two children by his first marriage, Ernest and Helen. He was President of the Southwest Washington Pioneer Association, a member of Oakview Grange and Townsend Club. He was honored in the 1951 Pioneer Days Parade. Charles Leslie married Emma Channel in 1901 at Fords Prairie where they made their home. He worked as a timber faller and also a farmer. They had two sons, Charles Edward, b. 1904 and Samuel Vernon, b. 1911. Because of Emma's health the family moved to Downey, California in 1923. Charles Leslie, d. 1942; Emma 1958, Charles Edward 1984 and Samuel Vernon 1982. Charles was in the army and stationed at Ft. Lewis from 1921 to 1922. Emma Channel Eshom was the daughter of Lewis Co. Pioneers, Edward and Jane Foglesong Channel who came to Centralia from Iowa in 1881. By Gloria M. Eshom JOHN ESLER FAMILY John Oren Esler was born in Nebraska in 1890. His family moved to Washington when he was a boy. John spent his early years working in the woods. When he was 23 he met and married Mary Battisti. They spent their first years moving from one logging camp to another. The houses were often small and ramshackled. Mary had always wanted a piano so they bought one. Many times it was carried over trails to reach it's destination in some logging camp. (photo): John and Mary Esler In 1913 a daughter, Lucile, was born. The family was living in Wallville at the time. Mary was busy. Now she dreamed her daughter would someday play her piano. The family was still on the move. A daughter, Luella was born in 1917 in Chehalis. Next came a son John Loren, born in the town of Lebam in 1919. In 1923 they moved from Frances back to Chehalis. Mary said she had moved for the last time and meant it. John worked away from home. He came home on weekends but as time went on he came home less often. He finally took a job with Libby's Cannery in Portland. He stayed with this company until he retired. Mary stayed on in Chehalis. It was 21 years before they got a divorce. John married again. He and his wife, Bertha, adopted twins, a boy Bob and a girl Nancy. John lived in Portland until his death in 1968. Bertha died in 1983. Both Bob and Nancy live in Portland and have families of their own. Mary found life hard raising three children without the support of her husband. Somehow she managed to keep her home, children and piano. In later years Mary married Jesse Merchant. Mary's health became a problem. She had a cancer operation that was a success. Her marriage wasn't, and ended in divorce. Mary lived the rest of her life in the same house in Chehalis. She passed away in 1968 with a heart attack. The house was sold and later torn 143 down. A door factory stands where Mary lived and raised her family. Mary's piano is still in the family. Some of her grandchildren and great grandchildren have learned to play on the piano Mary kept so many years. Lucile married Floyd Metzenberg in 1937. They had three children, Linda, Lana, Lyle and an adopted daughter Lisa. Floyd died in 1967, Lucile in 1984. Luella married Roy Metzenberg, Floyd's cousin, in 1937. They have three children, Virginia, Diane and Steven. Roy and Luella live on a farm on Crego Hill. John Loren married Annie Laurie Southwick, a Centralia girl. Their home is in the country on Coal Creek Road. They have a son, Alan. By Luella Metzenberg PATTI AND LOREN J. ESTEP Patti and Loren Estep were married November 16, 1956 in Chehalis, Washington and bought a home at 217 Logan Hill Road, Chehalis, where they still reside at this writing. They had two sons, John born October 21, 1957, and Alan born August 25,1959. John was killed in an automobile accident in January 1972. Both boys were active in Boy Scouts. They were also musical and both played numerous instruments. Alan graduated from W. F. West High School in 1977 and joined the Navy that year. After spending four years in the Navy, he was discharged and reinlisted in 1985. In the three years that he was out of the Navy, he worked as a professional musician with the band "Common Touch." Alan married Argie Winder in May of 1980. They have two sons, Justin Alan born January 14, 1983, and Tyler Johnathan born May 17, 1985. Argie attended school in Chehalis and graduated from Tacoma, moving there in her junior year of high school. She attended beauty school and is a licensed cosmetologist. Loren was born at Napavine, Washington, July 13, 1925, graduating in 1943 from Napavine High School. Shortly after graduating, he joined the Navy and spent the remainder of the war years in the Pacific on the USS Steamer Bay, CVE-87. After the war he worked in the logging and sawmill industry until the Korean War when he joined the Merchant Marines and went to Korea on the Marine Lynx as an electrician with the United Military Sea Transportation Service. He then owned and operated the CEM Lumber Company with partners John McDermitt and Alex Carrol until 1970. He has since worked for other timber companies as a forester. Loren's father, Thomas Estep, was born in Paw Paw, Virginia and came to Morton, Washington, in 1900. Loren's mother, Elizabeth McDermitt, was born in Clinton, Tennessee, and came to Napavine, Washington, in 1903. They had three other children, Fay (Bange), Dolores (Roberts) and Thomas B. Estep. Patti was born at Ft. Lewis, Washington on May 28, 1935 to Elvis Nichols and Virginia (Richards). Her father was a career military man (Army). She spent her early years in Olympia, Washington, moving to California where her family made their home after her father retired from the military. Her mother, Virginia, was born in Bremerton, Washington, and her father was born in Princeton, Kentucky. Patti attended several schools in southern California and after graduation returned to Washington to visit relatives. She intended to return to California; however, she found that her real "roots" were in Washington state and decided to stay on. She had worked in the debt collection business in Lewis County for over thirty years and now is coowner of Lewis County Collections, Inc. and Cowlitz County Collections, Inc. (Longview, Washington). Her partner in business is Peggy Birley. Loren plays the banjo and has played with several local bands; he was a member of Moon's Western Ramblers for ten years. He and son, Alan, were members of "The Foresters" sponsored by the Forest Grange that placed first in the National Grange family musical competition in 1975 held in Columbus, Ohio. The Esteps are members of the First Baptist Church, Chehalis, and several fraternal organizations including F and A.M., Order of Eastern Star, VFW, Shrine, Daughters of the Nile, Collectors Association, and Chamber of Commerce. By Loren J. Estep FAAS FAMILY John Casper Faas, born April 1835 in Wurttemberg, Germany in what is referred to as the Schwabia area, came to the United States in 1856. He was a tailor and settled in Philadelphia where he had his own tailoring establishment on Frankford Avenue. However, with the growing popularity of factory made clothing, custom tailoring began to be less profitable; especially during the (financial) panic which occurred after the 1876 Centennial Worlds Fair. The family as listed in 1880 census of Philadelphia: John C. Faas, father, age 45, tailor by trade, born in Wurttemberg, Germany. Bertha, his wife, age 42(?), homemaker, born in Switzerland. John C. (jr) son, age 20, single, a tailor, born in Pennsylvania. Mary, daughter, 16, single, cotton mill worker, born in Pennsylvania. George F., son, age 12, apprentice chair maker. Charles H., son, age 11, in school. Kate, daughter, age 9, in school. William, son, age 7, in school. Frank A., son age 4 years, all these children born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Spelling of the name legally changed from Faass to Faas in 1890, and appears to have taken place in Philadelphia. John became interested in the West, and the opportunities out there; and started off for Denver, Colorado with a friend named Winters, who was a baker. His friend persuaded him to go on to Leadville, Colo. where he worked in the mines. After a short time he became ill with 'Lead Fever' and moved westward again. He wound up in Chehalis, Washington at an eating house and card room run by Len Kuehner. He met several German men playing Euchre. John liked to play cards and have a glass of beer. He met Gutlip Harver, Tony Serrene and Vickerson. After a short acquaintance, he was told of a homestead up in the Harmony District, and they offered to take him out to see it. He went and located on Sec. 34, Twp. 13, Range 2 E. and filed a Homestead Claim. He built a shack and got established in a rough way. Then he sent to Philadelphia for his wife Bertha and three of his sons, George, William and Frank. There were a few in the area who tried to discourage him from staying, but in spite of wild tales and ghost stories, he persisted. The pioneer spirit came to life, clearing a spot for a garden, and places for a cow and horse and chickens. He built a log cabin of two rooms and an attic. The stairs were narrow and steep. One had a job getting up, but it slept six and sometimes more. Downstairs were two rooms, one a big one with a fireplace, kitchen stove and wood heater. The other a small bedroom to one side. Also a small front porch. They dug a 25 ft. well very close to " the rear kitchen door. Fifty feet east of the house was a small barn and wood shed. At this time the family came from Philadelphia. John C. Faas Jr., and Mary Faas Schweitzer, the two eldest children, did not come west, but later Kate and her husband Thomas Lafe Bains joined the family. Then Charles H. (Henry) and wife Anna Rebecca (Coley) Faas and family of three children, George, William and Bertha came. Their fourth child, John Casper WashingtonHomestead Faas, was born in the little log cabin Jan. 4, 1893. He was the first white child born in that vicinity; Grandmother Bertha Faas attended as midwife, there was no other record of his birth. Thus there were thirteen people housed within the walls of the cabin; plus a three-legged dog who was loved by everyone. In the days of the homesteader, the land was wooded, but very little brush under the trees and one could see quite a 'way. It was very different from today, when the woods are full of under brush. Like all families, even on farms, money is a necessity; so Charles took his two eldest sons, George and William and left for Philadelphia. He stayed with his sister Mary and her husband Fred Schweitzer, and after some tribulation, finally got his old job back at Simmons, a jewelry firm. As soon as he could afford it, he sent money to his parents on the homestead so they could pay a debt for groceries and supplies that amounted to three hundred dollars which was enormous in those days. Then he sent for his wife Anna Rebecca and little Bertha and baby John to return to Philadelphia. Life in the cabin on the homestead was austere. Three meals a day with rations of sow-belly, sauerkraut, homemade bread and oatmeal. The oatmeal Grandfather J.C. cooked. He started the oats the night before and it cooked slowly all night. He roasted rye which was used for coffee. All meats were pickled, dried, canned or put down in lard or smoked. Yeast was made from hops grown on the place, and a cornmeal cake laid out to dry was the source of breadmaking. They walked a cow to Chehalis to sell, and were offered only $5.00, so they brought it back home, a distance, there and back of over fifty miles. Butter was used for axle grease. Eggs brought five cents a dozen. One night a fire started on some clothing hung too close to the fireplace, and shirt-tail brigade made a mad rush for the well. With a windless, down went the one bucket and up came a bucketful of water. The light was bright and then dark at intervals. One can imagine thirteen people in such a small log house depending on the light of the fire. . . The only bucket was put down to help Mother Anna with her baby and was - more or less, lost! What a mess of confusion! Beating with everything they could lay their hands on to smother the fire! Well, it was finally put out, losing mostly clothing, a north wall and the fireplace. . the outside of the fireplace was sticks the inside was field stones, all put up with lime and sand; no cement. It was never rebuilt. . (No wonder Charlie and Anna Rebecca went back to Philadelphia!) Things progressed: Land was cleared, a barn built, and a hop field planted on Mormon Hill. They built a hop kiln on the road by the house. . . Ralph Newport was the engineer who took charge of the drying of the hops. He lived south of the nearest neighbor, Mat Lennen. He was very industrious, raised beef and turkeys. Mat used to drive his turkeys, a hundred or more, down the roads to Chehalis for sale. . . It took several days to get to town. They walked their cattle down to town that way, too. The hop pickers were neighbors, Indians and children. They received a dollar a box, the boxes measured 3 ft by 3 ft by 6 ft. The hop business 144 was good and brought in a nice profit. It also brought a good income for the help. They dried the hops in the kiln, baled them and shipped them. Unfortunately, the dryer caught fire and was a complete loss. The enterprise was discontinued. Then a Post Office was established on the homestead and was called Roosevelt Post Office in honor of Theodore Roosevelt, president after McKinley's assassination in 1900. John Casper Faas was postmaster and also Justice of the Peace there. He performed the marriage ceremonies of Ida Madden (Grama Brown) and Robert Brown, to mention one couple. Ida was the mother of Nelson Madden (father of Chet, Lawrence and Edna Madden Corbin) and Myrtle Madden Hobbs. The Post Office closed and after the hop business had ended, Carlyle Lumber Co. from Georgia purchased the land of both John C. and George Faas homesteads. Also most of the land of the neighbors in the vicinity for 50 dollars an acre. Sixty-five acres of the. old homestead remained, which Charles Henry Faas purchased from his father for $3000.00. Carlisle Lumber Co. established a sawmill in Onalaska, Wa. John Casper Faas bought eighty acres of the Tower Ranch located on the Larson Rd. Herman Oest also bought eighty acres. Both had Mill Creek running through their property. The soil was not as rich as the homestead, but was easier to clear as the trees were smaller. John Casper lost his life clearing land on this place. He was using dynamite to blow stumps, and the charge was primed with a poor fuse or poor cap - either one. It was left several hours for safety, when it didn't blow on time; but when John went back to attend to it, it went off in his face. He was taken to the hospital in Chehalis, some twenty five miles away, and a few days later he died. Mar 22, 1911. In those days travel was slow, carriage or wagon and sometimes even litter was used. Once, earlier, the neighbors had found him lying in the woods. He had slipped on a log, puncturing his stomach on a limb of the log. He was carried all the way to the hospital in Chehalis (25 miles) on a stretcher by some of his good neighbors. He recovered from that accident, but not the dynamite disaster. He was buried in the Alpha Cemetery. Herman Oest spoke the sermon at the funeral of John Casper Faas, Homesteader. John's son George never married, died 18 March 1900. William married Eva White in 1906, they had a son and daughter and moved to California. Frank married 'Tina' Christina Schmitt, daughter of Tom and Anna Schmitt of Harmony in 1904/05. They lived in Harmony or Cinebar for a while. He worked with Bill Tucker and Jake and John Finstead to put the first telephone lineup in the country. They later moved to Chehalis and Frank worked for the city. They had eight children. Grama Bertha spent her last declining years with them before she went to the Portland Hospital where she died of cancer in 1925. She also is buried in the Alpha Cemetery. Charles and his family returned to the Homestead about 1904 before they settled in Portland, making a home on East Union St. after first staying with Kate and Lafe Bains. Charles and son George got employment at Butterfields Wholesale Jewelers, and William at Chernick and Anderson, a watch material firm. Later in the year Charles and George had a disagreement with the employer and quit. They started in the Manufacturing Business at 291 1/2 Morrison St., but things did not go well; so they decided to move to Seattle- "... the best thing he ever did. ." Found employment and eventually worked into a very responsible position in Seattle where William worked until 1915, then to a good job in Anaconda Montana until World War I-1917-1918. World War I found Anna Rebecca and son George living on old Homestead - Charles working in Butte Montana at Jewelers firm William in France in "American Expeditionary Force" Young John "Washington Homestead" Faas at Bremerton Navy Yard. George needed deferment from armed service duty due to farming, but received much 'harassment' from the War Department; also from others due to his nationality background. The "persecution of German-Americans was no laughing matter. ." - a sad end when he drowned in the Tilton River, (which is overlooked by the back of the Faas property) Dec. 9, 1918. His brother John also came to a strange end by mysterious drowning in the Narrows at Bremerton September 2, 1918. - Leaving poor Anna Rebecca alone and beside herself with grief and despair from the loss of both sons. . . She never was quite herself again. William returned safely from France, worked for a while in Anaconda, started a jewelry store on Park Ave. -very successful. Then decided to return to Seattle. Sent back to Montana for his sweetheart, Freda Salomonson and they were married in Seattle March 17, 1924. After again visiting the Homestead (later referred to as The Ranch) and checking out the possibilities of starting a business in Longview, they returned to Seattle and started in the manufacturing of Fraternity Jewelry in the University District of Seattle. In 1935-panic again; bank closures and bankruptcies all over the place, as William so aptly put it, so back to the Ranch, Home Sweet Home! Charles Henry had died in 1930, so William sold the store and relocated on the Homestead in Lewis County. Brought Grama Anna Rebecca and their two small children, William 'Billy' Charles and Annamarie Elizabeth 'Betty', a babe in arms. William became a farmer-dairyman and did watch repair on the side in his home, and made jewelry only as a special favor or for his family. The children grew up, attending school in Cinebar one-room school house and Mossyrock where they graduated from high school quite honorably. Homestead sold to Ted Landis in 1966. William Faas, watchmakerjeweler and farmer-dairyman died 3rd March 1970 and was laid to rest by his mother, Anna Rebecca and father Charles Henry Faas and brother George in Washelli Memorial Park, Seattle, Washington. On 7th Feb. 1985 Freda Christina Salomonson Faas died and was laid beside her husband. Annamarie 'Betty' married Neil M. Fredericksen July 1955; they had three children, Jeff, Greg and Joy, who all reside in or about Seattle; Betty later married John Hidell 9 Sept 1981. Is employed as a broker, formerly in Seattle now in Anchorage, Alaska. William 'Billy' lives in Centralia, Lewis County, married Mary Ellen Harris June 26, 1956, they have six children: Mark, Stephen, Rachel, Esther, Andrew and Nathan. By Ellen Faas WILLIAM E. AND JEAN I. FABRY My husband "Bus" (or Bill as he is known to his friends) and I have lived on our farm in the Cooks Hill, Lincoln Creek area since we were married in 1954. Our farm consists of the farm where he grew up, the adjoining farm where I grew up, and an adjoining small farm that we purchased about 1966. We are the third generation of family to live on the Larson part of the farm. (photo): Larson Family Farmhouse Circa 1910 I had three children when we were married: Victor, Yvonne, and Virginia Mott. Judith Fabry was born in 1955. The first six years of our marriage we milked a few cows and sold cream to a local creamery. Bus worked on some heavy construction jobs one being for a contractor clearing land for Bonneville power lines. In 1959 when Continental Can Co. built a plant in Lacey to make beer and pop cans, he went to work there. Bus worked as a maintenance machinist for most of the more than 21 years he worked there. Summer vacations were spent making hay for the beef cattle. The children went to Galvin Grade School until about 1960 when the school consolidated with the Centralia district. The junior high school was built then and a new four-year high school was built on Fords Prairie in 1969. All of our children live in this state. They have presented us with ten grandchildren. Bus retired from Continental Can Co. in 1981 and enjoys farming full time and taking an occasional vacation trip. Bus' father, William, came to Lewis County about 1907 from Wisconsin. His mother, Florence (Mattson) Fabry, was born in Lewis County near Galvin in 1890. His parents had lived on their farm since about 1909. His father worked in the local coal mine running a locomotive. He also worked at the Deming Lumber Mill at Galvin. Bus was born in 1919 near Galvin. He has four sisters: Connie, Emma, Anita, and Jeanette. He started school at Greenwood School one mile west of Galvin in 1925. My father went to the same school (in an older building) in 1898. When Bus was in the fourth grade (1929), he started going to the Galvin School. He graduated from Centralia High in 1936. While he was in high school, Bus was on the football team. In 1942 Bus joined the Army and served in the Aleutian Islands. After discharge in 1945, he worked for a local logger, Merle Dunlap, for several years. My grandparents, Lars Peter and Olang Kate Larson, came to Lewis County about 1894 and purchased their 40 acres soon after. Their new house, built in 1909, is now our home. My dad, Oscar Larson, was born in 1891 at Ironwood, Michigan. He started school in 1898 at Greenwood School and learned to speak English there. His parents were from Sweden and Norway. In 1921 Dad married Iona Morehouse, born in 1900 on Michigan Hill, Thurston County. My twin sister, June and I were born in Centralia in 1924. From 1925 to 1929 we lived near Oakville when Dad worked for the Bordeaux Logging Co. In 1929 we moved to "Hollywood" near Bordeaux where Dad worked in the sawmill. My sister and I started school at Bordeaux in 1930. In 1931, during "The Great Depression", we moved back to the farm where my sister and I spent the rest of our childhood. 145 After graduation from Centralia High School, we went to Bremerton and worked in the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard during World War II. In 1953 my children and I moved to the farm to be with my parents. Mom died from cancer in 1954. By Jean I. Fabry FAGERNESS FAMILY My grandparents and parents arrived from Finland at the turn of the century. My parents, Victor and Irene, met in Olympia, Washington and were married there in 1908. In about 1912 my grandparents and parents settled in the Rochester Independence area. This area was almost totally settled by people from the same area of Finland. When the children started school, they had to learn English since Swedish was spoken at home. I was the oldest of seven children, followed by Arne, Bertel, Sven, Emmy, George and Oscar. Arne, Bertel and I attended school at Independence two years before my family moved to Cooks Hill in 1919. We children finished our elementary schooling at Galvin and Greenwood District #23. My next two younger brothers and I did not attend high school since it was too difficult to get to Centralia High. Walking to Galvin and paying for fare to school was more than my folks could afford at that time. The farm my parents purchased for $5500 consisted of 80 acres. Twelve acres were cleared with the remainder being covered with stumps and brush. Land clearing of the unimproved ground was a large job for many years and involved the whole family. The major crop on this cleared land was strawberries. During the late 20's and early 30's my parents were one of the largest growers in Lewis County. During one season with the aid of 7590 hired pickers, they harvested 60 tons of berries on seventeen acres. The family did most of the field work. My father worked as a woodsman and farmer after his arrival in Washington with most of his sons following in his footsteps. Father took Arne (photo): Tom Fagemess Family and me out to fall timber and later Arne and I followed this trade for many years. A sixty acre farm, adjoining our parents place, came up for sale; since Arne and I were making good wages, we decided to buy this farm together. The buildings on it were very dilapidated with the exception of a two-room shack. It had electricity but no plumbing or running water. Arne got married before I did and lived there for several years with his wife. We decided that the place wasn't big enough for two families so I bought him out. This all took place in the 20's and early 30's. In 1933 I met my wife-to-be, Agnes McDougall. We courted for about a year and on June 17, 1934 we were married in Prineville, Oregon where her parents resided. We spent our honeymoon there, helping in the harvest on the McDougall ranch. After the harvest, we moved (photo): Ted, Rita and children on Cooks Hill to the two-room shack mentioned earlier. We soon outgrew the shack as our children, Janet, Bill and Ted arrived. Janet is married to Dale Colvin, son of Alton and Mary Jane Colvin, pioneers of the Hannaford Valley. Bill is single, lives in Olympia and works for the state. Ted lives in the home I built in 1937 to replace the shack. He served with the Air Force in Germany and Holland. While in Holland, he met his wife-to-be, Rita van Nieuburg. After his return to the states and securing employment with an airline, Ted and Rita made arrangements to be married in Holland. Working for an airline made Ted eligible for airline passes so Agnes, Jane and I were able to fly to Holland with him to attend his wedding. Ted bought a mobile home and lived in it after bringing his bride to Seattle. They have two children, Cindy, born in Burien, and Thomas, born in Centralia. Ted left the airline after we arranged to have him take over our Cooks Hill home, so we could retire. He decided that he would rather raise his children on Cooks Hill than in Seattle. Ted's children will be the fourth generation to live on Cooks Hill with the name Fagerness. He currently works for Lewis County as a Commercial Appraiser. During Agnes' and my stay on Cooks Hill, I engaged in farming, logging and sawmilling. After building the present home of logs, I acquired a small sawmill and sawed out lumber to make my farm buildings. These buildings were all built during the years 1934-74. Over a period of 26 years, I marketed some of my own timber through this mill, bought logs and did custom sawing for people in the area. We retired to our present home at 2104 North Pearl in Centralia in April, 1974 after 55 years on Cooks Hill. By TheodoreJ. "Tom" Fagerness VERNE AND CARRIE (FOOTE) FAHLSTROM Verne and Carrie (Foote) Fahlstrom brought daughters Carroll and Jo Ann to Chehalis in 1941. A line patrolman for BPA, Verne transferred from Portland, Oregon to the then new Newaukum Substation. 146 (photo): Verne Fablstrom family, Carron, JoAnn, Carrie, Verne. Dad's parents, Johan Fahlstrom and Anna Nystrom, came to Cumberland, Wisconsin (where he was born) from Sweden in 1882. As electrician-lineman, Dad came to Washington in 1917 to work: Nebraska-born in 1892, Mom was raised in Raymond, Minnesota by parents Edward Foote and Mary Armstrong from Nova Scotia. She came west in 1918. Carrie and Verne were married September 9, 1922 in Tacoma. I (Carroll) began eleventh grade (my sister Jo Ann, second grade) when we came to Chehalis. I went to the old (1909) high school which stood across from the Methodist Church. I had many friends and was beginning to date. Teens danced at Woody's Nook north of Centralia on Old 99; it had floors for both swing and square dancing. My favorite dance was held at the Napavine LO.O.F. Hall. Drugs were unknown to me and my friends and we had no interest in alcohol. There were two theaters in Chehalis, one in Centralia, and skating rinks at Winlock, Toledo and Centralia. We swam at Alexander Park. School sports were important. Thanksgiving Day was the traditional football game with Centralia High School. Busses were driven by high school boys and picked up kids at the Catholic School also. The attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 filled our minds with fear. Air raid drills were held to safeguard students in case of bombing. Several boys from high school left for military service; some 1943 graduates were uniformed, fresh out of basic training. BPA issued gas masks and rifles to all employees; all vacations were cancelled. At night we covered windows to prevent light from showing. Air raid wardens came if they saw any. We bought gas, tires, butter, sugar, shoes and liquor with ration stamps or allotments. Mother worked with the Red Cross Blood Mobile. I went to Sunday School at the First Christian Church and married James Stepp there on March 11, 1944. Jill was born on a very hot July 19, 1946, while Sharon came on a cold February 18, 1949. Both were born at St. Helens Hospital. Due to 1949's snow, doctors didn't make rounds until late afternoon. I left Chehalis in 1950, but hope to live there again one day. I've lived at Scottsburg, Oregon, Packwood, and Renton 30 years. My husband Earl Arnold and I live in Bonney Lake, Washington. We are officers in our Veterans of Foreign Wars post. I quilt, paint, do genealogy, and bicycle. After Earl retires we will travel. Jill married Gary Johnston. They and their sons, Lonnie and James, live in Arlington, Washington. They have property in Vader. Sharon, an LPN, married Toledo native Art Turner. Her children are Ronald and Dawn, all live in Toledo. Jo Ann and husband Tom Lewis live in Connecticut. Her children, Kimberly and Cary, live in Southern California. Dad passed on in 1973, Mom in 1984. By Carrol/ Fahlstrom Stepp DORIS HINES FAIR I was born July 11, 1908, in West Salem, OH. I went through twelve years of school there. My father, William Henry Hines, was a jeweler and had a store down on South Main; he was in business there for 50 years. We lived in a great, big, two-story house on Buckeye with four bedrooms and a bathroom upstairs. The attic was floored, so we had a playhouse up there. There was also a bathroom downstairs. We were one of the first ones to have a bathroom. There was a full basement and we rollerskated down there in the wintertime. I have two younger brothers, Lloyd and Wayne Hines. Our neighbor lady, Bertha Dunlap, said the three meanest kids in West Salem were the Hines boys and hers, and they all grew up to be doctors. I wanted to be a doctor, too. Real early every spring, I went across the street by the watertower to pick dandelion greens, because my mother and my grandmother, Niswender,liked them so much. They'd wash them up good and cook them with a little bacon. Then, they'd made a big dish of potatoes and that made a real nice meal. I liked to let my canary out of the cage when I was practicing my piano lessons. It would walk up and down on my fingers, when I played the scales. Then it would get down and pick at the buttons on my shoes. One day, I stepped on my bird and killed it. I cried and cried and I couldn't even take my lesson that week. My parents were going to get me another bird but I didn't ever want another bird. Wayne and Lloyd helped me bury it in a wooden box with a silk lining. My sister, Arlene, was born when I was fifteen. I took care of her a lot and even took her along to school. That's why the principal allowed her to start school when she was five. I married Dean Fair the evening of December 8, 1928, in the Methodist parsonage. I wore a blue dress and mother had a dinner for us afterward. She just had his folks over and that was all. My daughter, Gloria, was born, there in West Salem on November 1, 1929. Mother died when Gloria was a baby and Arlene was only eight years old. Mother had liver cancer and had suffered a long time. The boys were born after Dean and I moved to Marysville, OH. Thad was ornery; he had a toy alligator he'd wind up. When the neighbor girl came over, he'd get behind the chair and let it go and she would really jump. Keith started school in Marysville, OH. The first grade teacher was just out of college. She called me one day to come in. She had two wild kids and Keith was one of them. They'd sit on top of their desks. I told her to separate those two ornery kids and put one in the front of the room and one in the back. All Gloria did, when she was little, was read books. Gloria and Keith are both doctors of chiropractic, now, and Thad owns his own business in Portland. In January of 1945, we took the Great Northern train and headed out west to Chehalis. By Nancy Fair NANCY FAIR FAMILY I was born on a farm at Adna on May 1, 1937. The farm was owned by my grandfather, W.L. Nix, and is now owned by my first cousin, Galen Wedin. My parents are Robert and Alma Nix. I have an older sister Barbara, born June 17, 1936, and a younger sister Ruth, born July 26, 1940, who is now deceased. (photo): Jeff, Brian, Jim, and Nancy Ghere, Nov. 1, 1965. Barbara and I could both milk a cow by hand at an early age. I remember wading across the river with Dad to get the cows. Dad also had some pigs that were escape artists and we spent lots of time getting them back in the pen. I also helped care for Ruth who was retarded. I would sing her to sleep at night. ..,." I had a puppy named "Pitch" that I trained to sleep on his back in the doll buggy so he would look nice in his gown and baby bonnet. Pitch grew to be a large dog and lived a long time. He always slept on his back with his feet straight up in the air. Barbara and I sang songs our mother taught us and we sang regularly at the Newaukum 147 Grange. Our Grandpa Nix paid us each a quarter for singing. In 1944 we moved from Adna to the farm on Newaukum Hill, also owned by my grandfather. Barbara and I, and a cousin Truman Johnson walked the cows from.the Adna farm to the new place seven miles away. Grandpa and Dad helped us and Mom drove the car in back of the herd to pick up the bodies along the way! In 1949 my brother, Robert, Jr., was born. He was just too cute for an ordinary name like Bobby so I called him "Goulash". Two years later in 1951 another brother John was born. As a teenager I loved having baby brothers. I learned to cook helping my mother cook for hay-hands. Truman Johnson would roll on the ground, grasping his throat and pretend he was dying from eating my cooking but at age 14 I won second place in the Washington State Cherry Pie Baking Contest. Barbara and I were active in 4-H and entered our baked goods and sewing projects in the local and state fairs. I went to first grade at Adna School, attended the West Side School, the R.E. Bennett Junior High and graduated from W.F. West in 1955. While in grade school I picked strawberries for extra money. Later I babysat, mostly with John Sauter's kids, and at age 16 began working in the Chehalis Library. While a freshman in high school I attended the dance lessons given by Mr. Wilson. We learned to waltz, two step and to do the Josephine. Keith Fair was madly in love with me and always asked me to dance. Keith moved to Ohio during our sophomore year but through our teen years we penpalled. He came back to Chehalis in the summers to visit his uncle and aunt, Dr. and Mrs. Hines and took me to visit his family at the Hines' summer place at Adna. Once he borrowed Dr.Hines' car and took me on a date to Olympia. I attended the College of Puget Sound in Tacoma for two years. The last I heard from Keith was while I was at college and he was barbering in Arizona. On November 1, 1957, I married David Ghere who just graduated from Washington State College in Pullman with a Bachelors Degree in Agricultural Engineering. Dave grew up in the Boistfort area. Dave immediately went to work for Allis-Chalmers in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and we both moved back there. My three sons were born there. While busy raising them I was active in the League of Women Voters, in parents groups with Boy Scouts and school. In 1974 Dave was transferred to New Orleans and we lived there for four years. In 1978 there was a reorganization at Allis-Chalmers and after 20 years Dave left the company. He took a job at Ray-Go Wagner in Portland as vice president in charge of operations. That marriage lasted for 23 years and ended in 1981. In January of 1981 my brothers, sister and I leased the family farm on Newaukum Hill from our parents and took over operation as a partnership. I moved back to Chehalis and established a home adjacent to the farm. In February of 1982 I came across an old 1956 valentine from Keith Fair, and I called Elizabeth Hines to ask whatever became of Keith. She gave me a phone number and I called him. We arranged a blind date after not seeing each other for 25 years. We were married in December of 1983. He is a Doctor of Chiropractic and practices in Fremont, California. Our combined family lives there now and we use my residence on the farm as a vacation home. I have three sons, David Jeffrey Ghere, Brian Douglas Ghere, and James Alan Ghere, two step children. Liesel Lorraine Fair and Erich Eugene Fair and two grandsons. Jeff is a carpenter in Portland, Brian is in graduate school of Veterinary Science at WSU and Jim is studying business and accounting in Fremont. Liesel and Erich are still at home with Keith and me and attending high school. Keith is a graduate of Palmer College in Iowa and is active in local, state and national chiropractic associations. He lectures at seminars, has compiled an extensive art collection and is currently listed in "Who's Who in California". I presently work in his office and travel with Keith. I also make frequent trips to the farm. JOEL HENRY FAY FAMILY The Joel Henry Fay family crossed the Chehalis River at Brownings Ferry October 20, 1863. They spent the winter on Davis Hill at Claquato. (photo): Joel Henry Fay and Emily Dwight Magnard Fay Mr. Fay was a descendant of John Fay, who as a lad, arrived aboard the Speedwell at Boston June 27, 1656. Historians believe he came to join his father David Fay already in the colony. The Fay family of six traveled in a horse drawn covered wagon containing all the necessities for a three month trip from Independence, Missouri, by way of the Oregon Trail. They were accompanied by a contingent of military commanded by Captain Medvin Crawford, so there were no Indian troubles. The family consisting of mother, Emily D. Maynard, sons Joel and William, ages 12 and 10; daughters Helen and Alice, 8 and 3, moved to a homestead about six miles west of Claquato on the east bank of the Chehalis River near the present site of Adna in the spring of 1864. Here Mr. Fay developed a fine farm and plied his trade of boot and shoemaking, at which he was a master. >From 1875 through 1879 Mr. Fay served as County Commissioner. He was also Master of the first grange at Claquato. An early day Post office was named Fayette as well as the surrounding community which it served. Seven sons, Joel, William, Charles, David, Edmund, Henry and Horace and two daughters, Helen and Lucy survived Mr. Fay when his death came February 8, 1914. Mrs. Fay lived twelve more years until December 17, 1926. The Fays are buried in the family plot at the hilltop Claquato cemetery. Descendents of the Fays still living in Lewis County are grandchildren Miss Alice Fay, Mrs. Eleanor Fay Ponder-Jones, Mrs. Merrel Fay Bowman and Mr. Nelson E. Fay; also numbers of. great grandchildren and their children. RUBY DAVIS LARSEN FELDTMAN I am Ruby Davis Larsen Feldtman. I was born in 1905 at Swofford, W A., the daughter of Duran Davis and Fannie Cox Davis. Na Dene Larsen Eastman, daughter of Frank and Ruby Larsen. I was born in a split -cedar house. We had kerosene lamps and the water came from a well. We had a wonderful orchard, vegetable garden, cows, chickens and pigs. We had our milk, butter, eggs and meat. (photo): Ruby Davis Larsen I had three sisters and three brothers - Hazel, Opal, Adeline, Ray, Leonard and Lowell. We had fun on our farm. We rolled hoops, rode horses, built dams in the creek, climbed trees, had swings in the trees, fished for trout, caught crayfish, played baseball, horseshoes, broad jump, walked stilts and jumped rope. Fox and geese and sledding were fun when there was snow, we played checkers, popped corn and pulled taffy. 148 (photo): Ruby Davis Feldtman Family Charles Feldtman ( P H O T O S ) Frank Elmer Larswen, first husband of Ruby Davis Feldtman Darrel Larsen. son of Frank and Ruby Larsen. Ruby Davis Feldtman, Father, Mother, Brothers, and Sisters. My mother was an avid reader and, by kerosene light, we listened to her read books. We would have a bucket of apples and we enjoyed them as mother read. My father and mother were good singers. Father played a jew's-harp. We had a piano and my sister Opal and I were very interested in our lessons. We played and sang around the piano. I attended a one-room school with grades one through eight. Mrs. Laura Coleman was my first teacher. We had school programs and my mother would take my sister Hazel and me to the Richland Valley School to sing the motion songs she had taught us. We would ride in the wagon and the only light we had was a kerosene lantern. I went to high school at Mossyrock, riding the school bus daily. We all worked hard to do our best to make good grades. It seemed to be expected of us. My favorite class was debate. I graduated in 1922, valedictorian of my class. That same year, I enrolled at Oregon Agricultural College, Corvallis, OR. I worked my way through college, working in various homes. I majored in Secretarial Science and my 'minor was in Education. My practice teaching was on campus. I sang in a sixty-voice choir at the Congregational Church. We canoed on the Mary's River and went for hikes in the hills. I liked basketball and Slats Gill was playing there. Now Gill Stadium is named in his honor. I received my degree in 1927. Frank Larsen, Tacoma, WA, and I were married in my parents' home in Swofford, WA, in 1926. Frank was born in 1902 in Chouteau, MT. We made our first home in Tacoma, WA, where our two children, Na Dene and Darrel, were born. Frank was employed as a lumber inspector for the City Lumber Company. We later moved to a farm at Morton, WA. In 1939 I married Charles Feldtman, an ex-marine. He was born in 1910 in Nampa, ID. He was working on the North Cascade Highway when we met at Rockport, WA. Our first home was in Swofford, WA. Charles worked in a lumber mill as a sawyer and also maintained a small farm. We had four children - Gary, Marilyn, Diane and Sally Jo. Na Dene married Loren Eastman. He is employed by the Boeing Company, manufacturing decorative interiors for aircraft. Na Dene is an insurance broker. They live in Seattle. Darrel married La Verne Landon. He has a stepson, David Jones, two daughters, Tanyo and Debra, and a son, Duran. He is with the Boeing Company in payroll accounting. La Verne manages a laundromat. They live in Bothell, WA. Gary married Linda Treadwell. They have two sons - Brian and Scott. Gary is vice 149 (photo): Ruby Davis Feldtman Family president of the Olympia branch of the Central Evergreen Federal Savings. Linda is a secretary at the Timberline High School and they live in Lacey, WA. Marilyn married Wayne Bryson. They have two sons - Gary and Greg. Marilyn is interested in singing and writing songs. Wayne is a conductor for Burlington Northern Railroad. They make their home in Wishram, WA. Diane married Marlin Zable and they have two sons - Bryant and Jason. She is employed by the government at N.A.S. Lemoore, CA. Marlin is retired from the Navy. Diane and her family have traveled extensively during her husband's military career. They live in Lemoore, CA. Sally Jo married Jim McCann. She has three step-children - Jim T., Brenda and Randy. Sally Jo is a teacher at the Wishram School. Jim is a conductor for the Burlington Northern Railroad. They make their home in The Dalles, OR. In the 1950's, I returned to college at Central Washington State University, Ellensburg, WA, and obtained a Standard General Teaching Certificate for the State of Washington. I taught in various schools in the state and retired from teaching in 1960. In 1973, I accompanied my daughter Diane and her family to Guam, Mariana Islands, for a short visit. Then I taught first grade at Finneaayan School, Guam, for two years. I visited the Phillipines, Taiwan, Japan, Hong Kong and Saipan. Since then, I have vacationed in Mexico, Jamaica, taken two Carribbean cruises and spent a month in Scandinavia, traveled to Sweden, Norway, Denmark and then Alaska. We are still having Mossyrock High School Class of 1922 reunions. There are five graduates out of a class of seven attending. Weare especially grateful to have one of our teachers, Mrs. Louise Siler Anderson, join us. When the Riffe Dam was built our old church site was covered by the water. Our congregation, now known as the Bethel Primitive Church, constructed a new building in Mossyrock and services are held there. We have a special meeting in August, which is often attended by fellow members from Virginia and North Carolina. I, in turn, have visited our friends and churches there. I have always enjoyed taking pictures, especially of people. I have numerous pictures of family and friends. During my travels this habit has been especially rewarding as I have many photographs to enjoy. As my brothers, sisters and I began to raise our own families, some of the couples moved from the Swofford Valley to various locations throughout Washington and Oregon. Because of our family's closeness we began to spend every Christmas night at my parents' home with our children. These were special times. Everyone would bring a particular dish for the potluck dinner. These dishes became standard as the years progressed. The family would gather around the piano and sing Christmas carols. As my parents grew older, a reunion became a summer event with my parents, Davis Cox families, also attending. This "summer reunion" has been going on for thirty years. It is held on the second Sunday in the same location. I still reside in Swofford Valley by the beautiful Swofford Lake. (photo): Grandparents of Ruby Feldtman, John and Arminta Jane Stacy Cox my mother, her brothers and sister. Frances Margaret, Henry Clinton, Robert Ezra Lee, Giles Alva, Carrie Louise, William Linkous COX GERALD BRUCE FISCHER FAMILY Jerry was born 18 July 1942 at Centralia General Hospital to parents Edwin Frederick and Marguerite Elnora Palmer Fischer. Jerry spent most of his growing up and early adult years on (photo): Mary and Gerald Fischer, 1981 150 the family farm off the Penning Road at Adna. He attended Adna Schools and graduated from Adna High School- with perfect attendance - in May 1961 and also attended Centralia College. Jerry served in the Washington National Guard from 1964 till the Summer of 1970. Mary was born 24 April 1953 at Morton General Hospital to Parents John Chester - known to many as Chet and or Chester - and Ruby Jo Keegan Madden. I spent all my growing up years on the family farm off the Madden Road at Cinebar. I attended Onalaska Schools and graduated from On alaska High School in May 1971. Jerry and I met for the very first time one month and 4 days past my 17th birthday on 28 May 1970. There was a dance at Alpha Grange Hall and my sister Helen and I went after her high school graduation earlier that same evening. Jerry claims it took him some time to get courage enough to ask me for that very first dance! We dated the summer of 1970 and during my senior year of high school. New Years Eve dance – 1 January 1972 - Jerry asked me to marry him and I received my ring the same night. The dance was held in Chehalis at the Community Building. We were busy getting things set for our wedding as we set the date in the latter part of August. Saturday, 26 August 1972, was a very beautiful sunny day for our wedding. We were married by Bishop Charles Hoffman of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. We were married in Chehalis at the Community Building. We moved into our first home - where we still reside - on Sunday evening - 27 August - as Jerry had to be back at work on Monday the 28th. Our home is in the Adna area. Jerry has worked for Chehalis City Community Services - known then as Chehalis City Parks and Recreation - since the 7th or 11 th of April 1973. I just started my job March 1985. I am taking care of 2 lovely children 2 to 3 days a week while their mother is working. We are kept busy with our many hobbies and church callings and activities. Jerry plays on the church men's basketball and baseball teams, and I play on the church ladies' baseball team. You could consider me a "STITCHERY NUT" as I love to sew, needlepoint, embroider, crewel embroider, crochet, macrame, quilt, counted cross stitch - just to name a few. Jerry loves to swim, hunt and work outside. Jerry, also, helps me with the canning which is a great help. With my father's death in November 1979, I inherited 105 acres of the Madden family farm - where I spent the first 19 years of my life - off the Madden Road in the Cinebar Community. By Mary A. Madden Fischer EDWIN FREDERICK FISCHER FAMILY Ed's sister can remember running across the field and through the woods to get Mrs. Bona, a midwife. She also remembers being dissappointed that her valentine was a baby brother. Ed was to spend most of his life where born. He still lives on one half of that original Fischer ground. When four, Ed roamed the woods by himself, ax in hand. One story told, tells how he was chopping a hazel brush. It slapped him - he axed it again - harder. It hit back harder - a third time with all his might. The slap was equal to the strike. Ed threw down his ax and stormed off home. Ed is accomplished in logging. He can lay a tree where he wants and knows much about timber business. Ed's wife was born in Minnesota; raised in South Dakota and married in Washington. She still owns the rocker given her at birth. The rooster and silver dollar received then disappeared long ago. April first, 1939 was their marriage date and coincidentally all moves were on April 1st. Doty to Adna, Adna to the Ozar estate, and then to the top of Pleasant Hill. Three children were born: Joan Annette (Mrs. Norton LeeSeip), Gerald Bruce, (married Mary Alice Madden,) and Karen Jean (Welsh). While living on the Ozar place Ed began developing his herd of Jerseys. Thirty seven years later Ed's refining became part of Gary Mohoric's Dairy Family of the Year herd. Four hundred dollars and a piece of undeveloped ground and somewhat brave, Ed and Marguerite, cleared land, built a chicken house, and a machine shed. Later it became a nice home. Ed had arthritis in his back so bad, he sold off his cows three times. Money wasn't easy. Jerry had his first purchased pants when he was in the second grade. Joan and Karen also had makeovers. Finally, the barn got a roof and they were in the hand milking business on a dirt floor. Following the three months our family was without water and electricity, due to a power blowup. Ed became employed with Weyerhaeuser. Christmas time, Ed had a new Necchi sewing machine delivered to the Fisher home, and the faithful treadle taken away. That sewing machine was an aid to Marguerite as a 4-H leader. Twelve of the seventeen years she was County Clothing Superintendent. Three members earned Chicago trips. Two were their daughters. Perhaps 100 or more girls sewed on that sewing machine. In 1966 a granddaughter was born, Robyn Lynn Welsh and later became a part of the Fischer home. Ed continued to work for Weyerhaeuser for twenty-seven years. He finally gave up selling milk. While with Weyerhaeuser he became a sort of good relations man. During his break time or standby time, he cut wood and after work, delivered free wood to older people. Some were short of money, health or time. It totaled countless cords. Ed retired from the woods (retired means tired again) and has worked hard on his farm and woods and being a good neighbor. For this couple, life has had its share of trials and many good times. We are glad to be alive, hoping that we may have helped someone in this life, someway. By Marguerite Elnora Palmer Fischer KARL WILHELM FISCHER FAMILY Dad Fischer was born in Esslingen, Germany, in 1872. In 1890 he arrived in California, missing his sister and two aunts and uncles headed for Chehalis. He stayed there and worked on a dairy. In 1897, his sister, Mrs. Buchelle, and the Wenzelburgers and Baumans wanted him to come to Chehalis. He rented his sister's 240 acres across from Pleasant Hill Cemetery. He bought her cattle and machinery, and hauled hay up Curtis Hill Road in mud; axle deep. The cattle died next spring from parsnip poisoning. He sold the machinery with promise to pay, but no pay came. Then he earned his way back to California working in a slaughter house, where Alexander Park's speakers stand was located. He walked four miles through swamp, Hamilton's fields now. (photo): Karl and Anna Fischer Once he was treed by a bull. The Wenzelburgers and Baumans lived where Brockway is now. Located where the Grange Supply is today, was his sister's meat market. Dad Fischer arrived in San Francisco with 50 cents in pocket; a $1.00 was needed for the ferry to Oakland. No work was available so he asked a bartender to take his watch for security. The bartender gave him a dollar but didn't accept the watch. The $1.00 was returned. He went back to Anderson's dairy and worked three years, saving $1,000. He purchased 20 acres in Oakland, and thirty-two years later, Fruitvale Ave. went through the property. Wakefield sold him 160 acres in Pleasant Hill for $2,000, with a home and barn on it. He cleared land - sold milk - raised cattle and horses. The early settlers of Klaber Valley used to hunt on that ridge. A man, named Edwards, told Dad Fischer that, according to the Indians, about 380-years ago a big fire went through the area. Indians, bear and cougar (man and beast) were friends in the Chehalis River area. All the old-growth timber burned. The grass was abundant for years. By 1901, most wild game was killed off for food. The deer returned about 1933 and elk about 1960. Dad Fischer worked for the Wisconsin Logging Co., from 1901-1908, ten hours a day. After walking 8 miles a day, he hunted cows to milk, sometimes found near Raschke's or in Pleasant Valley. His day's wage was two dollars. At 3:00 a.m. on Sundays, he arose to walk to Adna and followed the railroad tracks to Doty, up Elk Creek, to visit Annie Ruppert. It was forty miles round trip. In 1903, Dad Fischer corresponded with a girl in Germany, and sent for and married Anna Barbara Badger. Fred Lucas officiated for them and, later, four of his children's marriages. Anna put Pauline in a baby buggy and went to Mrs. Bona's. A bear crossed her path - the bear went one way and she the other. Then, a milk bucket of blackberries could be picked in an hour. They had nine children in 15 years. Anna worked hard - carried two full, ten-gallon milk cans from barn to the county road; carried 125 pound sacks of grain - and she was a tiny lady. Five children survived - Pauline (Kniffen); Carl, married Anna McClung; Anna (Berger); Ed, married Marguerite Palmer; and Louise (Long). After Louise was born, Mother Fischer was hospitalized. Dad Fischer received advice not to hire a housekeeper, so he became mother and father to his brood. Dad Fischer liked to walk. A cow was weak, from freshening, at Wackerbarth's and he walked both ways to milk her until she could return home. 151 He had little cleared ground. Once three acres of hay, scythed by hand, was threatened by rain. By 3:00 a.m., he had packed all that hay into the barn. In 1910, he sold virgin-timber for 75 cents a 1000 board-feet. Sawed timber from the Bunker Sawmill, was $3.00 a full load. Carl Fischer began work at age sixteen, helping put in the highway from Chehalis to Pe Ell. Also he was a good coyote man for the County Rock Crusher. Dad Fischer passed away in 1951. Mauerman's are also Lewis County relatives. Dad and Mother Fischer were real Lewis County Pioneers. By Edwin Frederick and Marguerite E. Fischer JAMES ROBERT (BOB) AND DOROTHEA ELISE FITZHUGH >From stagecoach to jet planes is the fascinating time that Bob and Dorothea Fitzhugh lived. >From people to people communication, to telegraph, telephone, radio, and the most fascinating of all, television. Bob's parents crossed the plains in covered wagons as children. His fathers's family settling in Camas Valley, Oregon. His mother's family settled in the Mollala Valley, Oregon. He was born at Denmark, Oregon, April 30, 1881. James Robert was the fifth child born to George Solomon and Sarah Bell (Cox) Fitzhugh. Dorothea's parents crossed the ocean "steerage" class from Norway. They first went to Illinois. From there to Portland, Oregon, where her father fished in the Columbia River. They heard about the free land in Lewis County and came and homesteaded at Alpha. They first lived on the Pigeon Springs Road on the Alexander place, while her father built the house on the homestead. The house was built of cedar logs that her father used an adz to square, and the corners were mortised. In this new house Dorothea Elise was born March 17, 1889. She was the sixth child born to Jens Lorn and Kristianna (Olson) Jacobsen. Bob held a variety of jobs during his lifetime. At age 15, he got a job tending the oxen in a logging camp for 15 cents a day. He also had to take care of them on Sunday, without pay. He was a member of his father's surveying crew. He went to Alaska during the Gold Rush. He loved it there. He had to come out when he got inflammatory rheumatism. He went to work for a logging camp at Lake Samish, Washington. There, he met Dorothea, who was keeping house and cooking for her brothers and cousins, who were working for her oldest brother Ole. After a courtship of nearly a year, they were married July 2, 1911, Chehalis, Washington, by Dr. Brown, a Methodist minister. Their first home was at Alger, Washington. Their first child, Christianna Bell was born April 21, 1912, in Bellingham, Washington. They later moved to Sedro Wooley, Washington, where they were joined by their first son, George Robertson November 5,1913. Bob worked helping to build the mental hospital. Shortly after they went by train by Portland, Oregon, to board a ship to Coos Bay, Oregon, and went on to live at Sixes, Oregon. During this time, the United States entered World War I. On August 10, 1917, they were joined by another son, Richard Oliver. They left Sixes, in early 1918, and came back to Lewis County, where they bought a "stump ranch" in Shoestring Valley. There on April 29, 1925, Doris Evangeline joined the family. Bob went to work for Carlisle Lumber Company, as a timber faller. He also worked for a time at the Cispus CCC camp. His last job was on the Lucas Creek lookout in the summer time. Bob was known for his love of life, hunting and fishing stories, and playing the violin. He died of a heart attack April 28, 1956. Dorothea is known for her gardens, sewing and flowers. She lived alone on the home place after Bob's death until she was 95. She raised her own garden and mowed the lawn with a push mower. She now resides at Forest Manor. GLENN HENRY FLEMING Glenn Henry Fleming was born in Centralia, Washington October 29, 1952. He was the eighth child of nine children born to Eugene R. and Martha F. Fleming. His mother and father were involved with music througout the county. His father was also involved with Radio Station KELA in the 50's as well as an excavation business. His mother was a homemaker in addition to playing piano for numerous occasions. Glenn's childhood took place in Mossyrock. The Fleming family owned a farm near Mossyrock. Glenn attended grade school there. In 1966 the family moved to Morton where Glenn finished school, graduating in 1971. He then attended Centralia College where he majored in music. In 1973, Glenn enlisted in the Army and performed with the 77th Army Band at Fort Sill, OK. In the fall of 1973, Glenn married Mary Ellen Gardner. Mary was born December 13, 1952. She was the 5th child of 8 children born to James and Violet Gardner. Mary's mother was a homemaker. She found herself very busy with her children while James (Mary's father) was in the Navy. Her father retired from the Navy and served with the Lewis County Sheriffs Department as a deputy. Mary's childhood took place near Rochester until her 7th grade in school. The Gardner family then moved to Centralia. Mary graduated from Centralia High School in 1971. She then enrolled at Centralia College majoring in secretarial and business. This was a natural course of study for Mary as she was very active as a Future Business Leader of America in high school. While at Centralia College, Glenn and Mary met. After their 1973 wedding, the young family lived in Oklahoma for just over a year. Their first child, Christopher Glenn, was born at Fort Sill, OK. (He only cost $10.50.) After Glenn's completion of active duty with the Army, the family returned to Lewis County. Glenn was hired by the department of highways for a temporary job. After two more temporary jobs and some continuing education classes at Centralia College, Charity Anne was born in November of 1976. Shortly after her birth, Glenn was hired to work as a maintenance man at Centralia General Hospital. Periodically taking classes at Centralia College, Glenn continued to work at Centralia General Hospital. Mary worked a short time as a secretary for the Salvation Army. By now, 1979, another child was born, Bethany Michelle in May. In May of 1982 Micah Jonathan was born. Glenn's father Eugene Fleming passed away in the fall of 1983. Glenn still works at Centralia General Hospital where he is now director of maintenance and safety. Mary is championing the skills of being a homemaker with five children. Mary is active with school support as is Glenn. The entire family is very active in Faith Community Church in Chehalis. Glenn plays his trombone at church and arranges music. The five children are also involved in music as the older three have all taken violin. The family lives at Napavine. In 1984 the Olympic Torch passed a few feet from our home. We celebrated by having a poster on our van and playing the Olympic theme song as the runner came by. The Fleming family roots started in 1940 in Lewis County and we are proud to be living here today. GENE FLEMING FAMILY We, Gene and Martha (Platt), were both born in Duvall, WA, in 1911 and 1912, but we met twenty-years later in Snoqualmie. We were married, there, in 1935. We took our first child, Donald, and lived in the Los Angeles area for seven years. There, we added three more children, Richard, Latona and Judy. When Pearl Harbor was bombed and, California was on alert, we left that so-called, "Land of Milk and Honey" and came back to the land of evergreen trees and leaves that change color with the seasons. We brought with us two black riding mares, two black and white Shetland ponies, a jenny named "Molly" and some Hamberg chickens. These animals were all carried in a truck loaded with hay, screws and nails, to start life here. We also brought a horse trailer, a station wagon, carrying four children, us, Grandma, household articles, and etc. I pulled a fourwheel trailer, the trip took us six weeks. My parents lived near Seattle and Gene's parents in Tacoma. After we caught our breaths, we headed toward the hills. As we came through the Cowlitz Valley, Riffe, Ajlune and into the beautiful, green, peaceful Mossyrock Valley, we said, "This is it!". Fletcher Bartley had a farm in Ajlune and took us in for a time, housing us and keeping the stock in a true pioneer fashion. Gene went to work in the tie-mills but, after three accidents, he left the woods. By then, we had found a farm in the Cowlitz-Tilton River Valley, where the Tilton flowed into the Cowlitz. We ownd 100 acres there; a haven for raising children. We built a new barn, aided by Matt Hadaller. We fixed up the old house; had a beautiful garden; raised hay and Shetland ponies; milked cows and sold milk. Linda, Francie, Glenn, Danny and Latonia were born there. We bought more land on the level above. The bottom land was flooded when they built the Mayfield Dam, and the higher land became Ike Kinswa State Park. About that time, we had a very good, eight-piece band, called "The Gene Fleming's Band", and played several years at the Firemen's Hall. At the start, the band included Gene; me (Martha); Don, thirteen, on trombone; Rich, twelve, on trumpet; Alan Fryburger, the Mossyrock band instructor, on piano; and three others. The two boys became top jazz musicians through their teen years. Then they gave their lives to playing for the Lord and are still beautiful musicians. That was the end of our "Band". We moved to Silver Creek, then several other places. Gene worked at Green Hill seven years, teaching music to the boys. While in the Job Corps, he was on the Morton Moose Ritual Team, which became the National Champions. He eventually became ill with emphysema and passed away in 1983. There are still eight children, all married; twenty-four grandchildren; and one great-grandchild. There are many fine musicians in the family. I have always played the piano, and music has been our life. By Martha Platt Fleming 152 (photo): Gene and Martha Fleming in 1959. Rich, Don, Larry, Judy, Linda, Francis, Glenn, Danny. AGNES JULSTAD FLESHER I want our descendants in the Agnes Julstad Flesher family to know some of the things we did in our lifetime. (photo): Agnes Julstad Flesher I, Agnes Flesher, was born June 21,1913, in the town of Kenmare, North Dakota. My father, Andrew Julstad, homesteaded near Tribune, Saskatchewan Canada. He first plowed the ground with oxen; then later with horses. Prior to this, he and my mother came from Norway-from Inderoien. After ten years of wheat farming, my father decided to go to the West Coast. He chose Winlock and engaged in chicken farming. They were one of the three Scandinavian families there. I graduated from Winlock High School in 1931. I did office work for a few years, and in 1939 I married Ralph Flesher. He had a transfer business for awhile. This marriage ended in divorce in 1966. Two boys, David and Lloyd, were born to this union. My oldest son, David, works for Higrade in Tacoma. My youngest son is a baker for Albertsons', also located in Tacoma. I have held various jobs in Seattle, the most interesting one was with E.W. Elliott Construction Co. with the Alaska Canadian Highway. After that I worked as a nurse's aid at the Foss Retirement Home. Since I retired, Ive done volunteer work at the Bread of Life Mission and also at the Lutheran Compass Center. Singing, swimming and sewing are my hobbies. DOUGLAS E. FLETCHER AND FAMILY Doug Fletcher was born in Cheyenne, Wyoming, in 1934 and came to the Lewis County area in the late '30's. While growing up, he lived at Ground Mound, Holcomb, Chehalis (where he attended the first grade at Cascade School the first year Mr. Les Scroup was there), and Centralia (where he attended Logan School). While attending high school, Doug started working at National Fruit Canning Company in cold storage as a lift truck driver and stacker. Dianne (nee Grober) Fletcher was born in 1936 in Lovell, Wyoming, and moved to Chehalis in 1946. Dianne attended the old West Side School and was attending the R.E. Bennett Junior High School when the '49 quake hit. She was in the first class (1954) to graduate out of the gymnasium of the "new" W.F. West High School. October 19, 1956, Doug and Dianne were married in the old Peace Lutheran Church on the corner of Main and Saunders in Chehalis. June 26, 1958, was the beginning of the next generation of Fletchers with the birth of their son, Mark Edward, and on August 3, 1965, their daughter, Marge Ann, was born; both in St. Helens Hospital in Chehalis. In 1972, Dianne opened Klay Krafts Ceramics and Gifts on the corner of Chehalis Avenue and Center Streets (in the old Cohn and Mintzer building). Doug and Diane now own this building and have it listed with the Historical Society as one of the historically important buildings in Chehalis. Doug is now Supervisor of the Packaging Department of National Fruit Canning Company, and Dianne is employed at Centralia College. Their son, Mark, followed in his father's footsteps and started working while in high school part time as a lift truck driver and stacker in cold storage at National Fruit. He is currently still employed there full time, is married to Wanda (nee Hall), lives in Chehalis and they have three children, Mindy Lee (born August 25, 1976), Brandy Lynn (born August 11, 1978), and Douglas Barron "Barry" (born April 25, 1981) and has a rock band, Tyrus. Marge married Ron Moen on October 1, 1983, they live in Chehalis and are expecting their firstborn around the first of October, 1985. FLETCHER FAMILY Harry E. Fletcher was born in Centralia in 1917. He is the eldest of three children born to Lorenzo M. and Lura H. Fletcher. He has a brother, Thurman and a sister, Letha. (photo): Douglas E. Feltcher, Dianne, Ruth, Marge Ann, Ron Moen, Mark, Wanda. In front: Brandy Lynn, Mindy Les, Douglas Barr. 153 (photo): F1etcher Family Norma J. Bradway was born in LaCenter, Washington in 1922. She is the youngest of six children born to Millard L. and Ida M. Bradway. Her sisters are Mildred, Gladys, Marcia, and her brothers, Dick and Bob. Harry attended Centralia public schools for 10 years and graduated from Adna after his family moved there. Norma attended LaCenter schools all twelve grades. Harry's family moved to Woodland, Washington in 1938. He met Norma and they were married on April 13, 1941. For the first five years of their marriage they resided in Seattle, Washington where Harry was employed as a switchman for the Great Northern Railroad. In 1942 their first son, Bob, was born, and in 1943 their second son, Gary. Both these sons were born at a maternity home in Woodland, attended by Dr. Lasater. In 1946 they moved to Vancouver, Washington where they built a house. There, in 1949, their third son, Lance, was born. He was born in Vancouver Memorial Hospital, attended by Dr. Hoffman. In 1952 they moved back to Lewis County when they purchased a general store in Galvin. They operated the store until about 1967. Norma had taken a job with Sears Roebuck and Harry decided to go back to finish his education, which he did by working part-time at Maple Lane and driving school bus while taking courses at Centralia College. Following his graduation from Centralia College, he went on to Central Washington State College and received his teaching certificate. At age 50 he began his teaching career at Jefferson Lincoln grade school, teaching 6th grade. When they reorganized the grade levels, he moved to Washington school to continue teaching 6th grade. Bob, Gary, and Lance all attended Galvin School, completing Jr. High and High school in Centralia. All three boys attended Centralia College. Bob went on to University of Washington and graduated in Fisheries. Gary attended Washington State University, graduating in Pharmacy and Lance also graduated from Washington State University. He chose Business Administration as a career. In 1962 Bob married Judy Lewis and they had three children, Lisa, Deborah, and Robert Jr. In 1971 they divorced. In 1974 Bob remarried to Jeanne McGinnis and they had one child, Keri. Bob was employed by the government Fish and Wildlife Dept. Bob died of cancer in 1978. Gary married Paula Bunn in 1967 and they have two children, Scott and Kim. Gary is a pharmacist in Vancouver, Washington. Lance married Linda Dean in 1970 and they have three children, Dyan, Ryan, and Kyle. Lance has an insurance agency in Centralia, where they reside. Linda has taught at Jefferson Lincoln School. In 1972 Norma and Harry moved onto five acres on Salzer Valley Road. Harry retired from teaching in 1979 and Norma from Sears in 1983. All the family has been involved in Little League Baseball, both Harry and Lance being managers of teams. HAROLD FLOOD FAMILY HISTORY In 1943, during World War II, my husband, two sons and I moved from Minnesota to Seattle where my husband worked at Boeings. In 1945 when the war ended, my husband was terminated from Boeings. We moved to Centralia where my husband worked for his aunt and cousin in what was the Badger Mfg. Co. on North Tower Avenue. In the late 1940's, it was sold to Safeway Corp. where they built a new Safeway Store. My husband worked at different sheet metal shops in the area until he went to work with me in 1962. In 1954 I started my own business papering, painting and upholstering under the name of "Busy Bee". I think I was the first woman in the area in that type of business. I retired in 1979 after 25 years in business. We purchased the old Toby house in Galvin, moving from Centralia in the fall of 1946, where I still live. My husband and I started remodeling the house in 1965 and finished in 1971. The house is now remodeled into a ranch style. My husband, Harold, two sons, Lyle and Dale, and I were born in Minnesota. Our third son, Danny Lee, was born in Seattle. My husband and two sons, Lyle and Danny Lee, are deceased. Dale lives in Lincoln Creek Valley. I have five grandchildren. Three live here in this area. Two live in Seattle. By Beatrice Flood (Bea) FOGLESONG, SHEARER, CANFIELD, KENEPAH James (Jim) Elmer Foglesong is a direct descendant of pioneers to our area. James and Mary J. (Waddle) Foglesong and their son George and his wife Mary Ellen (Mercer) Foglesong came by wagon to Ford's Prairie in 1876. In 1884 George claimed 200 acres on Lincoln Creek. Edward Payson and Elizabeth (King) Sawtell crossed the plains in a covered wagon, settling in the Independence Valley in 1881. James Samuel (Sam) Foglesong and Ethel Sawtell were married at her parent's home February 28,1915. The newly-weds lived with Sam's parents until their home was built. George Edward was born in 1918 and Jim on October 2, 1921. George died in 1924 so the family farmed on shares with Grandmother Foglesong. Sam worked out with his team, and the milking was done by Ethel and the two boys. Jim tamed a cow to ride, while he drove the cows from the pasture to the barn. Jim remembers sitting on the cross-brace of the plow handles while John Maki plowed with the team. Cliff Dye would take him, on his route, up the valley to collect cans of milk. Grandma's barn was wired for electricity in 1926; Jim turned on the lights for the first time. When Jim was about four, his Dad slashed and burned 40 acres. The flames were so bright at 2 a.m. that people in down-town Centralia could read a newspaper by the glow. Jim was given an old teakettle to pour water on a burning stump near their house. Ethel played piano and Sam the violin for dances at the Grange Hall. Jim and other small children would be "bedded down" on the benches while the parents danced. We danced at the hall in our "dating" years, and our oldest three children attended record "hops" there. Jim attended Pleasant Grove School, a one room structure, for all eight grades, from 19271935. The school was two miles west of the family farm. For most of Jim's growing up years, his folks kept a flock of 100 sheep. It was his job to bring them in from pasture each evening. There were no fences so they had 500 acres to brouse. During shearing, he was kept out of school to catch the sheep and pack the wool. Jim shot his first grouse with a single shot Benjamin BB rifle that his parents bought for him when he was eight. His Dad showed him how to set traps for predators. He collected a $5.00 bounty for a bobcat. Merle Dunlap bought the standing timber on Grandma's place about 1928. Sam and his brother Bert were part of the falling crew. Occasionally Ed or Jim would get to fire up the boiler. It took 6 years to log the place. Sam bought the slabs and he, Jim and Ed sold them in Galvin and Centralia, using a 1917 Model-T single tired truck. When Grandma died in 1934 Sam inherited 80 acres plus the 8 acres that his house was on. (Jim bought the 8 acres in 1939.) In the fall of 1934, Sam moved the family home off the hill onto a 40 acre piece he'd purchased. Jim attended Centralia High School from 1935-1939, lettering in baseball and boxing. He was active in F.F.A. One summer he worked for $2 a day at the Fords Prairie Cafe, owned by his Uncle Justin and Aunt Myrtle Minkler. He had Sunday afternoons off to play baseball for the Lincoln Creek Grange team. He played on the team from 1935-1942. While working for George Webster, he took part of his wages in lumber that his Dad had planed. It was used in the remodeling of the farmhouse in 1942. Friends introduced us in the summer of 1942. That fall Jim enlisted in the U.S. Naval Construction Battalion (Sea Bees). Following boot camp, at Norfolk, Virginia, the 48th. was sent to Maui, and a year later to Guam. He was discharged December 15, 1945. Jim and I married in the First Christian Church, Centralia, on November 30, 1946. We purchased 10 acres that included a little house, shop and barn on the Galvin Road. Jim was logging for Merle Dunlap and I worked for the state. Our children were born during the time we lived there: Gwen in 1947, Linda in 1950, Allan in 1951, twins Larry and Terry in 1952 (died soon after birth), twins Debra and Donna in 1956 and Jeri in 1960. Jim worked for Lewis County Road District #1 from 1948-1961, and was a tanker truck driver for Darigold from 1961-1972. He now farms full time, raising beef and putting up hay for our own use and for sale. Most of the lumber used in all the outbuildings that we've added, came from logs he took off the place. In October 1963 Sam died and we bought the farm on Lincoln Creek from his mother, Ethel. We remodeled the house, using the pillars from 154 (photo): Gerrie and Jame's Family George's old house on our porch, and a door with etched glass panel from a house Sam dismantled in our lower 40 acres. Gwen and Jim Stephens married December 22,1967 in Centralia. There are two daughters, Angela and Tiffany. The family lives in Anchorage, Alaska. Gwen is a primary grade school teacher and Jim is a hospital chaplain. Linda and L. Patrick Madoche married August 14, 1970 at my parent's home on Waunch Prairie. They have three sons, Michael, Paul and Matthew. They live in Colonial Heights, Virginia. Linda is a homemaker and Pat is a plant manager in Richmond, Virginia. Allan and Margaret Rohr were married October 7, 1972 in Beatrice, Nebraska. They have two children, Jennifer and Chad. Their home is in Beatrice, Nebraska. Allan is a city fireman and Margaret works in the medical records office at a hospital. Debbie and John Canfield were classmates at Centralia High School, becoming sweethearts prior to graduation. They were married in the front yard of our farm home June 28, 1975. God has blessed them with two wonderful children, a son Cory, 9, and a daughter Cari who is 6 1/2. They lived in Centralia until 1981, then moved to Anchorage, Alaska seeking work. After 18 months they headed back to Centralia, grateful for the experience that stretched them. It made them realize their roots were truly here. In 1984 they purchased Debbie's grandmother's home on Waunch Prairie. The house that her Grandpa Jerry built in 1925 is on it's 4th generation of making happy memories, for Debbie has many of her own from childhood. The Canfield's fellowship is at Centralia First Presbyterian Church. John is a Deacon, and he and Debbie lead the infant/toddler program. They are active in the Lightship (young couples) group. This year they are serving as "Skippers". John is employed by Kinnear of Washington, and Debbie cares for infants in their home. Donna and Alexander (Andy) Howard were married in Centralia July 29,1978. Their home is in Seattle, Washington. He is a Boeing employee and Donna is a speech therapist at Northwest Hospital. Jeri and Ross Kenepah were married July 25, 1980 in Centralia. In 1982 they built a home on two of the eight acres that Sam inherited from his mother. The brick-line well that Sam dug provides water for their needs. Jeri had her name legally changed to Jeri Elizabeth Foglesong Kenepah. She and Ross are the fourth generation to live on property claimed by George Foglesong in 1884. During vacations in 1983 and 1984 they traveled to Toadlena and the Two Gray Hills area of New Mexico to research Ross's family. They found several cousins in Farmington, New Mexico and the family homestead at Toadlena. Ross's father, Jess Kenepah, was born in Two Gray Hills. He enlisted in the U.S. Marines during W.W. II and served in the South Pacific, earning the rank of Corporal. He died in 1978 and is buried in Farmington. That area of New Mexico is quite desolate, with subsistance farming, sheep raising and weaving being the main sources of income. May 1, 1985 Jeri and Ross flew east to drive a car to the coast for an employer. They traveled to Virginia and West Virginia researching Foglesong roots, and visiting Jeri's sister, Linda, and family. Ross is employed by Lewis County and Jeri at a thoroughbred farm on the Prather Road. My parents, William Gerald (Jerry) Shearer and Grace Jenkins eloped March 31, 1925. They were married in Sumner, Washington. Their first home was a small, three room house my father built on Waunch Prairie. I was born March 26, 1926 at the home of my grandparents, T. Lloyd and Pearl (Coffin) Jenkins. I was christened Geryldine Pearl Shearer. My sister, La Vola Dale, was born September 7, 1927. Dad began remodeling the house about 1930. During the process, my sister and I were allowed to rollerskate upstairs and down. Dad hung a swing in the archway for us. I attended Oakview school for 8 years. The brick building had four rooms, while the "old" wooden school was retained as lunch room and play area. The P.T.A. began a hot lunch program with mothers preparing the food. No charge was made for the meals; the government donated some foods and the parents provided the rest. Dad was injured while working, which required hospitalization. While recuperating, we took a 5 month trip to visit relatives in Kansas. We bought a new 1936 Plymouth sedan for the trip. In Salina, we lived in an apartment and my sister and I were enrolled in school. My great grandmother, Tabitha (Gibbons) Dickey lived in our building, and while we were there she celebrated her 89th. birthday. Easter, 1937, LaVola and I were baptized at the First Christian Church. All our children were also baptized into that fellowship. Waunch Prairie was sparsely settled when my sister and I were young. We had fields to explore, as well as Coffee Creek to fish and swim in. We swam at "the Swallows" (now Schaefer Park), picked wild blackberries on the logged off land behind our house, hiked Davis Hill, enjoyed a tree house and camped out at the back of our property. Joint eighth grade exercises were held at Centralia High School. Mother made me a special dress and I wore my first "heels". LaVola and I joined Rainbow and participated in Christian Endeavor at church. December 7, 1941 we heard the announcement that Japan had bombed Pearl Harbor. We held war bond sales at school, and struggled with food/gas rationing. My Dad worked at Keyport Naval Station, commuting home weekends. After graduating from Centralia High School in 1944, I completed one year at Centralia Jr. College, serving as student body president. I went to work for the state, transferring to the local office of the Employment Security Service. Jim was home on leave when we celebrated V.J. Day. When we married, I had never picked a duck, cleaned a chicken, cut meat for the freezer, rendered lard or milked a cow. I still can't milk a cow! I've learned to refinish the lovely old oak furniture that Ethel left on the farm, gained painting/paperhanging tips from my Dad and sewing help from my mother. There have been family hay crews to cook for, tractors to drive and hay to help load. It's good to have our "kids" and grandkids help on the farm. The grandchildren especially enjoy fishing Lincoln Creek and driving tractor for "Papa Jim". I am thankful that being a part of a church family was important to my parents while I was growing up. I have taken an active role in the First Presbyterian Church of Centralia for over 10 years, teaching church school classes, serving as a deacon, then an elder, and assist the wedding chairperson. Jim and I are indebted to science for providing resources to keep his cancer in remission. We are grateful for the heritage provided us by our parents. In looking back, we can build on their knowledge, and in love we can extend that family bond to our children and grandchildren. By Gerry Foglesong LARRY A. FOISTER FAMILY Larry Arthur Foister was born in 1945 in Chehalis, WA, to Marion "Bud" Foister and Gladys Foister. They moved to a farm on Newaukum Hill in the Spring of 1947. Larry attended Cascade, R.E. Bennett and W.F. West High School, graduating in 1964. He worked as a boxboy at Kelley's Market and, later, as a planeman for the Date Lumber Company. Larry met Sally LaBarre in 1965, while helping his father deliver the Daily Chronicle. They married June 25, 1966. Sally graduated from W.F. West High School in 1967. The couple lived on Newaukum Hill their first year, moved to Centralia and lived there until 1972, then moved back to Newaukum Hill. Jennifer Kaye was born February 7,1969; Yvonne Elaine, June 26,1971. Larry was drafted, into the Army, in 1968 but poor hearing sent him home four months later. Larry worked for Moduline Industries, Allen Homes, Northwest Homes and Hemphill-O'Neal. 155 In 1972, he went to work for the State Department of Transportation, moving his family to Mossyrock. A year later they were back in Chehalis, then the Meskill area. The girls attended Pe Ell School until 1981. They moved back to Newaukum Hill, where they are currently building a home. The girls attend Chehalis Schools. Sally works, part-time, at Dugaw's Jewelry. Larry is active in Newaukum Grange and is a member of the Centralia Eagles, Centralia Masonic Lodge and Chehalis Eastern Star. Sally is active in Newaukum Grange, Chehalis Eagles, Chehalis Eastern Star and is an avid quilter and craftsperson. She operates a floral shop from her home. The girls are active members of Newaukum Grange and Job's Daughters. MARION M. (BUD) FOISTER FAMILY Marion "Bud" Foister was born at Swofford, WA, (near Riffe Lake) in 1921. He was the youngest of twelve children born to Wise Alexander and Cornelia Polly Foister. He was a twin to Myrtle Edna Rayton. >From Swofford, the family moved to Salkum and later to Newaukum Hill. The twins went to Newaukum Hill School, where he met his future wife, Gladys Blakley. At this time, she was in the third grade and he in the fourth. Gladys Ellen was born in 1922 at Chehalis to Arthur Julian and Nora Bessie Blakley. She had two sisters, Doris Miller and Ruby Wallisin. Arthur worked at the Carnation Milk Co., Bordens and Darigold, until he retired in 1956. The Foister Family moved from Newaukum Hill to Salkum in 1937, where they attended Mossyrock High School, and graduated from Onalaska in 1939. Gladys went to Chehalis High, graduating in 1940. Bud joined the U.S. Navy in December, 1941, where he served in Guada1canal. He was discharged in August, 1944, after being in the Seattle Naval Hospital for six months. Upon returning from the service, he started dating Gladys Blakley and they were married in 1944. Their first home was on Maryland Ave. in Chehalis, where I-5 is now. Their first son, Larry Arthur, was born in 1945 in Chehalis. In 1947, they moved to Newaukum Hill on a small farm, where they still live. Bud went to work for Northern Pacific Railroad in 1946 on the bridge-crew. Their second son, Martin Steven, was born in 1949. A third son, Lester Glen, was born in January" 1951, and passed away April, 1951. In 1962, Bud quit the railroad and worked a number of places - Farwest Homes, The Daily Chronicle and Moduline Industries, retiring in 1972. Gladys went to work at Farm Security Administration right from High School; quit work in 1945, to take care of her family. She returned to work in 1959, at the Lewis County Credit Bureau, as supervisor, in reporting. Left there in 1969, to go to work at the Lewis County Treasurer's office as cashier; retired in 1982. At the present time, they have a few beef cattle, for the family's meat. Gladys quilts in her spare time. Larry is married to Sally LaBarre of Pe Ell and they have two daughters - Jennifer Kaye and Yvonne Elaine. Larry works for the State Dept. of Transportation in Chehalis. Sally works parttime at Dugaw's Jewelry. Steven is married to Maralee Rasford of Vashon Island. They have two sons - Steven Brandon and Nicholas Alexander. Steven teaches fourth-grade at Rochester Middle School and Maralee teaches first-grade at Rainier. WILLIAM FREDRICK FOX FAMILY My husband's great grandparents came from Germany. His father Josiah J. Fox came to Lewis County area in the early 1900s. After finding a job and a home he returned to Illinois. He married Clara Macer in St. Francisville in 1904 and they came West on their honeymoon. When the Oregon Territory was opened for homesteaders (1911), they claimed 640 acres. Years later Fredrick was born on the homestead in Lane County, Oregon. They moved back to Centralia about 1915. Four more children were born. They had five sons Macer, Gerald, Fredrick, Clair, Joe (Jr) and daughters Zoe Thomas, Estol Dean, and Francis Fox. Josiah J. Fox worked in Sam Agnew Mills in Centralia and California until his retirement. My parents, Walter Lee Babb and Ada Gowan Babb came to Galvin to join my grandparents Lee Riley Gowan and Drucilla Bounds Gowan. The Gowans grandparents came from Ireland. Lee Gowan worked for Union Pacific Railroad, first as supervisor of track laying crew in the midwest. Later in Lewis County area with the Northwest Division of U.P.R.R. Trains were then the main source of transportation. Both passenger and freight trains connected Centralia's main line thru Galvin and to the Harbor ports of Aberdeen and Hoquium. The Lee Gowan family had eight children: Jim, Bill, Clarence, Ada Babb, Pearl Jennings, Mittee Whiteman, Oscar, and Edith St. Clair. Walter Lee Babb and Ada Gowan Babb were married in Missouri in 1909. They had five children: Alice Bickel, Pearl Matthews, Beattress Hillis, John Babb, and Jewell Fox. Walter Babb worked as a track inspector for the U.P.R.R. He later worked in the saw mills. He was a teamster. The mills then used the big draft horses for moving of timbers and sawed lumber. The Clydesdales, Percherons and Belgians were the breeds used on the mill docks, they often weighed well over a ton each. Walter and Ada Babb were charter members of the Church of the Nazarene, chartered in 1921. Fred and I both attended Centralia Schools but didn't get acquainted until high school. We were married in 1936 in the church my parents helped organize with six other charter members. Our four children were born in Centralia: Peter B., William F. (Jr.), Michael G., and Jewell Dianne Rossow. We have seven grandchildren: Andy and Lisa Fox, Amy and Walter Fox, and Rick, Randy, and Juli Rossow. The past 25 years we have lived in the Lincoln Creek valley. We bought an acreage here in 1960. During World War II, we moved to Tacoma. Fred's work with the U.P.R.R. required long hours. Transportation during the war was difficult. New cars were not being built for several years, tires were hard to qualify for, and gasoline was rationed. In 1948 we moved to an acreage in Puyallup. Our children attended Puyallup schools for twelve years. Our three sons graduated from Puyallup High School and attended University of Washington. Dianne is a graduate of Centralia High School and Washington State University. Fred was conductor for passenger and freight trains for Union Pacific Railroad, retiring with 30 years of service. He then worked as an inspector of railroads for Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission until his retirement in 1982. DENNIS FRANCY FAMILY Dennis Francy was born July 4,1923 in Webber, Kansas to Herbert and Ola Francy. The family moved to Lewis county in 1936. (photo): The Francy Family. Lillian, Diane, Dennis, Debra. As a young man Dennis worked in sawmills in the Winlock area before enlisting in the Army in 1943. While home on leave before going overseas he met Lillian Leard at the American Union Sunday School at Evaline. After serving the remainder of his term in the South Pacific he was discharged and returned home. A year later he and Lillian were married on June 1,1947. They started housekeeping in a two room house across the road from her family on Newaukum Hill. He was employed at the time for England's Mill in Winlock, loading lumber into box cars by hand, and she worked for the Washington Co-op Farmers Association in Winlock. In 1950 he went to work for H-O Lumber Products in Chehalis where he is still employed. In 1956 the Francy's bought a 120 acre place on the Burchett Road near Onalaska, and became active in the Salkum Community church. Two daughters completed their family; Debra in 1953, and Diane in 1956. In 1960 they moved to their 30 acre home on Logan Hill where Dennis and Lillian still reside. The family became involved in community activities. They started the Logan Hill Tip Toppers 4H club in 1963, the following year the name was changed to the Logan Hill Headliners. Lillian still serves as a club leader. The family are charter members of the Logan Hillbilly's Square Dance club. They belong to the Logan Hill Grange and Lillian has been active in the Logan Hill Extension Home Economics club all these years. Debra and Diane attended the Chehalis schools and Centralia College. Debra was married in 1975 to John Murphy and they reside in Olympia. Debra works as computer programmer for the state. There are two children, Johnny and Lynne. Diane married Wade Jessee in 1976; they later divorced. She lives in Longview and is a computer programmer for the Port of Longview. Dennis and Lillian were active in the Salkum Church until his job as kiln operator at the mill required Sunday work. They now attend Chehalis First Baptist. Lillian enjoys sewing, tole painting, and has become the family genealogy "nut". Dennis enjoys hobby farming, wood working and gardening. He plans to retire in mid 1985. HERBERT FRANCY FAMILY Herbert Francy was born 1893 in Staunton, Illinois, to William and Jane Francy. His father was born and raised in Ireland and came to the states as a young man bringing a sister with him. 156 (photo): Zelma, Leona, Herbert, Dennis, Ola, Wava, Leonard. Herbert was the youngest of twelve children. The family moved to Quinter, Kansas, when he was eighteen years old. They were active in the Reformed Presbyterian church. He met and married Ola Beckner in 1916. She was born in 1894 in Otis, Tennessee, and had one brother and one sister. The family was raised in the Brethen church. Herbert and Ola rented property and farmed in Kansas and Missouri for the first twenty years of their marriage. They had five children. Zelma (1916), Leonard (1919), Dennis (1923), were born in Webber, Kansas, and Leona (1925) and Wava (1930) were born in Missouri. Hearing that "the west was the land of milk and honey," they moved to Washington in 1936. They first rented a farm at Meskill, just west of Chehalis, before buying an eighty acre place at Evaline just behind the Hope Grange hall. To make ends meet Mr. Francy often hired out his machinery and time to help other farmers with crops. He also worked at several lumber mills in the area. The family attended an American Union Sunday School which was held in the grange hall. When services were discontinued they drove to the Salkum Community Church of the Brethren. The family seldom missed the weekly livestock sales held in Chehalis. Both Herbert and Ola have worked at the salebarn for sometime, on the day of the sale. On the farm they raised hogs and milked a small herd of Milking Shorthorn cattle, separating the milk with a hand separator and selling the cream. Ola always raised and canned from a big garden to feed the family. She made soap and also pieced and quilted many lovely quilts. Home remedies were most often used in place of a doctor's visit. They included sugar and turpentine for wounds, and skunk oil for chest rubs for bad colds. The oil did not smell of skunk. Zelma married Ed Stacy. They had two children and now live in Yakima. Leonard and Margaret (Lammedee) have lived most of their married life in the Toledo area. They had six children. Dennis married Lillian Leard, they had two girls and now reside near Chehalis. Leona married Cecil Watson, had two girls and now lives in Sacramento, California. Wava married Gerald Hall, had two children, is now widowed and lives in Longview. "Pop" as the family called Mr. Francy passed away in 1971, and "Mom" lived the last few years with son Dennis before she passed on in 1973. CHARLES FRENCH AND THE HISTORY OF HIS PARENTS My grandfather, John French, was born in Penn., and his wife, Rebeca Jane Littlejohn, was born in Indiana. They crossed the plains in 1851 and settled in Mud Bay, WA where their children were born: Warden, Sherman, Alice, Allison, Herbert, Emery, Lila, and Flora. In 1871 they took up a homestead on Grand Mound Prairie where my father, Elfa, was born in 1876. My mother's grandfather, Rev. John Morris, was born in Wales in 1818. He was an architect. His wife Caroline Clark was born in London, England, in 1818. They and their sons, John, Charles, and Henry were stone masons and came to Canada to build some government buildings in Ottowa, Canada. They went to Chicago and built the United States Post Office. Charles took up a homestead in Firestead, Dakota Territory where he married my grandmother, Florence Cady. They had children: Elinore Nellie in 1877 (my mother), then Edgar, Gertrude, and Richard. In 1889 they came to Grand Mound, W A and took over the store and post office from his brother. Floy and Frank were born there. He operated the store until his death in 1975. My father, Elfa, married my mother, Elenore Nellie Morris, in 1896. They had six children: Pearl, Charles, Victor, Ethel, Ray, and Harold. After working in the woods for some time, during World War I, I tried to join the Marines but was turned down. I then went to work for the Northern Pacific Railroad in Centralia in 1918. I worked many places including Napavine, where I met my wife, Laura Estel Hill, in 1922. Her parents, Hiram and Martha Hill, were born in Virginia where their four children were born: William, Laura, Minnie, and Kate. They moved to New Mexico and then to Vader, WA. After the mill burned, they moved to Napavine where Ruth was born. Laura worked in the Townwend's Store in Vader, The Napavine Merc., and Wards Drug. She moved to Chehalis where she worked for J.C. Penny's and 14 years for Sears Roebuck. We were married in 1925. Our only son, Ray' Dean, was born in 1935, during the Great Depression. I was laid off, so I worked on W.P.A. and in the hay field. Bob Nix's father gave me a job on the dairy farm at $1.00 per day and took milk at 5 cents a quart. Traffic picked up as we got into the war. I bid on a job at the Chehalis Depot and stayed there for 35 years until I retired in 1967. Our son is now a conductor on the Burlington Northern. He is married with four grandchildren. FRENCH FAMILY (GRANDMOUND) Leslie N. French was born Oct. 17, 1901 at Grand Mound, Wash. His mother, Caroline Icyphene Pearce was born on Rutledge Donation claim, Terr. of Washington November 15, 1873. His father, Emory Dayton French was born Feb. 1872, Olympia, Washington. Emory and Caroline married June 21, 1894. Harry Woldren French, Leslie Nelson French and Irma Elizabeth Lische were children of this marriage. Leslie started working at age of 16 as a donkey puncher in the woods. His favorite sport was baseball and he was on the Grand Mound team. He married Ida May Betts of Rochester, Wash. on June 26, 1920. She was one of five sisters and four brothers of the family of Arthur and Maycie Betts. Arthur carried mail for the Rochester area by horse back for many years, graduating to horse and buggy and in 1915 purchased a Ford car. His son Floyd learned to drive the car first, taking his father on the mail run. The first time Arthur drove the car he let go of the steering wheel to light his cigar and it ran into a fence post. He hollered "whoa"! He died in 1917 and left Maycie to raise the nine children. She took over the mail route using the horse and buggy. The horse knew all the familiar stops, aiding in Maycie's job. Several occasions while Maycie was doing the huge washings on a scrub board, or working hard in the house she would look up and be startled to see old Indian women standing there watching her. She'd give them food and they would leave. Ida French was the telephone girl in Rochester, wearing heavy headsets and plugging in the calls by hand. When Leslie "helped" her while courting, some of the calls were slightly mixed up. They met at a dance at the old Weaver Dance Hall in Grand Mound. They married June 26, 1920. They have two daughters, Shirley Nelsen and Betty Middlebusher, who grew up as their fathers' hunting and fishing companions. They learned to dance at early ages going to grange dances, being taught by both mother and father. The family has spent most of their lives in the Lewis and Thurston County area except for brief periods in California. Leslie worked as a mechanic there in the 1930's during the depression until the large earthquake they experienced sent them moving back to Tacoma. Leslie spent most of his life in the logging industry. Living in Mutual Camp was an experience for Betty and Shirley. First going to a one-room school house for Shirley, then commuting to Stoney Pt. school for Betty and to Tenino for Shirley. They rode in a private car out of camp on plank roads for 5 miles or so to catch the school bus. After business college Shirley worked in Washington D.C. for the Surgeon General Office in the Civil Service during W.W.II. Betty worked in Bucoda in Sweeney's Drug Store until her marriage to G.E. Middlebusher. They have a daughter, De Etta Mills and son, Duane and four grandsons. Soon after returning from Washington, D.C. Shirley joined G.E. Middlebusher, Ida and Leslie as stockholders in Centralia Plywood. 157 (photo): Leslie and Ida French (60th Annv.), Shirley French and Jim Nelsen, Betty French and Gordon Midddlebusher. Jobn and Beulab Frykbolm Shirley married James P. Nelsen Jr. and adopted his girls, Peggy Ann and Lynn Helen. They have two grandsons and four granddaughters. Leslie and Ida retired in 1962. They celebrated their 50th Wedding Anniversary in 1970 with a tour to Australia and other south pacific islands. They will not be able to celebrate, but will be married 65 years in June 1985. Leslie resides in Centralia Convalescent Center in Centralia. C.W. AND MILDRED FRY FAMILY Clarence W. Fry was born April 15, 1909, in Vancouver Washington. At the age of two he was nicknamed "Bob" by a relative and it remained with him throughout his life. He spent his school days in eastern Oregon and Portland. He and his family moved to southern Thurston County in 1928. His mother remarried and was known as Pearl Andrews. He went to work for Turvey (photo): Bob and Mildred Fry Bros. Logging Co. soon after arriving here. While at work one day he broke his leg and as a result, spent ninety days in St. Lukes Hospital in Centralia. I, Mildred (Shaffer) Fry, was born in rural Centralia on April 9, 1918. My parents, Ed and Nettie Shaffer, lived in town until I was five then moved to Grand Mound and later to Michigan Hill. I graduated from Rochester High School in 1935. I knew Bob since I was twelve but only as neighbors. Our families lived about one mile apart. In 1936 we began to see a lot of each other, and in 1936 we were married. It was June 5 and, as I recall, a very hot day for June. The ceremony was performed by Justice of the Peace, William F. Bartz, in Chehalis. At that time Bob was working for Agnew Logging Co. and we lived in Centralia for a year. We then moved to Willipa Harbor where he loaded logs for Case Logging Co. There was no access road to this camp so we went back and forth by boat. Now there is a road from Raymond to Grayland. When this job was over we came back to Centralia and Bob got a job with Schaefer Bros. Logging Co. where he loaded logs for eight years. We again moved to Michigan Hill (Route 1, Centralia) where in 1944 we had a baby girl, Dana Irene. We raised Brown Swiss cattle and, in order to have a name on the registration papers, we named our farm "Rainbow Meadows." It still has that name today. Bob owned and operated a sawmill for about a year and a half. In 1956 our second girl was born, Luanne Louise. In 1960 Bob went to work for Centralia Plywood and was there for several years. Also, in 1960 we had a boy, Robert Edward. Dr. Steck delivered our children in St. Helen Hospital, Chehalis. In 1964 we moved to old Highway 99 where I opened a yarn shop, "Yarn Villa." I operated this shop for eight years. Then, with retirement in mind, we moved back to Centralia. Our daughter Dana graduated from Rochester High School and Ellensburg. In 1967 she married Douglas Beck of Centralia. Luanne and Robert graduated from Centralia High School. Luanne married Mark Steelhammer of Rochester and lives there. Robert lives at home. Bob worked for West Coast Mills until age 65. He enjoyed five years of retirement before he passed away in January of 1980. FRYKHOLM-FOUNTAIN FAMILY In September 1914 Beulah Fountain and John Frykholm were married in Centralia, Washington. Beulah was born in Missouri in 1890. After the death of her father she and her mother came to Centralia in 1904. She tells of remembering when there were only 4 automobiles in Centralia and she knew who owned them. She didn't finish her last year in Centralia High School but took a Normal Course instead and then taught in one room schools at Kopiah and Ethel. Then she taught in a larger school in Charleston, presently part of Bremerton, but she came home before school ended to be with her mother who became ill and died the spring of 1914. John's father came to America from Sweden in the early 1880s and settled on a farm near Olequa in Cowlitz County. John and his mother, brother, sister and two grandparents came 3 years later after the home was built. As a young man John went to California where he learned the trade of blacksmith. He spent some time in Alaska at the time of the gold rush, working as a blacksmith, not searching for gold. Later he settled in Centralia where he met Beulah. He worked as a blacksmith at the old railroad roundhouse, later building his own shop on North Pearl. John and Beulah had 2 children, John Howard born in 1915, and Ruth born in 1919. Howard attended the Edison and Oakview schools, and Ruth at Oakview. Both graduated from Centralia High School. Howard in 1932 and Ruth in 1937. Howard graduated from Centralia College and the University of Washington and has been in the merchandising business in several 158 locations. He is now semi retired, and with his wife, Leah, living in Bend, Oregon. Ruth graduated from Centralia College and the then Western Washington College of Education at Bellingham. She taught in Centralia at the old Logan and Lincoln Schools until her marriage to Robert Herren in 1947, after which she taught in Vader and Toledo. She is now retired after 35 years of teaching. She and her husband live on a farm near Toledo. There are two daughters, Christine and Mary Jo. Christine and her husband with two children in Port Angeles, and Mary Jo and her husband and two children in Seattle. John died in 1941. Beulah continued to live at their home on North Pearl until about 1960 when she moved to a smaller place on North "J." street. She suffered a stroke at age 87 and is now living at the Walker Nursing Home and is 95 years old. By Ruth Herren ERIC AND JUDITH DUNCAN FULLER FAMILY After graduating from Adna High School in 1961, I went to Seattle to become a telephone operator for Pacific Northwest Bell. I was in Seattle during the World's Fair but moved back home that fall to work as a telephone operator in the Centralia office. (photo): Judy and Eric (Ric) and boys In 1964 I married Eric (Ric) Fuller, a Lewis County native, and transferred to Portland, Oregon, to continue working with Pacific Northwest Bell. Ric was employed by Hyster as a machinist. Our sons, Scot and Kevin, were both born in Portland and attended and graduated from Gregory Heights Elementary and Madison High. After leaving Hyster in 1966, Ric started as a teller for Equitable Savings and Loan headquarters in downtown Portland, and earned the title of executive vice president. In 1983, after a merger with Benjamin Franklin Savings and Loan and after the deregulation of Pacific Northwest Bell, Ric made a career change and was a partner in the founding of "Savenet," a long distance telephone communications company. They have customers in California, Colorado, Washington, and Oregon. In the summer of 1984 I left the phone company after 22 years of full and part-time work. Ric and I have both been active in community and school projects. Little League baseball kept the family busy during the summers while the boys were growing up, and both were on the varsity basketball team at Madison High. Ric is a past president of the Portland J.C.S. Although Portland has been our home for over twenty years, we have many fond memories of Lewis County friends and family and still refer to the Chehalis area as home. Mrs. Eric (Judie) Fuller FULLER FAMILY (WILLIAM EUGENE) William Eugene Fuller was one of four children born to Mary (Spillman) Fuller and William Channing Fuller. Date of birth June 2,1890 in Carbon County, Wyoming. Nellie T. (Holton) Fuller was born in Sand point, Idaho, one of seven children of Della (Horning) Holton and George Wellington Holton. Date of birth, July 27,1891. William (Bill) and Nellie were married on Saturday, February 13, 1909 in Sand point, Idaho, by a Methodist minister. They had seven children, Robert Eugene, John (Jack) Rodney, William (Bill) Holton, Lloyd Freeman, Edward Allen, Margaret Ellen and Theodore James. (photo): Bill and Nellie Fuller William Eugene (Bill) lost his father (who had been Constable of Carbon Town) in 1900 when he was ten years old. His mother supported the family by operating a boarding house. Bill's education ended with the eighth grade and at age 14 he was working as a sheepherder. Within 2 years he saved enough wages to go to Wisconsin to learn telegraphy. At age 16 he lied about his age and was given work by the railroad where he worked as telegrapher and baggage master. In his lifetime he worked for railroads as Brakeman and Depot Agent and for Western Union as a Telegrapher and also as Supervisor. In 1921, when he was Depot Agent at Midvale, Idaho, he quit the railroad and moved his family on to a leased farm near a rural school called Shoepeg. He didn't make enough to support his family farming so the family moved back to Midvale and he went into retail trade with a partner who was a meat cutter and who owned a small slaughterhouse. About a year later (Fall or Winter of 1922) the only bank in town closed up and pretty much broke the partners. The meat cutter got the store and ice storage house (ice was cut on the Weiser River in winter and stored in sawdust for the summer trade) and Bill took his share in groceries and shoes for the kids. His next job was that of a traveling salesman selling Fuller Brushes (honest) out of a Model "T" Ford. On a trip to Caldwell, Idaho he found a former neighbor who was a clerk for. the local Safeway Store. Bill applied for work, was accepted and moved his family to Caldwell. He worked one year as a clerk and then was made store manager until 1930. In 1931 he was made a store supervisor in Tacoma, Washington and moved his family there. In 1932 he was made a buyer for the Safeway Stores until 1934 when his position was eliminated as an economy measure and he was given the option of returning to either supervisor or store manager. He chose to be a store manager and asked to be sent to Chehalis which had been one of the stores he supervised. In February of 1934 the family moved with their five youngest children to Chehalis where Bill (Sr.) managed the local Safeway food store; Bill (Jr.) clerked in the same store, and the four younger children were enrolled at various levels in the Chehalis school system. Eventually, Robert came to the community to work and married Nellie Panush before pursuing work elsewhere. They have two children, Gary and Richard. Jack married "Dade" Spellman in the spring of 1934 but did not move to Chehalis until 1959 when he joined the family business. Jack retired in December 1975 and moved to California for health reasons. In 1947, Bill (Jr.) married Elizabeth (Allen) Hards who had three children, Christopher, Robin and Eric. The couple then had three children, Carole, Mark and William. In 1934 Lloyd finished school in Chehalis and attended Centralia College and the University of Washington. In 1945 he married Margaret Cardiff; they have two children Leonard and Lloyd. Lloyd (Sr.) served as a Commissioned Officer in the U.S. Navy and Navy Air Force. After his military service he worked as a chemist for Lone Star Cement in Seattle and Pennsylvania. Edward married Marjorie Phillips in 1937. They had four children Darlene, Randolph, Robert and Karla. Margaret attended Centralia College and Western Washington State University and taught school one year at Mossyrock before marrying Barton Douglas and moving out of the community. They had three children, Richard, Kathy and Janie. Theodore (Ted) finished school in Chehalis, attended Washington State University and Washington University Medical School (St. Louis, Mo.) and University of Washington Medical School. He and Sherry Engen married and there are five children in the family: Donald, Laura, Tracy, David and Jeff. Ted joined the staff at Wenatchee Valley Medical Clinic in 1957 and is still in practice there. Bill "Sr" and Nellie were members of Westminster Presbyterian Church, Chehalis; and were active in the Eastern Star and the Masonic Lodge. Bill was also a proud member of the Chehalis Kiwanis Club and an ardent golfer. Bill died in 1971, aged 80, of natural causes. At the time of this writing Nellie is almost 94; her activities limited by diminished health to visits from her children. By William E. Fuller, Jr. FULLER FAMILY (WILLIAM HOLTON) William (Bill, Jr.) Holton Fuller was born to Nellie (Holton) Fuller and William Eugene Fuller on December 28, 1913, in Sandpoint, Idaho. He was the third of seven children. His father moved the family frequently when the children were young as he earned a living for the family as a railroad telegrapher, brakeman and Railroad Station Master. He also supported the family at various times on a farm, as a small town general store operator, and traveling salesman. In Bill's fourth year in school (1923) the family took root 159 (photo): Bill and Oaire Fuller in Caldwell, Idaho and stayed there until 1930 when the family moved to Tacoma, Washington for three years. Bill spent his senior year at Lincoln High School, Tacoma and attended College of Puget Sound for one year. Unable to continue school because of family finances, Bill worked at various part time jobs for about a year before getting steady employment as a clerk with Safeway Store Company. He worked for them for seven years in Tacoma, Chehalis, Shelton, Raymond, Winlock and Aberdeen. In 1941, Bill and his brother Ed bought the Jack Strating Market Basket Corner grocery store in Chehalis, largely with borrowed money. In December 1941 when the U.S. entered World War II Bill and Ed made plans to hire a helper and in May of 1942 Bill enlisted in the Navy. After Navy schooling he served as a practical (repair) instructor at the Navy Sonar School in San Diego until December of 1945 when he was given an honorable discharge. Back in Chehalis Bill, Ed and their father formed a partnership and all three worked to make the business a success. Bill married Elizabeth (Allen) Hards in 1947. She had three children, Christopher Meredith Martin, Robin Reeve and Eric Deming Hards. The couple had three more children Carole Jane, Mark Edward and William Bruce. Elizabeth died in 1967. In 1974, Bill was elected a director for School District #302, Chehalis and in 1976 ran a successful campaign for State Representative from the 20th Legislative District and was re-elected in 1978. In 1980 he was elected State Senator for the same district and served until defeated in 1984 by a more liberal candidate in the redistricted 20th District. In 1978, he was married to Claire Elizabeth (Beech) Hess, the widow of Oliver Hess of Lindsey, Ohio and Warden, Washington. Claire brought to the marriage two children, Michael Gary and Susan Claire born during World War II, at the Naval Air Station, Lakehurst, N.J.; where their father was a commissioned officer in the Lighter-Than-Air Fleet. Bill and his brother Ed retired from the family business at the end of 1982. Bill is a member of the Westminster Presbyterian Church, Rotary Club, Masonic Lodge, Shrine, Chamber of Commerce (Chehalis and Centralia), United Way of Lewis County, and the Chehalis Industrial Commission. At the time of this writing Bill and his wife, Claire live on a 160 acre tree farm west of Chehalis, where they spend their time with "The Duchess of Brockway" (their dog) and also do hobby gardening, community activities, golfing and occasional travels.