The History of Lewis County, Washington, Pt 6 of 10: PAGES 218-251 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 6 of 10: PAGES 218-251 FRANK AND KATHLEEN KRAFCZYK Joseph Frank Krafczyk was born May 8, 1951 in Centralia, Washington, the son of Edward and doris (Yocom) Krafczyk. The family lives on a farm in Pe Ell, Washington. Frank, as he was called, has three older sisters; Kathy, Judy, and Carol; and an older brother, George, along with a younger sister, Karen, and younger brother, Tom. (photo): Kathleen, Frank, Michael, Janet Krafczyk Frank attended Pe Ell school, where he graduated in June of 1969. Right after graduation he went to work for the Weyerhaeuser Company on the section crew. On February 13, 1971 Frank married Kathleen Ann Muller. Kathleen was born January 15, 1952 in Centralia, Washington. She was the daughter of Bennie and Christine (Buergler) Muller. She grew up on a dairy farm known as the Pe Ell Dairy, owned by her father and uncle, Bennie and Louie Muller. Kathleen has an older sister, Benice, and brother, Carl. Kathleen attended Pe Ell school and graduated in June of 1970. She attended Centralia Beauty College, obtaining her license in July of 1971. Frank and Kathleen made their first home for a short time in Chehalis. They then moved back to Pe Ell and then to their present home on McCormick Creek Road in Pe Ell. On March 21, 1973 they had a daughter, Janet Lynn Krafczyk. On March 14, 1976 a son, Michael John, was born. Both children now attend Pe Ell school. Frank has been working for Weyerhaeuser Company for 16 years, doing such jobs as section crew, brakeman on the log train, gravel truck driver, log truck driver, yarder engineer, and on the cutting crew. Frank loves to go hunting and enjoys the peace and quiet of the small town of Pe Ell. Last September, Kathleen started working part-time as deputy clerk for the Town of Pe Ell. CARL F. KRAUSE FAMILY I have lived in Lewis County all of my life. Born in 1932, I was raised in Galvin, attended the Galvin School my first eight years, graduated from Centralia High in 1950. Met my wife Delores in 1950, she had moved here from Montana with her folks in 1945, as her father went to work at the Todd Shipyards in Tacoma. I entered the Army in January 1953 and served until January 1955. We were married July 10, 1953. We have two sons and a daughter. Our oldest son Wayne and his wife Gayle have two sons, Jason and Erik. Wayne works for Lewis County Fire District # 12. They live on the Barton Rd. off Lincoln Creek. Larry and his wife Debbie have two sons, Toby and Monte. Larry works for Lewis County also for the Road District. They also live off Lincoln Creek Rd., on the Smith Rd. Our daughter Susan and her husband Gary Garrett live in Bremerton, where Gary works for a company that installs air conditioning units. Susan also works part-time for them. When Gary was stationed in Germany, Susan went over to be with him and got to see quite a bit of the country. I have been a volunteer fireman to District #12 since 1956. Some of the work I have done since getting out of the service was picking up milk with a can truck for Arden Farms until they went to milk tanker which I drove until they quit picking up milk in this area. I then worked for P.H.T. who sold out to Garrett Freight Lines, then for Dravel Johnson who put in the Dam at Lake Mayfield. Had a driver-sales route for Arden Farms in the Eastern end of the county until I went back to milk tanker for Lynden Transfer for 10 years, when they quit in this area I worked for Pacific Sand and Gravel until I took the job I am now doing which is picking up the county drop boxes for Hub City Transfer & Storage. My parents live on Russell Rd. on Fords Prairie. My father's folks came from Germany, and my mother's from Switzerland. My father moved from Puyallup as a young boy to Galvin with his mother and step-father. My mother was born in Kent and moved to the Chehalis area with her folks. I have two sisters, one in Galvin and the other in Centralia; and two brothers, one in Olympia and the other one in Centralia. My wife's mother lives in Centralia. She has six brothers, three in Centralia, one in Kent, one in Tenino and one in San Diego, Calif. in the Navy; three sisters, one in Colorado, one in Oregon and one in Tenino. They are of Dutch and Scotch ancestry on her father's side and English and Irish on her mother's side. EDWIN KROLL, PeELL Grandfather Matthew Kroll came to Nebraska in 1880 as a sod buster. Two years later his wife, Regina, and son, Felix, followed from Poland. They homesteaded near Broken Bow. They were there for ten years. During that time three daughters were born. A drought hit in that vicinity. They planned to move to Wisconsin, but heard of too many stumps. An advertisement in the paper urged, "Come to PeEll, the land of milk and honey." They came to PeEll in 1892. There was nothing but virgin timber growing. They lived with the Kowalskys on their homestead until they bought the present forty acres where we live now. Barbara Mauermann sold it for $1200 at 12% interest. A half acre of land was cleared for a sack of flour and six rutabagas. The (photo): Threshing on the Kroll farm in the late 1930's (Photo): Carl F. Krause Family 218 family lived, for two years in the first school house of Pe Ell. Then grandfather built the present house that we are living in now. Grandpa and father bored holes in virgin timber and burned them to clear land. Buildings were made out of split cedar. Grandpa's first harness for the horses, which he made himself, were tanned from cow hides. Every time it rained, the horses would walk right out of the harness, as they stretched. My father married my mother, Katie Konopka, in 1902. She came from Poland, directly to PeEll, with her famiy in 1898. My parents had eight children. All were born in this house. Four of them are presently living; myself, Verna Tuel, Mary Feuchter and Josie Capps. Our barn, still standing, was built in 1916. The head carpenter was paid $2.35 for a ten hour day. The two helpers each received $1.50 a day. My parents went into the poultry business for forty years. Father also worked for the county with a team of horses. Grandfather Peter Konopka lived in PeEll and walked to McCormick, three miles one way. He worked on the green chain and was paid 12 ½ cents a hour. Uncle John Konopka, built a garage in PeEll in 1919. He was in business for 32 years. I, Edwin, attended school in PeEll, graduating from high school in 1937. Ten months before World War II, I joined Battery F of the National Guard. I spent four years and eight months in the army, eleven months of which was spent overseas in Europe. My brother, Leo, was killed in Belgium, Battle of the Bulge. After the war, I took over the operation of the farm. I was in the poultry business until 1960's. In 1950 I married Gertrude Salo, of Aberdeen. She was born in Superior, Wisconsin. Her father Ahti Salo, came from Finland. Her mother was from Michigan. The mother died; and her father came to Aberdeen, to start a bakery business. She and her two brothers joined him later. Two daughters were born to us, Regina and Catherine. We are now semi-retired and raise a few beef cattle. Regina plans to keep the family farm going with her husband and three children. Catherine is an elementary school teacher at Steilacoom. She and her husband have two children. JOHN AND FRANCIS KUCERA OF ALPHA PRAIRIE John and Francis Kucera arrived on Alpha Prairie with their family in 1889. (photo): Francis and John Kucera The Kuceras had emigrated to the United States from Bohemia. John (Jan) Kucera was born June 9, 1836, the son of Filipu Kucerovi, a farmer of Old rise, and his wife Frantisky, the daughter of the Klemsove family near Telecho. Francis (Frantiska) was born October 29, 1850, the daughter of Josepfa Podvoleckeho, a Raboune farmer, and Anny, the daughter of the Podvoleckych family near Dolu. John and Francis were married at Prosec, Bohemia. (photo): Harvest time on Kucera farm Upon emigration to the U.S. in 1875, the Kuceras' first home was a purchased farm near Jordan, Scott County, Minnesota, where they lived for eight years. The Kuceras then moved west, buying land near relatives outside Tyndall, Bon Homme County, South Dakota. After a five year stay at Tyndall, the family and its possessions moved on to Spokane, Washington Territory, in 1888. The trip was made inside a railroad boxcar. Upon arrival the family lived in a house near the railroad roundhouse. John Kucera found work as a carpenter. The Kuceras spent just a year in the Spokane area, then moved to Chehalis and finally on to Alpha. At Alpha, John Kucera purchased a family sized farm from the Temple family, located several hundred yards southeast from the present day Alpha Grange Hall. John had done a thorough inspection of all available land in the Chehalis area. At that time, an Alpha farm would support a growing family, and Alpha itself showed strong signs of growth. The Kucera family included four sons Joseph, Louis, Adolph, and John - and two daughters - Anna and Emma. In addition to being a farmer, John was a proficient tailor and made many suits of clothes in the Alpha area. On their farm the Kuceras built a two story frame home and various outbuildings. Their crops were primarily oats and peas, including a variety of vegetables and fruits. In addition to the usual chickens and pigs, the Kuceras were known locally for their fine horses. Even when in his 80's, John Kucera would hitch his horses to a buggy for a trip into town. The young Kuceras were quite active in the social affairs of Alpha. It was they who were the frequent organizers of shooting matches, turkey shoots and horse races during the various holidays. One such shooting exercise resulted in a bullet whizzing through the walls of the Kucer's parlour. . . while John and Francis were seated in it. The young Kuceras were also frequent participants in Alpha athletics, especially the "Alpha Hayseeds," the local baseball team. Louis Kucera later taught school in the Alpha schoolhouse, which stood just west of today's Alpha Grange Hall. The elder Kuceras are buried in the Alpha Cemetery, along with their young son Johnny, who was fatally scalded by boiling water. By Vic Kucera KARL GERHARD HENRY AND MARY MATHEWS KUPER Born 1864 Oldenburg, Germany, Karl became a medical intern in the German Army before coming to the United States. Living in New Jersey and Texas, Karl was a bartender, (photo): Karl Gerhard Henrich Kuper pool hall manager, and worked in a flour mill. Karl married Mary Mathews in 1898, in New York. Born 1876, Mary emmigrated from Ireland in 1895. Karl and Mary rented for one year, across from where they built their house on Cowlitz Prairie. Their daughter Mamie was born at home June 26, 1900. Mamie attended the Upper Cowlitz School on the Schoolhouse Lane Road. Her parents bought an adjacent forty acres in 1917 for $850.00. Clearing the land for farming, dairy cows, and chickens, they shipped milk to Bordens and Darigold. They raised potatoes and Mary made butter for trading. In 1919, Mamie married John Oliver Dosser, born 1895 in Texas. He was a rancher and laborer of Public Works. They lived in Chehalis. Mamie and John returned to her parent's home after her father was gored by a bull. John and Mamie's daughter Mary Ellen, was born September 9, 1920 in the same house as her mother. Their second daughter, Gladys Violet, was born in Centralia, January 31, 1923. John and Mamie lived at 724 West Locust in Centralia, when Mamie died from a ruptured appendix, January 1924. She is buried in the Mountain View Cemetery, Centralia. Mary and Gladys went to live with their grandparents in April 1924. Their father became a Morrow County, Oregon, Sheriffs Deputy. John Oliver Dosser died December 10, 1933 in Adrian, Texas. Mary and Gladys attended Upper Cowlitz School and Toledo High School. Mary Kuper died June 1940 and is buried in the Mountain View Cemetery. Karl was called "The Old Man", a reflection of his long silver beard. Mary Ellen Dosser married LeRoy Jonathan (Bud) Davidson, February 1940. Their children: LeRoy Jr., Annie, Bonnie, John, Lawrence (Lar219 ry), Michael, Mary Pat, Nancy, Kenneth. See: LeRoy Jonathan Family - also, "Our Davidson Family," at Chehalis Timberland Library. Glayds Violet Dosser married Robert (Bob) Edwards. Their children: Sharon, Barbara, David, Eddie, Diane, and Darlene. The Davidson family first lived in Chehalis. Bud drove truck for Brown's Mill and Mary worked as a waitress. The Edwards family lived in Salzer Valley, Centralia working for the Proffitt Ranch. In 1946, Mary and Gladys and families moved to their grandparents property which was later willed to them. Karl G.H. Kuper died February 1954 and is buried in the Mountain View Cemetery. Mary received the South forty and Gladys the North forty. In the late 1950s, Gladys and Bob Edwards worked for the Green Hill Washington State Juvenile Correction Center in Chehalis. They sold their land for a job transfer in Port Townsend, Washington. LeRoy Jonathan Davidson died February 1978 and is buried in the Mountain View Cemetery. Mary Elen (Dosser) Davidson helped support their growing family. She worked as a waitress at the bus depot, for the Chehalis Cannery, attended Centralia Community College - going to work at the Maple Lane Washington State Correction Facility for juveniles, near Centralia. Retiring September 1980, Mary resides and maintains her forty acres on the M.J. Boone Road. Her hobbies are painting, woodcarving, and rockhounding. Submitted by John and Sandra Davidson HAPPY TIMES WITH GRANDMA My high school years are like yesterday as I recall those happy times living with my adored grandma, Mrs. Frank W. (Huldah) Webster, in her big 7-gabled home at 212 North Ash in Centralia. (photo): Aloha Mae Langford and her 3 granddaughters This house, built by George Washington, founder of Centralia, is gone now. 1 still carry the wonderment of the lives and times in it, as I did then, when I lay in bed at night wishing the old walls could talk. Grandma is gone now. Passed away in 1950. Her memory will live on as I remember the many stories she told, such as her mother burning bread to a crisp to use in place of coffee. Such fun, as a small child, it was, to comb Grandpa Frank's soft white hair and mustache until he would fall asleep in his chair. My brother James Leroy Morrill, born 7-2-21, and I, born 5-16-22, to Walter F. and Myrtle V. (Webster) Morrill, daughter of Frank and Huldah. Father was son of Francis and Lydia Morrill from Maud Oklahoma. He was a house mover in this area. Grandfather deceased 1937; grandmother in 1947. In 1926 after father's death (a woodsman killed in his profession), we lived with grandparents Frank and Huldah. Mother worked as a bookkeeper. Sharing our times with mother's sister (Mrs. and Mrs. Marion (Lucy) Jackson), Brother Jim and I recall many happy times there. Mother married Arthur Jeffers in 1928. He was the son of Abraham and Alice Jeffers of Big Hanaford, coming from Kansas. We then lived on Waunch Prairie, going to school at Oakview. I was 8 years old when my half-sister Bonnie Jean was born in 1930. What a delightful surprise she was to my brother and me. We later moved and built on a site now owned by the Steam Plant. As I drive the valley today, I see one old shed remains that marks the spot we once called home. Memories of school at Tono can never be forgotten. We treaded water or rode the raft to the tracks where we then walked two miles to school. My stepfather passed away in 1969 and my mother in 1983. In 1942, I married Frank L. Ragan and lived in Abilene, Texas, where Frank was stationed during WW II. Our son Tommy Leroy was born 9-18-43 while Frank was fighting in the European Campaign. This union was broken by divorce. I worked for Boeing Aircraft in Chehalis for a time in 1945 and at F.W. Woolworths in Centralia until my marriage to Laurence D. Langford (Larry), son of Robert and Cora Langford, coming west from Kentucky. During our lives together, Laurence operated three service stations. The last on Harrison, which he ran until his death in 1973. Our son Gary Leslie Langford was born 8-25-48. Early in 1976 I bought and operated the Home Town Broiler restaurant, selling it in 1984. My experience there is another story. I should write a book. Some pleasurable memories are of the traveling, I was fortunate to do, seeing much of Canada, some of Mexico, eight European countries, and forty of our own United States. I enjoy my home on North Iron where I've resided since 1955. My three granddaughters pleasure me with their occasional visits. Perhaps some day they, too, will recall "The Happy Times with Grandma." By Aloha Mae Langford JOHN A. LABARRE FAMILY John A. LaBarre was born April 24, 1942, in Seattle. He was the second child born to John and Mabel LaBarre. The family moved to the Dryad - Meskill area in 1946 when Jacky was four years old. He attended Pe Ell schools, leaving in 1958 to join the National Guard. In 1963 he met and married Claudia Hickam in Seattle. Claudia, the daughter of Ronald Hickam and Mrs. Estee Ware, was born January 30, 1945, in Seattle. Jacky and Claudia lived in the Meskill area while he worked for the Weyerhaeuser Company. They have two children: Jeane Lynn, born August 13, 1963, and Terry Lee, born June 15, 1965. In 1966, the family moved to Santa Clara, California, where Jacky worked for the Ford Motor Co. and Claudia was an answering service: operator. They returned to Washington and Pe Ell in 1971 and Jacky went back to work for Weyerhaeuser where he is currently employed. Claudia is a domestic in the local area. They are both members of the Chehalis Eagles 1550. Claudia is past Madam President, trustee, and was state heart chairman. Jeane is trained as a dental assistant. She is also a member of the Chehalis Eagles Rux 1550. The family resides on the home place in the Meskill area. JOHN R. LA BARRE FAMILY John "Jack" LaBarre was born January 3, 1916 in Frazier Mills Canada, B.C. He moved to the Everett and Muckelteo area as a young boy with his family. He had 3 sisters and 1 brother. He worked his way through school with various jobs in the Seattle, Everett area. He met and married Mabel Moore in Seattle, February 16, 1940. He was in the Merchant Marines in World War II. Mabel, the daughter of James and Mabel Moore, was born August 1, 1921 (a twin) in florence, Colorado. Her family moved to the Seattle area in 1927. Jack graduated from Cleveland High School in 1934. Jack and Mabel's first child Sharon Marie was born February 9,1941. A son John A. "Jackie," was born April 24, 1942. Their second daughter Janice Colleen was born September 6, 1944. They moved from Seattle to the Meskill area in the fall of 1946, purchasing 100 acres from the Schaefer Logging Co. On January 4, 1948 their third daughter Sally Lee was born, followed by Michael "Mike" Neal, born on October 15, 1949. Their third son Roger Dean, "Tike" was born June 25, 1954. Roger passed away 4 years later. The children all attended Pe Ell Elementary and high school. Sharon, or Marie as she was known in high school, graduated in 1959, Janice in 1963, Mike in 1968. Jackie went as far as his freshman year then dropped out and went into the National Guard. Sally graduated in 1967 from W.F. West high school in Chehalis. Jack worked at odd jobs to support his family finally ending up working for Weyerhaeuser. He retired from Weyerhaeuser in 1978. He and Mabel are active in the Centralia Eagles. Their children are all married. Sharon married Walter Pittsley of Adjlune, Wash. and they have four children, 2 boys and 2 girls, and 4 grandchildren, and they live in Elma, Wash. Jackie married Claudia Hichem of Seattle, and they have one son and one daughter, and live on the home place at Meskill. Janice married Cecil Zellers from Michigan, and they have three children, 2 boys and one girl, and live at the old Payette store sight. Sally married Larry Foister from Chehalis, and they have 2 daughters and live on Newaukum hill. Mike married B.J. Howard from California, and they have 2 daughters and live at the home sight at Meskil. Jack and Mabel still live in the original house at Meskill. 220 (photo): LtoR, standing: Mike, Jacky, Sally. Sitting: Sharon, Janice. MICHAEL N. LABARRE FAMILY Michael Neal LaBarre was born October 15, 1949, the fifth child of John R. and Mabel LaBarre. Mike grew up in the Meskil area and attended Pe Ell School, graduating in 1969. When he was about eight years old, he had polio. He was kept at home and, consequently, all the other children had to stay home from school also. In the fall of 1970 he entered the Army. After basic training, he was trained in heavy equipment maintenance. He then served a two-year tour of duty in Viet Nam. His R & R from Nam gave him a chance to visit Australia. After coming home from Nam, he spent a year in Virginia before being discharged from the Army. After the Army, he went to work for Weyerhaeuser, then for Bank Check Supply where he is currently employed. Mike met his wife, B.J. through her sister who worked at Bank Check also. Babbi Jo Howard was born October 16, 1955, in Lancaster, California to Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Howard. B.J. grew up in San Bernardino, California, and graduated from San Bernardino High School in 1973. After working for a year in California, she moved to Centralia where she met Mike. They were married August 17, 1975. They have two daughters, Charlene (Chuck) Renee, born July 19, 1977, and Debra (Dibs) Ann barn November 14, 1979. Charlene attends Pe Ell School and Debbie is looking forward to starting in 1985. Mike and B.J. are active in archery and Centralia Eagles #512. Mike is currently president of the Aerie. They live on the home place at Meskill. LARMON FAMILY My mother, Louise Mizler was raised in Russia and my father, Theodore Larmon in Germany. They met in Pennsylvania and were married there. In 1910, they came to Chehalis by train from Pennsylvania, and to Jackson Priaire by horse and wagon. They settled on an old vacated homestead, which was in deep timbers, just a narrow muddy wagon road to it. They had 10 children and raised eight children on the farm. There were five girls and five boys in our famjly. My parents had children in the Jackson Prairie School for 20 years. I was born on the farm in 1913. Today, there are three of us living, brother Henry in Mossyrock, brother Amil in Seattle, and myself. My mother would take butter and eggs to Napavine to trade for groceries. She would travel all day by horse and buggy to make a round trip. My parents didn't live long enough to know the Larmon Road was named after them. My father passed away in July, 1947 and mother in January, 1964. I met Rod Stewart while working for him in his cafe at May's Corner on Jackson Prairie. We were married in 1936 and built Rod's Cafe in 1940. We added a two story house on to it in 1942. Due to faulty wiring, the restaurant and house burnt in August, 1947. We rebuilt Rod's Cafe in 1950 at the same location. In 1957, my husband Rod passed away at the age of 47. I stayed in the restaurant business until I sold it in 1974. Rod's Cafe closed in 1975 after a fire and was later torn down to make way for the Mary's Corner Store. I am still living on the Prairie in my trailer home behind the store. Rod and I have three children, a daughter Goldie and two sons, Rod and Marlow. Goldie lives in Chehalis and has three sons. Rod lives in Chicago and has a son and two daughters. Marlow lives in Napavine and has a daughter and a son. By Elma Larmon Stewart WRIGHT SOAPER CORE FAMILY My great Grandfather (Wright Soaper Core) came to Harmony in 1888. His brother Morgan had a homestead there. His wife, Charlotte, had passed away in 1886 leaving him with eight children to care for. Great Grandpa Core and his son Ed, who had come with him, homesteaded some land at Harmony. A year later he sent for his sev (photo): Wright Soaper Core en other children. They came by train and on the way they sang. People gave them money after listening to them. The children were Jane, Ed, Dory, Eliza, Mary, Jay, Ollie, and Bill. My great grandfather Wright Core died in 1908 at the age of 63 and is buried in the Cunn cemetery at Harmony. (photo): Eliza Elizabeth Core and Ole Christian (Charley) Larsen My grandmother was Eliza Elizabeth Core born in Wisconsin in 1874 to Wright Soaper Core and Charlotte Combs Duston. She was 221 about 15 years old when she came to Lewis County with her brothers and sisters. Ole Christian (Charley) Larsen was born June 1,1871, in Denmark. He came to Lewis County in 1890 at the age of 19. He was one of the oldest in a large family and knew his father was having a hard time providing for them. Also, there were letters from Louise saying life was good here and wanting someone to come. Besides, Danish boys were required by law to enter the service at age 20. He decided he was the one to come. The boat trip was very rough and the train trip across was very lonesome because he could not speak English. Uncle Louie was married and living in Newaukum. Grandpa stayed with them, working as a farm hand. He had been trained to make brushes, but times were hard and farm labor was about the only way to make money. He got homesick and many times wished he had not come. Uncle Louie was married to Jane Core and through her Grandpa met Grandma; they were married June 1, 1899. Their first home was at Riverside, Chehalis. Grandpa worked for Jim Alexander, farming. While they lived in Chehalis six children were born to them: Lynn Leroy, Mary Estella, Alma Esther, Mina May (died at age 3), Karol Alvin, and Laura Leona. They managed to save $100 a year for ten years. With the money they bought land at Harmony, later selling it to Ed Core. They then bought 40 acres at Salkum from Wm. Conahan. It was part of the Miles Estate. He built a new home and moved in with his family. He liked it here and was glad not to be too close to his in-laws. He added more land to the farm over the years. Two more children were born at Salkum, Goldie Irene and Alice Rose. Grandpa was a good farmer and worked hard. My grandfather's nickname of Charley was given to him by his brother Louie, for he said that was the American name for Christain. He was known as Charley from then on. Grandpa took us to church on Sunday in his Model T. Ford. He helped build the first church at Salkum, and he helped with the second one when the old one burned down. He was caretaker at the Salkum cemetery for many years. Grandma's family, the Cores, liked to get together so Grandpa had them all come for a picnic in the summer. He built picnic tables, swings, and teeter totters to play on in the woods near their house. It became an annual thing, being called the Core Reunion. They later moved it to the Harmon Schoolhouse. Now it is held at the Ike Kinwa State Park on the first Sunday in August. Grandma was a housewife and made the biggest sugar cookies. She was always peeling apples for us to eat. They both loved to play cards, and I learned to play Five Hundred at age 6. The family always got together at Thanksgiving and Christmas for a big dinner with lots of food and card playing. We had many happy times at Grandpa and Grandma Larsen's. My Grandparents celebrated their Golden Wedding in June 1949. A few days later Grandpa, mother, Alma Mullens, and I went to Denmark. We spent a month there visiting his brothers and sisters and their children. Twenty-three came to the boat to greet us. It's a trip that I shall never forget. Grandma died in 1954, and Grandpa in 1962, both were buried at the Salkum Cemetery. LAUGHLINS AND SHIPLERS "I remember, I remember, the house where I was born My bedroom window where the sun came peeping in at morn But remodeling has changed it from the bottom to the top And the lovely big veranda is now a barber shop." (Apologies to Longfellow) (photo): Charles Laughlin and Margaret Shipler, June 1909 The house is on Market Boulevard and I was born there in 1919. My parents were both residents of Winlock. My mother's name was Margaret Shipler, and my father's name was Charles Laughlin. Both families came to Winlock in the late 1800's. His mother's name was Mary Ann Gunder, and her family, the Francis Gunder Family, was also a pioneer family in Winlock. So I have parents, two sets of grandparents, and two sets of great-grandparents buried in Winlock cemetery. My father was a graduate of Winlock High School and my mother of Ellensburg Normal School. She taught for a year before she married her childhood sweetheart and moved to Chehalis. Charles was a linotype operator for the Bee Nugget, Lewis County Advocate and Centralia Chronicle. He worked in these three places a total of 49 years. There are three children in the Laughlin family, a daughter, Lucile Clumpner, now of Puyallup; a son, C. Louis Laughlin, of Seaford, New York, and myself, living in Seattle. We all were born and raised in Chehalis, and all graduated from Chehalis High School. Our mother, Margaret Laughlin, died in 1984 at the age of 98. Our father died in 1949. Grandfather Laughlin also came to Winlock in the late 1800's and was a railroad maintenance supervisor. His name was Benjamin Franklin Laughlin, but he was known as Charlie. It is said that when my 18 year-old grandmother, a new arrival in Winlock, first saw him - a man of 25 years her senior, she said, "That's my man!" and theirs was one of Winlocks's early marriages. There were three sons in the family, Charles, Harry and Walter. My maternal grandfather, Samuel Jacob Shipler, brought his family from Kirksville, Missouri in August 1892. Three year-old twin girls celebrated their birthday on the train journey from Missouri to Boistfort (pronounced "Baw-Faw"), Lewis County, and one of the twin girls, Lena Christensen, now 96, lives in Seattle. Her twin, Lillie Locke, passed away in 1982. Our mother, Margaret, was 5 at this time and her brothers Guy Shipler and Tom Shipler, 8 and 10, completed the family. All of the household goods was brought out in a train baggage car, including the cookstove, where Grandma prepared the family meals en route. The farm livestock also traveled with them, cared for by my grandfather. When the family arrived at Boistfort, Otis and Mary Roundtree took them in and made them comfortable until my grandfather could ready their own home. They lived several years at Boistfort then moved to Winlock. My grandfather was a carpenter and built the family home in Winlock on what is now Kerron Street. The five Shipler children all grew to adulthood in Winlock. By Mary Laughlin Sanford MORRIS-LAWSON FAMILY Morris Lawson, born at Anderson, Indiana, in 1879, and Elsie (Cameron) Lawson, was born at Villisca, Iowa, in 1877, with their three children Irma, Olive and Arnold moved from Portland, Oregon, in a wagon owned by Tom Hunt. They traveled for 4 or 5 days and finally came to the homestead where Morris had already lived for a couple of months in a tent. There were no clearings and the tent was pitched in tall fir trees. They had to ford the river at a shallow place as there were no bridges. If anyone came to visit them they would drive to the end of the road, which was visible from the homestead and holler until someone heard them and paddled them across in the canoe. After living in the tent about three months, and with winter coming, they cut a cedar snag into shakes and split boards for the floors and walls. Small poles were peeled for the rafters, etc. When the house was completed, only the windows and nails were bought. On cold winter nights you sat by the stove because lots of wind came through the cracks. Gradually land was cleared, a barn built, and a large garden raised. Times were really hard, the only income being $10.00 a month from the sale of their house in Portland. Later Morris worked for the Forest Service. Grandpa had a pet bear staked out by the garden who had worn a circle the distance of his chain. Grandpa would lay sticks around the circle, put on a pair of ragged overalls and approach the bear, it would rear up on it's hind feet and they would put their hands on each others shoulders. When they fell down the bear would immediately grab Grand. pa's foot and bite until he hit him with a stick. He'd let go but increasingly he bit harder, and the wrestling soon ceased. The children walked to school about two miles from their house, carrying a 5-pound pail of soup to be cooked on the big wood stove to supplement their lunch. One time a cougar and her kitten fol. lowed them. A neighbor tracked and killed them the next day. Arnold trained dogs for a Seattle kennel and trapped some. The Indians came and traded blankets for the furs. There was a mule to do the plowing, but he disliked being ridden, and quite 222 Grandpa Lawson, Grandma Lawson, Irma Huntington, Olive, on car, Clark and Irma Huntington. often wasn't. Everything possible was raised, even tobacco. Soon however they had an orchard, chickens, etc. The house was washed away in the flood of 1933 and they moved temporarily to the old Skate Creek Ranger Station. Later, after other moves, they spent their remaining years near Castle Rock. MODES OF TRANSPORTATION Recalled by Oren Layton (photo): Oren Layton The recollections contained herein are of the locale in which I was born and now reside; Layton Prairie approximately five miles east of Toledo, Wa. Riverboats from Portland, Oregon brought supplies up to Toledo where there was a landing. Occasionally they would continue four miles further up the Cowlitz River to the farms of Bill Taylor and Grant Kirkendoll where they would pick up grain and potatoes from the local farmers. When the riverboats no longer came up as far as Toledo, our uncle Elias Layton ordered staples by the carload and then picked them up by horse and wagon at the train depot in Winlock, Wa. Individual travel by water was by canoe or flat bottomed boat. Our neighbors Amanda and William Hurst who had a timber claim nine miles east of Toledo, worked for many years as cooks on the riverboats from Portland, Ore., to Toledo, Wa. They travelled to and from the boat by horseback. Sam and Len Mills, who lived on upper Salmon Creek, hauled their supplies from Toledo by horse ahd wagon. They usually stopped overnight at our father's farm on their return trip, continuing on home the next day. Any traveller who stopped by for a rest or for overnight was always invited to share a meal with the family be he a stranger, an acquaintance or neighbor. Although this was primarily a farming community there was extensive logging done in this area. Horse and oxen were used in this operation. Shingle bolts of cedar and logs were floated down Cedar Creek to the Cowlitz River and then on down to Kelso, Wa. Long before there was a grist mill in the immediate area, our grandfather Francis Layton hauled grain by horse and wagon to the grist mills in Tumwater, Wa. This trip took from one week and longer, depending on how high the water was as he had to ford the Cowlitz River. Mail was delivered first by horseback and then by horse and buggy. The first mailman that I recall was George Hurd. He had a shack in this area where he stayed overnight when making the twice weekly trip to the Windom Post Office. Later, the mail was delivered by "Doc" Calvin who had a hard tire auto. A momentous event in my memory was when our father Emanuel Layton drove a herd of 60 pigs to Chehalis, Wa., to the livestock yards. My cousin Lewis Layton, Jack Kingsberry and a neighbor who drove the horse and wagon and I accompanied him. The wagon was taken to haul the pigs that got sore feet along the way. We made it as far as the Young ranch on Jackson Prairie the first day. We stayed overnight there and then continued on to Chehalis the next day. This was a trip of around twenty-five miles one way. All school children walked to school in the early days. We were fortunate that we lived within a quarter of a mile to the grade and high school, as many of the children walked a distance of two to five miles. In the winter, when there was a lot of snow, we were transported by horse and sled. When the high school was closed in our area the students went to the Toledo School. Our father built a home made bus that resembled the old type prairie schooner out of wood and canvas, but having the advantage of being motor driven. The students nicknamed it "the old grey goose". It could accommodate seven to eight students. Later when all the school consolidated with the Toledo Schools our father had built a large, wooden, oblong box-type school bus that could carry up to twenty-five students of both grade and high school age. As we travel these distances today in minutes and hours, it took days and weeks in yesteryears, I am sometimes overcome with nostalgia for the good old day and ways. . . but not too often. By Oren Layton SAMUEL LAYTON AND SONS - 1851 Samuel Layton, an itinerant carpenter and wagon wright, was born in New Jersey in 1794. He had five children and was twice widowed when in April of 1849, he and his two sons Francis and Charles left Logansport, Indiana for the West. His three daughters were left behind with friends, later married and remained in Indiana for the rest of their lives. Sharing one wagon and four yoke of oxen with three neighbors, Sam and his sons traveled sometimes alone and sometimes in the company of as many as 30 other wagons. Where the Oregon Trail branched (Colorado) two of their traveling companions joined a party of six wagons headed for the gold fields of California. The Laytons, however, continued to make their way toward the Oregon Territory. Samuel, Francis and Charles Layton arrived at Swisler's place east of Washougal, during the early winter of 1849. During the year that followed their arrival, Sam and his sons remained near the banks of the Columbia, plying their trade. The 1850 Federal Census for Clackamas County, Oregon Territory lists Samuel Layton (56) and sons Francis (25) and Charles (16). In February of 1851 they ascended the Cowlitz River by Bateaux as far as Cowlitz Landing. From there they walked to Eden Prairie (now known as Layton Prairie), where Samuel and Francis Layton and Jonathon C. Davis, whom they had met the previous winter, staked out Donation Land Claims which encompassed nearly all of Eden Prairie. Sam and his sons built log houses on their claims. Later years were to see a blockhouse also built there. On October 14, 1851 Francis Layton was married to Sirrilda Beth Minerva Prince (niece of J.C. Davis) by George B. Roberts of the Hudson Bay Company. The ceremony took place beneath the spreading boughs of a large cedar tree on the north side of the river, directly across from Taylor's landing. Roberts was insistent on performing the ceremony on the north side of the river where he knew he had legal jurisdiction, the land there having previously been surveyed while it was not yet surveyed on the south side. Present at the wedding were the principals, Mr.and Mrs. J.C. Davis arid Mr.Roberts. Over the next thirty eight years Francis and Sirrilda and twelve children including: William, Rebecca Anna, Henry Clay, Norace Greely, Cyrus E., Hanna J., Caroline, Emanuel, Elias Pilgrim, George W., Daisey Emmaline, and Rose Elizabeth. Francis died in 1889 while Sirrilda remained on the land, now occupied by their grandson, Oren Layton, until her death in 1925. In November of 1853 Sam and Frank Layton filed affidavits to secure their right to the land staked on Eden Prairie under the Donation Land Act. Frank then married, acquired 640 acres while Sam merely a widower, secured only 320 acres. The Donation Land Act was repealed before Charles was of age and could legally file. In 1854 Samuel married a third time, this time to the widowed daughter of Joseph Windle, Mahala Windle Flesher.It has been said that their first child John, born in 1855 was the first white male born north of the Columbia. Their subsequent children were Lewis, who died young 223 and Mary. Mahala also had a son by her first marriage, Andrew Jackson Flesher. Samuel remained on the prairie; which now bears his name, until his death in 1881. Charles married Hanna Carolina McDonnald and had eight children: Samuel William, John Wesley, Phillip E., Oscar Manley, Steven, Clyde, and twins Pearlie and Myrtle. Wife Hanna died in 1889 and Charles remained a widower until his passing in 1929. In his later years Charles and his sister-in-law, Sirrilda, were celebrated as the last of Lewis County's first settlers and as such, frequently mentioned in local newspaper accounts. John married Mary Lucinda Pumphrey from Winlock, and sired seven children including: Charles Stanley, Martha, Mahala, John Marion, Richard W., Ida Alice, and George W. John worked as a carpenter when the buildings of the Rainbow State Park were built and made kitchen cabinets, some of which it is said, are still in use in and around Toledo. He died in 1946. Mary married twice, first to James Champ, and later to a Mr. Spindle. She had six children by James including: Catherine Elizabeth, James William, Melissa Ellen, Viola Mae, Dora Emmeline, and Rose Alice. Mary was born on the Prairie in 1857 and resided in Centralia at the time of her death in 1944. Today many of her descendents live in the Silver Creek area. The descendents of Samuel Layton, who traces their heritage to Layton Prairie on the banks of the Cowlitz, now number in the hundreds. While many still live on or near the Prairie, many have continued Sam's migration and can now be found from Connecticut to California as well as throughout western Washington. Their stories and a detailed account of their heritage may be found in "The Children of Samuel Layton" 1983 by Robert W. Layton, available in the Chehalis Public Library, state library in Olympia, University of Washington Northwest Studies Library and private collections throughout western Washington. Additional information relating to portions of the Layton Family may be found under the biography's of other early Lewis County settlers including, among others: Prince, Davis, Windle and Omeg. By Robert W. Layton LAYTON'S PIONEERS AT EDEN (LAYTON) PRAIRIE Samuel and his sons, Francis and Charles, came west in 1849-50, from New Jersey by way of Indiana. Samuel and Francis, along with Jonathan C. Davis, had D.LC.'s taking all of the prairie, 13 hundred acres. Charles was too young to file and later had a homestead in the Cowlitz river valley below the prairie. (photo): Francis and Sarilda Price Layton Family. L to R: Mrs.Horace Layton, son Louis, Horace, Daisy, Rosa, Sarilda, Caroline, Elias, Emmanuel. Samuel was born in 1794 and was twice a widower before he came west. In 1853 he married Mahala Windle-Flesher a widow, they had two children John and Mary (Mrs. James M. Champ). Samuel passed away in 1881, age 87. Francis married the niece of J.C. Davis, Sarilda B.M. Prince, in Oct. of 1851, by George B. Roberts of the Hudsons Bay Co. She was the daughter of Rebecca Davis-Prince (Mrs. Freeman 'Capt.' W.P. Tyrell), they had come west at the same time as the Laytons. The Tyrells had D.LC. property on the Skookumchuck. (J.C. Davis was a Lewis Co. commissioner in 1853 and 186165.) Samuel and Francis were carpenters and to help finance the improvements on his claim, Francis found work in Portland leaving Sarilda to mind the children and the farm while he was absent. They had twelve children: William Penn, Rebecca Ann who married Samuel Spencer, Henry Clay who married Amanda McDannald, Horace Greely who married Mary Cullen, Cyrus Edward who married Lizzie Benentt, Hannah J., Mary Caroline who married Charles Evans (a Lewis County commissioner 1897-1901), Emmanuel Sherman married Lulu Omeg, Elias Pilgrim married Margaret Ella Shultz, George W., Daisy Emmaline married Harry H. Hurst and Rosa Elizabeth. Francis passed away in 1889 when their youngest was ten. Sarilda in 1925. Charles married Hannah McDannald Feb. of 1871, they had eight children: Samuel W., John W., Phillip E., Oscar M., Steven, Clyde and the twins Pearlie and Myrtle. Younger son, Emmanuel, farmed a part of his father Francis' D.LC. He and Lulu's children were: Eva - Mrs. Leo Kirkendoll; Oren who married Elsie Gray, then Marie Long Montgomery; Paul; Mabel- Mrs. Jack Hurley; Gladys married L Gries, then Matt Latunen; Edna - Mrs.Bert Edmonds; Verna Mrs. Walt Ryckman; Laura - Mrs. James Conrad; Nora - Mrs. Charles Nixon and Dollie. Youngest son E.P. and Maggie E. the daughter of Issac W. and Eliza Dalton Shultz were married Nov. of 1894. Their children were: Ernest; Estella - Mrs. Ellsworth J. Smith; Elva - Mrs. Henry Armstrong and Edith Marie Mrs. Mark Kirkendoll. E.P. bought what was the J.C. Davis D.Le. in 1894 and acquired other properties on the prairie including part of his father's D.Le. till in later years he was farming some thousand acres. Early on he had a portable sawmill and threshed for farmers on neighboring prairies. John Knab petitioned for a post office on the prairie and when it opened in 1888 it bore his name as did the new school when it was built, in 1899. Maggie's mother, Eliza was the postmistress till 1903 when E.P. and Maggie took over their store and ran the post office till it was discontinued in 1933. The school was just across the road and they were active in its affairs, clerking and boarding teachers. The fourth of July was celebrated in the early days with much patriotism, speeches, parades, picnics and games among them horse racing in which E.P. liked to participate. Elias was the last of the twelve children passing away Apr. 1952, at the age of 79. Maggie Oct. 1965 age 87. By M.D. Cole HAROLD C. LEARD FAMILY Harold Leard was born on Prince Edward Island, Canada, June 13, 1896 to William and Annie Leard; sister Ethel was born in 1905. The family moved west to Saskatchewan in 1907 where he finished high school and became a (photo): Marion, Lilian, Velma, Harold Leard (1946) mechanic. He harvested crops for farmers with his machinery in the Beatty area where he was active in church and community. He came to the states in 1923, met and married Velma Hostetter in 1925. Velma, daughter of Austin and Neomi Hostetter was born Jan. 11, 1894 in Welda, Kansas. Her parents had homesteaded land at Knowles, Oklahoma. After her father was killed her mother moved her and three sisters to Goodwill to complete their education. Harold and Velma made their first home in Detroit, Michigan, where Harold worked for the Ford company, Daughter Lillian was born in 1927. In 1928 they moved to Oklahoma to farm the Hostetter land, where son Marion was born in 1929. The dust bowl forced their move west in 1936, They settled on a farm on Newaukum Hill just out of Chehalis. There with hard work and determination they built up a productive chicken business. Their children have always been grateful that they were taught the value of hard work. Their Christmas trees in Oklahoma were usually a dead fruit tree so naturally the family was delighted with the beautiful fir trees here. The first Christmas spent in Washington the family cut down seven six-foot trees and tied them to the veranda posts around the house to commemorate the seven years without green Christmas trees in Oklahoma. The eighth tree was put up inside the house on the hand-cranked washing machine, They could only afford two ornaments and a few icicles. One of the ornaments is still being used by Lillian. The family attended Sunday School at Newaukum and Evaline, and were involved in community activities. They often played musical instruments together, Velma the piano, Harold and Lillian violins, and Marion the coronet. Harold whistled everywhere he went on the farm, feeding chickens or walking down the street. When residents on the hill cleared land and had a large brush pile to burn all the neighbor families would gather in the evening to control the burn and enjoy a potluck. Marion and Lillian graduated from the Adna schools. Lillian married Dennis Francy in 1947, and they reside in the Chehalis area. Harold passed away in 1952 of leukemia, and after the farm was sold Velma and Marion moved to Paradise, California, where Marion built homes for some time. He then served as director of Heifer Project in Germany for two years for the Church of the Brethren. He is now a building contractor in Glendale. He married Lucille Crawford and they have four children. Velma married Fletcher Hanshaw in 1959, and he passed on in 1967. She continues to enjoy good health and lives alone in her home in Modesto, California. LEATHERS- MARSHALL James Z. Leathers was born in Iowa in 1866 He moved to Kansas as a young man and married Maria Marshall. They obtained land in the "Race for the Cherokee Strip" in Oklahoma. 224 Their children were Clyde, married Lydia Roth; Iva, married Lawrence Christenson; Samuel, married Alta Hughes; Leona, married William Johnson; Florence, married Samuel Ventura; Hazel, married Joseph Cunningham; Edna, married Ralph Stopyra; and Robert, married Edith Benedict. The family came to Winlock and settled in the Ainsley District. They donated land for the Ainsley School. James was president of the Washington Co-Op in 1926 and served as County road supervisor. He died on the family farm in 1933. Edna Hollinger CLAUDE V. AND VERA LEE FAMILY Claude was born November 9, 1905, in Bridgeport, NE. Is the son of Stephen and Eva L. Lee. He came to Centralia, with his parents, in 1919. (photo): Claude and Vera Lee, Feb. 18, 1960, 25th anniversary In high school, he was active in basketball and graduated in 1925. He worked at various jobs during the depression days, and then worked as a surveyor and cruiser for John Markham as resident engineer for Northwest 15 Logging Company. Claude worked for Weyerhaeuser as land agent for 31 years, retiring in 1967. His cruiser mark can still be found on section corners in S.W. Washington. He hunted and fished for many years. He has also golfed for many years and, at age 79, still plays at least nine holes almost every day. Vera was born March 1, 1912, at Klaber, WA. Daughter of William Henry and Etta Whiteman and granddaughter of Leander and Roxie Rhodes. She went, with her parents, to Valier, MT, in 1917 and returned to Washington in 1924. She lived at Boistfort, then Vader, before moving to Centralia, Galvin and Lincoln Creek. After graduating from Centralia High School in 1929, she attended business college and worked for Montgomery Ward, for several years. Claude and Vera were married February 18, 1935. Their children are Gary E. Lee, 1936, who is a math teacher at Valley High School; Stephen R. Lee, 1938, who is a licensed engineer and surveyor; Linda Rae (Mrs. Grant Childers), 1940; and Connie L. (Mrs. Peter Herrold), 1944. They also have nine grandchildren, one great-grandson, and several step grandchildren and great-grandchildren. They celebrated their fiftieth-wedding anniversary on February 18, 1985, at Ford's Prairie Grange Hall, hosted by their children. RUTHELLA CHAPLIN LEE Virgil's father was an early Walla Walla settler. His farm was where the penitentiary is now. He went to Indiana after his wife's death. Virgil was their first child. Mr. Lee was killed in a fall when Virgil was two years old. Virgil knows very little about his ancestors. Mr. Lee had said he was a cousin of Robert E. Lee's, but not a first cousin. Virgil's mother married a man from Orting, Washington when Virgil was five years old and they moved to Orting. Virgil attended Bellingham Normal where I met him during summer school. Virgil had taught in Chehalis one year. I had graduated from Bellingham the January before and had taught the remainder of that year in a school near Chehalis, the Glen Alder School on the North Fork. I taught in Chehalis the next fall and Virgil was my viceprincipal. He left in mid-year to accept a position in the Coffman Dobson bank. He went into the Army. He was sent to Washington, D.C. after receiving his officer's commission. We had been married in December 1917, and I joined him when school was out. After the Armistice, we returned to Chehalis. Virgil spent a few years in the Donahoe Insurance Agency and then formed his own insurance agency. Our son Bill was born in 1921. He graduated from the Chehalis High School and the University of Washington. In 1942 he married Phyllis Herzog of Seattle, Wash. He enlisted in the Air Corps and when he received his commission he was sent to Deming, New Mexico as a bombardier instructor. Phyllis joined him there. Their first daughter was born. When the war was over, Bill joined the Virgil R. Lee and Son Insurance Agency and now Bill is the president and Virgil semi-retired. Both Virgil and Bill have been very active in civic affairs. They have both been president of Rotary, Exalted Ruler of Elks, state president of the Insurance Association, both were members of the National Board of Director's of the Insurance Association, Chamber of Commerce. Virgil served one term in the State House of Representatives and three terms as State Senator. He was an assistant to the Secretary of the Treasury during Eisenhower's administration and we lived in Washington, D.C. Bill and Phyllis have three daughters and three grandchildren. Their oldest daughter, Susan, has her own "Para Legal" business firm in Seattle and has one son. Martha lives in Seattle and is an artist. Wendy and her husband, Jack Thurston and their two children live in Chehalis. Jack is associated with the Lee Insurance Agency. My father, Ralph Chaplin, was born while his father was fighting in the Civil War. The Chaplins came from England and founded the town of Rowley, Massachusetts in 1626. The house which they built is a Massachusetts historical building and is open to the public. The caretakers told us that part of the house is the original building. My grandfather was with General Grant at Appomattox when General Lee surrendered, so my ancestor and Virgil's distant relative must have been together. My ancestors on my grandmother's side came to America to fight with Lafayette in the Revolutionary War. They later migrated to Oregon by ox team. My grandfather also came to Oregon by ox team with the Crockett family and settled in Brownsville, Oregon in 1851. VIRGIL R. LEE I, Virgil Ray Lee, son of Thomas Greenleaf Lee and Willametta Lee was born on August 24, 1895. As the result of a fall from a hay wagon my father died of a broken neck when I was about 2 1/2 years old. My mother remarried when I was five years old and we moved to Orting, Washington where my new stepfather lived. I attended grade school in Orting and graduated from the Orting High School in 1912 and am reputed to be the oldest living graduate of the high school. I attended the Bellingham Normal, which is now Western Washington University and came from there to Chehalis in 1914 to be the vice principal of the Cascade School. In February 1916, I became associated with the Coffman-Dobson Bank, becoming assistant cashier and trust officer. I enlisted in World War I in September, 1917 and was assigned to Company F, 361st Infantry. In April 1918, I was transferred to Officers Training Camp at Camp Johnston, Florida, and received a commission as 2nd Lieut., Finance Division, Quartermaster Corps and was sent to Washington, D.C. where I served until the end of the war. I have been a continuous member of the American Legion since 1918. In 1924, I left the bank to become State Agent for the North American Life Insurance Company of Chicago. In 1928, I formed a partnership with T.M. Donahoe known as Donahoe and Lee to conduct a general insurance agency. The partnership was dissolved in 1934 when I opened my own agency. In 1947 our son, William R. Lee, became associated in the agency and it became the Virgil R. Lee & Son, Inc. This firm has continued to grow and is one of the largest insurance agencies in southwest Washington. I was active in the State Association of Insurance Agents, having served as a Director and as it's President in 1944, also served as a State National Director and was a member of the executive committee of the National Association of Insurance Agents. In 1940, I was elected State Representative and was later appointed State Senator, serving continuously for 12 years and was elected caucus leader of the Republican Senators in 1951. I served as chairman of the Revenue and Taxation and Insurance Committees. It was during that time that the present Insurance Code was adopted. In 1952, I was elected a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Chicago which first nominated Dwight D. Eisenhower for President. In 1976, I was again elected a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Kansas City where Mr. Ford was nominated for President. My name is listed on a plaque near Mr. Eisenhower's office near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. In 1954, I was appointed Assistant to the Secretary of the Treasury, George Humphrey and served on special assignments in Washington, D.c. I joined the Chehalis Rotary Club in 1924 and have served that club as president, secretary and director, and served as District Governor of Dist. #502 for the years of 1960, 1961. I joined the Elk's Lodge in 1916 and was the first secretary of the Chehalis Lodge, and also served as Exalted Ruler. I was chairman of the Chehalis Planning Commission for several years and during that time a new zoning ordinance was developed and adopted. I also served as president of the Che225 halis Chamber of Commerce and served on the Board of Directors. I am a member of the Westminister Presbyterian Church. Ruthella Chaplin and I were married on December 23, 1917 and we recently celebrated our 60th wedding anniversary. We have one son, three granddaughters and three great-grandchildren. JOHN LENTZ FAMILY Johan Lenzenski was born in Germany in 1844. His wife, Wilhelmina Witulski, was born in Germany in 1848. They were married in 1872. They lived in the Masurian Province of East Prussia. This area is now part of Poland. Three children were born in East Prussia: Pauline in 1874, Emily in 1877, and Augusta in 1880. They came to the United States in 1881 and settled in Michigan where they became naturalized U.S. citizens in 1888. After naturalization the family name was shortened to Lentz, and Johan became John. While in Michigan two more children were born: Charles in 1884, and Martha in 1886. Then the family came west with the Sobolesky family to the Evaline area. The Lentz family bought 40 acres of land from the Northern Pacific Railway Company for $2.50 per acre on a site just south of the intersection of Tennessee Road and Schoolhouse Road. One child was born here: Emma in 1908. John Lentz was a farmer and built a house on their property. They lived in the Evaline area until about 1909 when John, Wilhelmina, and their daughter Emma, bought and moved onto a l0acre farm on the Bishop Road near Chehalis between the Fern Hill Cemetery and Market Street. The farm had a big windmill to bring up the water for use. John Lentz grew berries for a living - loganberries, raspberries, and strawberries. After John's death in 1923, and after a fire burned part of the property, Wilhelmina and her still unmarried daughter, Emma, moved to a house near the corner of 11th Street and Market Street in Chehalis, where the Federal Land Bank building now stands. Wilhelmina Lentz died in 1939, and Emma lived in the house until she died in 1976. Emil Lentz, his wife and five of his children lived on the Lentz Road in the Evaline area until about 1915 before moving to the Ellensburg area. The only other children to remain in Lewis County were: Pauline, who married Henry Becker and lived in Chehalis, and Augusta, who married Moses Wilson and lived at Evaline within sight of the original Lentz property. By Myrtle Petrie and Doug Wilson CHARLES ELMER LEONARD Charles Elmer Leonard was born in Owens Sound, Ontario Canada, August 9, 1861. He was the son of Thomas Leonard and Elizabeth Watson Leonard of Rockingham, England. He came to Win lock September, 1885 and married October 4, 1887, at Win lock. He built, owned, and operated the Winlock Water Co. until it was sold to the City of Winlock in 1955. He built the buildings on First Street, including the old fire hall, in 1912 and 1914, the present flower shop, and many houses still standing. (photo): Charles Elmer Leonard Family Charles died November, 1942. Martha Elizabeth Harrington was born September 11, 1866, in American Fork, Utah. She was the daughter of Theodore and Martha Harrington, descendants of the Mormon Chipman family. They came to Winlock about 1875 in a covered wagon and ran the Harrington Hotel in Winlock for many years. She died August 1, 1944. Children of the family include: Theodore Leonard of Dalas, Oregon; Charles; Herbert; Edward; and Ethel Petersen deceased. By Pearle Edmonds Leonard HERBERT WILLIAM LEONARD Herbert William Leonard was born May 27, 1896, in Winlock to Charles E. Leonard and Martha Harrington. His father built, owned and operated the Winlock Water System in 1903. This system was sold to the city in 1955. It is one of the best water systems in the state. He also owned River Pilot Newspaper in 1897, a hardware store in 1901, and was postmaster in 1917. (photo): Pearl and Herbert Leonard Herbert Leonard was a sergeant in World War I in France, He was an athlete, a Winlock High School coach, and the utility superintendent in Winlock. He was the inventor of Log Barker (Presto Logs), and a community builder. He also was a grass seed grower in the Longview, Kelso, Klaber, Toledo, and Winlock area with 800 acres of corn, peas, and grass seed. I smile when I think back to some of the ranch errands my husband requested late at night. I always felt free to include my friend Evelyn Miller on these missions. One was to deliver weed spray late at night to the Kelso Airport for the pilot to use for field spraying the following morning. We were scared and managed the trips from car to placing the spray in the dim lit distance. With a surge of unexpected strength we covered the distance in fast order. Quite a show of energy for two cowards happy to return home and safety. Herbert Leonard married Ardis Jones and five children were born to this marriage: Phyllis Lucille, Barbara Jeanne, Richard Dean, William Allen, and Harold Clark. On February 19, 1936, he married a second time to Pearl Lela Edmunds Garbe. Pearl is the daughter of Walter A. Edmunds and Francis Marie Jarnot and was born December 17, 1907. She has a son, Harold Cecil Garbe, who was born in June 1930 in Kelso. Pearl was a homemaker who raised her husband's five children. She has interests in art, travel, needlepoint, and is a Life Master of the American Contract Bridge League. She was an active worker in Lewis County Community Concerts, Orthopedic Hospital, Angus McMillian Guild, Red Cross, Lewis County Art League, and the Veterans Hospital. She makes her home at present in Winlock. Herbert William Leonard died on June 23, 1973, in Portland, Oregon. He is buried in the Wilamete National Cemetery. By Pearl Edmunds Leonard LEWIS LINDBERG Lewis Lindberg (1866-1922) came from Sweden, when in his teens. He went to Portland Oregon, married a girl named Carrie, who died not long after. (photo): Lewis Lindberg, and Mary (Insert) Lewis moved to Verndale, (now Glenoma). When there were no roads, he walked in, carrying everything on his back. He homesteaded on Nov. 28th 1888. He met and married Mary Hunt (1885-1948). Her parents were John and Nancy Hunt, who ran the flour mill just outside of Riffe. Mary was 16 when they were married. They lived in a log house before they built their home. They had nine living children. Carrie Francis (Taylor) 1905-1978 . . . Murtle Etta (West) 19081948... Tillie May (Eller) 1910-, Leonard 1912-, Herbert 1913-1941, Josephine 19141915, Harry 1915-1982, Twins Willard 1917-1920 and William 1917-. When the twins were born, the doctor gave them up for dead and laid them to one side, to save Mary. Her parents worked on the babies and got them breathing. Willard never got strong after that and was buried in the old Christian Cemetery along with Josephine. One stillborn was buried in the orchard. 226 The boys, when young, to get a laugh when a salesman or stranger came around to see their dad, they always made it a point to take them through the barn. They would run, the salesman would walk, not knowing the barn was full of fleas. By the time they got through, they would be black with fleas. They had many boys come and stay for the summer or just stay for a time to work in the fields. A few who came were, Earl Boren, John Willis and Tom Milton. Also John Winters stayed and worked sometimes. Winters Mt. was named for him. He had a cache somewhere on the mountain. He was getting old and was going to show Leonard where and what it was. They were halfway there when a head popped up from under a tarp and he turned around and no one knows, to this day, where or what (gold or money) he had buried up there. The door was always open for Mary Kiona and family, even if they weren't home. They went in, fixed something to eat, and always left huckleberries, a big salmon or whatever they were traveling after. Lewis worked in the woods, building roads with Walt Mills, using horses. He also served on the Glenoma School board. Besides farming and raising pigs, they had acres of sugar beets and rutabagas that they used for pig feed. After Lewis passed away, Mary ran the farm and a still to make ends meet. Her best customers were the sheriff's men. They closed the other moonshiners down but never bothered her. The old home burnt down and Mary rebuilt on Hwy. 12. She remarried to Harley Harbison from Oregon. The land was split up between the children. Leonard, Harry and William were still owners of most of the original homestead until Tacoma City bought them out. Leonard and William both live less than 1/4 mile from where they were born. Harry's grandson Joey is the last Lindberg to date to carryon the name. WILLIAM (WILLIE) AND LEONARD LINDBERG Willie and his twin brother, Willard, were born at Verndale, now Glenoma, on November 8, 1917. Willard died about three years old and is buried at the old Christian Cemetery. Their parents were Lewis and Mary Hunt. They had a farm and he remembers hearing them tell how, after raising turkeys and pigs, they drove them to market by foot. It took a long time to drive the turkeys because, as it started to get dark, the turkeys would fly up in the trees to roost and, until they got ready to come down, they couldn't go farther. (photo): William and Leonard Lindberg When Willie was about six years old his brother Harry shoved him and he hit his head on the iron wagon wheel and split his head wide open. With no doctor close, his mother just took him in and poured a bottle of iodine in the cut; something he has never forgotten. The kids, when they stubbed their toes or got their feet hurt, would find a nice warm, fresh cow pile and stick the foot in it and it would heal right up. Willie, in 1938, Leonard, in 1936, were both in the CCC Camp in Randle. They helped build many of the trails and roads in the Randle area. Harry and Willie also helped make the stone barriers over White Pass Highway while on the county road crew. Willie was in the navy in World War II. When he came home he married Verna Scalf, in 1949. She had a son, Robert. Her father was Jerry Scalf. Willie and Verna had a daughter, Barbara, in 1951. They were divorced, and after nine years, he married Velma (Harbour) Miller in 1964, who had two children, Linda (1947), who married Terrel Chamberlain of Morton, and William (1951), who married Terri Ford of Morton. Willie lived on the old home place until Tacoma City Light bought him out and they bought, what was left of the Lee Scalf place and built a home. Willie went to work at age 15. He worked off and on for the county road crew to help his mother pay the taxes on the farm. He then worked for Kosmos Mill until he went to work for Weyerhaeuser in 1956. He worked for them until he retired in 1976. Leonard also worked for Kosmos Mill, then Champion, until he retired. When he was bought out by Tacoma City Light, he built up on the hill near his brother Harry's. Leonard never married. Harry was the only one to have a son, Joseph, to carryon the name, who also had a son. PAUL AND DORIS LINDEMAN Paul Lindeman was born in the Northern German village of Kreupe in January 1841. He grew up along the docks of Hamburg and waited eagerly for the day whe he could become a crew member and sail away. When he was fifteen he signed on as a cabin boy and traveled to all the European ports. When he was twenty-one, he made his last trip home and got a job on a ship going around Cape Horn and up the coast to San Francisco. Here he started a flower shop and when he had saved enough money sent back to Germany for the girl he had left there. Doris Cheerman was born in Lubec in 1846. She came by steerage to New York, on another ship to Colon, Central America, across the Isthmus of Panama by rail and on still another ship to San Francisco. They were married there in 1867. Paul worked at many different trades that he had learned at sea and then started a grocery and fruit store on Mission Street. They lived upstairs and here William Lindeman was born in 1872 and Rudolph Lindeman in 1876. Stories of the large wheat harvests in the Palouse section of Washington Territory interested them and they decided to go there. The Washington State Penitentiary was being built then and Paul worked on it for three years. Their third son, Edward Lindeman was born there in 1882. The cold winters there bothered them and they began thinking of their final move. Paul came to what is now Lewis County and walked over a large part of it talking to the settlers and looking for the land he wanted to homestead. He found it at Ethel and walked over the Oregon Trail to Olympia to file the necessary papers. There was already an old cabin on the place and he lived there alone until his family could join him the next spring. They built a larger cabin near Lacamas Creek and lived in it all the rest of their lives. It is now on the National Register of Historic Homes because of its construction. Paul started a store and was postmaster for thirty-five years. William married Mabel Cusick and moved his family to Tacoma. Rudolph married Margaret Bowers and they farmed the home place and raised their family there. Edward married Nell Wolcott and they stayed at Ethel until 1942 when they moved to Chehalis where he worked in the County Assessor's office until he retired. For entertainment, they picnicked in groves in the summer, went to parties in the different homes where they played games and square danced. They never missed a revival meeting within walking distance. They fished the Cowlitz, hunted deer and raced horses on Sundays. Schools were only in session for a few months of the year and they had to walk a long way to attend them. The Post Office was a gathering place for the men and they really discussed politics there. Doris died in 1908 and Paul in 1924 and both are buried in the Masonic section of the Salkum Cemetery. LINHART FAMILY AND NAPAVINE J.F. (Joseph Frank) and Rose (Stroble) Linhart arrived in Napavine Thanksgiving Day, 1889. Washington did not become a state until 1889. Napavine is the highest point geographically between Seattle and Portland, Oregon. They came on an immigrant train from Grafton, North Dakota. The train had a stove in the baggage car for the ones coming west to cook on, as there was no diner. They located in a rental house, and by 1900 he built a home to raise a family. It was a large house with five bedrooms upstairs, located directly behind the store. Soon after arriving in Napavine, he bought out a partner of an existing general store. Shortly after, he bought out the other partner, as he wanted to return to Chicago, thus making him the sole owner. Later he added a meat market addition giving a complete line of groceries, dry goods, grain and feed. The store was across the street from a blacksmith shop. The original St. Agnes Catholic Church is still used. The Methodist and Baptist are still used as churches with some alterations. The Christian Church is now the Town Hall. The Presbyterian Church in the north end is gone. J.F., as he was known by many, served on the School Board of District #14. During his tenure as Director, the first brick building in Napavine was to be a grade school. This building was across the street from the Mayme Shaddock City Park. This park was used for town picnics, for several years, on the 4th of July. The first born into the family arrived in 1890, which was to be the first of nine children. They were Hilda M. Goodard (94 and still living) Napavine; Vilma R. Brown, Eugene, Oregon (deceased age 91); Russell L. Linhart, Seattle (deceased age 76); Stella L. Osborne living in Centralia 62 years; Ruby E. Penn, San Francisco . (deceased age 70); Joseph I. "Buster" Linhart, Eureka, California (deceased age 68); and Birdie Linhart, Napavine. The first born, Hilda Goodard, at age 23, became postmistress in Napavine and held the office for eight and one-half years. A Civil Service Examination was required, in 1913, rather than a political appointment. Two took the examination. 227 (photo): Linhart General Merchandise By 1910, there were five lumber mills close by. They were Emery and Nelson, Sommerville Brothers (Haywire) Mill, R.M. Shaver Mill, and two smaller ones. Now, all are gone. By 1913, there was, added to the business part of town, two drug stores, a hat shop, feed store, meat market, restaurant, saloon, two-story hotel, real estate office, bank, creamery (later remodeled to be a home), and a train depot on the main line between Seattle and Portland. About 1917, J.F. was owner of a Buick Touring Car with side curtains. In the summer of 1917, during the First World War, the Northern Pacific Railroad had a maintenance crew, known as the 'Section Crew,' to repair the tracks. The wife of the foreman had a crew of ten high school girls. Slacks were not worn by women then. The girls wore 'basketball bloomers.' Stella was one of this crew. The average monthly check was about $75.00 for a 9hour day. J.F. Linhart died April 21, 1919, at age 57. Rose Linhart lived until January 30, 1954, just 17 days before her 86th birthday. By Stella Osborne PAUL R. LLOYD'S Paul came to Randle in 1921 with his parents and sisters. His father, Charles Peter, (b:29/10/1878-Pa.) married Elsie Jeanette Rater (b:29/3/1880, Ia.) on 4/7/1900 in Adair, Ia. There Anna Isabel (b:3/6/1902) and Paul Raymond (b:1/6/1905) were born. In 1906 they moved to Kress, Texas where Ethel Elsie (b:9/3/1908) and Bessie Bernice (b:3/4/1911) were born. Then off once again by covered wagon to Prineville, Ore., where Mary Blanche (b:10/2/1914) was born. So when they moved to Randle, Paul decided this is where he was going to stay. He met and courted Marjorie (Billie) Gayle Hubbard (b: 11/7/1908 - Ballard) while she was working at Burlson's Cafe. On Sept. 1, 1930 they were married in Chehalis. While they were living on the Young Road, Gayle Jeanne (b:8/4/1934) and Paul Anthony (b:28/5/1938) were born. In 1942 they bought the Dan Christian place in Glenoma, living in the old tie mill shack until Dan's house was available. On 30/9/1945, son Robert Louis was born. Through all the years at Glenoma, Paul R. ran the farm, tie mill, and was on the school board, and later worked at the peeler plant. Billie was involved in Rebecca Lodge, played her piano for dances, weddings and school graduations. On 24/12/1951, daughter Gayle married Donald Dean Warnes of Seattle. They have three children: Donna Jeanne (b:23 /11/1953 - Morton) married George Gonser, lived in West Seattle, with a son, William Dean (28/2/1978 - Burien); Second daughter, Tina Marie (30/5/1956 - Bremerton) married to Victor Habib of France and live in Benicia, Calif., with their daughter, Angela Inez Odett (b:18/1/1983); a son, Johnny Dean (b:27/6/1963 - Morton) is married to Lnell Antrim of Renton and have two sons, Bradley Dean (b:18/2/1982 - Burien) and Jeremy Donald (b:18/4/1984 - Burien) and reside in Burien. Their son, Paul Anthony married Marjorie Ann Koher of Glenoma on 2/7/1965 in Morton. Paul made his career the Air Force and after 26 years, he retired in 1984. He was a loadmaster on many cargo planes and the last few years he taught in the loadmaster field. Now he is taking diesel mechanics at Bate's Vocational with a desire to later teach at that level. After graduation in 1963 Robert began driving trucks for L.K. Cearly, a life long dream. The dream shattered on 30 Sept. 1964. He died in a logging truck accident. Dad had been building a new house behind the big white house, so after Bob's death, he finished it and moved in. He later sold the place to Dale Riffe and moved to Randle. Then in 1970 they moved to Centralia. Billie passed away on 4 March 1973 and Paul R. passed away on 2 August 1975,just two weeks after Paul A. had been transferred to McChord A.F.B. Paul R. was laid to rest next to son, Robert, at Rainey Valley Cemetery in Glenoma. HELYN GRACE LOFGREN I was born July 18, 1936, assisted into this world by Dr. Joel Toothaker at Saint Luke's Hospital in Centralia. I was the third child born to my parents, Everett Wesley and Helen Beatrice (Canfield) Good of Centralia. I was named after my mother and my grandmother Grace. I joined a sister, Barbara Joyce, now Barbara Stewart of Chehalis and a brother, Richard Everett, now of Graham, Washington. Later, our family increased with the addition of my sister Patricia Elizabeth, now Patricia Meyn of Chehalis and my brother, David Joel, named after Dr. Joel Toothaker, and now living in Olympia. My father was born in Chetak, Wisconsin, and came to this area in his teens. My mother was born in Black River Falls, Wisconsin, and moved to this area when she was two years old. I attended half a year of the first grade at the Fords Prairie School. We moved into town and I attended school at the Lincoln School on Washington Avenue where I finished the last part of the first grade through the sixth grade. We moved to Rochester, WA where I attended school from the seventh through the ninth grade. The earthquake of 1949 occurred while I was in the seventh grade. My father, a logger who worked in the Morton area, was injured in an accident (breaking his neck) during the winter of 1949-1950. He was moved to the Centralia General Hospital. My mother went to town to be with him. During this time, the winter blizzard of 1949-1950 hit our area. My mother was snowed in, in Centralia, and the five of us kids were isolated for a week by ourselves at home. I remember the deep snow drifts and the cold. My father was in a body cast for a long time after his accident. We moved back to Centralia where I attended the tenth through eleventh grades. I married Raymond Walter Sommer of Winlock, Washington during my eleventh grade at school. He was a U.S. Marine and was sent to Korea shortly after our marriage on April 4, 1953. I lived with my family and we moved back to Rochester where I graduated from high school in June, 1954. I started working as a telephone operator in Seattle on June 7, 1954. After my husband returned from Korea, we lived in Seattle. Eastgate, and moved back to Centralia. Our three children, Kathleen Faith, Deborah Rae, and Michael Raymond were born in Seattle. I worked as a telephone operator in Centralia for several years after our return here. I went to work for Pacific Northwest Bell in Olympia after my divorce. I married Carl Nils Lofgren, a widower with three children, on the tenth of April, 1965, in Centralia. His children, Gregory Carl, Lynn Fay, and Kimberly Gaye, and my three children made us an instant large family. Our sons, Paul David and Carl Nils Lofgren Jr., were born in 1966 and 1967. We have four grandchildren and expect two more this year. My husband has worked for U.P. Railroad for 31 years. I worked as a telephone operator for four and one-half years until the Centralia office closed. I have worked as a printer at Browning's Office Supply for the past six years. ALBERT H. AND DOLLIE (CORP) LONG My father, Hugh Corp, was from Lynn County, NB. My mother, Nettie Price, came from West Virginia. They met at a barn dance on the Zandecki Road in 1909. They married in December, 1910. At that time, my father owned the Avery homestead on Avery Road West. They raised seven children, while living on the homestead, Ocie, James, Alonzo, May, Rose, Dollie (myself) and Nettie. James and Nettie are deceased. (photo): L to R:Front row: Alonza, Annamay, Albert, George. Seated: Dollie. 228 My folks owned the Avery homestead until both died; Father, in 1968, and Mother, in 1977. At this time, Ocie resides in Umitilla, OR; Alonzo in Sunnyside, WA; May on Jackson Hwy, Chehalis; Rose in Camp Perde, AZ; and my address is Highway 12 East, Chehalis. I married in 1941 and had twins in 1944, a boy, Alonzo, and a girl, Annamay. This marriage ended in divorce in 1946. I married Albert Long, a truck driver and brother to Alma Nix, in 1948. Our son, George, was born to us in 1949. We moved to Coos Bay, OR, in 1950, where Albert continued to work in the woods and drive trucks. We lived there until 1955, when we moved to Phoenix, AZ, hopefully to improve Albert's health. There being no logging except in northern Arizona, he worked at various jobs, including mechanics, and at one time, splicing cable in his own cable shop. I worked in restaurants and electronic plants, becoming Rework Technician for Sure Electronics. Albert's health never improved and the doctor's telling us we should move from there because of the smog. When we asked about Washington, the doctors were delighted, providing we moved to the country where there was plenty of fresh air. In 1972, we moved back to Chehalis, buying property from my brother, James Corp. This property having, at one time, been owned by my grandfather, James M. Corp, is now located on Hwy 12 E. After moving to Washington, Albert worked, for a while, at the Centralia Steam Plant; eventually, retiring and doing custom tractor work with our son, George. He was Master of Forest Grange for five years and Executive Committeeman for two years. Three of the five years Albert was master at the grange, I was grange secretary. In 1980, I went to beauty school, where I obtained my cosmetology license. I owned and operated a beauty shop in Napavine, for a while. As Albert's health continued to fail, I moved my beauty shop to my home. Albert adopted Alonzo and Annamay, when they were very young. Alonzo lives in Aberdeen, WA, where he works as an Electronic Engineer for Lamb Industry, traveling all over the U.S. and Canada, helping install and doing computer work in computer sawmills. He has three children, Theodore, Rebecca and Tera. Our daughter, Annamay, lives in Mesa, AZ, where she is secretary for the Superintendent of Mesa School District. She has three boys, Mark, David and Paul. George has never married and lives at home with me. He is continuing with the tractor work he and his father started before his father passed away, February, 1984. I also have continued with the beauty shop at home, where George and I reside at 401 U.S. Hwy 12 E., Chehalis, WA. THE LONGS: TOM, ANDY AND WILL Tom, Andy and Will Long, all brothers, were Mayor, Fire Chief and Chief of Police, of Chehalis, simultaneously. There were two other brothers, Henry and Charlie. Henry became a Washington State Legislator. Charlie farmed at Klaber, Washington. Tom later became Lewis County Commissioner. My maternal grandmother Ida Bell, a sister of the Long brothers, married my grandfather, Horatio J. Duffy, who at one time was Lewis County Treasurer. He owned the first brickyard in that area and subdivided a portion of Chehalis. There are streets in Chehalis named after my mother, Lucretia, and after my aunt, Lorenia. Mr. Duffy helped organize and was the first Master of the Masonic Lodge in Chehalis. He later became a member of El Katif temple of the Mystic Shrine. A few anecdotes come to mind: Mr. Duffy stopped a run on the Coffman Dobson Bank by passing a bag of gold thru a rear window. He contributed five hundred dollars to the first water system in Chehalis. He later felt that he should have contributed more when he learned that Mr. Coffman had contributed one thousand dollars. Mr. Duffy was considered wealthy for that time but experienced financial reverses such as when he was developing a town site in the Grays Harbor area and unheard of for that time, a tidal wave clobbered him. New towns and industries were springing up at that time in the nation's development. I remember my mother mentioning "the hard times of the early nineties," so that too didn't help matters. Just one more anecdote: When Mr. Duffy was eleven years old, he took an active part in the Civil War, carrying dispatches between Union Army units over the mountains of the South. Oh yes, may I say the tidal wave alluded to above didn't clobber Mr. Duffy personally, just his development. Horatio J. Duffy was born June 19, 1851. Married Ida Bell Long, 1878. Died January 8, 1927. I have finished with Chehalis and feel badly that I have forgotten so many names, dates and events. As this narrative is not about myself, I will only mention very briefly the paternal side of the house. My paternal grandfather was Christopher C. Thompson. He, in his youth, left Louisiana because he disliked slavery, crossed the plains in 1852 in a wagon, during which one of them was fatally shot by Indians. He eventually settled near Centralia, Washington in the Hanaford Valley. (Note: Hanaford is spelled with one "N" only which is correct. It is commonly spelled with two "N's" which is incorrect). He married Emma Hanaford, after whose family the Hanaford Valley is named. She, too, had crossed the plains via wagon train on her way from Vermont. There were two Hanaford girls, Emma and Ella. As they crossed the plains there was a scarcity of firewood for camp use. Much to the embarrassment of the girls they were designated to go out and pick up buffalo chips for the fire. That's all for now, except to say, that I served four and a half years in WWII and was discharged in 1946 as a lieutenant in the u.S. Navy and later became a real estate broker in the Los Angeles area. By Dale Thompson LOONEY FAMILY John Clifford Looney was born November 14, 1903 in PeEll, Washington. Ethel Stiltner was born December 3,1910 in Glenoma, Washington. John attended a small country grade school in the Mayfield and Winston Creek area and then graduated from Mossyrock High School in May, 1924. Ethel attended Glenoma Grade School. Then, transportation was provided by a car driven by Roy Parks to Morton High School, graduating May, 1929. John and Ethel met in a little country church located north and west of the Glenoma School. They were married September 12, 1929 and lived in the Mayfield area. They had two daughters - Frances, born September 12, 1930, and JoAnn, born March 9, 1932. One son, Ralph, was born April 10, 1934. During the depression years, John picked fern for as little as 2 cents per bunch. He then worked for WPA as timekeeper for $66 per month, which was a fortune! Frances and JoAnn attended Mossyrock School through the third grade. Mrs. Elizabeth Sullivan was their first grade teacher, and she still lives in Tacoma. Frances was May Queen attendant when she was in the second grade. In November, 1939, the family moved to Glenoma because of the illness of Ethel's mother, Melissa Stiltner (1874-1946). Frances, JoAnn, and Ralph attended Glenoma Grade School and then Morton High School. Frances graduated 1948, JoAnn in 1950, and Ralph 1952. Frances married William J. Scalf in 1948 and had three children: Dennis, 1949; Tina, 1951 and Duane, 1952. Frances was employed by Packwood Lumber Co. as bookkeeper for several years until she was disabled in a car accident in 1974. JoAnn married Winfred C. Morris in 1948. She worked for Dr. Bede and Dr. Wark at the clinic and Morton Hospital until 1954. They have two children - Susan, 1954 and Steven, 1956. JoAnn is presently working as secretary at the White Pass High School. Ralph graduated from Morton High School in 1952 and then attended LaVerne College, CA, and graduated from Long Beach State College, CA, 1956. Vera May Harlacher and Ralph were married in 1954, and they have four children: Kenneth, 1958; Janelle, 1961; Joellen, 1962,and Deena, 1967. Ralph started his teaching career in Downey, CA and is at this time teaching in Sutter, CA. We have attended the high school graduation of our three children and the graduation of all the grandchildren. Each one has had the privilege of attending college. Dennis Scalf and his wife graduated from Montana State College. We have nine grandchildren and at the present time, 1985, and eleven great-grandchildren. Dennis Scalf married Joni Sasich in 1980. Tina Scalf married Dan Hall and has six children: Boaz, Carmel, Anna, Daniell, Donique, and Jetaime. Duane Scalf married Connie Hatch and they have one son, Jebediah. Susan Morris married Donald Glad, and they have four sons: August, Eric, Andrew, and Cody. They live on Camano Island. Steven Morris married Beth Merrin, and they live in Glenoma. Janelle Looney married Jeffery Davy. At this date, 1985, John and Ethel live on the home place in Glenoma that her father bought in 1900, and in the house he built in 1924. We attend the Church of the Brethren, Mossyrock, Washington, and we enjoy good health and many other privileges bestowed to us. By Ethel Looney, 1985 PHILLIP SR. AND PHIL LOUCKS Phillip Henry Loucks (born 1874.died 1960) in Wisconsin and Charolett Williams Loucks (born 1884-died 1956) came to Lakeview, Oregon in 1934. He worked for Fruit Growers Lumber Company in Northern California. Their son Phillip Harold (born 5-24-14) in Little Fork, Minnesota was living there. Phil worked for the ZX Cattle Company for several years. He rode a pony to carry the mail from Lakeview to Adele and Push, Oregon in the Warner Valley, which was a total of60 miles. He would stay all night at Clarks Ranch sleeping on the floor behind the wood stove, finishing the trip the next day. Roy Williams had a cousin Phil that he loved, in Toledo, Washington. He needed some one to drive his 1939 logging truck. Being 23 years old, 229 (photo): John and Ethel Looney, Frances Looney Sealf, Jo Ann Looney Morris, Ralph Looney 1985 (photo): Phil Loucks looking for work, Phil took the job and has been in the area ever since. In 1939 he married La Norma Woods (born 4-10-1921-died 10-20-65) daughter of Ernest Woods. To this marriage five children were born - Janet (11-25-40) married Fred Meyer; Harold (1212-1942) married Sharon McKee; Jim (4-8-1947) married Wanda Bloomstrom; Charolett (6-281948) married Gary Fairburn; Sandy (6-8-1953) married Clyde Ramsey. In 1940 when Weyerhaeuser Logging went on strike, they moved to California for a short time. Times were getting better in Washington and the 2nd World War was going on. So back to Kosmos they moved. Phil went to work bucking timber for Ernest Woods, earning $4 a day. When that job was completed he went to work for Kosmos Timber Company driving logging truck until 1946. Phil and LaNorma moved again to Okanogan country, where they had a cattle ranch. Living there until 1953, they moved back to Glenoma purchasing the Sheaffer place. 1968-1969 found Phil president of the Mt. Adams Trail Riders Association along with being on the White Pass School Board for two years. In 1969 Phil sold the Sheaffer place and moved to Idaho, living there for over two years. He had 53 pack and saddle horses. One year he packed in over 70 hunting camps. It was on one of these trips that he saw his one and only grizzly bear in the wild. Phil also had the pleasure of packing a Boy Scout Troop into the Sands Lake area. This was a very interesting trip. In 1972 he moved once more to Glenoma, buying part of the Harrison Christa in place from John Auman. Phil and Harold farmed the place together, raising cattle, hauling livestock for people and hay from east of the mountains. Phil had a few injuries; like falling out of the haymow, breaking his wrist and cutting his head with the power saw, which required several stitches. Twelve grandchildren and two great- grandchildren call him Grandpa. JAMES A. LUMAN FAMILY We sisters, Donna Jewell and Frances Henderson, here relate a bit of our family history. Our father, James A. Luman, was born in 1884 near Osborne, Osborne County, Kansas, to Preston Luman and Hannah Ellen (Belvill) Luman. The family moved to Lewis County in 1888, homesteaded at the upper end of the Lincoln Creek Valley area, living there in a log cabin. (photo): Jim and Grace Luman Later they moved to a farm on the Airport Road near Chehalis, where dad attended grade school. In later years he often told of milking the cows from a rowboat when the Chehalis River flooded. Preston Luman, dad's father, owned and operated the Palace Meat Market on Main Street in Centralia, where two of his sons, Jim and Ira, worked. In 1908 dad married Grace Gibson, the daughter of Samuel C. and Antonio Gibson, a pioneer family of Thurston County, and related to Benjamin L. Henness, Captain of Fort Hen. ness on Grand Mound during the Indian War of 1955-56. Dad was a farmer and meat cutter during his lifetime, managing a market in Centralia for Frye & Company; was manager of the first meat market operated in Tono, Washington, and later coowner of the Star Market on North Tower Avenue in Centralia. For many years dad and mom were members of Oakview Grange and dad was a lifetime member of the Centralia Eagles Lodge. He was an avid hunter and fisherman, still driving his car and going fishing at the age of 87. Mom and dad had two daughters: Donna, born in 1915 and Frances, born in 1917, in a log house on their farm located in Thurston County and about two miles north of Lewis County. We both have lived in Lewis County most of our lives, and still do, and graduated from Centralia High School. Donna became a beautician and Frances a legal secretary. Mom and dad retired from their Thurston County farm in 1942 and moved to the Centralia area, where dad died in 1972 and mom in 1979. Donna married Carroll Jewell in 1945 and they have two children: Toni, born in 1947, and Bill, born in 1971, both in Lewis County. Toni married Charles Ruhl in 1967; they have one daughter, Carol, and presently live in Shelton, Washington. Bill married Diane Stedham in 1982; they have one son, Chad, and now live near Borst Park, Centralia, Washington. Frances married Lyle B. Henderson in 1936 and they have two children: Roger, born in 1948 and Cheryl, born in 1950. Roger married Nita Bryson in 1967 and they live in the Seattle area. Cheryl lives at San Bernardino, California. 230 THE LUNDS OF WINLOCK Gus Pahikainen and Hilma Aksila were married in Seattle, April 20, 1907. Three days later they came by train to Winlock, WA, to the forty acre farm Gus had purchased from his earnings in the virgin woods since his arrival from Kalajoki, Finland, to escape service in the Russian Army. Gus and Hilma had become sweethearts while working as servants in Kalajoki on the estate of a wealthy cousin, the Sandaholomas. Gus arrived in the Pacific Northwest in 1902. He soon discovered the name Pahikainen was too difficult to use in America. One day he got a job in the woods because a man named Lund had died in an accident, and when Gus took out his naturalization papers he took the Lund name. Logging in the Winlock area was still prevalent, and Gus continued working. By this time Hilma had a few cows and some chickens to take care of. Later Gus cleared much of the stump land for hay fields for the cows. In 1907 the Finnish Hall was built on an acre of land Gus had donated. All the young Finnish families helped in the building of the hall. In 1908 the United Finnish Brothers and Sisters Lodge # 19 was organized and Gus acted as secretary for 22 years. His sons Lauri, Leo and Paul later became members. Many dances, programs, plays were enjoyed in this Finnish Hall, which finally burned down in about 1977. >From about 1913 to 1950 White Leghorn chickens were popular and profitable in the Winlock area. Millions of cases of eggs have been shipped to all parts of the United States. Hatcheries for chicks also became a popular industry. Winlock has the largest egg in the world, a landmark near the old railroad station. Egg Day is still celebrated in the town of Winlock on the third Saturday of June. All six of the Lund children graduated from the Winlock High School. A brief history of their lives and accomplishments follows: Lauri John b. 1/24/08 d. 8/13/83 Lauri was graduated from Washington State College and married a Winlock school teacher, Alice Norton. He was a friendly service station operator in Tacoma. He was known as the Tacoma Kiwanis derby race king. They had two daughters, Beverly Sanders and Sylvia Cunningham, and five granddaughters. After Alice's death, he married Florence Long. Irene Elma b. 1/18/10 Irene was Winlock's Community Day queen in 1928. She was a private secretary in Seattle and later married a service station operator, Chris Thaanum, who died in 1965. They had two daughters, Christine Coffey and Joanne Rehkopf, three grandsons and one granddaughter. Irene's hobbies have been PTA, Girl Scouts, Garden Club, flower show judge and travelling. Weikko Adolf b. 7/4/2 Weikko knows more or has handled more hen's eggs than any man in the area. He graduated with a B.S. in poultry husbandry from Washington State College, and has worked for the state or had his own poultry farm and hatchery. He married Claire Kieffer, a teacher from Lacey, W A. They have travelled extensively in all parts of the world. They now live six months in Greenacres, WA and six months in Mesa, AZ. They have one adopted son, Gary, one grandson and one granddaughter. Weikko is a member of Lions International. Martha Elisabeth b. 2/19/15 d. 9/15/80 Martha married a Finnish Winlock man, Niilo Anderson. He is a graduate of State College at Pullman, and was a state game protector in Colfax, Kittitas, Kelso, Aberdeen and Mount Vernon. Martha was active in PTA, Garden Club and Boy Scouts with their sons Dick and Terry. (photo): Lower Left: Gus Lund, Paul, Hilma Lund, Leo. Upper Left: Martha, Lauri, Irene, Weikko. Year 1929. Part of her ashes lie peacefully in the Winlock cemetery. Leo Ernest b. 7/27/17 d. 9/12/83 Leo followed his father's footsteps as a logger in the Ryderwood Hills. During World War II he worked in the Bremerton Shipyard. Later he became supervisor of installation of transformers for Bonneville Power at Vancouver, WA. He married a Winlock girl, Marguerite Johnson. They had one daughter, Gail Love, one grandson and one granddaughter. Both Leo and Marguerite are buried in the Winlock cemetery. Paul Edward b. 2/19/26 Paul is bilingual. He spoke Finnish to his parents and English to his brothers and sisters. Paul worked on the family farm and helped take care of his parents through their later years. Paul has been a milk truck driver for Darigold for 40 years. He has a son, Dave and a daughter, Sheila Gregg. Paul still lives on the original farm. GEORGE AND JEAN LYLE FAMILY I was born in Dryad, Washington in 1910. My parents, Dr. and Mrs. Eugene Stevens, named me Marjorie Jean, but I was called by my middle name. My brother, Edgar Bertram, was born in 1896; my sister, Helen Alicia, in 1897. She died in 1909. . My father sometimes took me along when he went with the horse and buggy to visit his patients. I remember those rides well. We moved to Doty when I was three years old. I am grateful for the privilege I had of growing up in a small milltown; precious friendships made then last to this day. Our grade and high school teachers, bless them, were the dedicated kind who saw to it that we studied and learned. A highlight of my childhood was running with the other children and hiding when frequent gypsy caravans came to town. We were told that gypsies stole little children. Another vivid memory is the terror five short, sharp whistle blasts from the sawmill could bring, especially in the dead of night. Those five blasts signalled a fire in town. In 1933 I met my husband, George Lyle, one of the Civilian Conservation Corps from Illinois, stationed at Doty. Born in Somerset, Kentucky in 1909 to Mr. and Mrs. Leonies Lyle, he moved with his parents to Warrensburg, Illinois at the age of two. He was their third boy; they later had five more children, three girls and two boys. George and I were married in Chehalis in 1934 and lived on a small ranch in Pacific County where our daughter, Helen Mary, was born in 1936. We moved to Doty in 1940; our son, George Eugene, was born there in 1941. We moved to Chehalis in 1942 and were delighted to find that the Chehalis Schools had teachers possessed with the same kind of dedication as those of the Doty days. In 1944 we bought the home in which I still live on Chehalis Avenue. My husband operated a meat market until the early 1950's, then worked several years as a fieldman for National Fruit Company and then sold agricultural chemicals. Then, for the last eighteen years before retirement in 1978, he was a realtor. I worked for the City of Chehalis as water department cashier from April 1952 until March 1963 when the city treasurer retired. I was appointed to that position where I served until retirement in November 1975. We joined the United Methodist Church when our children were small. My husband was a member of the Elks and Masonic Lodges and, together, we were longtime members of the Eastern Star. Highlights of the Chehalis years were the joy we all felt when World War II ended, celebrating the town's centennial, and experiencing the 1949 earthquake and the 1950 blizzard. George and I were blessed with nine grandchildren and had many happy times with them and our children. We were given forty-six wonderful years together before a heart attack took his life in 1980. I now have two great-grandchildren and feel richly blessed with my dear family, my many friends in the church, Eastern Star, and Garden Clubs, and I live among kind, friendly neighbors. I thank the Lord that the paths of all these good people crossed with mine. By Jean Lyle WILLIAM (BILL) AND MAGGIE LYONS William (Bill) Lyons was born October 27, 1896, at Oswego, KS. His parents were Frank and Rachel (Dickson) Lyons. They moved from 231 (photo): L to R: Willard, Evelyn, Delores, William (Father) Maggie (Mother), Maxine, Robert, Neil, Everett, Billy, Ralph, Wayne Lyons. Kansas to Callaway, NE, when Bill was a small child. Here Bill; half-brother, Clay Harper; sister, Pearl; and twin sisters, Ruth and Ruby, were raised. Bill married Maggie May Nelson. She was born December 28, 1897. Their wedding was February 16,1916. Her parents were Chris and Julia (Scheyer) Nelson. Maggie's sisters were Mary, Rosetta, Sophia, Ann, Tina and Agnes; her brothers were John, Ray, Willis and Albert Nelson. Maggie's parents and family moved to Washington when she was a small child. They lived at Eatonville, WA, for five years. Her father logged until he was badly injured while working. When Chris was well enough, the family moved back to their home near Callaway, NE. Bill and Maggie's children are Charles Wayne, Ralph William, Calvin Neil, (twins) James Everett and Ruth Evelyn (Miller), Ruby Marine (Cox), Billy Dean, Robert Dale, Delores May (Rice), Willard Ray (Buck) and Roger Frank. three sons are deceased, Teddy Lee, Larry Joe and one, who died at birth, un-named. Bill and Maggie have thirty-six grandchildren and many great-grandchildren. Bill, Maggie and children moved to Onalaska, WA, March 7, 1940, from Calloway, NE. He came, bought a farm near Onalaska, went back to Nebraska, had a farm sale and, then, he packed and moved. Bill and family worked at odd jobs to make a living. Later, he got a job with Carlyle Company. Bill was farming and logging, at the time of his death, August 3, 1963. He had also worked, at one time, as Weed Control Supervisor for Lewis County. NELSON ADRIAN MADDEN FAMILY Nelson Adrian was born in Blue Mound, Lynn County, Kansas on April 15, 1886 to parents John G. and Ida Bell Reddick Madden. He was the second of three children. Annie Johnson was born on the Johnson homestead (then called Alpha -now part of Cine bar) on February 13, 1895. Annie was the first of three children - her brother Andy died at 1 year of age in 1897. Little brother Richard still lives on the homesite off the Burnt Ridge Road. Annie's parents were John Magnus and Mary Anderson Johnson - both were from Sweden. Nelson and Annie were married in Chehalis on October 11, 1915. They made their first home off the now called Madden Road, then called the M.W. Shanklin Road. Parts of the M.W. Shanklin Road are still in use today. They are the Justice, Madden, and the Shanklin Roads. This home was considered in Silver Creek then, now part of the Cinebar Community. Three children were born at home with the help of Dr. Botzer. John Chester (known to many by Chet or Chester) March 12, 1917, Edna Ella June 12, 1918, and Lawrence Adrian May 24, 1921. In 1928 a large home was built. It was a 2-story house with a 1/2 basement with a large kitchen, large living room, 1 bath and 5 bedrooms. This house was built a few yards from the old one. It stood until a fire destroyed it in March 1980. This homesite is still in the family as it is owned by their granddaughter Helen Annie Madden Brackee. Nelson was a farmer. When they cleared and plowed new ground, the very first crop to be planted was potatoes. He once got a horse from Mabton, Washington. He named it Mabton. Nelson was an excellent shot with his rifle. One day tragedy struck him. He was out on a rainy day with his black powder rifle loaded and sat down with his hands over the barrel. Somehow the gun went off and Nelson lost several fingers off each hand. This didn't stop him from entering turkey shoots. Men saw his hands and thought no problem, he can't shoot. But he fooled them! He always won! He was soon banned from all turkey shoots because of his good aim. Not only was Nelson a good shot, so was his wife Annie. One day, Nelson and the boys went bird hunting. They had no luck but had to swallow their pride. For supper - 2 birds. Annie looked up from her sewing by the window and saw 2 birds in her flower bed. She slowly and quietly got her .22 rifle, opened the window, and waited for the right time and shot. Two birds with one shot! Chet, Edna and Lawrence all went to Onalaska High School after graduating from the Cinebar School. Chet and Edna graduated from high school in 1936 and Lawrence in 1939. Chet married Ruby Jo Keegan and had two daughters, Helen and Mary, and two grandchildren. Edna married Jack Corbin and had two children, Roger and Myrtle Ann, and 4 grandchildren. Lawrence married Lillian Faylene (Faye) Shelton, had one daughter Elaine and no grandchildren. Nelson passed away January 1, 1942, and Annie passed away November 15, 1944. Both are buried at Salkum Cemetery close to Nelson's mother, Ida Bell Reddick Madden Brown who died in June 1949 and father, John G. Madden who passed away May 16, 1983 and son, John Chester Madden who passed way November 9, 1979. By Mary A. Madden Fischer (photo): Ida B. Reddick Family 232 JOHN CHESTER MADDEN FAMILY John Chester Madden was born 12 March 1917 to parents Nelson Adrian and Annie Johnson Madden. He was born on the Madden homestead now located at 198 Madden Road. (photo): John Chester Madden. Ruby Jo Keegan Madden. with children, Helen A. Madden Brackee, Mary A. Madden Fischer, 1 Jan. 1954. Ruby Jo Keegan was born 6 March 1930. Her parents were Pat and Vesta Loe Keegan. Ruby was born in Buna, Jasper County, Texas. John (who was known to everyone as Chet or Chester) and Ruby were married 20 May 1949. They made their home in the house that was built in 1928 when Chet was a lad of 11. Ruby and Chet were blessed with 2 daughters. Helen Annie arrived 19 October 1951 and Mary Alice arrived 24 April 1953. Both girls were born at Morton General Hospital at Morton. Chet was so very proud of his little girls. Chet was a farmer and shipped milk in cans to Darigold. He shipped until Darigold stopped taking cans in 1964. I can remember going out to the fence that was around the yard, and telling the truck driver Clarence Guenther - "Do you know that my Mommie is out of flour?" Next shipping day there was a sack of flour on top of the empty cans. Boy did I get a spanking for telling Clarence. By September 1950 Chet purchased a tractor, a new Massey Harris #30. This tractor is still in use today. Helen and I could drive it before our feet could barely reach the pedals. Chet was an active member of Alpha Grange. Every second and fourth Saturday nights would find him at the meetings. He held his position as Steward for over 20 years. Some times we were the first ones to arrive. He would start the fires to get the building warmed up. Later when Alpha held dances on the first and third Saturday nights, he was there at the door with fellow Grange member and friend Don Cole. Haying season was a very busy time. Chet, John McDougall, and Chet's Uncle Richard Johnson, all got together to do the haying at each other's houses. Chet was a very kind and helping person. He would stop what he was doing to help his neighbors and friends. Sometimes they didn't have to call and ask. He just somehow knew and showed up. Helen met and married Rick Brackee 11 November 1971 at the church in Adna. They have two children - Chester Ervin 16 July 1972 and Betty Ann 11 July 1974. They live in the Madden homesite at Cinebar. Mary met and married Gerald Bruce Fischer 26 August 1972 at the Community Building in Chehalis. They have no children and live west of Chehalis. Chet and Ruby were divorced March 1973. He married Pearl Vigre 19 January 1974 at Mary's house with Helen standing up with them. Chet died 9 November 1979 with A.L.S. or Lou Gehrig disease. He is buried at the Salkum Cemetery next to his parents Nelson Adrian and Annie Johnson Madden. By Mary A. Madden Fischer. JOHN G. MADDEN FAMILY Both John G. Madden and Ida Bell Reddick were born in Indiana. John was born June 19, 1855, and Ida on June 27, 1862. John's parents were John C. and Sarah T. Winterbower Madden. John had 3 brothers and 2 sisters. Ida's parents were William Harvey and Nancy E. Hall Reddick. Ida had 1 sister and 3 brothers. John and Ida were married in Lynn County, Kansas on July 15, 1880. Their first child came almost 3 years later. A son, Tempy E., arrived June 3, 1883. He died close to his third birthday on May 19, 1886. Their second child, Nelson Adrian was born April 15, 1886. And Myrtle C. was born July 4, 1888. All three children were born in Blue Mound, Lynn County, Kansas. John was advised to leave Kansas because of his health. So he moved his young family to Washington Territory. They arrived here September 6,1888. Baby Myrtle was just 2 months old and Nelson was 2 years old. They made their home just off the now called Calvin Road. Part of this homestead is still in the family as it is owned by their granddaughter, Edna Maddn Corbin. Just 2 months shy of their 13th wedding anniversary, John passed away May 16, 1893. Ida now had to be both mother and father to Nelson age 7 and Myrtle almost 5. One year later, June 13, 1894, Ida and Robert T. Brown were married. Robert was born in Ireland, August 1886. Robert received his certificate of citizenship on October 17, 1896. They built a large house off the now called Madden Road (then M.W. Shanklin Road). The M.W. Shanklin Road was established in 1889. Parts of this road are still in use today- Justice, Madden, and the Shanklin roads. The house is gone now, but the homesite is still in the family as it is owned by their greatgranddaughter Mary Alice Madden Fischer. Ida was able to see both children married. Nelson married Annie Johnson and had three children, John Chester, Edna Ella, and Lawrence Adrian. Myrtle married William Lawrence Hobbs and had one son, Johnston. Ida outlived both her husband and her two sons. She passed away June 1949. Ida and her two husbands, John and Robert, are buried at the Salkum Cemetery, along with Nelson who passed away January I, 1949, and John Chester November 9, 1979. Myrtle passed away in Oregon, July 1973, and is buried in Oregon. By Marry A. Madden Fischer (photo): John G. Madden Family AUGUSTA MADSACK Augusta Madsack, born November 28, 1888, in Germany, to Catherine and Philip Insel, settled in Chehalis along with her mother and brother Chris Insel, and sisters, Bessie Schueber, Marie Stickney and Margaret Ulrich, all born in Germany. She married first to August Gaulke and had two children, Lillian and Carl Gaulke; her second husband was Oswald Madsack and their two children were Kathryn and Jack Madsack. (photo): Augusta Madsack, 90th birthday, 1978 She made her home on Second Street in Chehalis until 1943. After the death of her husband Oswald, she resided with her children, Lillian 233 Joachim, Kathryn Hayes, Carl Madsack and Jack Madsack. She lived with Lillian, her daughter, until age 90. All resided in Olympia, Washington. She had many descendants, fourteen grandchildren, eighteen great-grandchildren, and ten great-great-grandchildren. She passed away at the age of ninety-six, having worked hard and living a full busy life. MALNERICH John Denny Malnerich, was born on the family farm on Lincoln Creek, November 1929. His parents were John and Gertrude Malnerich. Denny has two sisters, Mildred Hickman, Centralia, Dorothy Boyd, Chehalis, and one brother Tom, Seattle. Denny went to Galvin grade school and graduated from Centralia High School in 1949. Some of the jobs Denny had thru the growing up years were, farm labor, working in the woods, working at the Martin Brothers coal mine in Oakville and at the Kraft Cheese Plant in Chehalis. John Denny Malnerich married Ruth Payne in 1949. They have two children, Trudy Ruth Malnerich Jenkins and John Robert. Denny and Ruth were divorced in 1960. Then Denny, his parents and children worked the family dairy farm until 1969. At this time he bought into Midway Meats, a Centralia packing plant; also that same year, Denny married Deloris Parypa, a widow with three children. They combined their families and bought, from William and Donna McAllister, the Floyd McElfresh place in Galvin, a twenty acre small farm where they raise holstein replacement heifers. Deloris A. Malnerich, was born in Centralia, November 1929. She is the daughter of Agnes E. Herriford. The W.T. Herriford family were pioneer settlers on the Toutle River. Deloris graduated from Centralia High School in 1947. In the years before marriage and family, she worked at the National Bank of Commerce. In 1952 she married Lawrence Parypa of Adna. They had three children, Robert Neal, Joseph Lawrence and Krista Lynn. Widowed and remarried to John Denny Malnerich, Deloris is a fine artist and plans to paint for the rest of her life. Her sister is Dixie Rogerson a local artist gaining national recognition. Her brother is Richard Earl Dodds, a retired Naval Officer. MANBERG FAMILY OF LINCOLN CREEK The fall of 190 I marked the beginning of the Salamon Manberg family's life in Lewis County. At that time, the first seed was sown as a farm was purchased on Lincoln Creek west of Centralia. It came about through a family visit to see Mrs. Manberg's brother, Mike Lepisto, who lived in the area. However, it was still to be four years before an actual move was made. First to be completed was the matter of finishing "working" a gold mine claim in the Klondike region of Canada, a project which was to take four years. It was here near Dawson that Manberg had first come to Canada as a prospector in 1896. He was later to meet and marry Hanna Lepisto there in 1899. Both of them were of Finnish ancestry having previously emmigrated from the "Old Country." Prior to their visit to the Lewis County area, two daughters had been born - Hilma (1900) and Lillian (1901). Following their return to Canada, another daughter, Hulda (1903), and a son, Edward (1904), were added. Once his claim was finished in 1905, the now weary "sourdough" gathered his family together for a return trip to Lewis County. However, they were to arrive minus one as Hulda had died of illness on the journey "out." Soon after their arrival back on the valley, active farming was begun on their 160 acres. In the next few years to come, two more daughters were to join the family - Mamie (1909) and Annie (1911). The family kept busy during the next several years clearing land as their diversified dairy-poultry operation expanded. Manberg was later to work outside the home as a road supervisor for several years and was also on the school board. Meanwhile, all five children attended the local one-room school in the upper valley and later Centralia High School. The four girls were to go on to college and all went into teaching. Edward, after one year of college, began to help his folks out on the farm. Then, in 1947, after first leasing it for a time, Edward and his new bride, Marie, began to purchase the farm from his folks. By now his parents had moved into Centralia. Ed and Marie went on to raise three children on the farm, a boy and two girls. After fifteen years, they sold the farm and moved to Mossyrock where they still live. There they went into the family-run restaurant business from which they are now retired. In addition, the four sisters are still alive. Hilma Eko lives in Rochester, Lillian Bundy and Mamie Mortimer both live in Kelso, and Annie Makela lives in Belfair. By Edward Manberg WILLIAM AND OLGA MANNIKKO FAMILY William Mannikko was born 24 October 1890 in Lapua, Finland. He immigrated in 1915 to the United States. He worked in Canada, then in Eastern Washington farming and timber falling in King County. (photo): William Mannikko and wife, Olga Elina Jalonen He married Olga Elina Jalonen in 1922. Olga was born 10 July 1901 in Hankilahti, Finland. She emigrated in 1921, bringing her niece home to Seattle. Olga's intention was to stay and earn money for an accordian, then she married William. William worked in the Black Diamond Coal Mines. Their first child, Bertha Wilhelmina, was born 15 January 1923 in Hobart. They moved to Winlock. Working days constructing railroads, they built a house at night, using a coal miner's lamp. Their second child, Reino Walter, was born 13 March 1926. William and three friends built chicken houses from lumber obtained tearing down the "Little Falls" Opera House. In 1936 they traded their home for a 40 acre farm. They raised chickens, cows, hay and grain. Bertha and Reino graduated from Winlock Schools. Bertha married Wilbur Wigner. They moved and still live in Mt. Vernon, Washington. Wilbur taught English and Literature at the Mt. Vernon High School. Their children are Carol, Nancy, William, Jr., and Nancy. Reino married 29 June 1946, Jean Lois Perry, born 5 July 1928, daughter of Lyman and Marguerite Perry of Toledo. (See Lyman Perry Family) William and Olga built and moved into a house on the King Road after retiring. William died 30 November 1974 and Olga died 8 August 1982. They are buried in Winlock. They were members of the United Finnish Kalevala Brothers and Sisters. After his parents retired, Reino and Jean moved onto the farm on Co-Op Hill. Reino also worked poultry farming, and driving milk truck. From 1950-1972 he worked at the Grange Supply in Chehalis, as a gas truck driver, mechanic, shop foreman, salesman, then manager. From 1973-1983 he drove log truck for B&R Logging of Toledo. In 1983 he became self-employed doing Christmas tree ground renovation for Kirk Co. Jean worked at the Chehalis Cannery and as a waitress. She also kept busy on the farm and raising their seven children; Douglas, Sandra, Joan, Tina, Rene, Jeffrey and David. The family enjoys fishing, clam digging, hunting, and camping. Reino spends many hours playing the accordian. Douglas married Patricia Shellhart and lives in Seattle. They have three children; Tanya, Darren, and Jeremy. He works as a mortician. Sandra married John Davidson and lives in Castle Rock. They have two sons; Timothy and Mark. He is a retired policeman and does insurance appraising. Sandy drives school bus, and does income taxes. Joan married Raymond Mathis and lives in Cathlamet. Their two daughters are; Kimberly and Rebecca. Ray is a logger. Tina married Joseph Sickles and lives in Winlock. They have one daughter, Nicole. Joseph works for Kirk Co. Rene married Jerome Parkison and lives in Centralia. He works as an auto parts counterman, and she is a bookkeeper. Jeffrey and David still live at home. By John and Sandra Davidson MARKHAM FAMILY My grandfather, Edwin Daniel Markham, was contacted in Wisconsin in the late 1890s by the Weyerhaeuser Brothers, then located in Minnesota, to come to the state of Washington. My grandfather was the foremost timber cruiser and surveyor in the country and the 234 Weyerhaeuser Brothers wished to obtain his expertise in promoting their venture into the Pacific Northwest. My grandfather led the way into their tremendously successful venture. He brought his young family to Washington to settle in the family-oriented community of Centralia. His wife was Amelia Ward Markham. His four children were Kathryn, Mabel, John and Nell. These pioneer children attended school in Centralia and contributed to the heritage of the area. My father, John Howard Markham, went on to attend the University of Washington where he distinguished himself with football letters, memberships in Sigma Nu, Oval Club, and Fir Tree. My father, John Howard Markham and his wife, Grace Young Markham (herself a member of a notable pioneer family in Grays Harbor County) raised a family of three in Centralia: Jane Markham Abel (Mrs. Don George, Jr.), John H. Markham, Jr. and William E. Markham. By Jane M. Abel MARTIN FAMILY My grandparents, C. Lee Martin and Hattie Belle McClanahan, were married January 19, 1896, in Newport, Missouri. Portions of the following are excerpts from a family history, PATTERNS, written by C. Lee. (photo): C. Lee and Hattie Belle Martin Late 1890 After two years at Newport, "I still had the West in mind so left there and headed westward landing at Winlock in 1901. I commenced teaching in the Turner District (near Toledo) and sent for her (Grandma) in late spring (1902). Teachers' wages ran from $25 to $40 a month, and it was necessary for me (and her) to work at other things. She made a good deal by sewing and picking hops in season. I worked at various things in summer such as firing a dry kiln for hops and driving shingle bolts on the Cowlitz (photo): Fred Leslie, C. Lee Martin River from Sulphur Springs to Castle Rock. (See picture). Later, Grandpa took "the Principalship for the Toledo schools," and then accepted "the job of Superintendent at Tenino. So we moved once more in the summer of 1907, going by two wagons, and it was a two-day trip from Toledo to Tenino." According to my father, they camped one night along the Skookumchuck River near the Pearl Street bridge in Centralia. Their household goods were on the wagon with the hayrack with a cow tied on behind. Part of the time, he also walked along behind to keep the cow moving. C. Lee also taught school in Mossyrock and Naselle before retiring in Tenino. FAMILY RECORD Centennial Lee Martin - Cedar Co., Missouri, October 4, 1876-January 29, 1949 Harriet Belle McClanahan - Pettis Co. Missouri, January 7, 1879-November 10, 1946 Thaddeus Carl - Missouri, October 27, 1896-February 17,1964 Fred Leslie - Missouri, June 25, 1898-April 15, 1984 Dorothy Frances - Missouri, August 28, 1900-April 25, 1975 Zona Belle - Toledo, July 28, 1902 - November 30,1971 Robert Centennial Lee - Toledo, February 16, 1907-February 15, 1967 Lillian Renfrow - Tenino, September 26, 1913-February 17, 1975 My parents, Fred Leslie Martin and Elma Swigert Martin, were married February 1, 1925, at high noon in her parents' home in Mossyrock. They lived their entire married life in Tenino raising seven children. Martin Children of Fred and Elma Martin: Frances Aleen - December 12, 1925, Roger Allen - October 16, 1927, Patricia Ann December 7, 1930, Robert Lee-May 25, 1933 - February 7,1958, Frederick Leslie-December 18,1937, Dorothy Jean - November 26,1939, Mary Carolyn - October 19,1942. I am the grandson of C. Lee and Hattie Belle Martin and the third son of Fred Leslie and Elma Swigert Martin. In 1959, I married Marilyn Lee Kalla. Our three children are Fred Leslie, born June 8,1960; Deidra Kay, born May 23, 1964; and Tamara Lee, born September 28, 1965. Although I moved back to Tenino in 1972, I still own and operate three businesses in Centralia: Lee and Martin, Surveyors; Qik Pic One Hour Color Prints; and AM Lot Cleaners. By Fred L. Martin MARTIN - GWEN MARTIN EPPERSON It never was clear to me why my parents decided to homestead in Eastern Lewis County. I was born in Lewis now Packwood April 26, 1915. My father was Robert (Bob) Martin and my mother Elva Cook. They had met in a logging camp near PeEll where Mamma was working in the cook house that her sister, Bettie Lester ran for her husband, Ed Lester. Mamma and Aunt Bettie had come west from Tennessee as young girls with their father Eli Cook. Their mother had died when Mamma was four and Aunt Bettie was one year old. Grandpa Cook ran a cable ferry across the Cowlitz River near the old Nesika Bridge. Grandpa soon sold his homestead there to Johnny Cook and bought in Glenoma so his girls would be near a school. (photo): Grandmother Almeda, Harry, Ruth and James Martin in front of their first house on the homestead. 1914 They went to the Vale School, about where the Rainey Valley Cemetery is located. Dad had left Pennsylvania, stopping in Oregon, eastern Washington and landing in Chehalis in 1906. Mamma and Dad were married in 1908. They stayed in the Chehalis area, Opal, Manford and Kenneth were all born in Chehalis. Traveling with horses and wagon, they picked up their young family and traveled south to Mary's Corner, turning left on the slab and puncheon road that is now State Highway 12. The first night was spent at the Roadhouse and Hotel just across the bridge at Mayfield. The next night at Grandpa Cook's. Most travelers stayed one- half mile east at Wilbur Coleman's store and rooming house run by his wife Annie. The third night was spent at Kitchen Rock beyond Randle and the next day they would be in Lewis. They were soon joined by my grandparents, Sylvester and Almeda Martin along with their two youngest children, Ruth and James. Later Uncle Harry, Aunt Mattie and Uncle Claude came to homestead. They were all from Pennsylvania. When I was a year old, oil well drillers from their home state, influenced the four brothers with their families to leave for Montana and Wyoming to work in the newly developing oil fields there. When I was two all our family were hospitalized with typhoid fever. When we were all well again we came right back to Glenoma. In May, 1919, a brother Jack was born but died three weeks later. Virginia and Robert Jr. (Tink) were born there, Virginia September 1920 and Tink August 1922. Later my half brother Tom was born to my dad and stepmother Edith. Mamma died in 1933, Dad 1968, Kenneth 1960, Manford 1968 and Opal in 1979. Virginia Korhonen lives about a mile from me here in Chehalis on the Logan Hill Road. Tink and wife are in Fairbanks. My husband since 1940, Floyd Epperson and I retired back to Lewis County after spending our working years in Alaska. Our twin sons, Claude and Dean live in Juneau, Alaska. Also our grandchildren, Sherry, Mikko and Elise. Our oldest son Thomas died in 1971. I do art work here and winter in Arizona. By Gwen Epperson WILLIAM B. AND PHYLLIS M. MASON My maternal grandfather came to America from Italy in 1848 at the age of four. My mother, Mary Arcuri Sanders, now living in Chehalis, 235 was one of seven children. Their home was in Patchogue, Long Island, New York. My paternal grandparents, the William H. Sanders, emigrated to the U.S. from England. In America he became a teacher and an accountant. He kept an office in the city and his family in rural Long Island. He became interested in American politics and was a friend and aide to gubernatorial candidate, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and the presidential hopeful Alfred E. Smith. My father, Arthur P. Sanders, met Mary Arcuri and they eloped in 1926. They settled in his hometown where they had seven children. My father was a construction foreman and traveled many places. In 1945 he took a job for the Alaska Railroad and fell in love with the vast grandeur, the lure of Alaska, and sent for his family. He eventually bought a house in Seward, Alaska, and we settled down and grew up. Bill's father, Edward Mason, ran away from his home in Tennessee at the age of 12. He roamed as far west as Hawaii where he became an apprentice candy maker. Back in the U.S. he was a cowboy, and when he met and married Mamie Dayin 1915, he was a foreman in the gold and silver smelter in Durango, Colorado. They bought a ranch and began to raise their six children. His untimely death caused by "tick fever" left Mamie to sell the ranch and move into the town of Alamose. Bill, all grown up at the age of 15, left home to find his fortune and to help his mother. He held many and varied jobs not the least of which was horse trainer and jockey, until he became too heavy. In 1940 he joined the Army, fought in the South Pacific, was discharged in 1945. At that time he went to work for the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad and eventually headed north to Alaska and the Alaska Railroad, where he worked until his retirement. After my first marriage failed, I moved to Moose Pass, Alaska with my year-old son, James Clark. I was a kind of "my girl Friday" in my brother-in-Iaw's business. When Bill was transferred to Moose Pass, we met and married. Our daughter, Michelle, was born there. When the earthquake of 1964 devastated the southern section of the railroad, Bill was transferred for a short time to Whittier and then to Anchorage for three years, and finally to Palmer in the beautiful Mantanuska Valley. I went to work for the school district and became the payroll and personnel coordinator. We retired from Alaska in 1979. James, our son, soon followed and is living in Centralia. Our daughter still lives and works in Anchorage. Meanwhile, my sister, Nancy Estes, left Alaska in 1974, driving south to find a nice place to live. She was charmed by the countryside and city of Chehalis. My mother followed her and lives with her here. We decided that we also liked the area and finally found the lovely setting there. We now live in the Onalaska hills. MR. AND MRS. IRA SPILLERS MATHENY Ira S. Matheny was born in McClean County, North Dakota, November 30, 1908, to Ira and Martha Spillers Matheny, the second child of five. When he was 26 he came to Lewis County, residing in Centralia, WA. He married Martha Hackney Schmitz that year and the next year went to work for Addison Miller, railroad contractors, and eventually became an employee of the Northern Pacific Railway, retiring in 1960. He later worked for the Centralia Plywood Mill, the Centralia Steam Plant, and Date Lumber Co., as a guard, with his final retirement in 1984. Ira also farmed at home for 43 years. Martha Matheny was born June 18, 1917, in Chehalis, W A to Margaret and Simon Hackney. They came to Lewis County in 1903 from Grundy, Virginia. Martha received most of her education in Oregon, afterwards moving to Cowlitz Prairie and finally on to Centralia. Ira and Martha had three children. First born was Maridel Martha, Mrs. Spiro Anagnos, of Lodi, CA. Maridel is a home economics teacher at Tokay HS, and has two children of her own, Katrina 17 and Karin 15. Second born was Ira Lee, currently of Modesto, CA. Ira married Patricia Lord and they own a construction company. They have three children, Kenneth 22, Elizabeth 20, and Brent 14. Last born was Dian Lois, Mrs. William Keepers, of Centralia, W A. Dian works for Sherwood Forest Farms and Bill works for the Dept. of Transportation. They have two children, Kim 19 and Willie 18. Martha worked after her children were of school age. She worked at Yard Birds, Ritter and Duby Veterinary Hospital, and the Dept. of Social and Health Services, retiring in 1977. Ira and Martha Matheny have spent all their married life in the Centralia area, the past 32 years at their home on the Goodrich Rd. By Martha Matheny MAUERMAN My grandfather, Fred Mauermann, was the child of Adolph and Amelia Mauermann and grandson of George Waunch. Fred married ZelIa Blackburn from Yamhill, Oregon. He attained a sixth grade education. Zelia attended college at both Linfield in McMinnville and Oregon College of Education in Monmouth. She was a teacher before becoming a farm wife on Lincoln Creek. They had an 80-acre farm approximately eight miles from Galvin. It was carefully tended with all equipment, buildings, and fences kept in good repair. Each building received a fresh coat of paint every fourth year and the result was one of the "show-place" farms of the county. Fred was hardworking and somewhat short on patience, but was sought out for his advice on nearly any subject by folks from throughout the county. They had two children, Vern Lyle born on November 20,1911, and Reta Fae born on February 17, 1919. They were both raised on the farm. Reta married Reid Thompson and remained on the farm until her death in 1978. When high school graduation came, Vern was strongly encouraged to go to college. Although it was in the Depression, he completed two years at Centralia College and then two years at Washington State. He graduated with a degree in Electrical Engineering in 1935. It took a year to locate a job with the Weyerhaeuser Timber Company in Longview. That employment lasted for 41 years, mostly as superintendent of chipping and barking in the pulp mill. On May 6, 1939, he married Esther Christopherson of South Bend. She was the daughter of Norwegian immigrants and was born in Seattle on December 29,1915. They had three children: myself, Douglas Vern, born August 14, 1940; Reta Diane born December 3, 1946; Sally Ann born April 4, 1951. Sally died in 19730 of pulmonary thrombosis. R. Diane lives in Olympia working as a school librarian in the Shelton School System. My father, Vern, died June 30, 1978, of a massive stroke. My mother, Esther, died of complications due to esophogeal cancer on January 25, 1984. I was raised in Longview, graduating from R.A. Long High School in 1958. I spent my summers at the family farm on Lincoln Creek until I was 16. I worked five summers for Weyerhaeuser, first on a forestry crew, then pulling lumber off a "green chain" in the sawmill and finally as a chemist assistant in the pulp mill. I attended Linfield college in McMinnville, graduating with a Bachelors degree in Chemistry in 1961. I went to work as an analytical chemist for Weyerhaeuser at the Cosmopolis pulp mill where I stayed for five years. In 1967, I left Weyerhaeuser and spent a year studying biochemistry at Portland State University and then attended the University of Washington Dental School. I graduated in 1972 and immediately set up a private general practice of dentistry in Centralia. I have four children (three by a previous marriage to Phyllis Rice): Barry Douglas born August 13, 1962; Karen Esther born December 22, 1965; Kathryn Marie born June 13, 1967; and Tiffany Ann born November 15, 1975. Barry graduated from the University of Washington and is an automation engineer at Hewlett Packard in San Diego. Karen is a sophomore at Evergreen College, studying nutrition. Kay is graduating from Centralia High this spring. Tiffany is an active fourth grader at Centralia Christian School. My wife, Deena (Pickens), and I reside at Mary's Corner. We share an interest in outdoor activities and in working with our hands. I am interested in wood-working and jewelry making, while Deena works at rosemaling, knitting and other types of handwork. She also assists me at my office. By Douglas V. Mauerman HARRY AND PEARL MAUERMANN FAMILY My grandfather, George Waunch, was born in the State of Baden Wurttenberg, Germany, in 1820. He came to the United States in 1841. After a stop in Missouri, he came to the Oregon Territory in 1845, where he settled on 320 acres. The homestead was on a prairie that was later to bear his name (Waunch's Prairie). He was the first white man to settle in what is now Lewis County. (photo): Harry and Pearl Mauermann He married Harriet Jane Ford in 1847 and they had one child, George L. Waunch, 11. George and Harriet soon separated. In 1855, George married Mary Hagar, with whom he lived the rest of his life. They enlarged the farm to 640 acres and had 11 children: Amelia, Henry, Caroline, Aurora, William, Charles Edward, Frank, Edith, Walter, Charles F., and Flora. Amelia married Adolph Mauermann; Aurora, also called Addie, married Charles Burgeson; Henry died at age 8; Caroline died at age 2; William married Zula Curtis; Edward married 236 (photo): Amelia and Adolph Maueremann Angie Ford; Frank married Jessie Ford; Edith married Charles Rebholz and later married Mr. Nylander; Walter married Florence (name unknown); Charles F. died at age 8; Flora married Lee Minard; and George Waunch, Jr. married Emma Jennings and later Katherine Wallach. George Waunch, Sr. died at his home on Waunch's Prairie on July 7, 1882. His wife, Mary, later married August Sewall. They built a new home near the old one. She lived in the new home until she died on September 20, 1916. Determined not to spend two years of his life in military service, my father, Adolph Mauermann (with an older brother, Keydon) left his home in Germany and came to the United States. His brother went to Canada to live while Adolph came to Lewis County, where a cousin had already made his home. In 1872 he met and married Amelia Waunch. They settled on land across the Skookumchuck River from the George Waunch claim and started clearing ground. My mother was very strong and helped my father falling trees and sawing wood to sell. Five children: Evelyn, Joseph, Daisy, Edwin, and Fred were born to them on this location. In 1884 they loaded all their household articles on a hay wagon pulled by their yoke of oxen, "Buck and Bight," and leading their three cows and two calves, they moved to a new home on Lincoln Creek, located about five miles west of their old home. They cleared more ground and farmed. Three more children: Frank, Maude, and I (Harry) were born. My father farmed on Lincoln Creek with the help of his family until 1910. He then moved with his wife to Centralia, where he died in 1912. Amelia, my mother, then lived alone until she died on August 30, 1948. There have been many changes since I was born on March 27, 1893. Then there were neither automobiles nor electricity. We traveled by foot or by horseback and used kerosene lanterns for light. Indians still came and camped by Lincoln Creek at one of their old summer camp sites which was on part of the farm my father claimed. They dug camas and fished. I was the youngest child of Adolph and Amelia Mauermann and grew to manhood helping my father and brothers farm on Lincoln Creek. When my father and mother moved to Centralia, I helped my brother Fred. I stayed on the farm for a while, but I soon found work in the logging camps and began life on my own. While working near Tumwater, I met and married Pearl Jones, whose family had come from Missouri by wagon some years earlier. We purchased an 80 acre farm from Mr. Higgens that was adjacent to and west of the farm my father owned on Lincoln Creek. We cleared more ground and raised grain, hay, cattle, and chickens. Times were rough through the "Great Depression," but we managed to acquire 93 more acres; raise three children, Edith, Lyle and Bonnie; and save a little money for our old age. I worked at other jobs, logging, and in the mills when I could, but always continued to farm. I served on the school board as a director for many years and helped the community to grow in many other ways. My daughter Edith married Russell Webster, my son Lyle married Margaret Breckenridge, and my daughter Bonnie married Richard Browning. In November 1974, my wife Pearl passed away. Since my children were all grown and had families of their own, I lived alone on the farm with help from my children until December 1983. Now at age 92, by my choice, I live at the Royal Care Nursing Home in Centralia. My mind is sound and my health is good for one of my age. Each week my children take me to their homes to visit and at Royal Care I keep up with world affairs by watching television and reading. I have nine grandchildren, fifteen great-grandchildren, and one great-great-grandchild. By Harry Mauermann LYLE MAUERMANN FAMILY As a Centralia, Washington, Lewis county native, I, Lyle D. Mauermann, was born on Lincoln Creek on June 26,1919 to Pearl and Harry E. Mauermann. My grandmother was Amelia Waunch Mauermann and am the great-grandson of George Waunch and and Mary Hagar Waunch. (photo): Mr. and Mrs. Lyle D. Mauermann I attended Centralia High School and in my sophomore year became friends with another classmate, Margaret M. Breckenridge, born November 8,1918 in Pretty Rock, North Dakota, to Mary and Preston Fay Breckenridge. They came to Washington State in 1934 living in Galvin then moved to Salzer Valley in 1943. The Breckenridge family roots date back to early America with history records in "Sangamon County, Illinois history of 1876." We continued our friendship throughout high school both graduating in the class of 1937 from the Centralia High School. We were married September 12, 1940. I worked as a logger and Margaret as a dental assistant. In March of 1941 we moved to Kelso, Washington and I worked for Weyerhaeuser at their mill. On January 16, 1943 our daughter Gerrie Lynne was born. The United Staes Army inducted me into World War II service on October 20, 1943. I moved my family back to Galvin. I was injured in the invasion of Leyte in the Philippines and, from November 1944 to June 14, 1945 was spent in Convalescent Hospitals. I was given an Honorable Discharge June 14, 1945. We moved back to Longview to again work at the Weyerhaeuser mill. On October 30, 1945 our son Roger Lyle Mauermann was born. In the fall of 1946; we decided to move back to Centralia and I went back to work in the woods. On February 1, 1947 our daughter Margie Ann Mauermann was born. April 1947 I took a civil service examination for the Centralia Police Department and was hired as a police patrolman. My 25 years on the police department I held various positions retiring as a shift sergeant in April 1972. Margaret was a homemaker while our children were small and when our youngest daughter was nine years old she took a position as an office clerk and bookkeeper for the Centralia Elks Lodge #1083 and held that position until May 1972 after the Centralia and Chehalis lodges merged into one Lodge as Elks Lodge #2435. Our family has also grown from three children to: Allen and Gerrie Sibley and sons Robert and Mark; Roger Mauermann and wife Katherine, daughter Kimberly and son Jason and stepsons Edward, and Michael Swanson, and Margie and sons Todd and Tyler. Two of our grandchildren are married, Robert Sibley to Diane Erickson and Kimberly Mauermann to Timothy Smith. The home we presently live in was designed and built by me and my family in 1959-1961 and has been enjoyed by all the family in the twenty-four years of occupancy. In our retired years we are enjoying our home, traveling, fishing and hunting. HENRY CLAY MAYFIELD Lewis County pioneer, Henry Clay Mayfield, arrived in Chehalis in 1883 and founded the first newspaper in the county with his cousin Albert Tozier. The first issue of the Lewis County Nugget appeared July 14, 1883. According to the paper, Chehalis residents had asked to be informed when the first issue was ready to go to press. "At 5 p.m. everything was ready and was announced at the ladies sewing society which was meeting at Mrs. Birmingham's, and in a few minutes the society, and what other citizens that could get into the building, were present. Mrs. Chas. Shepherd, a lady that had been in this county since she was five years old, and Mrs. Wm. Birmingham, a native of this county, were chosen to run off the first paper. Mrs. B. did the rolling, and Mrs. S. the pressing." Early-day news papering had its hazards. By Aug. 4, the paper was advocating a hog law because a "fierce-looking old sow" had wandered in and eaten the composition roller, which was composed of "beer, molasses, glue, pitch, ink, dirt, etc." Mayfield sold his interest in the Nugget in June 1884 and went into the grocery business in Chehalis. In April 1885 he went to the Mossyrock area, where he continued to keep a store until he established a store in the new community of Mayfield in August 1891. In 1895 he became postmaster of the Ferry post office, at which time he moved it to his store and renamed it Mayfield. He remained postmaster until his death in 1905. 237 Mayfield was born in Spencer, Indiana, on Sept. 18, 1839. He moved to Kansas as a young man, where he and his first wife, Rachel Bilderback, had 6 children - George, Henry, Mary, Charles, Rachel Ann and Mauvia. He served during the Civil War with the 13th Regiment, Kansas Infantry Volunteers. In March 1885 in Chehalis he married a young widow, Mary Ellen Goodwin, who had come north from California in 1883 with her first husband, Samuel Miller. She was born in Carson City, Nevada, Jan. 29,1864. The Mayfields had 13 children - Leroy, Benjamin, Ida, James, Isaac, Rose, Ralph, Clara, Sadie, Guy, Louis, Estelle, and Albert. Henry C. Mayfield died Feb 15, 1905, and Mary Goodwin Mayfield died Oct. 28,1930. Both are buried in the Doss Cemetery at Mossy Rock. McANDREW FAMILY Alexander McAndrew came to America in 1856 around the Horn of South America to San Francisco; then to Vancouver, (it was in Oregon Territory), and worked with the Hudson Bay Company, as a surveyor. He married Amanda Shobert in Union Ridge, Ridgefield, Clark County, in 1858. (photo): Henry and Mary McAndrew The Fredrick Shobert family came by wagon train in 1849 from Pennsylvania to Union Ridge, when my grandmother was 10 years old. Coming through the north central part of Wisconsin, they had to run to a block house because of the Indians. My mother's family history relates Mathew O'Conner came from Roscommen, Ireland in 1849 to Minnesota. He served with the Northern Army during the Civil War, (ran away and joined when he was 16 years old). Her mother's relatives came from Wales in 1830. My father, Henry Alexander McAndrew was born Aug. 1869 in Ridgefield. Mother was born in 1879 in Salmon Falls, Idaho. Henry McAndrew and Mary O'Connor were married in Ridgefield in 1900. They moved to Winlock and settled on a farm southwest of town in 1913. They lived there the remainder of their lives. There were five children, Florence, Glen, Edna, Lela and Zelda. By F. Bennett MELVIN McCAIN FAMILY Melvin Eli McCain born July 9, 1913 in Freedom, Nebraska. As a young man Melvin worked in C.C. Camps and moved with family to Glenoma. He married Helen Meade September 30, 1940. They inherited 40 acres from Meade Family, built a home and farmed. Melvin also worked in logging for 25 years. Melvin died from a logging accident July 24, 1964. They had one daughter, Diana Lynn born June 27, 1945 in Morton, Washington. ROSE MARIE McCLUNG My mother, Anna Detering McClung, came to Washington from Indiana in 1905. Her brothers, John, Herman H., and Edward, and two cousins, Herman C., and Henry S. Detering, had already "come west" and they wrote the family to "send Annie out here, there's no malaria here." She had had that malady for some time and was willing to try anything. Her first six months here she did nothing but sleep, and gain weight and strength. Two years later my grandparents moved the rest of the family here. My father also followed my mother; they were married in 1912. I was born in 1915 at Mr. McLaughlin's home near State Street. Dr. Dow was in attendance and his signature is on my birth certificate. Our house was built that year on the edge of town where streets were not built. The family numbered it 1702 Washington Avenue, but later that was changed to 1648. Houses in Chehalis are numbered by some engineering formula unknown to householders. The house was first heated by a fireplace and a wood range in the kitchen. Portieres closed off the living room from the dining room and the hall. Before long a coal furnace was installed, and each summer a year's supply of coal and forest wood arrived for storage in the basement. When my aunt was released after 14 months in a tuberculosis sanitorium, a screen cottage was built behind the house. Fresh air and rest were, then, the only cure for that fatal disease. My grandfather, H.H. Detering, attended the German Lutheran Church in the little brown building off Main Street. The Christmas tree there was lighted with real candles. When the new white church was built, he, the oldest member of the congregation, unlocked the door for the dedication. The rest of us were Methodists. One of my earliest memories is the awesome ordeal of reciting a Christmas poem before the whole congregation in the old church at the corner of Main Street and Chehalis Avenue. Some years later we half-grown kids managed an illicit tour of the vacant old court house just before it was torn down. I went to the Cascade School. My teachers were Miss Charlton, Miss Pilz, Miss Munson, Miss Cummings and Miss Farrell. Our class was one of those moved to the new junior high when it was completed, and we felt quite aggrieved at being kept there as ninth graders instead of moving up to the high school as freshmen. There were 97 high school graduates in 1932. We had a class reunion in 1962, and in 1980 joined with the class of 1931 in celebrating the 50year reunion of the class of 1930. Our class met again in 1982, some people coming thousands of miles. After working 4 1/2 years for J.H. Jahnke, a Centralia lawyer, and 2 1/2 years for John Panesko, prosecuting attorney, I moved to Seattle, but it is always a pleasure to return to Chehalis. A special joy is seeing that our house has been well maintained and modernized through the years. By Rose Marie McClung JOHN ELROY McCAW FAMILY Marion Mary Oliver, eldest child of the William Hugh Olivers, attended the Edison Grade School (on same site as the early high school where her mother was a student) as did her eldest son, Bruce McCaw. After high school and a year at Centralia Junior College, Marion continued at University of Washington, graduating with honors. Her business career in real estate terminated in 1942 when she and John Elroy McCaw of Aberdeen were married. Their home for the next three years was in Alexandria, Virginia, while Elroy served with the Army Air Corps, leaving the service at the end of World War II as a Lt. Colonel. He was awarded the Order of the British Empire for his work with the British in the field of radar. Elroy returned to the communications industry (had established radio station KELA in Centralia-Chehalis in 1937) and in the next twenty years operated radio and television stations from Honolulu to Seattle, San Francisco, Denver and New York. Bruce was born in Washington, D.C. in 1946 just prior to the family's return to Centralia; Craig, 1949, and John, 1951 in Centralia; and Keith in Seattle after the family moved there in 1953. The four McCaw sons became involved with Twin City Cablevision (one of the oldest systems in the country) in various capacities during vacations. After the death of their father in 1969, the four sons took over the management of Twin City and have expanded their operations into 15 states. Marion has been active in various community organizations in Centralia and Seattle, including Seattle Symphony, Seattle Opera, Seattle Junior Programs, A Contemporary Theatre and the Metropolitan Opera in New York. In 1971 Marion and John L. Scott of Bellevue were married, She continues to have an investment in the McCaw family company. Growing up in a small town was a very special experience. It was a warm feeling to know most of the residents through school, church and community activities. In the summer there was Chautanqua - in a big tent; the Southwest Washington Fair with its magnificent displays of fruits, vegetables, handicrafts, livestock, and horse and sulky races. The Pioneer Days included parades, rodeos, pageants in Borst Park, grandstand entertainment and horse races, There were many opportunities for outdoor activities for children: Red Cross swimming lessons in the Skookumchuck River at Riverside Park, horseback riding, several lakes and parks for picnics, family reunions, and water sports, and nearby Puget Sound and the San Juan Islands for boating. A sense of freedom made for relaxed summers for children and adults alike. The family ties to Centralia and Chehalis and the surrounding area remain very strong. By Marion Scott LEE AND GLADYS McEWEN FAMILY Lee McEwen was born December 4, 1894, in Butler County, MO to William and Lannie Titul McEwen; third of nine children. Lee's folks settled in the Oklahoma-Cherokee Strip area in 1898 after it had been opened up for homesteading. At 21, Lee and his elder sister, went to Colorado and took up homesteads in Kiowa County, When World War I broke out he enlisted in the Army and served with the 7th Engineers for 13 months in France. He came home to Colorado where he met and married Gladys Oakley. Gladys was the daughter of Melvin and Maud Tibbetts Oakley. There were 3 older brothers, Clarence, Kenneth and Oscar. She was born and raised in Travers, Missouri, Barry County, until she was 16 years old. Her family then moved to Lamar, Colorado where they took up homesteads. She worked at a store for a short time, then became a telephone operator, which she was doing when Mr. McEwen met and married her. 238 (photo): McEwen Family Lee had been raised a rancher. "A rancher he must be!" We started dry land farming (which means no irrigation) with teams of horses. After a few good crops, he decided to get an IRON HORSE (a Farmall tractor). Then he really "broke up the sod!" Soon he was farming over 600 acres. So many acres of shallow-rooted crops of beans and blackeyed peas - helped start the dust storms. Farming for over 17 years with, too many times of losing our crops to hail, windstorms, and the drought, was more than we could take. We just had to give up, as so many of our friends and neighbors had to do in those days. We packed up our family and headed for Oklahoma, where Lee had been raised as a boy. Again we were plagued by the drought, etc. Meanwhile some of our former Colorado neighbors had gone out to the Northwest to the Cowlitz County area. They began writing us such things as "We have found The Land of Paradise!, Money Grows on Bushes," (blackberries, strawberries, ferns, moss), and dip fish by the buckets (Smelt). This sparked us with such a ray of hope and wonderment, that Lee said "This is where we are going!" We landed at Sunset Lodge, Clem Boss's family filling station, between Castle Rock and Toledo, on July 2, 1936. We settled on the Schnurstein place, 8 miles north of Toledo, with our family of 8 children, Leota, Kenneth, Gladys, Lana, Melvin, Marvin, Elzora and John (our 9th child Trula was born here in Lewis County in 1940). Our family soon picked enough berries, etc. to buy school clothes and Lee began working in the woods, bucking and falling timber. This truly seemed like a "Land of Paradise" to us too. Again we found more wonderful neighbors. In those days, with large families and little money, we learned to create our own entertainment. A birthday party each month, with 8 to 10 families, usually represented ball games, music and quilting bees, gave us a social life. Lee passed away October 11, 1969. Gladys with 3 of her sons and 2 of her daughters (plus numerous grand, great-grand and great-great-grandchildren) are still making their homes in the Toledo area. McCUTCHEN FAMILY The first member of the family to settle in Lewis County was a daughter, Peggy and her husband Joe Stark. They arrived in 1956 and settled with their son Joe Jay on 40 acres off the Middle Fork road in the Onalaska area where they raise quarter horses. L to R:Harry Sr., daughter Betty and mother, Margart Brunhilda McCutchen, July 1961. They were followed in 1968 by her parents, Harry and Margaret Brunhilda (Hilda) (Eyman) McCutchen. The parents lived in a mobile home on the Stark ranch until Brunhilda's death in 1976. A year later Harry married Elenor Clever of Milton, Washington, and they returned to the Pierce County area. Harry, Sr.'s family came to Auburn, Washington in 1907 by covered wagon from Van Buren county, Iowa. His parents Robert and Alta (Franks) McCutchen were married in Iowa in 1891. Harry was born while crossing eastern Washington in 1906. Margaret Brunhilda Eyman's family came to Auburn in the early 1900's after living in the Ellensburg area for a few years. Her parents, John and Emma (Hecox) Eyman were married in Hancock County, Illinois in 1883. Another McCutchen daughter, Alta (Tootes) and her Husband Francis Rotter arrived in 1967 with their two daughters, Mrs. Richard (Debra) Clarke, and Mrs. Gordon (Donna) Dalebout. Donna and her husband have two sons, Michael and Trevor. The Rotter family has a dozing business and live on a small farm on the Bishop road south of Chehalis. . A son, Harry McCutchen, Jr., arrived in 1969. He married a local girl, Edna Riedesel in 1971. Edna came to Lewis County with her parents in 1935. Living on the Sanderson road south of Chehalis, he works as a carpenter and she as a bookkeeper for Gene Smith Pharmacy in Chehalis. The youngest McCutchen son, William, and his wife Karen live in Deer Creek, Oregon with their teenage children, Tammara and Timothy. A daughter, Betty and her husband, William (Bill) Bolton arrived in 1974. The Boltons have a weld shop and raise quarterhorses on their farm on the Avery road south of Chehalis. Bill was born in 1924 in Portland, Oregon, the son of Noah and Maude (Ingalls) Bolton. He spent the first twelve years of his life on a ranch in The Dalles, Oregon before moving to Burien, Washington in 1936. During World War II Bill served three years in the Air Force. He worked from 1953 until 1974 at Pacific Car and Foundry in Renton, Washington. Betty was born in 1932 in Auburn, Washington, and graduated in 1950, from Kent Meridian High School. After high school she worked for Walter Carpet Mills in South Seattle for 26 years. She and Bill were married in April 1954. She now handles the book work for their business, and as a hobby does genealogical research. By Betty McCutchen Bolton McINTIRE FAMILY Commodore Chauncey McIntire (CC) was the father of 15 children and stepfather of 4. CC and his second wife Lavinia with their immediate family; Rhoda (McClure), George, Cornelius, twins Noel, and Nora (Oppelt), Frank and Robert came from Minnesota by train in 1880. They settled on the North Fork of the Newaukum at Agate. He had previously been married to Sophronia Scott Bennett. That marriage produced Sophia, Levina, Martha, Anna, Sarah, twins Marion and Miriam, and Alice. Lavinia's prior marriages were: to Albert Oppelt - they had a son, Charles; and to Andrew Gish - they had 2 sons, Andrew, Henry and a girl Ellice. (photo): Chauncey McIntire 239 C.C. McIntire CC served in the Civil War in Company J, 4th Regiment, Minnesota Volunteers. Amelia Oppelt born October 14, 1875 moved with her father, brothers and sister from Vinton, Iowa by train in 1888. Several families rented an entire box car and set up housekeeping on the trip west. Amelia married George McIntire in 1890. Their children were; Elsie (Pfirter), Edna (Davis), Walter, Pearl, Harry and Fred. George purchased land from CC Mcintire in 1889 and from the Northern Pacific Railroad in 1900 at Agate. George's grandsons still farm this property. Amelia, affectionately known as "Grandma Mcintire" or "Aunt Millie" had a goal to live to 100. Shortly after attaining this she passed away in January 1976. I, Margaret Johnson McIntire, was born 1912. My mother, Sigrid Johnson and I came to Seattle from Sweden in 1915 joining her brother, Gust Sandberg and other relatives. My father, Fritz Johnson, a journalist and mother were married in 1910. He passed away in 1914. This and the fact that World War I was getting uncomfortably close to Sweden prompted my mother to readily accept the invitation to come to America. We moved to Chehalis from Ashland, Oregon in 1930. I married Fred the youngest son of George and Amelia McIntire in 1932. During the Depression we grew strawberries for 4 cents a pound, of which 2 cents went for picking. Many pickers were adults and they used their earnings to purchase flour (79 cents for fifty pounds), 100 pound sacks of sugar and coffee to last through the coming winter. We hauled the supplies for our pickers. Storekeepers were suspicious of the many 100 pound sacks of sugar we bought considering the bootlegging activity in the area. Fred also worked for Carlisle Lumber Company, Onalaska, until the strike. That was hard work, felling huge old growth firs with a crosscut saw. For awhile, in order to keep his job we had to rent a "company house." The unmarried lived in boarding houses. Onalaska had a drygoods store, drugstore, grocery, meat market, bakery, theater and a doctor. Bus service to Chehalis was available. Between paydays we could draw "brass" (company money) to spend in Onalaska and a few stores in Chehalis and Centralia. Fred's logging career ended when he sustained severe injuries at the Eastern Logging Company. He was a fire warden for several years. Then, Kelley Farquhar & Company, a frozen food establishment, hired him as a field representative. They put us back into the berry business with 100 acres of strawberries. He worked for KFC until his death in 1955. He was also employed by Nalleys at that time. After Fred's death I worked at the Production Credit office and then at the Lewis County Health Department for twenty years before retiring. Our son Robert was born in 1935. He is currently employed at Kelly's Sport Shop. He has also worked as an Auto Mechanic, Millwright and Gunsmith. Our son Donald was born in 1942. He has worked as a millwright, shake cutter, timber feller and sporting goods salesman. He is currently working at the Washington State Employment Security Office in Chehalis as an Office Supervisor. He married Sandra Snodgrass in December 1959. She has worked at Interchecks for many years. They have two daughters, LeAnn (1961) and Becky (1971). LeAnn (Mrs. Gordon Boyd) works at Sunbirds Shopping Center as does her husband, Gordon. Becky is a student at Olympic Middle School. Her hobbies are horses and distance running. My mother remarried in 1940 to Merlin Wilkins and enjoyed several years of happiness before his sudden death. She is now 95 years old. I, my mother, sons, granddaughters and their families, live on the home place where my sons raise horses and cattle. JOHN B. McKEAN AND FAMILY Coming to Centralia from Eagle Grove, Iowa in 1922, John Bales McKean joined his parents, John L. and Louise Hopkins McKean at their home on North Second Street. He, having apprenticed in the printers' trade in the East and mid-West, now had his union card and took a position as linotype operator for the Centralia Daily Chronicle. Later he became shop foreman. His father, having sold his weeklies in Nebraska and his partnership interest in an early South Tacoma paper worked at the Chronicle too. (photo): John Bales McKean, Helen Welch McKean Music and sports were an important part of McKean's life. He enjoyed classical music and had a large collection of records of many fine artists. He was an active sportsman and a member of the Chronicle's soft-ball and bowling teams. He was a low handicap competitive golfer, often playing on Donahoe's Course between Chehalis and Centralia. On May 31, 1936, John B. McKean was married to Miss Helen M. Welch, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Channing Welch. Miss Welch, a graduate in Chemistry from Washington State College, Pullman, Washington, was a science teacher in the Chehalis Senior High School. Their home was at 120 North Washington Avenue, Centralia, Washington, which later became the Episcopal Manse. Their son, John Richard McKean was born January 15, 1939, at the Sweet Clinic, Saint Lukes' Hospital, Centralia, Washington. His early education was in Bothell Grade School, Bothell, Washington, where his parents then lived and his father was editor-publisher of the Bothell Citizen. During his high school years the family had moved to Edmonds, Washington, where his father was owner-publisher of the Edmonds Tribune Review. He continued his early interest in clarinet, playing first chair in the high school orchestra and band and in the Everett Junior College and University of Washington marching band. He graduated from Edmonds High School in 1956, and received his Bachelor of Science degree in Economics in 1960 and a Ph.D. in 1967 from the University of Washington, Seattle, Washington. He has held positions in the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, the University of Washington, and the University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho. He is presently a Professor at Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado. His home, in the foothills above Fort Collins, is landscaped with native pines, blue spruce and rose slate from a nearby quarry. He enjoys the Rocky Mountain country. John Bales McKean, born November 12,1900 at Dakota City, Nebraska passed away on March 3, 1981 at Colorado Springs, Colorado. He was a member of Everett Golf and Country Club, Everett, Washington for fifteen years; was a Mason and a member of the International Typographical Union for sixty years. His widow, Helen Welch McKean, continues to make her home in Edmonds, Washington. McKEE I am Gladys Mildred "McKee" Hardy. I was born June 10, 1909 near Napavine, Washington. I grew up and attended grade school and high school in Napavine. (photo): McKee Family I graduated from high school in 1928. We have a class reunion every year at Lewis and Clark State Park, near Mary's Corner. We will be having our 57th Class Reunion this year. We have lost three of our classmates. I married Otto Martin Hardy on June 29, 1928 at Chehalis, Washington. 240 Otto lived near Mary's Corner, so when we were married we moved to a ten acre farm next to his parents. Otto's parents were Lineal and Nora Hardy. He had one brother; Olin, and four sisters; Bessie, Blanche, Gertrude and Marge. My parents were Henry and Della McKee. They moved here from West Virginia in 1907, and bought a 17 acre farm on the Avery Road near Napavine, Washington. My dad worked for Emery and Nelson in the woods. I have two brothers and two sisters. Ralph McKee lived in Napavine. He passed away in 1973. He had one son; Herbert, and three daughters; Dorothy, Dixie and Sally. Also four grandchildren. Fay McKee lived in Winlock. He passed away in 1977. He had two sons; Dale and Dennis, and one daughter, Cheryl. Also several grandchildren. Dorothy "McKee" Mercer lives in Chehalis. She has one son, Richard, and three grandchildren. Florence "McKee" Jacox lived at North Fork near Chehalis. She passed away in 1981. She has three daughters; Myrna, Marilyn, and Linda. Also four grandchildren. Otto and I had one son, Kenneth Duane Hardy, born August 1, 1929. He has three children. Ronda Linn Chumbley born Feb. 17, 1955. Married with two daughters Jennifer Linn born 10-181 and Megan Marie born 4-19-85. Kenneth Duane Jr. born March 21, 1957. He was killed in a beach accident in 1969, at twelve years of age. Shannon Marie born January 19, 1970. Duane and his wife, Connie, went to Indonesia in 1976 to work for Weyerhauser. While they were there my sister Dorothy and I flew over and stayed a month. We visited three different countries while staying there. Dorothy and I also drove to West Virginia to visit our relatives. We toured from Florida to New York while we were there. I lost my husband Otto in 1975 at age 72. I have retired now and love to fish. My son, Duane, and his wife, Connie, have moved to Mary's Corner, and live close to me now. McKINLEY FAMILY William Edward (Wink) McKinley was born, March 3, 1864, in Angola, Indiana. Sharon Adaresta (Addie) Peterson was born May 17, 1868, in Boon, Iowa. They met by chance in a wagon train going from Boone to western Kansas. They fell in love and were married in Sharon Springs, Kansas, June 28, 1885. Between the years of 1886 and 1899 there were seven children born. They were: Henry W., Willard Roy, Elizabeth L., Lillian M., Thaymer, E. Rueben and Celestia. Things did not go well in Sharon Springs so William came to McCormack, WA where he found a job in a sawmill. He worked until he had saved enough to send to Sharon Springs for Addie and the children. The weather was quite rainy so they decided to move inland when they found the opportunity in 1901 to purchase a hundred acre farm for $750 three-quarters of a mile south of Mossyrock, WA. (Old timers know this as the McKinley place, now owned by Wayne Workman). William had a sawmill, sawing lumber for his home and farm buildings and for other people in the valley. He also built homes, barns, bridges, and contracted to move buildings, one of which was the Ajlune post office. His sons Henry, Roy and Reuben worked with their father and followed this profession. The children all helped on the farm and attended Mossyrock schools. (photo): William McKinley's Sawmill Addie was a midwife and helped Dr. Botzer deliver babies in the community. For some years she worked in the post office. By Jack McKinley CHARLES AUSTIN McLAUGHLIN Charles Austin McLaughlin was born to Edward C. McLaughlin and his wife, Mollie, in March 1908. He moved with the family on their many moves and when they returned to Lewis County lie met Thelma Lough at a dance at the Centralia Labor Temple in 1928. Thelma was born Sept. 3,1911. Her father and mother, Jacob and Azalea Collier, lived up the Hanaford Valley. He was a carpenter and built their home himself. (photo): Charles and Thelma McLaughlin Charles and Thelma were married in September, 1929. Charles was quite artistic and would have made a good cartoonist but went to work for Harry B. Quick, painting stripes by hand on cars, which was quite popular then and was a very specialized job. Their first baby, a girl, named Charlene, was born June 13, 1930. They moved to Shelton, WA and lost their little girl there of diptheria at the age of 22 months. Two boys were born to them there; Charles, on July 28, 1932 and Edward, on July I, 1935. When they came back to Lewis County they lived near Adna. World War II was on and he became foreman of the paint shop at Fort Lewis and drove up there every day from Adna. They were blessed with another daughter, Patricia Ann, born on March 13, 1943. After the war Charles Senior was sent, by the government, to work in the Naval paint shop at Poulsbo. But now the doctor sent him south again for his health. This time they went to Carruthers, where Thelma's sister, Edith, and her husband, Albert Raymond lived. He drove a truck and worked on the farm until his health improved. Then they moved back to Centralia. He was a professional painter for many years in this area and also worked for the County. This house burned in 1945, so they moved up on Davis Hill, north of Centralia, and built a larger home for their growing family. A son, their last child, was born while here on July 29, 1951 and was named Richard Eugene. Charles, Jr. joined the Air Force in 1951. He married Louise Holly in 1957, but this marriage didn't last. So in 1972, he was married to Ruth Gregg, which is a happy one. He has worked for the State since leaving the service. The second son married Clara Marth in Centralia, December 1955. Edward joined the Air Force and made it his career. Richard was a serviceman also, and while on furlough from Japan, he married Kathleen Irwin of Centralia. After several years in the service, he is now working at American Systems Corp. near Bremerton. Charles senior died of a heart attack in February 1957 and is buried at Claquato cemetery beside his father and mother. After her husband's death, Thelma went to work at the Yard Birds. She met Dewey Locke and they were married in August, 1959. Dewey died in 1976. Patsy (Patricia Ann) was married in June 1961 to James Russell Denny. He was in the Air Force at the time and later became license exam 241 iner for the State and now owns a dry cleaning establishment in Shelton. Thelma met George Cauthen at the Twin City Senior Center and they were married on January 18, 1980, but his health failed and he died in August 1980. Thelma still works at the Center. EMMA EDITH AND MABEL ELLA McLAUGHLIN These two girls came to Lewis County about 1900 with their father, E.G. McLaughlin and their new step-mother, Mary Ellen (Mollie). They grew up near the town of Littell and use to go to church at the Claquato church. (photo): Emma McLaughlin Anderson Standing, Mabel McLaughlin Langford, 1976. Emma, the eldest, was married in 1909 to Curtis Anderson, who had come over from Yakima to work in the woods. They lived in the Littell area and while there, had two children, a daughter, Evelyn Opal, born in Oct. 1910, and a son, Lloyd Edward, born July, 1913. They then moved to Galvin w here their last child, a boy, was born in 1926. His name was Harold Guy. They moved to Yakima to a hop field and lived there until Emma's husband, Curtis, died in 1941. Emma moved to Seattle then and became a licensed practical nurse. When she retired, she moved back to Lewis County and bought a small home in Centralia. Her youngest son, Harold, died in 1974 in Seattle, leaving a wife, son and daughter. He is buried in the family plot at Claquato cemetery. Emma's daughter, Opal, was a retail clothing buyer. She married Edward Pride in 1947. He worked for Bendix Radio Corporation in Baltimore, MD. When they retired they moved to Lewis County to be near her mother. They have no children. Emma's son, Lloyd, married Vera Reed in Nov., 1933. They lived in Seattle during the war years. Their son, Robert Eugene, was born in Yakima in 1934. They had gone over there to help in the hop harvest during a labor shortage. This son now lives in Louisiana, with his wife and four children. After the war Lloyd and Vera moved back to Lewis County to be near his mother and her relatives. Lloyd worked for Agnew and Pacific Sand and Gravel until he retired. He then built a new home on Waunch Prairie north of Centralia, where they still live. After high school Mabel worked for several years in Foster's Bakery, which used to be on downtown Market Street in Chehalis. One day, an enterprising young man named LeRoy Langford came into the bakery, and a romance started which culminated in their marriage in Nov., 1920. He had started using the new pneumatic painting machine and this spray painting was his life's work. >From this union four children were born two boys and two girls. Gerald Edward, born January, 1922, Raymond Dalley in April, 1924, Barbara Mabel in January, 1926, and Caroline Jean in August, 1933. Of these four children - Gerald (known to everyone as Jerry) and Barbara lived most of their lives in Lewis County. Jerry was in the Navy in World War II and met his wife, Delores Raynolds, in New York. After the war they came back to Lewis County and he became a building contractor where he has built many buildings, including his own home, in Lewis County. They have one son, Christopher Raymond, who was in the submarine service in World War II and since has lived mostly in the Olympia area. He was married three times and had 2 children by his first wife and one by his last one. Barbara married Roy Hamilton in Nov., 1947. His grandfather was W.A. Hamilton, who came to Lewis County in 1903 from Virginia, with his ten children – nine boys and one girl. Most of the many Hamiltons in Lewis County are his descendants. Roy's father was Curtis D. Hamilton, one of the nine sons of W.A. Hamilton. Barbara's husband Roy worked for a time for Wibra and Cloud, florists, who predated the present Benny's florists. They lived in Olympia for a few years where he became interested in the spraying business, mostly treating power poles, which he still does in Lewis County and other areas. Two sons were born in Chehalis; Randy Curtis in May, 1951, and Ricky Clifford in May, 1954. Randy was always interested in the law and police work and had been a deputy sheriff since 1973 - when he was appointed Undersheriff of Lewis County in 1982. He married Susan Gatch in May, 1981, and at this time, 1985, they have 2 small sons, Benjamin and William. Ricky was studying mechanics and at one time he won an award for the State of Washington and a trip to Texas. He married Debra Steele in Nov., 1981, and they have a small son named Tyler. He works with his father in the spraying business. Mabel's youngest child Caroline, after high school and two years of college, married Arthur Glenn Walden in April, 1954. They have always lived in the Seattle area and had three daughters, Laura, Christa and Kylie. Caroline has been a dance teacher for many years and changed her name from Caroline to Karolyn. Mabel's husband died in March, 1955 and she worked for a time at the Green Hill school in Chehalis as a practical nurse. She died in July, 1984, and is buried beside her husband at Claquato cemetery. By Gladys E. McLaughlin EDWARD GILBERT McLAUGHLIN The second son of James McLaughlin was Edward Gilbert, born in 1868. He married Eva Cole in 1891. They had two daughters, Emma Edith, 1893, and Mabel Ella, 1895. His wife, Eva, died in the late 1890's, leaving him with a small baby boy named Ray. Mary Ellen Alderson, usually called Mollie, took care of Eva in her last illness. Edward eventually married her and decided to go west to join his father and brother. Unwilling to burden his new wife with a small child, he left Ray with his maternal grandparents, who had been caring for him and wished to continue doing so. Ray never saw his father again until the early '30's, when he (photo): Edward G. and Mollie McLaughlin and their first son in front of their first home on the old Pratt place above Littel. Girls from L to R: Emma and Mabel (his daughter from his 1st marriage) came west to live. But the two girls, Emma and Mabel who were six and eight years old, came with them. This was about 1901. Their first home was the old Pratt place, north of Littell. There were large trees all around. Mollie, from the Kansas prairies, was terrified there were bears out there and, whenever her husband left, she insisted on having a gun with her. Whether she knew how to shoot is questionable. There was a large mill at Littell, in those days, with lots of Japanese workers. Edward got work in the logging industry and hauled logs to the mills with horses. Edward and Mollie lost their first baby but the second, a son, was born in June, 1903. They named him James Alexander. He and William Derwood, 1905, were born on the Pratt place. Then, they moved to a place on, what is now, McLaughlin Road. There, two more sons were born, Charles Austin, 1907, and Millard Henry, 1914. When the mills closed at Littell, the) moved to Estacada, OR. By this time, Emma had married Curt Anderson and Mabel later married Roy Langford. The next move was to Walla Walla, WA. Then, the oldest boy, everyone called him Alec, met a girl from Milton, OR, twelve miles away. Her name was Gladys Ellen Groves. They were soon married so, when Edward and Mollie moved back to Lewis County, only three boys were left They had a farm near Dryad, for many years, and the two oldest boys worked in the mill. They moved to Waunch Prairie, outside Centralia, where they had raspberries and chickens. William married Thelma Johnson; Charles married Thelma Lough; and Millard married Mary Crisman. Edward and Mollie finally retired to a small home on Yew St. in Centralia, where they lived out the rest of their lives. Edward died in December, 1946. Mollie later married Clint Owens and they lived in her house, on Yew St., until she died in 1962. She is buried beside her husband at Claquato cemetery and her son, Charles, is buried near them. James is buried there in another plot but 242 Millard died in California and William in Longview, WA. By Gladys E. McLaughlin JAMES ALEXANDER McLAUGHLIN I have written the story of my husband's grandfather, uncle and father so now, I will write about my husband and myself. He was James Alexander McLaughlin, son of Edward G. and Mollie McLaughlin, and was born in the old Pratt house, north of Littell, in June, 1903. The old house is gone now, but was there a few years ago and 1 have a picture of it. His mother named him for his grandpa, James, and Alexander White, the mill foreman at Littell. I was born at Wallachet, July, 1902,.which is near Gig Harbor, WA. My mother was Theresa Fisher Groves and my father, Gerald G. Groves, a school principal. He taught at Spanaway, Fern Hill and Ruston, near Tacoma, before moving the family to central Oregon. In 1918, we moved to Milton, OR and I graduated from high school there. I then went into nurses' training at the old Dr. Crook's Hospital in Walla Walla; it is gone now. One summer night, I went to a dance at State Line and met my fate. James Alexander's friends all called him Alec and, at work, men use to call him Mack, but he had such beautiful, black, curly hair, when young, to me he was always "Curley". It was love-at-firstsight and we were married October, 1921. We soon moved back to Lewis County and he worked in the woods. We lived in a building on the old Chilvers' place, north of Littell. The main house had burned and, at one time, they had kept rabbits in the building. 1 always told my oldest daughter that she was born in the rabbit house, October, 1922. She was the only one of our girls born in Lewis County. Araminta Chilvers came over to assist Dr. Pettit and my husband gave him a load of wood in payment. How times have changed! At that time, Mr. and Mrs. Chilvers lived at the Claquato cemetery and he took care of the cemetery. The house they lived in is no longer there. We moved often, in those early days. Many times he had jobs on dairy farms. We were living at Duvall, W A, when our second girl, Dorothy Jean, was born, July 1925. For a while, my husband worked with his brother-in-law, Roy Langford, at painting. We were living on New York Ave., Chehalis, and you can tell the year by the sign painted on an old car in the next street. It said, "I refuse to run in 1928", which is what Coolidge said that year. My folks were planning a trip and wanted us to stay in their house, so our third daughter, Mary Ellen, was born in Milton, OR, September, 1929. My sister always called her "September Morn". We moved back to the Chehalis area and were living on a dairy farm on Macomber Road; they use to call it Coon Canyon. While there, we had an opportunity to get a government farm at Mt. Vernon. We lived at Mt. Vernon several years. Our oldest daughter graduated from Mt. Vernon High School and married Lawrence Jungquist while we lived there. World War II came along and my husband tried to enlist in the Sea-Bees. He was too old, though, so he went to work at Mt. Rainier Ordnance Depot, near Ft. Lewis, instead. After the war, we moved to Longview, where my husband worked for the Longview Fibre for 18 years. While in Longview, I took the LPN course and became a Licensed Practical Nurse. Then we moved back to Centralia to live in his mother's home, after her death; his father died in 1946. (photo): L to R: Gene, James, Bonnie, Gladys, Marg Our daughter, Dorothy Jean, married Billy Locke, son of Dewey Locke, of Centralia and our youngest daughter married William Carson of Seattle. My husband died in 1971. Since his death, I have traveled quite a bit; he only liked to go fishing. I retired at 79 from nursing but I keep active. I have written of the McLaughlins buried at Claquato cemetery and I have my place reserved there, too. By Gladys McLaughlin JAMES AND ALBERT McLAUGHLIN In 1833, James McLaughlin was born in Atheus County, OH. He married Almyra Springer in 1858 (she was born in Pennsylvania in 1836) and they moved to Kansas in 1869. They had seven children, of whom four survived. Two boys, Albert Ausburn, August 26, 1857; Edward Gilbert, June, 1868, and two girls, Sally and Jane. The girls never came west to live but the boys did. Albert married Malinda Jane Dolph (born in Urbana, IL, 1859). They had two children in Kansas, Harvey Ed, 1878, Ora May, 1884. In 1887, James' wife, Almyra died. There was a movement toward the west, at that time, so James persuaded Albert and family to come to Lewis County with him, where Albert took out a homestead claim in 1889. His grand-daughter still has a copy of this. This was near Claquato, in Lewis County. Malinda Jane's brother, Richard Dolph, also came west with them. My mother-in-Iaw told me he had a hop-yard between Littell and Adna. After coming to Lewis County, James met and married a widow, Emeranna Gifford, whose first husband and a son are buried at Claquato cemetery; victims of a logging accident. Emeranna was a midwife and helped deliver many babies, as doctors were not too plentiful in those days. She went to California to visit a daughter and (photo): Albert, seated left holding granddaughter Adeline: behind him daughter Om, Father James McLaughlin seated right holding grandson Herbert, Wife Matilda J. Dolph McLaughlin standing 243 died there. After this, James lived with his son, Albert, and family. Albert and Malinda, known as Aunt Jen, had two more children, Ethel Maude, 1891; Albert Richard (Bert), 1896. Albert, eventually, left the farm and had a home on Ohio Avenue, Chehalis, where his father died in 1911. For many years, Albert had a small grocery store where Kaija's store now stands. Albert was paralyzed in later years, and perished in a fire in his Ohio Avenue home in 1929, as they couldn't get him out in time. His wife later married a Mr. Logan, in Centralia, and lived there until her death in 1935. She rests in Claquato cemetery, beside her brother, her first husband and her children, Harvey and Ora May. By Gladys E. McLaughlin NORMAN McMAHAN FAMILY OF RANDLE, WA Norman K. McMahan was born April 30, 1918 in Randle, the son of Clara H. Koher and Clarence L. McMahan. The Koher family met and married while immigrating from Germany and settled in the Lower Cispus Valley S.E. of Kosmos and S. W. of Randle prior to 1908, 1908 being the date the Cispus Post Office was established in their home. (photo): Frances and Norman McMahan (photo by John Nix) Clarence was the grandson of James L. Randle. Because Mr. Randle was instrumental in establishing the Post Office in Randle, the town took his name. Norman attended the Randle Schools, graduating in 1936, farmed with his family and brothers Glen, Paul, and Jimmie. He attended WSC 2 years. In the summer he worked as fire lookout and member of trail crew for the Forest Service. Norman enlisted in the Air Force September 1941 and after stateside basic training, was overseas by July 1942. Word was received in October that "Sgt. McMahan, Air Corp, has been reported missing in action in Africa area since Oct. 22, 1942." The family had word of his capture and interment in Germany the day before Thanksgiving. A telegram on May 23, 1945 notified the McMahans of Norman's liberation. Clarence died in March of 1945, marring the reunion. Frances L. Pittman was born November 23, 1926 at Cora. Fourth child of Ruby M. Smith and Jacob A. Pittman. Ruby was directly descended from Marcel Bernier, first white child born in what is now State of Washington; Son of Hudson's Bay Co. guide and general employee. He was born near Spokane Falls, November 19, 1819. At the age of 23 in 1840 he married a Cowlitz Indian woman and took up claim on Newaukum Prairie, which is today Forest. At his death in 1899, he was survived by three sons; Julian, Isadore, and Pierre. Ruby's mother, Margaret Bernier, was the daughter of Julian and Celeste Gerand. In 1952 at the age of 80, Margaret Bernier Smith reigned as Pioneer Queen of Southwest Washington Pioneer Association's 40th annual picnic at Centralia's historic Borst Park. The Pittman's came from West Thalen in Northwest Germany to Indiana, then to Minnesota. In 1887, Jake's father, Lewis Pittman came with the Wassons by immigrant train and settled west of Chehalis on Pleasant Hill. Lewis Pittman and Mary Wasson married. Jake and Ruby married in February of 1916. Hubert, Marguerite and Eileen were born, and in 1922, this family moved to Cora, 10 miles east of Randle. It was at Cora that Frances was born. The children born to Frances and Norman, after their marriage December 26, 1945, are the recipients of this rich heritage. The family tradition started when a l0XI0 log cabin was erected on the south side of the Cowlitz River opposite the town of Randle. To this wilderness setting Jim Randle's family came to join him from Tennessee in 1887. Daughter May Randle married Jim McMahan (parents of Clarence) and together farmed the land until Norman and Frances moved to the property with their baby son William. A daughter, Marilynn, was born in 1949. A son Allen, born in 1951 (died in car accident at age of 20). Two more sons were born. Ross in 1959 and Jake in 1966. It was in 1956 that the farm became a Grade A Dairy. Norman became a brick mason and with the help of Bill and Allen, built a block building, welded together pipes for stalls. Milk was shipped to Darigold in Chehalis in 10 gallon cans until 1959 when a bulk tank and pipe line were installed. Irrigation system for irrigation pasture was added in 1958. In the spring of 1973, Bill and his wife Laura, and baby Joshua, returned to Randle from Tacoma to become farm partners. Expansion was inevitable, and in 1977 property was purchased on Skinner Rd. This purchase added 120 acres and is located 3 miles south and west of the home farm. It too is situated on the banks of the Cowlitz River. When articles of corporation were voted on, we named the farm Cowlitz Meadows Dairy. The ingenuity and talent of our master builders came to the fore, and besides the barn, a house for Norman and Frances was built. Bunker silo, milking parlor and loafing shed followed. Bill and family moved to the home place. During this time, Ross had finished two years at Centralia College, married his high school sweetheart, and worked for two years on a dairy in Curtis. His weekends off were spent in Randle building barns with Bill, Norman, and Jake. The moved to Randle came December 1983. The first milk was shipped in November of 1984. Jake graduated from high school this June and his ambition is to remain in the Big Bottom Valley, and continue working in agriculture. Looking back at the rich heritage left to us by these hearty pioneers: The five generations who have farmed the land left by James Randle, Norman and I are comfortable leaving the farming to fine energetic, community minded sons and their families, who have the flexible ability and desire to maintain and continue the farming tradition. A legacy left with confidence and pride. By Frances Pittman McMahan. McMAHAN FAMILY My great-grandparents, Joseph F. McMahan and Josephine Edwards McMahan arrived at Vale in Eastern Oregon about 1880 after a journey by covered wagon from Tennessee with seven of their eight living children. Joseph had lived in Wayne Co., Ohio. Josephine's background is unknown. (photo): Josephine Edwards McMahan, 1842-1906 Joseph was born May 13, 1833, and she January 26, 1842. They were married February 1, 1858. They left behind an 18 year old daughter, Mary Elizabeth, who was married to Wilbur Osborne. (photo): Franklin Bogart McMahan, age 22,1872-1936 They were at Vale long enough to plant and harvest one crop. While there Joseph died. The oldest son, John William, now about 22 went to San Francisco to work and changed his name to John Osborne. The next son, Steven Ulyses Grant, stayed behind to farm. 244 Frank and Annie McMahan and family. L to R: Mae, Marie, Frank B., Young Frank in front of Grandpa, Zella, Jim, Annie (Grandma) holding Hattie, Bill and Steve. (photo): The Frank and Annie McMahan homestead (photo): Steve McMahan, c.1924 Josephine, now a forty year old widow, traveled with her five youngest children, her wagons, cows, horses, oxen and crated chickens to Lewis County in Washington. Her oldest child with her was James Foster, 15. He later moved to Randle and married May Randle. The others were Celesta Isabell 13, Franklin Bogart 10, Harrah Mariah 7, and Joseph Tate 4. A son Robert Ira Cleveland died in 1865 at five years. Franklin Bogart became my paternal grandfather. Josephine arrived in Chehalis in 1882 and filed for a homestead in Swofford Valley. She traveled 30 miles to Mossyrock and on east six more miles over wagon roads but the final access to her property was cut through forests and swamps by herself, her children and whoever else may have been there to help. She was the second white person in that area. It was just she, the wilderness and the Indians. When she arrived several Indian families were living in their tepees on her land. They treated her exceptionally well, helping build her log house and helping dig her well. They kept her in fish and meat. In later years my grandfather didn't like for anyone to talk unkindly about the Indians because he considered them his friends. Her youngest children attended school between Riffe and Nesika under a big tree when weather permitted. It was a walk of two or three miles one way through the timber with their dog. Frank carried a gun and one day the dog treed a cougar on the way to school and Frank shot it. Later Josephine gave land for a school which was known as the McMurry School. Josephine married Pete J. McMurry, the father-in-law of her daughter Celesta. Celesta and her husband had one son, James McMurry, born in 1887 and in later years he stayed with my grandfather. Celesta's husband died and she married Monte Phillips. She died in 1906. About 1906 Josephine went to San Francisco and shortly after died there in 1907 at the age of 65. About 1893 when Franklin Bogart became 21 he filed for his own homestead which joined his mother's on the south. He later took over hers. The Swofford Road between Ajlune and Riffe later went through his farm. The road to Green Mt. intersected on the west side. That part was later owned by my father, Steve, and was where I grew up. In 1897 Frank (10-25-72 to 11-26-36) married Elizabeth Ann Hunt (3-28-1881 to 10-1930). Annie, as my grandmother was called, came from West Virginia with her parents John and Nancy (Coleman) Hunt to the Riffe area. Annie was one of 10 children. They were McClelland (Mac), Julia (married Jasper Pfeifer of Centralia) , Tom, Elizabeth Ann, Mary (married Louis Lindberg of Glenoma) Rachel (married George Schoonover of Salkum), Pricey (married John Cook of Riffe),Moses, Bill, and Della (married John Bloomstrom of Glenoma). Her father was a little short man who lived between 105 and 110 years, the record of his age became uncertain during the Civil War years. He also had 11 children by a previous marriage. Frank and Annie had twelve children. They were Marie Olive (1898 to1970), John William (Bill) (1899 to 1933), Steve (1901 to 1985), Zella Maude (1902), Eva May (1904), Jim (1906), Benjamin Franklin (1909 to 1959), Myrtle Belle (1910 to 1911), Hattie Elizabeth (1912 to 1929), Helen Sarah (1915 to 1984), Kathleen (1917) and Charlie (Pat) (1920). There was lots of hard work. They raised all their food including their flour which they ground at the Sulphur Creek grist mill near Riffe and owned by Annie's father. At times they raised pigs which they drove to market at Morton 8 miles away. Clearing the land of the huge fir trees was a never ending job. All the children went to the McMurry School. There was one room for eight grades. Later the woodshed was made into another room. Sometimes the teachers would board with Frank and Annie. When my father was 12 and in the 7th grade his father was very sick so he had to quit school to help Bill, now 14, with the farm work. A year later Zelia quit in the 7th grade because of eye problems. She joined her brothers in the fields planting and harvesting the crops. Frank made about two trips a year to Chehalis in his wagon, a trip of 36 miles which required staying overnight at someone's home along the way. Sometimes he bought cloth by the bolt. The girls' dresses and the boys' shirts were made from the same material. One source of fun were dances, often in the Odd Fellows' Hall at Riffe. Grandpa and Joe Kiser played their violins and Mattie Stinson played the piano. Years later I loved to hear grandpa play his Jew's harp which he always carried in his pocket. Annie died when 49 with diabetes and tuberculosis. Frank had a severe case of blood poisoning in his leg about 1913 and spent months in the hospital. He developed a sore that never healed and in 1934 had his leg amputated. He died with cancer in 1936 at the age of 64. They are buried in Swofford Cemetery. When Bill and Steve were about 17 they worked in the woods, later working in logging camps at Grays Harbor. Today the old homesteads are mostly under Riffe Lake, the resevoir behind Mossyrock Dam. The Swofford Pond's pumping tower in Riffe Lake is near where my grandparent's house stood. When the lake drops unusually low you can see most of their land. My uncles, Jim, Frank and Pat, my father Steve, and Aunt Marie, wife of Jason Justice, had to move to make room for Riffe Lake. Marie and Jason's fields can be seen on the north shore and part of ours on the south shore. In 1921 my mother, Hulda Josefina Westerlund (4-16-1900/5-1-1966) immigrated to Grays Harbor from a Swedish part of Finland. She was a cook's helper at the Wynochee Logging Camp where she met my father, Steve McMahan (322-1901/4-25-85). They were married in Montesano on December 17, 1922. On Christmas Day 1923 their first baby, a boy, died at birth. They moved to Swofford onto part of Grandpa's homestead where they built a new home. On June 6,1925 I, Dorothy Josephine, was born followed by Lloyd Steve on January 27,1927. My father was a fire-warden for many years; he also drove a bus for Mossyrock School. He loved to hunt and was a good story teller of his life's experiences. 245 During the Depression years there wasn't much money but we always had enough to eat. Dad kept us supplied with deer and bear meat. He trapped bears in orchards where they had fattened on fruit. During the hardest times Mom rendered the bear fat and it was used for greasing Dad's caulked shoes as well as making Mom's pie crusts. She didn't like to use it for cooking as it had an odor when warm but her company would compliment her on her pies - I think she kept her recipe secret. About 1935 Dad built a fire patrol trail from Green Mt. to Winters Mt. to connect with a trail to Green River. It was several miles to walk each day but Lloyd and I took turns helping throw out cut brush and caring for the horse. One day the horse got pretty excited and Dad sent me back to bring it up where we were. Going home Dad showed me fresh cougar tracks in our new trail. When I was grown my parents divorced. On November 5,1950, Dad married Nora (Shields) Blankenship and they had one son, David, born October 17, 1951. In 1964 they had to move because of Riffe Lake and bought a farm at Randle, where he farmed until he was over 80 years old. In 1966 Dad was severely burned over most of his body while burning log piles for road rightof-way in a remote Cispus area. He spent almost five months in the hospital, had 8 operations and lost all but two of his fingers. He loved to work and, although handicapped, worked on his farm for another 15 years until the affects of diabetes took their toll and he began losing his eyesight. Several months before his death, April 25, 1985, he was blind. My mother married John Hellman in 1961 and died suddenly in Port Angeles May 1, 1966. Lloyd died January 1, 1982 in Olympia. My half-brother, David McMahan married Phyllis Cline from Morton and they have two daughters, Karla and Tracy. My parents taught me early that work should not be shunned and that it could be fun. From Dad I learned to love the outdoors, especially the mountains and the quietness found there. I went to first grade in the one room Riffe school across the road from our house. It was built about 1929 on my grandfather's property after the McMurry School burned. There were 25 students in six grades. Mildred Senter was our teacher. The older boys carried drinking water from our well and the water pail with its communal dipper sat in the cloak room. The next year we went to Mossyrock. I liked to study so guess that was why I was valedictorian of my 8th and 12th grade class. In the thirties we raised almost all our food besides growing potatoes and corn for our pigs and cows; so lots of summer hours were spent hoeing. The chore I liked least was watching our cows turned out to pasture where there weren't fences to control them. There was always fun, the homemade kind. Special memories as a child in the Depression years are that little things meant a lot, like a penny given you or a stick of gum which I tried to make last at least a week. Candy and oranges were mostly for Christmas and ice-cream for the 4th of July. For awhile the government gave away free oranges at the stores but Dad didn't allow us to take them for free. I remember on July 4, 1933, our picnic's main treat was creamed new peas and potatoes from our garden. I don't think they could spare a chicken that year. Dad gave us each a dime. Lloyd bought firecrackers and I bought ten sticks of candy with a different ring on each stick - one for each of my fingers. School often delayed starting in the fall so kids could pick blackberries to sell to G. Ghosen's cannery at Mayfield. One year we got 3/4 cent a pound, a hundred pounds was a hard days picking for an adult. When I was in the sixth grade at Mossyrock we were taken on a trip to Olympia. It was the first time there for a lot of us. You could tell what families had things a little easier because their kids brought their lunches in paper sacks - but a lot of us had to use newspaper to wrap ours in. There always were big wooden gates everywhere to open and shut when we got off the main road, sometimes four or five of them in half a mile. A special trip was picking huckleberries at Pinto Rock south of Randle in the fall after the CCCs built roads in the Cispus area about 1932. For a while we could buy bulk peanut butter at Safeways in Chehalis for 15 cents for a 10 pound pail - Lloyd and I could hardly wait to get home with it. I was 12 when we got electricity. I pretended to be too sick for school that day so I could be there when it was turned on. From then on things were easier. Those were hard and difficult times but still truly "the good old days". On February 8, 1943, four months before high school graduation, I married Harold Powell from Salkum who had graduated from Mossyrock two years before and had been enrolled at W.S.C. at Bellingham. Three days later he left for the Army. During his five months of basic training in Texas I finished my senior year. I spent nine months with him in several states before he was sent to England and then on to France after D-Day. He was overseas for 21 months during which time I worked for Boeing in Chehalis, building wing assemblies for their B-17s and B-29s until the War ended -a day longed for by so many for so long. That night we spent in Centralia where the business part of Tower Avenue was roped off so people could dance in the streets - so different from the atmosphere of almost four years before when the newsboys on Tower Ave. were telling of the bombing of Pearl Harbor. In 1948 we bought our farm at Salkum where we raised our six children who all graduated from Mossyrock High, also. They are Dorothy Elaine (12-27-46) married to John Jasperson, Harold LeRoy Jr. (1-13-48) married to Kathy Sander, Linda Ailene (10-25-49) married to Peter Welch, Ellen Ann (1-24-51) married to Richard Berdan, Diane Louise (8-24-55), and Gary Dean (4-27-59) married to Veronica Calapp. We have eight grandsons and five granddaughters. They are Janet and Ryan Jasperson of Coupeville; David, Rhiana, Brian and Julie Powell of Sterling, Alaska; Heather and Eric Welch of Renton; Aaron and Shelley Berdan of Salkum; Jeremy, Ty and Devyn Powell of Salkum. Harold worked as a resawyer for Howard Lbr. Co. at Winston Ck. from 1946 until they shut down in about 1961. In 1967 he began working for Tacoma City Light at Mayfield Dam, the last twelve years there as a power house operator. Our youngest son, Gary, and our son-in-law Richard Berdan are also operators there. Harold Jr. has been a carpenter in Alaska for the last seventeen years. He now lives with his family at Sterling on the Kenai Pennisula. Another sonin-law John Jasperson will retire in two years from the U.S. Navy. A third son-in-law, Peter Welch, works for Boeing Computer Services at Renton. Diane works for the State at Olympia. Ellen received her B.A. degree from C.W.U. at Ellensburg in 1973 and taught school until she had her own family to care for. Today there are 147 descendants of my grandfather, Frank B. McMahan. All those descendants owe their very being to the courage and resourcefulness of my great-grandmother, Josephine McMahan McMurry and that for some reason she chose Swofford Valley to homestead in! By Dorothy McMahan Powell McMAHAN I, LeAnna Joyce West McMahan, was born on January 21, 1960, in Morton to Leo Orn West and Anita Louise Cannon West. I was born the youngest often children, being raised with two of four half-sisters and five half-brothers. We lived the first six years in Randle, moving to Packwood in August 1966 to accommodate a large family. (photo): LeAnna and Ross McMahan and Baby Joel While attending White Pass Jr. High I met Ross Michael McMahan. Ross was born on December 6, 1959 in Morton, to Norman Koher McMahan and Frances Lois Pittman McMahan. He was raised on a dairy farm in Randle with three brothers and one sister. Ross and I started dating in February 1975. After graduating from White Pass High School in May 1978 we continued to college, Ross to Centralia Community College and I to Peninsula Community College in Port Angeles. Ross studied business management and I accounting. Ross and I took turns making the three hour drive from Port Angelers to Chehalis on weekends. We became engaged in April 1979 and set our wedding date for September 8, 1979. Our wedding was scheduled for 7:30 p.m. as Ross' family being dairy farmers needed time to get to the wedding following their afternoon milking. Our first home was a brand new apartment in Centralia which Ross reserved when it was nothing more than a foundation. We completed our second year of college together at Centralia Community College. Ross would get up at 4:00 a.m. to clean the shop for Fred B. Moe Logging, come home just in time for breakfast and then it was off to our 8:00 classes. We were finished with classes by noon, had lunch, then Ross was back to the shop to service log trucks, often until 9:00 p.m. I worked afternoons for Harry S. Hill, accountant, during income tax season often also working late into the evening. After we graduated in June 1980, I went to work for Twin City Dodge (now Rainier Mazda Datsun) as a title clerk, later to become assistant office manager. 246 Ross changed jobs several times due to the bad economic times. After being laid-off from Moe Logging he went to work for Brown Chevrolet in the service department then to Moduline, building mobile homes. Once we learned of the possible lay-offs at Moduline Ross got a job at Walsh Double Diamond Ranch, a dairy farm in the Boistfort Valley, Curtis, W A. Through all of this Ross was never more than two days between jobs. We moved to Curtis in November 1980, Ross starting as morning feeder, later to herdsman and some time as assistant manager. Due to the differences of our work schedules and my having to commute I quit my job in December 1981 to fulfill my desire to become a full-time housewife. Our first child, Joel Anthony, was born on September 21, 1982, in Centralia. He has quite an imagination and a real talent for teasing. Joel loves going to "work" with his daddy and especially enjoys the motorcycle and tractor rides. At 21/2 he can't understand why he can't have a motorcycle of his own. Due to our building a second Cowlitz Meadows Dairy, we moved back to Randle in November 1983. Ross worked swing shift at Cowlitz Stud Co. while working days with his brothers and father building the dairy. We started milking in September 1984 and became full-time dairy farmers in February 1985. We are now enjoying getting to know our old community again, introducing Joel to it all and looking forward to the birth of our second child in November. IRMA WHITEMAN McNAIR I was born near BawFaw Peak, first child of William Henry and Mary Etta Rhodes Whiteman. My brother Leslie and sister Vera were also born there. In 1917 we moved to V alier, Montana, where I grew up. Brother Lee and sisters Doris and Thelma were born in Montana and moved to Washington in 1924. My husband, Fred McNair, came out from New York state in 1923, to serve the Baptist Church in Valier. We were married in 1924, moving to Kalispell, Montana, soon after. After a year there we went east, where Fred pas to red a church while attending post-graduate school in New Jersey. We then moved to central New York state, where Fred pastored another church and where our sons Richard, Lee, and Stephen were born. In 1937 Fred suffered a nervous breakdown, so left the ministry, going into other work. Thinking to improve his condition, we moved out to Washington in 1939, settling on a farm at Curtis, where we lived for five years. There our son Fred and daughters Elaine and Carolyn were born. In 1944 Fred decided it was necessary for him to leave the family. We moved to Tenino, where Richard, Lee and Stephen graduated from high school and Fred, Elaine and Carolyn started school. For better opportunities for us all I moved to Centralia with the three younger children in 1953, where they finished their schooling and I as trained as a licensed practical nurse. I was so employed for 20 years, retiring in 1977. I still live in Centralia. By: Irma McNair ROBERT McNEE FAMILY One of five children born to James and Jessie Brown McNee, Robert McNee made his entry into the world on September 2,1862, in Braeside, Ontario, Canada. He had three brothers - John and Duncan of Minnesota, and Willie of Vancouver, B.C. His sister, Jessie, resided in Braeside, Ontario. (photo): Back row: Nona and Robert McNee. Front row: Clara, Wade, Myrtle and Esther. Horses: Dan and Pansy. When Robert was 13 years old, his parents died. He then lived with his brother, John, working as a farmhand and carpenter. He became a United States Citizen in 1883. Later, Robert moved to Washington state and was one of the first settlers in Randle. He homesteaded in Vance, located about three miles south of Randle. After a few years, he sold his property and purchased (from Pat Kehoe) 160 acres two miles east of Randle. About the turn of the century, Robert's first house burned. He rebuilt, and his second dwelling is still standing. Nora Stout was one of six children, born May 4, 1877, to Andrew and Clara Hastings Stout in Van Alstyne, Texas. Nora had one brother, George, and four sisters - Jennie, Ella, Mattie, and Lena. In 1885, when Nora was eight years old, the Stout Family moved from Texas to Washington state in a covered wagon. Encountering the colossal Rocky Mountain Range with grit and determination, Nora drove the wagon while the others spent most of their time outside, pushing the vehicle with all their strength. Upon arriving in Lewis County, they settled six miles east of Randle. Staying with them was Uncle Billie Jobe (Andrew's brother). Billie Jobe raised a pet bull. Every day he rode it to the creek for water, then led it back to the barnyard. One morning, Billie Jobe was leading his bull from the creek to the barnyard, and he stopped to lean against his favorite large fir tree - as he often did. As usual, his bull stood obediently beside him. Suddenly, with no warning whatsoever, the bull turned on Billie Jobe and viciously gored him to death. He was first to be buried in the Randle Cemetery. In 1895, Robert McNee married Nora Stout, and six children were born (fifteen grandchildren): Robbie (Married Ruth Tanger), grandchildren: Richard and Harlin. Clara (married Clyde Goble), grandchildren: Ray, Charlotte, and Clarabell. Esther (married Sanford Floe), grandchildren: Dorothy, Maxine, and Sandy. Wade (married Elmo Spears), grandchildren: Dale, Billie and Dean. Myrtle (married Frank Pratt), grandchildren: Robert and Arnold. Edward (married Jane Ball), grandchildren: Rosalie and Barbara. Clifford Orr taught the children in a one-room schoolhouse (grades one through eight). In the wintertime, Clifford built a fire early in the morning so the building was warm and comfortable for his students. During those cold months, the youngest McNee children rode Dolly, the horse, while the older ones walked those two miles to school. In the springtime, rather than accommodate the little ones, Dolly had to plow in the field. Before and after school, the children had many chores; nevertheless, they found time for play. Clara and Esther not only rode horseback in their spare time but often challenged some grazing steers by climbing upon them, determined to not get bucked off. One bright, spring day, Clara was on her way to Silver Creek when she noticed a black and white animal with a pretty, bushy tail. She thought it would be fun if she could make friends with this interesting creature. As she carefully moved closer to it, the animal moved away. Clara, not being one to give up easily, tenaciously continued her endeavor to, at least, touch this newly found "Toy" - that is, until she was abruptly sprayed with an offensive, odorous secretion only known to the skunk family! Needless to say, her perplexed parents had no choice but to "keep" Clara, doing their best to clean her from head to toes, but it didn't take them long to bury all her clothing! Esther had a cow called "Ribbon," and Clara's cow was "Whiteface." One day the two girls had a debate as to which cow was strongest. The only solution was to braid and tie the two cows' tails together while they were still in the barn. The girls gasped as the cows headed toward the barn door, nearly knocking it flat as they attempted to go outside. The bewildered cows finally ended up against a tree, and Ribbon lost the end of her tail. Later, Papa McNee not only noticed the condition of the barn door but also Ribbon's predicament. He scolded the boys, who accepted his criticism rather than become tattletales. Papa (Robert McNee) was a master broadaxman. He hewed the logs for the first church built in the Randle vicinity. Attending Christian Church services was a very important part of the McNee family activities. Robert was the official decorator for the church's special events, and Nora taught Sunday School. In fact, in the buggy (on the way to Sunday School each week) Nora taught the children a new Bible verse. In the summertime, immediately after church services, everyone came for lunch to the McNee Family's large grove of beautiful shade trees, which stood elegantly near the front of the house. Robert had build a long picnic table, with benches, and everyone furnished food. Delightful Christian Fellowship was enjoyed by all. During the fall of the year, two or three neighbors went together in their own wagons from Randle to Chehalis, which was a three-day trip each way. Groceries were purchased in large quantities (coffee, salt, baking powder, soda, a barrel of flour, 100 pounds of sugar, etc.), to last throughout the winter months. Because the Cowlitz River had to be crossed both to and from Chehalis, the Indians furnished canoes. Each wagon was put into two canoes and taken from one side of the river to the other; then the boats returned to get the horses, which swam behind them. Robert McNee passed away August 30,1955 - only three days prior to his 93rd birthday. Nora died April 3, 1962, at the age of 84. The McNee children still surviving are Clara, Esther, and Edward. Robbie died in 1953, Wade in 1983, and Myrtle in 1985. By Esther McNee Floe McPHERSON FAMILY Their roots are in the midwest, but the family moved to California in the mid thirties, during the Depression. They settled in the San Fernando Valley until the late seventies when three families came up to Washington and settled in Lewis County. Forrest W. McPherson and his son, Forrest Lee McPherson and family came in 1978. Then Corwin McPherson, brother to Forrest W. McPherson came up in 1983, with his family. 247 Forrest W. McPherson married his old classmate from Nebraska via the Pomona Valley in California, in 1979. They have a home on an acreage outside of Salkum and Corwin McPherson and family live next door. He is starting a worm farm and his wife has a Montessori preschool in their home. Forrest Lee McPherson is Police Chief in Winlock. He and his wife, Brenda, have three grown children: Mark and wife, Cheryl, live in EI Paso, Texas, where Mark is stationed in the service; Robert and wife Barbara, live in Aberdeen, WA where Robert is a member of the police force; Kathy McPherson, only daughter, works for Dr. Wong, optometrist in Winlock, WA. Thus, the McPhersons have become quite well established in Lewis County in a relatively short time. BALLARD M. MEADE FAMILY Ballard was born October 10, 1877, in PikevilIe, Kentucky. He served in the U.S. Army and later married Jane Dingess in Puyallup, Washington. Jane was born October 2, 1876 in West Virginia. Coming to Randle, Washington in 1915, later moved to Charlie Kiona farm near Randle. They finally moved to the Nels Anderson farm in Glenoma on Meade Hill. Ballard and Jane farmed their home and raised two children. Their son, Richard, born December 13, 1918, served the u.S. Army, married, (had one child, a son, Richard Adrian born May 1939 (died Jan.1957) Berniece Blake. Richard Sr. died from injuries of a logging accident. Their daughter, Helen, born March 27,1923 at Randle, W A married Melvin McCain. THOMAS M. MEIKLE FAMILY Thomas McGavin Meikle was born at Kinsman, Ohio Aug. 21, 1845, the first child of James Barr Meikle and Elizebeth Howatt, and grandson of Thomas Meikle and Mary Barr who had come to America from Lanarkshire, Scotland in 1842 and settled in Trumball County, Ohio. "Tom", as he was known, travelled over much of the western United States on foot, by horseback and wagon and later by train. He told of the train crews "speeding" to get to the passing siding ahead of schedule so that they could play croquet while waiting for the train going the opposite direction. He worked and prospected as he went and arrived Clark County, Wash., where he contracted in 1872 to clear ten acres at Vancouver for two hundred dollars ($200.00). Then he came to Catlin, (now west Kelso and Longview) where he met Cilicia Ann Black at the Fred Catlin home where she was helping with the household duties. Alfred and Mary Jane Washburn came to Cowlitz County (then a part of Lewis County) in 1852 with their six sons and two daughters. Their daughter Marilla married John Black from County Cork, Ireland Jan. 14, 1855 at Kelso and they settled at Lexington, later moving across the Cowlitz River to Stockport where they raised their family of five sons and five daughters. Their second daughter, Cilicia Ann, married Thomas M. Meikle Feb. 13, 1879. They set up housekeeping in a log house on property he had purchased across the Cowlitz River, from Vader on Feb. 6, 1879. Within a couple of years they built, with rough lumber, a two bedroom house with an attic bedroom. Then in 1887 the "big house" was built. It was an eleven room, two story "T" shape plastered house with cellar. It was built with planed clear lumber (not a knot in the entire house) and is still standing at 580 Mandy Rd., Toledo. "First he slashed and burned 22 acres for (photo): Back: Young Thomas, William, Walter, Elizebeth, Father Thomas, Effie, John, Jazmes. Front: Marilla, Cilicia, Mother Cilicia, Frederick, Kenneth Meikle. the first hay crops, which grew among stumps and logs, and had to be mowed with scythes" and built a barn for storage. When he was able to produce more he marketed hay, grains, potatoes and dressed and cured meats, all of which were shipped via steamboat to Kelso, Portland and farther. His "T M M" brand potatoes were in demand on the San Francisco market. Thomas and Cilicia had eleven children: James Howatt b. Feb. 3,1880, d. July 27,1950, never married. Effie b. Nov. 19, 1881, d. Oct. 28, 1955, m. Plinny Shepardson Oct. 5, 1902. (see Plinny Shepardson story). After graduation from the eighth grade, Effie got her teachers certificate and taught school for two years to get money to go to high school. Walter b. Aug. 24, 1883, d. Feb. 2,1971, m. Oline Saterback, had no children. William b. Aug. 9, 1885, d. July 13, 1968, m. Edith Morris, had no children. Mary Elizebeth b. Mar. 12, 1887, d. July 14, 1973, m. William Rogers and lived on a farm south of Toledo. They had two children, Ernest Harold and Mary Eleanor. Thomas b. June 21,1889, d. April 2, 1975, m. Marzella Kregleo Doll Feb. 28, 1914, settled in Idaho and had four children. John Elmer b. Sept. 16, 1891, d. Dec. 16, 1971, m. Julia Ameretta Osgood and lived in Cowlitz County, they had three daughters. Marilla b. Nov. 30, 1895, m. Harold E. Oliver and made their home in Kennewick, WA where she still resides. They had three children. Kenneth Iver b. Feb. 24,1898, d. July 22,1947, m. Melza Varner and lived in Cowlitz County, one daughter. Cilicia Ann b. Aug. 17, 1900, m. Wilfred J. Whitten and is living in Portland, OR, no children. Frederick Clinton b. Nov. 27, 1904, m. Leonie Ahonen and had one son. Now living with second wife in Portland, Oregon. By Fred C. Meikle. CHRIS METZENBERG FAMILY October 1908, Chris and 'Lizzie' (Zaugg) Metzenberg, with their small son, Ernest, bought a 100-acre tract of land near Littell. The present address is 256 Stearns Road, Chehalis. They built a house and farm buildings. Lizzie died in 1940 and Chris died in 1958. Chris was born in Switzerland and 'Lizzie' was born in Nebraska of Swiss parents. Their first home was Miller, South Dakota. After coming west, they lived a few years in Sumner, WA. Five children were born to them: Ernest (1905); Bertha (1909); Clara (1912); Roy (1914) and Eva (1918). All five children are now retired. (photo): Bertha, Roy and Clara Metzenberg Ernest married Arlene Johnson (1930). Two children were born to them: Clifford (1936) and Carol (1939). All live in Portland, OR. Ernest retired from Grandma's Cookies (1970). Clifford married Carolyn Perkins (1964), and Carol married Robert McCaleb (1963). Bertha married Marc Girardot (1929). Marc passed away in 1972 and Bertha lives near Castle Rock, WA. Two children were born to them: Carmen (1932) and Patrick (1935-1952). Carmen married Roger Sharp and they live in Oak Grove, OR. Bertha retired (1974) as an accountant and co-owner with her husband of the Twin City Ornamental Iron Works and Fireplace Shop in Longview. At 75 she is still active with volunteer work and teaches six classes of Aerobics to Seniors each week. Clara married Gerry_Jones (1933). Gerry was a barber for 20 years (Jones Trim Shop). He passed away in 1972. Clara has always lived in Chehalis. Two children were born to them. Marian (1935) and Phillip (1939). Marian married Gerald Macomber and Phillip married Cathy Ridener. Marian lives in Chehalis and Phillip in Missouri. After retiring from Enterprise Electric in 1976, Clara is still active in church work. Roy married Luella Esler (1937). Roy and Luella lived many years in Seattle. Roy retired from Safeway. They now live on Crego Hill and are enjoying 40 acres of beautiful country. They enjoy traveling, fishing, bowling and garden club activities. Three children were born to them: Virginia (1939); Diane (1942) and Steven (1949). Virginia married Gordon Neale (1965); Diane married Ron King (1968) and Steven married Nan- 248 cy Schumaker (1971). Steven and Diane live in Seattle. Virginia lives at Odessa, WA. Eva married George Mueller (1937). Three children were born to them: Jean, Shirley and Eddie. After eleven years, they separated. Eva married Russell Davies (1950). Three sons were born to them: Glen (1953); Jim (1955) and Chris (1956). Eva retired as a rural route mail carrier for the Tenino Post Office. She was the first mail carrier Tenino had. Russell retired as Operation Superintendent for Thurston County Road District. They own their 31-acre farm 2 miles from Tenino and now are doing what they love best, raising a nice garden, beautiful flowers and Christmas trees. Their recreation is hunting and fishing. ROY METZENBERG FAMILY Roy, son of Chris Metzenberg, was born on a dairy farm near Littell, where he spent his boyhood. He attended three schools. The first at Littell, then Adna and Chehalis. In 1937 he married Luella Esler, whom he met while attending High School in Chehalis. (photo): Luella and Roy Metzenberg 1937 Their first home was in McCleary, WA. Roy worked in a mill. In 1939 a daughter, Virginia, was born. Roy saw no future in his job so he took a course in airplane mechanics offered by Western Air College in Alhambra, California. After finishing his correspondence course at home he went to California to complete his studies. Luella and baby moved back to Chehalis with Luella's. mother until Roy could send for them. After graduation Roy was employed by North American Aviation Co. He sent for his wife and daughter to join him in Inglewood, California. It wasn't long before they were missing family and friends. They longed for green trees, rivers and open spaces. In 1941 they returned to their home state, where they made their home for the next 30 years. Roy worked for Boeing for four years. In 1942 another daughter, Diane, was born. A house was purchased in White Center. This was to be their home while living in Seattle. In 1945 Boeing shut down for a period of time. The war was over. Roy went to work for Safeway Stores Inc. driving semi-trucks. He liked his job and did not go back to Boeing w hen they resumed operations. He drove trucks for the next 27 years. In 1949 a son, Steven, was born. This completed their family. In 1964 Luella found time heavy on her hands and went to work, part-time, for The White Center Library. Roy retired in 1972 and Luella quit her job to return to Lewis County. They had purchased 40 acres on Crego Hill in 1968 from Luella's Uncle, John L. Battisti. It was originally the home place of John and Maria Schwarz Battisti, Luella's grandparents. A house was built after tearing down the old one which was beyond repair. It stands on the same spot as the original house. Later a barn and other out buildings were constructed. The fields are now leased. Luella and Roy are enjoying their retirement back in Chehalis. They have noticed many changes. The old high school was torn down after the earthquake. One way streets were developed. Planters add color. People no longer go to Chehalis Saturday nights to shop and visit. Now we have shopping malls. They enjoy the progress but are glad for the memories. Their daughter, Virginia, married Gordon Neale in 1959. They live in Odessa, WA. They have three sons, David, Kenneth, and Brian. The second daughter, Diane, married Ron King in 1968. They live in Seattle and have two children, Lorri and Ryan. Their son, Steven lives in Seattle. He married Nancy Shumaker in 1971. They have two sons, Chad and Jason to carryon the Metzenberg name. JOHN MEYN FAMILY My father, John Meyn, was born in Germany on August 24, 1859 and came to the United States with his parents as a small child. His father, Johan Meyn died before John was born. It was Johan's dying wish that his wife, Metta Johanna Miller Meyn, marry Johan's cousin, Peter; so the children of this second marriage also carried the Meyn name. After the birth of three other children, the family moved to New York in the winter of 1864. They later moved to Chicago, where they saw the funeral train carrying President Lincoln and they also witnessed the Chicago Fire in 1871. Later they moved to a farm at Cedar Lake, Minnesota. They were hard working, honest, church going people and Peter loved to sing hymns. Johanna could speak four languages German, Latin, English and French; and was an excellent seamstress. Peter moved his family to Boistfort in the 1890's. His youngest son, Gus, owned a small farm and they all lived together. Peter died on this place on December 16, 1899 and is buried in the Boistfort cemetery. Metta Johanna died in Walla Walla on November 11, 1909 and is buried there. My father, John Meyn married Hendrietta P. (Etta) Zimmerman at Crown Point, Indiana on March 24, 1886. In late 1889 they came west on an immigrant train to Tacoma. They had two children, William C. and Irene Sarah, who was just a baby then. Three more children, Irven John, Lillian May and Elmer Edward were born while they lived in the Tacoma area. In September, 1903, John bought Gus's place at Boistfort and continued to live there until his death in 1945. I, Ada Meyn Pier, their youngest child, was born at Boistfort on October 17, 1906. My father farmed and for several years he drove the horse drawn cream wagon from Boistfort to Ceres. There the train picked up the cream and took it to Turner and Pease in Seattle. In winter, my father made one trip on Monday, in the summer he made two trips each week, Monday and Thursday. Each was a long, all day trip. He often did errands for any neighbor who needed help. My parents belonged to the Methodist Church and my mother belonged to the Helping Hand Ladies Club. We continued to live in the valley many years. My mother died at my sister, Irene's home at Willapa on August 20, 1940. My father also died at Irene's home on February 7, 1945. They are both buried in the Menlo Cemetery. I graduated from Boistfort High School in 1925 and married Edgar W. Pier on October 8, 1926 at Vancouver, Washington. We have two daughters, Gladys and Caroline. Edgar was a logger most of his life. We bought my parents old place at Boistfort and lived there until October, 1964. Then we moved to Waunches Prairie in Centralia. On December 5, 1964, Edgar was killed in a car wreck and is buried at Mt. View Cemetery in Centralia. I am living in a mobile home on Gladys' place in Vancouver. By Ada Meyn Pier MAUDE MONTGOMERY MEYERS My grandfather, Joseph Gibson, came by ox team to this area in 1852, marrying Narcissa Henness and settling near Bucoda. I was born in Bucoda Mar. 29, 1891. Later my parents had a big farm near Cedarville. My father could speak to the Chehalis Indians in their own language. He often gambled with them when one team would pile up goods to bet with and then the other team would guess into whose hand a pebble had been dropped. The gambling would last through Saturday, Sunday, and until Monday morning when they had to go to work. I graduated from Centralia High School in 1909. One memory from those years is of being sent out to the enclosed porch of the school with the Dickerson twins and another girl to work until 4:30. But just before that time, we were inadvertently locked in and everyone had gone home when we discovered this. We began to scream and finally were heard by Mr. Dunckley who lived a block away. When we were released we were all very hoarse. I worked for Fry and Co., meatpackers, in Centralia for eight years, transferred to Seattle, and then went to Bellingham and then Anacortes for a year. The 1918 flu epidemic hit the country while I was in Anacortes. I was asked to find a bookkeeper for the company but every time I'd find one, she would die. I finally caught the flu and came home. December 29, 1919, I married Charles L. Myers, who had been a meatcutter in Lexington, Kentucky. Together, we had a meatmarket and then a grocery store, both on N. Tower. Once, while delivering meat to a private party in Winlock we found we were at some sort of celebration where the men were out in the yard drinking and the women were in the kitchen cooking. In the kitchen we looked at a rather strange looking man against the wall with a white cloth around his head. Someone said, "That's the corpse." And it was the central figure for the celebration, a custom from their Old World country. My husband and I became interested in union affairs and worked for them for a long time. I was interested too in the Red Cross and my sister Blanche Croxall and I each worked for them for a while. With friends I sometimes look at the old pictures or at my old hat collection. But I live in the present. My eyes are still good and I read a good deal, some about the pioneers but also new novels and often a Harlequin romance. 249 PAUL LUDWIG FULSANG MICKELSEN AND JOHANNA SVENSEN VOAD Paul Ludwig Fulsang Mickelsen, born Feb. 14,1878 in Hoelstand, Denmark, died Nov. 17, 1968 in Winlock, Wash. He served an apprenticeship as a shoemaker. Johanna Svensen Voad, born in Sunds, Denmark, Sept. 23, 1881, died March 2, 1965 in Win1ock. Paul Mickelsen came to New York with a group of 20 young men in the early 1900's. After short stops in Cleveland, Council Bluffs and Salt Lake, he came to Portland. Hannah came to join her father in Omaha at the age of 14 on a Danish ship the Thingvalle. This ship sank on its next sailing. Paul and Hannah met in Portland and were married there Aug. 15, 1907. They first moved to Winlock in 1913 and about a year later returned to Portland, where he operated a shoe repair and retail store. They returned to Winlock in 1917 to a 20 acre stump ranch; built a home and bought an adjoining 20 acre, on an income from 7 cows and 1000-1500 chickens, plus 2-3 summer's work at a sawmill and on the county roads. Their first 3 children were born in Portland: Victoria, 1908; Walter, 1910 and Douglas, 1912. The remaining 5 were born in Winlock: Irving, 1914; Clayton, 1918; Mildred, 1920; Pauline, 1924 and Arlene 1929. All their children graduated from Winlock High. Five lived most of their lives in Winlock. Victoria Klement worked many years in the office of Washington Co-op Egg and Poultry Assoc. Douglas started a chicken farm after graduation. Irving settled on a small farm and drove a milk truck for Darigold. Clayton built a dairy farm now operated by his sons and son-in-law. Arlene Bay graduated from Pacific Lutheran Univ. and became a teacher. She built a home on part of the family farm. Walter graduated from the University of Wash. He worked in Washington, D.C. for 36 years. After retirement he returned to Chehalis. Mildred Architect and her husband owned a air tool repair business in Portland and continue to live there. Pauline Dicky went to Washington, D.C. after high school and worked there for several years as a secretary and court reporter. She now lives in Medford, OR. The Mickelsen farm bordered the north side of the Winlock- Toledo Hiway on the top of Pikes Hill, 2 1/2 miles east of Winlock. This Hiway was paved in 1921 from Winlock to Cowlitz Corner. It was called a "Farm-to-Market" road and built under the Donahue Road Law, which required everyone living within a certain distance of the road to pay construction costs. This law was in effect only a few years, then discontinued. It caused much hardship for those farmers owning acreage adjacent to the road. CLETUS MIKOTA I, Cletus Mikota, was born at Evaline in 1902. My grandparents Mathias, 1845-1920, and Anna Hernecek Mikota, 1855-1915, and their children John, Mary (Germaine Leitner), Louis (my father), Agnes (Deuber), Andrew, Cecelia (Howard) and William left Spillville, Iowa in 1881. A 300 acre farm located between the Forest-Napavine Road and Highway 603 became their home. Ed, Rose (Scollard), and August were born in Lewis County. In order for timber cut at the Chehalis Mill Co. at Salkum to be (photo): Louis J. and Mary Allen Mikota, (Esther) Sister M. Genevieve O.P., Agnes Tedro, Cletus Mikota, Louis and Doris (Hamburg) Mikota, Aunt Mary Leitner (sister of Louis J.). transported by rail to Chehalis, thirty acres was purchased from my grandfather on which a spur was built. The "Galloping Goose", a gas car operated by the railroad, transported passengers to Cheha1is. The heirs to the property were forced to sell when the highway was built. My parents Louis Joseph Mikota (1876-1960) and Mary Agnes Allen (1881-1951) lived with her widowed mother for ten years. My mother serviced the oil lamps along the railroad tracks. My sisters Agnes, 1904, and Esther, 1906, were also born in Evaline. Grandma Blair attended the births as midwife. In 1911 the family home on Stella Street was purchased. Dad had an interest in a saw mill, was a plasterer, a farmer, and served a couple terms on the Napavine Town Council. My brother Louis was born in 1917. All the children delivered bottled milk in Napavine, selling it for six to ten cents a quart. Eventually Dad purchased 92 acres of land which my nephew Mike purchased in 1969. After the local Catholic Church burned, Mass was celebrated in our dining room. I attended school at Evaline and graduated from Napavine high school in 1920. I enlisted in 1942 at age 40 to serve as a yeoman during WWII. I was a bookkeeper for Pacific Highway Transport until my retirement in 1969. I do enjoy working outside in the garden and trimming brush in the woods, and the local bingo games. My sister Agnes was a bookkeeper for Gesler McNiven for twenty-two years. She married Herbert Tedro and they had one boy James and a grandson Brian. Agnes is now living in Pasco. Esther (Sister Genevieve) is a Dominican Sister and lives in Chehalis. She taught for fifty years in Montana, California, and Washington. She will celebrate her diamond jubilee in June, 1985. My cousins Helen and Louis A. Mikota, children of John Mikota, came to live with us in the early 1940's. Helen worked as a registered nurse at St. Helen's Hospital for twenty-five years. Louis was a watchman at the local mill. My brother Louis Edward graduated from WSC majoring in animal husbandry. He was a production manager for All West Breeders for 32 years, a Burlington volunteer fireman, and is a 4th Degree Knight of Columbus. He had six children: Michael 1943, Richard 1945, Carolyn 1947, Roger 1949, Tom 1951, and Margaret 1953. By Cletus Mikota (photo): Mary, Agnes, Cece1ia, Andrew, Anna, William, Mathias, Louis, John. 250 MICHAEL MIKOTA I, Michael John Mikota, was born in Ferndale, Washington, March 17, 1943. My father, Louis Edward Mikota was born in Napavine in 1917. My mother Doris Hamburg Mikota was a daughter of a pioneer family in Newport, Washington. They met at a college Sadie Hawkins Dance and were married in 1940. Her sister Ernestine married John Pingry Galvin of Centralia. (photo): Debbie, Mike, Patrica, Mark, Daniel, 1985 My childhood was spent in Burlington. During my high school years my brother Richard and I cared for up to 3,000 laying hens. The money we earned was earmarked for our college education. I studied business at Skagit Valley Community College before enlisting in the Navy to serve during the Vietnam War. (photo): Louis J. and Mary Allen home, Napavine, now the Mikota home. After being discharged I decided to settle in Lewis County remembering the good times I had on my grandfather's farm as a boy. In fact, I purchased the farm from my father Louis, my uncle Clete, and my aunt Agnes Tedro. After doing some refencing, I started to work for Bank Check Supply in Centralia which is now Interchecks Inc. I was a Napavine volunteer fireman for ten years and am active in the Knights of Columbus. In May 1979 Dwight and Beverly Obermire introduced me to Deborah Sass, a teacher in the local grade school for nine years. Deborah was born in Mt. Vernon, Illinois in 1946. She lived most of her childhood in Twin Falls, Idaho, and graduated from Mt. Angel College, Mt. Angel, Oregon, in 1970. Within two weeks after we met, I proposed to her in the woods on the farm. We were married October 27, 1979 at St. Joseph's Catholic Church, Chehalis, where she had been active in Altar Society and in forming the folk group in 1977. Our home was to be my grandfather's home which had been severely damaged by fire in 1978. We did as much of the work ourselves as we could. My father Louis, and father-in-law Bob donated several weeks labor to speed up the remodeling project. We moved into the big house in August of 1981, retaining as much of the old style as was feasible. We have three children: Patrice 1980, Daniel 1982, and Mark 1984. I raise a few head of cattle mainly to keep the grass down in the fields. There is a small tree farm which I hope will benefit my grandchildren some day. I love this area - the mild climate, the clean air, and the green trees. To me the farm is a great place to raise a family.