The History of Lewis County, Washington, Pt 9 of 10: PAGES 316 - 357

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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.

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Pt 9 of 10: PAGES 316 - 357

SANFORD FAMILY

Walter Ralph Sanford came to Sumas, Washington from Georgia to join his three
brothers in logging there. He brought with him his infant daughter, Gladys, in
1908, after her mother died.
	Walter married Thelma Cunningham of Winlock around 1927. They 
moved to the
Ryderwood logging camp and three sons were born to them,
Ralph, who has two sons, LeRoy and Louis, lives in Winlock and has retired from
the railroad.
	William Arthur met his wife, Arlene, in Wisconsin while he was in the
marines. He died there of a heart attack in 1960. Arlene moved to Washington,
D.C. where she worked for the maritime commission. They had no children.
	James met his wife, Lillian, in New York while serving in the army. He
settled there near her family. He has five sons and two daughters. The children
are: Larry, Robert, Mike, David, Lilly, Sissy and Walter.

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  (photo): Walter Ralph Sanford and daughter Gladys

Thelma died when James was six months old of a cerebral hemorrhage.
	Walter then married Dolores Juanita Logsdon of Centralia. 
They met when she
hired out to care for his small children. Walter continued to work in the woods
as a logger at Ryderwood. His job was a busheler, falling trees. He was injured
once with broken ribs and shoulder. They bought a ten acre farm near Vader. Six
children were born to them, three boys and three girls.
	Ruby Sanford DeBriae is living in Winlock and she has a daughter, Linda
Linder, who lives in Toledo with her three daughters.
	Joseph Arnold Sanford married Faye Chrisman of Winlock. They moved to
Seattle where he is a Sgt. in the homicide unit of the Seattle Police Dept. He
has three sons and a daughter.
	Betty Jane Sanford Hartwell resides in Los Angeles, Calif. 
and has two sons,
Brian and David, and a daughter, Debbie.
	Charles Sanford married Peggy White of Winlock and is a long 
time resident
of Vader, serving on both the police and fire departments there. They have two
sons, Randy and Ronnie.
	Richard Sanford married Bernadette Greene of Seattle, where 
he works for the
Seattle Police Dept. He has three children, Juanita, Danny and Yvonne.
	Rhonda Jean Sanford Julien lives in Winlock with her husband 
Terry and two
sons, Richard and Robert.

SAM AND FRANCES SCALF

William (Sam) Scalf, nicknamed, "Two Gun Sam," by his Grandfather Bill Scalf,
remembers sitting around campfires many times after hunting, fishing 
or trapping
with his father Joe, uncles Tom, John, Herb Morris and cousins Wink and Gene
Morris, Floyd, Howard, Merle, I and Wilfred Scalf, hearing about all the
interesting and exciting things that happen. There would be much laughter and
slapping the leg in hilarity. Many times Joe told about rescuing Sam from the
mouth of the North Fork River as the fish he had speared was dragging him down
the river.  Joe ran and caught Sam by the back of his shirt, he also caught the
salmon. It weighed near 80 lbs. and was larger than Sam. Joe was an avid
fisherman, hunter and trapper. He trapped for the Government. 
Everyone knew that
he would catch fish when no one else could. One of his favorite fishing holes
was "Scalf Eddy" in the Cowlitz River about halfway between Packwood 
and Randle.
	The family lived by the Cispus River near Tower Rock which is one of the
highest monoliths in the Northwest. It is 3,335 ft. above sea level, 2,000 ft.
above the Cispus floor.

  (photo): Joe Scalf

Sam and sisters Lola Belle, Geneva and Helen played in the Cispus Valley. They
swam in the river and when Sam was about six, Lola Belle drowned in it. Their
mother Maybelle, who was one-half Cherokee died of pneumonia two years earlier.
	Sam married Frances Looney in 1948. She lived in Glenoma on her
grandparents' Nelson and Malissa (Baugh) Stiltner's farm with her 
folks John and
Ethel (Stiltner) Looney, sister JoAnn and brother Ralph. The name Stiltner
originated from the name of Stiegler who was a German soldier in the 1st World
War. He went AWOL and changed his name. Nelson was an avid farmer, he purchased
his land from the railroad near the turn of the century. Grandma Melissa had
polio when she was young, leaving her partially paralyzed.
	Frances, JoAnn and Ralph enjoyed seeing the Kiona Indians riding their
horses by their place to Morton and back. Many times they would see the Indians
picking huckleberries when they went huckleberry picking. Frances remembers
camping out with her family and friends at beautiful Takalack Lake. Huckleberry
picking time was Vacation Time.
	Sam and Frances have 3 children, Dennis Michael, Tina Marcia, and Duane
Matthew. The home is near Silver Creek (Brook), the Cowlitz River and 
White Pass
School. Silver Creek swimming hole was a favorite place in the summer. The
children learned to ride "Tote-Gotes" at an early age and looked forward to
being out in the beauty that is abundant here. They all enjoyed the Huckleberry
fields.
	Because of Sam's asthma they became acquainted with Tacoma 
and Seattle; on
one of these trips a pickup hit them head-on leaving Frances disabled 
with brain
damage. But her Heavenly Father is helping her.
	Denny married Joni Sasich. He is a Civil Engineer. Tina 
married Danny Hall;
they have 6 children, Boaz, Carmel, Anna, Daniel, Daniqua, JeTaime. Duane is a
truck mechanic and carpenter. He married Connie Hatch and has a son, Jebodiah.

HERB AND LILLIAN SAYLER FAMILY

Herb and I were born and raised on farms in N.D., both of German parentage. My
father, Henry Schlechting came to the U.S. in 1889 as a small baby of 
six weeks.
His parents farmed first in Minnesota and then went to Garrison, N.D. where he
was one of seven children. My mother Bertha Thode, whose parents also came from
Germany, was born in Minnesota and moved to Garrison, N.D. where she was one of
a family of five children, living on a farm two miles from the Schlichtings.
	I remember my grandparents telling of their experiences while they were
raising their families.
	Herb's ancestors migrated from the Black Forest in Germany to Russia in
1817, where his great-grandfather and family were offered land under the reign
of Catherine II. They were promised no taxes and their sons would not 
be drafted
into the Russian Army, but after she died and others reigned after her, things
changed. Herb's grandfather, Michael, and family and five children 
migrated back
to Germany.
	They left on the "Kaiser Wilhelm," arriving in the U.S. in 
May of 1902. He
brought his family to Hazen, N.D. Herb's father, Henry, was 17 years old at the
time. There he met and married Rosalia Neuburger, who also came from Germany as
a little girl. Herb was one of 12 children born to this family.
	Herb and I lived four miles apart and met when he was working 
for my uncle
on a farm. I was in high school and our first outing was to a barn 
dance with my
aunt and uncle.
	In 1936 my cousin Agnes Thode, who had moved with her 
parents, August Thode,
to Chehalis, came back to N.D. for a visit with her husband, Joe Weise. Joe was
moving his parents, Ben and Ida, of Washburn, N.D. to Washington. In August of
1936 a hot day of 1160 (days of the "dust bowl"), a three vehicle caravan, Joe
driving his father's 1927 Dodge truck loaded with their furniture, Joe's folks
driving their 1935 Ford and Herb and I driving Joe's 1929 Ford, started out for
Washington State. The first day was a long hot day; we had to add water to the
radiators because the vehicles were heating. That evening, already 
getting dark,
we decided to spread our blankets on the ground and sleep. The Weises 
took their
big black dog along and when he jumped out of the car and ran into 
the field, he
yelped and howled. On going to see what was wrong, we found we were in a cactus
patch, so thinking better of staying, we drove on into Terry, Mont. 
where we saw
a light. We asked if we could sleep in their garage. After that we decided to
get motels. Our journey took six days with numerous flat tires and breakdowns,
but being young we took it all in stride.
	We marveled at the beautiful farms and pasture lands while 
driving through
southern Idaho, after leaving such parched lands in N.D. and Montana.
	Driving from Portland to Chehalis was beautiful. Everything 
was so green and
beautiful trees, and not knowing where Chehalis was, remarked that 
this would be
a nice place to live. We did not

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know that our first owned home would be at Forest just south of Chehalis.
	It was an exciting adventure for both of us but how we had to 
get back to
reality.
	We arrived August 28 at the August Thode farm south of 
Chehalis where we
stayed until finding places to live and work. The Thode home was a 
halfway house
for a number of families who came out from N.D.
	Herb found his first job working at the cannery for 35cents 
an hour, working
12-14 hours a day. It was quite an improvement from working in the N.D. coal
mines for $1.00 a day. In the winter of '36 Herb worked on the farm for Ben
Balmelli and I worked for Ruby and Art Hamilton helping take care of the boys
Kelly and Hal.
	In 1937 Herb batched in Centralia where he raised turkeys for Art.
	January 20, 1938 Herb and I were married and the first year 
raised turkeys
for Art and Ruby.
	In November of '38 our No.1 son, Robert, was born and in 
March we bought our
first farm at Forest, where some years before we had remarked "this would be a
nice place to live." We lived there for five years raising turkeys, and Herb
working for the Darigold and later driving truck for egg packers.
	In April of' 42, No.2 son, Herb, was born and in 1945 we moved to our
present home at Adna. There we continued raising turkeys and milking cows for a
number of years.
	In December, 1947, No.1 daughter, Sandra, was born. Later 
No.2 daughter,
Linda, joined the family.
	Herb worked for Perry Bro. from 1949 until retiring in 1973.
	He still keeps busy with a few cattle and the farm.
	The children haven't scattered too far from home. Robert, his 
wife Barb and
his 3 sons live in Aberdeen, where he is employed by Bell Telephone. Herb Jr.
and son, Tim, live in Denver, Colorado, where Herb works for T.R.W. and Tim
attends college.
	Sandra Sund, and husband, Jim, and son David, live in 
Chehalis where she is
a home ec teacher for the Chehalis School District. Linda Moon, 
husband Fred and
two daughters, Jodi and Angie, live on Frogner Hill. Linda is a 
dental assistant
working in Chehalis.
	Herb and I enjoy traveling and have much to be thankful for. 
We have lived
in an exciting time of history from the horse and buggy days to the space age.

JOHN SCHAFER FAMILY

John and Emma Schafer came to Glenoma in 1913, bringing three girls, 
Mary, Buela
and Margaret with them. Mable came along a few years later. Mrs. Wilma was her
mid-wife. Dad drove four head of cattle from Mineral to Glenoma. Mom came by
train to Morton with us three girls and a dog. A man by the name of Bissell met
us at the train with horses and wagon.
	Dad worked at a Mineral mill for several years and came to Glenoma on
weekends. One weekend he brought home a 1913 model T Ford, the first one in
Rainey Valley. We thought we were rich. The roads were only for horse and wagon
so we were stuck in the road with a horse pulling us out more than I care to
remember. Dad finally got a job with the State Highway Department, and worked
for them until he retired at age 73.

  (photo): John Schafer Family

As we grew up on the farm it grew from 10 acres to 60 acres. Mom planted corn
and cucumbers by the acres and sold them for $1.00 a gunny-sack. The four head
of cattle grew to twentyfive, all the barn would hold. We worked hard but there
was always time for fun. Our home was a stopping off place for young and old.
There were always cookies in the cookie jar and the coffee pot was 
always on. We
had lots of Saturday night home parties and most of them were at our house. Mom
and Dad were always ready to welcome whoever came to the door and we took
advantage of it numerous times.
	Our neighbors were the Martins, Fosters, Stiltners, 
Clevengers, Morrises,
Mulligans, Christians, Colemans, Bowens, and many more. We played and fought
with them but still remember and love them. We all hope they still 
feel the same
about us.
	Dad passed away in November, 1966 but our dear Mom is still 
with us. She
will be ninetythree years young in October, still lives alone and manages quite
well. Mary is ill and lives in a private home in Medford, Oregon. 
Buela lives in
Weaversville, California, Margaret lives in Medford, Oregon and Mable lives in
Salinas, California. Mom had eight grandchildren, sixteen great-grantchildren
and one great-greatgrandchild.
	Dad and Mom sold the farm in 1963 and moved to Centralia. We 
drive back to
Glenoma when we can see the old home place and the changes that have been made.
	All in all, our life in Glenoma and Lewis County has been 
wonderful and if
it were possible for all of us to be transported back to what we were, and had
then, I'm sure most of us would go gladly. Buela Schafer Ose

ARTHUR D. SCHERER FAMILY

Arthur David Scherer and Jane Tweed McCutcheon were married in 
Chehalis June 24,
1934, in the Episcopal Church of the Epiphany. This church was built on St.
Helens Avenue in 1883.
	Jane, a member of Epiphany all her life, and Arthur, who 
joined in 1938,
were married by the rector, Oliver Dow Smith. Their attendants were her sister,
Mrs. Marion (Mary) Oppelt, Tacoma, and his brother, Irving Scherer, Chehalis.

  (photo): Mr. and Mrs. A.D. Scherer, 1934.

Members of early pioneer families, they were born in Chehalis, 
Arthur, on Easter
Sunday, April 16, 1911 at the family home on Kennicott Road. He was the fourth
of nine children including: Gladys, Mildred, Irving, Arthur, Ethel, Clara,
Harold, Thelma and Anna, born to Roy Scherer and Johana Cecilia (Jennie) Patek
who were married in Chehalis, July 31,1904. Arthur was the first baby delivered
by Dr. Henri L. Petit after he opened a medical practice in Chehalis. While
waiting for him to arrive, the doctor and Roy went fishing. Jane, the second of
four, namely Esther, Jane, Mary and James Dandy Jr., was born December 20,1913
in the 'green' room of Dr. George W. Kennicott's hospital. Her parents, James
Dandy McCutcheon and Lucy Weeks Bunker were married in Chehalis, July 26, 1910.
(The Kennicott home and hospital stood on corner of State and Prindle Streets.
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  (photo): Mr. and Mrs. A.D. Scherer, 1984.

house was moved across the street and made into apartments. The PUD poleyard
occupies the property.) Arthur and Jane spent their lives in this 
area. Attended
Adna Schools and both graduated from Adna High School in 1931; Jane,
Valedictorian of the class.
	After graduation and before her marriage, she was employed by 
the Washington
State Department of Labor and Industries in Olympia.
	Arthur and his father reopened the family grocery business, 
Scherer's Store,
that had burned down shortly before.
	After their marriage, the newlyweds made their home in Adna. 
When his father
retired in 1947, Arthur continued in the grocery business until 1972, 
and served
as Adna Postmaster from 1968 until his retirement in 1973. Since his 
retirement,
Arthur has continued to be active in Community affairs.
	Jane contracted spinal meningitis in 1959, and although she 
was forced to
curtail many of her activities, she continued to maintain her home 
and raise her
family. She is a member of the United States First Day Cover Society, enjoys
good books and music, has researched both sides of the family genealogy, and
raises roses. She is a member of the St. Helens Federated Women's Club of
Chehalis; Member-at-Large, Daughters of the American Revolution; The Daughters
of the Pioneers of Washington and Mary Ellen Scherer Orthopedic Guild of Adna.
Both Arthur and Jane are life members of Lewis County Historical Society and
56-year members of the Adna Grange.
	They raised four children, Mrs. Richard (Susan Jane) Hess, Bellingham;
Daniel Arthur Scherer and Susan, Indonesia; Sarah Anne Scherer Klickman,
Chehalis; and John William Scherer and Ann, Boulder, Colorado. The children
attended the Adna Schools. Daniel was valedictorian of the senior class of 1958
and Sarah, class of 1968.
	A fifth child, Mary Ellen Scherer, died in 1949.
	There are nine grandchildren. John Arthur, Anne Elizabeth and Mary
Bunker Hess; Alexandra Tweed and David Sanford Scherer and Sarah Jane, Robert
Christian 'Chris', Lucy Kathryn and Laura Esther Klickman.
	In honor of their parents' 50th anniversary, the sons and daughters
presented them at Easter with a gift of "A spectacular weekend in Victoria,
B.C., a cruise on the Princess Marguerite; a stay at Prior House, one of
Victoria's finest Bed and Breakfasts, a tour of greater Victoria and the
Butchart Gardens."
Their children joined them in Victoria the weekend of June 24, 1984. Special
guest was Anna Scherer's mother, Mrs. James (Barbara) Pulsford, who 
was visiting
from Geebung, Queensland, Australia.

GEORGE D. SCHERER

The history of our family started in the year 1913 when I was born. I was the
sixth child born to A.F. and Lula Scherer in Chehalis. We lived in town until I
was two or three and then we moved to a small farm south of Chehalis that my
folks bought. We had chickens, cows, horses and of course cats and dogs.

  (photo): George and Virginia Scherer

I started school at the Dillenbough school about two miles south of our home.
There were no school buses so we had to walk, rain or shine. It was a good
school and we learned to read, write, spell and had arithmetic. We 
moved back to
town when I was in the sixth grade and I went to West Side School until the
Junior High School was built and I went there a couple of years and then on to
High School. This was the old high school that was later destroyed by an
earthquake. In high school I was Boy's Club President, earned a letter in
basketball, and played football for three years under Johnny Glann, a real good
coach. I graduated in 1932 in a class of about one hundred.
	I went off to Washington State College in the fall of 1932. I 
joined Lambda
Chi Fraternity and chose engineering as my major. I had to quit after two years
because of the Depression.
	My oldest brother Alfred had a small meat packing company in 
Centralia with
a meat market and small grocery store out front. He hired me to work in the
packing plant where we made weiners, bologna, several kinds of 
sausage, hams and
bacon.
	I met Virginia Scanlan, who was born and raised in Centralia, 
and we were
married in 1936. We rented a house for a year and then bought one on 
South Pearl
where we lived for five years. We had two children while living there, Richard
born in 1938 and Judy born in 1941.
	In 1940 we bought the meat market and grocery store from my brother. I
worked as a meat cutter and Virginia worked in the grocery store part-time. We
rented the adjoining building in 1945 and enlarged the store, called Thriftway
Market and operated it until 1963 when we closed it and I thought I'd retire.
	In 1948 I was elected Mayor of the City of Centralia and if I told you
everything that happened and how it happened it would fill this book. We had a
flood, a snow blizzard and an earthquake in less than four months. 
This term was
quite educational because it was so soon after the war and there were lots of
things that had to be done that couldn't be done before because of the war. The
sewage plant was built and the outdoor swimming pool which was 
certainly enjoyed
by young and old and had been a long time coming.
	I went into Real Estate in 1963 and retired in 1978.

JESSE AND EMMA SCHERER FAMILY

In the year 1675, the Scherer family began in America; in 1889, Daniel Scherer
headed west from Sheldon County, Illinois with nine of his children and wife,
bound for Washington State. One of his offspring was Jesse F. 
Scherer. Jesse was
born October 24, 1874 in Sheldon County and moved to Chehalis with his family
and another early Lewis County family, the Armstrongs. Together they booked
passage on the same railroad car.

  (photo): Jesse and Emma Scherer

Jesse Scherer attended school at the Dillenbaugh School in Chehalis, where his
future bride Emma also attended. He quit school at age seventeen to 
help support
the family when his father died. On July 10, 1897 Emma and Jesse were wed. They
had six offspring, two of whom died in infancy. Laurence Scherer was born June
25, 1901; Grace Scherer Bunker was born May 15, 1903; Elsie Scherer Brown was
born December 31, 1905 and Norma Scherer Busek was born September 
29,1915. Jesse
and Emma were married fifty-nine years at the time of his death.
	Jesse and Emma lived in several parts of Lewis County during 
their early
married years. At one time they had moved six times in seven years, a feat not
easily accomplished when moving by horse and wagon.
	Jesse and Emma's children attended schools in Chehalis and 
Randle. Jesse had
worked in Chehalis at A.F. Scherer's grocery store. He made $70 per month which
was a very good salary. However, due to ill health, it was recommended he not
work at the store any longer. At that time he chose to move his family to a
homestead off the Cline Road in Randle, more commonly known as the Big Bottom
Country. Until their house was erected, they lived in Kilburn's old log cabin,
shoveling out over a foot of dirt to make it livable. The game warden 
laughed as
he watched the children fish out of the river. Growing vegetables and canning
meats and salmon over a woodstove for over four hours a stretch was not
uncommon. In comparison to others, they were well to do during the 
poor economic
times. To reach the homestead, they had to travel with a team and

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wagon. Jesse worked for Mr. Anderson and received wheat which he took to Randle
to be ground into flour. Emma and the girls churned their own butter and milked
the cows. Everything was canned in half gallon jars for convenience. To water
the vegetable garden, water was hauled by buckets from the Cowlitz River.
	Growing up on the homestead left time for childhood pranks as 
well. Grace
had climbed to the top of a hundred foot fir tree, leaving her mother at the
bottom yelling until she climbed down. One time she climbed to the top of a
waterfall to catch a butterfly and slipped, rendering herself unconscious for
several hours. Laurence had gone hiking to Packwood Lake with some friends and
cousins. He started talking to a park ranger halfway up the four mile trek and
asked the others to take his pack. When he again reached his party, 
his pack was
so heavy he could barely keep up with the group. His cousins had 
filled his pack
with rocks.
	Jesse had several occupations including a Raleigh Products 
salesman from
1917-1918. He started using a horse and hack and eventually purchased 
a Model T.
Raleigh Products included flavored extracts, linaments and cough medicines. It
was not uncommon for the Indians to buy the extracts for the alcohol they
contained. Once a gentleman bought all the lemon extract for the alcoholic
enjoyment. Jesse also owned rentals that supplemented the family's income with
approximately $30 per month. In 1918 he became a fire warden and supervised
about 150 men when the Cispus fire broke out. In 1918 he became the 
Lewis County
Assessor after having worked four years as a personal property appraiser. Prior
to becoming Assessor, he had worked as a Lewis County Road District Supervisor.
As a hobby, Jesse took pictures and developed them himself.
	Jesse had purchased forty acres of land on Lincoln Creek. In 
1918 they moved
from the homestead in the Big Bottom Country to Lincoln Creek. At the time, the
roads were wooden planking and mud. To travel the approximately eighteen miles
to Centralia took over two hours by Model T. Jesse was the road supervisor and
crushed rock out of Lincoln Creek to build the road as far as the Bunker Creek
turnoff. Between 1936 and 1938 Agnew Lumber Co. was logging the area and kept
the crusher going to fill the holes and ruts.
	It was too far for Grace to commute daily to attend high 
school. She worked
for board and room and lived in Centralia. Most of the people purchased their
supplies from Darigold, including sugar, milk, butter and flour which were
delivered. During the Depression, the WPA workers took over the task of
completing the road to where it now ends just south of the Thurston 
County Line.
	Emma took boarders from the logging camps. Lincoln Creek had 
several mill
sites, railroad camps and logging camps. Norma used to sneak desserts the cook
laid out for the workers in the camps when she delivered eggs to the
Independence Logging Company. In 1923, they had their own water wheel to
generate electricity from the creek. The neighbors down the valley used Delco
light plants to generate their electricity. It cost approximately $150 to
install the plants. One of the neighbors, the Ingalls, didn't want to spend the
$150 so they used carbide for electricity.
	Laurence and Jesse purchased a used Maytag gas washer and 
converted it into
an electric motor for Emma. The light plant didn't generate enough power for an
electric range. Electricity had been installed to Bunker Creek long 
before Puget
Sound Power and Light installed it to the end of Lincoln Creek. Laurence
purchased the first deep freezer on Lincoln Creek. It was a twenty cubic foot
chest freezer purchased from George Scherer for $600 which they kept 
in the root
cellar. Prior to getting the freezer, any meat that was butchered was hung in
the ice plant. When any meat was needed for consumption they would go to the
plant and saw off a week's supply.
	During the Depression, they sold milk at the farm for three quarts for
twenty-five cents; eight cents a pound for live pigs, thirty-five cents a dozen
for eggs and nineteen cents a pound for butterfat. Through the fifties most of
the farms on Lincoln Creek raised chickens as the price for chickens earned a
good living. Laurence had 1,500 hens he was raising and about 3,000 day old
chicks at one time.
	All four surviving children were married. Grace wed a pioneer 
from Bunker
Creek, John Bunker. They had two children, both deceased. They were married in
1922. Grace lives in Galvin.
	Elsie married Chet Brown and resides in Grants Pass, Oregon. 
They had no
children.
	Norma was married to August Busek in 1934. He was born on 
Coal Creek and
moved to Galvin at age fifteen. They had one daughter.
	Laurence married in 1939. He has one stepdaughter and a son. 
Laurence was
the second generation Lewis County Assessor. His term was from 1971 until 1983.
	Today the Scherer farm on Lincoln Creek is a third generation 
farm. Laurence
and his son, David run the farm which is now approximately 400 acres.

RICHARD G. SCHERER

I was born September 4, 1938 in Centralia, the first child born to Virginia and
George Scherer. I was also the first grandchild on my mother's side of the
family.
	We lived on South Pearl and I had a nice fenced yard to play 
outside. The
second World War began and I was very young, so life was quite different. My
folks owned a grocery store and with rationing of meat, sugar and certain
groceries, shoes and gasoline, any spare time any of us had was spent counting
the ration stamps and depositing at the bank so the stock could be replenished
at the store.
	We moved to a house on Hill Kress that my folks bought and 
the rest of my
life in Centralia was spent in that home.
	I started Edison school when I was six and went there for 
eight years and
then on to high school and then for two years at Centralia College. I entered
Western Washington State College and graduated in 1960.
	I worked for the State Employment Department in computering 
for two years
and then spent two years teaching it at Centralia College.
	I met Joan D'Allensandro in 1963 when she came from Kirkland 
to teach P.E.
at Centralia High. We were married in 1965 and moved to Mountain View,
California, where I worked in computering and Joan taught school.
	We moved to Hawaii in 1967 where I worked for Castle and Cook 
for two and
half years. Our oldest daughter Jodi was born in 1968. We enjoyed our 
time there
but decided we didn't want to live there permanently, so we moved back to Palo
Alto, CA where we still live, Heidi, our second daughter was born in 1971. I've
continued in computing, working for different companies.
	Our daughters are now 17 and 14 and will be a senior and 
freshman so our
lives are busy with school activities and sports.
	We like this area and hope to continue living here.

ALFRED SCHEUBER FAMILY

While driving west on Hiway Number 6 towards Raymond about two miles from
Chehalis, were you to look to the right you would see an old story farm house
and an old barn on the hillside. This has been the Scheuber Farm since sometime
around 1885. This is about the time that Fred Scheuber came to this 
country from
Switzerland and homesteaded 280 acres.

  (photo): Scheuber farm as seen from Scheuber Road.

There were seven children in the family, three boys and four girls. 
The Scheuber
children attended school at Claquato at that time. Two of the boys, Alfred and
Conrad, more or less remained on the farm. Alfred worked in several logging
camps throughout the east end of the county and as far north as Everett, while
Conrad stayed on the farm. Around 1925, Alfred moved back to the farm full-time
with his brother. In 1929, Alfred married Josephine Walch of Adna. They had
three children, Joe and Fred of Chehalis and Louise Lyle of Astoria, Oregon.
Conrad never married.  Until 1938, the only access to the farm was an old wagon
road, known as Military Road. That year a new road was built from Hiway 6 to
Centralia and is now known as the Schueber Road.
	The two brothers farmed together until 1965 when the farm was 
sold to the
Hamilton family and became part of Hamilton Meadows.
	The Alfred Scheubers celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in July,
1979. Alfred Scheuber is still residing on the farm while Conrad resides in
Centralia.

SCHIMINESKY FAMILY

Our great grandparents John and Eva Bohmer and grandparents Louis Joseph and
Karoline Schiminesky came from the small province of Bukovina. Bukovina is a
region in east Europe now divided between the Soviet Union and Tumania. When
Louis Schiminesky and father-inlaw fled from Bukovina in 1888, this little
country was under Austrian rule.
	They worked their way across the U.S. through New York and 
Kansas City by
raising and selling produce to keep them in traveling money.
	When Louis and Karoline Schiminesky first came to Lewis 
County.in 1890, they
settled in Chehalis in the Donahoes Addition. They then moved to Boistfort
Valley where they bought 56 acres and farmed there until 1906 when 
they bought a
160 acre farm on the head of Hope Creek. They lived on this farm 
until 1913 when
they moved to PeEll.
	The children of Louis Joseph Schiminesky and Karoline were 
Rudolph, Frank,
Bertha, Minnie,

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  (photo): The Schiminesky Family. Back row, L to R: Frank, Rudolph, 
Front row, L
to R: Bertha, Louie, Emil, Koroline, Minnie.

and Emil. Grandfather Louie Schiminesky was a very educated man. He wrote and
spoke five different languages including Russian, and did various writings for
people who could not read and write.
	Rudolph and his wife moved to Klamath Falls, Oregon and had 
no children.
	Frank was our father and had the only children to carry on 
the Schiminesky
name. Our father was a high climber and worked in the woods all of his life.
Most of the time was spent in the Lewis County area.
	Bertha (Schiminesky) Brown worked in Zackovich and Farley's 
Dry Goods store
and also was the Town Clerk of PeEll for many years. There were not many people
in PeEll who didn't know Bertha Brown or whom she didn't know, or know about.
Minnie married Lou Parker and he was a blacksmith in PeEll. He also worked
sometime for Weyerhaeuser. Emil was a logger and spent most of his working time
in the Eastern Lewis County area.
	The immediate family of Frank and Neva (Lakin) Schiminesky are Donald J.,
Louie R., Larrie G., and. Merrie Lee (Schiminesky) Nelson. Frank and Neva are
both deceased. Don has two children, Scott J. and Louis C. (Butch), 
who are both
still living at home at 1382 Centralia Alpha Road, Chehalis. Don is a truck
driver for Weyerhaeuser Co., and has worked for them for 35 years. His wife
Jerry has worked for Interchecks for many years. Louie R. Schiminesky lives in
Centralia on Taylor Road, and worked for several years in Alaska as a logger,
but now makes his home in Centralia.
	Larrie G. and wife Sheila, live in Centralia, at 1306 B. 
Street. Larrie is
employed by Northwest Hardwood Co. in Centralia. He has two children, Lori Jo
and Frank Jay. Frank is still in high school and Lori is living in Centralia.
	Merrie Lee (Schiminesky) Nelson lives with husband Gary and 
step-daughter
Cindy on the Leudinghaus Road in Meskil. She has worked for Interchecks for 20
years. Her husband Gary works for Weyerhaeuser and has for several years. By
Don, Louie, Larrie Schiminesky and Merrie Lee Nelson

LAFE V. AND EDNA A. SCHMIT

Frederick Conrad Gottleib Schmit, born 1868 in Edwardsville, Illinois a German
settlement, came west with two other boys by immigrant train to 
Chehalis, at age
17. Leaving his farming job which paid $6 per month, he milked cows and did
carpentry work, building the Coffman Dobson bank in prosperous Chehalis. He
married Lura Helen Nail, born 1877 of German descent, who came with her family
from Indiana. Her father was the builder and later ordained pastor of Napavine
Baptist Church. Fred and Lura had nine children: Arthur, Dorothea, Gladys,
Clarice, Wilbur, Lafayette, Francis, Raleigh and Joyce. The family has always
lived in Napavine area. Frederick Schmit died in 1952 and Lura in 1955.

  (photo): Lafe and Edna Schmit

John Washington Young, Scotch-Irish, Black Dutch descent born in 1878 in
Franklin, N.C., married Maggie Deresa Liner, Scotch-Irish descent, a
tobacco-farmer's daughter, born 1880 in Waynesville, N.C., came in 
1906 on their
honeymoon to Washington State for logging industry in Sedro Wooley. There were
five children; Edna, Edythe, John Maurice, Catherine and Ralph. The 
family moved
to the original Bunker homestead farm on Bunker Creek in 1920. Maggie died in
1959 and John in 1963.
	Lafayette V. Schmit born in 1907, a Napavine Baptist, married 
in 1935 in
Chehalis, Edna A. Young, born 1910 in Aberdeen, a Chehalis Presbyterian. Lafe
graduated Napavine High School and Centralia Business College. Edna graduated
Adna High School and Success Business College, Seattle. Both worked in Chehalis
Darigold office. They are members of Chehalis First Christian Church. Their
family then two girls, Vivian Annette born in Centralia in 1940, Diana Lynne
born Chehalis in 1944. The family was moved to Seattle 1947 by Lafe's employer,
Callison's Inc. John Frederick was born to the family in Seattle 1950. Lafe,
accountant, retired from Callison's after 28 years in 1972, and Edna, 
secretary,
retired in 1972 after 13 years with Seattle School District. Lafe and Edna came
immediately back to home at Chehalis.
	Their two girls married, Vivian to Richard W. Elzner, 1961 
and Diana to John
W. Titus, Jr., 1971. Elzner family lives in Burien, have two children, Kirt and
Lynne, at home and are Lutheran church members. The Titus family lives in
Edmonds, have two children, Rebecca and Allison, at home and are 
Lutheran Church
members. Son, John, a graduate of U. of W. served in Vietnam war, married and
divorced, always lived in Seattle, now working in Bellevue as executive.
Daughter Vivian worked as travel agent, real estate, now a tailor and custom
seamstress in Burien. Husband Richard graduated from U. of W. and is a business
executive. Daughter, Diana graduate from U. of W. teaching in Japan. 
She met and
married Titus, Captain in Marines, who is graduate of Lutheran University of
Pa., and now a business executive in Bellevue. Diana teaches school in Edmonds
School District.
	Edna and Lafe are Past Matron and Past Patron of Chehalis Chapter No.3
O.E.S. Edna is Past Matron and Life Member of Greenwood Chapter in 
Seattle. Lafe
is Life Member of Chehalis Masonic Lodge No. 28 and member of Greenwood O.E.S.
All members of these families have been and are active in Girl and Boy Scouts
and church activities. By Mrs. Lafe V. Schmit

GEORGE PETER SCHMITT (SMITH) FAMILY

The Alpha-Onalaska Smith family began far off in Hohefeld, Germany, with the
birth of George Peter Schmitt, August 29, 1856. He emigrated to the United
States in 1881, spending several years exploring the country from New York to
Canada, and from California to the Pacific Northwest. He finally settled on a
homestead in Alpha, Washington. He sent for his bride-to-be, Ottilia Diehms,
born in Remlinger, Germany, September 28,1863. They were married in Napavine,
Washington, April 29, 1886 and were soon settled in their little log house.
Ottilia, accustomed to living in a small village surrounded by open fields, was
overwhelmed by the huge trees and the dense forests. She would have returned to
Germany on the next ship, had it been possible. .
	The homestead was the birthplace of their nine children: 
Tillie married Ray
Gish, child Virginia; Carl married Nora Scalf, children Doris and Lois; Nettie
married Frank Christy, children - Mary and Melvin; Bertha married

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Pete Balfour, children - Harriett, Thelma, Julia, and Dick; George Peter, Jr.
married Birdie Stidham; Elizabeth married Bud Hamreus, children - Robert and
Dale; Mary married George Wilson, children - Miles, Millard, and Daryl; Elmer,
unmarried; Lester married Lois Miller, children - Larry and Rick.
	Three of the daughters, Tillie, Elizabeth and Mary, became 
teachers in Lewis
County schools.
	As the family increased, the original log house was replaced by a large
frame house, which later became a favorite stopover for travelers on the long
wagon trip from the upper Cowlitz Valley to Chehalis and other trading centers.
After the house was destroyed by fire in 1915, the family moved to 
Onalaska, but
the homestead remained in the family until the late 1920's, when it was sold.
	George Schmitt and Ottilia were divorced about 1910, and he 
left the area.
The Schmitt name became Americanized to Smith, probably during World 
War I, when
Carl and George, Jr. were serving with the United States Army. It will be up to
Lester's sons to perpetuate the Smith name. Larry has made a large contribution
to the cause - he has four sons.
	In 1981, it was discovered that after leaving Alpha, Mr. 
Schmitt had gone to
Dallas, Oregon, where he purchased a farm from a young widow, Elizabeth
Nightingale Little, whom he later married on August 22, 1911.
	Their children: Henry married Joan Colistro, children - Henry, Jr. and
Michael; Ada married Chuck Weideman, children - Marvin and Charlene; Anna
married Rudy Leppin, children - Rudy, Kenneth, Robert, and Peggy; Frieda,
deceased.
	Henry, George's son, was instrumental in locating his 
father's first family
and bringing together the two families. It was an exciting time for all to meet
and become acquainted. Henry lives on the family farm in Dallas. He 
has made two
trips to his father's birthplace in Germany, where he has visited 
with relatives
who are living in the family home. George Peter Schmitt continued to use the
original spelling of his name, and Henry's sons and grandsons will no doubt
carryon the tradition.
	Mr. Schmitt died in 1950 at age 94. His first wife, Ottilia, 
died in 1955 at
age 92, and his second wife Elizabeth died in 1952 at age 69.

MATHIAS SCHMITZ FAMILY

Mathias Schmitz and Gertrude Strauscheid were married in Doblenz, 
Germany. They,
and their small family, sailed for America about 1874. They arrived in San
Francisco via Cape Horn.
	Wishing to join his brother, William, in Lewis County Oregon Territory,
Mathias and Gertrude set out to save the $1,800.00 boat passage to Olympia from
San Francisco. He worked at coal mining and she in maid service.
	In approximately 1876, they arrived and homesteaded in 
Onalaska where they
built a farm and raised dairy cows. From the milk they churned butter 
and stored
it in barrels. Twice a year Mathias would take barrels filled with butter by
ox-team to Olympia for shipment to Seattle.
	Mathias and Gertrude had eight children; sons Albert, Anton 
and Joseph, and
daughters Christina, Mary, Elizabeth, Gertrude and Helen. Daughter Elizabeth
married another Lewis County resident, Lester David Stone. Another daughter,
Mary, was in charge of the kitchen in the Reformatory at the ages of 15 and 16.

  (photo): Mathias Schmitz and children (1914) - L to R: Albert, Helen, Mary,
Father Mathias, Joseph, and Elizabeth.

	Mother Gertrude died of blood poisoning following a miscarriage caused
by a horse bucking accident. Mathias died some twenty years later at the age of
76 in 1916. He is buried in a small cemetery in Toledo.
The Carlisle sawmill was later located on the site of the original Schmitz
homestead. By Don C. Franklin

JAMES SCHUFFERT

James Schuffert was an engineer for the Northern Pacific Railroad for fifty
years. He died in 1959. His wife preceded him in death, 1951.
	Their daughter, Elizabeth (Mrs. Rudolph Anderson) was the 
mother of James
and Karen. She was a Centralia High School graduate. She died in 1975.
	Their daughter, Dorothyann (Mrs. W.M. Griggs) is the mother 
of Diane, Linda
and Penny Griggs. She graduated from Centralia High School and Washington State
University.
	The family home was at 217 W. 2nd Street. By D. Griggs

SCHUSTER FAMILY

Frank Schuster was born in 1870 in Austria. He came to the United 
States when he
was 13 years old. Frank married Bertha Lucas who was born in 1874 in Iowa. They
had ten children:

  (photo): Frank and Bertha Schuster, 25th Anniversary.

	Carolyn, deceased.
	Mary (Mrs. Jerry Kieszling), born in 1893; lived in Chehalis and then
moved to Bremerton; raised four children: Gerald, Roslyn, Dorothy, and Jean,
deceased.
	Charles, born in 1896, married Hallie Rogers, and lived in 
Chehalis. They
had one son, Jack who passed away in 1944. Chuck worked for the railroad in the
freight depot. Chuck passed away September 1, 1967.
	Fred, born in 1898, married Myrtle Strom and lived in 
Chehalis. He owned
Twin City Sheet Metal Works. They had two children: Margaret and Donald,
deceased.
	Laura (Mrs. Joe Myer), born in 1901, lives in Tacoma. She is a retired
school teacher. Laura taught two years in Dillenbough School; it had two
classrooms. She then went back to Ellensburg Normal School for one 
year and then
on to Kelso for one year. She taught for many years in the Tacoma School
District.
	Louise (Mrs. Albert Hansen), born in 1903 and lived in 
Chehalis. They had
one daughter, Janet. Louise went to Ellensburg Normal School and then taught at
Newaukum Valley School,a two-room school. She is deceased.
	Rudolph (Dude), born August 5, 1905, married Helen Sonnenberg 
and lived in
Chehalis. He worked for the Lewis County Engineering Dept. for 46 years. They
had four children: Robert, Mary Jo, Helen (deceased), and Carole. Dude passed
away in March, 1982.
	Frank, born in 1908, married Dorothy Seymour and lived in Chehalis. He
worked for For. get-Me-Not driving a truck. They had one daughter, Madeline.
Frank was killed in a truck-train wreck on Highway 12.
	Agnes (Mrs. Louis Pemerl), born in 1909, lived in Chehalis. She went to
Ellensburg Normal School and taught at Cine bar and Doty. Agnes had four
children: Shirley, Barbara, Kathleen, and Douglas. Agnes passed away August,
1964.
	Gilbert, born 1918, married Madelon Rodgers and lived in 
Tacoma. Gilbert was
Director of Public Works for Tacoma at the time of his death. He has a street
named after him, Schuster Parkway, on Tacoma's waterfront. They had two
children, Anne and Terry.
	Frank and Bertha raised the older children in Tacoma and 
Lester, W A and
then moved to Chehalis to 3rd and McFadden. For a long time 3rd Street was a
dirt street. Later it was a plank street with wood sidewalks.
	The children attended Chehalis Schools and graduated from Chehalis High
School.

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Frank was a road master for the Great Northern Railroad in Lester, WA. When he
moved to Chehalis, he was a section foreman.
	We have had a Schuster family picnic at the beach home of Laura at Eld Inlet
near Olympia every year but one since 1945.

SCHUSTER

Rudolph (Dude) Lester Schuster was born August 5, 1905, in Lester, Washington.
Dude attended Chehalis grade schools and graduated from Chehalis High 
School. He
went to work for Lewis County Engineering Dept. in 1925. When he retired in
January, 1971, he had the title of Lewis County Road Superintendent. 
Dude worked
for Lewis County for 46 years.

  (photo): Rudolph Schuster

Dude married Helen Sonnenberg. She was born on January 25, 1909. On 
May 5, 1926,
they were married at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Centralia. They had 4
children. Robert Lee was born on August 29,1927, and works for USGS in Golden,
Colorado. He is married and they have 4 children. A daughter, Helen, born
February 18,1935, and now deceased. Carole Ann (Mrs. Dan Hunsaker) was born
January 20, 1939 and living in East Wenatchee. Carole and her husband 
are school
teachers. They have 3 children.
	I am MaryJo, born August 17, 1932 in Chehalis and lived on 
the corner of
13th and McFadden. The store on the corner of 13th and Market was Christenson's
Corner. At that time, 13th street was not a through street. We had a tree house
in the oak trees by Dr. Forsyth's office. The Duffins, Goffs, Dipolas,
Brodericks, Stottlemyers, and the Fahnestocks were our neighbors. Mr.
Christenson use to save us cardboard boxes and we would take them across Market
Street and slide down the hill, where Dr. Wagner's office is now. The hill was
much steeper then. We also had a merry-go-round in the field behind the store.
We sure had lots of fun.
	My parents then moved to Bishop Rd., now 20th street, in 
April of 1939. I
went to St. Joseph's Catholic School for 8 years. I went to junior high for the
9th grade and I graduated from Chehalis High School in 1950. We had an
earthquake in 1949 that destroyed part of the High School. We spent our senior
year going from the junior high, to the Scout Lodge, and then to the Methodist
Church basement, and also the business rooms of the High School for classes.
	I attended business school in Seattle, and went to work for 
an insurance
company above The 5th Ave. Theater.
	I married Alan Lee Schwiesow, from Centralia, on August 26, 
1951. We moved
to Spanaway in 1952, where our first of 6 children was born. Patti (Mrs. Don
Driscoll) was born October 17, 1952, in Tacoma. Patti works at the Centralia
Indoor Pool.
	The rest of my children were born at St. Helen's Hospital in Chehalis.
Robert was born April 6, 1957, and he lives in East Wenatchee. He is a safety
officer for Cannon Mines in Wenatchee. Gary was born July 8,1959, and he lives
in Raymond. He is a fireman and EMT for Raymond Fire Dept. Philip was born May
27, 1963, and he works for Strata Search and travels around the United States.
Thomas was born January 12, 1966, and he is a student at Cheney, W A. Beth was
born May 14, 1967, and she just graduated from Centralia High School and she
plans to enter Centralia College in the fall of 1985. The children all attended
Centralia grade schools and graduated from Centralia High School.
	Alan worked for the City of Centralia Engineering Dept. for 
27 years. He was
City Engineer from 1971 until he retired in March, 1985. I have worked at Yard
Bird's for 22 years.

ENGELBERT (BERT) SCHWARZ

I would like my descendants of the Engelbert (Bert) Schwarz family to know some
of the things we did in our lifetime. I, Marie Schwarz, was born 
October 29,1913
in Chehalis, Wa. and now live at Adna with my husband Alfred Smiley 
who was born
September 28,1907 in Van, Missouri. We were married June 5, 1939 and have lived
here since then. I had two other boy friends, he was the third, and 
they say the
third is the charm. We met during the Depression and he was working 
at odd jobs,
sharpening plow shares. His dad owned a blacksmith shop. He worked 
for different
farmers, helping in the harvest. I was doing housework for different 
families to
get enough money for tuition to go to Beauty School in Centralia. One 
home where
I worked the kids came home with the smallpox, so I was quarantined with the
family and vaccinated and

  (photo): Bert and Mary Schwarz

  (photo): Marie and Alfred Smiley

couldn't have my sweetie come and see me. I worked at the T.B. Sanitarium which
was located at McCormick, out of PeEll on the way to Raymond. I also did
housework in Centralia and Aberdeen.

  (photo): Schwarz Home

While going to Beauty School I worked for my room and board. I had three months
training left when the school sold and moved, charging tuition all over again,
which I could not pay. I quit and got married. My husband had to borrow money
from his dad so we could go on a honeymoon to Portland, Oregon. After we were
married he worked for Weyerhauser laying railroad track to Baw Faw 
Peak, staying
in camp and coming home on weekends.
	He was working for Western Tractor when we had the earthquake 
on April 13,
1949 and the blizzard on January 13, 1950. The Adna school was severely damaged
by the earthquake. Those were the days of gas and food rationing. Later he
worked for the Chehalis Packing Plant and then the Northern 
Commerical Machinery
Co., at this time he retired on disability. Our house burned on May, 1955 of
undetermined origin.
	We have three daughters all born in Chehalis hospital. Helen 
born February
11, 1943 and twins, Sharon and Karen, July 21, 1944. When twins came that was
quits, as I was not looking forward to triplets, especially during 
war time. Our
girls all grew up and graduated from Adna High School, same as I did. I
graduated on May 13, 1932. The oldest daughter was valedictorian

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of her class and one of the twins salutorian of her class. The valedictorian
went one year to Ellensburg on a P.T.A. scholarship. They are all 
married and we
have four lovely grandsons and five lovely granddaughters.
	My dad, Bert Schwarz, bought eighty acres of land from Louie 
Willie, who had
bought it from N.P. Railroad. It joined the place of his dad, Johann 
Schwarz. My
dad built a two story home of four rooms and added a lean to kitchen and dining
room.
	Dad married Mary Glodt, September 6, 1911. I was born October 
29, 1913, the
oldest of nine children and the only girl, so I had to take care of the young
ones. My brothers were: William and Theodore, both deceased, and the others
Philip, Carl, George, Gerald, Ralph and Donald. Ralph and Donald still live on
the home place.
	I had to help like a man when I was big enough; shock hay, 
milk cows, etc. I
mopped many old wood floors and had the mop hung up on slivers. I remember when
we had enough to get two linoleum rugs which was a thrill, no more slivers when
we were barefooted. Mother sprinkled damp coffee grounds on the wood floor so
she could sweep and keep the dust down. I had two dresses for school and when I
came home I always had to change to keep them clean. The same with the boys. We
got hand downs from cousins but they did not always fit. I had my 
first new coat
which I bought with my own money when I was 18. We always went barefoot in the
summer to save our shoes and the soles of our feet got like leather 
from the hay
stubbles. We never got any toys, we made our own and the only time we got nuts,
candy or oranges was at Christmas.
	It was hard to get flour to bake bread. Dad raised pigs for 
ham, bacon and
lard. We raised potatoes, chickens for eggs and for meat. Occasionally a
neighbor would butcher a beef and give us a hunk. We had cows for milk and
churned our butter. We traveled by horse and buggy. It was a treat when we got
the Model T. Were we ever proud. You had to light the lamps with matches. We
also raised a large garden by the creek. It was us kids' job to dip water and
water the garden. Mother would pick beans by the tub-full and we 
would snap them
and can them in two quart size jars. We boiled them three hours in hot water
bath in the copper wash boiler. No pressure cooker then. Water used for
drinking, washing, and bathing came from a dug well. Mother kept her yeast for
baking bread in a bucket hung in the well to keep cool because she got a pound
at a time and couldn't run to town every whip stitch.
	There was a reservoir on the stove and the water got hot. We had to bathe in
the galvanized wash tub, trying to hide behind the cook stove to keep 
warm. When
mother washed clothes, it was boil them in the boiler, then scrub them on the
board with the homemade soap and hang to dry. It was a hassle to get 
them dry in
the winter. We had kerosene lamps and lanterns. We had a crank telephone. You
would crank once to get central and give her your number and she 
would ring your
party.
	I did not start to school until I was 8, so my brother would 
be 6 and we
could walk together through the pasture and cow trails, going through grandpa's
barnyard where we were afraid of the bull. I went to the first three grades at
the one room school at Crego and fourth grade at the one room school at
Alderbrook. My fifth and sixth at Twin Oaks, following consolidation with Adna.
My first grade teacher was Jessie Clarken Little, now living in 
Centralia. Clara
Riedl Neumeier was my second and third grade teacher. She lives in Chehalis.
	Curtis and Russell had a sawmill on Crego Hill in the early 
1920's. They
dammed up the creek, put in a pond and ran railroad track through our property
to log off the neighbors' land and ours. Selling the timber gave dad a little
cash so we could eat and be better clothed.
	My grandparents were born and married in Austria. Grandpa, 
Johann Schwarz
married Magdalena Stum£. My dad, Bert Schwarz, was born in Landec, Tyrol
Austria, December 29, 1869. He and his oldest brother Raymond, came to America
with their father in 1883. Raymond was 16 and my dad 13. They came 
ahead to make
enough money to send for grandma and the rest of the family. They left Antwerp,
Belgium, the last of March, 1883 on the Penland Red Star Line and 
arrived in New
York Harbor the middle of April, 1883. They then went to Manistique, Michigan
and later sent for grandma and the rest of the family, consisting of seven
children and her brother, Frank Willie. She had 20 children; only 10 survived.
Some were buried on the homestead. The ten living were: Raymond, Bert, Frank,
Joseph, Louis, Willhemine, John, Josephine, Maria, and Ludwig, who was the only
one born in America.
	>From Manistique they came to Washington, via Canada and 
chose Crego Hill
for a place to settle. There grandpa bought some two hundred acres of land from
the N.P. Railroad for around two dollars per acre. They hewed a 
homestead out of
a wilderness. They chose a spot down by a creek and built a house on the knoll
above the creek and barn on the other side. They built a structure 
with a cellar
underneath which they lined with bricks. They lived in this until 
they built the
house in 1889. Due to having a large family, they built a large kitchen. The
ceiling was all hand-hewn cedar, put on in a pattern of two squares in the
center of the ceiling and the other boards angling out from the four corners.
All fitting into a pattern. The outside of the house was covered with cedar
shingles, six different patterns, all whittled out with jack knives by the
Schwarz Brothers. They were put on in a definite pattern. Both still stand on
the property today but are in sad shape.
	There was a dance hall on the property at the corner of Brown 
and Cousins
Road. It was leaning and propped up by two poles. Neighborhood dances were held
there. Uncle Raymond was a carpenter and also made guitars. He and his sons
built many buildings in the area, including the beautiful big barn on 
the Harvey
Shoultes place in 1929. This is presently being demolished. Other buildings
still standing are the large house and barn on the Leonard Ray ton farm on Twin
Oaks Road, which is presently owned by Carl Von Moos. He also built the Twin
Oaks School as well as the one at Pleasant Valley.
	A trip to Olympia with a team took two days due to the bad shape of the
roads. One winter we had a deep snow and the family walked to the Claquato
Cemetery to bury one of my cousins.
	My grandparents lived on the place until their deaths in 1925 and 1926.
Uncle John Schwarz lived there until his death in 1939. By Marie Schwarz Smiley

LYMAN AND MARGARET SCHWARZKOPF

Lyman and Margaret Schwarzkopf purchased the Old Reich Farm at Evaline from
Wilbur Isley following World War II.
	Lyman was born on a farm in Ogilvie, Minnesota, the second 
child in a family
of eight. He left Minnesota, where he owned a trucking business, for Seattle
before entering the Army. While working in Seattle he met Margaret McDonell
while she was painting signs for a store in Ballard. They were married in
Pueblo, Colorado where Lyman was stationed as a 2nd Lt. in the

  (photo): Lyman K. Schwarzkopf and Margaret (McDonell) Schwarzkopf, 
May 24,1943.

Army. When Lyman was sent overseas, where he served for about three years
throughout England, Belgium, Holland and Germany, taking part in the Battle of
the Bulge, the Invasion and the Disarmament program, Margaret returned to
Seattle where she worked for Boeing's, the Red Cross and the Children's
Orthopedic Hospital.
	Lyman and Margaret developed the sixty acre farm into a Grade A dairy,
raised chickens and sold hatching eggs to the Standard Hatchery in Winlock.
Margaret did free lance art work, designing Egg Day buttons for several years,
helping decorate floats and regularly painting signs. She also did oil photo
coloring for Bill Kershaw, a Winlock barber and photographer. Lyman worked at
various places off and on while farming; driving the Alber's Feed 
truck and as a
mechanic for Palo Motors in Winlock and McKinnell Tractor Co. in Chehalis.
	They were active members of St. Peter's Lutheran Church in 
Winlock. After
they had children, Lyman served as clerk of the board of the Evaline 
school. The
family consisted of three girls and one boy.
	Lyman attended an Agricultural school which was conducted in 
Winlock for
ex-G.I.'s. It was taught by Everett Blaisdell and Helmer Basso.
	He had a deep well drilled in 1950 which provided the first hand-line
irrigation in the Evaline area. He practiced rotating pasture 
management and was
given the Grassland Farming Award in 1954.
	    In 1961 they sold the farm; forty acres to Mr. and Mrs. 
E.R. Finch and a
separate twenty acre piece to Fred Wachter, and moved to the Columbia Basin.
While living in the EphrataQuincy area Lyman worked as a Farm Placement Rep.
resentative for the Washington State Employment Service and did 
diesel repair on
farm equipment weekends and evenings. Margaret continued to do art work and
later worked as a staff artist for the Grant County Journal and at the Ephrata
Junion High in a special reading program.
	In 1975 Lyman, Margaret and their son John moved to Chehalis 
where Lyman
accepted a transfer to the ChehaJis Employment office as a Employer Relations
Representative. Margaret worked in the library at Green Hill School before both
she and Lyman retired in 1981 and 1982.
	Their oldest daughter, Nancy (Mrs. Charles) Jarmin, has a son 
Ronald and a
daughter Sandra. Their second daughter, Norine (Mrs. Gary) Jackman has sons,
Jeffrey and Jarred and daughters, Jeanette and Jenese. Their third daughter,
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school at Winton near Leavenworth, Washington. Nancy lives in Vancouver,
Washington and Norine lives in Ephrata. Their youngest child, John, lives near
Rochester with his wife, Paulette and their infant son, Tyler Jay.

SCHWIESOW

John R. Schwiesow was born at Fern Hill, Tacoma, Washington, on April 18, 1902.
He attended school at Fern Hill. John married Almira Bertha Kawelmacker on
August 16, 1927 at Shelton, Washington, in the Mason County Court House. Almira
was born in Roy, Washington, on March 18, 1902. Her family homestead on what is
now part of Fort Lewis. Her family moved to the head of Lincoln Creek 
on January
22,1919.
	John and Almira lived with her father on the farm until it 
was sold in 1928.
They then moved to South Gold Street in Centralia, Washington. After 
a year they
moved to G Street and then to 1201 North Tower, where Almira lives now.
	They had four children. John was born in 1928 and married 
living in Lacey,
Washington. John has 5 children. Alan born in 1929 and married living in
Centralia, Washington. Alan has 6 children. Earl was born in 1932 and married
living in Centralia, Washington. Earl has 5 children. Lois (Mrs. Fred 
Oster) was
born in 1935 and living in Portland, Oregon. Lois has 8 children. The children
attended Centralia grade schools and graduated from the Old Centralia High
School.
	John was in the construction business most of his life and Almira was a
housewife and mother.
	John passed away on August 14, 1975.

MARION OLIVER MCCAW SCOTT FAMILY

Marion Mary Oliver, eldest child of the William Hugh Olivers, attended the
Edison Grade School (on the 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

  (photo): Marion Oliver, Queen of Pioneer days.

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 - a big ten; 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.

N.C. SEARS FAMILY OF WINLOCK

One of the ancestors of Nelson Chester Sears was Thomas Sayre, who emigrated
from England in 1630 with his four sons. He was one of the founders of
Southampton, Long Island and built the first frame house in New York

  (photo): Nelson Chester "Chef' Sears (1878-1946) and Maud Parker Sears
(1880-1930)

state. Later the spelling of the surname was changed to Sears.
	Descendants moved to Connecticut, Ohio, Missouri, and Hood 
River, Oregon.
Chet cleared land in the now famous apple-orchard area. In 1902 he married Maud
Parker. Her father, John was born in Yorkshire, England and her mother, Asenath
Moore, in Illinois. Maud's grandparents were emigrants from Nova Scotia.
	The Parkers were married in Indiana and then moved to Hood 
River where John
built and operated a store, the first building in Hood River.
	Chet and Maud moved to his ranch at Winlock, Washington in 
1902. In due time
there were children to help as "ranch hands." Fay Meredith, better known as
Buck, was born in 1903. He was known for his prowess at baseball. He married
Florence Worth, a teacher, and they moved to Portland. Buck was a 
contractor and
also worked for the Overhead Door Company. Florence returned to teaching after
their four sons finished college. The sons are also continuing in building
related professions. Gene is a furniture buyer for Bon Marche, Jack is a banker
at North Hollywood, Tom is an architect in Portland and Dick is in masonry in
the same city.
	The second son, John, was born in 1911 and did his share of 
farm chores. At
the time of John's graduation the family was living in a house built by Chet.
John moved to Tacoma in 1929 to begin his apprenticeship as a 
painter, the trade
he followed as a journeyman and as a contractor. In 1935 he married 
Ann Goodman,
gaining Michael, a five year old step-son. By 1942 John Scott and Lee Nelson
were born. John was a painting foreman on the first Narrows Bridge. He taught
his sons the trade and they worked as painters on the second bridge.
	Josephine was born in 1913 and from her early youth it was 
determined she
should be a teacher because of her ability in mathematics. Instead she married
Frank Frederick of Portland. They had a son, Neil, and a daughter, Sharon. Jo
made use of her talents in her work for the Armstrong Mfg. Co. during World War
II. She was the buyer of steel for the company and later became Secretary-
Treasurer.
	Josephine's sister, Dorothy, was born in 1915. She married 
Dennis Kasmarek
of Seattle and now lives at Lynwood near her daughter, Denise, and family.
	The youngest child, Donnelly, was born at Winlock and now lives at
Medical Lake.
	This is the story of the family up to 1985 but the name of Sears will
continue through its children. By Ann Goodman Sears

SETHE FAMILY

Heinrich Friedrich Sethe left Germany with his family to arrive in New Orleans,
America in August, 1884. They traveled out west to Comstott, California and
proceeded north to Blanchard, Skagit County, Washington in May, 1890. They
journeyed on, arriving at Sulpher Springs, Lewis County in July, 
1891. The wagon
road went as far as Bremer. There he left his family, taking his 
oldest son Fred
and started for the back country to look for land. They were told 
land was free,
just for living on it. They traveled by foot taking two days to reach Sulpher
Springs, the third day arriving at what is now Packwood. on some stump land. He
left his son with August Snyder and went back for his family. He was told the
land he had staked out was no good and would not raise anything. Someone told
them of a piece of land down the valley a few miles with a good stream and a
nice place for a cabin. The neighbors helped build a cabin for them and they
took their seven children and moved in. Mr. Frank

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Kilborn who was packing for people took his string of horses and went to town
and brought back a cook stove and some staples.
	  When Mr. Sethe settled here his neighbors soon found out he was an
outstanding blacksmith. He learned his trade growing up in Germany. 
There was no
way of earning a living for his big family locally so he set up a blacksmith
shop in Claquato (that being the main city until Chehalis grew up), then he
moved his shop to Chehalis.
	Mrs. Sethe and the boys cleared land, made a flume in the 
creek to bring
water closer to the house, built a chicken house, pig pen, and a barn. They got
a cow and three pigs which were given to her for delivering babies. Neighbors
all traded garden seed. With no conveniences, sewing was done by hand. Many
times clothes were washed and mended while the children slept. With much work
and planning, all were kept clean and well fed. Mrs. Sethe got her first sewing
machine when she had her eleventh child. After the Sethes proved up on the land
they turned the land back to the government for script and all moved into
Chehalis for four years.
	In the early 1900's, they returned to the area and purchased 
160 acres five
miles above Randle. In 1902 they built their home which still stands on the
land. They bought another 40 acres near the road. They had thirteen children in
all. Most of them spent all of their lives in Lewis County. Five of the boys
worked for the Forest Service. Friedrich and his wife Emma lived on their place
near Randle until they died within nine days of each other in 
November, 1924 and
are buried in the Randle Cemetery. By Charles F. Sethe

LENNIE (ANSTINE) SEVERNS' FAMILY

Charles and Lydia (Baldwin) Anstine were married, February 12, 1908, 
at Lincoln,
Nebraska. They had four daughters: Velma (19081919), Lennie (myself) (1910-),
Aura Dey (19121985), and Imogene LeBaron (1926-).

  (photo): Lennie and Archie Severns

My parents met in Lincoln when both were rooming at mom's sister's home. Daddy
was a railroad engineer and mom was attending Business College. Their courtship
was brief. The Baldwin family was moving to Spokane, Washington, and refused to
let mother stay there because she was not married, even though she was 21 years
old. My, how times have changed!
My father and we girls were born and raised in Seward County, Nebraska. Mother
and her family were from Kentucky, leaving there when mother was about 18 years
old.
	After my parents' marriage, they left the city (at mom's insistence) to
become successful farmers and cattle feeders. They continued to farm until
cancer claimed their lives. Mother was 43 and daddy died three years later, at
age 48. Imogene was 2 years old and I was nineteen. She was "mine" 
from that day
on.
	I rode horseback to attend a two-room country school (grades 
1-10), during
which time I took private piano and violin lessons. Our small high school in
Utica did not have a music department, so my parents decided to send me to
Seward High School where I could continue to study music. After high school, I
attended the University of Nebraska, received my teaching certificate, taught 3
years in a one-room country school, and taught piano and violin on weekends.
	W.A. "Archie" Severns and I met when I was a senior in high 
school. We were
married five years later in 1931. We took over the farming business after my
father's death. Archie was a town boy and I a country girl. After 
seven years of
farming, he knew it was not the life for him.
	By then we had a son, Tex (1934) and a daughter, Billie 
(1936). Starting a
new life was big decision, especially for me, to leave the only home I had ever
known. It was a wise decision. We chose Centralia (1937) because Archie had a
brother, Ray, in Chehalis. We bought a grocery store on Waunch's 
Prairie. We are
now retired and still living on Waunch's Prairie.
	Our children attended Centralia High School, Centralia College, and the
University of Washington. Both are teachers. Tex and family live in Seattle and
he teaches in Kent. Billie and family live in Renton and she teaches in
Snoqualmie. Tex and Eileen (Greer) have a daughter, Darci, and a son, Blake.
Billie and Don Dorland have a daughter, Paige, and a son, Ty. We are proud of
our children, their spouses, and our grandchildren. Eileen is a Medical
Technician and Don is an administrator in Kent High School.
	All the men in our family are avid hunters. Our children have cabins at
Crystal Mt., not far from the ski area, where they and their families love to
ski. It is also a hunter's paradise. The guys have elk and deer 
antlers to prove
it.
	We have never regretted coming to the West Coast. We have 
made some lasting
friendships with some very dear people. By Lennie (Anstine) Severns

ROBERT M. AND MARY LOUISE SUAVER FAMILY

Robert Mason Shaver, better known by his friends and associates as "Bob", was
born at his grandparents' home in Sacramento, California, 4 March 1858, the
third son of Peter and Mary Hardy Shaver who owned and lived on property near
Marysville, California. In October, 1865, Peter Shaver was shot and killed at
his farm home, and little more than two years later Mary Shaver was dead of
tuberculosis.
	Robert was raised by his father's friend, Mathew Mason, a 
single man, and
together they came from Sonoma County, California to Ellensburg, Washington
Territory in 1886, where they farmed. After Mason's death, Robert operated a
drayline and kept a general store, where he also made candy and ice cream. It
was during this time that he met Mary Louise (Champlin) Pressey, who had
migrated in 1853, at the age of three, with her parents from her birthplace in
Will County, Illinois, to California. In 1869 she married her first husband, in
Sonoma County,

  (photo): Robert M. and Mary Louise Shaver, granddaughter LeOra Pressey, 1914.

and in 1878, with their first three children, they moved to the Upper Wenas
Valley in central Washington Territory. Three more children were born to her,
and ten or eleven years later she divorced her absentee husband.

  (photo): Clarence and Eva Shaver - 1945.

Robert and Mary Louise married in June, 1890, soon moved to Tacoma where their
only child, Clarence Cook Shaver, was born at his half-sister's home 
on 27 April
1891. They shortly

  (photo): James and Mary Ann (Shaver) Scarmack, Anthony, Pamela, James Jr. -
1977.

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  (photo): Standing: Harry Shields, D. Dean and Sue Whorton, Thomas, 
Jesse, .Beth
Shaver. Seated: Margaret Shields, Eva, Doris and Brian Shaver. Eva 
Shaver's 80th
birthday, 1982.

moved to near Puyallup where they had a cheese factory on their own property.
	In the spring of 1894, they executed a property  exchange 
with Andrew Nix
for his land in Lewis  County. On this place, at Boistfort, they farmed, made
and sold cheese and other dairy products in Chehalis on a regular basis, raised
hops and bought and sold cattle. County records indicated that they also
purchased and sold several pieces of land in the area, before leaving 
the valley
in 1901.
	At this point in time, Robert began a twentyfive year career 
as a sawmill
owner and operator. Because of his work, they usually lived at the millsites;
subsequently they made many and frequent moves.
	 Never known to be a great success financially, he was 
abundantly rich in
love for his family, his step-children, the two youngest Annie and Ben Pressey,
whom-he raised as his own with his son, his wife, and fellowman. Mary Louise
Shaver probably was deprived of many worldly possessions, but she 
could count on
Robert being home with her and the children. Perhaps she mothered him, too, a
balm to heal the years he had no mother to turn to.	.
	Old neighbors have referred to Mary Louise as an angel of 
mercy, teaching,
nursing, and nurturing when it was necessary, to allay suffering and to promote
happiness and spiritual growth to family and friends.
	Mary Louise Shaver passed away at home near Napavine 19 
November 1917. She
lies at peace in Mountain View Cemetery, Centralia, Washington.
	His sawmill days completed in 1926, Robert Shaver went to 
visit a few weeks
with his stepdaughter, Annie Otness, near Hillsboro, Oregon. This was 
the little
brown-eyed girl who had captured his heart almost forty years before.
	Robert Shaver's visit lasted until his death on J June 1932. 
His remains
were laid to rest beside those of Mary Louise.
	Clarence Cook Shaver was a three year old tad when his family came to
Boistfort in March, 1894. Because of his father's sawmill operations, 
as a young
man he attended several schools throughout the western part of Lewis 
County. His
schooling concluded at near 7th grade level at the Forest school south of
Chehalis, when he was about 16 years old.
	He followed his father, Robert, into the sawmill and shingle 
mill business.
Many of their mills were in the Forest, South and North Forks of the Newaukum
River, and Napavine areas. They were at a location near Napavine when Clarence
was drafted into service in the Spruce division, WWI. He had lost the index and
middle finger on his right hand years before in a mill accident, but was
drafted, a soldier minus his trigger finger.
	While at the Napavine mill, after his return from service, the Shavers
hauled sawed lumber from the mill to the C.C.C. railroad loading dock on the
Napavine-Forest road. They had permission to water their horses in the
Anderson's barn lot. This gave Clarence the opportunity to get acquainted with
the Anderson's daughter, Eva, and they soon began dating. The next year, after
the Shavers built another mill on the North Fork of the Newaukum, Clarence and
Eva were married 30 June 1920.
	Eva Lena Anderson was born in Everett, Washington 12 April 1902, the
daughter of William David and Emma Anderson. They had moved to Lewis County in
January 1915 from Everett.
	The two Shaver children were born at home on the North Fork, 
Margaret Louise
on 15 November 1921 and Jesse Clarence, 12 December 1922.
	Clarence came to the realization that he did not want to move 
his family
around from millsite to millsite, as his parents had done. He still carried a
lease on 80 acres of state school land, two miles farther up the North Fork,
which his parents had first leased in 1907. With some new lumber, lots of
salvaged lumber and a smattering of knowledge about house 
construction, Clarence
and Eva built a house on the "state land", and took up residence in 1924.
	They had kept milk cows on this place for several years, so 
now they added
to the herd, enabling them to sell milk to augment their income. They also
worked at clearing stumps on the front forty acres and planted oats and hay
crops. In a few more years they had laying hens and were producing eggs, which
were shipped to Washington Co-Op at Winlock.
	Clarence worked out in the woods for Carlisle Lumber Company. 
Not ever a
strong or rugged man, his health broke, and he was very ill for several years.
In 1936 after a serious stomach surgery, he seemed to mend, even though there
were no "wonder drugs." During the years between 1940 and 1950, he worked at
Rainier Crossarm Company, West Coast Mills, and the National Cannery. 
In 1950 at
the age of 59, he had a series of strokes. His last ten years were a trial for
him because of his disabilities.
	He passed away 9 August 1960, and was buried at Sunset Memorial.
	Even though the years on the farm were tough, Eva had the tenacity and
physical strength to carryon in those years when Clarence was ill. The children
had chores and responsibilities to keep the farm going. Those were hard years,
and not rewarding from a financial standpoint, but during the Great Depression,
they always had an abundance of food, canned, cured, and fresh from the garden
and orchard.
	They worked together, and yes, they played together. There 
were dances at
the Grange Halls on Saturday nights, visits to friends and neighbors, family
picnics in the summer, swimming in the North Fork of the Newaukum, homebrew
hidden under the back porch, sewing club meetings, 500 card parties, strawberry
picking trips, wild blackberry picking trips, school programs and a myriad of
other homespun activities that might seem rather dull by today's standards.
	In the long winter evenings, before there was electricity in 
the valley, Eva
would read borrowed books by oil-lamplight to entertain the family, as they
huddled around the heating stove in the dining room. Many a tear was 
shed as she
read in very emotional and expressive tones. On other evenings there was
popcorn, sometimes popped over the open fire, hot chocolate, or apples, saved
from the orchard, as they sat around a crackling fire in the living room
fireplace.
	There were those never-to-be-forgotten trips to the privy in the winter
time, with its bonechilling seat, the drafts of cold air seeping through the
cracks, and that ever-present catalog. Almost everyone who used the privy at
some time was likely to experience the back side of the little building being
hit by a well aimed rock.
	One thing they did have was "city" water. The main which was 
laid around
1914 came directly from the Chehalis-Centralia intake at the head of the North
Fork of Newaukum. All the homes along the county road, near the main, were
privileged to hook on, by paying the hookup fee and the monthly rate.
	Even though there was a plentiful supply of water available 
in the house, it
was in the mid 30's before they had a modern, plumbed-in bathroom.
	Margaret and Jesse attended Agate Grade School, before it was 
consolidated
with Chehalis district. From grade school, they went to R.E. Bennett Junior
High, and then to Chehalis High School. Margaret graduated in 1939 and Jesse
followed two years later in 1941.
	Through the forties, Margaret worked for Fred Meyers, 
Portland, for Boeing,
Seattle, Boeing at Chehalis, and Sears in Chehalis.
	Margaret married Harry Eugene Shields, 13 September 1947. He 
was born 23
July 1923, in Clay County, Kansas, the son of Virgil and Gladys 
(Pacey) Shields.
He had come here after serving in the USAF, 3rd Depot Repair Squadron in India,
during WWII.
	He managed a service station in Centralia, and later was a 
deliveryman for
Pantorium Cleaners. In 1951 he completed a six month course at Moler's Barber
College in Tacoma, and for a year they lived at Orting, Pierce County,

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where he owned and operated his first shop. He retired in 1984 after owning and
operating his own business in Centralia for 28 years.
	Their daughter, Sue, was born 8 March 1948 in Chehalis. She 
graduated from
Centralia High School in 1966, and in 1970 from WSU with a B.A. in 
Sociology. In
1976, she completed a nursing course at Highline College, and in 1980 graduated
from Pacific Lutheran in Tacoma, earning her B.S.N.
	In November, 1978 she married Delbert Dean Whorton.
	Sue is an IV Clinician, specializing in home care. She is 
employed by Group
Health Hospital in Seattle. Their home is in Maple Valley.
	Jesse Shaver was a U.S. Navy man during WWII, serving on the destroyer,
U.S.S. Wren. His tour of duty took him to the South Pacific and the Aleutians.
	He married 2 August 1946, Doris Mary Robins, who was born 15 
September 1919,
in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Thomas and Ada Ann (Turner)
Robins of Gibbstown, N.J. Doris received her education in Gibbstown public
schools, then completed nursing school in Philadelphia. Their first home was on
part of the North Fork farm.
	In 1948, Jesse was employed by Dupont de Nemours Company at 
Dupont as an
operator. Their home has been there since. He took early retirement when the
company closed its Puget Sound operations in 1977. Doris nursed at St. Joseph
Hospital in Tacoma for many years. They have three children.
	Thomas Edward Shaver, born 1 November 1948, at Chehalis, grew 
up at Dupont,
where he attended school, graduating in 1967. He works as a hoist operator in a
Tacoma wallboard company.
	Tom married Joann Kobel of Lakewood in 1970. They have a son, 
Brian Edward,
born in 1971, who divides his time between his parents at their Lakewood homes.
	Mary Ann Shaver, second child of Jesse and Doris, was born 14 
March 1952.
She graduated from high school in 1970. In 1970 she married James 
Scarmack. They
make their home in Farrell, Pennsylvania, where Jim is a fireman.
	They have three children, Pamela born in 1971, James Olin 
Jr., born in 1972,
and Anthony Robert born in 1976.
	Elizabeth Ann "Beth" Shaver, third child of Jesse and Doris, 
was born 14
August 1955. She graduated from Laughbon in 1973. She is a pharmacist assistant
at Madigan General Hospital, and is studying to eventually become a pharmacist.
	Eva Anderson, who married into the Shaver family 65 years 
ago, has lived in
Centralia since 1965. At 83, she keeps her own home, and will continue to do so
as long as possible, God willing! By Margaret L. (Shaver) Shields

GRACE JENKINS SHEARER

My grandfather, Levi Albert Jenkins, moved west from Iowa to Ranier Beach, King
County in 1902. His second son, Thomas Lloyd, my father, returned to Rice Lake,
Wisconsin in 1904 to marry Pearl Albra Coffin. Their first home was established
in the Rainier Beach area. I was born in 1905 and my brother, Lloyd Arthur
Jenkins, was born in 1906.
	In 1911 our whole family, 14 of us at the time, moved to 
acreage in Zenkner
Valley.  Until WWI my dad followed the carpenter trade. We moved to 
Aberdeen and
he worked in the shipyard for the war effort. At the war's end, we moved to
Chehalis. Dad and his brother opened the Chandler and Cleveland automobile
dealership in the

  (photo): Grace and Jerry Shearer 50th wedding anniversary, 1975.

300 block of North Tower where the 88 BONANZA store is now. Dad's 
first love was
construction, which he returned to after 4 years in the agency. He built 25
homes in the Centralia area prior to his death in 1969 at the age of 88.
	Due to dad's work, we moved several times. Arthur and I attended five
different schools before graduation from High School in Centralia. He 
went on to
college at Washington State, transferring to U. of W. where he was graduated
with a degree in finance. He and his wife Jean live in New York City. His
children, Dorothy and Arthur, both live in Germany.
	Mother and I were the first commercial tenants in the newly 
built Masonic
Building. We operated the Needle Art Shop from 1923-27.
	Three years after I finished high school, I married William 
Gerald Shearer.
We bought property north of Centralia and my dad helped us build a small 3-room
house. We lived at that address 54 years, just a few blocks south of my
childhood home. Our two daughters, Geryldine and La Vola, attended Oakview
School and Centralia H.S. Both Jerry and I served as P.T.A. President while the
girls were at Oakview.
	In 1946 Geryldine married James E. Foglesong. Their home is 
in the Lincoln
Creek area. In 1947 La Vola married Robert E. Meyer and their home is 
Beaverton,
Oregon. There are 9 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.
	Jerry and I were active in the Order of Eastern Star. He 
served as Worthy
Patron in 1948-49 and I served as Worthy Matron in 1949-50.
	For 25 years Jerry was a painter and decorator. He then went 
to work as an
administrator for Labor and Industries in Lewis, Thurston, and Mason Counties.
At the death of Lewis County Auditor Roy Fletcher he was appointed to fill that
office, and at the next general election was retained. He served five years;
health reasons caused his resignation. He and Charley Davis combined 
talents and
worked together as house painters, retiring in 1975.
	Our girls hosted our 50th wedding celebration in 1975. Jerry 
died in 1979,
and in 1984 I sold our home and moved to an apartment in Centralia.
	My brother, Lloyd Arthur, and his son Arthur Llewelyn are the 
last of our
branch to carryon the Jenkins family name. By Grace Jenkins Shearer

HARLAN MEIKLE SHEPARDSON FAMILY

Harlan Meikle Shepardson born November 8, 1903 at Castle Rock, WA, to Plinny
Shepardson and Effie Meikle. He graduated from the Kelso

  (photo): Harlan M. Shepardson Family, L to R, seated: Selma, Harlan, Standing:
Ruth,Harlan Plinny, Marie.

high school in 1922 and moved with the family to Toledo in 1923. In Sept. 1923,
he went to Pullman, WA, to attend college on a Carl Raymond Gray 4-H
scholarship. After one term he transferred to the Oregon State Agricultural
College (now Oregon State University) at Corvallis, OR, graduating with a BS
degree in Agricultural Chemistry in 1928. It was during the 1924 
summer vacation
that he met Selma Marie Rajala (see Rajala Story) and they were married October
I, 1927. For the two years prior to graduation he worked half time as a
fellowship chemist in the Oregon Experiment Station analyzing the soils of
Oregon. After graduation he went to work at the Am. S & R. Co. lead smelter at
Selby, CA, as assistant control chemist and later as associate gold and silver
bullion assayer. In 1929, he went to Honolulu as an assistant soils chemist for
the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Experiment Station. In 1933, he quit his chemist
career to become a farmer, first near Vader and then in 1941 moving to Toledo,
where they raised their family. This farm was sold in 1977 and they 
built a home
on a part of the Meikle-Shepardson farm that Harlan had inherited, where he and
daughter Marie are now living. Selma and Harlan were both active in community
affairs.
	They were members of the Lone Yew Grange and the Lewis County 
Historical
Society. Selma has been a Sunday School teacher, 4-H leader, and precinct
committee woman. She passed away January 3, 1984. Harlan was one of 
the sponsors
in the organization of the Lewis County Fire Protection District No.2 
and served
on its board of commissioners for many years. He served as Master in both the
Masonic Lodge and the Grange, and has been on the Board of Directors of the
Lewis County Historical Society for many years. He was appointed Postmaster at
Toledo in 1956 and served until 1973. Harlan and Selma had three children:
Marie Evelyn born October 4, 1930 in Honolulu. Marie graduated from Toledo high
school in 1948, and got her BS degree at Oregon State University in 
1953 and her
MEd (1960) and her PhD (1964) degrees at Ohio University. She is now 
living with
her father at Toledo.
	Harlan Plinny "Lanny" born June 13, 1939. He graduated from Toledo high
school in 1957. He got his BS and MA degrees at the University of 
Washington and
his ThM degree at the Trinity Theological Seminary. He and Patricia Ann
Rosengren were married June 23, 1961. They have one daughter, Rebecca Ann born
October 6, 1966 and two sons, Nathaniel Waldon born July 4, 1969 and Peter
Sherwin born May 23, 1974. They are living in Cornish, ME, and are active in
religious work.
	Ruth Elaine born June 29, 1942. She graduated from Toledo 
high school in
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were married in 1962. They had one son, Daniel William born March 
3,1963. Walter
was killed in an auto accident in 1966 and Ruth married Wayne Adams in 1967.
They live in Laramie, Wyoming, where they are both employed in the energy
research program at the University of Wyoming. By Harlan M. Shepardson

PLINNY SHEPARDSON FAMILY

Plnny Shepardson born August 16, 1872 was of the ninth generation of Shepard
sons in America,a descendant of Daniel Shepardson who came to America in 1628.
Plinny was born five miles west of Catlin, WA (now West Kelso), the fifth child
of Lorenzo Dow Shepardson and Flora Rosalie Huntington who had come to
Monticello, WA in 1858 and 1852 respectively. (History of Cowlitz County 1983)
As a young man, Plinny entered the apiary business, manufacturing bee hives and
selling them and other apiary supplies and bees. He travelled around 
the country
transferring bees from the old type barrell hives to the then new, frame hives,
and is believed to have put the first bees into a modern frame hive on the
Pacific Slope. He usually had a few hives of bees around the rest of his life
and never wore a veil or gloves. About 1901, he rented his Uncle Ben
Huntington's farm at Castle Rock, WA, and started his farming career. He and
Effie Meikle (Re: Thomas M. Meikle story) were married October 5, 1902. In 1911
they purchased property adjoining the old Shepardson farm at Kelso, W A, where
Plinny was born, and developed it into a farm. This farm was sold to the Long
Bell Lumber Company in 1922, and they bought from her father and mother's heirs
the Meikle farm at Toledo where Effie had been born and raised. Here they
dairied for the rest of their lives, which ended for Effie October 28, 1955 and
for Plinny in August, 1956. They were both active Grangers, Effie having been
Master of Catlin Grange at Kelso in 1920 and of Cowlitz Bend Grange at Toledo
and was a charter member of Lone Yew Grange at Toledo, and Plinny served as
master of Lone Yew Grange. Plinny was a member of ToledoLodgeNo.l16F. &A.M.and
Effie a member of Toledo Chapter O.E.S. Four children were born to this
marriage:
Harlan Meikle, born November 8, 1903 (see separate story this book).
	Plinny Dow, born May 29, 1907 at Castle Rock, WA, married Ida 
Paul September
13, 1946. Dow moved-with the family to the Meikle farm at Toledo in 1923 where
he lived until November, 1984 when he and Ida moved to Castle Rock, within a
mile of where he was born. He graduated from Toledo high school and spent his
life farming and working in the timber industries. They had one adopted son,
Eugene Dow, born May 26, 1954.
	Cilicia Anneta, born July 25, 1910 at Castle Rock, WA. She 
graduated from
Toledo high school and married Leo Collette August 22, 1928 and they settled on
a farm at Orchards, WA. They had two daughters: Cleo Nita, born December
21,1932, and Norma Jean, born May 10, 1938.
	Flora Marilla, born June 16, 1915 at Kelso, W A. She 
graduated from Toledo
high school and went to work at Forks, WA, where she met and married Bjarne
"Barney" Olberg December 4, 1934. They later moved to and settled in Enumclaw,
WA, where they raised four children: Marilyn Edelweis, born September 10, 1935;
Barney Dow, born July 15, 1938; Harley Gene, born October 31, 1941; Stanley
Darby, born December 26,1948. By Harlan M. Shepardson

  (photo): Plinny Shepardson Family, L to R: Harlan, Anneta, Plinny, Effie, Dow,
Flora.

WILLIAM FRANKLIN AND OPHELIA MCFADDEN SHORT

My grandfather, William Franklin, was born in Alabama in 1857 to William and
Malinda Welch Short.

  (photo): William Franklin and Ophelia (McFadden) Short

His travels led him to Paris, Texas, where he met and married Ophelia Ann
McFadden on September 30, 1883. She was born on February 17, 1865 in Tennessee
to John McFadden and Fannie Rummage.
	They had three children, Missouri Lee, born July 16, 1884, 
Fannie Mae, born
November 17, 1885 and my dad, William Thomas, born January IS, 1887.
	Grandpa came Northwest in 1888, and was met in Chehalis by relatives of
grandma's, the Rea's or McFadden's from Ajlune. My grandmother 
followed in 1889,
with the three small children and with what few possessions she could bring on
the train.

  (photo): Standing: Lillie and William. Seated: Esther and Ophelia Short.

They stayed with relatives in Ajlune until the land in Highland Valley, five
miles West of Morton, could be improved enough to apply for a homestead deed
which was granted on June 29, 1898 by President William McKinley.
	The first home was a small log cabin and later a larger home 
was built. It
burned and nearly all of their possessions were lost. My father 
helped build the
new second story house that had carbide lights and modern bathroom facilities,
which would have been a true luxury in the early 1900's.
	My grandfather on Sunday mornings would hitch up the horses 
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family to Ajlune to the Brethern Church. In those days that would have been
quite a trip.
	The main thing that I've heard about Grandma Short, or Aunt 
Babe as she was
known, was trom Dick Coston and Eugene "Bing" Bingaman. As young boys, their
parents would go and visit the Shorts and grandma would go outside, grab two
chickens by the neck, wring them and they'd have chicken dinner with the best
baking powder biscuits that these "boys" had ever eaten. They must have been
good for them to remember her biscuits so many years later!
Grandpa was a farmer and walked with a bad limp, and some thought he'd lost his
big toe. It was not known for sure, but he was crippled. He passed away in
Eatonville on October 13, 1922 and was buried in the Morton Cemetery.
	Missouri, or Zuda as she was known, married James Rockwood and lived in
Highland Valley, where they raised their five children. She passed away October
20, 1957 and is buried in the Morton Cemetery.
	Fannie married Ed Owens and for some years lived in Randle 
where several of
their children were born. Then they moved to Castor, Alberta, Canada and she
never returned to visit. They had eight children that survived. She 
passed away,
May 28, 1928, and is buried in the Castor Cemetery.
	After the passing of my grandfather, my dad stayed on the farm with his
mother and took care of her. On February 14, 1927, he married my mother, Lillie
May Knittle, the daughter of a very early homesteader. Grandma passed away on
May 30,1927 and is also buried at the Morton Cemetery.
	The 160 acre farm was left to Dad. He farmed and milked 
sixteen head of cows
by hand twice daily, plus working long hours in the woods. Never having any
modern farming equipment, he did his plowing of fields and getting the hay in
with a team of horses.
	When it was time to get the hay in, all the relatives 
gathered together and
helped each other with the haying. Myself and four cousins loved to 
ride the hay
wagon. One afternoon Dad's younger horse, for some reason, apparently got
spooked and the team ran wild with five children on the hay wagon. It was very
frightening for everyone. All jumped or fell off, except for my cousin Roland.
His leg was caught. Finally the wagon tipped on its side in the swamp area and
thank goodness Roland was not hurt. That was the last trip we got to 
ride on the
hay wagon.
	The folks and I lived on the farm until 1950. They had to 
sell and move into
Morton because of Dad's poor health. Back then with five to six feet of snow
each winter and no phones available, it was not safe to be up on the hill. The
160 acre farm with several acres of large fir trees was sold for $4,000.00.
	Dad passed away on September 25, 1952 and is buried in the Morton
Cemetery.
	The folks had two daughters, Ophelia Nellia, born December 8, 1927 and
myself, Esther Louise, born October 21,1933.
	Ophelia (known as Phil) married Jack Pell on March 17, 1946. 
They had one
daughter, Anna May, December 24, 1946. She married Gary Blang June 19, 1965.
They have two children, Jeffery Scott born April 19, 1966 and Carman Marie born
February 28,1969.
	I married Richard Hope, Jr. in Topeka, Kansason February 28, 
1953. We have
four children. Dick was born in Omak, Washington but grew up in Onalaska.
	Our four children are Donald William, May 19, 1954, Richard 
Earl III, May
23, 1955, Paul Severn, November 19, 1956 and Denise Eileen born 
August 17, 1958.
	Donald married Norma Moore November 13, 1976 and have Crystal Marie -
October 28, 1975 and Jack Everett - February 1, 1977.
	Richard III married Donita Simpson on October 20, 1984 with two
children, Josh and Jodi.
	Paul married Kim Melton on July 29, 1973 and they have Janet born
September 25,1975.
	Denise married Robert Clevenger - May 6, 1978. They have 
Amanda Jo - March
7, 1979 and Breann Rochelle - September 9, 1980.
	My husband has worked for St. Regis, now Champion, as the 
purchasing agent
for over twenty years. Much of our married life we have been in Morton.
	The road east of Morton, where my grandparents homesteaded, 
was commonly
called the Short road by all local residents. In 1967, the County named it the
Hopkins road on the maps.
	In April, 1981 through my efforts, the Lewis County 
Commissioners officially
established the "SHORT ROAD."
The Short road is widely published as an access to an excellent view point of
the Mt. St. Hden's crater. By Esther Short Hope

LEE AND MYRTLE SHULT FAMILY

Leland O. Shult, "Lee" as he was known later, was born October 2, 1908 near the
small town of Doland, South Dakota. He died March 12, 1969 so I'm left to tell
of our family. I am Myrtle (Drayer) Shult and was also born in the 
small town of
Doland, S.D. on October 16, 1911. The two of us grew up in the same 
area, Lee of
Swedish ancestry and my parents of English-German stock. He went to a one-room
country school while I attended "town" school, but we both graduated 
from Doland
High School.

  (photo): Lee and Myrtle Shult

I had the distinction of graduating with Hubert Humphrey, our Vice President
under President Lyndon Johnson. After high school Lee attended Dakota Wesleyan
University graduating with a B.S. degree in 1932. He started to teach the
following fall but became ill with Tuberculosis and was confined to a 
sanitarium
for two years.
	After graduating from high school, I attended the University 
of Minnesota,
receiving my diploma in nursing in 1932.
	We had dated in high school but later our paths separated; 
however we kept
in touch. Upon discharge from the "San," Lee came to the Pacific Northwest in
search of something new. He got into "selling," which is what he pursued the
rest of his life, working for Fuller Brush Co., Singer Sewing Machine Co. and
finally Allstate Insurance. I had stayed in Minnesora for eight years 
working in
a hospital. After keeping in touch all these years we were married in Seattle
July 25, 1940. We made our home in Hoquiam for a year while he was with the
Fuller Brush Co. He was transferred to Chehalis as field manager and 
lived there
for ten years. It was here our four children were born: Douglas 1941, 
Jean 1943,
Jo 1947 and Carol 1949. We were all member of the Chehalis Methodist Church and
began our Scout Life. Lee was involved with Boy Scouts while Doug was a Cub
Scout, later to become an Eagle.
	In 1950 we moved to Centralia where we found our country home of nine acres
on Ford's Prairie. Our house was built about 1918 by Dan Foron, a member of a
pioneer family in this area. It was a perfect place to raise our children plus
horses, a cow, our beef cattle, chickens, goats, ducks, dogs and cats.
	I became involved in Girl Scouts with all three girls, and 
have now been a
member over thirty years. We were all involved in Centralia Methodist Church as
well. All four children have established their own lives. Douglas is married
with two daughters and a doctoral degree in mathematics and teaching in
California, our second daughter Jean is married with two sons and a degree in
education and teaching. Jo is married with a son and a daughter and a degree in
education and teaching, and Carol has been employed by Pacific Northwest Bell
for seventeen years. The Northwest has been good to us. By Myrtle Shult

I.W. SHULTZ FAMILY

Isaac W. and Eliza Dalton Shultz with their year old daughter, Mary Gertrude,
came to Toledo, WA, in September of 1877, with his brother John and his parents
Lawrence and Delilah Bumgardner Shultz.

  (photo): Ike and Eliza Shultz and daughters Gertie and Maggie, 1880.

Their daughter, Margaret Ella, was born one month later, October 1877 
of Cowlitz
Prairie. Next spring they bought the Samuel Layton D.LC. on Eden (Layton)
Prairie where daughters Mahala and Lettie were born in 1880 and 1882.
	They were instrumental in purchasing ten acres from the 
Northern Pacific
Railroad for the Eden (later Lone Hill) Cemetery. Lawrence was the first to be
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lah passed away in June of 1901.
	Isaac was a progressive farmer and for many years ran a 
mercantile store at
Knab (Lay tonPrairie) and one for the miners at Green River, managed 
by daughter
Gertie.
	John Knab petitioned for a post office on the prairie and 
when it was opened
in 1888, it was named for him. Eliza ran the post office till 1902 when they
moved to Chehalis and ran a livery in the vicinity of what is now Lee's
Insurance.
	In 1892 Isaac, a staunch Republican, was elected Lewis County 
Assessor for
two terms. He also served as deputy sheriff for many years and served on the
Toledo town council. He belonged to the LO.O.F. They were very active in civic
and community affairs. Eliza was a charter member af the Rebekah No. 46 lodge.
	Their stay in Chehalis was short lived and by 1905 they had 
moved back to
the prairie farm. In 1911 they moved into Toledo.
	Ike passed away in January of 1935, Eliza, March of 1937.
	Gertrude married George Waddell. Their children were: Frank, 
who married
Ruth Weigand; Carmen married E.A. Krause and Edna married John Jacobson.
	Margaret married Elias P. Layton. Their children were: 
Ernest, who married
Harriet Gries; Estella, who married Ellsworth J. Smith; Elva, who married Henry
Armstrong and Edith who married Mark Kirkendoll.
	Mahala married George Olson. Their children were: Kemp who 
married Esther
King; Stanley who married Anna Boone; Ralph who married Wilma Buswell and Cecil
who married Lois Williams.
	Lettie married Jack Lemon. There were no children. By M.D. Cole

LAURENCE L. SICKLES

	Our father, Laurence Luther Sickles, was born in Hymer, KS, 
in 1878. He came
to Seattle with his family in 1888. Later, they moved on to 	a farm near
Mossyrock. Dad delivered mail between Mossyrock and Winlock on horseback. His
step-father, Sal Kessinger, delivered mail between Chehalis and Mossyrock.

  (photo): Back row: Laura and Laurence L. Sickles. Seated: Dan, June and Lee.

Our mother, Laura Lillie Edna Black, was born in Brighton, IA, in 
1889. She came
west with her family on an immigrant train in 1901. The train came along the
Columbia River, on the Oregon side. Much rain had fallen and the train was
moving slowly, so as not to trigger another slide and to avoid 
serious damage or
injury. One

  (photo): Laurence Luther Sickles, Laura Lillie Edna Black Sickles

did hit the locomotive and they came to a sudden stop.
	A man sleeping next to the aisle lost his derby hat, which 
rolled down the
aisle. Granddad had just started for a drink and had to run to keep from
falling, like he was chasing the hat. Some laughed but others were in tears,
from fear of the situation. They had to sit there all night until another train
came from Portland. On one side, all they could see was the river and, on the
other, a steep bank.
	After they transferred to the other train, the next morning, they soon
arrived in Portland. They sat idle for a long time. Granddad finally 
went out to
see what the delay was. When he returned, he said, "By Ned, we're on a boat."
The train was being ferried across the Columbia River. Evidently, no 
bridges had
been built at that time.
	The relatives expected them a day before they arrived and 
were waiting at
the Chehalis Depot. They came again the next day and, when they were not on a
train coming in, thought there was more delay. A cousin, Tom Houston, went to
look at a second train. He came back and said, "Here is Uncle Cale getting off
this other train." They said, "How do you know? You have never seen him." He
replied, "I don't care. It is him." He was correct. It was Granddad and family.
	The South Bend line of the railroad ran from Chehalis to the 
coast and went
by the foot of Ceres Hill. Long's Crossing was a rail stop, where Ceres Hill
road crosses the tracks. Some of the family were waiting there with a team and
sled to take them up the very steep hill to the log cabin, where Granddad's
father and mother lived. Our mother was eleven years old at the time, and the
man driving the team said, "Hang on tight or you will roll down into the
Chehalis River." So she held on for dear life in the darkness.
	They stayed with her grandparents, Jonathon and Sarah Black, who had a
donation land claim on Ceres Hill. The school, where mother went, was near the
track, a short distance beyond Long's Crossing. On the first day of school, the
weather was clear on top of the hill, but as they started down, they 
encountered
heavy fog. She had never seen fog in Iowa and wondered what it was. 
She saw that
her cousins, Charlie and Ellie Beaber, were walking right into it and asked
"What is it, water?" Ellie laughed and said, "it is fog," so she followed them
into it. One of our uncles said, "This is the doggondest country I ever saw,
where the trees have whiskers." No moss on the trees in Iowa. A brother-in-law,
Alva Goff, said, "When you look down the street, all you can see is a row of
umbrellas."
Our parents were married in Chehalis in 1909. About two years later, 
they took a
homestead near Shaniko, OR. Shaniko was the rail terminus and sheep country. It
was known as the greatest wool shipping area in the world, at that time.

My mother worked in the Shaniko hotel, then called the Columbia Southern Hotel.
Dad worked in wheat harvests. He was knowledgeable in working and caring for
horses, the power source in those days.
	About the year 1916 in late fall or the spring of 1917, they sold their
homestead rights and moved to Chehalis. Dad worked in the milk condenser plant.
In the spring of 1919, they heard of logged-off land being sold for $5 an acre
at Winlock. They purchased fifty acres about five miles from Winlock. We moved
there as soon as a house was built. From this time on, they always lived in the
Winlock area. We had some cows and a team of horses. Dad milked cows 
morning and
evening and worked in a sawmill about two and one half miles from home. He
walked back and forth to work.
	Mother worked hard, also, carrying water, cooking on a wood 
stove and caring
for the children.
	In 1921 a planer accident at the mill claimed Dad's left 
hand. It was hard
for him to get a job after this, especially during the Great Depression.
	Twelve chidren were born to them. Eight lived to maturity. We lost our
brother, Louie Leroy (Lee) Sickles, in World War II. Daniel L, Oran A. and L
Russell live in the Winlock area. Lucille Kaija and June McNelly also live in
Winlock. Muriel Oneal lives in Kalama, W A, and Ivy Mulford lives in Centralia,
W A.
	Dad said we were pioneers of both Washington and Oregon. By 
June Sickles
McNelly

SILER FAMILY

Judson S. Siler left his home in Waynesville, North Carolina, in the fall of
1886, arriving at Cowlitz Prairie in Washington Territory. Where he remained
through the winter with his uncle, Judson Herren, whose farm bordered the
holdings of the Hudson Bay Co. The latter now being the site of the Cowlitz
Mission.
	Early the next spring he left the Prairie and proceeded up 
the Cowlitz River
to Mossyrock, the last settlement at the end of the road. From there 
he took the
horse trail thirty-five miles into the Big Bottom country on the 
upper waters of
the Cowlitz.
	In taking his homestead three miles southeast of what is now 
the town of
Randle, he was following by something like a year the route taken by his cousin
Rufus T. Siler who had located in that same vicinity in 1885 or 86.
	For the first ten years after coming to the Territory, J.S. Siler spent
about half his time, that is the spring and summer months, in slashing and
clearing his claim, while during the remainder of each year he would return to
Winlock, Washington. There he grubstaked himself by working in the 
logging camps
and mills.
	In 1897 he was married to Theresa A. Rise (Lewis). In 1899 he and his
family, which consisted of his wife and one son Harry A. (born in 
1898) and four
stepchildren, moved to their home in the Big Bottom country.
	This trip, although taking five days by team and wagon, 
covering a distance
of sixty miles over such roads as existed at that time, was a method far
superior to that used when the first settlers went into that country. The
following story is told of the first wagon which was taken into the Big Bottom
by R.T. Siler, referred to above.
	It was necessary to dismantle the wagon at Mossyrock 
thirty-five miles from
its destination and carry it that distance by pack horse. 
Accordingly, the wagon
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convenient to pack as possible, two wheels being loaded onto one horse and two
onto another, etc.
	The portion alloted to one particularly obstreperous cayuse 
was the front
hounds and axle, the latter having a sharp edge due to wear by the 
wheel. In its
effort to relieve itself of its burden by rearing and bucking the animal had
jabbed this sharp point into its neck cutting a blood vessel, and it was feared
that it would bleed to death.
	However, pioneer surgery came to the rescue, a pin was thrust 
through the
skin on both sides of the wound and a string tied around both ends of the pin,
thus drawing together the cut. The bleeding stopped and the pack 
train continued
on its way.
	Even in those early days a little hard money was necessary as well as
desirable to keep a family eating, and a body of cedar timber on the homestead
seemed to be the most ready source.
	Accordingly, Jud Siler and his wife set up a camp in their 
own home and the
accompanying "bunk house." A crew of up to a dozen or fifteen men 
were employed.
The big cedars felled, cut and split into four foot bolts, "bucked" into nearby
Siler Creek, driven to the Cowlitz River three miles distant and then on to
Kelso in the big "drive" to the shingle mills.
	Thus, and in similar ways came the ready money so necessary 
to buy the flour
and the sugar for the table and the shoes for the family while the ranch was
being cleared that it might provide in the future.
	In 1905, the family went back to Winlock for a short three 
months, stay and
there the second boy, Judson Terry, was born.
	During these several years Judson S. Siler served his 
community in whatever
way it called him. He was number one man in the church, Superintendent of the
Sunday school, Justice of the Peace, School Director and United States
Commissioner during the land opening about 1914 or 15. For many years he served
as Deputy County Assessor and canvassed the entire east end of the county from
Mossyrock to Packwood, mostly on foot, a distance of fifty miles.
	Through all these years of traveling through the county he 
had accumulated
an acquaintance of nearly the entire population in Eastern Lewis County,
together with a host of friends around Chehalis, Winlock and the west end.
	His business frequently called him to the Court House, and being interested
in civic matters, naturally had at times entertained the ambition to enter
politics.
	To run for the office of County Commissioner was perhaps the 
most ambitious
of his hopes, although this wish was never gratified.
	However, in 1912 the call came for a man from the east end to represent
Lewis County in the Legislature, and Judson S. Siler answered that call. It was
perhaps as much a surprise to him as to anyone when he found his hat 
in the ring
but he fought a hard campaign and won. >From that time until 1927 he served in
the Washington State Legislature continuously, with the exception of the
biennium of 1920 and 1921, making a total of fourteen years. He served on many
important committees, including the Appropriations Committee and the Committee
on Agriculture of which he was chairman.
	However, his most important work and that nearest his heart 
was that which
he found in the Committee on Roads and Bridges and the Educational 
Committee. He
made few speeches on the floor of the House, but in these two committee rooms,
especially he labored long and hard. State Road No.5 and the White Pass Road
came in for much of his attention; while in the matter of schools, 
the growth of
the consolidated high schools throughout the state and the welfare of the State
College of Washington were his greatest interests.
	The completion of his service in the Legislature brought him 
to the age of
sixty-five years, declining health and the end of his active life.
	In 1929 he was stricken with a malady which confined him 
immediately to his
home and later to his bed for the remaining thirteen years of his life.
	He died in 1942 and was laid to rest beside his wife who had 
preceded him by
only a few months, in a little cemetery in the Big Bottom Valley, which valley
he had watched develop from a little handful of pioneer bachelors to a thriving
community of agriculture and industry.

R.T. SILER FAMILY

In the spring of 1885 a tall slender young man of 22 years stepped from a train
at Winlock, Washington. He was Rufus T. Siler who had come directly from
Tennessee to find a new home in the northwest. An uncle had written of a
beautiful valley in the Cascades which the native Indians called Big 
Bottom. The
letter stated that homestead land was available and that he should 
come out west
to this Washington Territory to see it for himself.
	Following directions, Rufus started walking toward the 
mountains with all
his belongings on his back. At nightfall he stopped at a cabin in the present
area of Salkum to seek shelter. On approaching, he heard voices of people
inside. They were singing hymns, and he felt heartened as he had heard scary
tales of the wild west.
	After crossing the Cowlitz twice by Indian canoe, Rufus met 
the uncle. They
selected a site and at once began cutting logs with which to build a small
cabin, the site being one mile south of Randle.
	In a few months, Rufus' family arrived and selected another 
homestead site
nearby. His oldest sister, Louisa (Owens) kept house for him the following
winter. She, therefore, was the first white woman to appear in the valley.
	A need for mail service resulted in an application by Rufus 
to Senator Vance
of North Carolina, for mail carried on a weekly basis from Chehalis. This was
accepted and the post office was thus named Vance in his honor.
	By early 1886 Rufus had met, on his occasional trips to Mossyrock for
supplies, an attractive young girl named Josephine Landes, daughter 
of a pioneer
there. They were married in December of 1886.
	While still occupying the tiny cabin without floor or window, 
Rufus started
building a larger house of logs. Here three children were born: 
William in 1889,
Beatrice (Magill) in 1893, and Louise (Anderson) in 1897. These three were all
sent to college in due time. Mr. Siler had hired Indians of the Cowlitz tribe,
to clear his land and finding them friendly, he learned their Chinook language.
They came to trust him and sought his advice on legal matters.
	Early in this period, religious services were held in the home. By 1894 a
log church was built, with community help, on an acre of the Siler farm. It was
of Methodist denomination. Rufus occasionally acted as preacher and Josephine
played the organ. She also taught a Bible class for many years. In 
1911 a larger
church was established in Randle.
	By 1911 the Silers had built a modern home with registered stock on the
farm. Mr. Siler produced prize-winning crops and for several years in the
1930's, he exhibited community products at the Puyallup Fair. He was on the
board that organized the first consolidated school district No. 214. For 20
years he was president of the Citizens League of Eastern Lewis County. He also
had a hand in modernizing the beautiful cemetery at Silver Creek near Randle.
	The Silers celebrated their Golden Anniversary in December of 1936. Mr.
Siler died in 1931 and Mrs. Siler in 1939 they left seven grandchildren and
numerous great and greatgreatgrandchildren.

RUFUS T. SILER

Conditions for living in the South in the years following the Civil 
War were not
too easy or filled with opportunities, so my father, RUFUS T. SILER, 
from Loudon
County, Tennessee, came west early in the spring of 1885. He was 22, just the
right age for seeking adventure. He was a fine specimen of young manhood, being
over 6 feet tall and weighing around 190 pounds. He had black hair 
and blue eyes
that bespoke honesty and friendliness. His complexion was ruddy, and he wore a
mustache as was the fashion of that day.
	On reaching Portland, he took an afternoon train for Chehalis. From his
uncle, JOHN W. OSBORNE (who had preceded him to the northwest), he had heard
about the fine soil and untouched land in the upper Cowlitz basin. He was
further convinced by a man with whom he became engaged in conversation on the
train who said that he must go and see the newly discovered "Big 
Bottom" country
located 65 miles east of Chehalis.
	At that early date, the road ended a short distance beyond 
Mossyrock, and
from there on, newly- blazed trails wound through the dense virgin forests.
Trees which had fallen across the trails had notches in them where men and
horses could get a foothold.
	Father set out on this trail on foot. At the end of the first 
day's hike
(about 18 miles out near where the town of Salkum is at the end of the pavement
at the time of this writing), he stopped at a homey-looking cabin and asked if
he could stay for the night. He heard singing and learned that the family and
their neighbors were having a prayer meeting. He remembered the tales of wild
animals, fierce Indians and wild people who had settled in the west, and his
fears subsided. Here were people of refinement and education singing praises to
God and, quoting from his own words, Rufus said, "I felt better and was more
encouraged than ever about going on."
Later on his journey, he had to cross the reo cross the Cowlitz River, with the
help of friendly Indians who had dugout canoes, before he reached the 
site which
he chose for his future home. When he came out of the forest of tall fir,
hemlock and cedar trees, he stopped once on a hill and looked out on 
the fertile
valley called "the Big Bottom." He was entranced by its beauty and grandeur. It
was covered with groves of soft maple, ash and alder trees with vine maple and
cascara beneath. It lay peacefully between the rugged foothills of the Cascades
and three snow-covered volcanoes, one of which was almost entirely visible. It
was rich with alluvial soil which had covered the ground when the river
overflowed its banks from time to time. There was a luxuriant ground cover of
reeds and bear grass which had later proven fine for grazing before 
the land was
cleared.
	Here he chose some of the best bottom land with the river 
running straight
along the west side, and here he built a cabin. It consisted of one room about
15xl5 feet built of small logs. There was a fireplace of mud and rock, and a
door so low that he had to stoop to enter. On April 4, 1885, he took out a
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Because the river cut off a small portion of the land, the actual acreage was
about 145.
	In the early part of June of that year his family consisting 
of his widowed
mother, Mrs. Martha (Osborne) Siler and brothers William O. and Jacob, sisters
Louisa M., Mary E., and Harriet E., followed the way west but stayed 
in Chehalis
for a time. Later grandmother Siler took a claim on the Cowlitz River at the
point where the present town of Riffe now stands.

EARL E. SILVA

Earl E. Silva, the youngest child of George and Myrtle Silva, was born 27
February 1927, in Randle, WA.
	His father was trucking logs for K. Madsen at Malone when 
Earl started the
first grade at Porter. Miss Gazelle was his teacher, and Les Scroup was the
principal. All the little boys wore bib overalls and Earl recalls they sat in
little green chairs. He attended public schools in Mossyrock, Centra Ii a and
Aberdeen, then graduated from Seattle University.
	Milking his grandma's cow was Earl's first work, and then he had a bike
route delivering the Seattle Times to Centralia customers. Some other 
jobs were:
almost six years in the U.S. Army, a mechanic at Ray Spears garage in Chehalis,
a bread wrapper at Lippman's bakery in Seattle, and 18 years with the Centralia
School District. His first contract in 1955 was 7th grade classroom teacher,
plus basketball and football coach at Oakview grade school. His salary was
$3,600 per year.
	In 1948 Earl married Laila Sigrid Walli, born 4 December 
1926, in Aberdeen.
She was the daughter of Sam and Sigrid (Junkari) Walli, both born in Finland.
	Earl and Laila have lived near Centra Ii a for thirty years, 
in the house
they remodeled.
	Their area of residence has beautiful views and good building 
sites, but had
inadequate water supply. In 1966 after having engineering studies which met
American Water Works Association standards, Earl and his partner Glen (Bud)
Hedge began construction of a water line that connected to the city 
of Centralia
water supply.
	  Eventually there were nine miles of water line and fire 
hydrants. With
adequate water, over seventy families built new homes in that Cooks Hill
neighborhood. The business, which was known as 7-11 Development 
Corporation, was
sold to the city of Centralia in 1984. Earl's partner, Bud, died in .1984.
	Earl and Laila have four daughters. Susan Sigrid, born in 
1949, is married
to Ron White and lives in Boise, Idaho. Sally Jo, born in 1950, is married to
Rick Marshment, and lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Cynthia Anne, 
born 1951,is
married to Jerry Taylor and lives in Centralia, Washington. Celia 
Karen, born in
1953, is married to Chuck Hansen and lives in Spokane, Washington.
	The grandchildren are Seth and Scarlett Taylor, Heather, John and Brian
White, and Andrew Hansen. By Laila Silva

GEORGE ANDERSON SILVA

George Anderson Silva was born 20 May 1896 in Webster County, West Virginia.
	He was a little boy when he arrived at the Chehalis train 
depot with his
younger sister, parents Russell and Sallie, and grandparents Robert and Martha
Silva. That day in 1903, they were met by Reynolds kinfolk, who were already
settled here from West Virginia. They went by horse and buggy to their new home
in Swofford Valley.

George went to work at an early age. By 1912 he was driving a four horse team
and wagon and delivering cream from Riffe to Chehalis. In 1916 he drove a Model
T as the "stage" between Mossyrock and Riffe. In 1921 he had a seven passenger
Anderson-six touring car, in which he drove the family back to West 
Virginia for
a visit. They took along cooking utensils, food, bedding and clothes, all
fastened to every protuberance. Rolling along they went, stopping to cook, camp
and to buy gas. In later years his mother, Sallie, recalled that she baked
biscuits almost every day of that trip.
	In 1926 George had the first truck with pneumatic tires in 
Lewis County. For
the rest of his working years he was a truck mechanic.
	George married Myrtle Rude, who is of Norwegian descent, in 
1917. She is now
living in Aberdeen, Washington. They had five children, who were: 
Delbert Daniel
Silva, born 1918 and now in Sutherlin, Oregon; Russell Clinton Silva, 
born 1920,
died 1973; Inez Lorraine Silva McKinley, born 1922, died 1979; Edith Silva
Landi, born 1924 and now in Aberdeen, Washington, and Earl Edward Silva born,
1927 and now in Centralia, Washington.
	George was married to Reva Smith Bowen of Aberdeen, 
Washington, and she died
several years ago. He now makes his home in Centralia. By Laila Silva

ROBERT DANIEL SILVA

Robert Daniel Silva, b. 15 April 1838, was the oldest son of James W. Silva
(Silvey) and Frances B. Atkisson, dau. of Barnett and Eleanor (Saunders)
Atkisson. The family left Madison County Va., in ca. 1830, and settled in
Pocahontas County, West Virginia, "high on a mountain, near the summit, where
five rivers head, and neighbors were few and far between."
The father, James, d. 18 January 1849, leaving the widow Frances, 
with four sons
and three daughters. She remarried a widower, Joseph Rogers in 1855 and the
combined family moved to Stamping Creek, in the same county, and so named as
buffalo once stomped in its bed.
	Robert married 9 September 1860, to Martha Ellen Young. She 
was the daughter
of John Young Jr. and Mary Underwood; he a veteran of the War of 1812 and the
son of John Young Sr. a veteran of the Revolutionary War, and all of Madison
County, Virginia.
	Robert and Martha settled on the Stamping Creek homestead. He 
was a farmer,
hunter and a sometime schoolteacher.
	During the "War Amongst Us," he served the Confederacy under Stonewell
Jackson, rode in the cavalry, and learned the cobblers trade. His 
three brothers
Barnett, John Anderson and Christopher Silva served the Union cause; the first
two dying in Dakota Territory while guarding wagon routes.
	Ca. 1903 Robert and Martha, with son Russell and family left 
West Virginia.
They settled in the eastern end of Lewis County, Washington, on land 
reminiscent
of the steep hills of their former home. Eventually their sons John Barnett,
Cysler Vivian Silva and daughter and son-inlaw Joanna and Thomas M. Hill joined
them. Left in West Virginia were three daughters and one son.
	Robert spent his last years living with son Russell. He 
enjoyed reading,
writing letters to the newspaper. In one he recalled that he was twelve years
old when he first attended school and three months was the longest term he
attended.
	He and neighbor Andrew Kaiser, a Union veteran, spent many an 
hour telling
Civil War tales. During World War II, Robert worried about his great grandsons
in the armed forces, and hoped they all had a warm barn to sleep in and more
than sweet potatoes to eat.
	Robert d. 28 September 1942, at the age of 103. He is buried 
in Frank Able
Cemetery, Woodland Washington, next to his wife Martha, who d. 25 June 1921. By
Laila Silva

RUSSELL B. SILVA

Russell B.Silva, b. 2 March 1867, in West Virginia, the second son of Robert
Daniel and Martha Ellen Silva, was married to Sallie I. Reynolds, b. 12
September 1877. She was the daughter of William J. and Elizabeth McElwain
Reynolds of Webster County, West Virginia. The McElwain lineage includes Daniel
Perrine, a Huguenot, who arrived in New York Harbor in 1665, and John Michael
Propst, a German, who arrived in Pennsylvania in 1733. The Reynolds lineage
includes John Wolfenbarger, a Swiss, who arrived in Pennsylvania in 
1739 and the
Scotch-Irish Archibald McDowell, who was in Monroe County, West Virginia, by
1784.
	Russell and Sallie arrived in the Swofford Valley of Lewis 
County, ca. 1903.
They came across country by train. Their son, George, who is now age 89 and
living in Centralia, recalls the trip lasted some four days. The family ate
their meals from hampers packed with food and supplemented with purchase from
various local "hawkers" going up and down the aisles. They slept sitting up.
	In this time frame a significant number of family groups left 
West Virginia
and settled in eastern Lewis County. All of Sallie's immediate family 
came west;
her two brothers, George and Thomas McDowell Reynolds, her sisters 
Mary Reynolds
Overholt and Fannie Reynolds Christian, and their widowed mother, Elizabeth
Reynolds.
	The Silvas made their living by farming, splitting shakes and logging. Times
were hard and money was scarce. Sallie was busy with house, garden and farm
chores. She cared for her inlaws in their last years, and helped raise her
grandchildren. She was a good woman.
	Russell and Sallie had three children. George Anderson Silva 
(in following
sketch); Mary Frances Silva Cameron b. 1898, d. 1923; and Myrtle Silva Spreen,
b. 1906, m/1 Henry Rose, m/2 John Spreen, and now living in Grants Pass Oregon.
	Russell d. 1852 and Sallie d. 1969 and both are buried in Mt. 
View Cemetery
in Centralia, Washington. By Laila Silva

RICHARD AND LEONA SILVA STRASSER FAMILY

We were married May 2, 1930, at Chehalis and celebrated our 47th anniversary at
the Cinebar community building in 1977. We lived in Shoestring Valley where
Richard worked at whatever he could find during the depression. Then he went
back to the woods as a faller. Richard started the Shoestring Valley Community
Church and did most of it by himself until 1933 when others began to help. It's
the Community Church now. I taught Sunday school for many years there 
as well as
in other communities where I have lived.
	November 11, 1939, we bought a farm in Cinebar and moved there. Richard
eventually came down with undulant fever. We then moved to Chehalis 
where I went
to work for the Daily Bread Shop wrapping bread. In 1948 we returned 
to the farm
at Cinebar. By then Richard was working for the Department of Natural Resources
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time he trapped beaver for the state. I worked in the strawberry fields hoeing,
picking and checking. I also spent my time on hobbies such as: reading,
crocheting, embroidery and quilt making.
	In September of 1956 we adopted two girls, Sherry and Terri. 
Sherry was 7
years old and Terri was 5. Sherry married Mark DeVore in 1968. Terri married
Mark's nephew Larry Jorstad the same year. Sherry and Mark lived in Tacoma and
have 4 children: Markie, Candy,Sam and Rebecca. Terri and Larry live in
California and have boys: Randy, Jeremy, Kenny and Tommy.
	Richard's parents, John Strasser and Martha (Parne!) 
Strasser, were pioneers
of Cinebar. Richard had 4 sisters and 3 brothers. Sarah (Strasser) Oest, and
Bertha (Strasser) Albritton and Frank Strasser are still living.
	I was the third child of Samuel Harris and Mahalia (Mullins) 
Harris. There
were eight other children. Goldie (Harris) Music was my only sister. Goldie
passed away in 1972. Jess, due to an accident in the woods, passed away March
16, 1975. George has been in the Morton Nursing Home since February, 1978. He
had made his home with us until Richard passed on in December, 1977. I entered
the hospital in 1978 and George's health didn't permit him to live alone. The
next 4 brothers: Roy, Orvel, Ivan and Frank were in the service 
during the World
War II. John died when he was only 5.
	The Harris and Mullins families came West in 1910 from 
Kentucky and West
Virginia.
	I lived alone for two years, the last few months of which 
were at Morton,
where I met William (Bill) Smith. We were married on May 25, 1980. Since then I
have lived at Curtis where Bill owns a small farm. By Leona Silva (Strasser)
Smith

AUGUST SLENKAMP (SCHLEHENKAMP) 1887-1977

Born in Oespel, West Germany, August left home at age 14 and apprenticed in
hotels in Germany and England. He was able to save enough money to come to
America and join an uncle in Pittsburg. At this time he changed his name to
Slenkamp as his uncle had done. He then came west to live with other relatives,
the Sethe family, of Randle.

  (photo): Mary Lee Blankinship

He worked at Packwood Lake in 1910, 11, and 12, spending one winter at the lake
measuring the water flow. He and Charlie McMillion built a hoist house for the
Packwood Lake Hydroelectric Project, sponsored by the Valley Develop

  (photo): August Slenkamp (Schlehenkamp)

ment Co. August often spoke of "Water-Right" Green, a promoter for the company.
The hoist house was designed to haul equipment and supplies up on the 
tramway on
the side of the mountain. August often referred to this tramway as "the
Inkline." 50 years later he was proud to be employed as fireguard on the
Washington Public Power Supply System's Packwood Project. He frequently stated
"My job is to keep the fire out of the woods." He was a conscientious 
worker and
proud of a job well done.
	In the late 20's and early 30's he mined coal, and cinnebar 
and worked in
the woods around Morton. Times were tough and he had a family to 
support, having
married Mary Lee Blankinship. Their three children were Alice, Donald 
and Marie.
.
	When the CCC's started, he worked in the camp at Pleasant 
Valley as a Forest
Service foreman. Then he moved to the camp in Packwood where they cleared
right-of-way for the Back Bone Ridge Road from Ohanapecosh to Narada Falls. The
young men who came from the eastern cities wee completely untrained for outdoor
work. When they were hauled to the job site in the morning, rumor has 
it that he
would say "The first thing you do, men, is get of off the truck." Meals were
served family style at the camp and many of the men had not seen so 
much food at
one time. The first one to be served the platter of pork chops would take them
all. This problem was corrected in no time.
	In the early 40's he worked in the woods for Bennie Carr who 
had one of the
first power saws in Packwood.
	One of his hobbies was prospecting. Wherever he went he was 
watching for
different minerals. He and son-in-law prospected for uranium in Nevada. They
discovered a whole hill of uranium but the grade was too low. He and a
brother-inlaw prospected for gold in John Day, Oregon. Three months 
of hard work
netted 1/4 ounce at $35.00 per ounce. The claim next to theirs produced a
$4,000.00 strike in one pocket.
	He loved being outdoors and working with his hands. In later years he
enjoyed keeping his flower and vegetable gardens in perfect condition. He
bragged that he used only pure quarter horse manure on his garden.
	When he became a grandfather for the first time, he made it 
clear that he
did not wish to be called "grandfather." Thereafter he was 
affectionately called
"Pop" by his many grandchildren and friends. By Alice Lee Slenkamp

DON AND DOROTHY SMITH

On May 26, 1953, Don and Dorothy and infant daughter, Lorna, moved to a farm on
Lucas Creek, about 13 miles east of Chehalis known as the Runge place.

  (photo): The Smith Family

Don was born at Hoquiam to May and Wesley Smith. His father was a teacher for
many years in Seattle where the family moved and two sisters Doris and Rosalie
were born there.
	Dorothy (Riley) Smith was born to Mae and Ralph Riley at The 
Dalles, Oregon
and lived in Goldendale for six years. Two more daughters were born, Alice and
Lola, and the family moved to a farm near Walla Walla where Louis, Elwin,
Beverly, and Sharon were born.
	Don and Dorothy went to college and graduated from Washington 
State College
in 1952. They met at the Methodist College Church group and were married before
their senior year.
	Lorna Maye was born in 1952, Susan Virginia in 1954, Ralph 
Wesley in 1956,
Glenn Donald in 1958, and Lola Dee in 1961.
	For the first few years they had some milk cows and chickens 
and for about
ten years had a laying flock of about 7,200 hens. Don built the chicken houses
from poles from the farm. For many years several families got together to help
each other with all sorts of poultry chores, i.e. moving, vaccinating, and
debeaking. These families included Vic and Joe Norris, Ginny and Byron Taber,
and Frances and Ernie Johnson, and all the children which eventually numbered
seventeen! The price of eggs dropped below the cost of production and they quit
egg production on Palm Sunday of 1964.
	Don went to work as a caseworker for the State Department of Social and
Health Services and will retire in a few years after twenty-five years of
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and the children became the farmers and everyone became involved in 4-H
activities and projects. Lorna was one of the first members of the North Fork
Busy Belles 4- H club which began on October 10, 1962, the day the big wind
storm hit this area. Later they joined with Logan Hill Headliners 4-H 
club where
Dorothy is still a leader after 23 years.
	As a family, the Smith's have all been active in the Chehalis United
Methodist Church, singing in the choir, Sunday School teachers, and many local
and district offices and committees. One family tradition they have enjoyed
since 1959 is to go to Ocean Park church camp over the Labor Day 
weekend to work
on projects at the camp. Don and Dorothy were also active for many years as
youth leaders for the church.
	While the children were young, Don and Dorothy were very 
active in square
dancing and went often with the Norris' and Tabers. The children joined them as
they got older. All the children were active in many school activities such as
sports and music besides being good students. Ralph was student body president
his last year in high school. All five children graduated from 
college: Lorna in
1975, Susan in 1979, Ralph in 1979, Glenn in 1982, and Lola in 1983. Ralph
received a Master of Science from Washington State University in 
1982, and Susan
received a Master of Education from Eastern Washington University in 1984.
	Susan met Darwin Page at Walla Community College, and they 
were married on
August 17, 1974. They live in Cheney, WA and are school teachers. They have
three children: Jill Michele, born February 2, 1977; Michael Donald, born
December 19, 1978; and Lisa Kay, born December 9,1981.
	Ralph and Karen Hanson met while students at WSU and became 
Mr. and Mrs.
Hanson Smith on August 27, 1977. They moved to the east coast shortly after
Coriless Wesley was born on May 12, 1982. They expect another member of the
family in July of 1985. Ralph works for IAT&T Informations Systems.
	Glenn has for several years worked as a resident manager for 
a large YMCA
camp near Greenville, North Carolina.
	Lola is a caseworker for the State Department of Social and 
Health services
for Pierce County and lives in Tacoma.
	Lorna is an artist and has been a teacher for calligraphy and 
art classes
for Centralia College and for the Parks and Recreation Department of Chehalis.

JAMES MONROE SMITH FAMILY

James Monroe Smith, son of Mary Brown Smith and Henery M. Smith, came to Lewis
County from Tennessee about 1872, at the age of four.
	The family homesteaded near Vader where Jim met and married 
Julia Aldrup,
daughter of a German immigrant couple, who came west from Nebraska.
	The newlyweds settled amid a stand of virgin timber by the 
railroad track
north of Winlock where Jim started his own logging operation. At first, oxen
were used to pull the logs from the forest to the nearby tracks. There the huge
logs were loaded onto flat cars coupled to a steam locomotive. The 
train carried
the logs to the Vaness mill in Winlock.
	Before long, the oxen were replaced by horses and in time, 
steam donkeys
were used. However, some logs were too large and heavy to be pulled by the
donkeys, and horses continued to be used in their movement.
	Jim and Julia had two sons; Levi James, born June 3, 1891, 
and William born
in 1893. When grown, both stood well over six feet tall, yet the 
diameter of the
giant logs they cut dwarfed the two men.
	Jim taught his sons all phases of the lumber business from 
cruising timber
to marketing finished lumber. Their mill used steam engines to power the saws.
Logs were turned by hand with a peavey. Waste wood, mostly bark, and sawdust
were the fuels used for building up steam.
	When Levi, William and their younger sister, Mamie (all born 
at the place
near Winlock) were small, Julia's parents, Grandpa and Grandma Aldrup, came to
live with them. Although Grandpa Aldrup had only one leg, daily he stationed
himself beside the railroad track and cut wood for the train engines 
with a hand
saw.
	The family moved to Skagit County when their Lewis County timber supply
became exhausted. But in later years, Jim returned to his mother's 
Winlock home.
He drove the Winlock school bus during winter and in summer ran donkey for his
son, Levi's logging operation.
	Jim's son, William, died in the influenza epidemic while serving in the
army, near the end of World War I. He is survived by one son, Gerald, who lives
in Bellingham.
	The daughter, Mamie, married Rufus McClure. They had a 
daughter, Genevieve.
Rufe was killed in a logging accident. Later, Mamie married Jasper Mumford, a
dairyman. Their son, James, and daughter, Alice Mumford Ellinger, live in
Sedro-Woolley, Skagit County. Genevieve is deceased. Mamie spent her entire
adult life in Skagit County until her death at eightyeight in December 1984.
	Levi's story follows. By Leo Pakkala

LEVI JAMES SMITH FAMILY

In 1911, while living in Sedro-Woolley Washington, Levi James Smith born in
Lewis County in 1891, whose parents were James Monroe Smith and Julia Aldrup
Smith, married Grace Edna Bishop who had come to Sedro-Woolley from Ellis
County, Kansas, about 1906.

  (photo): Wedding picture of Levi J. Smith and Grace Bishop Smith

After holding many revival meetings in northwest Washington, and following a
successful series in the Winlock Baptist Church, Levi returned to 
Winlock as the
pastor in 1927, bringing with him his wife Grace; daughters, Mabel, 15; Marian,
9; and Maxine, 7. The parsonage, on First Street behind the old white Baptist
Church on Front Street, was their home.
	In addition to pastoring both the Winlock and Napavine 
Baptist Churches for
many years, Levi continued to run his lumber business. 1930 saw ties sell for
$7.50 per M and # I clear car decking went for $15.00 per M.
	On Saturday night, July 8, 1933, the Winlock Baptist Church burned. The
building was a total loss. With volunteer help, Levi engineered construction of
the stone church, located on a corner of First Street, to replace it.
	Upon seeing the Christian drama, Missing Christians, Levi 
became interested
in making the play into a movie. He resigned his pastorate, found someone to
assume his lumber interests and moved to Portland, Oregon, where he pioneered
the making of Missing Christians, one of the first ever films of its kind, with
an all volunteer amateur cast.
	Numerous other films followed as Evangel films became known across the
nation. Among the most popular are Seconds to Midnight and Contrary Winds, both
written and directed by Levi himself, and the ever popular Missing Christians.
	When General MacArthur came home stating that Japan was ripe 
for the gospel,
Levi flew to Japan to investigate. Dubbing Japanese sound on the above named
films soon followed, and Levi's pulpit was permanently replaced by a movie
projector.
	>From Japan, his field increased to include South Korea following the
Vietnam War. As a result of this work, well over a million people have embraced
Christianity and in 1985, films are still being shown.
	At age 93, Levi directs the activities of Oriental Evangel 
Films from his
headquarters in Japan.
	His wife, Grace, expired in 1979.
	Their daughter, Maxine succumbed to Hodgkin's disease when 
her only son,
Robert Gheri, was a little boy. (Robert lives in Vancouver, Washington with his
family).
	Ernest, the only son, resides near Olympia with his wife, 
Virginia Booth
Smith, a native of Vader. Before retiring, Ernest was a realtor. They have one
daughter, Arlene Smith Dunham of Olympia.
	Mabel married Earl Junor Bradley of Veronia Oregon, in 1931. 
On July 8, 1933
their first born, Luelna, was born in the Winlock Baptist parsonage about
sixteen hours before the church burned. Lu is in top middle management with the
Boeing Company in the Seattle area. She was married to John Fearno, now
deceased.
	Marian married Oliver Pakkala whose family was part owner of 
the Winlock
Standard Hatchery. By Leo Pakkala

ROWLAND SMITH

The Rowland Smith family came from Lock Haven, Pennsylvania by covered wagon,
arriving in Winlock in 1879. The two oldest of the six children, Jennie and
Kate, kept diaries of the journey, from which we learn of their many hardships
and adventures. At one time Rowland became extremely ill from a tick bite and
his wife, Margaret, had to drive the oxen and lead the family while tending her
dangerously sick husband. Although their train was followed briefly by Indians
in war paint, they had only one actual encounter with Indians - and that one
peaceful: A group of Braves visited their camp at evening and, approaching
Smith's family, showed a friendly interest in their belongings. One picked up
and held the three year old, Ten

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  (photo): Sadie Smith, Kate Smith Donahoe, Jennie Smith Sargent, Tenna Smith
Randt, Harry Smith, Matilda Smith Langhorne, Margaret Sargent, Rowland Smith,
Margaret Smith.

na, and espying a bottle which he thought contained whiskey demanded to drink.
Margaret, knowing the bottle held vinegar, tried to dissuade him, but finally
had to allow him to taste. The man spat angrily, put the baby down, and the
group strode from camp. The train feared reprisal, but none occurred. They
heard, however, that less than a week 1ater a caravan crossing this area was
attacked and massacred.
	The family arrived in Kalama, the end of the road, in 
September of 1879 and
a diary entry tells that the place was "dismal and boring and the whole family
is homesick." After trying several arrangements, including using his oxen team
to work with Ezra Meeker in the hops fields in Puyallup, Rowland finally joined
A.J. Rhodes in the Winlock lumber mill. Still homesick for dryer land, he
shortly packed his family to move to Eastern Washington, but was stopped by
Sadie's falling ill with Diptheria. By the time she was out of danger, an early
snow had blocked the passes East, and Amith permanently gave up his plans to
move. He homesteaded 160 acres on the present Jones Road and cleared 
enough land
to build a cabin and plant an orchard. Later they acquired property at what is
now the edge of Winlock along the Olequah and Jones Creeks, where they built a
larger two story home and again planted an orchard. (This property and home has
remained the family home and is now occupied by Margaret Randt Gibbs, Tenna's
daughter.) Rowland became Justice of the Peace and was a charter member of the
Masonic Lodge. The daughters were active in Eastern Star.
	All five daughters at one time taught school in Lewis County. 
Sadie, who did
not marry, taught for thirty years of her long career in the Seattle 
area. Jenny
married William Sargent, a Canadian, and settled in St. Urban, where there is
still a road named Sargent Road. Their one child, Margaret, also later became a
teacher. Kate Smith married Augustine Donahoe, a trader who served on the Board
of the Coffman Dobson Bank. They had no children. The first Territorial
Courthouse on Jackson Prairie was part of their farm and it was they 
who donated
it to the State Historical Society. Matilda's marriage to Will 
Langhorne was cut
short by his early death from T.B. She did not remarry. Harry, the only Smith
son, spent his life roaming California, never settling anywhere.
	Tenna, the baby - and my grandmother was named for the year 
of her birth,
the Centennial year of 1876. Tenna attended the state university and, after
several years of teaching of Lewis County, ran (unsuccessfully) for County
Superintendent of Schools. She then taught some years in Seattle. Possessed of
an unusual memory and wit, she knew by heart much of Shakespeare, Kipling,
Tennyson, Longfellow, etc., and was a favorite at social gatherings for her
ability to recite and entertain. In Seattle in 1903, Tenna met and married
Charles Randt, who had just returned from a successful mining prospecting trek
through Alaska. They had four children.
	Except for Jenny, who contracted a wasting disease, all of 
the Smith's lived
into their late eighties or nineties. (Sadie died at 97.) By Janet Gibbs Adams


WILLIAM AND RUTH SMITH FAMILY

William Arthur Smith of Oconte, Nebraska, his wife, Ruth, and family of four,
Harold W., Howard W., Howard E., Dale B. and Carol Joan, arrived at Onalaska on
May 26, 1948. They bought a home on the Gish Road. He worked for 
Taylor Brothers
in the sawmill, continuing that line of work for several years until his health
failed.
	Onalaska was home for 22 years. Harold W. and his family live 
in Centralia,
as do the Dale B. family. Carol Joan lives on Hood Canal and the family is all
in the state.
	While in Nebraska the family income arrived from farming and 
raising stock
cattle for market. Coming to Washington was a new life for all concerned.
	Ruth had the Lucky Logger Cafe for five years. This was sold 
and she went to
work for Jensen's Poultry Processing for seven years and McMillian 
Rest Home for
nine years. She retired after Bill's death, sold the home on Gish Road, and is
now living in Centralia. The picture was taken in '58'. By Ruth Smith

SMITH-SCHULER-ROSE

About 1872 Mary Brown Smith and her husband, Henery S. Smith brought their two
sons, James Monroe, 4, and William M., a baby, from Tennessee to settle near
Vader. Soon after, Henery died and Mary found herself alone on their homestead
to eke out an existence for her children.
	Charles S. Schuler, a family friend, helped the widow in 
every way he could
and after a time, they married. Margaret (Lena) Schuler was born either shortly
before or after her father's death. Once more Mary was left to carve out a life
in the wilderness alone. Alone that is, until a romance developed between her
and Levi Rose, who was also a family friend of many years. They were married in
1878.
	To Mary and Levi were born four children; John J., George F., 
Martha Mae and
Cora Ellen. George did not survive.
	In the meantime, the Aldrups had migrated from Germany to 
Nebraska where
they became parents of three daughters; Julia, Amelia and

  (photo): Front: Ruth (Mother), William, (Father). L. to R.: Joan, Howard,
Harold, Dale Smith, 1958.

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  (photo): Mary Brown-Smith-Schuler-Rose and Levi Rose

Malinda. The family came west and settled near Mary and Levi's homestead.
	Attracted to Julia, Mary's son, James, now grown, married his 
beloved March
6, 1890. They moved to a location beside the railroad track north of Winlock.
	William and Daisy Lee were married in 1898 and moved to Win 
lock where he
lived the rest of his life.
	Lena Schuler and Clarence A. Powell married in 1897 and moved to
Bellingham where they  remained.
	Mary and Levi Rose built a house in Winlock thus enabling the younger
children to attend the first school ever built there. It was constructed of
bricks made by hand by James Smith's father-in-law, Grandpa Aldrup, who was a
brick mason by trade.
	After marrying Maude Alroco in 1905, John Rose remained in 
Winlock for many
years. Eventually they moved to the Castle Rock area. They had an only son,
George.
	Mae married Roy Hollenbeck, a painter, and moved to Portland, 
Oregon where
she remained the rest of her life. They had two children, Lester and Arlene. .
	Cora and Charles McNalley married in 1905 and raised their family in
Winlock. Her last home was in Napavine. John, Edgar, Rachel, Floyd and Richard
are their offspring. Floyd and Richard now live near Napavine. By Leo Pakkala

WARREN AND JEAN SMITH

Warren and Jean Smith were married, March 26,1943, in Seattle, Washington.
Graduates of Chehalis High School, they graduated from the University of
Washington in June, 1943, when Warren received his commission as an Ensign,
USNR. He served in the Central Pacific during World War II, and was there when
the twins, Ethel and Elizabeth, were born, 12/28/43. Returning home for
post-graduate work at Annapolis, Maryland, in 1944, he was stationed 
in Japan in
August, 1946, when Jean was hospitalized with polio. Susan was born 
December 14,
1946. Warren resigned his commission, and,

  (photo): Warren and Jean Smith

April 1, 1947, they moved to Chehalis because they knew the schools were
excellent and that it would be a desirable place to raise their family.
	That summer, Warren became Advertising Manager for the 
Cheha/is Advocate.
Jean wrote a column, "Farm Fever," for 14 years for that weekly paper. Jeri was
born, 8/29/51, and Warren opened his insurance agency in Centralia in 1956.
	Active in the Junior Chamber of Commerce, Warren served a 
term as State Vice
President. He has been president of the Centralia Chamber of Commerce. He and
Jean were charter members of the Lewis County Historical Society and the Mental
Health Association. He was in the Washington State Legislature, 1971-1972.
Currently, he is District Lt. Governor for Kiwanis.
	Jean wrote for the Chronicle for two years ("Around the 
Bend"). She kept
busy in Lewis County branches of AAUW, the National Foundation, and in The St.
Helens Club. She worked for 20 1/2 years as secretary of the Westminster
Presbyterian Church, Chehalis, where they are members.
	Ethel married Douglas Maynard Piper. They are divorced. Their 
children are
Kathleen (5/27/62), and Paul Timothy (6/21/63). Kathy has one son, James, born
July 1, 1984.
	Elizabeth married James William Browne, 11/3/62. Their 
children are Leah
Jean (11/2/63), and Deanna Lynne (6/18/66). Lean and Robert Celloni (m. 4/4/82)
have one son, James, born July 1, 1984.
	Susan married Arlucius Quincy Stevens, III. They are divorced. Their
children are Cinnamon (3/20/69), and Quincy, IV, (3/15/71). Jeri 
married Randall
Tyring. They are divorced. Their children are Melissa Anne (6/27/74), and
Cristofer Warren (7/30/78). Jeri and Louis Carl Wagner, Jr., were married April
17, 1982. His children are Peter Carl (12/3/66), Michael Clancy (10/16/68), and
Amy Louise and Andrew David (4/17/71).
	Warren Hamilton Smith (3/22/21), Mason, Ohio, was the 
youngest of four boys;
Richard (1910-1930), Kenneth (1915-1971), Stanley (1918), born to Nelson Howard
Smith, (1/14/8511/4/61), Los Angeles, California, and Effie Lueta Keller
(4/15/80-1/12/49), Fairmont, West Virginia.
	Jean Laughlin (1/2/22), Chehalis, Washington, was the 
youngest of three,
Elizabeth (4/9/11), and Robert Eugene (2/14/13), born to Charles Laughlin
(12/25/83-2/1/22), Castle Rock, Washington, and Margaret Ethel Fouts
(1/29/86-11/29/40) Yamhill County, Oregon. Charlie Laughlin was superintendent
of the Doty Lumber and Shingle Co. until his death. Her grandparents 
were Samuel
D. Laughlin (5/28/43-2/25-10), Osage County, Missouri, and Eliza Jane Morrow
(2/10/43-3/29/13), also Osage County. A Civil War veteran, Samuel 
Laughlin moved
his family to Olequa, Washington Territory, in May, 1873. He was a charter
member of the Masonic Order in this state.

SNAVELY FAMILY

In the summer of 1921 Adolphus and Lillian (Venters) Snavely moved to Centralia
with their seven children. They had been homesteaders on Gilbert Hill above
Orofino, Idaho, where their children were born: James A. (b. 11-21-05), Wilbur
I. (b. 1-30-07), Florence M. (b. 3-2208), Robert M. (b. 10-13-09), 
Bethel L. (b.
2-18-11), Esther M. (b. 9-25-12) and her twin, Chester B. (B. 
9-25-12). They had
moved to Coeur d'Alene in 1915, an area where many Venters cousins lived.
Lillian was also the great-granddaughter of Alexander Clevenger of Pike County,
Kentucky, and was related to the Clevenger families living in eastern Lewis
County.

  (photo): Adolphus Snavely

Adolphus was born near Pharisburg, Union County, Ohio, 2/3/1860. In his early
years he worked for a lumber company in Kentucky and then homesteaded in
Nebraska, South Dakota, and Idaho. In Centralia he was employed by the Eastern
Railway and Lumber Company until his retirement. He died June 2,1937.
	Lillian was born in Kentucky on July 23, 1883. Her parents, James and
Florence A. (Wilson) Venters had been homesteaders in Crivitz, Wisconsin, and
Gilbert, Idaho. She married Adolph on July 4,1903, in Cul de Sac, 
Idaho. Shortly
after the family arrived in Centralia, Lillian died on October 17, 1921. The
family never made contacts with their many Clevenger cousins in

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Lewis County and Mr. Snavely raised the children by himself.
	The two older boys, Jim and Will, worked in restaurants when they were
young. They worked at the Olympic Club where Jim was cook. Later Jim opened his
own restaurant, "Jim's Cafe," on North Tower Street. During the Depression he
moved to Aberdeen where he later opened a restaurant by the same name. His
marriage to Esther Mae Ickes of Lewis County resulted in three children,
Charmaine, Richard, and Michael. Jim died July 16, 1965.
	Will eventually moved to Tacoma where he was employed by the 
Tacoma Fire
Department until his retirement. He had been their longest employed fireman. He
married Florence Johnson of Tacoma and they had three children, Jack, 
Coral Ann,
and Key.
	Florence lived in Centralia and married Leo Christian. They had three
children. Leo, Jr. died at a young age; Leah and Robert still reside in
Centralia. Florence died April 9, 1937.
	Robert joined the Navy and served on the U .8.S. Maryland. He 
was employed
by the West Bend Aluminum Company for many years. Married to Wilma Schultz of
West Bend, Wisconsin, they have four children; Charlene (Dec.), 
James, Joan, and
Karen.
	Bethel lived in Centralia all of her life. She had one son, 
Roy, when she
was married to Lee Sapp of Centralia. She was a nurse at the Lewis County
General Hospital at the time of her death on August 17, 1957.
	Esther was married to Robert Mayhew and later to Manual Sousa. She and
Manual presently reside in Benecia, California.
	Chester served in the Army and moved to Ukiah, California. He 
and his wife,
Lou, had several children. He died in Ukiah.

SONNENBERG

Charles Edward Sonnenberg was born in New York on February 22,1881. He met and
married Pauline Bricker in Neskoosa, Wise. Pauline was born in Switzerland in
February 10, 1884. They moved to Tacoma, Washington, soon after.

  (photo): Rear: Jim, George, Helen Sonnenberg. Front: Millie Sonnenberg.

Five children were born to them. George was born in South Tacoma on April 8,
1906. He married Evelyn Black from Chehalis, Washington, and they had 2
children. Mary Jane (Mrs. Albert Schmidt) lives in Olympia, Washington. They
have 5 children.
	George Jr. (Sonny) married Louise Duey from Adna, Washington. 
They have 2
children. George worked for Houston Auto Parts in Chehalis. He died on July 29,
1970. Evelyn passed away on November 25,1969. James was born in Tacoma,
Washington, on October 12, 1907, and lived most of his life in San Diego,
California. He married Virginia Sawdy from San Diego.
	James worked for San Diego Gas and Electric. When he retired, Jim and
Virginia moved back to Chehalis. Jim passed away in 1977. Virginia lives south
of Chehalis.
	Helen was born on January 20, 1909, at Fern Hill in Tacoma, Washington.
Helen married Rudolph (Dude) Schuster on May 5, 1926. They were married at St.
Mary's Catholic Church in Centralia, Washington. She was a wife and 
mother until
the youngest left for college. Then she worked at Yard Birds for 10 years.
	Helen and Dude had 4 children. Robert Lee works for the USGS in Golden,
Colorado. He is married and has 4 children. Mary Jo (Mrs. Alan Schwiesow) is
living in Centralia and she has 6 children. Carole Ann (Mrs. Dan Hunsaker) is
living in East Wenatchee. Carole has 3 children. Both Carole and her 
husband are
school teachers. A daughter, Helen, now deceased. Mildred was born in Chehalis
on August 8, 1912. She was married to John Limmer and they had 2 children.
	Richard works for the Post Office in Seattle. He is married and has 4
children. John Wayne was killed in a car accident. Mildred passed away in 1964.
Harriet was born on January 8, 1922 on Crego Hill.
	She was killed in a car accident in 1938 at Scatter Creek 
bridge, coming
home from a dance at Woody's Nook.
	The Sonnenbergs lived on Chehalis Ave. for awhile and then 
moved to Crego
Hill, where they lived on a farm. The children attended school at Lake Creek
near Curtis. Pauline Sonnenberg passed away in 1933 and Charles Sonnenberg
passed away in 1964.

RUTH A. (PAGE) SORENSEN
I was born Jan. 12, 1912 near Laurelton, Pennsylvania. My father was DeWitt P.
Page, and my mother was Hazel Carrie Ely. We came west, first to Nebraska in
1922 and then to Montana settling on a homestead near Hinsdale, 
Montana. In 1932
I married Soren (Sam) Sorensen. We had 3 children: Elizabeth Ann was born at
Libby, Mont. July 7, 1933, Lois Evelyn was born at Libby, Mont. May 18, 1935,
and Walter S. was born in Seattle, Wa. Nov. 12, 1937. I now have 12
grandchildren and 4 greatgrandchildren.! have one brother, DeWitt C.

  (photo): Hazel Carrie Reedy

Page, and two sisters, Iris V. Stearns, Milton Wa. And Carol D. Adkins of
Galvin, Wa. Brother DeWitt and sister Carol live only 1/2 mile away.
	Mother was Hazel C. Reedy who was a very dedicated Salvationist and also a
lifetime member of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. She passed away on
May 18, 1955. We shall always remember and revere this wonderful lady.
	Since my retirement I have raised pure bred Nubian Dairy 
Goats on a 30-acre
farm near Galvin. I have some nationally famous bloodlines.

TO MOTHER

Our hearts cry out in loneliness,
	You've left this vale of tears.
	But Jesus waits to welcome you
	and banish all your fears.

You said you don't want us to weep, 	His love will make us strong.
	But Dear, it's such a weary wait
	So lonely - and so long.

This day has been your crowning joy,
	To touch the Savior's hand,
And on his gentle bosom rest
	Upon that Golden Strand.

You ran the race, - you fought the fight,
     You battled long and well;
And many souls will testify
	You drew them back from Hell.

May we do even half as well
	In service to the King.
	I'm sure you've heard Him say, "Well done!"
	While hosts of angels sing.
	Some day I know we'll meet you there
And hold your hand once more, When Death's bright angel comes for us
	And taps upon our door.

You've joined that happy angel throng
	His Glory to proclaim;
For here on earth your lovely voice 	Brought honor to His name.

I know your voice is ringing out     His praises, loud and clear.
	No one was more devout,
	And none was more sincere.

You didn't ask applause or praise.
	And all men were your brothers. And even on your bed of pain
	Your thoughts were all for others.
	We lie awake while teardrops flow,
     Your hymns we sing thru tears,
You know we'll miss you, Mother dear,
	Through all the lonely years.

Written by Mrs. Carol (Whitton) Adkins
In tribute to Mrs. Hazel Ready

NELS C. SORENSEN FAMILY

Nels C. Sorensen, a native of Denmark, and Mary Alice Lee, born in Nebraska,
were married in 1908. Their two eldest children, Ralph and Ruth, were born
before they moved to Lewis County. The family first made their home in Alpha, a
community near Onalaska. Their other four children were born while 
they lived at

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  (photo): Nels Sorensen Family c. 1922 or 23

Alpha, Anina and Robert were born at the family home, and twins, Fern and Vern,
at a nursing home in Chehalis.
	The family moved to the Union District, south of Chehalis, in 
the fall of
1922, where Mr. Sorensen farmed and raised Jersey cows. All six children
attended the one-room Union School, and all graduated from Chehalis 
High School.
The Sorensens were involved in community affairs and also conducted a Sunday
School in the Union School for several years. They moved from the 
farm to a home
on North Pearl in Centralia in 1940.
	Bob Sorensen, the middle son, was the only family member to 
serve in the
Armed Forces. He was drafted and served all during World War II, most of the
time in the South Pacific in the Signal Air Corps and was promoted to Master
Sgt. After his discharge, he attended the University of Washington 
and graduated
with a degree in Electrical Engineering.
	>From 1940 until his retirement, Mr. Sorensen operated a wholesale
distributing business with delivery trucks that served not only all of Lewis
County, but surrounding areas as well. Bob still carries on this business,
Sorensen Distributing Co., at 809 North Tower Avenue in Centralia.
	There are three of the Sorensen family living in Lewis 
County. Ruth, the
eldest daughter, and Bob live together in a mobile home on the original family
acreage on North Pearl. Neither is married. Ruth has done office work most of
her working years and helps Bob with much of his bookwork.
	The other family member in Lewis County is Vern Sorensen, the 
youngest son.
He married Lois Barnes from Sweet Home, Oregon. They have two daughters, Linda
and Verna, who are Imarried and live in Centralia. Linda and her husband, Ben
Johnson, have a laundry and dry cleaning business on South Gold. They have a
daughter and a son. Verna and her husband, Ken Sherman, have a son and a
daughter. Verna works at one of the Centralia banks, and Ken is involved in
trucking. Vern and Lois also have a son, Rick, who is an accountant 
and lives in
Everett. He and his wife Janet have a son, Andy, the only Sorensen to carryon
the family name.
	Vern and Lois bought the family home and have been operating 
a foster home
for girls for a number of years. After their three children were grown, they
took in a family of five girls, all belonging to Lois Sorensen's nephew. Only
one of the original five remains, and she has one more year in high 
school. Many
other girls have found a haven in the Sorensen home.
	The other three members of the family reside in southern 
California. Ralph,
a retired minister, and his wife Mary Jane, live in Santa Barbara. Anina, and
her husband, Kelly Walberg, also a retired minister, live in Huntington Beach.
Fern, and her husband Ray Shamp, are presently pastoring a church in a
retirement village in Seal Beach.
	The Sorensen family were associated with First Assembly of 
God in Centralia
for more than 50 years. Mr. Sorensen was a board member and adult Sunday School
teacher for many years. Some of the family are still attending.
	Nels Sorensen pased away in 1971 at 88 years of age and Mary 
Alice in 1981
at 95 years of age. Living descendants include the three sons and three
daughters, twelve grandchildren, twentyfour great-grandchildren and two great,
great grandchildren. The Sorensens were married for 63 years.

WILEY J. AND MALLIE SPARKMAN

Wiley J. Sparkman lived in Mineral from 1910 until his death at age 91, coming
to Washington State in 1907, from Knott County in the hills of 
eastern Kentucky.
Sparkman went by the name "Jay," although his middle initial did not stand for
any name. He was born Nov. 28,1881 on Wolf Pen Creek and grew up on a 200 acre
farm, where they raised almost everything they ate and wore.
	As a youth, Jay attended a school in Hindman, where his 
teachers urged him
to further his education and arranged for him to attend the famous work-study
school, Berea College. After two years he had to drop out, because of eye
trouble. He worked for a surveyor for a while, then decided to migrate to
Washington to join his brother, John, and cousin, James D. "Gee" Hale, who were
logging near Shelton.
	In 1910, Jay followed them to Mineral, where they were hewing 
railroad ties
by hand from small trees. Later he worked for various logging companies at
Carlson, Ladd, Flynn and Park Junction before going to work at the Weyerhaeuser
sawmill on Mineral Lake. He started at 1\4 a day and worked up to 1\4.75.
	Jay was working on the "slip" where they pulled logs out of 
the lake into
the mill when, one day, the governor on the steam engine failed. The sawyer ran
out shouting for him to run. They barely got outside when the runaway engine
exploded and a large piece of it tore through the roof, hit the sawyer and
killed him. Jay had also seen so many men killed or badly injured 
while logging,
that he urged his sons to stay out of the woods.
	After 36 years of bachelorhood, Jay married Mallie Adams, ten years his
junior, who came from Kentucky to Mineral with her mother in 1917, joining
several of Mallie's brothers and a sister already there. Mallie, who was born
Nov. 25, 1891, had known Jay when they were growing up.
	Jay and Mallie took the passenger train that ran from Morton to Tacoma,
where they were married on Mar. 28,1918. They "set up housekeeping" in a house
Jay owned on the Flynn Road out of Mineral. About 1925, they bought a nearby
farm with a loghouse that they enlarged and modernized and lived the rest of
their lives there, farming and raising their family, while Jay held outside
jobs. He didn't have a car until 1926.
	Jay went to work for the State Highways in 1932 and held that job until
retirement at age 70. At first the road between Mineral and Morton was not much
more than a narrow, winding trail through the trees. Until the road was
improved, much of the work was grading the road to keep it passable 
in all kinds
of conditions, especially the winter mud.
	The Sparkmans joined the Mineral Old Regular Baptist Church 
in 1925 and Jay
was made a deacon the next year. They were very active in church and regularly
traveled to Ajune, Mossyrock and Morton for meetings. Often a group of people
would come home with them and Mallie would cook them one of her delicious meals
including her excellent pies.
	Jay was an active Democrat and always an enthusiastic 
supporter of schools.
He was noted for his honesty, hard work and keen mind.
	The Sparkmans raised five boys. The oldest, Elmer, was born 
June 24,1919,
married LaVonne Wood and had two children. Ernest was born Dec. 11, 1920,
married Edla Benson, had six children. Paul was born Feb. 11, 1923, 
married June
Hilderbrand, had a daughter. Willard was born Feb. 18, 1932, married Joan Somma
and had two children. Richard was born Aug. 29, 1935, never married 
and lives in
the home place.
	Elmer and Ernest live in Morton, Paul in the Tacoma area, Willard in
Temecu1a, Calif. and Richard in Mineral.

JOHN AND PAT SPEARS

	John Spears is the son of Ray Spears and Opal Martin Spears.
	Pat Spears is the daughter of Mayo and Mary (Smith) Lindsey.
	John was born 1-16-1937 in Kosmos, WA. He graduated from Chehalis High
School, Centralia College and Central Washington University.
	Pat was born 12/1/1938 in Ellensburg, WA. She graduated from 
Ellensburg High
School and attended Central Washington University.
	They were married 12-19-59 in Ellensburg, WA.
	  Two children, Dana, born in Portland 5-15-64, and Shawn, born 4-3-65
also in Portland.
	John's work included delivering the Daily Advocate and Chronicle and
later helped install

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  (photo): John and Pat Spears, son Shawn and daughter Dana

the first cable T. V. system, working for Coburns. During high school, John
pumped gas for R.J. McGandy's Service Station. College summers were spent
fishing halibut in S.E. Alaska with an Uncle, Floyd Epperson, and working
construction with another uncle, Tink Martin near Sitka.
	After college, employment included 4 years teaching Jr. High School in
Parkrose, Oregon, 2 years construction on the Columbia river, six 
years with the
University of Oregon at Tongue Point Job Corps Center. Two years at Jewell
Oregon and II years for the Chehalis School District (8 years at Green Hill
School). .
	Pat worked as a Secretary in Seattle and Portland. She did her Student
Teaching while in Portland, and operated her own Pre-School while in Astoria,
Oregon. After moving to Chehalis she worked in Sales and Secretarial. She is
presently working in the office at Bennett School.
	Community involvement includes membership in the First 
Christian Church,
Chehalis, and Board membership on the Board of Lewis County Work Opportunities.
	Dana is presently a Junior at Washington State University, majoring in
Animal Science, and Shawn is a Sophomore at Centralia College 
majoring in Police
Science.

RAY AND OPAL SPEARS

Ira Spears and Caisy Clevenger were married in Howell County, MO, in 1904.
Later, they moved to Greenup County, KY, where one son was born in 1906. In
1908, they came west to Hoquim, WA, then to Vance, in the Big Bottom Valley,
Lewis County, where they raised six children. Ira and Daisy rest in Greenwood
Cemetery, Centralia. Daisy lived to be ninety-years old and Ira to eighty-nine
years.

  (photo): Ray and Opal Spears

Robert Martin and Elva Cook were married in 1909 in Lewis County, WA. They
raised six children, Opal being the oldest. After the death of Elva, Robert
married Edith Haney and raised one son. Robert Martin and Elva Cook Martin are
resting in Rainey Valley Cemetery.
	Opal Martin was born 10-9-1910 in Centralia; graduated from Morton High
School in 1928. She attended Centralia Junior College and Ellensburg Normal
School. Her first teaching job was at Glenoma Grade School. She taught 18 years
in the Centralia School District.
	Ray Spears was born 1-17-1910 at Vance, W A. He graduated from Randle
High School in 1928 and attended Parks College of St. Louis University.
	Ray Spears and Opal Martin were married November 10, 1933, at 
Tenino, WA.
They moved to Kosmos, WA, where Opal taught school and Ray was a mechanic for
the Washington State Highway Department.
	Two sons were born at Kosmos; Lyle, October 30, 1935, John, January 16,
1937.
	In 1937 Ray and Opal moved to Chehalis. Ray worked as a 
mechanic until 1942.
He started his own shop, which he ran until 1973, when he retired. Opal taught
school in the Centralia District until 1974, when she retired.
	Two daughters were born in Chehalis; Mary Ann, July 18, 1945, 
and Patty Lou,
July 13, 1947.
	Ray served fifteen years on the Chehalis Airport Board. He 
was involved with
starting the Lewis County Work Opportunities, which now employs some fifty
handicapped people.
	Opal passed away in 1979 and rests in Claquato Cemetery. Ray 
lives on Logan
Hill in Chehalis.
	Lyle married Phyllis Bates and they have three sons; Gordon, 
Jeff and Mark.
Gordon married Kim Christinson and they had a son, Josiah. Kim was killed in a
car accident in 1982.
	John married Pat Lindsey and they have a daughter, Dana Marie, and a
son, Shawn.
	Mary Ann married Larry Wilson, and they have a daughter, 
Jennifer, and a
son, Craig.
	Patty Lou lives in Olympia and is employed at Evergreen State College.

HOWARD AND ROBERTA (CALVIN) SPENCER

Howard was the oldest of two sons, Morris, Castle Rock, is the second born to
Earl and Marie (Stanley) Spencer in May, 1924. Many years later, a half-brother
Earl Spencer was born. Howard and Morris were reared by their paternal
grandparents Tracey and Anna Hefley Spencer on their farm on the Spencer Road
along Cowlitz Prairie. At age 15 Howard started working at the Carlisle Lumber
Company in Onalaska, first on the green chain from the planer and later in the
woods as a choker-setter on the high lead. The logging equipment then was all
run by wood-fired steam boilers.
	Before being drafted he worked as a welder in the Todd 
Shipyards at Tacoma
and operated a milk delivery route in Toledo with his uncle Robert Spencer.
Howard served in the 65th Engineers, U.S. Sixth Army, in Japan as a heavy
equipment operator. Following army service, he worked as a "cat-skinner" for
Weyerhaeuser Timber Company out of Camp Baker. This camp was later destroyed by
the May, 1980, eruption of Mt. St. Helen.
	Growing-up memories for Howard include driving the team of 
horses to do farm
work, walking to and from school (Upper Cowlitz), the end of school picnics in
Susie Herren Cochran's oak grove, hunting and fishing in the area, 
chicken house
dances, riding his bike with Morris and others to Winlock and back, a round
trip, of 19 miles, a few times to see movies and working for neighbors.
	Roberta was the second of four children. Jeanette Ward and 
Elsie Steensland
Rickerson of Toledo and Clyde L. of Portland are siblings, born in October,
1927, to Clyde R. and Ellen McClanahan Calvin on the Calvin farm one mile south
of Toledo by river, across from the Winlock Miller farm. The Clyde Calvin home
sat on the high bank above the confluence of Salmon Creek and the 
Cowlitz River.
During the 1933 flood, the water came within a few inches of rising above the
bank.
	Growing-up memories include big family holiday gatherings at 
Grandma and
Grandpa AL. (Fred) Calvin's home close-by: watching the men work 
horse teams and
wagons as hay was made and corn cut by hand and put in tall wooden silos, and
Mother's big dinners for a dozen or more men, regular attendance at Sunday
School and church at Toledo Community Presbyterian, and participation in the
annual Christmas and Easter programs, the scrap and war bond drives 
of WW II, 4-
H and grange work, particularly the Lone Yew Grange drill team, the many school
activities, the lovely wanderings in woods and fields and along the riverside
with her dog Spot. and the cousinly fun with 18 nearby cousins from the Forrest
Wallace, Carl Wallace, Ralph Gries, Oliver Templeton and Bob Calvin families.
	After earning a B.A. degree and a secondary teaching 
certificate from the
University of Washington, Roberta taught at Ilwaco and Toledo high schools.
	Howard and Roberta were married at Toledo in May, 1951. In 
1956 they moved
to the farm which they purchased along the east and south sides of the Newaukum
River, ¼ miles east of I-5, five miles south of Chehalis. Here Howard operates 
a
grade-A dairy and raises hay, grain and corn, both sweet and silage varieties.
He is an industrious husbandman, so his fields and animals receive excellent
attention. Roberta taught at R.E. Bennett School in Chehalis from 1968-1974.
Their children are Angelyn (b., November, 1954) - Mrs. Earl J. Neuert, Jr., of
Centralia; Tracy b., February, 1956 is a machinist at Bingham- Willamette in
Portland, OR; and Melanie (b., August, 1959) is Mrs. Norman Whisenhunt of
Vancouver, WA. There are five grandchildren: Travis (b., July, 1978) 
and Bradley
(b., July, 1981) Whisenhunt; and Celeste (b., February, 1979), Jessika (b.,
December, 1980) and Tristan (b., April, 1983) Neuert.
	*Refer to The Toledo Community Story. copyright 1976, pages 
24-25 and 73-74.

JAMES D. SPRINGER, D.O.

I, James Delbert Springer, was born at home April 13, 1925 at Fords Prairie. I
grew up at Galvin, Wa., living on a small farm; attending the Galvin Grade
School and graduating from Centralia High School in June, 1943. I joined the
Army in October, 1944 and was in the 96th Infantry Division, "Deadeye 
Dicks," on
Okinawa, and in combat from May 1, 1945 to June 30, 1945. I was discharged from
the Army in December, 1946.
	I then attended Seattle" Pacific College from January, 1947 
to July, 1949; I
received a Bachelor of Science degree in pre-med. While at Seattle Pacific
College, I met Evelyn J. Borden and we were married on June 15, 1947. 
Craig, our
oldest son, was born on December 9, 1948 in Seattle, Wa. I later 
pastored a Free
Methodist Church in Goldbar, Wa., and was a chemist for a cement plant at
Grotto, Wa.
	In August, 1950, we traveled to Wessington Springs, South 
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one year. here, Cyrilla, our oldest daughter, was born on November 21, 1950. In
1951, I entered Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine, and 
graduated with a
Doctor of Osteopathy degree in 1955. Ross was born on December 5, 1953, and
Rosalyn on November 11, 1954. I interned one year at Cape Osteopathic Hospital
at Cape Girardeau, Mo. and practiced almost one year at Lutesville, Mo.
	In May, 1957, we moved back to Washington and set up practice 
in Randle, Wa.
in August, and have been here nearly 28 years. Chrystell was born on April 30,
1964.
	My father, Luther Roy Springer, was born in September, 1894, 
on the South
Fork of Lincoln Creek. Mandeval Springer, had traveled from Maine to San
Francisco by train; by boat from San Francisco to Seattle; journeyed on foot
with two other men to file on 1/4 section on Lincoln Creek.
	    Mandeval Springer married Anna Buck. Both had lived in Maine about
20 miles apart. To this marriage was born Ray, Ralph, Roy, Louise, Ira, Fred,
Carrie, Delbert and Dorothy. My father, Roy, studied through grade school on
Lincoln Creek. Only Fred, Louise and Carrie are living now.
	My mother, Eleanor Palmer, traveled by train with her father, 
Joseph Henry
Palmer, and her mother, to within  1/2 mile of my father's home. She attended
the same grade school as my father. Dad and mom were married in August, 1913 in
Centralia. To this marriage were born Clarence, and a baby who died 3 
days after
birth, Hazel, Edith, Harvey (who died at age 19), Bill, myself I and Rosemary.
	My work as a general practitioner consists of delivering 
babies, suturing
lacerations, reducing fractures, treating all kinds of sicknesses, performing
minor surgeries and assisting in major surgery. This work has been hectic at
times, but for the most part, it has been very interesting.
	I have been in all but two states west of the Mississippi, 
and I find Randle
one of the better places to live. I doubt that I will ever retire; my friends
are here, and my roots are here too.

MATHIAS OLIVER AND GRACE MAY SPURGEON

I, Olive Anne Spurgeon and my brothers were always intrigued by the 
lives of our
grandparents.

  (photo): Mathias Oliver and Grace May Spurgeon, Wedding, 1907

Our great-grandfather, Elias Spurgeon, a native of Oh. thought to be of English
extraction, married Jane Likens, of Irish extraction, who was also born in the
"Buckeye State." They were farmers and moved to Iowa, settling in Cedar County
close to Mascutine, where their son Mathias was born in 1838. Both parents had
passed away by the time Mathias was thirteen. At the age of fourteen, he
traveled to Oregon in a covered wagon train pulled by oxen, which was 
the custom
of the time. They traveled the old "immigrant route" via Fort 
Laramie, following
the North side of the Platte to the Dalles and down the Columbia River in
canoes, with the Indians. The men of the party drove the cattle on the trail
along the river. Mathias went to live and work for Mr. William Dillon who lived
at Dillons landing, where he remained until he was twentytwo. Mr. Dillon ran a
Ferry service from the mouth of the Willamette River across the Columbia to
Vancouver, Washington.
	Mathias rented the Petrand land claim and in 1865 bought a part of the
property and in 1874, the remainder of the claim which included 280 acres. Mr.
Dillons brother, Jeremiah, and his wife, Roxy Brooks Dillon, came to Sauvies
Island near William and not far from Portland. Here their daughter Olive was
born March 22, 1856.
	Mathias watched Olive grow up - they were friends and 
companions - they were
married on October 21, 1877 when Olive was twenty-one years old. They built
their house on Mathias farm and were chiefly engaged in general farming, stock
raising and dairy farming.
	There were seven children born to this union, Ella Ann 
(called Pet), Mary
Jane called Mae, John Mathias Oliver (called Matt), my father Leo, Theo, and
Gerald. Leo was killed in a farm accident and Theo passed away when an infant.
	When Mr. Spurgeon settled on the farm he was the oldest 
settler in that part
of the country, except a Mr. Seward. He has of course seen many changes since
coming. When he first came to Washington Territory, he worked for the 
only white
man in that section of the country, which is now thickly settled.
	As the family grew up the area changed. It became known as 
Fruit Valley and
was near Vancouver, Washington.
	My Grandfather made many trips to Portland to shop for the 
family. My father
tells about the garden hose he brought home - it was a toy at first, but later
it was used for work on the farm. He also brought home a bathtub that people
came from all over the area to see after it was installed.
	The family grew up with bicycles, horses to ride and a race 
track on the
farm. The race track was used by the area for fun and games.
	All the Spurgeon boys grew up to be farmers with the 
exception of Matt, he
went to Portland to candy making school also to a school that taught 
how to make
Tamales.
	Matt opened a confectionery and fountain lunch shop where he 
sold Tamales
and a large variety of home made, hand dipped candies and other commodities
related to that type of business.
	A young girl named Grace Mae Abel, born June 23, 1889 in Ludlow County,
Livingston, Missouri, came to work in the confectionery shop. She and Matt were
married September 5, 1907.
	Three children were born to this union, Olive Anne, born May 24, 1910,
Mathias Edward (Eddie), born June 24,1912, Victor Abel, born July 4, 1919 - all
in Clark County, Vancouver, Washington.
	After World War I, my father thought he would like a change 
and this is when
we moved to Centralia. He bought and operated Spurgeons Press Beverage Company.
	We all liked Centralia, Eddie and I both went to the Edison School and
Victor was just two years old.
	As we grew older, we all three worked some in the plant, our 
Father paid us
and this took the place of an allowance.
	We could ice skate some winters on the Mill Pond and, one 
yery dangerous
thing we did was, hook our sleds with a rope on the back of cars for a fast
ride. This was discontinued after a number of serious injuries.
	In the summer we would swim in the Skookumchuck River on North Pearl
Street.
	All three of us graduated from Centralia High School. Eddie 
and I both went
to Centralia Junior College. I also went to business college.
	I married John Gleenville in 1930, we had 2 children Joanne 
and John, Eddie
had two children: Rae and Mathias Edward, called Matt. Victor had three
children, Vickie Lynn, Brian, and David.	.
	Both Eddie and Vic belonged to the Washington National Guard, 
41st Tank Co.
They wee called to active duty to serve in World WarII.  Vic served in the
European Theater and Eddie in the South Pacific.
	I was Chief Clerk for the Rents and Claims Board at the 
Centralia Armory,
preparing for the 1940 maneuvers in the area. After the Rents and Claims Board
finished with their work, I worked on a number of Military Installations as a
War Service employee.
	After Vic returned from the service, he opened Spurgeons 
Beverage Company in
1946 in Longview, Washington.
	After Eddie returned from the service, he married Ora LaVern 
Collins, she
brought to their marriage seven stepchildren, 33 grandchildren and 10
great-grandchildren.
	Our father was a member of the Centralia Elks Lodge and 
attended meetings
regularly. He often made Tamales for the members and enjoyed playing pool and
card games at the club. He was affectionately called Sodie.
	The family was active in the Methodist Episcopal Church. As children we
attended Sunday School and Church services. I taught a Sunday school class and
our Mother was active and worked hard in various women's groups, enjoying every
minute.
	Our father retired in 1950 and passed away May 12, 1962 in Centralia.
	I married Colonel Archer S. Kresky on April 7, 1947, and brought to our
marriage my two children, Joanne and John Glanville. After the Colonel (as my
children always called him) passed away on October 7, 1972, I moved to Panorama
City, in Lacey, Washington. Mother came to live with me.
	After several years she moved to Longview to be near her son, 
Vic and his
family. Mother passed away on her 81st birthday, June 23,1970, in Longview and
was buried in Centralia where our father is buried.
	Our parents, Mathias Oliver and Grace Mae Spurgeon were 
blessed with three
children, 43 grandchildren, and 28 great-grandchildren.
	I married Ray W. McKenna of Centralia on September 30, 1972, 
and returned to
Centralia where we now live. By Olive A. Spurgeon McKenna

JOSEPH STAEGER FAMILY

Joseph and Cathrine (Gingrich) Staeger moved from Michigan to the town of Dryad
in western Lewis County in 1891. There they raised their family of eight
children, 1 girl and 7 boys. Joseph worked in the Leudinghaus Lumber Mill as a
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  (photo): Staeger Brothers

dren married and moved to Vancouver, BC. John spent many years in small logging
and tie mill operations. David became a teacher and spent his years in the
Seattle School system. Joe spent his years selling furniture, first with Gesler
McNiven Furniture Co. and then with Charlet's Furniture Co.
	Carl spent a number of years in the Dryad area and then moved 
to Chehalis
and worked with the Advocate newspaper. He also was the builder of the "rock
homes". The first one south of Chehalis, the second one a few miles 
this side of
Pluvious just west of the Lewis County line and the third on Rock Creek a few
miles out of Pe Ell.
	Chester remained in Dryad and farmed and ran a small dairy 
operation. Bert
stayed in Dryad a number of years and then moved to Portland, Ore. Fred left
Dryad and moved to Port Townsend where he worked for Crown-Zellerbach.

HOWARD JAMES AND EVA RAYTON STAFFORD

I, Eva Lena Stafford, was born Jan. 20, 1911  to Leonard and Anna Black Ray ton
on the same place on which my father was born, then known as the Claquato
Precinct, now the Twin Oaks Rd. Chehalis. My father's parents were John and
Angeline Smith Ray ton. My mother's parents were "Abe" and Neomi Black. (See
Memorial page). I graduated from Adna High School in 1929. This was the first
class to graduate from the present building. All my children graduated from
there; soon there will be grandchildren following suit.
	After graduating I attended one year each at Centralia 
College, Ellensburg
Normal and Wn. State. I taught one year at the Newaukum Hill school and two at
Adna. The Adna classroom in which I taught first graders, was the same room I
had occupied as an eighth grader. Ruth Stafford was one of my second graders at
Newaukum. The evening of our Halloween program, with a witch broom in hand, I
met her brother Howard, my future husband. We were married Feb. 16, 1936.

  (photo): Howard and Eva Stafford, 40th Anniversary, Feb. 1976.

Howard was born Feb. 16, 1909 in Midland, Mich. to Ralph and Lydia Walker
Stafford. Howard graduated from Bonner's Ferry, Idaho in 1927. The family moved
from Kelso to Newaukum Hill in 1930. Our son Jim was born Feb. 11, 1937 in
Chehalis. For a short time we lived in Puyallup in a small house on a raspberry
farm. Howard sold Guardian Service Cookware. This was during the depression, so
few people had money to buy.
	When war broke out, Boeing Plant in Seattle produced bombers, 
Howard got a
job as an assistant foreman. Sheila Jo was born in Seattle, May 26, 1941.
Oftentimes she was awakened from her naps by the bombers taking off from the
nearby airfield. There were large balloons anchored along the waterfront as a
protection from invading bombers. Boeings soon established an auxil

  (photo): Jim Sheila, Linda and Jo with Grandma and Grandpa Stafford

iary plant in Chehalis. Howard was transferred there and we moved to a small
house on the Duey Gowen farm near Adna. Here Linda Lee was born May 
29,1944, and
Jo Anne Dec. 28,1945. I taught Sunday School class at the Adna Church for
several years. We experienced the earthquake of 1949. Our chimney tumbled and
most of my jars of canned food were destroyed.
	Jim enlisted in the Army in 1959. When in Mass. awaiting assignment to
Europe, he spent a week-end with Norman Rockwell. There he posed for a picture
as a window washer and this picture was on the cover of the Sept. 17, 
1960 issue
of the Saturday Evening Post. After the war Howard worked as a mechanic for
Weyerhaeuser Timber Co. until his retirement. In 1955 we purchased our present
place on Twin Oaks Rd. from Flossie Vilwock. In 1982 we had a house 
fire and had
to rebuild two rooms. Jim married Donna Hendrix in 1963. Sheila married Larrie
Schiminesky in 1962. Linda married Richard Sullivan in 1960. Jo Anne married
Robert Moon in 1964.
	Howard died of cancer in 1984 at the age of75.

RALPH AND LYDIA WALKER STAFFORD

My husband, Howard's parents, Ralph Joseph (1882-1968) and Lydia Eliza
(1883-1973) Stafford and family moved to an eight acre farm on Newaukum Hill in
1930.
	Ralph's parents, William Joseph and Helen Goodwin Stafford 
moved from New
York State to Midland, Mich. There Ralph and his sisters, Kathryn were born.
	Lydia's parents, John and Eliza Ervin Walker, both of Irish 
ancestry, moved
from Ontario, Can-

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  (photo): Ralph's great-great-granddaughter, Heidi Sullivan, in Ralph's baby
dress.

ada to Bay County Michigan where Lydia, Jim, Samuel, Carrie, and Ruth 
were born.

  (photo): Ralph and Lydia Stafford, Glenn, Howard, Austin and Ruth

Lydia taught school for five years in Bay County. She met Ralph at a grange
picnic, they were married June 7, 1906. They farmed his parents place, the main
crops being dry beans and sugar beets. There the three boys, Austin, (March
11,1907), Howard (Feb. 16, 1909, and Glenn (Feb. 11, 1911) were born. The boys
recall hoeing in those fields. The Michigan winters were long and severe, so
Ralph's mother, a former teacher, played school with the boys, and they could
read well before starting to school. In 1920 the family moved to 
Bonner's Ferry,
Idaho and Ralph worked in the woods and Lydia cooked in a logging camp. She was
noted for her pies. Ruth has the rolling pin that had been given to her mother
as a shower gift in 1906. Ruth was born in Bonners Ferry Sept. 18, 1923.
	Howard graduated from Bonner's Ferry in 1927, after which the 
family moved
to Longview, and later to Kelso. Soon he was injured in a car 
accident and spent
most of a year in the hospital. Glenn graduated from Longview in 
1929. He served
in the Air Corps from 1943 to 1946. He married Allene Lee in 1947. 
Austin joined
the Army and served in Hawaii. When he returned he married Iva Florence of
Michigan. Ruth graduated from Chehalis in 1941. She joined the Waves and worked
in a Naval Hospital in Florida where she met and married Ted Hastings 
in 1944. I
had Ruth as a third grade pupil at Newaukum Hill School. I married Howard three
years later.
	During the depression, after moving to Newaukum, Ralph 
supervised a W.P.A.
work road crew. Later he worked for the Grange Supply delivering oil 
and gas. In
1936, with the help of two neighbors, Corwin Sabin and Louis Pemerl, Ralph tore
down the old house and built a new one. During that time they lived 
in a chicken
coop. Ralph kept two cows and sold cream. Lydia made cottage cheese, butter and
bread.
	Ralph and Lydia were active grange members of the Newaukum 
Grange, both were
Silver Star members, he was Master of Newaukum in 193234. She served as
secretary for thirteen years as well as secretary for the local Sunday School.
	In 1959 they sold the place to Dr. Twiss and moved to an apartment in
Chehalis. After Ralph's death, at the age of 86, Lydia lived with Howard and me
until her death in 1973, at the age of 90. By Eva Ray ton Stafford

JOHN ISAAC STEDHAM

My birthplace no longer exists. The Mayfield Dam flooded the town of Mayfield,
Washington. My family moved from Illinois to Nebraska, to Kansas, to 
Idaho, then
to Mayfield where I was born Jan. 2,1893. Five of my sisters were born in these
various states, as my parents came west in a covered wagon. My sixth sister and
my brother were born in Washington.

  (photo): John J. and Virginia Stedham, 25th Anniversary.

My education was in Chehalis Grade School and the Logan Hill School. During
school vacations, I worked at the door factory for 50 cents a day. After
completing eight years of school, I worked in the furniture factory for $1.00 a
day.
	I married Bertie Knapp in 1916. From this marriage was born John Leslie
Stedham April 12,1917. I was drafted into the Army in 1917 and spent 
one and one
half years fighting in France and Belgium, where I was poisoned with mustard
gas. I was in the 91st division and fought with the 42nd Division in Belgium.
	After my discharge from the Army, I had various jobs until I became a
lineman with Puget Sound Power and Light in Chehalis. I became superintendent
after the company was taken over by the P.U.D., and remained in that position
until my retirement in 1967.

My first marriage ended in divorce and in 1927 I married Virginia Pinney from
Ellensburg, who was teaching school in Rochester. We were married 54 years,
until her death from pneumonia in 1981. This marriage bore us three children,
Virginia Jean, born March 8, 1929; Mary Ann, born October 29,1932; and Michael
Allen born November 9,1935.
	We lived on a small farm on Kennicott Hill, south of 
Chehalis, from 1928 to
1977. We were avid gardeners, propagating thousands of rhododendrons and
azaleas. Virginia's specialty was growing chrysanthemums, selling both plants
and cut flowers. We were active in many horticulture related organizations. We
always raised our own fruit, nuts, and vegetables, milked a cow and raised
chickens for eggs and meat.
	Our children all graduated from Chehalis High School with honors.
	At the present time Virginia Stedham, who married Don Borgen 
from Montana in
1950, and has three children and six grandchildren, lives with her husband on
part of our former farm on Kennicott Hill.
	Mary Ann Stedham married John Kostick, from Chehalis in 1951, 
and has three
children and five grandchildren. She and John have lived on their farm on the
NorthFork of the Newaukum River since 1956.
	Michael Stedham married Anne Marie from England, in 1979. They have a
daughter and live in Ashton, Maryland.
	In 1977, we sold our small farm and celebrated our fiftieth wedding
anniversary, while living in a new mobile home near our daughter on the North
Fork. After my wife's death, I lived alone until I was 90, when I had a stroke
causing partial paralysis. I have resided at the Centralia Convalescent Center
since that time. By Mary Ann Kostick

JOSEPH AND LUCY STEINBERGER

Joseph and Lucy Steinberger arrived in Winlock with their five children in 1902
from Worthington, Minnesota. They moved to Toledo the following year. 
They had a
restaurant, managed the old Toledo Hotel, and owned and operated a boarding
house until 1930.
	Joseph Steinberger served as city police judge and city 
marshal. He was a
painter and paperhanger.
	Lucy Steinberger was labeled "the Good Samaritan" by Dr. 
Schlotthauer for
her many volunteer services to the community. This included practical nursing,
mid-wifery, assisting the undertaker, Leland Cattermole, Sr., and 
making shrouds
- all without pay. She was also a seamstress and designed her own patterns. The
children of Mr. and Mrs. Steinberger are:
Gertrude, who married Edwin McNulty. At this writing, she is living in Soap
Lake, WA and, at age 94, is still an avid gardener.
	Son Gail served in the Navy and was lost at sea on the USS Cyclops
during World War I.
	Daughter Josephine married Theodore Leonard, founder and owner of the
Winlock Handle Co. She died February 1, 1985, at age 90.
	Daughter Mary died in 1913 at age 17.
	Daughter Mabel married John Monson who came to Toledo in 1919 to build
the highway bridge across the Cowlitz River. She lives in Silverton, Oregon
where the family moved in 1940. John Monson died in 1945.
	Son John married Glenna Leach. He served in the Navy and was 
a businessman
in Portland at the time of his death in 1963 at age 58. By Jeanne Monson Enbusk

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JAMES AND CARROLL (FAHLSTROM) STEPP

I, Jill Johnston, have strong roots in Lewis County, descended from 
the families
of William and Clara Stepp and Verne and Carrie Fahlstrom, born in 
Chehalis, and
eventually marrying a grandson of John and Rhoda Johnston (but that's another
story!).

  (photo): Carroll (Mom) Ken, Mother, (Dad), Dad, Sharon and Jill Fahlstrom,
three generations, 1957

Early Lewis County memories are of my Fahlstrom grandparent's house on 10th
Street in Chehalis. Aunt Jo Ann, would push me in the swing which Grandpa had
put in the weeping willow tree; sometimes we'd swing together. Her room was
under the stairway to the unfinished second floor.
	A really scary thing up there was Grandma's dress form. 
Another fright was
the vacuum cleaner. I'd run and huddle into Grandpa's old leather chair.
	My favorite image is of the green crockery cookie jar 
ever-present on the
kitchen counter. Grandma always made sure it was ready for our visits!
Dad was a logger in Mayfield when the earthquake of 1949 hit. We lived in
Chehalis, west of the railroad tracks. I roller skated on the 
sidewalk. We had a
beautiful crystal based table lamp from which crystal teardrops hung. 
I remember
the tinkling of the crystals, the lamp tipping over and mom grabbing my baby
sister, Sharon, and taking us outside.
	We moved to Renton but my stepgrandparents still lived on 
"The Farm" near
Salkum. It seemed to take the whole day to drive there at 50 mph on Highway 99.
Today it would take about two hours! The roads were two-lane, most paved.
	We always perked up when we passed Harriet Bullock's and went 
around the
hairpin turn. Soon the road turned to gravel and there were few houses and lots
of woods, and Sharon and I looked eagerly for the mailbox which signaled "The
Farm."
"The Farm" held many joys for us kids. We got ringworm from the barn cats, but
that didn't slow us down - we climbed the ladder in the barn and took perilous
jumps into the unbaled hay; we climbed trees, dammed the creek, and caught
periwinkles.
	We picked in the garden shelled beans, gathered eggs in the 
henhouse and
brought in wood.
	We "helped" Grandma milk cows and separate the cream from 
which she made
butter and cottage cheese.
	In the front room was a great brown enameled wood stove, the firebox
resembling a baby elephant's back. Behind the front door was the big wood box.
	There was comfort in the evening dependability of Grandpa, 
wearing his tin
hat, calling in the cows. Some evenings we'd sit on the back steps listening to
the coyotes and wondering how close they were.
	When our cousins came we played army, explored in the woods, hid in the
barn, or played ball. When indoors, we drove the adults crazy by running in
circles from the kitchen through the hall, front room and dining room, back to
the kitchen. We also played hide and seek upstairs at night, taking 
fiendish joy
in scaring each other!
Sharon returned to Lewis County in the 1960's. My return is part of the other
story!

WILLIAM AND CLARA STEPP FAMILY

Married in 1922, Greenbrier, Missouri natives William Elwood Stepp, born
9/13/1895 and Clara Helen Walker, born 3/2/1907. Their children are James
Nathan, b. 12/24/1922, Brownwood, MO; Bart Argonne, b. 11/9/24, Pontiac, MI;
Ivan Elwood, b. 6/27/1927, Enaville, ID; Corabell Vevay, b. 
3/12/1928, Portland,
OR; Kenneth William, b. 5/27/1930, Greenbrier, MO; John Nemiah, b. 3/21/1933,
Advance, MO; Marilee, 3/20,1934, Advance, MO.

  (photo): William and Clara (Walker) Stepp, 1941

In 1925 Bill and I left Missouri for Idaho where Bill worked in the 
woods and in
silver mines. Then he worked in a Portland foundry until 1928 when he went to
Long Bell in Ryderwood a year before returning to Greenbrier.
	In 1931 Bill went to Pontiac, Michigan to work as an engine 
block inspector,
later working for General Motors. We tried farming in Missouri but crop
destroying droughts struck. We came back to the following locations; Ryderwood,
Starvation Peak near Vader and the North Fork of the N ewaukum. Bill 
was felling
Long Bell timber.
	In 1942 we bought a 240 acre farm near Salkum with no 
electricity and no
house. We bought and dismantled two Ryderwood houses, building with 
that lumber.
We had a barn, chicken house, carport, woodshed, pigpen, and grainery. We hand
pumped water and used a two hole outhouse.
	We raised beef, milk cows, and chickens, occasionally hogs 
and geese, but
always had a big garden. While money was sometimes scarce, food was abundant.
	Summers on "The Farm" were busy, filled with family and lots 
of work. The
kids helped with haying, first with a team of draft horses (Dan and 
Charley) and
later with a tractor. I canned everything in sight. When we butchered, the
grandchildren descended in hordes. Those hard times left many good memories
along with the rest.
	The 1950's brought electricity; we got lights, running water, 
and indoor
plumbing!
In 1964 we lost John to cancer. He had served in the Marines, married Norma
(Bliss), and had sons Doug and Wayne. Later that year, Bill's declining health
forced us to sell and we moved to Toledo. .
	A 1970 house fire took Marilee's husband Bob Chandler and 
children Richard,
Teresa, Margaret, and Donna; only Jean survived. Marilee lives in Toledo.
	Bill died at home in 1971 at age seventy-six. Retired from 
the air force,
Kenny lived in Toledo and studied photography. A bachelor, he died of cancer in
1982.
	Bart served in the Marines. He lives with his wife Martha (Prehm) near
Castle Rock. Their children are Larry and Diana.
	Living with husband Willis Glidden in Woodland, Cora has two children,
Carrie and Jim.
	An Air Force retiree, Ivan lives in Tacoma. Bill,Kathy and Rick are his
children.
	Jim, a retired truck driver, lives near Enumclaw with his wife Norma
(Johnson). His daughters are Jill and Sharon.
	Bill and I had sixteen grandchildren and sixteen 
great-grandchildren. I'm
still living in Toledo and am fairly healthy for a seventy-eight year 
old. There
is no place I'd rather be. We raised our family in Lewis County; we've lived
here, some of us have died here, and if I have my "druthers," so will I.

STEVENS FAMILY

James Stevens was born on a farm seven miles out of Winchester, Idaho on June
21,1919. Heis the son of Robert James and Florence Irene "Breeze" Stevens. He
grew up in that community and attended school at Forrest, Idaho and Winchester,
Idaho. He has one sister Corinne LeBert living in Lewiston, Idaho. Jim and his
sister still own the family farm of 205 acres that they lease out for a cattle
ranch. After completing high school, Jim went to Boise, Idaho and attended
Barber and Beauty College, attaining his license in 1939. Moving back to
Lewiston, he worked in several shops until he was inducted into the army
November 5,1941. He was sent to the Asiatic-Pacific area in March, 1942 and
returned to Seattle October, 1943. He served three years, eleven months and
seven days. He was discharged at Camp Pickett, Virginia in October, 1945. His
mother was living in Centralia and he had met Lucille through her so he decided
to make Centralia his home.
	He and Lucille Webster were married February 3, 1946.	.
	Jim worked in his mother's grocery store  which was located 
near the corner
of 6th. and B Street; known as "Florence's Grocery."
N. Lucille Webster was born at her grandparents home, Frank W. and Huldah
Webster, at 212 N. Ash Street in Centralia on October 7, 1922. 
Lucille's parents
were Daniel James and Addie (Huston) Webster. The family home was on Lincoln
Creek. Mr. Webster was a millwright at the lumber mill of Webster and 
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Lucille was seven years old her mother, Addie, was in an automobile accident
that resulted in a broken back that paralyzed her from the hips down. Because
her mother was hospitalized for several months, Lucille and her father moved to
town and made their home with Grandma and Grandpa Webster. When Addie was able
to care for herself and the family, they established their home on Waunch
Prairie. Lucille attended Oakview Grade School and Centralia High School,
graduating in the class of 1941.
	Lucille married Allen Rogers in 1940 and of that marriage a 
child Barbara
Allen Rogers was born. Allen, or "Chub" as he was called, contacted 
tuberculosis
from a maternal aunt and died from the disease in the spring of 1944. 
The child,
Barbara, died from tubercular meningitis in July, 1943.
	In the fall of 1943 Lucille went to work as a dental 
assistant in Centralia.
During the Christmas holidays of 1944 when Jim was home on furlough he and
Lucille met. They corresponded with each other during the rest of Jim's tour of
duty with the army. After his discharge in October, 1945 he came to Centralia
and they were married February 3, 1946.
	In 1951 they decided to change professions. Jim would go back 
to barbering
and Lucille would go to Beauty School; then start a business together. While
Lucille went to Beauty School in Olympia they built their home, with a shop
included, on North Pearl Street in Centralia. They opened Stevens Beauty and
Barber Shop in July, 1952. After 25 years of successful business, Lucille
decided to retire, so at the end of 1977 they sold their Pearl Street home and
business, moving into Centralia about a half block from where Lucille was born,
on North King Street. As of this writing, April, 1985, Jim is still 
cutting hair
two days a week in a downtown shop in Centralia and Lucille is enjoying her
grandchildren.
	James A. Stevens, Jr. was born September 30, 1953 and Diane 
Robin Stevens
Schwandt was born July 12, 1956. There are four grandchildren.

EUGENE STEINBRENNER FAMILY

Eugene and Erlyse Steinbrenner were married in Everett, Washington, on February
12, 1944, while he was in the Army Air Corps and she was working as a medical
technologist in the General Hospital. They moved to Centralia in 
November, 1952,
after Gene completed his University of Washington residency for Ph.D. 
degree. He
took a position as project leader in forest soils with Weyerhaeuser Company
Forestry Research Center. He worked there. for 28 years until his retirement in
March, 1981.
	Both Gene and Erylse were born and raised in Minnesota; 
Erylse from French
and English immigrant farmers who originally homesteaded in southern Minnesota.
Gene's parents were born in St. Paul, and were second generation German and
Polish immigrants. Gene's father (Clarence) and mother (Sophie Herch) were
married in 1920 and had three children; a brother and sister still 
reside in St.
Paul. Erlyse's father, Earl Champine, served in WWI. He married 
Erylse's mother,
Mary Cook, in 1919. When Erlyse was a baby, her father died and her mother
remarried in 1923.
	Gene served over three years in the Army Air Corps in WW II. 
He attended the
University of Minnesota where he received a B.S. with distinction in 
Forestry in
1949. Gene and Erylse then moved to Madison, Wisconsin, where he attended the
University of Wisconsin and was awarded a M.s. in soil in February, 1951. Next,
they moved to Seattle where Gene entered graduate school at the University of
Washington to work for his doctorate.
	Erlyse graduated from Macalaster College in 1941 and interned 
a year at the
Miller Hospital before passing the national registry and becoming a registered
medical technologist. She worked as such in hospitals, clinics, and for
individual doctors while Gene was in the service while he attended the
Universities. Gene received his Ph.D. from the University of 
Washington in 1954.
	Peter, their first child, was born in March 1954. He 
graduated from W.S.U.
in physics and received his M.S. from UCLA. in geophysics in 1978. He married
Kathy Zadina in 1976 and has two children; Ryan, born in 1980, and Jennifer,
born in 1984. He is currently employed by Pacific Power and Light at the power
plant in Centralia.
	Judy was born in September 1955. She graduated from Pacific Lutheran
University with a B.A. in sociology in 1979. She married David 
Phillips, a local
painting contractor in 1976. They have one child, Brett, born in August 1984.
She received her M.A. in May, 1985, from Pacific Luthern University in
educational psychology.
	David was born in August, 1957, and attended Centralia College where he
completed a program in diesel mechanics. He apprenticed as a mill wright and is
currently employed by Jetstar, Inc. He married Teresa Harper in 1982. They have
two children; Kevin, born in 1982, and Lisa, in 1985.
	Josesph was born in June, 1960. He is attending the 
University of Washington
and will graduate in business construction in the School of Architecture in
December, 1985. He is unmarried.

STICKLIN FAMILY

Louis Jacob Sticklin with his wife, Clara, and sons, Hugh and Charles, arrived
in Centralia in 1890 following the Johnson Flood which devastated their home in
Pennsylvania. They brought with them the memories of this flood as witnessed by
one bystander, "A great wall of water came sweeping down on our town, carrying
away everything in its path. To rescue drowning people was impossible and we
could only watch in stunned silence as thousands disappeared." To the Sticklin
family, escaping with only a treasured Swiss grandfather clock, (a clock which
is today lovingly kept by Stella Sticklin). Chehalis and Centralia became a
haven of hope.
	LJ. began his new life when he opened a cabinet-making business on Park
Street in Chehalis. In those days the town cabinet maker was also the "town
coffin maker" so transition to the mortuary business was a natural one, as his
father had been an "undertaker" before him.
	He established his first mortuary on Main Street in Centralia and later
relocated it to Pearl Street. A few years later he moved with his family to
Chehalis, establishing a second mortuary in that town. LJ. died in 
1935, shortly
after the death of his favorite five-year old greatgrandson, Ted.
	Charles and Hugh were to become the second generation to 
assume the family
business. Both were extensively schooled in funeral directing and embalming and
according to an exerpt from the Chehalis Bee Nugget, "They are respected and
valued as useful, constructive citizens."
Charles became the owner of the Centralia and Chehalis mortuaries, while Hugh
managed a third mortuary, which LJ. had established in Olympia. This mortuary
was later sold because travel time between the twin cities and Olympia

  (photo): Louis J. Sticklin, c. 1900

by horse and buggy was a hardship. Today this business is known as 
Mills & Mills
Funeral Service, Olympia.
	Charles married Mary Alice Quick, and became active in 
community activities,
such as the Pioneer Days Celebration. He and Mary Alice built a home 
between the
two towns which is still the Sticklin residence today. It was also Charles's
dream to build a modern mortuary between Centralia and Chehalis to better serve
the people of Lewis County. However, this dream was not to be fulfilled and as
Charles grew old, he devoted his energies to the management of Greenwood
Memorial Park, a cemetery he established in the early 1920's. This cemetery is
still in existence today. Following Charles death in December, 1955, his son,
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management of the mortuaries. Charles' other son, Louis, and his wife, Rose,
became the managers of Greenwood Memorial Park. Sandra Sticklin later became
owner of the cemetery following the death of her father, Louis, in 1973. She
later sold the cemetery outside the family. Louis and Rose also had a son,
Charles.
	Mortimer and Stella continued to operate the mortuary 
business until their
eldest son, Don, returned from military service and mortuary school. Don worked
with his father until 1962, when Mortimer retired and Don received full
responsibility for the business. Mortimer's other children included Ted
(deceased), Linda and Robert.
	Don recalled his grandfather's unfulfilled dream to build a 
modern facility
with up-to-date equipment on the family site between Centralia and 
Chehalis. Don
fulfilled this dream when he not only designed a functional and contemporary
funeral chapel on this site, but also renovated the adjacent family home,
originally built by his grandfather, Charles. Don and his wife, Lois, 
moved into
the family home with their seven children in 1970.
	The new funeral chapel was dedicated to LJ. Sticklin, 
February 10, 1973; a
man remembered for his compassion and caring.
	Don Sticklin died in 1975, two years after completing 
construction of his
new mortuary. At that time his father, Mortimer, came back from retirement and
became actively involved in the operation of the business, with his
daughter-inlaw, Lois Sticklin, until his death in 1981. Lois Sticklin is the
present owner and carries on the standard of excellence set by LJ. Sticklin in
1890. By Stella Lawson Sticklin

STILES- MANICKE FAMILY

My father, William Ray Stiles, came from Michigan about 1904. He started his
career by teaching in Kettle Falls. My mother, Clara Metcalf, came 
from Illinois
when a child. Her parents settled on a farm near Chewelah. After finishing the
eighth grade she also taught school and eventually taught at Kettle Falls. My
parents married in 1907 and moved to Centralia where my father taught the sixth
grade. To this union four children were born: Victor, myself (Naomi), 
Wilbur and
a deceased infant. We lived in many places in western Washington. Grays Harbor,
Thurston and King counties.
	While visiting in Montana, I met Elwin Manicke, who was 
managing a farm near
Libby, Montana. He was born to Frederick and Augusta Manicke. They both came
from Germany as children. They lived in Wisconsin until 1912, when they took up
a homestead near Libby, Montana.
	Elwin was the oldest of nine children. Elwin and I married in 
1933. We lived
on a farm near Libby until 1937. While there a daughter, Delphine, and a son,
Elwin Lee, were born to us. Our son Roy, was born in Renton in 1937.
	We moved to a 40 acre farm on Pine Lake plateau near Issaquah 
in January of
1938. We later bought fifteen adjoining acres. We lived there 
twenty-five years.
Elwin logged most of that time and farmed weekends. We were still in the great
"Depression" when we moved to Issaquah. Elwin was never out of work for long,
but sought a new job frequently. Sometimes he went to a new job which 
paid every
two weeks but held back the first two weeks wages. So what money we had, had to
last a month longer.
	The last week we were down to three dollars. One of the children needed
shoes which cost three dollars, and of course we needed groceries. As the
grocery man knew us well, we asked for a week's credit. He turned us down. We
thought it over and decided to buy flour and lunchmeat and with the 
balance what
meat we could. The child was not in school so could wait a week for shoes
although the sole was well worn through.
	My health was poor and I felt I could build it up by 
exercising out of doors
so we planted one third acre of strawberries. The strawberries were 
ripe just as
sugar rationing was lifted after the war so everybody wanted strawberries and
cream. I did well and Elwin decided he should expand. We raised and sold
strawberries for fourteen years.
	Elwin had built the milk cows up to six or eight and had some 
beef. We also
raised some pigs.
	During the war we felt we should help all we could so we 
rented the chicken
coops from the elderly neighbors and raised a thousand chickens. We 
also had 500
at home.
	When the boys were in high school we turned the cows over to them to
earn money for college.  Delphine had a few chickens and babysat for neighbors.
The boys also worked some on other farms.
	Both boys graduated from W.S.C. and Delphine went two years to W.S.C.
	In 1963 we moved to 100 acre farm near Winlock. In January 
1967, we moved to
our present home near Mary's Corner. By Naomi Manicke

GRANT STILTNER 1885-1949 AND SENA CLEVENGER STILTNER 1889-1977

One hundred years ago in West Virginia, Frank and Anna Cutlip Stiltner named
their third son, Grant. In 1906 he married Sena, daughter of Joseph 
and Virginia
Perdew Clevenger.
	In the spring of 1908, Grant and Sena with baby daughter, 
Virginia, sold
their belongings, packed a trunk and headed West to Washington and what they
believed was Indian territory. In a downpour of rain, the train stopped at a
station called Glenavon which was approximately five miles north of 
Morton. From
there they were taken by horse and wagon, with only a tarp for covering, to the
Knittle Boarding House before continuing that night to the farm of Joseph
Clevenger (who had preceded them a few months earlier) in Rainy Valley, now
Glenoma. This was the beginning of a whole new life for a young girl not yet
nineteen and it was months before she overcame the fear that at any time a
savage might leap from the thick brush and scalp her.
	A year was spent in Doty where a son, Coy, was born. In 1910 
they made their
home in Morton and five more daughters, Anna, Mabel, Mary Lee, 
Carmen, and Jean,
and five more sons, Clifford, Jesse, Forrest, James, and Ronald completed their
family.
	Though Grant and Sena had very little formal education, he 
taught himself to
read and write after he was grown, they desired at least a high 
school education
for their children. In 1924 they had six children in school at once and for
thirtyfive consecutive years they had at least one child enrolled in District
214.
	In the early years, Grant was a logger and helped to log 
timber from what is
now the town of Morton. He also operated a dray service. At one time he owned
and operated two school bus runs for District 214. He was a Washington State
Fire Warden at the time of his death.
	During World War II, Grant was a U.S. Principal guard at the 
Ballard Locks,
Clifford served in the Marine Corps, and Jesse and Forrest were both members of
the Air Force.
	James died in 1923,Coyin 1929. Ten children survive. Clifford 
is retired
from McClelland Air Force Base and lives in Centralia. Jesse is a 
retired Police
Chief living in Olympia. Forrest, retired from the California State Fire
Marshall's Office, lives in Morton. Ronald is a Washington State Highway
retiree, living in Chehalis. Virginia Wheeler, Anna Best, and Jean Longmire all
reside in Morton; Mabel Ashby in Eatonville; Mary Lee Talbott in Salkum; and
Carmen Cec. canti in Elbe.
	Except for three of the twenty grandchildren, all are residents of
Washington State.
	We are all proud of our heritage and thankful that our 
parents, then 23 and
19, were adventure. some enough to make the trek West and settle in 
Morton where
they lived out their lives and we grew up, a successful and happy family.

  (photo): Grant and Sena Stiltner and family, 1949

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JOHN WESLEY STILTNER FAMILY

My father, John Stiltner, born in 1880, son of F. P. and Annie R. Cutlip
Stiltner came out West in 1910. He was a young single man coming to the
Northwest from Jumbo, West Virginia, looking for work and a better way of life
than the Appalachians of West Virginia afforded young people. At that time
mining was the main livelihood for survival and having lost a younger 
brother in
the mines, he headed for Washington. Lewis County was quite young at that time,
having been formed in 1845. Just this year, 1985, Lewis County is having its
140th birthday. He worked around Doty and Dryad as a young man.
	My mother, Dewie, daughter of Charles and Reedy Clevenger 
came to Washington
along with her parents from Grundy, Virginia in 1900 and settled in 
Rainy Valley
where her father saw promise and progress for the future of his 
family. They had
worked in the hop fields and shingle bolts and Grandpa liked the valley and
decided this was the place for him. Grandma used to tell us about the 
train trip
through the Dakotas and how friendly the Indians were. She always said they had
never seen any violence from them.
	My father had heard that Charlie Clevenger was in the valley 
and he went one
day to visit with him; met my mother-to-be and a courtship and 
wedding followed.
Dad moved closer to Morton to be nearer the opportunity for work and 
schools. In
1912 I was their first born.
	By the time I was ready for school we lived at Murray's 
Logging Camp on the
South Fork of the Tilton River where the school children had about two miles of
railroad track to walk to Lindberg to be picked up by the school bus.
	There was little transportation in and around Morton, mostly by the
Milwaukee passenger train which had come to Morton in July 1910, Morton being
the end of the line.
	After a few close calls to the family, my parents decided to 
move to the
outskirts of Morton where they bought several acres of land.
	I remember Mary Kiona the Matriarch of the Cowlitz Indians 
bringing us wild
black berries every summer and trading them for a chicken or a bucket of corn
from the garden. Mom and Dad raised a big garden and a big family, eight of us,
all living except one having died in infancy. The one son Frank living on the
home place in Morton; two daughters in Morton, Ethel and Barbara; Florence in
Tacoma; Edith in Mossyrock; Dorris in Yreka, California; and Joanne in Federal
Way. Dad died in 1934 and Mom in 1971.
	The last of Dad's family was depleted in 1984 with the death 
of his sister,
Lucinda Cutright age 90. My family didn't contribute a lot of worldly goods to
the growth of Lewis County but they leave a rich and bountiful heritage and a
large family with an abundance of love and praise for good and 
gracious parents.
By Ethel Stiltner

MILBURN JACKSON STILTNER

	Milburn Jackson Stiltner was born December 31,1848 (died 
September 8, 1919);
his wife  Sarah Catherine Woods was born November 22, 1851 (died September 16,
1921). They and members of their family left the Grundy, Virginia area about
August 1888, moving to Lewisburg, West Virginia. They arrived in Jetsville in
September, 1888 and then moved to Gate City, Oklahoma Territory for two years.
In 1894, they moved into the Cherokee and Cheyenne Indian

  (photo): Milburn Jackson Stiltner and Wife, Catherine Sarab Woods Stiltner

Territory. The families took part in the Oklahoma Run in 1892 for 
property. They
lived in the Indian Territory for about four years.
	Because they couldn't make a living, they decided to move 
west. Most of the
family came by train to Yakima, Washington, later moving to Glenoma. 
Nelson came
west by horse and wagon with his two sons.
	Both Milburn Jackson and his wife Sarah are buried in the Rainey Valley
Cemetery.

NELSON STILTNER

Nelson Stiltner was born October 8, 1872, (d. Oct. 19, 1950) in Virginia. He
moved with his parents to W. Virginia in August, 1888. Then on to Gate City,
Oklahoma Territory. Where his wife Vena died of malaria, leaving him with two
small sons, Jesse and Roy. The family took part in the Oklahoma Territory Run
for property. They lived in the Indian Territory for about four years. Because
of not being able to make a living, they came West. Nelson decided to bring his
wagon and three horse team. Leaving April 23, 1900 with his two sons 
and $104.00
for the trip, he left Oklahoma. Nelson worked about seventeen days on the trip.
He traveled one hundred twenty-three days and spent $122.50. He saw his first
summer snow on Pike's Peak, Colorado. They were in the Rawlins, Wyoming area on
July 4th, and the spring water in camp was frozen. There were three or four
wagons traveling together most of the time. Nelson traveled from Cheyenne
Wyoming to LaGrande Oregon with a Melvin Taylor who had family there. 
Nelson and
his sons Jesse, then about seven years old and

  (photo): Nelson Stiltner, Melissa Stiltner, Ethel Looney

Roy, about five years old, ferried the wagon and team from The Dalles, Oregon,
to Vancouver, going on to Glenoma where he bought forty acres of school land.
The land was covered with maple and small fir. He built a log house and married
Stella Newson. They had a daughter, Bertha. Stella died about three 
months after
the birth. In 1907 he married Melissa Baugh Dunbar, (born August 1, 1873-d.
January 10, 1946), who had a daughter, Pearl Nelson and Melissa had a daughter,
Ethel, born December 3, 1910.
	Nelson supported his family by milking cows and raising pigs 
and chickens.
He would sell his milk, cream, produce, pigs and eggs in Morton, traveling by
horse and wagon until he bought a model T Ford touring car. Nelson and Melissa
lived on the home place until their deaths. Nelson's family married, 
Jesse lived
in Onalaska, he had a son Nelson. Roy served in World War I, married an English
girl and lived in Washougal, Washington. They had three daughters, Iris,
Barbara, Vena, and one son, Roy Jr. Bertha married Philip Days and lived in
Ellensburg and had one son, Lloyd. Pearl married Jack Stiltner and had a
daughter Marguerite and son Howard, who served twenty-two years in the Navy.
Ethel married John C. Looney and had two daughters, Frances and Jo Ann, and a
son Ralph. Nelson, his wives Stella and Melissa are buried at Rainy Vally
Cemetery.

DAVID LYMAN STONE FAMILY

David Lyman Stone moved his family from Chickasaw, Iowa to Lewis County via
Scappoose, Oregon in approximately 1880. He had three daughters: Hattie,
Frankie, and Martha; and six sons: Lester, Edward, Mylo, Marshal, Grant, and
Walter. They arrived in the west on one of the first transcontinental train
trips.
	The family settled in Forest, near Onalaska, where they built 
and operated a
sawmill, possibly named D.L. Stone & Sons. After some years of operations, the
sons continued to relocate sawmills through Lewis and Thurston Counties while
David Lyman Stone moved to Yakima and opened a lumberyard to market the Lewis
County timber.
	One son, Lester David Stone, married Elizabeth Schmitz, from 
Onalaska, on
November 12, 1896 in Chehalis. Judge W.A. Westover officiated at the 
marriage in
the home of A.R. Blood. After their honeymoon they returned to their home in
Newaukum Prairie where Lester Stone was then engaged in the sawmill and shingle
business.
	Lester David Stone and his growing family continued to chase stands of
timber around Lewis County, establishing numerous sawmills with each move.
Around 1910, timber gave way to fruit harvesting and the family relocated near
Yakima in Selah. By Don C. Franklin

HAROLD OTHO STONE

The Terry Stone family, Terry, Jeri, Kenny and Kristi, moved to Winlock in 1975
from Federal Way, WA. This was actually a kind of homecoming for the Stone
Family as Terry's grandfather H.O. (Harold Otho) Stone, lived in Lewis County
from 1900 to 1910.
	Harold Otho Stone came to Toledo from Indiana in the spring 
of 1900 and was
hired to teach school at Layton's Prairie east of there. As school didn't start
until after hop-picking, around October 1, H.O. spent his time looking around
and getting familiar with the area. He specially had a fascination for Mt. St.
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  (photo): Lester and Elizabeth Schmitz Stone and children (1946). L. to R.:
Naides Franklin, Mildred Stearns, parents Lester D. and Elizabeth 
Schmitz Stone,
Harley Stone, and Gertrude Stone Brooks

al visits to the mountain during his years in the area. His first trip was a
horseback trip over Hatchet Mountain and up the Green River trail to the St.
Helens mines, the Pole Star and Minnie Lee, then across the divide to Spirit
Lake. Then they built part of a trail and took in the first horses 
that had been
at the lake for two years. They then crossed the lake to the outlet in a dugout
canoe but failed to reach the mountain as there were no trails and the woods
were too thick.
	In 1901 H.O.'s mother Eva E. Cason Stone, who had been widowed in 1899,
moved to Toledo and bought a house near the Presbyterian Church at 
the south end
of town. In the spring of 1902 Eva Stone married Dillion S. Farrell of Toledo.
Mr. Farrell had an interest in the Toledo Flour Mill and he and Mr. 
Haskell also
opened up a small feed and grocery store in what was later the Toledo 
City Hall.
	In 1902 H.O. Stone went into a law office in Chehalis with Judge H.S.
Elliott and studied law. He continued this course for a year but due 
to finances
went back to teaching first up in Kent and then went to Canyonville, 
Oregon as a
Principal. While in Canyonville he met and married Sallie Kate Weaver and after
two years in Oregon they moved back to Toledo, and H.O. went into partnership
with his step-father. They moved the store to what was the old hotel 
building on
the main corner of the business district, where the bank later was. They were
also appointed postmaster, after the death of Ed Carpenter.
	During his next few years in Lewis County H.O. was active in the county
Republican convention, was appointed to the Southwest Fair Commission, was
master of the Toledo Masonic Lodge, served as desk clerk in the House
Legislature and later Asst. Chief Clerk of the House and as commissioner to the
Alaska- Yukon-Pacific Exposition. In 1911 he and his family, two sons and a
daughter left this area and moved to Bremerton.

MICHAEL STONE FAMILY

The Michael Stone family came to Lewis County in 1977 from Tacoma where Mr.
Stone was born and raised. His wife, Darlene, was born in Boise, Idaho but has
been a Washington resident since six months of age. They are the parents of two
sons, Chris, age 17, and Scott, age 14, who are currently students at W.F. High
School. Both boys were also born in Tacoma.
	Mike is employed by the State of Washington as a Juvenile 
Rehabilitation
Counselor at Green Hill School. He graduated in 1957 from Lincoln 
High School in
Tacoma and in 1964 received his Bachelor of Arts Degree from Western Washington
College in Bellingham.
	Darlene works for the Timberland Regional Library System at 
the Chehalis
Branch Library. She graduated in 1964 from LaCenter High School and attended
Western Washington College from 1964 to 1966 which was where she met her
husband.
	Mike is a member of the Chehalis Moose Lodge and the 
Independent Order of
Foresters. Darlene has an active interest in genealogy and is a member of
several genealogical organizations including the Lewis County Genealogical
Association.
	This branch of the Stone family traces their ancestry in America to the
immigrant Hugh Stone of Rhode Island who married Abigail Busecot in 1665. Chris
and Scott are the twelfth generation with the line of descent as follows: 1)
Hugh Stone/Abigail Busecot 2) Hugh Stone Jr./Mary Potter 3) Thomas
Stone/Patience Webb 4) Thomas Stone Jr./Elizabeth Carder 5) Honeymon 
Stone/Mary?
Perkins? 6) Whitman Stone/Freelove Foster 7) Marshall Stone/Emily Stone 8)
Whitman Stone/Zorada Peck 9) Marion Stone/Loreen Goodell 10) Thomas
Stone/Frances Olson and 11) Michael Stone/Darlene Williams.
	Darlene's Mother, Elma Koski Williams Shaffer, came to 
Washington during
World War II to work at the Vancouver, Washington shipyard where she met
Darlene's Father, Murray John Williams. She is the daughter of John Koski and
wife Amelia Isotalo who emigrated to the United States from Vassa, 
Finland about
1900. They first resided in Ironwood, Michigan and then in Highbridge,
Wisconsin. Murray Williams was born in Union, Oregon and raised in the Nampa,
Idaho area. His parents were Eugene Williams and Clara Price. His grandparents
were William Thomas Williams, and Margaret Kimes of Alabama, 
Tennessee and Idaho
and Green Clayton Price and Ardella Barrett of Missouri, Idaho, and California.
	Michael has one brother, Patrick Stone, who resides in 
Tacoma, Washington.
Darlene has three half-sisters: Carol DuPuis formerly of Rochester, Washington
and now a resident of Green River, Wyoming; Yvonne Haugen and Virginia Ard; and
three half-brothers: Gary WilIiams, Norman Williams, and John 
Shaffer, deceased.

ANDREW JACKSON STOUT

Andrew Jackson Stout, born April 25, 1844 in Tipton, Missouri. On October 14,
1862, in Versailles, Missour, Andrew married Clara Hastings (born April 21,1846
in Brownville, Missouri) .
	CHILDREN OF THIS MARRIAGE: John W. Stout, April 4, 1864, Missouri; No
children, Mary Jane (Stout) Nicholson/Kennedy, Nov.8, 1868, Missouri; Children:
Maggie, John, Bernetha, and Clara. George R. Stout, November 22, 
1870, Missouri;
Children: Winnie (Stout) Chapman, Gladys (Stout) Thompson, Ivan, 
Ellen Elizabeth
(Stout) Waste, May 19, 1873, Missouri; Children: Jim, Katie, Gladys, Hobert,
Chester, Eunice, Nuna, Louethel (Waste) Sellers. Nora May (Stout) McNee, May 4,
1879, Missouri; Children: Robert, Esther, Wade, Eddie, Clara (McNee) McQueen,
Myrtle Maxine (McNee) Pratt. Mattie Clara (Stout) Cottler, February 7, 1881,
Texas; Children: Herbert, Edna (Cottler) Cook/Dhuy, Ruby (Cottler) Rehn/Luiten,
Walter, Hazel (Cottler) Lawson, Irene (Cottler Wells/Russell/Zubrod, Clifford.
James Stout, November 29, 1882, Texas; No children. Lena (Stout) Childers, May
24, 1889, Oregon; Children: Byron, Shirley, Lee, Dow, Greta, Jack and Sidney.
	Andrew and Clara began the trip from Missouri to Texas in 
1879 after the
birth of Nora. In 1887, after the Births of Mattie and James in Texas, the
family moved on to Oregon.
	Their daughter Ella, vividly recalled the many times she and the other
children had to stand on the side of the wagon to keep it steady in the deeply
rutted wagon road. She also told about reaching the present Oregon State border
where the scout for the wagon train tried to persuade them to take a southern
route to California instead of continuing north to the Oregon 
Territory. Part of
the wagon train followed the scout's advice. Later it was learned 
that the party
had been massacred by Indians.
	At the time of the journey from Texas, Mattie was only five 
years old. She
remembered the awesome experience of taking her turn walking beside the wagon
along with the other children.
	George was an accomplished horseman at sixteen when the 
family left Texas.
He worked on the Union Pacific Railroad in Oregon and Utah while the family
lived in Oregon.
	In 1891, after the birth of Lena the family moved on to 
Washington. They
lost most of their cattle on dry grass in Eastern Washington before 
moving on to
Lake Washington.
	Descriptions of the "Big Bottom Country" from correspondence 
with Barney
Blankenship, who had served in the Civil War with Andrew, convinced him to
homestead near Packwood. There he built a log cabin and barn that 
stood for many
years.
	>From there the Stout's moved to Hopkins Creek where they 
lived a short time
before homesteading a place west of Morton, in the Highland Valley. In 1912
Andrew Stout died on his way home after putting his dappled stallion 
through his
paces.
	Clara Stout passed away October 18, 1936. Andrew and Clara 
are buried in the
Morton Cemetery.

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  (photo): Andrew and Clara Stout Family, July 4, Andrew and Clara Stout Family,
July 4, 1903. Mattie pius Cottler W/Herbert in his arms.

GEORGE RILEY STOUT

George Riley Stout, the son of Andrew Jackson and Clara Stout, was born in
Springfield, Missouri, Nov. 22, 1870.
	The family moved to Texas when George was a small boy.
	In 1887 the family moved north, by covered wagon, George rode his pony
"Lulu" on the trip. In 1889 their trip had taken them into Oregon, where they
lived for two years. The last child of Andrew and Clara was born at Pendelton,
Oregon, May 24, 1889.
	In 1891 the family moved into Eastern Washington, then to 
Western Washington
into Seattle and south into Lewis County. They settled in Vance, near Randle.
	George took a homestead, where the White Pass School is now located. He
built a small log cabin to live in. He met Lelia A. Young, the daughter of
Charles and Harriet Young who were early pioneers of Lewis Co. On 
March 11, 1896
George and Lelia were married and moved into George's cabin. Their first child,
Winifred Mae, was born May 11, 1897. Two years later on April 20, 1899 their
second daughter, Gladys Reta, was born. During the year of 1899 the 
family moved
to Morton, where they lived on the Cottler farm. George bought a small farm at
Bremer where the family moved to and lived until 1912.
	The community of Bremer was named for the first Postmaster, 
George Bremer. A
new school was built in Bremer, grades one through eight, who were 
taught by one
teacher. The school was used until District 214 was incorporated and the
students were bussed into Morton.
	On March 26, 1902, a son, Ivan George, was born to Lelia and George.
	We always had a trip to Chehalis each year to see the Barnum 
and Bailey Big
Circus. While we were camped for lunch, on our way to Chehalis one time, we
heard a terrible noise coming down the road, we three kids hid behind trees
until it appeared. It was the first automobile we had ever seen.
	On April 14, 1912 Grandfather Andrew died. Grandmother Clara 
wanted George
to move to her farm, so George sold the farm at Bremer, had a house built near
Grandmother and we moved to Hyland Valley that year. It was quite a change but
we soon made new friends. We watched Morton grow. Many mills were started, the
train came into Morton, the town was soon incorporated and the first mayor was
Thomas Hopgood, he also had the first theater. Mr. Cottler owned a 
skating rink.
	In 1940 George's health was failing, he sold the farm and he 
and Lelia moved
to Centralia in 1941. In 1946 they celebrated their golden anniversary at the
home of their daughter and son-inlaw, Gladys and Jack Thompson, their daughter
Winifred and husband Clarence, their son Ivan and wife Mary, three of their
grandchildren and four great-grandchildren and many old time friends joined in
the celebration.
	George died Nov. 17, 1949, Lelia lived with her daughter Gladys and
son-in-law Jack until her death Sept. 28,1950. They were buried at the Morton
Cemetery.

BLANCHE AND BILL STREY

In September, 1910, James and Naoma Roach, and six children, (Blanche, Anna,
Catherine, Clara, Fred and "Dollie"), came from Kittitas County to 
Curtis, Lewis
County, Washington.
	James "Jim" Roach, born 1869, Weston, West Virginia, died 
1929, Onalaska,
Washington. He was the son of Dr. Joseph Roach and Ann Flesher. In to his 79th
year the good doctor was still making house calls on horseback.
	Naoma Huss born 1880, Mt. Vernon, Oregon, died 1961, 
Chehalis. Her parents
crossed the plains, from Missouri to Oregon State in 1865 in a covered wagon.
	I, Blanche Roach Strey, born 4 November 1899, was almost 
eleven when father
shipped our belongings by rail. A few days later he returned for the family. We
left the ranch of maternal grandparents Harvey and Jane Graham Huss, traveling
to Ellensburg, squeezed into the family surrey. In the late afternoon, we
boarded the train. Connections were poor, with long layover in Tacoma, where we
slept on benches in the depot.

  (photo): Bill and Blanche Strey at their home in Randle, WA, 1960.

Reaching Chehalis at dawn meant another long wait for the South Bend Line which
took us to Ceres. From Ceres to Sweany's Curtis store we rode the mail stage.
Here Watson brothers, with team and wagon, drove us to the farm at the foot of
Curtis Hill. This was home for seventeen years. And the birthplace of brothers
Charles, Harvey and James.
	Another room was added to the Curtis school a year or so 
after our arrival.
Perhaps the Roach kids were a factor. At one time there were five in 
attendance.
It took a loaf of bread for lunches, which we carried in red "Union Leader"
tobacco boxes. Lard pails were passe. Charles Joy and Grace Davis were the
teachers.
	When the Joy family moved to Chehalis in 1914, they took me 
with them. There
I entered high school. Two years later I transferred to Boistfort. In the fall
of 1919 I enrolled in fletcher's Business School in Centralia. Worked for board
and room, plus a dollar a week, at the William Oliver home. The dollar paid for
typing paper, etc.
	I met William "Bill" Strey on that infamous Armistice day of 
November 11,
1919. Only recently discharged from the Navy, he was still in uniform, but not
in the parade. He had not yet earned enough money for civilian clothes.
	In the Spring I was employed by the Farmers and Merchants Bank, where I
worked for eight years.
	Bill and I were married 3 June 1922. He was born 16 November 
1896, Albion,
Michigan, son of William Strey who came from Germany; and Lena Mather born in
Switzerland. Bill worked for various logging companies. But his dream was a
ranch in Eastern Oregon. We moved to Enterprise in 1929. In 1930 came the
Depression. The ten dollar bill found in a seldom-worn coat brought jubilation.
	Seventeen years later we were doing rather well, when Bill contacted
Brucelosis. We were forced to sell the ranch at a loss. In 1949 we came to
Randle, Washington where, health improved, he worked into a self-employed
logging operation. We now live at Lacey, Washington. By Blanche Roach Strey

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REYNOLDS/STRICKLAND FAMILY

Joseph C. Reynolds was born in Bristol, Virginia in 1848. His parents were Noah
Reynolds and Cheney (Stone) Reynolds. He being Irish and she a Scotch 
lass. Noah
was a brick mason and made brick for a livelihood. There were four boys and one
girl. Joseph was the youngest of the five children. The family moved to
Millstone, Kentucky.

  (photo): Mandy Strickland, Mary Lou, Floyd (standing) and Ernest Back,
Fairbanks Alaska, 1936.

When the Civil War started three of the boys joined the Union Army. Noah was
taken prisoner because he didn't believe in slavery. Joseph and sister Mary and
Mother were left on the farm. They had a hard time hiding food in a cave. They
raised corn for feed and to make bread. One day they had butchered a hog when a
band of rebels came by the farm and ordered Cheney to cook a big kettle of pork
meat, after they had eaten their fill, the next morning they were all sick and
had diarrhea so bad they were unable to walk. One of the soldiers 
took the shoes
off Joseph, his brother had given the shoes to Joseph, so he always hated
rebels.
	Cheney heard Noah was in Libby prison, so she rode a horse to 
see President
Lincoln to get him pardoned. She was able to see the President

  (photo): Section crew on Newaukum Railroad, Joseph C. Reynolds 1st in 1st row,
1917.

and brought Noah back home. He was very ill and didn't live long after
getting home. Joseph attended school and his brothers came home from the army
and married and left Kentucky.
	When Joseph was eighteen he hauled freight from Virginia 
across Cumberland
Mountains, later he ran a saw mill and grist mill. He married Minerva Johnston
and of this union, five children were born, two boys and three girls. 
When their
son William was sixteen, Minerva died. The girls married and Morgan the oldest
son had been in the army, he fought in Spanish American War with Teddy
Roosevelt, on being discharged from the army he came home and taught school.
Joseph met Hortense Lee Baker after she came back from Washington 
D.C. where her
husband served as a representative from Kentucky. She had five sons. Mr. Baker
got a divorce and later she and Joseph were married and had six chil

  (photo): Joseph Coleman Raynolds Jr. (1st at left) and his barber shop on
Market St., Chebalis, 1918.

  (photo): James F. Strickland, Fairbanks, Alaska, 1936.

dren, three girls and three boys, and this is my family.
	I was the youngest, named Margaret Amanda. When I was four years old my
father decided to leave the mountains, so he sold all his land and 
the mills and
moved his family to Crowder, Oklahoma. He bought prairie farm land and raised
cotton, and later bought an additional two hundred acres on the Canadian River,
it was beautiful land, covered by oak, cottonwood, hickory and pecan trees. My
father planted corn and cotton and when the corn grew as high as his horse, he
rode through as proud as a peacock. Two days later the hot winds blew and in
three days the corn had turned white, that was the first time I

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  saw my father cry. Drought and malaria fever caused great hardship and
eventually was the cause of our family moving to the state of Washington where
mother's oldest son, Irvin Baker was living in Chehalis.
	We children had better memories of hunting at night with five 
hounds. We
would ride our horses out into the woods for the hunt. Our mother would come
along too, after father was asleep. When the hounds would tree a coon the boys
shined a lantern in their eyes and shot them. Mother baked a coon with sweet
potatoes. She and my father would not eat it, but we kids thought it was very
good. My sister and I used to go jack rabbit hunting, and would dry them for
winter dog food, while hunting rabbits we heard the dogs bay and when we
investigated, found they had treed a big cat. My sister got me on her back, (I
was five at the time) and ran for home. My father and brothers had taken a load
of cotton to the gin, so mother took a shotgun with only one shell and sister
got an axe and back we went. When we got near the tree, we saw the cat who had
scratched the dogs until they were bleeding. It turned out that the cat was a
leopard which had escaped from a circus train. The big cat had killed a hog of
our neighbors and a week later it was shot crossing the railroad track. About
this time my family all came down with malaria fever, my parents were taken to
the local hotel so the doctor could see them everyday. I was lucky, I didn't
come down with the fever.
	During this time I stayed with my Uncle Jim who was the town 
marshall. I saw
my first show, it was called Magic Lantern with slides. When the 
family was well
enough to travel, Father, (we called him Pap) chartered a freight car 
and loaded
a team of horses, a cow and all our household goods and headed for Chehalis.
Brother Jim rode with on the car to feed and water the stock. Mother and I and
my sister went by passenger train and arrived in May 1910. It was cold and
foggy. My oldest brother Coleman had gone to Ohio to school. Pap rented a house
on the hill above 11th Street. My sister Marjorie and I started in 
school at the
Cascade Elementary School. Later we moved to Claquato and walked three miles to
school. Schubers were our neighbors, there were five children, same 
as us. Rosie
Schuber was Marjorie's age and Justina was my age so we went to school and
played together. Mr. Schuber made cheese which was better than Darigold.
	Pap gave up milking cows, so we moved back to Chehalis in 
1913. He got a job
hauling for the brick yard. Market Street was paved with bricks, the road from
11th Street to Salkum was slabs or as they were called, 'puncheon.' 
Onalaska was
being built and their road was impassable in the winter, they had a short
railroad into town. Pap got a job as caretaker for Centralia and Chehalis water
intake. He rode the milk wagon to North Fork and hiked two miles to 
the dam that
furnished the two cities water supply. The water went into cement vats with
screens, which had to be cleaned of leaves and trash before it entered the big
pipe and finally into the reservoir above the St. Helens Hospital.
	When World War I started, men were needed on the railroad, so 
Pap worked on
the section. He was paid five dollars in gold per day. There was a lot of gold
money in those days. In 1918 my parents wanted to see relatives and so we went
back to Kentucky, arriving in the spring of the year. My sisters were 
working in
Tacoma, Angie was married and was the eldest. Brother Jim had come 
home from the
army and accompanied us to Kentucky. Brother Coleman married Mary Carrithers, a
Chehalis girl. After arriving in Kentucky, we went to a half-sister's home at
McRoberts, Kentucky, a mining town. It was Saturday. Sunday, Floyd 
Triplett came
to visit. He had been working Virginia. My sister had a son his age and they
were good friends, while visiting, he and I were introduced. When he went home,
he told his mother he had met his wife. I was 14 and he was 16. Two years later
we were married. I didn't get permission from my parents, his stepfather had
written a letter of permission for him and my oldest sister wrote a letter for
me. Floyd worked in the coal mines but it was a dirty and dangerous 
job, I hated
it, so I told him about the beautiful state of Washington.
	I went to work in a hotel waiting on tables so we could save 
all his wages
to come to Chehalis, which we did in 1923. At that time brother Coleman had a
barber shop on Market Street. He and Mary had two sons, Robert and James, who
both graduated from Chehalis High School. Bob went on to the University of
Washington and eventually to Northwestern Medical School in Chicago and
graduated and is now practicing medicine in Bremerton. Jim was in the Air Force
in WW-II and received honors. They were five and two when we arrived back in
Chehalis. We had a hard time at first, Floyd had worked in the mines and wasn't
familiar with the worker requirements. He finally got a job on the planer at
Brown's Mill, at that time Floyd Green was his foreman. Later he 
worked for O.K.
Palmer in his mill.
	We bought a model T Ford from St. Johns Motors. I wanted to 
drive it so one
Sunday I asked if I could drive it around the block. Gladys Jones lived next
door so I asked her to go with me, (we were teenagers). After we got around the
corner, I said "Let's go to Longview." So we crossed the bridge in Kelso, there
was only one building in Longview which was the Hotel Montecello, all the
streets and sidewalks were paved, but no buildings. When we got back, 
we learned
that Floyd had looked all over town for us. I ran into the garage wall and
killed the engine, so plaster boards fell on top of the Ford. Floyd said we had
about a pint of gas left in the tank. Gladys and I were good friends and she
eventually married Arvo Kaija.
	In 1924 Floyd went to Randle and got a job with the Forest 
Service planting
trees. He met the family of Charlie Stephenson whose sons were near his age. He
really enjoyed being in the mountains and the southern people who were in that
area. When tree planting was over he got a job building trails as a blacksmith
and he also blasted rock. The men in the camp got food poisoning, so the cook
was fired. I had camped with Floyd and helped the cook earlier, so I 
was at home
in Chehalis when the District Ranger, John Kirkpatrick sent for me to come and
cook for a crew of twelve men who were building a trail to Mount Adams. There
was a road being built up the Cispus River. We crossed East Canyon, headed for
Tack Lac Lake. There were trails, only deer trails, I thought it was a big job
for a nineteen-year-old. I really enjoyed it out in the woods. I saw bears
bathing in the river, and streams were full of trout. We moved camp every two
weeks; some sites were by streams, some were by recent dry burns, so dusty and
deer flies were everywhere, and used me for feeding. All our supplies 
came in by
pack mule and I had a riding horse.
	In the fall we came back to Chehalis and bought four lots on 
15th Street
where we built a double garage. Melvin Dunn and family lived in the back. He
helped Floyd get a job on the State Highway Department. In 1928 he was
transferred to Toledo and bought a home. In 1929 my father came back 
to Chehalis
and lived in our house until my father died in November 2, 1930. My brother Jim
had come with them bringing his four daughters, Emmalee, Margaret, Polly and
Dotsy, his son David stayed with his mother. The family lived in our 
house until
father died in 1930, the year our baby girl was born. In 1932 Jim moved mother
and his family to Shelton. They eventually went back to Kentucky where mother
lived with my sister, Marjorie, until she died in 1944.
	Floyd and I moved to Fairbanks, Alaska from Toledo in 1934. 
At that time our
daughter, Mary Lou was four years old. She went to kindergarten with the Wien
Boys who are now owners of Wien Alaska Airlines. We returned to Chehalis in
1927, Floyd worked on highway department maintenance until WW - II started. We
then moved to Seattle where he worked as top rigger for the Army. On 
this job he
had to have a birth certificate and his name was recorded on the certificate as
Strickland, so we changed our name accordingly. While in Seattle, I worked for
Dr. Roger Anderson, who made medical supplies for the Army and Navy. 
In 1945 our
son Jim was born. Floyd fell on a gang plank and hurt his back and 
was in Marine
Hospital for two years.
	I moved back to Chehalis. Mary Lou went to junior high. When 
Jim was two, we
bought a farm at Randle and raised beef cattle. We sold our two homes in
Seattle. Jim went through 8th grade at Randle, then we sold the farm and bought
thirty-four acres on Hood Canal, where we lived in an old house on 
the property.
Jim went to high school in Quilcene and graduated, after a time he went to work
for State Ferry and attended school run by Coast Guard, he eventually became a
Captain on the State Ferry System. He married Christina Twogood in 1965. They
had three children, twins James Jr., and Shelly Ann, and Kristie Marlene.
	Our daughter Mary Lou went to school in Chehalis and Seattle. 
After moving
to Randle she married Ronnie Goble and had a baby girl Linds, but later they
were divorced. She then went to work in a bank and finally met Harold Bingen,
married him and from this union two sons were born, namely Stephen and Scott.
	Floyd Strickland died September 11th, 1980.

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IVAN AND MARY ELIZABETH STOUT

I am the oldest of ten children. My father, John Barney Olinghouse, was the 7th
child of James Cyrus Olinghouse and Sarah Elizabeth Olinghouse.
	My mother's parents were a Mrs. Earp of Scotland and Ireland and a Mr.
Montgomery.
	A Mary Caroline Montgomery (b. 6/10/1859) married Edgar 
Franklin Root of
Indiana. She died in 1942 and was buried in Kamiah, Idaho.
	Lulu May Root Olinghouse (b. 7/15/1885), married John B. 
Olinghouse in 1882.
They had 10 children. She died in August 1974 in Redding, California and is
buried at Memorial Gardens in Olympia, Washington.
	James Noble Root (b. 4/7/1889), died October 1971, Kamiah, 
Idaho, and is
buried next to Grandmother Mary C. Root.
	Claude Root (b. July 1895).
	A baby daughter died shortly after birth. Son James was in 
World War I. Son
Claude was in the Navy in World War I.
	World War II participation included: three brothers, two 
nephews, and four
brothers-in-law in service; a brother-in-law installed secret instruments on
ships for both the U.S. and Russia; three cousins were lost in the Normandy
Invasion.
	Uncle Jim, named after his Grandfather James Noble Root, 
supplied me with
some of this information. My grandfather was the 15-yearold boy in "In
Memoriam."
We were baptized in 1980, in the Mormon Latter Day Saints, Morton Ward.

IN MEMORIAM - (1800?)

WRITTEN BY A FRIEND OF NOBLE
ROOT AFTER HE WAS KILLED

O, the bright, the beautiful summer
The harvest new is here.
	The farmer goes to gather his grain In danger and in fear.
	The trees are tall, the banks are steep,
The weeds are thick around,
Where, from the savage foe does creep
And on the farmer bound.

There are Indians, Father, Indians!
His two noble sons did cry,
Alas! Alas! It was too late?
Their Father was doomed to die,
There he lies upon the ground,
All weltering in his blood,
His eyes are filled to overflow
And his heart is raised to God.

Now his two sons he thinks of
And unto them he cried
Run, run dear sons if you'll be killed!
But the Indians they defied.
	The boys they bounded from the lead
And to the woods did go,
But dear friends it was too late The eldest was laid low.

The youngest ran into the house
His mother now to tell,
How his father lay in the field
And where his brother fell.
	She, like many other women,
Gathered her five children,
And quickly fled unto the fort
To save their precious lives.

The eldest son lay in the woods
Till he saw the foes were gone,
Then went to where his father lay,
There for to weep and mourn.
	His father lay there yet alive
And unto him did say
Dear son, I'll soon be gone!
O, can't you help me pray!
If you live to see your mother
Please do me this one errand
Tell her to take my dear children
And never more return.
The son laid him on a sheaf of wheat
And bathed his noble brow,
And pressed his lips with many a kiss
For he was dying now.

The boy stayed there in the field Until darkness spread around, The 
blood flowed
freely from his shoulder Where he received a wound, To go and leave his father
was hard for him to do But he must soon have something done Or else be dying
too.
	He reached the fort long after dark And found them all 
alarmed, His mother
though with a breaking heart, Was much cheered by her noble son. His 
age was but
fifteen. And now I want to know If ever there lived a braver lad When 
surrounded
by savage foe?

  (photo): Mrs. Adeline Doak

LAWRENCE CURTIS STROUD FAMILY

Hope Claribel Rodger Stroud, descendant of Colonel Richard Lee, arrived in
Chehalis with three sons: Donald Carl, Lawrence Curtis and Randall Leslie to
live at Twelfth and Cascade. She moved here to teach at Newaukum Grade School,
later at Westside and Cascade.

  (photo): Lawrence, Carolyn, Wilma, Alan.

Larry (Lawrence) born in Portland graduated from Chehalis High School. He
completed Business School in Seattle, then enlisted in the Army for nine years.
	In the meantime with the children out of the home, Hope moved to Albers
Apartments on Market Street. When Larry was in Chehalis High School, 
Wilma Marie
Nelson, his future wife, was taught General Science by Percival Malcolm Stroud,
Larry's father, at Ferndale High School. While Wilma was at the University of
Washington and Swedish Hospital Nursing School, Larry dated a 
classmate of hers;
but it wasn't until 1943 that Wilma came to Lewis County as a Public Health
Nurse and on February 29,1948 that the two met. Wilma knew his poetic mother,
however, who taught third grade at Cascade School.
	Prior to their wedding June 9, 1950, Larry and Wilma 
purchased and furnished
a newly built house on Snively Avenue, one of the first west of sixteenth. It
was to be registered as a Homestead. Arrowheads dug up indicated the earlier
presence of Indians. This Oak Park addition was named for its many oak trees.
	The happy couple although working, directed their energy 
toward continued
work with junior and high school young people at First Baptist church.
	Then it happened. In 1950, a Poliomyelitis epidemic struck 
Lewis and other
Washington counties. Many homes were visited as the Health Department checked
out suspected cases. Wilma, thus exposed became ill in January 1951 being 4 1/2
months pregnant. (This epidemic came two years prior to Salk Vaccine and before
it was known pregnant women were more susceptible.) Baby Carolyn Ann arrived
July 10, 1951, a healthy baby.
	Wilma threw away her crutches and with help of baby sitters 
was back to work
in the Health Department in a few months, later becoming Supervisor of Nurses.
When son, Alan Eugene arrived March 21,1955, Wilma gave up her position, Larry,
a city mail carrier, became Supervisor of Mail.
	Wilma's first seven years had been visiting schools and homes 
setting up
Immunization and Well Baby Clinics in the county. She became acquainted with
families, landmarks, industries, two room schools giving her a feel of the
people, fertile East-end farmland and timber.
	Chehalis and Lewis County have had an enriching effect on our 
family. The
Girl and Boy Scouts were part of Carolyn and Alan's education. 
Scouting provided
many learning experiences. Alan achieved God and Country and Eagle 
Scout awards.
Carolyn's many projects won her badges and leadership training. High School
offered Alan competition in Cross Country running. Also the Church's ministries
which brought Larry and Wilma together were part of the children and their
children's lives from infancy.
	Carolyn remained in Chehalis after college and is a Rural 
Mail Carrier. She
married Dwayne Frazier 1983. Their children are: Caroline Sabrina Bingham, 1974
and Shawn Eric, 1984.
	Alan, B.A, M. Div. married Priscilla Winkler 1979. He is a 
minister and they
have two children - Jonathan Karl, 1983 and Elizabeth Hope, 1985.

LOUIS AND LOUISE KING STUDHALTER FAMILY

In 1912 Louis Studhalter and family moved from Tacoma to Bremer, nine 
miles west
of Morton.
	Louis was born in Lucerne, Switzerland, December 9,1860. 
After serving his
compulsory military duty, he came to America. His wife, Louise King Studhalter,
came from Birkenfell, Germany when she was eighteen years of age. She was born
April 10, 1872. She lost her father when she was six; her mother when fourteen.
She lived with her sister for a while then stayed three years with a minister
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Her brother, Edward King, had migrated to America earlier and settled 
in Orting,
WA. He wrote to Louise urging her to join him.
	She came across the ocean with a girl friend of the same age. 
Louise found
employment with a wealthy banker in Tacoma. She helped care for his elaborately
furnished home for three years.
	Louis and Louise were married in 1893 in Tacoma. Louis worked 
for 25 years
in a brewery in Tacoma. They soon had built a beautiful home on 33rd Street and
Portland Avenue. It had electric lights and a pump on the back porch with well
water. They put in an orchard, raised chickens, a large garden, and had a cow -
a little farm right in town.
	The streetcar ran right past the house. A woman came in 
several days a week
to help with the housework and do the washing by hand.
	There was soon a large family - nine children: Edward, Louis 
Jr., a pair of
twins, Otto and William, Katherine, and another pair of twins, Carl and
Caroline, Louise and Elsie. Then in 1912 another son, Harry, was born at Bremer
number ten.
	They decided to move to the country, so March 1,1912, we got 
on the train at
the Union Depot, which wasn't quite finished, and headed to Morton. The kids
were all train sick, cold and tired. We had a boxcar full of furniture and
possessions, even a dog, cattle, and chickens. There were eight farmers with
teams and wagons from Bremer who unloaded the car. They had to go nine miles to
our home. It was a hard trip. The weather was awful, two bridges were 
washed out
and we had to ford the river which was very dangerous. The water came up in the
wagon. We got to Bremer about dusk.
	The house we were to move into was built of split cedar. It 
was sure empty;
no fire, no food, no lights, no beds, cold and damp. Our new neighbors, Robert
Edgar Couper, took us all in their home, cooked supper for us, warmed 
us all up,
and kept us for the night. They also helped them get settled in their new home.
It only had two bedrooms, a kitchen, and living room so they had to build a
bedroom for three beds for the boys out of a storage shed and put in a wood
heater for warmth.
	We had to use kerosene lamps; pack water from a creek. Times 
got bad. Father
worked part time on county roads. The boys had to start working at fifteen.
	There was a nice orchard on our place. We raised a big 
garden. Our mother
canned over a thousand jars of fruit, made a barrel of sauerkraut, 
put down meat
in brine and also eggs, stored our vegetables in a root cellar over winter.
	Our mother baked all our bread, churned butter, and made all 
the clothes for
the girls and herself.
	All the kids had to work. We dug Oregon grape roots, picked 
foxglove leaves,
and peeled cascara bark to earn a little money. All three were used 
in medicine.
Edward worked in a sawmill. Louis was called to service in World War 
I. Otto and
William had a sawmill and cut ties for the army in World War II. All the boys
were loggers and some had farms also.
	Louis Strudhalter passed away September 25, 1945. Louise passed away
September 9, 1961. Edward passed away November 21,1963. Carl passed 
away May 12,
1970. Louis Jr. passed away July 31,1975. Otto and William (twins) are 84 years
old in 1985. Caroline, a twin is 80. Katherine is 83. Louise is 79. 
Elsie is 75.
Harry is 73.
	There is only one of the Studhalters that moved from Lewis County.

PER GUSTOF AND THECKLA PAULINE NICALOVA SUNDBERG FAMILY

We, the children of "Gus" and Theckla Sundberg, want our dependents 
to know some
of the happenings of their life and ours.
	Father was born in Nybyon Sidensjo, Sweden 12/09/1881. His mother was
seriously injured in a horse sleigh accident and consequently he was reared by
his aunt and uncle. As a young man he moved to northern Sweden and worked as a
dispatcher of iron ore cars in Kiruna.
	He met and married Theckla Henrikson, who was born June 22, 1891 in
Gideaberg Edsela, Sweden. Her mother was Helena Margreta Westman, born in
Sweden, died 1899. Her father was Nils Henrikson, born in Gideaberg, Sweden,
died 1898. Her parents were very wealthy but they died before she was nine. She
and her wealth were turned over to her guardian. When she was seventeen she was
told her inheritance was gone. She went to Kiruna to work, and met 
father. Their
first born was Gustof Tycko Walderman, born 01/15/10 in Kiruna. Because of a
strike they returned to Sidensjo and built their home, whereon 10/04/11 Martha
Margreta Gundhild was born.
	When father's brother-in-law, Karl Anderson, and cousin, Oscar Olaf
Sundberg, decided to emigrate to America dad also went. The plan was to work a
year and return to Sweden. They worked in a logging camp at Kamlopps, Canada.
Later they all moved to Crego Hill where his brother, Andrew Edin, had land and
worked.
	Mother left Goteborg, Sweden Oct. 17, 1913 and arrived on Crego Hill
thinking they would shortly return to Sweden. However, Pauline Valdi arrived
02/18/15, and Andrew Theodore 05/18/16, so the trip home was postponed. Ralph
Henry was born 04/29/1919, and Anna Elizabeth on 02/13/1923.
	There were many hardships - homesickness, new language, new 
customs, and
scarce money. In spite of this they created a happy home for us. Clearing the
land became a picnic - potatoes and apples baking in burning stump coals - cold
drinks of spring water and fruit juice - plus good home-made bread, cheese, and
butter. They always had a cheerful, optimistic outlook, and used 
praise and high
expectation for discipline.
	Mother said they cleared and spaded an acre of land before they had
machinery. Dad worked at the Littel Sawmill, raised cattle, hay, garden, and
strawberries with the help of the family. He became known as 
"Strawberry King of
Crego." They started the chicken business in 1934. In May 1935 Tycko 
returned to
Sweden to sell our family property. Father died 11/26/1935 knowing mother and
the boys would be able to continue the business. In 1943 mother hired Hurley
McElhinney to work. He and his wife, Elva, stayed until Hurley died 1980. At
that time mother went to live with Pauline and Sam Dillon in Olympia.
	She continued to enjoy life but her thoughts were often of 
Lewis County. She
died on 04/24/82 at ninety and was buried at the Claquato Cemetery next to Dad.
	Our parents were actively interested in the community. They were active
members of Darigold Association, Southwest Production Credit Association, and
Adna and Crego Grange. Mother was an officer for many years, and often a
delegate to State Grange. She was interested in all of our school and community
affairs, and took an active part in the garden and home economics clubs.
	In 1948 her long awaited dream came true when she returned to 
Sweden on the
ship Gripsholm to visit her only sister, Ida Norlin of Stockholm and her eldest
son, Tycko and his family, who were then living in Overhornas. She stayed for
six months, enjoying family and friends. One of the highlights was visiting her
parents' beautiful mansion in Edsela where, after her parents death, she was
raised by her guardian.

ANNA ELIZABETH SUNDBURG

I was born on February 13, 1923 on Crego Hill, Chehalis, Washington. I was the
last of 6 children, born during the worst snowstorm ever recorded at that time.
The snow was far above the fence posts and my dad had to hitch up the horses to
the wagon and go get the neighbor who was a mid-wife to deliver me. 
My childhood
was a happy and busy one. I picked strawberries

  (photo): Family of Gustaf and Theckla Sundberg. Back row (L to R): 
Gustaf Tycko
Sundberg, Martha Sundberg Winiecki, Theodore Andrew Sundberg, Ralph Henry
Sundberg. Front row (L to R): Anna Sundberg Wooten, Theckla Sundberg, Pauline
Sundberg Dillnon, July 1970.

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every summer for my parents and neighbors, to earn money for school clothes. I
attended Adna Grade School and High School. I was very active in sports all
through school, enjoying baseball, track, basketball and tennis. I was
cheerleader, carnival queen and graduated as valedictorian of my class. I was a
charter member of Crego Grange for whom I played baseball. Much to my delight,
homeruns were my specialty, so we did win a few games!
After graduating from high school, I entered Washington State College on a
scholarship. I carried through with my sports, winning the Washington State
College tennis championship that year. War broke out the following 
year so I got
a defense job at Fort Lewis Cleaners. During that time I lived in 
Olympia. After
working there for 2 years, I moved to Tacoma and got a job at Pantorium
Cleaners. There I met Jack Wooten, whom I married in 1946. He was born in
Chattanooga, Tennessee, and came to Tacoma at the age of 12. He had 2 children,
Joanne, 12 and Gary 8. We completed our family by having 2 more children,
Richard and Wendy.
	Joanne worked in charge of serving and preparing meals at Marcourt Day
Health Center for senior citizens which my sister, Pauline, 
established, and was
director until she retired. Joanne has 2 daughters and one grandson.
	Gary is an avid mechanic and works for B.F.Goodrich in Seattle. He has
three sons.
	Richard is manager of Puget Sound Tire in Seattle. He has one daughter
and one son.
	Wendy is office and sales manager of Bank and Office Interiors.
	We opened our own dry cleaning business in 1948 and operated 
it until 1960.
We then sold the business and continued working in the dry cleaning industry
until we retired.
	Some of the activities I enjoy are swimming, water skiing, 
bowling, dancing
and golf. I've enjoyed participating in bowling tournaments and have many
trophies for my accomplishments.
	We have lived most of our married life in Tacoma. We now have a home at
Mason Lake at Grapeview, Washington, where we enjoy all the water sports.
	We have traveled to many countries and we hope in our retirement we can
continue traveling and enjoying our home at the lake.

RALPH HENRY SUNDBERG

Ralph was born the fifth child of Gus and Theckla Sundberg on April 
29, 1919. As
a young boy growing up on Crego Hill, he spent his free time playing with his
cousin, George Anderson, and Lewis Frogner, both neighbors.
	When his father died in 1936, he went to Adna High School in 
the mornings
and worked on the family farm in the afternoons. Ralph graduated from Adna High
School and worked for one year before entering Washington State College. He
spent several summers as crew boss for the Raschke Brothers, running pea viner
crews.
	When he was picked #1 in the draft during his junior year in 
college, he
went to work at Washington Veneer Plant in Olympia instead of returning for the
second semester. When his boss at the Veneer Plant discovered his draft status,
he claimed him as necessary to the war effort, unbeknownst to Ralph, so it
wasn't until 1944 that he was acutally called up for his physical. At that time
he was classified 4- F because he had sight in only one eye.
	Ralph married Helen Terwilleger January 15, 1943. He fathered 
four children:
Nicolina Canody, who now is vice-president and manager of Allied Financial in
Fremont, Calif. Nicki has two children and one grandchild.
	Ronald, owns Puget Sound Sports Center in Olympia and has two boys.
	Susan Carpenter taught school for ten years, then quit to 
stay home with her
two boys. She is expecting another child in December. She and her 
family live in
Olympia.
	Lori Bailey is a school teacher and her husband and one son 
live in East
Olympia on part of the home place.
	In 1950, Ralph was hired by Douglas Fir Plywood Association, 
(now American
Plywood Association), and settled in Aberdeen as quality supervisor with mills
in Shelton, Aberdeen, McCleary, Hoquiam, and Astoria, Oregon.
	After six years in Aberdeen, he was transferred to the 
Olympia territory
where he worked until he was made training manager and then regional manager of
mills in Washington, Idaho, and Montana. He retired December 31,1981.
	In 1972 Ralph and Helen built a new home on twenty acres in 
East Olympia.
	He was active in the Thurston County Sheriffs Posse for over 
twenty years.
He served as head timer for the yearly convention and rode his horse in the
front four of a sixteen-horse drill team that took many championship ribbons.
The Thurston County Sheriffs Posse presented a beautiful trophy, in his memory,
to the Washington State Posse organization and it is now presented each year to
the county who takes first place in the drill.
	Ralph and the posse had just completed their drill at the 
Kitsap County Fair
when he collapsed and died of a heart attack on August 27, 1982.
	For years Ralph and Helen took their camper or motor home 
into the hills
with the horses to ride the mountains. Hunting was another favorite 
past time of
Ralph's. Eastern Washington would draw them each fall to hunt deer.

THEODORE ANDREW SUNDBERG

I was born May 18,1916 at Crego Hill. I went to Adna High for two years but
graduated at Olympia in 1935.
	As a youngster I remember turning pancakes for Dad before he 
left on his
bike to work at Littel Sawmill. I milked and fed cows and did other chores. I
planted strawberries faster than the other kids! Dad and I cleared land,
blasting some of the old growth stumps. We started with a team of mules and a
stump puller. For smaller roots and logs we used logging chain.
	In the early depression we'd ride the buggy to town to get 
groceries. Since
we had so little money we'd take a hog, veal, rabbits, fryers, eggs, or
strawberries to trade for groceries, doctor or dental bills.
	I saw there was no future in farming and I had lost interest 
in Adna High
since it couldn't afford football nor manual training. In June, 1933 
I left home
to look for work at the Plywood Plant in Olympia, where my older 
brother, Tycko,
was working. After upping my age to 18 and bugging the Superintendent for six
weeks, he finally hired me.
	I went to school, turned out for football, and worked swing 
shift. There was
no time to get into mischief! I worked 12 years at the plywood plant.
	In 1939 I married Clara June Brown from Newaukum Hill. We 
settled in Olympia
on 50 acres. We had one daughter, Barbara, son, Terry, and lost one. We have
four grandchildren.
	After I quit the plywood plant, I went into the wood business - then
logging, dump trucking and cat excavating. When I first started logging I cut
alder and maple. During World War II when men were scarce, my wife hauled logs
to Tacoma. She got by the weighmaster better than I would. I'd get a fine for
overloading, plus! I'd have to unload until I was legal. I learned fast!
My wife worked for the State Data Processing 1959-1974. For the last 17 years I
have been working my sand and gravel pit and log sorting yard at Olympia.
	In 1981 my wife and I and Sam and Pauline Dillon spent six 
enjoyable weeks
seeing Europe and visiting my brother, Tycko and his family in Sweden.
	In 1983 we moved into our new home. Weeal! it "Sundberg 
Mountain" because
we're up so high. We have a view of the capitol, Mt. Rainier, and Budd Inlet.
This year everybody predicted snow - I bought a 1985 four wheel-drive Subaru,
but it only snowed 4 inches.
	The last couple years my wife, June, had several operations and still
requires considerable care but is improving.
	I have good health and at 69 hope to continue working for as long as my
health permits. I still will take time to go hunting, take short trips in our
comfortable van and attend the large family get-togethers.

  (photo): Tony and Eagan Suren.

EAGAN AND TONY SUREN

In 1873 Tony Suren came to the United States from Germany. Four years later,
Eagan Suren was met in Galveston, Texas by his brother, Tony, who had sent to
Germany for him. Eagan was 15 years old when he came to the United States in
1877.
	The two brothers did a lot of mining all along the west coast. Eagan
returned to the homestead at Harmony and Tony traveled to Siberia and in 1898
went to Alaska to the gold fields. While Tony was in Alaska his 
partner was lost
when their boat capsized. Tony was rescued by the Indians and nursed back to
health by them. HI said they kept him in their camp several months while he was
recovering.
	In the meantime, Eagan had married Henrietta Straus of San Francisco
(originally from Germany). They had three daughters and one son Mildred (Suren)
Owens was born on the homestead Eagan had settled on near the Kjesbu farm in
Harmony. Anna (Suren) Smith, Frank Suren

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and Alberta (Suren) Sawyer were born in Portland, Oregon.
	By now Tony had returned to Harmony to be with his brother, Eagan. They
homesteaded 320 acres and had a verbal agreement that if anything happened to
one of them the other would automatically be the owner. The property where Ike
Kinswa Park headquarters is located now is the ground where Eagan and 
Tony built
their home.
	While returning home from a trip to Mossyrock, a tree fell 
across Tony's
buggy and he was killed instantly. When the horse came home alone Eagan knew
something had happened to him. Tony was buried by St. Ives Catholic Church at
Harmony. This was in 1920.
	Eagan Suren later sold all but 40 acres; keeping the site where the Ike
Kinswa Park headquarters is located now. Because of ill health his wife spent
most of her time with relatives in Portland, Oregon, so Alberta and her mother,
along with the other children, would come from Portland by boat to Toledo,
Washington, where Eagan would meet them and take them by horse to Cinebar,
Washington. They would stay all night and rest with a family by the name of
Madden and the next day they would journey on to the homestead at Harmony.
	In 1927 Eagan sent for his youngest daughter, Alberta (Babe), 
who was born
in 1894, to come to Harmony and live with him. At the time, she and her family
were living in North Dakota. This they did, and that is where the children of
Alberta and Wallace Sawyer spent their youth. Eagan passed away in 1932 and was
buried beside his brother, Tony, at the St. Ives Catholic Church.
	Alberta and Wallace Sawyer's children are Ralph Sawyer, 
Millie Hamrick, Bea
Hangar, Maye Rashoff, Dorothy Pries, and Don Sawyer. They all reside in Lewis
County with their families. By Marguerite Sawyer

LOREN EDWARD SWEANY

My life began in Winlock 28 August 1907, fourth child of Eliza J. Harris and
Charles H. Sweany. Preceding me were Fay 1900, Bernice 1901 and Veva 1904.
Following me were my twin sister Loris 1907 and Gordon 1913.
	Mother's parents were early pioneers at Baw Faw (Boistfort) 
where she was
born in 1873. Ready for high school, she stayed with relatives, Ellen and U.E.
Harmon, graduating from Chehalis' two-year high school in 1892. She took the
Lewis County School Superintendent's Teacher's Examination and passed. By
teaching summers she continued her own education winters. For two 
more terms she
stayed with Olympia relatives, and graduated in 1894 from a four-year high
school.
	Living at home, Eliza rode horseback 31/2 miles to her first 
teaching job.
It took half a month's wages (about $12) for a saddle. One Saturday morning she
rode to Chehalis - 16 miles, alone, bareback and sideways, of course. Ladies
wore long skirts and NEVER, NEVER rode straddle.
	She purchased a beautiful leather side-saddle with a red 
velvet seat, and
rode home the same day to Boistfort thrilled and proud.
	    Ten year old Charles Sweany and family came from Kansas 
to Salkum in
1882. Schools and  church were important to this Sweany family. To 
	benefit from
high school they moved to Winlock in 1891, when Charles was 18.
	In 1892 he passed the same teacher's exam Eliza had taken. He 
taught summer
school; salary$35 month, board $10. He sent most of the balance home to his
folks. He bought his first real suit for $5.50.

  (photo): L to R: Fay, Bernice, Veva, Loren, Loris, Gordon Sweany, 1975.

	At a July 4th celebration he met Eliza. They were married 23 
August 1896 and
shocked folks by going to Ellensburg Normal School. Married couples didn't
attend school.
	They were qualified and taught in a larger, two-room school, 
Little Falls
(now Vader). Eliza had grades 1, 2, 3,4 and Charles upstairs 5, 6, 7, 8 in
1896-97.
	Their first son, Fay, born at Boistfort in 1900, broke up 
their teaching
team. Charles decided to change his occupation. He studied bookkeeping, learned
shorthand, then qualified, and secured a position as Yeoman (civilian clerk) in
the U.S. Navy Yard, Bremerton. Veva was born.
	The Winlock News was for sale. Charles bought it, becoming 
the owner/editor.
We twins arrived. Efforts to ban liquor and "clean up" the town were met with
reprisals and threats. Lack of ads and community support forced him to vacate.
	We moved to Zillah and planted acres of fruit trees. Jack rabbits were
hungry and ate the bark. We wanted to eat too, so we moved to the Curtis Store
and Post Office, 1909, where we prospered. Gordon arrived.
	All six children were educated from then on in the Boistfort schools
excepting one and a half years in Kelso and two plus years in Grass Valley,
Oregon. All of us went to college or university.
	I went to Pullman to college. I married Thelma Vails.
	Our son, Edward Vails Sweany, Kennewick, has three children, 
Susan, Gail,
Joel and three grandchildren.
	My work: Chehalis - auto mechanic, welder. War time - 
shipyards, Seattle.
Oregon and California - construction and maintenance. California - millwright,
mainly redwood. Retired at home in Chehalis.

SWIGERT FAMILY

	James C. Swigert and Mary E. Speece were married August 26,1847.

	FAMILY RECORD
James C. Swigert - January 5, 1847-March 14, 1890; Mary Speece Swigert - June
27,  1850April 10, 1915; Sarah Emily - April 2, 1870 - December 6, 1871 (before
coming West); Edward Allen- December 29, 1871-May 4,1959; Harry M. - September
2, 1873 - October 16, 1936;

  (photo): Essie and AI Swigert.

Monte H. - September 2, 1873-October8,1897;LorenSpeece-June 21, 1878-March 18,
1906; Asa March 22, 1880-March 26,1886; Mollie Elma - January 1, 
1886-August 21,
1887; William "Willie" Clarence - October 12, 1890-1951

Harry Swigert is buried in Crescent City, California; all of the others are
buried Klickitat Cemetery at Mossyrock.
	In 1872, Great-Grandpa Asa Swigert and his two sons, James 
and Clay, and
their families came from Peoria, Illinois, to Oregon. Asa owned 
property that is
now within the City of Portland. I have no information about what they did
except that they knew another family there by the name of Landes.
	Before coming to Mossyrock to live in 1879, James Swigert and 
CT. Landes
came over a trail from the Columbia River to the Mossyrock area and selected
adjoining homesteads east and south of Klickitat Prairie. They then brought
their families by boat and train to Newaukum Station where they expected to
leave them until they could build cabins on their land.
	About this same time, the county commissioners advertised for 
a bridge to be
built across a canyon on the Cowlitz River below the present Mayfield Bridge.
Asa Swigert was a carpenter and bridge builder and was awarded the contract to
build this first bridge across the Cowlitz.
	The Landes family decided to stay at Newaukum, but the Swigert families
moved to the bridge site in the fall of 1879, built cabins, and started work on
the bridge. It was one way,
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135 feet long, and 95 feet above the water. On September 27,1879, the
commissioners ordered a warrant for $1300 to Asa Swigert for payment in full of
the contract. The bridge was finished in the spring of 1880.
	The Swigerts and Landeses moved on to the homesteads they had selected
earlier; I don't know what happened to Great-Grandpa Asa. The James 
Swigerts had
one son, Allen, age six months, when they arrived in Oregon in 1872. Twins,
Harry and Monte, were born there in September, 1873. After moving to Mossyrock,
three more sons and a daughter were born. Only three sons, AI, Harry 
and William
(born 7 months after his father died), lived to adults, married, and raised
families.
	The first years were hard! A cabin, clearing land, and a garden were
necessities. Wild game was plentiful. It was during these early days, when
Harvey Landes and Dad (Al) were ten or twelve, that they would travel to Toledo
by ox team to have grain ground and get supplies. Grandpa used to take his
"pack" and go job hunting, mostly around Tumwater and the Puget Sound area. I
also remember Dad saying his mother cooked in a boarding house. When Dad was
eighteen, he and his father helped clean up after the great fire of Seattle,
June 6, 1889. By working out, they managed to make money enough to 
buy clothing,
household goods, and food they could not raise. Grandpa died the following
January at age forty-three, leaving Dad head of the family.
	In 1897, Harvey Landes had a contract to build the first Bear 
Canyon Bridge
at Cinebar and hired Dad to help him. They used materials from the surrounding
woods. Timbers were hand hewed and long bolts were all they 
purchased. They were
25 years old at this time.
	Dad continued living with his mother until he married. Before 
this time a
large house had been built on a knoll overlooking much of the farm. After the
boys were married, Grandma moved to a small house in Mossyrock and lived there
until she died in 1915.
	My parents, Al Swigert and Essie Bowen, were married in 
Mossyrock December
30, 1903. I was born November 14, 1904, in a small log cabin on the 
Brannon farm
a short distance from Grandma Swigert's big house. While I was still a baby, my
parents moved in with Grandma until Dad could build a house for us on the east
40 acres of the original homestead. He was working in the sawmill where he
bought most of lumber and used to joke about carrying home the house plank by
plank on his back. It was of vertical one by-twelves with three rooms below and
one above unfinished. Here another daughter, Elizabeth Irene, was 
born on August
28, 1906. Later the house was added to and the outside shingled. The 
folks lived
here until they died.
	The folks started farming by getting a few cows, chickens, 
and pigs. They
milked the cows, sold cream, and fed the skim milk to the pigs. Occasionally
they would sell a calf or some pigs. Dad worked out at any job he 
could find for
extra money. Sometimes there would be road work hauling gravel or working with
the team and scoop shovel.
	Spring plowing and planting were always a big, tiring job for 
both men and
horses, furrow by furrow, day after day. Then came hay making in June or July
and grain threshing later. Dad never quit worrying about getting it all in
without getting it wet. To this day, I never see a field of hay down without
thinking of Dad.
	They always raised a big garden, and Mother canned, pickled, 
and dried the
produce. In the fall, the old root house was filled with apples and potatoes,
and there were shelves filled with jars of fruit, vegetables, pickles and jams.
	Another fall job was filling the straw ticks with fresh straw 
after threshing
was finished. If, in 50 or so years you are reading this and wonder what straw
ticks were, here is your answer. They were big sacks (size of a bed) made of
pillow ticking, filled with straw, and used for mattresses. Mother always put a
thick wool pad over them.
	Fall was also butchering time. Dad raised a few pigs and 
cured the hams and
bacon and made mounds of sausage. I remember Mom patting it into cakes, frying
it, filling jars, and pouring hot grease over it and sealing. Fresh meat was
hard to come by, and we had no refrigeration in those days. You either ate it
now or canned it. Fall was also time to fill the woodshed with the 
wood that had
been seasoning.
	Dad loved to hunt and fish, but had little time for them. 
With the fall work
finished, a needed break could now be enjoyed. Fish was often on our 
table. Many
times pheasant or wild duck was a welcome change, and we always saved the
feathers for pillows. A fall hunting trip to the mountains brought 
home deer for
fresh meat and for canning and making mincemeat. Dad also was a 
natural old-time
fiddler, and we enjoyed many evenings with him playing the fiddle.
	Mother enjoyed her flower garden and house plants. As a pastime and
relaxing, she like to knit - socks for Dad, sweaters for Irene and me, and lace
for everything from towels and pillow cases to underwear.
	Going to town (Chehalis) was a big event and trips were few 
and far between.
Most of our shopping was done out of the Sears Roebuck Catalog. Does anyone
remember where last year's Sears Catalog ended up, or are we all too polite to
say so?
Besides all his own work, Dad always found time to help his neighbors if they
needed him. Along with other volunteers, he helped build the 
Mossyrock Community
Church, 1906-1908. Additions and improvements have been made to the structure
which is still in use. My parents were charter members of the church and their
funeral services were there.
	The folks were blessed with a good marriage of over 55 years 
and lived from
ox-team days to the jet-plane age. Dad died May 4, 1959 at 87 years of age, and
Mother died May 7, 1964 at 84. Both are buried in Klickitat Cemetery, 
Mossyrock.
By Elma Swigert Martin

JAMES SWIGERT FAMILY

Up until 1872, when the Swigert families moved to Oregon, there is not much
information. They came to Oregon from Peoria, Illinois. Their father,
Great-Grandpa Asa Swigert, owned property there that now is the heart of the
City of Portland.
	When Mary and James Swigert came to Oregon they had one 
child, Allen. He was
just six months old. Later the twins, Monte and Harry were born. Several of the
children of James and Mary Swigert died when they were real young. There were
only three out of eight children that lived to become adults. The last son,
William C. Swigert, was born after his father died.
	Before settling in Mossyrock, Mr. Landes and James Swigert 
came to Mossyrock
and selected adjoining homestead sites. This was in 1879. They came 
to this area
over a trail from the Columbia River. Later they brought their families by boat
and train to Newaukum Station which was the nearest point to the place they had
selected to homestead.
	About this time (1878-1879) the railroad company began 
looking for a pass
through the mountains to the coast. After surveying several of the passes, it
was believed by the settlers already here that either the Cowlitz or 
Cispus Pass
would be the one chosen. They were in direct line to connect with the 
short line
already built from Tacoma to Kalama. With this prospect as an inducement to the
early settlement of eastern Lewis County, the five families of settlers already
on Klickitat Prairie induced the County Commission to advertise for a bridge to
be built across the canyon near the site of the present bridge at 
Mayfield. This
was the old Mayfield Bridge.
	James and Clay Swigert's father, known to nearly everyone as 
"Grandpa Asa
Swigert," was a bridge builder and was successful in getting the job to build
the bridge. The Swigert families came to the bridge site from Newaukum, but the
Landes family stayed there for a, while. They soon began to build the first
bridge across the Cowlitz except for a railroad bridge down near the town of
Vader. After the bridge was built, many more settlers came into the area. The
Swigerts and Landeses moved onto their homesteads.
	Al Swigert married the former Essie Bowen. They had two daughters, Elma
Swigert Martin and Irene Swigert Dahlstedt. They also had one adopted daughter,
Grace Swigert.
	Harry married Sophia Swofford. They had one son, Maurice, who 
still lives in
the Mossyrock area. Harry's twin brother, Monte, died at age 21.
	William C. Swigert married Mabel Hender. son in 1912. They 
had two sons -
Raymond and Loren; twin daughters - Inez and Lois; and two other daughters -
Mildred and Isobel. The twins still live in Mossyrock, Washington. By 
Raymond C.
Swigert

WILLIAM C. SWIGERT FAMILY

William C. Swigert married Mabel Nancy Henderson in 1912. To them were born six
children: Raymond C. Swigert, 1913; Inez Swigert Dunn and Lois Swigert Adams,
1915, twins; Mildred Swigert Wessela, 1917; Loren Speece Swigert, 1919; and
Isabel Swigert Forsgren, 1921.
	Raymond Swigert married Rowena Skeen. Their three children are Richard,
Darrell, and Rosalee.
	In 1955, Richard Swigert married Eliese Binasco and also had 
three children
- Allen, Michael, and Joe. Allen married Katherine Cook. Michael married Molly
McVey; their two children are Paul, 1982, and Ashley, 1983.
	Darrell N. Swigert (1935-1983) married Gay Nelson in 1955. 
Their children
are Terry Lynne, 1956; David D., 1957; and Raymond C. Swigert.
	Rosalee Swigert married Don Fegles in 1957, and they have three sons -
Ernest, Robert, and Douglas. Ernest married Lisa Stulkins in 1981. Their
children are Nichole, 1981, and Jessica, 1983. In 1984, Robert married Julia
Smith. Rosalee and Don's youngest son, Douglas, is in college.
	The twins, Inez and Lois, were married in the same ceremony 
on January 11,
1936, during the depression, and will celebrate their 50th anniversaries next
year.	.
	Inez and Harol Dunn lived in Oregon for 30 years before returning to
Mossyrock. Their four children and grandchildren are as follows:
1. Elaine Dunn Walton has three children - Dickey Sue, Lain Harold, and Rodney
Jay.
	2. Bruce Dunn has four children - Whitney, Brooke, Courtney, and Devan.
	3. Rodney Dunn has a son and a daughter - Joel and Shannon.

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	4. Kimberly Dunn Cope also has three children - Tyler, Jodi and Evan.
	I have lived all my life in Mossyrock and my husband Kenneth 
Adams came here
in 1928. We both graduated from Mossyrock High School in 1934. We have two
children - a son, Loren, and a daughter, Lynne Adams Bieber. Our two
granddaughters are Ramona and Tara Bieber.
	Mildred Swigert Wessela (deceased) had two sons Steven and Devan
(deceased).
	The second son of William and Mabel Swigert was Loren Speece 
Swigert. He
was not married.
	Isabel Marie Swigert married Roy Theodore Forsgren on June 
30, 1945. Their
three children and grandchildren are as follows:
1. Capi Lee Forsgren (8-3-46), married Dell Allen Alexander (11-23-46), on July
20, 1967. Their children are Kacey Lynne (4-6-76), Leigh Kristine (6-15-81) and
Anne Katherine (6-15-81).
	2. Gregory Roi Forsgren (8-20-47), married Judith Maudean 
Garland (3-27-47),
September 26, 1970. They have two children - Meagan Anne (3-27-78) and Gretchen
Amber (5-27-80).
	3. Jon William Forsgren (2-1-52), married Susan Glee 
Remington (12-27-51),
June 17, 1972. Their daughter Marni Elaine was born September 3, 1980.
	By Lois Swigert Adams