Lewis-Thurston County WA Archives Obituaries.....FRIEND, Charles William April 19, 1942
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Centralia Daily Chronicle, Monday, April 20, 1942, page 1
DEATH CLAIMS TWO PIONEERS.  Services Arranged for Charles William Friend 
and....
Two pioneers of Lewis county passed away here over the weekend.  Death came at 
his home, 703 South Pearl street, Sunday to Charles William Friend, 70, 
resident of Centralia and vicinity 53 years.  Surviving are his wife, Augusta; 
four children, Wilbert, Olympia, Mrs. William Martina, Tono, and Carroll and 
Byrd, Centralia; two brothers, George, Renton, and Walter, Tono; sister, Mrs. 
John Roberts (note: should be "Robertson"), route 2, Centralia, and three 
grandchildren.  Funeral services will be held Tuesday at 2 p.m. at the Newell-
Hoerling chapel, Rev. Erle Howell officiating and burial being at Mountain 
View.

Additional Comments:
Charles William FRIEND was instumental in the development of the mining town, 
Tono, Thurston, WA - now a ghost town.  From a copied chapter of an unknown 
book:  "Ch XVII, Tono, The Farthest West Development" mentions the arrival of 
Charles FRIEND in June 1907.  It states that he was sent there by The Union 
Pacific Coal Company to develop a mine they owned at the Tono site.  When 
Charles arrived the mine was "but a mere prospect hole, known locally as the 
Hannaford Big Scam..." with a dilapidated cook shack and farm house belonging 
to a homesteader named Sumner 35 yrs before.  "...FRIEND was so struck with 
the new camp, with its picturesque setting of lush, green hills, that in 
August he sent for his wife and three children."  By fall, there were eight 
families in the new frame houses.  "Housekeeping was not easy work for these 
first brave wives."  Bad and muddy roads delayed supplies, the one well was 
often out of commission, and rats were numerous.  "  There was an influx of 
workers after the railroad was built one year later, "...and in a short time 
the village had grown into a sizeable town."  "...Tono in its heyday was 
probably one of the most attractive mining towns that was ever constructed in 
the west."  
Vitals:  September 12, 1871 Blaina, Monmouthshire, Wales; immigration to US 
1880; m.February 27, 1897 to Augusta "Gussie" SWANSON; d.April 19, 1942 
Centralia, Lewis, WA; bu.April 21, 1942 Mountain View Cemetery, Centralia, 
Lewis, WA.  
Parents:  John FRIEND and Esther JENKINS.  
Children:  Roy William FRIEND; Wilbert Coster FRIEND; Phoebe Irene FRIEND 
MARTINA; Carroll John FRIEND; and Charles Byrd FRIEND.

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