The History of Lewis County, Washington, Pt 6 of 10: PAGES 218-251

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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 6 of 10: PAGES 218-251

FRANK AND KATHLEEN KRAFCZYK

Joseph Frank Krafczyk was born May 8, 1951 in Centralia, Washington, the son of
Edward and doris (Yocom) Krafczyk. The family lives on a farm in Pe Ell,
Washington. Frank, as he was called, has three older sisters; Kathy, Judy, and
Carol; and an older brother, George, along with a younger sister, Karen, and
younger brother, Tom.

  (photo): Kathleen, Frank, Michael, Janet Krafczyk

Frank attended Pe Ell school, where he graduated in June of 1969. Right after
graduation he went to work for the Weyerhaeuser Company on the section crew.
	On February 13, 1971 Frank married Kathleen Ann Muller. 
Kathleen was born
January 15, 1952 in Centralia, Washington. She was the daughter of Bennie and
Christine (Buergler) Muller. She grew up on a dairy farm known as the Pe Ell
Dairy, owned by her father and uncle, Bennie and Louie Muller. Kathleen has an
older sister, Benice, and brother, Carl. Kathleen attended Pe Ell school and
graduated in June of 1970. She attended Centralia Beauty College, obtaining her
license in July of 1971.
	Frank and Kathleen made their first home for a short time in 
Chehalis. They
then moved back to Pe Ell and then to their present home on McCormick 
Creek Road
in Pe Ell.
	On March 21, 1973 they had a daughter, Janet Lynn Krafczyk. 
On March 14,
1976 a son, Michael John, was born. Both children now attend Pe Ell school.
	Frank has been working for Weyerhaeuser Company for 16 years, 
doing such
jobs as section crew, brakeman on the log train, gravel truck driver, log truck
driver, yarder engineer, and on the cutting crew. Frank loves to go hunting and
enjoys the peace and quiet of the small town of Pe Ell.
	Last September, Kathleen started working part-time as deputy 
clerk for the
Town of Pe Ell.

CARL F. KRAUSE FAMILY

I have lived in Lewis County all of my life. Born in 1932, I was raised in
Galvin, attended the Galvin School my first eight years, graduated from
Centralia High in 1950. Met my wife Delores in 1950, she had moved here from
Montana with her folks in 1945, as her father went to work at the 
Todd Shipyards
in Tacoma. I entered the Army in January 1953 and served until January 1955. We
were married July 10, 1953. We have two sons and a daughter. Our oldest son
Wayne and his wife Gayle have two sons, Jason and Erik. Wayne works for Lewis
County Fire District # 12. They live on the Barton Rd. off Lincoln Creek. Larry
and his wife Debbie have two sons, Toby and Monte. Larry works for Lewis County
also for the Road District. They also live off Lincoln Creek Rd., on the Smith
Rd. Our daughter Susan and her husband Gary Garrett live in Bremerton, where
Gary works for a company that installs air conditioning units. Susan also works
part-time for them. When Gary was stationed in Germany, Susan went over to be
with him and got to see quite a bit of the country.
	I have been a volunteer fireman to District #12 since 1956. 
Some of the work
I have done since getting out of the service was picking up milk with a can
truck for Arden Farms until they went to milk tanker which I drove until they
quit picking up milk in this area. I then worked for P.H.T. who sold out to
Garrett Freight Lines, then for Dravel Johnson who put in the Dam at Lake
Mayfield. Had a driver-sales route for Arden Farms in the Eastern end of the
county until I went back to milk tanker for Lynden Transfer for 10 years, when
they quit in this area I worked for Pacific Sand and Gravel until I 
took the job
I am now doing which is picking up the county drop boxes for Hub City 
Transfer &
Storage.
	My parents live on Russell Rd. on Fords Prairie. My father's 
folks came from
Germany, and my mother's from Switzerland. My father moved from Puyallup as a
young boy to Galvin with his mother and step-father. My mother was born in Kent
and moved to the Chehalis area with her folks. I have two sisters, 
one in Galvin
and the other in Centralia; and two brothers, one in Olympia and the other one
in Centralia.
	My wife's mother lives in Centralia. She has six brothers, three in
Centralia, one in Kent, one in Tenino and one in San Diego, Calif. in the Navy;
three sisters, one in Colorado, one in Oregon and one in Tenino. They are of
Dutch and Scotch ancestry on her father's side and English and Irish on her
mother's side.

EDWIN KROLL, PeELL

Grandfather Matthew Kroll came to Nebraska in 1880 as a sod buster. Two years
later his wife, Regina, and son, Felix, followed from Poland. They homesteaded
near Broken Bow. They were there for ten years. During that time 
three daughters
were born. A drought hit in that vicinity. They planned to move to Wisconsin,
but heard of too many stumps. An advertisement in the paper urged, "Come to
PeEll, the land of milk and honey." They came to PeEll in 1892. There was
nothing but virgin timber growing. They lived with the Kowalskys on their
homestead until they bought the present forty acres where we live now. Barbara
Mauermann sold it for $1200 at 12% interest. A half acre of land was 
cleared for
a sack of flour and six rutabagas. The

  (photo): Threshing on the Kroll farm in the late 1930's

  (Photo): Carl F. Krause Family

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family lived, for two years in the first school house of Pe Ell. Then
grandfather built the present house that we are living in now. Grandpa and
father bored holes in virgin timber and burned them to clear land. Buildings
were made out of split cedar. Grandpa's first harness for the horses, which he
made himself, were tanned from cow hides. Every time it rained, the 
horses would
walk right out of the harness, as they stretched. My father married my mother,
Katie Konopka, in 1902. She came from Poland, directly to PeEll, with her famiy
in 1898. My parents had eight children. All were born in this house. Four of
them are presently living; myself, Verna Tuel, Mary Feuchter and Josie Capps.
Our barn, still standing, was built in 1916. The head carpenter was paid $2.35
for a ten hour day. The two helpers each received $1.50 a day. My parents went
into the poultry business for forty years. Father also worked for the county
with a team of horses. Grandfather Peter Konopka lived in PeEll and walked to
McCormick, three miles one way. He worked on the green chain and was paid 12 ½
cents a hour. Uncle John Konopka, built a garage in PeEll in 1919. He was in
business for 32 years. I, Edwin, attended school in PeEll, graduating from high
school in 1937. Ten months before World War II, I joined Battery F of the
National Guard. I spent four years and eight months in the army, eleven months
of which was spent overseas in Europe. My brother, Leo, was killed in Belgium,
Battle of the Bulge. After the war, I took over the operation of the 
farm. I was
in the poultry business until 1960's. In 1950 I married Gertrude Salo, of
Aberdeen. She was born in Superior, Wisconsin. Her father Ahti Salo, came from
Finland. Her mother was from Michigan. The mother died; and her father came to
Aberdeen, to start a bakery business. She and her two brothers joined 
him later.
Two daughters were born to us, Regina and Catherine. We are now 
semi-retired and
raise a few beef cattle. Regina plans to keep the family farm going with her
husband and three children. Catherine is an elementary school teacher at
Steilacoom. She and her husband have two children.

JOHN AND FRANCIS KUCERA OF ALPHA PRAIRIE

John and Francis Kucera arrived on Alpha Prairie with their family in 1889.

  (photo): Francis and John Kucera

The Kuceras had emigrated to the United States from Bohemia. John (Jan) Kucera
was born June 9, 1836, the son of Filipu Kucerovi, a farmer of Old 
rise, and his
wife Frantisky, the daughter of the Klemsove family near Telecho. Francis
(Frantiska) was born October 29, 1850, the daughter of Josepfa Podvoleckeho, a
Raboune farmer, and Anny, the daughter of the Podvoleckych family near Dolu.
John and Francis were married at Prosec, Bohemia.

  (photo): Harvest time on Kucera farm

     Upon emigration to the U.S. in 1875, the Kuceras' first home was 
a purchased
farm near Jordan, Scott County, Minnesota, where they lived for eight 
years. The
Kuceras then moved west, buying land near relatives outside Tyndall, Bon Homme
County, South Dakota. After a five year stay at Tyndall, the family and its
possessions moved on to Spokane, Washington Territory, in 1888. The trip was
made inside a railroad boxcar. Upon arrival the family lived in a 
house near the
railroad roundhouse. John Kucera found work as a carpenter. The Kuceras spent
just a year in the Spokane area, then moved to Chehalis and finally 
on to Alpha.
	At Alpha, John Kucera purchased a family sized farm from the 
Temple family,
located several hundred yards southeast from the present day Alpha Grange Hall.
John had done a thorough inspection of all available land in the Chehalis area.
At that time, an Alpha farm would support a growing family, and Alpha itself
showed strong signs of growth.
	The Kucera family included four sons Joseph, Louis, Adolph, 
and John - and
two daughters - Anna and Emma. In addition to being a farmer, John was a
proficient tailor and made many suits of clothes in the Alpha area.
	On their farm the Kuceras built a two story frame home and various
outbuildings. Their crops were primarily oats and peas, including a variety of
vegetables and fruits. In addition to the usual chickens and pigs, the Kuceras
were known locally for their fine horses. Even when in his 80's, John Kucera
would hitch his horses to a buggy for a trip into town.
	The young Kuceras were quite active in the social affairs of 
Alpha. It was
they who were the frequent organizers of shooting matches, turkey shoots and
horse races during the various holidays. One such shooting exercise resulted in
a bullet whizzing through the walls of the Kucer's parlour. . . while John and
Francis were seated in it. The young Kuceras were also frequent participants in
Alpha athletics, especially the "Alpha Hayseeds," the local baseball 
team. Louis
Kucera later taught school in the Alpha schoolhouse, which stood just west of
today's Alpha Grange Hall.
	The elder Kuceras are buried in the Alpha Cemetery, along 
with their young
son Johnny, who was fatally scalded by boiling water. By Vic Kucera

KARL GERHARD HENRY AND MARY MATHEWS KUPER

Born 1864 Oldenburg, Germany, Karl became a medical intern in the German Army
before coming to the United States. Living in New Jersey and Texas, Karl was a
bartender,

  (photo): Karl Gerhard Henrich Kuper

pool hall manager, and worked in a flour mill. Karl married Mary Mathews in
1898, in New York. Born 1876, Mary emmigrated from Ireland in 1895.
	Karl and Mary rented for one year, across from where they 
built their house
on Cowlitz Prairie. Their daughter Mamie was born at home June 26, 1900. Mamie
attended the Upper Cowlitz School on the Schoolhouse Lane Road. Her parents
bought an adjacent forty acres in 1917 for $850.00. Clearing the land for
farming, dairy cows, and chickens, they shipped milk to Bordens and Darigold.
They raised potatoes and Mary made butter for trading.
	In 1919, Mamie married John Oliver Dosser, born 1895 in Texas. He was a
rancher and laborer of Public Works. They lived in Chehalis. Mamie and John
returned to her parent's home after her father was gored by a bull. John and
Mamie's daughter Mary Ellen, was born September 9, 1920 in the same 
house as her
mother. Their second daughter, Gladys Violet, was born in Centralia, January 
31,
1923.
	John and Mamie lived at 724 West Locust in Centralia, when 
Mamie died from a
ruptured appendix, January 1924. She is buried in the Mountain View Cemetery,
Centralia.
	Mary and Gladys went to live with their grandparents in April 
1924. Their
father became a Morrow County, Oregon, Sheriffs Deputy. John Oliver Dosser died
December 10, 1933 in Adrian, Texas.
	Mary and Gladys attended Upper Cowlitz School and Toledo High 
School. Mary
Kuper died June 1940 and is buried in the Mountain View Cemetery. Karl was
called "The Old Man", a reflection of his long silver beard.
	Mary Ellen Dosser married LeRoy Jonathan (Bud) Davidson, February 1940.
Their children: LeRoy Jr., Annie, Bonnie, John, Lawrence (Lar219
ry), Michael, Mary Pat, Nancy, Kenneth. See: LeRoy Jonathan Family - also, "Our
Davidson Family," at Chehalis Timberland Library.
	Glayds Violet Dosser married Robert (Bob) Edwards. Their 
children: Sharon,
Barbara, David, Eddie, Diane, and Darlene.
	The Davidson family first lived in Chehalis. Bud drove truck 
for Brown's
Mill and Mary worked as a waitress. The Edwards family lived in Salzer Valley,
Centralia working for the Proffitt Ranch.
	In 1946, Mary and Gladys and families moved to their 
grandparents property
which was later willed to them.
	Karl G.H. Kuper died February 1954 and is buried in the Mountain View
Cemetery. Mary received the South forty and Gladys the North forty.
	In the late 1950s, Gladys and Bob Edwards worked for the Green Hill
Washington State Juvenile Correction Center in Chehalis. They sold their land
for a job transfer in Port Townsend, Washington.
	LeRoy Jonathan Davidson died February 1978 and is buried in 
the Mountain
View Cemetery. Mary Elen (Dosser) Davidson helped support their growing family.
She worked as a waitress at the bus depot, for the Chehalis Cannery, attended
Centralia Community College - going to work at the Maple Lane Washington State
Correction Facility for juveniles, near Centralia. Retiring September 
1980, Mary
resides and maintains her forty acres on the M.J. Boone Road. Her hobbies are
painting, woodcarving, and rockhounding. Submitted by John and Sandra Davidson

HAPPY TIMES WITH GRANDMA

My high school years are like yesterday as I recall those happy times living
with my adored grandma, Mrs. Frank W. (Huldah) Webster, in her big 
7-gabled home
at 212 North Ash in Centralia.

  (photo): Aloha Mae Langford and her 3 granddaughters

This house, built by George Washington, founder of Centralia, is gone now. 1
still carry the wonderment of the lives and times in it, as I did then, when I
lay in bed at night wishing the old walls could talk.
	Grandma is gone now. Passed away in 1950. Her memory will live on as I
remember the many stories she told, such as her mother burning bread to a crisp
to use in place of coffee.
	Such fun, as a small child, it was, to comb Grandpa Frank's 
soft white hair
and mustache until he would fall asleep in his chair.
	My brother James Leroy Morrill, born 7-2-21, and I, born 
5-16-22, to Walter
F. and Myrtle V. (Webster) Morrill, daughter of Frank and Huldah. 
Father was son
of Francis and Lydia Morrill from Maud Oklahoma. He was a house mover in this
area. Grandfather deceased 1937; grandmother in 1947.
	In 1926 after father's death (a woodsman killed in his 
profession), we lived
with grandparents Frank and Huldah. Mother worked as a bookkeeper. Sharing our
times with mother's sister (Mrs. and Mrs. Marion (Lucy) Jackson), Brother Jim
and I recall many happy times there.
	Mother married Arthur Jeffers in 1928. He was the son of 
Abraham and Alice
Jeffers of Big Hanaford, coming from Kansas.
	We then lived on Waunch Prairie, going to school at Oakview. 
I was 8 years
old when my half-sister Bonnie Jean was born in 1930. What a 
delightful surprise
she was to my brother and me.
	We later moved and built on a site now owned by the Steam 
Plant. As I drive
the valley today, I see one old shed remains that marks the spot we once called
home.
	Memories of school at Tono can never be forgotten. We treaded 
water or rode
the raft to the tracks where we then walked two miles to school.  My stepfather
passed away in 1969 and my mother in 1983.
	In 1942, I married Frank L. Ragan and lived in Abilene, 
Texas, where Frank
was stationed during WW II.
	Our son Tommy Leroy was born 9-18-43 while Frank was fighting in the
European Campaign. This union was broken by divorce.
	I worked for Boeing Aircraft in Chehalis for a time in 1945 and at F.W.
Woolworths in Centralia until my marriage to Laurence D. Langford (Larry), son
of Robert and Cora Langford, coming west from Kentucky.
	During our lives together, Laurence operated three service 
stations. The
last on Harrison, which he ran until his death in 1973.
	Our son Gary Leslie Langford was born 8-25-48.
	Early in 1976 I bought and operated the Home Town Broiler restaurant,
selling it in 1984. My experience there is another story. I should 
write a book.
	Some pleasurable memories are of the traveling, I was fortunate to do,
seeing much of Canada, some of Mexico, eight European countries, and forty of
our own United States.
	I enjoy my home on North Iron where I've resided since 1955.
	My three granddaughters pleasure me with their occasional 
visits. Perhaps
some day they, too, will recall "The Happy Times with Grandma." By Aloha Mae
Langford

JOHN A. LABARRE FAMILY

John A. LaBarre was born April 24, 1942, in Seattle. He was the second child
born to John and Mabel LaBarre. The family moved to the Dryad - Meskill area in
1946 when Jacky was four years old. He attended Pe Ell schools, leaving in 1958
to join the National Guard.
	In 1963 he met and married Claudia Hickam in Seattle. 
Claudia, the daughter
of Ronald Hickam and Mrs. Estee Ware, was born January 30, 1945, in Seattle.
	Jacky and Claudia lived in the Meskill area while he worked for the
Weyerhaeuser Company. They have two children: Jeane Lynn, born August 13, 1963,
and Terry Lee, born June 15, 1965.
	In 1966, the family moved to Santa Clara, California, where 
Jacky worked for
the Ford Motor Co. and Claudia was an answering service: operator.
	They returned to Washington and Pe Ell in 1971 and Jacky went 
back to work
for Weyerhaeuser where he is currently employed. Claudia is a domestic in the
local area.
	They are both members of the Chehalis Eagles 1550. Claudia is 
past Madam
President, trustee, and was state heart chairman.
	Jeane is trained as a dental assistant. She is also a member of the
Chehalis Eagles Rux 1550.
	The family resides on the home place in the Meskill area.

JOHN R. LA BARRE FAMILY

John "Jack" LaBarre was born January 3, 1916 in Frazier Mills Canada, B.C. He
moved to the Everett and Muckelteo area as a young boy with his 
family. He had 3
sisters and 1 brother. He worked his way through school with various 
jobs in the
Seattle, Everett area. He met and married Mabel Moore in Seattle, February 16,
1940. He was in the Merchant Marines in World War II.
	Mabel, the daughter of James and Mabel Moore, was born August 
1, 1921 (a
twin) in florence, Colorado. Her family moved to the Seattle area in 1927.
	Jack graduated from Cleveland High School in 1934. Jack and 
Mabel's first
child Sharon Marie was born February 9,1941. A son John A. "Jackie," was born
April 24, 1942. Their second daughter Janice Colleen was born 
September 6, 1944.
They moved from Seattle to the Meskill area in the fall of 1946, purchasing 100
acres from the Schaefer Logging Co. On January 4, 1948 their third daughter
Sally Lee was born, followed by Michael "Mike" Neal, born on October 15, 1949.
Their third son Roger Dean, "Tike" was born June 25, 1954. Roger passed away 4
years later. The children all attended Pe Ell Elementary and high school.
Sharon, or Marie as she was known in high school, graduated in 1959, Janice in
1963, Mike in 1968. Jackie went as far as his freshman year then 
dropped out and
went into the National Guard. Sally graduated in 1967 from W.F. West 
high school
in Chehalis.
	Jack worked at odd jobs to support his family finally ending 
up working for
Weyerhaeuser. He retired from Weyerhaeuser in 1978. He and Mabel are active in
the Centralia Eagles. Their children are all married. Sharon married Walter
Pittsley of Adjlune, Wash. and they have four children, 2 boys and 2 girls, and
4 grandchildren, and they live in Elma, Wash.
	Jackie married Claudia Hichem of Seattle, and they have one son and one
daughter, and live on the home place at Meskill.
	Janice married Cecil Zellers from Michigan, and they have 
three children, 2
boys and one girl, and live at the old Payette store sight.
	Sally married Larry Foister from Chehalis, and they have 2 
daughters and
live on Newaukum hill.
	Mike married B.J. Howard from California, and they have 2 
daughters and live
at the home sight at Meskil. Jack and Mabel still live in the original house at
Meskill.

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  (photo): LtoR, standing: Mike, Jacky, Sally. Sitting: Sharon, Janice.

MICHAEL N. LABARRE FAMILY

Michael Neal LaBarre was born October 15, 1949, the fifth child of John R. and
Mabel LaBarre. Mike grew up in the Meskil area and attended Pe Ell School,
graduating in 1969. When he was about eight years old, he had polio. 
He was kept
at home and, consequently, all the other children had to stay home from school
also.
	In the fall of 1970 he entered the Army. After basic training, he was
trained in heavy equipment maintenance. He then served a two-year tour of duty
in Viet Nam. His R & R from Nam gave him a chance to visit Australia.
	After coming home from Nam, he spent a year in Virginia before being
discharged from the Army.
	After the Army, he went to work for Weyerhaeuser, then for 
Bank Check Supply
where he is currently employed.
	Mike met his wife, B.J. through her sister who worked at Bank Check
also.
	Babbi Jo Howard was born October 16, 1955, in Lancaster, 
California to Mr.
and Mrs. Ernest Howard. B.J. grew up in San Bernardino, California, and
graduated from San Bernardino High School in 1973. After working for a year in
California, she moved to Centralia where she met Mike. They were married August
17, 1975. They have two daughters, Charlene (Chuck) Renee, born July 19, 1977,
and Debra (Dibs) Ann barn November 14, 1979. Charlene attends Pe Ell School and
Debbie is looking forward to starting in 1985.
	Mike and B.J. are active in archery and Centralia Eagles #512. Mike is
currently president of the Aerie. They live on the home place at Meskill.

LARMON FAMILY

My mother, Louise Mizler was raised in Russia and my father, Theodore Larmon in
Germany. They met in Pennsylvania and were married there. In 1910, they came to
Chehalis by train from Pennsylvania, and to Jackson Priaire by horse and wagon.
They settled on an old vacated homestead, which was in deep timbers, just a
narrow muddy wagon road to it.
	They had 10 children and raised eight children on the farm. 
There were five
girls and five boys in our famjly. My parents had children in the Jackson
Prairie School for 20 years. I was born on the farm in 1913. Today, there are
three of us living, brother Henry in Mossyrock, brother Amil in Seattle, and
myself.
	My mother would take butter and eggs to Napavine to trade for 
groceries. She
would travel all day by horse and buggy to make a round trip. My parents didn't
live long enough to know the Larmon Road was named after them. My father passed
away in July, 1947 and mother in January, 1964.
	I met Rod Stewart while working for him in his cafe at May's Corner on
Jackson Prairie. We were married in 1936 and built Rod's Cafe in 1940. We added
a two story house on to it in 1942. Due to faulty wiring, the restaurant and
house burnt in August, 1947. We rebuilt Rod's Cafe in 1950 at the 
same location.
In 1957, my husband Rod passed away at the age of 47. I stayed in the 
restaurant
business until I sold it in 1974. Rod's Cafe closed in 1975 after a 
fire and was
later torn down to make way for the Mary's Corner Store. I am still living on
the Prairie in my trailer home behind the store.
	Rod and I have three children, a daughter Goldie and two sons, Rod and
Marlow. Goldie lives in Chehalis and has three sons. Rod lives in Chicago and
has a son and two daughters. Marlow lives in Napavine and has a daughter and a
son. By Elma Larmon Stewart

WRIGHT SOAPER CORE FAMILY

My great Grandfather (Wright Soaper Core) came to Harmony in 1888. His brother
Morgan had a homestead there. His wife, Charlotte, had passed away in 1886
leaving him with eight children to care for. Great Grandpa Core and his son Ed,
who had come with him, homesteaded some land at Harmony. A year later he sent
for his sev

  (photo): Wright Soaper Core

en other children. They came by train and on the way they sang. 
People gave them
money after listening to them. The children were Jane, Ed, Dory, Eliza, Mary,
Jay, Ollie, and Bill. My great grandfather Wright Core died in 1908 at the age
of 63 and is buried in the Cunn cemetery at Harmony.

  (photo): Eliza Elizabeth Core and Ole Christian (Charley) Larsen

My grandmother was Eliza Elizabeth Core born in Wisconsin in 1874 to Wright
Soaper Core and Charlotte Combs Duston. She was

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about 15 years old when she came to Lewis County with her brothers and sisters.
	Ole Christian (Charley) Larsen was born June 1,1871, in 
Denmark. He came to
Lewis County in 1890 at the age of 19. He was one of the oldest in a large
family and knew his father was having a hard time providing for them. Also,
there were letters from Louise saying life was good here and wanting someone to
come. Besides, Danish boys were required by law to enter the service at age 20.
He decided he was the one to come. The boat trip was very rough and the train
trip across was very lonesome because he could not speak English.
	Uncle Louie was married and living in Newaukum. Grandpa 
stayed with them,
working as a farm hand. He had been trained to make brushes, but 
times were hard
and farm labor was about the only way to make money. He got homesick and many
times wished he had not come.
	Uncle Louie was married to Jane Core and through her Grandpa 
met Grandma;
they were married June 1, 1899. Their first home was at Riverside, Chehalis.
Grandpa worked for Jim Alexander, farming.
	While they lived in Chehalis six children were born to them: 
Lynn Leroy,
Mary Estella, Alma Esther, Mina May (died at age 3), Karol Alvin, and Laura
Leona. They managed to save $100 a year for ten years. With the money they
bought land at Harmony, later selling it to Ed Core. They then bought 40 acres
at Salkum from Wm. Conahan. It was part of the Miles Estate. He built 
a new home
and moved in with his family. He liked it here and was glad not to be too close
to his in-laws. He added more land to the farm over the years.
	Two more children were born at Salkum, Goldie Irene and Alice 
Rose. Grandpa
was a good farmer and worked hard. My grandfather's nickname of Charley was
given to him by his brother Louie, for he said that was the American name for
Christain. He was known as Charley from then on.
	Grandpa took us to church on Sunday in his Model T. Ford. He 
helped build
the first church at Salkum, and he helped with the second one when the old one
burned down. He was caretaker at the Salkum cemetery for many years.
	Grandma's family, the Cores, liked to get together so Grandpa 
had them all
come for a picnic in the summer. He built picnic tables, swings, and teeter
totters to play on in the woods near their house. It became an annual thing,
being called the Core Reunion. They later moved it to the Harmon Schoolhouse.
Now it is held at the Ike Kinwa State Park on the first Sunday in August.
	Grandma was a housewife and made the biggest sugar cookies. 
She was always
peeling apples for us to eat. They both loved to play cards, and I learned to
play Five Hundred at age 6.
	The family always got together at Thanksgiving and Christmas for a big
dinner with lots of food and card playing. We had many happy times at Grandpa
and Grandma Larsen's.
	My Grandparents celebrated their Golden Wedding in June 1949. 
A few days
later Grandpa, mother, Alma Mullens, and I went to Denmark. We spent a month
there visiting his brothers and sisters and their children. 
Twenty-three came to
the boat to greet us. It's a trip that I shall never forget.
	Grandma died in 1954, and Grandpa in 1962, both were buried 
at the Salkum
Cemetery.


LAUGHLINS AND SHIPLERS

"I remember, I remember, the house where I was born
My bedroom window where the sun came peeping in at morn
But remodeling has changed it from the bottom to the top
And the lovely big veranda is now a barber shop."
(Apologies to Longfellow)

  (photo): Charles Laughlin and Margaret Shipler, June 1909

The house is on Market Boulevard and I was born there in 1919. My parents were
both residents of Winlock. My mother's name was Margaret Shipler, and my
father's name was Charles Laughlin. Both families came to Winlock in the late
1800's. His mother's name was Mary Ann Gunder, and her family, the Francis
Gunder Family, was also a pioneer family in Winlock. So I have 
parents, two sets
of grandparents, and two sets of great-grandparents buried in Winlock cemetery.
	My father was a graduate of Winlock High School and my mother 
of Ellensburg
Normal School. She taught for a year before she married her childhood 
sweetheart
and moved to Chehalis. Charles was a linotype operator for the Bee 
Nugget, Lewis
County Advocate and Centralia Chronicle. He worked in these three 
places a total
of 49 years.
	There are three children in the Laughlin family, a daughter, Lucile
Clumpner, now of Puyallup; a son, C. Louis Laughlin, of Seaford, New York, and
myself, living in Seattle. We all were born and raised in Chehalis, and all
graduated from Chehalis High School. Our mother, Margaret Laughlin, 
died in 1984
at the age of 98. Our father died in 1949.
	Grandfather Laughlin also came to Winlock in the late 1800's and was a
railroad maintenance supervisor. His name was Benjamin Franklin 
Laughlin, but he
was known as Charlie. It is said that when my 18 year-old grandmother, a new
arrival in Winlock, first saw him - a man of 25 years her senior, she said,
"That's my man!" and theirs was one of Winlocks's early marriages. There were
three sons in the family, Charles, Harry and Walter.
	My maternal grandfather, Samuel Jacob Shipler, brought his family from
Kirksville, Missouri in August 1892. Three year-old twin girls celebrated their
birthday on the train journey from Missouri to Boistfort (pronounced 
"Baw-Faw"),
Lewis County, and one of the twin girls, Lena Christensen, now 96, lives in
Seattle. Her twin, Lillie Locke, passed away in 1982. Our mother, Margaret, was
5 at this time and her brothers Guy Shipler and Tom Shipler, 8 and 
10, completed
the family.
	All of the household goods was brought out in a train baggage 
car, including
the cookstove, where Grandma prepared the family meals en route. The farm
livestock also traveled with them, cared for by my grandfather.
	When the family arrived at Boistfort, Otis and Mary Roundtree 
took them in
and made them comfortable until my grandfather could ready their own home. They
lived several years at Boistfort then moved to Winlock. My grandfather was a
carpenter and built the family home in Winlock on what is now Kerron 
Street. The
five Shipler children all grew to adulthood in Winlock. By Mary 
Laughlin Sanford

MORRIS-LAWSON FAMILY

Morris Lawson, born at Anderson, Indiana, in 1879, and Elsie (Cameron) Lawson,
was born at Villisca, Iowa, in 1877, with their three children Irma, Olive and
Arnold moved from Portland, Oregon, in a wagon owned by Tom Hunt. They traveled
for 4 or 5 days and finally came to the homestead where Morris had 
already lived
for a couple of months in a tent. There were no clearings and the tent was
pitched in tall fir trees. They had to ford the river at a shallow place as
there were no bridges. If anyone came to visit them they would drive to the end
of the road, which was visible from the homestead and holler until 
someone heard
them and paddled them across in the canoe.
	After living in the tent about three months, and with winter 
coming, they
cut a cedar snag into shakes and split boards for the floors and walls. Small
poles were peeled for the rafters, etc. When the house was completed, only the
windows and nails were bought. On cold winter nights you sat by the stove
because lots of wind came through the cracks.
	Gradually land was cleared, a barn built, and a large garden raised. Times
were really hard, the only income being $10.00 a month from the sale of their
house in Portland. Later Morris worked for the Forest Service. 
Grandpa had a pet
bear staked out by the garden who had worn a circle the distance of his chain.
Grandpa would lay sticks around the circle, put on a pair of ragged 
overalls and
approach the bear, it would rear up on it's hind feet and they would put their
hands on each others shoulders. When they fell down the bear would immediately
grab Grand. pa's foot and bite until he hit him with a stick. He'd let go but
increasingly he bit harder, and the wrestling soon ceased.
	The children walked to school about two miles from their 
house, carrying a
5-pound pail of soup to be cooked on the big wood stove to supplement their
lunch. One time a cougar and her kitten fol. lowed them. A neighbor tracked and
killed them the next day.
	Arnold trained dogs for a Seattle kennel and trapped some. 
The Indians came
and traded blankets for the furs. There was a mule to do the plowing, but he
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Grandpa Lawson, Grandma Lawson, Irma Huntington, Olive, on car, Clark and Irma
Huntington.
	 often wasn't. Everything possible was raised, even tobacco. 
Soon however
they had an orchard, chickens, etc.
	The house was washed away in the flood of 1933 and they moved 
temporarily to
the old Skate Creek Ranger Station. Later, after other moves, they spent their
remaining years near Castle Rock.

MODES OF TRANSPORTATION

Recalled by Oren Layton

  (photo): Oren Layton

The recollections contained herein are of the locale in which I was 
born and now
reside; Layton Prairie approximately five miles east of Toledo, Wa.
	Riverboats from Portland, Oregon brought supplies up to 
Toledo where there
was a landing. Occasionally they would continue four miles further up the
Cowlitz River to the farms of Bill Taylor and Grant Kirkendoll where they would
pick up grain and potatoes from the local farmers. When the 
riverboats no longer
came up as far as Toledo, our uncle Elias Layton ordered staples by the carload
and then picked them up by horse and wagon at the train depot in Winlock, Wa.
Individual travel by water was by canoe or flat bottomed boat.
	Our neighbors Amanda and William Hurst who had a timber claim 
nine miles
east of Toledo, worked for many years as cooks on the riverboats from Portland,
Ore., to Toledo, Wa. They travelled to and from the boat by horseback.
	Sam and Len Mills, who lived on upper Salmon Creek, hauled 
their supplies
from Toledo by horse ahd wagon. They usually stopped overnight at our father's
farm on their return trip, continuing on home the next day. Any traveller who
stopped by for a rest or for overnight was always invited to share a meal with
the family be he a stranger, an acquaintance or neighbor.
	Although this was primarily a farming community there was 
extensive logging
done in this area. Horse and oxen were used in this operation. Shingle bolts of
cedar and logs were floated down Cedar Creek to the Cowlitz River and then on
down to Kelso, Wa.
	Long before there was a grist mill in the immediate area, our 
grandfather
Francis Layton hauled grain by horse and wagon to the grist mills in Tumwater,
Wa. This trip took from one week and longer, depending on how high 
the water was
as he had to ford the Cowlitz River.
	Mail was delivered first by horseback and then by horse and 
buggy. The first
mailman that I recall was George Hurd. He had a shack in this area where he
stayed overnight when making the twice weekly trip to the Windom Post Office.
Later, the mail was delivered by "Doc" Calvin who had a hard tire auto.
	A momentous event in my memory was when our father Emanuel 
Layton drove a
herd of 60 pigs to Chehalis, Wa., to the livestock yards. My cousin Lewis
Layton, Jack Kingsberry and a neighbor who drove the horse and wagon and I
accompanied him. The wagon was taken to haul the pigs that got sore feet along
the way. We made it as far as the Young ranch on Jackson Prairie the first day.
We stayed overnight there and then continued on to Chehalis the next day. This
was a trip of around twenty-five miles one way.
	All school children walked to school in the early days. We 
were fortunate
that we lived within a quarter of a mile to the grade and high school, as many
of the children walked a distance of two to five miles. In the winter, when
there was a lot of snow, we were transported by horse and sled. When the high
school was closed in our area the students went to the Toledo School. 
Our father
built a home made bus that resembled the old type prairie schooner out of wood
and canvas, but having the advantage of being motor driven. The students
nicknamed it "the old grey goose". It could accommodate seven to 
eight students.
Later when all the school consolidated with the Toledo Schools our father had
built a large, wooden, oblong box-type school bus that could carry up to
twenty-five students of both grade and high school age.
	As we travel these distances today in minutes and hours, it 
took days and
weeks in yesteryears, I am sometimes overcome with nostalgia for the good old
day and ways. . . but not too often. By Oren Layton

SAMUEL LAYTON AND SONS - 1851

Samuel Layton, an itinerant carpenter and wagon wright, was born in New Jersey
in 1794. He had five children and was twice widowed when in April of 1849, he
and his two sons Francis and Charles left Logansport, Indiana for the West. His
three daughters were left behind with friends, later married and remained in
Indiana for the rest of their lives. Sharing one wagon and four yoke of oxen
with three neighbors, Sam and his sons traveled sometimes alone and 
sometimes in
the company of as many as 30 other wagons. Where the Oregon Trail branched
(Colorado) two of their traveling companions joined a party of six 
wagons headed
for the gold fields of California. The Laytons, however, continued to 
make their
way toward the Oregon Territory.
	Samuel, Francis and Charles Layton arrived at Swisler's place east of
Washougal, during the early winter of 1849. During the year that followed their
arrival, Sam and his sons remained near the banks of the Columbia, plying their
trade. The 1850 Federal Census for Clackamas County, Oregon Territory lists
Samuel Layton (56) and sons Francis (25) and Charles (16). In February of 1851
they ascended the Cowlitz River by Bateaux as far as Cowlitz Landing. 
From there
they walked to Eden Prairie (now known as Layton Prairie), where Samuel and
Francis Layton and Jonathon C. Davis, whom they had met the previous winter,
staked out Donation Land Claims which encompassed nearly all of Eden Prairie.
Sam and his sons built log houses on their claims. Later years were to see a
blockhouse also built there.
	On October 14, 1851 Francis Layton was married to Sirrilda Beth Minerva
Prince (niece of J.C. Davis) by George B. Roberts of the Hudson Bay 
Company. The
ceremony took place beneath the spreading boughs of a large cedar tree on the
north side of the river, directly across from Taylor's landing. Roberts was
insistent on performing the ceremony on the north side of the river where he
knew he had legal jurisdiction, the land there having previously been surveyed
while it was not yet surveyed on the south side. Present at the 
wedding were the
principals, Mr.and Mrs. J.C. Davis arid Mr.Roberts. Over the next thirty eight
years Francis and Sirrilda and twelve children including: William, 
Rebecca Anna,
Henry Clay, Norace Greely, Cyrus E., Hanna J., Caroline, Emanuel, 
Elias Pilgrim,
George W., Daisey Emmaline, and Rose Elizabeth. Francis died in 1889 while
Sirrilda remained on the land, now occupied by their grandson, Oren Layton,
until her death in 1925.
	In November of 1853 Sam and Frank Layton filed affidavits to 
secure their
right to the land staked on Eden Prairie under the Donation Land Act. 
Frank then
married, acquired 640 acres while Sam merely a widower, secured only 320 acres.
The Donation Land Act was repealed before Charles was of age and could legally
file.
	In 1854 Samuel married a third time, this time to the widowed 
daughter of
Joseph Windle, Mahala Windle Flesher.It has been said that their first child
John, born in 1855 was the first white male born north of the Columbia. Their
subsequent children were Lewis, who died young
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and Mary. Mahala also had a son by her first marriage, Andrew Jackson Flesher.
Samuel remained on the prairie; which now bears his name, until his death in
1881.
	Charles married Hanna Carolina McDonnald and had eight children: Samuel
William, John Wesley, Phillip E., Oscar Manley, Steven, Clyde, and 
twins Pearlie
and Myrtle. Wife Hanna died in 1889 and Charles remained a widower until his
passing in 1929. In his later years Charles and his sister-in-law, Sirrilda,
were celebrated as the last of Lewis County's first settlers and as such,
frequently mentioned in local newspaper accounts.
	John married Mary Lucinda Pumphrey from Winlock, and sired 
seven children
including: Charles Stanley, Martha, Mahala, John Marion, Richard W., Ida Alice,
and George W. John worked as a carpenter when the buildings of the 
Rainbow State
Park were built and made kitchen cabinets, some of which it is said, are still
in use in and around Toledo. He died in 1946.
	Mary married twice, first to James Champ, and later to a Mr. 
Spindle. She
had six children by James including: Catherine Elizabeth, James 
William, Melissa
Ellen, Viola Mae, Dora Emmeline, and Rose Alice. Mary was born on the 
Prairie in
1857 and resided in Centralia at the time of her death in 1944. Today many of
her descendents live in the Silver Creek area.
	The descendents of Samuel Layton, who traces their heritage to Layton
Prairie on the banks of the Cowlitz, now number in the hundreds. While many
still live on or near the Prairie, many have continued Sam's migration and can
now be found from Connecticut to California as well as throughout western
Washington. Their stories and a detailed account of their heritage may be found
in "The Children of Samuel Layton" 1983 by Robert W. Layton, available in the
Chehalis Public Library, state library in Olympia, University of Washington
Northwest Studies Library and private collections throughout western 
Washington.
	Additional information relating to portions of the Layton Family may be
found under the biography's of other early Lewis County settlers including,
among others: Prince, Davis, Windle and Omeg. By Robert W. Layton

LAYTON'S PIONEERS AT EDEN (LAYTON) PRAIRIE

Samuel and his sons, Francis and Charles, came west in 1849-50, from New Jersey
by way of Indiana. Samuel and Francis, along with Jonathan C. Davis, 
had D.LC.'s
taking all of the prairie, 13 hundred acres. Charles was too young to file and
later had a homestead in the Cowlitz river valley below the prairie.

  (photo): Francis and Sarilda Price Layton Family. L to R: Mrs.Horace Layton,
son Louis, Horace, Daisy, Rosa, Sarilda, Caroline, Elias, Emmanuel.

Samuel was born in 1794 and was twice a widower before he came west. In 1853 he
married Mahala Windle-Flesher a widow, they had two children John and 
Mary (Mrs.
James M. Champ). Samuel passed away in 1881, age 87.
	Francis married the niece of J.C. Davis, Sarilda B.M. Prince, 
in Oct. of
1851, by George B. Roberts of the Hudsons Bay Co. She was the daughter of
Rebecca Davis-Prince (Mrs. Freeman 'Capt.' W.P. Tyrell), they had come west at
the same time as the Laytons. The Tyrells had D.LC. property on the
Skookumchuck. (J.C. Davis was a Lewis Co. commissioner in 1853 and 186165.)
Samuel and Francis were carpenters and to help finance the improvements on his
claim, Francis found work in Portland leaving Sarilda to mind the children and
the farm while he was absent. They had twelve children: William Penn, Rebecca
Ann who married Samuel Spencer, Henry Clay who married Amanda McDannald, Horace
Greely who married Mary Cullen, Cyrus Edward who married Lizzie Benentt, Hannah
J., Mary Caroline who married Charles Evans (a Lewis County commissioner
1897-1901), Emmanuel Sherman married Lulu Omeg, Elias Pilgrim married Margaret
Ella Shultz, George W., Daisy Emmaline married Harry H. Hurst and Rosa
Elizabeth. Francis passed away in 1889 when their youngest was ten. Sarilda in
1925.
	Charles married Hannah McDannald Feb. of 1871, they had eight children:
Samuel W., John W., Phillip E., Oscar M., Steven, Clyde and the twins Pearlie
and Myrtle.
	Younger son, Emmanuel, farmed a part of his father Francis' 
D.LC. He and
Lulu's children were: Eva - Mrs. Leo Kirkendoll; Oren who married Elsie Gray,
then Marie Long Montgomery; Paul; Mabel- Mrs. Jack Hurley; Gladys married L
Gries, then Matt Latunen;
Edna - Mrs.Bert Edmonds; Verna Mrs. Walt Ryckman; Laura - Mrs. James Conrad;
Nora - Mrs. Charles Nixon and Dollie.
	Youngest son E.P. and Maggie E. the daughter of Issac W. and 
Eliza Dalton
Shultz were married Nov. of 1894. Their children were: Ernest; Estella - Mrs.
Ellsworth J. Smith; Elva - Mrs. Henry Armstrong and Edith Marie Mrs. Mark
Kirkendoll.
	E.P. bought what was the J.C. Davis D.Le. in 1894 and acquired other
properties on the prairie including part of his father's D.Le. till in later
years he was farming some thousand acres. Early on he had a portable 
sawmill and
threshed for farmers on neighboring prairies.
	John Knab petitioned for a post office on the prairie and 
when it opened in
1888 it bore his name as did the new school when it was built, in 
1899. Maggie's
mother, Eliza was the postmistress till 1903 when E.P. and Maggie took over
their store and ran the post office till it was discontinued in 1933. 
The school
was just across the road and they were active in its affairs, clerking and
boarding teachers.
	The fourth of July was celebrated in the early days with much 
patriotism,
speeches, parades, picnics and games among them horse racing in which 
E.P. liked
to participate.
	Elias was the last of the twelve children passing away Apr. 
1952, at the age
of 79. Maggie Oct. 1965 age 87. By M.D. Cole

HAROLD C. LEARD FAMILY

Harold Leard was born on Prince Edward Island, Canada, June 13, 1896 to William
and Annie Leard; sister Ethel was born in 1905. The family moved west to
Saskatchewan in 1907 where he finished high school and became a

  (photo): Marion, Lilian, Velma, Harold Leard (1946)

mechanic. He harvested crops for farmers with his machinery in the Beatty area
where he was active in church and community. He came to the states in 1923, met
and married Velma Hostetter in 1925.
	Velma, daughter of Austin and Neomi Hostetter was born Jan. 11, 1894 in
Welda, Kansas. Her parents had homesteaded land at Knowles, Oklahoma. After her
father was killed her mother moved her and three sisters to Goodwill 
to complete
their education. Harold and Velma made their first home in Detroit, Michigan,
where Harold worked for the Ford company, Daughter Lillian was born in 1927. In
1928 they moved to Oklahoma to farm the Hostetter land, where son Marion was
born in 1929.
	The dust bowl forced their move west in 1936, They settled on a farm on
Newaukum Hill just out of Chehalis. There with hard work and determination they
built up a productive chicken business. Their children have always 
been grateful
that they were taught the value of hard work.
	Their Christmas trees in Oklahoma were usually a dead fruit tree so
naturally the family was delighted with the beautiful fir trees here. The first
Christmas spent in Washington the family cut down seven six-foot trees and tied
them to the veranda posts around the house to commemorate the seven years
without green Christmas trees in Oklahoma. The eighth tree was put up 
inside the
house on the hand-cranked washing machine, They could only afford two ornaments
and a few icicles. One of the ornaments is still being used by Lillian. The
family attended Sunday School at Newaukum and Evaline, and were involved in
community activities. They often played musical instruments together, Velma the
piano, Harold and Lillian violins, and Marion the coronet. Harold whistled
everywhere he went on the farm, feeding chickens or walking down the street.
When residents on the hill cleared land and had a large brush pile to burn all
the neighbor families would gather in the evening to control the burn and enjoy
a potluck.
	Marion and Lillian graduated from the Adna schools. Lillian 
married Dennis
Francy in 1947, and they reside in the Chehalis area.
	Harold passed away in 1952 of leukemia, and after the farm 
was sold Velma
and Marion moved to Paradise, California, where Marion built homes for some
time. He then served as director of Heifer Project in Germany for two years for
the Church of the Brethren. He is now a building contractor in Glendale. He
married Lucille Crawford and they have four children.
	Velma married Fletcher Hanshaw in 1959, and he passed on in 1967. She
continues to enjoy good health and lives alone in her home in Modesto,
California.

LEATHERS- MARSHALL

James Z. Leathers was born in Iowa in 1866 He moved to Kansas as a 
young man and
married Maria Marshall. They obtained land in the "Race for the Cherokee Strip"
in Oklahoma.

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Their children were Clyde, married Lydia Roth; Iva, married Lawrence
Christenson; Samuel, married Alta Hughes; Leona, married William Johnson;
Florence, married Samuel Ventura; Hazel, married Joseph Cunningham; Edna,
married Ralph Stopyra; and Robert, married Edith Benedict.
	The family came to Winlock and settled in the Ainsley 
District. They donated
land for the Ainsley School. James was president of the Washington 
Co-Op in 1926
and served as County road supervisor. He died on the family farm in 1933. Edna
Hollinger

CLAUDE V. AND VERA LEE FAMILY

Claude was born November 9, 1905, in Bridgeport, NE. Is the son of Stephen and
Eva L. Lee. He came to Centralia, with his parents, in 1919.

  (photo): Claude and Vera Lee, Feb. 18, 1960, 25th anniversary

In high school, he was active in basketball and graduated in 1925. He worked at
various jobs during the depression days, and then worked as a surveyor and
cruiser for John Markham as resident engineer for Northwest 15 Logging Company.
Claude worked for Weyerhaeuser as land agent for 31 years, retiring 
in 1967. His
cruiser mark can still be found on section corners in S.W. Washington.
	He hunted and fished for many years. He has also golfed for 
many years and,
at age 79, still plays at least nine holes almost every day.
	Vera was born March 1, 1912, at Klaber, WA. Daughter of 
William Henry and
Etta Whiteman and granddaughter of Leander and Roxie Rhodes. She went, with her
parents, to Valier, MT, in 1917 and returned to Washington in 1924. 
She lived at
Boistfort, then Vader, before moving to Centralia, Galvin and Lincoln Creek.
After graduating from Centralia High School in 1929, she attended business
college and worked for Montgomery Ward, for several years.
	Claude and Vera were married February 18, 1935. Their 
children are Gary E.
Lee, 1936, who is a math teacher at Valley High School; Stephen R. Lee, 1938,
who is a licensed engineer and surveyor; Linda Rae (Mrs. Grant Childers), 1940;
and Connie L. (Mrs. Peter Herrold), 1944.
	They also have nine grandchildren, one great-grandson, and several step
grandchildren and great-grandchildren. They celebrated their fiftieth-wedding
anniversary on February 18, 1985, at Ford's Prairie Grange Hall, 
hosted by their
children.


RUTHELLA CHAPLIN LEE

Virgil's father was an early Walla Walla settler. His farm was where the
penitentiary is now. He went to Indiana after his wife's death.
	Virgil was their first child. Mr. Lee was killed in a fall 
when Virgil was
two years old. Virgil knows very little about his ancestors. Mr. Lee 
had said he
was a cousin of Robert E. Lee's, but not a first cousin. Virgil's 
mother married
a man from Orting, Washington when Virgil was five years old and they moved to
Orting. Virgil attended Bellingham Normal where I met him during summer school.
Virgil had taught in Chehalis one year. I had graduated from Bellingham the
January before and had taught the remainder of that year in a school near
Chehalis, the Glen Alder School on the North Fork. I taught in 
Chehalis the next
fall and Virgil was my viceprincipal. He left in mid-year to accept a position
in the Coffman Dobson bank. He went into the Army. He was sent to Washington,
D.C. after receiving his officer's commission.
	We had been married in December 1917, and I joined him when 
school was out.
After the Armistice, we returned to Chehalis. Virgil spent a few years in the
Donahoe Insurance Agency and then formed his own insurance agency.
	Our son Bill was born in 1921. He graduated from the Chehalis 
High School
and the University of Washington. In 1942 he married Phyllis Herzog of Seattle,
Wash. He enlisted in the Air Corps and when he received his commission he was
sent to Deming, New Mexico as a bombardier instructor. Phyllis joined 
him there.
Their first daughter was born. When the war was over, Bill joined the Virgil R.
Lee and Son Insurance Agency and now Bill is the president and Virgil
semi-retired.
	Both Virgil and Bill have been very active in civic affairs. 
They have both
been president of Rotary, Exalted Ruler of Elks, state president of the
Insurance Association, both were members of the National Board of Director's of
the Insurance Association, Chamber of Commerce.
	Virgil served one term in the State House of Representatives 
and three terms
as State Senator. He was an assistant to the Secretary of the Treasury during
Eisenhower's administration and we lived in Washington, D.C.
	Bill and Phyllis have three daughters and three 
grandchildren. Their oldest
daughter, Susan, has her own "Para Legal" business firm in Seattle and has one
son. Martha lives in Seattle and is an artist. Wendy and her husband, Jack
Thurston and their two children live in Chehalis. Jack is associated with the
Lee Insurance Agency.
	My father, Ralph Chaplin, was born while his father was fighting in the
Civil War. The Chaplins came from England and founded the town of Rowley,
Massachusetts in 1626. The house which they built is a Massachusetts historical
building and is open to the public. The caretakers told us that part of the
house is the original building.
	My grandfather was with General Grant at Appomattox when General Lee
surrendered, so my ancestor and Virgil's distant relative must have been
together.
	My ancestors on my grandmother's side came to America to fight with
Lafayette in the Revolutionary War. They later migrated to Oregon by 
ox team. My
grandfather also came to Oregon by ox team with the Crockett family and settled
in Brownsville, Oregon in 1851.

VIRGIL R. LEE

I, Virgil Ray Lee, son of Thomas Greenleaf Lee and Willametta Lee was born on
August 24, 1895.
	As the result of a fall from a hay wagon my father died of a 
broken neck
when I was about 2 1/2 years old.
	My mother remarried when I was five years old and we moved to Orting,
Washington where my new stepfather lived.
	I attended grade school in Orting and graduated from the 
Orting High School
in 1912 and am reputed to be the oldest living graduate of the high school.
	I attended the Bellingham Normal, which is now Western 
Washington University
and came from there to Chehalis in 1914 to be the vice principal of the Cascade
School.
	In February 1916, I became associated with the Coffman-Dobson 
Bank, becoming
assistant cashier and trust officer.
	I enlisted in World War I in September, 1917 and was assigned 
to Company F,
361st Infantry. In April 1918, I was transferred to Officers Training Camp at
Camp Johnston, Florida, and received a commission as 2nd Lieut., Finance
Division, Quartermaster Corps and was sent to Washington, D.C. where I served
until the end of the war.
	I have been a continuous member of the American Legion since 1918.
	In 1924, I left the bank to become State Agent for the North 
American Life
Insurance Company of Chicago. In 1928, I formed a partnership with T.M. Donahoe
known as Donahoe and Lee to conduct a general insurance agency. The partnership
was dissolved in 1934 when I opened my own agency. In 1947 our son, William R.
Lee, became associated in the agency and it became the Virgil R. Lee 
& Son, Inc.
	This firm has continued to grow and is one of the largest 
insurance agencies
in southwest Washington.
	I was active in the State Association of Insurance Agents, 
having served as
a Director and as it's President in 1944, also served as a State National
Director and was a member of the executive committee of the National 
Association
of Insurance Agents.
	In 1940, I was elected State Representative and was later 
appointed State
Senator, serving continuously for 12 years and was elected caucus leader of the
Republican Senators in 1951. I served as chairman of the Revenue and Taxation
and Insurance Committees. It was during that time that the present Insurance
Code was adopted.
	In 1952, I was elected a delegate to the Republican National 
Convention in
Chicago which first nominated Dwight D. Eisenhower for President. In 
1976, I was
again elected a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Kansas City
where Mr. Ford was nominated for President.
	My name is listed on a plaque near Mr. Eisenhower's office 
near Gettysburg,
Pennsylvania. In 1954, I was appointed Assistant to the Secretary of the
Treasury, George Humphrey and served on special assignments in Washington, D.c.
	I joined the Chehalis Rotary Club in 1924 and have served that club as
president, secretary and director, and served as District Governor of 
Dist. #502
for the years of 1960, 1961.
	I joined the Elk's Lodge in 1916 and was the first secretary 
of the Chehalis
Lodge, and also served as Exalted Ruler.
	I was chairman of the Chehalis Planning Commission for 
several years and
during that time a new zoning ordinance was developed and adopted. I 
also served
as president of the Che225

halis Chamber of Commerce and served on the Board of Directors.
	I am a member of the Westminister Presbyterian Church.
	Ruthella Chaplin and I were married on December 23, 1917 and 
we recently
celebrated our 60th wedding anniversary. We have one son, three granddaughters
and three great-grandchildren.

JOHN LENTZ FAMILY

Johan Lenzenski was born in Germany in 1844. His wife, Wilhelmina Witulski, was
born in Germany in 1848. They were married in 1872. They lived in the Masurian
Province of East Prussia. This area is now part of Poland.
	Three children were born in East Prussia: Pauline in 1874, 
Emily in 1877,
and Augusta in 1880. They came to the United States in 1881 and settled in
Michigan where they became naturalized U.S. citizens in 1888. After
naturalization the family name was shortened to Lentz, and Johan became John.
While in Michigan two more children were born: Charles in 1884, and Martha in
1886.
	Then the family came west with the Sobolesky family to the 
Evaline area. The
Lentz family bought 40 acres of land from the Northern Pacific Railway Company
for $2.50 per acre on a site just south of the intersection of Tennessee Road
and Schoolhouse Road. One child was born here: Emma in 1908.
	John Lentz was a farmer and built a house on their property. 
They lived in
the Evaline area until about 1909 when John, Wilhelmina, and their daughter
Emma, bought and moved onto a l0acre farm on the Bishop Road near Chehalis
between the Fern Hill Cemetery and Market Street. The farm had a big 
windmill to
bring up the water for use. John Lentz grew berries for a living - 
loganberries,
raspberries, and strawberries.
	After John's death in 1923, and after a fire burned part of 
the property,
Wilhelmina and her still unmarried daughter, Emma, moved to a house near the
corner of 11th Street and Market Street in Chehalis, where the 
Federal Land Bank
building now stands. Wilhelmina Lentz died in 1939, and Emma lived in the house
until she died in 1976.
	Emil Lentz, his wife and five of his children lived on the 
Lentz Road in the
Evaline area until about 1915 before moving to the Ellensburg area. The only
other children to remain in Lewis County were: Pauline, who married 
Henry Becker
and lived in Chehalis, and Augusta, who married Moses Wilson and lived at
Evaline within sight of the original Lentz property. By Myrtle Petrie and Doug
Wilson

CHARLES ELMER LEONARD

Charles Elmer Leonard was born in Owens Sound, Ontario Canada, August 9, 1861.
He was the son of Thomas Leonard and Elizabeth Watson Leonard of Rockingham,
England. He came to Win lock September, 1885 and married October 4, 
1887, at Win
lock. He built, owned, and operated the Winlock Water Co. until it was sold to
the City of Winlock in 1955. He built the buildings on First Street, including
the old fire hall, in 1912 and 1914, the present flower shop, and many houses
still standing.

  (photo): Charles Elmer Leonard Family

Charles died November, 1942.
	Martha Elizabeth Harrington was born September 11, 1866, in American
Fork, Utah. She was the daughter of Theodore and Martha Harrington, descendants
of the Mormon Chipman family. They came to Winlock about 1875 in a 
covered wagon
and ran the Harrington Hotel in Winlock for many years. She died 
August 1, 1944.
	Children of the family include: Theodore Leonard of Dalas, 
Oregon; Charles;
Herbert; Edward; and Ethel Petersen deceased. By Pearle Edmonds Leonard

HERBERT WILLIAM LEONARD

Herbert William Leonard was born May 27, 1896, in Winlock to Charles E. Leonard
and Martha Harrington. His father built, owned and operated the Winlock Water
System in 1903. This system was sold to the city in 1955. It is one of the best
water systems in the state. He also owned River Pilot Newspaper in 1897, a
hardware store in 1901, and was postmaster in 1917.

  (photo): Pearl and Herbert Leonard

Herbert Leonard was a sergeant in World War I in France, He was an athlete, a
Winlock High School coach, and the utility superintendent in Winlock. 
He was the
inventor of Log Barker (Presto Logs), and a community builder. He also was a
grass seed grower in the Longview, Kelso, Klaber, Toledo, and Winlock area with
800 acres of corn, peas, and grass seed.
	I smile when I think back to some of the ranch errands my 
husband requested
late at night. I always felt free to include my friend Evelyn Miller on these
missions. One was to deliver weed spray late at night to the Kelso Airport for
the pilot to use for field spraying the following morning. We were scared and
managed the trips from car to placing the spray in the dim lit distance. With a
surge of unexpected strength we covered the distance in fast order. 
Quite a show
of energy for two cowards happy to return home and safety.
	Herbert Leonard married Ardis Jones and five children were born to this
marriage: Phyllis Lucille, Barbara Jeanne, Richard Dean, William Allen, and
Harold Clark.
	On February 19, 1936, he married a second time to Pearl Lela 
Edmunds Garbe.
Pearl is the daughter of Walter A. Edmunds and Francis Marie Jarnot 
and was born
December 17, 1907. She has a son, Harold Cecil Garbe, who was born in June 1930
in Kelso.
	Pearl was a homemaker who raised her husband's five children. She has
interests in art, travel, needlepoint, and is a Life Master of the American
Contract Bridge League. She was an active worker in Lewis County Community
Concerts, Orthopedic Hospital, Angus McMillian Guild, Red Cross, Lewis County
Art League, and the Veterans Hospital. She makes her home at present 
in Winlock.
	Herbert William Leonard died on June 23, 1973, in Portland, 
Oregon. He is
buried in the Wilamete National Cemetery. By Pearl Edmunds Leonard

LEWIS LINDBERG

Lewis Lindberg (1866-1922) came from Sweden, when in his teens. He went to
Portland Oregon, married a girl named Carrie, who died not long after.

  (photo): Lewis Lindberg, and Mary (Insert)

Lewis moved to Verndale, (now Glenoma). When there were no roads, he walked in,
carrying everything on his back. He homesteaded on Nov. 28th 1888. He met and
married Mary Hunt (1885-1948). Her parents were John and Nancy Hunt, 
who ran the
flour mill just outside of Riffe.
	Mary was 16 when they were married. They lived in a log house 
before they
built their home. They had nine living children. Carrie Francis (Taylor)
1905-1978 . . . Murtle Etta (West) 19081948... Tillie May (Eller) 
1910-, Leonard
1912-, Herbert 1913-1941, Josephine 19141915, Harry 1915-1982, Twins Willard
1917-1920 and William 1917-.
	When the twins were born, the doctor gave them up for dead 
and laid them to
one side, to save Mary. Her parents worked on the babies and got them 
breathing.
Willard never got strong after that and was buried in the old 
Christian Cemetery
along with Josephine. One stillborn was buried in the orchard.

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The boys, when young, to get a laugh when a salesman or stranger came around to
see their dad, they always made it a point to take them through the barn. They
would run, the salesman would walk, not knowing the barn was full of fleas. By
the time they got through, they would be black with fleas.
	They had many boys come and stay for the summer or just stay 
for a time to
work in the fields. A few who came were, Earl Boren, John Willis and 
Tom Milton.
Also John Winters stayed and worked sometimes. Winters Mt. was named 
for him. He
had a cache somewhere on the mountain. He was getting old and was going to show
Leonard where and what it was. They were halfway there when a head popped up
from under a tarp and he turned around and no one knows, to this day, where or
what (gold or money) he had buried up there.
	The door was always open for Mary Kiona and family, even if 
they weren't
home. They went in, fixed something to eat, and always left 
huckleberries, a big
salmon or whatever they were traveling after.
	Lewis worked in the woods, building roads with Walt Mills, 
using horses. He
also served on the Glenoma School board. Besides farming and raising pigs, they
had acres of sugar beets and rutabagas that they used for pig feed.
	After Lewis passed away, Mary ran the farm and a still to 
make ends meet.
Her best customers were the sheriff's men. They closed the other moonshiners
down but never bothered her.
	The old home burnt down and Mary rebuilt on Hwy. 12. She 
remarried to Harley
Harbison from Oregon.
	The land was split up between the children. Leonard, Harry 
and William were
still owners of most of the original homestead until Tacoma City bought them
out. Leonard and William both live less than 1/4 mile from where they 
were born.
Harry's grandson Joey is the last Lindberg to date to carryon the name.

WILLIAM (WILLIE) AND LEONARD LINDBERG

Willie and his twin brother, Willard, were born at Verndale, now Glenoma, on
November 8, 1917. Willard died about three years old and is buried at the old
Christian Cemetery. Their parents were Lewis and Mary Hunt. They had a farm and
he remembers hearing them tell how, after raising turkeys and pigs, they drove
them to market by foot. It took a long time to drive the turkeys because, as it
started to get dark, the turkeys would fly up in the trees to roost and, until
they got ready to come down, they couldn't go farther.

  (photo): William and Leonard Lindberg

When Willie was about six years old his brother Harry shoved him and he hit his
head on the iron wagon wheel and split his head wide open. With no 
doctor close,
his mother just took him in and poured a bottle of iodine in the cut; something
he has never forgotten. The kids, when they stubbed their toes or got 
their feet
hurt, would find a nice warm, fresh cow pile and stick the foot in it and it
would heal right up.
	Willie, in 1938, Leonard, in 1936, were both in the CCC Camp 
in Randle. They
helped build many of the trails and roads in the Randle area. Harry and Willie
also helped make the stone barriers over White Pass Highway while on the county
road crew. Willie was in the navy in World War II. When he came home he married
Verna Scalf, in 1949. She had a son, Robert. Her father was Jerry Scalf. Willie
and Verna had a daughter, Barbara, in 1951. They were divorced, and after nine
years, he married Velma (Harbour) Miller in 1964, who had two children, Linda
(1947), who married Terrel Chamberlain of Morton, and William (1951), who
married Terri Ford of Morton. Willie lived on the old home place until Tacoma
City Light bought him out and they bought, what was left of the Lee Scalf place
and built a home. Willie went to work at age 15. He worked off and on for the
county road crew to help his mother pay the taxes on the farm. He then worked
for Kosmos Mill until he went to work for Weyerhaeuser in 1956. He worked for
them until he retired in 1976. Leonard also worked for Kosmos Mill, then
Champion, until he retired. When he was bought out by Tacoma City Light, he
built up on the hill near his brother Harry's. Leonard never married. Harry was
the only one to have a son, Joseph, to carryon the name, who also had a son.

PAUL AND DORIS LINDEMAN

Paul Lindeman was born in the Northern German village of Kreupe in 
January 1841.
He grew up along the docks of Hamburg and waited eagerly for the day whe he
could become a crew member and sail away. When he was fifteen he signed on as a
cabin boy and traveled to all the European ports. When he was twenty-one, he
made his last trip home and got a job on a ship going around Cape Horn and up
the coast to San Francisco. Here he started a flower shop and when he had saved
enough money sent back to Germany for the girl he had left there.
	Doris Cheerman was born in Lubec in 1846. She came by 
steerage to New York,
on another ship to Colon, Central America, across the Isthmus of Panama by rail
and on still another ship to San Francisco. They were married there in 1867.
	Paul worked at many different trades that he had learned at 
sea and then
started a grocery and fruit store on Mission Street. They lived upstairs and
here William Lindeman was born in 1872 and Rudolph Lindeman in 1876. Stories of
the large wheat harvests in the Palouse section of Washington Territory
interested them and they decided to go there. The Washington State Penitentiary
was being built then and Paul worked on it for three years. Their third son,
Edward Lindeman was born there in 1882.
	The cold winters there bothered them and they began thinking 
of their final
move. Paul came to what is now Lewis County and walked over a large part of it
talking to the settlers and looking for the land he wanted to homestead. He
found it at Ethel and walked over the Oregon Trail to Olympia to file the
necessary papers. There was already an old cabin on the place and he 
lived there
alone until his family could join him the next spring. They built a 
larger cabin
near Lacamas Creek and lived in it all the rest of their lives. It is 
now on the
National Register of Historic Homes because of its construction.
	Paul started a store and was postmaster for thirty-five years. William
married Mabel Cusick and moved his family to Tacoma. Rudolph married Margaret
Bowers and they farmed the home place and raised their family there. Edward
married Nell Wolcott and they stayed at Ethel until 1942 when they moved to
Chehalis where he worked in the County Assessor's office until he retired.
	For entertainment, they picnicked in groves in the summer, 
went to parties
in the different homes where they played games and square danced. They never
missed a revival meeting within walking distance. They fished the Cowlitz,
hunted deer and raced horses on Sundays. Schools were only in session for a few
months of the year and they had to walk a long way to attend them. The Post
Office was a gathering place for the men and they really discussed politics
there.
	Doris died in 1908 and Paul in 1924 and both are buried in the Masonic
section of the Salkum Cemetery.

LINHART FAMILY AND NAPAVINE

J.F. (Joseph Frank) and Rose (Stroble) Linhart arrived in Napavine Thanksgiving
Day, 1889. Washington did not become a state until 1889. Napavine is 
the highest
point geographically between Seattle and Portland, Oregon.
	They came on an immigrant train from Grafton, North Dakota. 
The train had a
stove in the baggage car for the ones coming west to cook on, as there was no
diner.
	They located in a rental house, and by 1900 he built a home to raise a
family. It was a large house with five bedrooms upstairs, located directly
behind the store.
	Soon after arriving in Napavine, he bought out a partner of an existing
general store. Shortly after, he bought out the other partner, as he wanted to
return to Chicago, thus making him the sole owner. Later he added a meat market
addition giving a complete line of groceries, dry goods, grain and feed. The
store was across the street from a blacksmith shop.
	The original St. Agnes Catholic Church is still used. The Methodist and
Baptist are still used as churches with some alterations. The Christian Church
is now the Town Hall. The Presbyterian Church in the north end is gone.
	J.F., as he was known by many, served on the School Board of District #14.
During his tenure as Director, the first brick building in Napavine was to be a
grade school. This building was across the street from the Mayme Shaddock City
Park. This park was used for town picnics, for several years, on the 4th of
July.
	The first born into the family arrived in 1890, which was to 
be the first of
nine children. They were Hilda M. Goodard (94 and still living) Napavine; Vilma
R. Brown, Eugene, Oregon (deceased age 91); Russell L. Linhart, Seattle
(deceased age 76); Stella L. Osborne living in Centralia 62 years; 
Ruby E. Penn,
San Francisco
. (deceased age 70); Joseph I. "Buster" Linhart, Eureka, California (deceased
age 68); and Birdie Linhart, Napavine.
	The first born, Hilda Goodard, at age 23, became postmistress 
in Napavine
and held the office for eight and one-half years. A Civil Service Examination
was required, in 1913, rather than a political appointment. Two took the
examination.

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  (photo): Linhart General Merchandise

By 1910, there were five lumber mills close by. They were Emery and Nelson,
Sommerville Brothers (Haywire) Mill, R.M. Shaver Mill, and two smaller ones.
Now, all are gone.
	By 1913, there was, added to the business part of town, two 
drug stores, a
hat shop, feed store, meat market, restaurant, saloon, two-story hotel, real
estate office, bank, creamery (later remodeled to be a home), and a train depot
on the main line between Seattle and Portland.
	About 1917, J.F. was owner of a Buick Touring Car with side curtains.
	In the summer of 1917, during the First World War, the Northern Pacific
Railroad had a maintenance crew, known as the 'Section Crew,' to repair the
tracks. The wife of the foreman had a crew of ten high school girls. 
Slacks were
not worn by women then. The girls wore 'basketball bloomers.' Stella was one of
this crew. The average monthly check was about $75.00 for a 9hour day.
	J.F. Linhart died April 21, 1919, at age 57. Rose Linhart lived until
January 30, 1954, just 17 days before her 86th birthday. By Stella Osborne

PAUL R. LLOYD'S

Paul came to Randle in 1921 with his parents and sisters. His father, Charles
Peter, (b:29/10/1878-Pa.) married Elsie Jeanette Rater (b:29/3/1880, Ia.) on
4/7/1900 in Adair, Ia. There Anna Isabel (b:3/6/1902) and Paul Raymond
(b:1/6/1905) were born. In 1906 they moved to Kress, Texas where Ethel Elsie
(b:9/3/1908) and Bessie Bernice (b:3/4/1911) were born. Then off once again by
covered wagon to Prineville, Ore., where Mary Blanche (b:10/2/1914) was born.
	So when they moved to Randle, Paul decided this is where he 
was going to
stay. He met and courted Marjorie (Billie) Gayle Hubbard (b: 11/7/1908 -
Ballard) while she was working at Burlson's Cafe. On Sept. 1, 1930 they were
married in Chehalis. While they were living on the Young Road, Gayle Jeanne
(b:8/4/1934) and Paul Anthony (b:28/5/1938) were born.
	In 1942 they bought the Dan Christian place in Glenoma, 
living in the old
tie mill shack until Dan's house was available. On 30/9/1945, son Robert Louis
was born.
	Through all the years at Glenoma, Paul R. ran the farm, tie 
mill, and was on
the school board, and later worked at the peeler plant. Billie was involved in
Rebecca Lodge, played her piano for dances, weddings and school graduations.
	On 24/12/1951, daughter Gayle married Donald Dean Warnes of 
Seattle. They
have three children: Donna Jeanne (b:23 /11/1953 - Morton) married George
Gonser, lived in West Seattle, with a son, William Dean (28/2/1978 - Burien);
Second daughter, Tina Marie (30/5/1956 - Bremerton) married to Victor Habib of
France and live in Benicia, Calif., with their daughter, Angela Inez Odett
(b:18/1/1983); a son, Johnny Dean (b:27/6/1963 - Morton) is married to Lnell
Antrim of Renton and have two sons, Bradley Dean (b:18/2/1982 - Burien) and
Jeremy Donald (b:18/4/1984 - Burien) and reside in Burien.
	Their son, Paul Anthony married Marjorie Ann Koher of Glenoma 
on 2/7/1965 in
Morton. Paul made his career the Air Force and after 26 years, he retired in
1984. He was a loadmaster on many cargo planes and the last few years he taught
in the loadmaster field. Now he is taking diesel mechanics at Bate's Vocational
with a desire to later teach at that level.
	After graduation in 1963 Robert began driving trucks for L.K. 
Cearly, a life
long dream. The dream shattered on 30 Sept. 1964. He died in a logging truck
accident.
	Dad had been building a new house behind the big white house, 
so after Bob's
death, he finished it and moved in. He later sold the place to Dale Riffe and
moved to Randle. Then in 1970 they moved to Centralia.
	Billie passed away on 4 March 1973 and Paul R. passed away on 2 August
1975,just two weeks after Paul A. had been transferred to McChord 
A.F.B. Paul R.
was laid to rest next to son, Robert, at Rainey Valley Cemetery in Glenoma.

HELYN GRACE LOFGREN

I was born July 18, 1936, assisted into this world by Dr. Joel Toothaker at
Saint Luke's Hospital in Centralia. I was the third child born to my parents,
Everett Wesley and Helen Beatrice (Canfield) Good of Centralia. I was named
after my mother and my grandmother Grace. I joined a sister, Barbara Joyce, now
Barbara Stewart of Chehalis and a brother, Richard Everett, now of Graham,
Washington. Later, our family increased with the addition of my sister Patricia
Elizabeth, now Patricia Meyn of Chehalis and my brother, David Joel, 
named after
Dr. Joel Toothaker, and now living in Olympia.
	My father was born in Chetak, Wisconsin, and came to this 
area in his teens.
My mother was born in Black River Falls, Wisconsin, and moved to this area when
she was two years old.
	I attended half a year of the first grade at the Fords 
Prairie School. We
moved into town and I attended school at the Lincoln School on 
Washington Avenue
where I finished the last part of the first grade through the sixth grade.
	We moved to Rochester, WA where I attended school from the 
seventh through
the ninth grade. The earthquake of 1949 occurred while I was in the seventh
grade.
	My father, a logger who worked in the Morton area, was injured in an
accident (breaking his neck) during the winter of 1949-1950. He was 
moved to the
Centralia General Hospital. My mother went to town to be with him. During this
time, the winter blizzard of 1949-1950 hit our area. My mother was 
snowed in, in
Centralia, and the five of us kids were isolated for a week by ourselves at
home. I remember the deep snow drifts and the cold. My father was in 
a body cast
for a long time after his accident.
	We moved back to Centralia where I attended the tenth through eleventh
grades.
	I married Raymond Walter Sommer of Winlock, Washington during 
my eleventh
grade at school. He was a U.S. Marine and was sent to Korea shortly after our
marriage on April 4, 1953. I lived with my family and we moved back 
to Rochester
where I graduated from high school in June, 1954.
	I started working as a telephone operator in Seattle on June 
7, 1954. After
my husband returned from Korea, we lived in Seattle. Eastgate, and 
moved back to
Centralia. Our three children, Kathleen Faith, Deborah Rae, and Michael Raymond
were born in Seattle. I worked as a telephone operator in Centralia for several
years after our return here.
	I went to work for Pacific Northwest Bell in Olympia after my divorce.
	I married Carl Nils Lofgren, a widower with three children, 
on the tenth of
April, 1965, in Centralia. His children, Gregory Carl, Lynn Fay, and Kimberly
Gaye, and my three children made us an instant large family. Our sons, Paul
David and Carl Nils Lofgren Jr., were born in 1966 and 1967. We have four
grandchildren and expect two more this year.
	My husband has worked for U.P. Railroad for 31 years. I worked as a
telephone operator for four and one-half years until the Centralia office
closed. I have worked as a printer at Browning's Office Supply for the past six
years.

ALBERT H. AND DOLLIE (CORP) LONG

My father, Hugh Corp, was from Lynn County, NB. My mother, Nettie Price, came
from West Virginia. They met at a barn dance on the Zandecki Road in 1909. They
married in December, 1910. At that time, my father owned the Avery homestead on
Avery Road West. They raised seven children, while living on the homestead,
Ocie, James, Alonzo, May, Rose, Dollie (myself) and Nettie. James and 
Nettie are
deceased.

  (photo): L to R:Front row: Alonza, Annamay, Albert, George. Seated: Dollie.

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My folks owned the Avery homestead until both died; Father, in 1968, 
and Mother,
in 1977.
	At this time, Ocie resides in Umitilla, OR; Alonzo in 
Sunnyside, WA; May on
Jackson Hwy, Chehalis; Rose in Camp Perde, AZ; and my address is Highway 12
East, Chehalis.
	I married in 1941 and had twins in 1944, a boy, Alonzo, and a 
girl, Annamay.
This marriage ended in divorce in 1946. I married Albert Long, a truck driver
and brother to Alma Nix, in 1948. Our son, George, was born to us in 1949.
	We moved to Coos Bay, OR, in 1950, where Albert continued to 
work in the
woods and drive trucks. We lived there until 1955, when we moved to 
Phoenix, AZ,
hopefully to improve Albert's health. There being no logging except in northern
Arizona, he worked at various jobs, including mechanics, and at one time,
splicing cable in his own cable shop. I worked in restaurants and electronic
plants, becoming Rework Technician for Sure Electronics.
	Albert's health never improved and the doctor's telling us we 
should move
from there because of the smog. When we asked about Washington, the 
doctors were
delighted, providing we moved to the country where there was plenty of fresh
air.
	In 1972, we moved back to Chehalis, buying property from my 
brother, James
Corp. This property having, at one time, been owned by my grandfather, James M.
Corp, is now located on Hwy 12 E.
	After moving to Washington, Albert worked, for a while, at 
the Centralia
Steam Plant; eventually, retiring and doing custom tractor work with our son,
George. He was Master of Forest Grange for five years and Executive 
Committeeman
for two years. Three of the five years Albert was master at the grange, I was
grange secretary. In 1980, I went to beauty school, where I obtained my
cosmetology license. I owned and operated a beauty shop in Napavine, for a
while. As Albert's health continued to fail, I moved my beauty shop to my home.
	Albert adopted Alonzo and Annamay, when they were very young. 
Alonzo lives
in Aberdeen, WA, where he works as an Electronic Engineer for Lamb Industry,
traveling all over the U.S. and Canada, helping install and doing computer work
in computer sawmills. He has three children, Theodore, Rebecca and Tera. Our
daughter, Annamay, lives in Mesa, AZ, where she is secretary for the
Superintendent of Mesa School District. She has three boys, Mark, David and
Paul. George has never married and lives at home with me. He is continuing with
the tractor work he and his father started before his father passed away,
February, 1984. I also have continued with the beauty shop at home, 
where George
and I reside at 401 U.S. Hwy 12 E., Chehalis, WA.

THE LONGS: TOM, ANDY AND WILL

Tom, Andy and Will Long, all brothers, were Mayor, Fire Chief and Chief of
Police, of Chehalis, simultaneously. There were two other brothers, Henry and
Charlie. Henry became a Washington State Legislator. Charlie farmed at Klaber,
Washington. Tom later became Lewis County Commissioner.
	My maternal grandmother Ida Bell, a sister of the Long 
brothers, married my
grandfather, Horatio J. Duffy, who at one time was Lewis County Treasurer. He
owned the first brickyard in that area and subdivided a portion of Chehalis.
There are streets in Chehalis named after my mother, Lucretia, and after my
aunt, Lorenia. Mr. Duffy helped organize and was the first Master of 
the Masonic
Lodge in Chehalis. He later became a member of El Katif temple of the Mystic
Shrine. A few anecdotes come to mind: Mr. Duffy stopped a run on the Coffman
Dobson Bank by passing a bag of gold thru a rear window. He contributed five
hundred dollars to the first water system in Chehalis. He later felt that he
should have contributed more when he learned that Mr. Coffman had contributed
one thousand dollars.
	Mr. Duffy was considered wealthy for that time but 
experienced financial
reverses such as when he was developing a town site in the Grays 
Harbor area and
unheard of for that time, a tidal wave clobbered him. New towns and industries
were springing up at that time in the nation's development. I 
remember my mother
mentioning "the hard times of the early nineties," so that too didn't help
matters.
	Just one more anecdote: When Mr. Duffy was eleven years old, he took an
active part in the Civil War, carrying dispatches between Union Army units over
the mountains of the South.
	Oh yes, may I say the tidal wave alluded to above didn't 
clobber Mr. Duffy
personally, just his development.
	Horatio J. Duffy was born June 19, 1851.  Married Ida Bell Long, 1878.
Died January 8, 1927.
	I have finished with Chehalis and feel badly that I have 
forgotten so many
names, dates and events.
	As this narrative is not about myself, I will only mention 
very briefly the
paternal side of the house.
	My paternal grandfather was Christopher C. Thompson. He, in 
his youth, left
Louisiana because he disliked slavery, crossed the plains in 1852 in a wagon,
during which one of them was fatally shot by Indians. He eventually 
settled near
Centralia, Washington in the Hanaford Valley. (Note: Hanaford is spelled with
one "N" only which is correct. It is commonly spelled with two "N's" which is
incorrect). He married Emma Hanaford, after whose family the Hanaford Valley is
named. She, too, had crossed the plains via wagon train on her way 
from Vermont.
	There were two Hanaford girls, Emma and Ella. As they crossed 
the plains
there was a scarcity of firewood for camp use. Much to the embarrassment of the
girls they were designated to go out and pick up buffalo chips for the fire.
	That's all for now, except to say, that I served four and a 
half years in
WWII and was discharged in 1946 as a lieutenant in the u.S. Navy and later
became a real estate broker in the Los Angeles area. By Dale Thompson

LOONEY FAMILY

John Clifford Looney was born November 14, 1903 in PeEll, Washington. Ethel
Stiltner was born December 3,1910 in Glenoma, Washington.
	John attended a small country grade school in the Mayfield 
and Winston Creek
area and then graduated from Mossyrock High School in May, 1924. Ethel attended
Glenoma Grade School. Then, transportation was provided by a car driven by Roy
Parks to Morton High School, graduating May, 1929.
	John and Ethel met in a little country church located north 
and west of the
Glenoma School. They were married September 12, 1929 and lived in the Mayfield
area. They had two daughters - Frances, born September 12, 1930, and 
JoAnn, born
March 9, 1932. One son, Ralph, was born April 10, 1934.
	During the depression years, John picked fern for as little 
as 2 cents per
bunch. He then worked for WPA as timekeeper for $66 per month, which was a
fortune! Frances and JoAnn attended Mossyrock School through the third grade.
Mrs. Elizabeth Sullivan was their first grade teacher, and she still lives in
Tacoma. Frances was May Queen attendant when she was in the second grade.
	In November, 1939, the family moved to Glenoma because of the 
illness of
Ethel's mother, Melissa Stiltner (1874-1946). Frances, JoAnn, and 
Ralph attended
Glenoma Grade School and then Morton High School. Frances graduated 1948, JoAnn
in 1950, and Ralph 1952.
	Frances married William J. Scalf in 1948 and had three 
children: Dennis,
1949; Tina, 1951 and Duane, 1952. Frances was employed by Packwood 
Lumber Co. as
bookkeeper for several years until she was disabled in a car accident in 1974.
	JoAnn married Winfred C. Morris in 1948. She worked for Dr. 
Bede and Dr.
Wark at the clinic and Morton Hospital until 1954. They have two children -
Susan, 1954 and Steven, 1956. JoAnn is presently working as secretary at the
White Pass High School.
	Ralph graduated from Morton High School in 1952 and then 
attended LaVerne
College, CA, and graduated from Long Beach State College, CA, 1956. Vera May
Harlacher and Ralph were married in 1954, and they have four children: Kenneth,
1958; Janelle, 1961; Joellen, 1962,and Deena, 1967. Ralph started his teaching
career in Downey, CA and is at this time teaching in Sutter, CA.
	We have attended the high school graduation of our three 
children and the
graduation of all the grandchildren. Each one has had the privilege 
of attending
college. Dennis Scalf and his wife graduated from Montana State College.
	We have nine grandchildren and at the present time, 1985, and eleven
great-grandchildren.
	Dennis Scalf married Joni Sasich in 1980. Tina Scalf married 
Dan Hall and
has six children: Boaz, Carmel, Anna, Daniell, Donique, and Jetaime.
	Duane Scalf married Connie Hatch and they have one son, Jebediah.
	Susan Morris married Donald Glad, and they have four sons: 
August, Eric,
Andrew, and Cody. They live on Camano Island. Steven Morris married 
Beth Merrin,
and they live in Glenoma. Janelle Looney married Jeffery Davy.
	At this date, 1985, John and Ethel live on the home place in 
Glenoma that
her father bought in 1900, and in the house he built in 1924. We attend the
Church of the Brethren, Mossyrock, Washington, and we enjoy good 
health and many
other privileges bestowed to us. By Ethel Looney, 1985

PHILLIP SR. AND PHIL LOUCKS

Phillip Henry Loucks (born 1874.died 1960) in Wisconsin and Charolett Williams
Loucks (born 1884-died 1956) came to Lakeview, Oregon in 1934. He worked for
Fruit Growers Lumber Company in Northern California. Their son Phillip Harold
(born 5-24-14) in Little Fork, Minnesota was living there.
	Phil worked for the ZX Cattle Company for several years. He 
rode a pony to
carry the mail from Lakeview to Adele and Push, Oregon in the Warner Valley,
which was a total of60 miles. He would stay all night at Clarks Ranch sleeping
on the floor behind the wood stove, finishing the trip the next day.
	Roy Williams had a cousin Phil that he loved, in Toledo, Washington. He
needed some one to drive his 1939 logging truck. Being 23 years old,

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  (photo): John and Ethel Looney, Frances Looney Sealf, Jo Ann Looney Morris,
Ralph Looney 1985

  (photo): Phil Loucks

looking for work, Phil took the job and has been in the area ever since.
	In 1939 he married La Norma Woods (born 4-10-1921-died 
10-20-65) daughter of
Ernest Woods.
	To this marriage five children were born - Janet (11-25-40) 
married Fred
Meyer; Harold (1212-1942) married Sharon McKee; Jim (4-8-1947) married Wanda
Bloomstrom; Charolett (6-281948) married Gary Fairburn; Sandy 
(6-8-1953) married
Clyde Ramsey.
	       In 1940 when Weyerhaeuser Logging went on strike, they moved to
California for a short time. Times were getting better in Washington 
and the 2nd
World War was going on. So back to Kosmos they moved. Phil went to work bucking
timber for Ernest Woods, earning $4 a day.
	When that job was completed he went to work for Kosmos Timber Company
driving logging truck until 1946.
	Phil and LaNorma moved again to Okanogan country, where they 
had a cattle
ranch. Living there until 1953, they moved back to Glenoma purchasing the
Sheaffer place.
	1968-1969 found Phil president of the Mt. Adams Trail Riders 
Association
along with being on the White Pass School Board for two years.
	In 1969 Phil sold the Sheaffer place and moved to Idaho, 
living there for
over two years. He had 53 pack and saddle horses. One year he packed in over 70
hunting camps. It was on one of these trips that he saw his one and 
only grizzly
bear in the wild. Phil also had the pleasure of packing a Boy Scout Troop into
the Sands Lake area. This was a very interesting trip.
	In 1972 he moved once more to Glenoma, buying part of the 
Harrison Christa
in place from John Auman. Phil and Harold farmed the place together, raising
cattle, hauling livestock for people and hay from east of the mountains.
	Phil had a few injuries; like falling out of the haymow, 
breaking his wrist
and cutting his head with the power saw, which required several stitches.
	Twelve grandchildren and two great- grandchildren call him Grandpa.

JAMES A. LUMAN FAMILY

We sisters, Donna Jewell and Frances Henderson, here relate a bit of our family
history. Our father, James A. Luman, was born in 1884 near Osborne, Osborne
County, Kansas, to Preston Luman and Hannah Ellen (Belvill) Luman. The family
moved to Lewis County in 1888, homesteaded at the upper end of the 
Lincoln Creek
Valley area, living there in a log cabin.

  (photo): Jim and Grace Luman

Later they moved to a farm on the Airport Road near Chehalis, where 
dad attended
grade school. In later years he often told of milking the cows from a rowboat
when the Chehalis River flooded.
	Preston Luman, dad's father, owned and operated the Palace 
Meat Market on
Main Street in Centralia, where two of his sons, Jim and Ira, worked.
	In 1908 dad married Grace Gibson, the daughter of Samuel C. and Antonio
Gibson, a pioneer family of Thurston County, and related to Benjamin 
L. Henness,
Captain of Fort Hen. ness on Grand Mound during the Indian War of 1955-56.
	Dad was a farmer and meat cutter during his lifetime, 
managing a market in
Centralia for Frye & Company; was manager of the first meat market operated in
Tono, Washington, and later coowner of the Star Market on North Tower Avenue in
Centralia. For many years dad and mom were members of Oakview Grange 
and dad was
a lifetime member of the Centralia Eagles Lodge. He was an avid hunter and
fisherman, still driving his car and going fishing at the age of 87.
	Mom and dad had two daughters: Donna, born in 1915 and Frances, born in
1917, in a log house on their farm located in Thurston County and about two
miles north of Lewis County. We both have lived in Lewis County most of our
lives, and still do, and graduated from Centralia High School. Donna became a
beautician and Frances a legal secretary.
	Mom and dad retired from their Thurston County farm in 1942 
and moved to the
Centralia area, where dad died in 1972 and mom in 1979.
	Donna married Carroll Jewell in 1945 and they have two 
children: Toni, born
in 1947, and Bill, born in 1971, both in Lewis County. Toni married 
Charles Ruhl
in 1967; they have one daughter, Carol, and presently live in Shelton,
Washington. Bill married Diane Stedham in 1982; they have one son, 
Chad, and now
live near Borst Park, Centralia, Washington.
	Frances married Lyle B. Henderson in 1936 and they have two 
children: Roger,
born in 1948 and Cheryl, born in 1950. Roger married Nita Bryson in 1967 and
they live in the Seattle area. Cheryl lives at San Bernardino, California.

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THE LUNDS OF WINLOCK

Gus Pahikainen and Hilma Aksila were married in Seattle, April 20, 1907. Three
days later they came by train to Winlock, WA, to the forty acre farm Gus had
purchased from his earnings in the virgin woods since his arrival 
from Kalajoki,
Finland, to escape service in the Russian Army.
	Gus and Hilma had become sweethearts while working as 
servants in Kalajoki
on the estate of a wealthy cousin, the Sandaholomas. Gus arrived in the Pacific
Northwest in 1902. He soon discovered the name Pahikainen was too difficult to
use in America. One day he got a job in the woods because a man named Lund had
died in an accident, and when Gus took out his naturalization papers 
he took the
Lund name.
	Logging in the Winlock area was still prevalent, and Gus 
continued working.
By this time Hilma had a few cows and some chickens to take care of. Later Gus
cleared much of the stump land for hay fields for the cows. In 1907 the Finnish
Hall was built on an acre of land Gus had donated. All the young Finnish
families helped in the building of the hall. In 1908 the United 
Finnish Brothers
and Sisters Lodge # 19 was organized and Gus acted as secretary for 22 years.
His sons Lauri, Leo and Paul later became members. Many dances, programs, plays
were enjoyed in this Finnish Hall, which finally burned down in about 1977.
	>From about 1913 to 1950 White Leghorn chickens were popular 
and profitable
in the Winlock area. Millions of cases of eggs have been shipped to 
all parts of
the United States. Hatcheries for chicks also became a popular 
industry. Winlock
has the largest egg in the world, a landmark near the old railroad station. Egg
Day is still celebrated in the town of Winlock on the third Saturday of June.
	All six of the Lund children graduated from the Winlock High 
School. A brief
history of their lives and accomplishments follows: Lauri John b. 1/24/08 d.
8/13/83 Lauri was graduated from Washington State College and married a Winlock
school teacher, Alice Norton. He was a friendly service station operator in
Tacoma. He was known as the Tacoma Kiwanis derby race king. They had two
daughters, Beverly Sanders and Sylvia Cunningham, and five 
granddaughters. After
Alice's death, he married Florence Long.
	Irene Elma b. 1/18/10 Irene was Winlock's Community Day queen 
in 1928. She
was a private secretary in Seattle and later married a service 
station operator,
Chris Thaanum, who died in 1965. They had two daughters, Christine Coffey and
Joanne Rehkopf, three grandsons and one granddaughter. Irene's 
hobbies have been
PTA, Girl Scouts, Garden Club, flower show judge and travelling.
	Weikko Adolf b. 7/4/2 Weikko knows more or has handled more 
hen's eggs than
any man in the area. He graduated with a B.S. in poultry husbandry from
Washington State College, and has worked for the state or had his own poultry
farm and hatchery. He married Claire Kieffer, a teacher from Lacey, W A. They
have travelled extensively in all parts of the world. They now live six months
in Greenacres, WA and six months in Mesa, AZ. They have one adopted son, Gary,
one grandson and one granddaughter. Weikko is a member of Lions International.
	Martha Elisabeth b. 2/19/15 d. 9/15/80 Martha married a 
Finnish Winlock man,
Niilo Anderson. He is a graduate of State College at Pullman, and was a state
game protector in Colfax, Kittitas, Kelso, Aberdeen and Mount Vernon. 
Martha was
active in PTA, Garden Club and Boy Scouts with their sons Dick and Terry.

  (photo): Lower Left: Gus Lund, Paul, Hilma Lund, Leo. Upper Left: Martha,
Lauri, Irene, Weikko. Year 1929.

	Part of her ashes lie peacefully in the Winlock cemetery.
	Leo Ernest b. 7/27/17 d. 9/12/83 Leo followed his father's 
footsteps as a
logger in the Ryderwood Hills. During World War II he worked in the Bremerton
Shipyard. Later he became supervisor of installation of transformers for
Bonneville Power at Vancouver, WA. He married a Winlock girl, Marguerite
Johnson. They had one daughter, Gail Love, one grandson and one granddaughter.
Both Leo and Marguerite are buried in the Winlock cemetery.
	Paul Edward b. 2/19/26 Paul is bilingual. He spoke Finnish to 
his parents
and English to his brothers and sisters. Paul worked on the family farm and
helped take care of his parents through their later years. Paul has been a milk
truck driver for Darigold for 40 years. He has a son, Dave and a daughter,
Sheila Gregg. Paul still lives on the original farm.

GEORGE AND JEAN LYLE FAMILY

I was born in Dryad, Washington in 1910. My parents, Dr. and Mrs. Eugene
Stevens, named me Marjorie Jean, but I was called by my middle name. 
My brother,
Edgar Bertram, was born in 1896; my sister, Helen Alicia, in 1897. She died in
1909.	.
	My father sometimes took me along when he went with the horse 
and buggy to
visit his patients. I remember those rides well.
	We moved to Doty when I was three years old. I am grateful 
for the privilege
I had of growing up in a small milltown; precious friendships made then last to
this day. Our grade and high school teachers, bless them, were the dedicated
kind who saw to it that we studied and learned.
	A highlight of my childhood was running with the other 
children and hiding
when frequent gypsy caravans came to town. We were told that gypsies stole
little children. Another vivid memory is the terror five short, sharp whistle
blasts from the sawmill could bring, especially in the dead of night. 
Those five
blasts signalled a fire in town.
	In 1933 I met my husband, George Lyle, one of the Civilian Conservation
Corps from Illinois, stationed at Doty. Born in Somerset, Kentucky in 1909 to
Mr. and Mrs. Leonies Lyle, he moved with his parents to Warrensburg, 
Illinois at
the age of two. He was their third boy; they later had five more 
children, three
girls and two boys.
	George and I were married in Chehalis in 1934 and lived on a 
small ranch in
Pacific County where our daughter, Helen Mary, was born in 1936. We moved to
Doty in 1940; our son, George Eugene, was born there in 1941.
	We moved to Chehalis in 1942 and were delighted to find that 
the Chehalis
Schools had teachers possessed with the same kind of dedication as those of the
Doty days.
	In 1944 we bought the home in which I still live on Chehalis Avenue. My
husband operated a meat market until the early 1950's, then worked 
several years
as a fieldman for National Fruit Company and then sold agricultural chemicals.
Then, for the last eighteen years before retirement in 1978, he was a realtor.
	I worked for the City of Chehalis as water department cashier 
from April
1952 until March 1963 when the city treasurer retired. I was appointed to that
position where I served until retirement in November 1975.
	We joined the United Methodist Church when our children were small. My
husband was a member of the Elks and Masonic Lodges and, together, we were
longtime members of the Eastern Star.
	Highlights of the Chehalis years were the joy we all felt 
when World War II
ended, celebrating the town's centennial, and experiencing the 1949 earthquake
and the 1950 blizzard.
	George and I were blessed with nine grandchildren and had 
many happy times
with them and our children. We were given forty-six wonderful years together
before a heart attack took his life in 1980.
	I now have two great-grandchildren and feel richly blessed with my dear
family, my many friends in the church, Eastern Star, and Garden Clubs, and I
live among kind, friendly neighbors. I thank the Lord that the paths of all
these good people crossed with mine. By Jean Lyle

WILLIAM (BILL) AND MAGGIE 	LYONS

William (Bill) Lyons was born October 27, 1896, at Oswego, KS. His parents were
Frank and Rachel (Dickson) Lyons. They moved from

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  (photo): L to R: Willard, Evelyn, Delores, William (Father) Maggie (Mother),
Maxine, Robert, Neil, Everett, Billy, Ralph,  Wayne Lyons.

	Kansas to Callaway, NE, when Bill was a small child. Here Bill;
half-brother, Clay Harper; sister, Pearl; and twin sisters, Ruth and Ruby, were
raised.
	Bill married Maggie May Nelson. She was born December 28, 1897. Their
wedding was February 16,1916. Her parents were Chris and Julia 
(Scheyer) Nelson.
	Maggie's sisters were Mary, Rosetta, Sophia, Ann, Tina and Agnes; her
brothers were John, Ray, Willis and Albert Nelson.
	Maggie's parents and family moved to Washington when she was 
a small child.
They lived at Eatonville, WA, for five years. Her father logged until he was
badly injured while working.
	When Chris was well enough, the family moved back to their home near
Callaway, NE.
	Bill and Maggie's children are Charles Wayne, Ralph William, 
Calvin Neil,
(twins) James Everett and Ruth Evelyn (Miller), Ruby Marine (Cox), Billy Dean,
Robert Dale, Delores May (Rice), Willard Ray (Buck) and Roger Frank. three sons
are deceased, Teddy Lee, Larry Joe and one, who died at birth, un-named.
	Bill and Maggie have thirty-six grandchildren and many 
great-grandchildren.
	Bill, Maggie and children moved to Onalaska, WA, March 7, 1940, from
Calloway, NE. He came, bought a farm near Onalaska, went back to 
Nebraska, had a
farm sale and, then, he packed and moved.
	Bill and family worked at odd jobs to make a living. Later, 
he got a job
with Carlyle Company. Bill was farming and logging, at the time of his death,
August 3, 1963. He had also worked, at one time, as Weed Control Supervisor for
Lewis County.

NELSON ADRIAN MADDEN FAMILY

Nelson Adrian was born in Blue Mound, Lynn County, Kansas on April 15, 1886 to
parents John G. and Ida Bell Reddick Madden. He was the second of three
children.
	Annie Johnson was born on the Johnson homestead (then called 
Alpha -now part
of Cine bar) on February 13, 1895. Annie was the first of three children - her
brother Andy died at 1 year of age in 1897. Little brother Richard still lives
on the homesite off the Burnt Ridge Road. Annie's parents were John Magnus and
Mary Anderson Johnson - both were from Sweden.
	Nelson and Annie were married in Chehalis on October 11, 
1915. They made
their first home off the now called Madden Road, then called the M.W. Shanklin
Road. Parts of the M.W. Shanklin Road are still in use today. They are the
Justice, Madden, and the Shanklin Roads. This home was considered in Silver
Creek then, now part of the Cinebar Community.
	Three children were born at home with the help of Dr. Botzer. 
John Chester
(known to many by Chet or Chester) March 12, 1917, Edna Ella June 12, 1918, and
Lawrence Adrian May 24, 1921.
	In 1928 a large home was built. It was a 2-story house with a 
1/2 basement
with a large kitchen, large living room, 1 bath and 5 bedrooms. This house was
built a few yards from the old one. It stood until a fire destroyed it in March
1980. This homesite is still in the family as it is owned by their 
granddaughter
Helen Annie Madden Brackee.
	Nelson was a farmer. When they cleared and plowed new ground, 
the very first
crop to be planted was potatoes.
	He once got a horse from Mabton, Washington. He named it Mabton.
	Nelson was an excellent shot with his rifle. One day tragedy 
struck him. He
was out on a rainy day with his black powder rifle loaded and sat down with his
hands over the barrel. Somehow the gun went off and Nelson lost several fingers
off each hand. This didn't stop him from entering turkey shoots. Men saw his
hands and thought no problem, he can't shoot. But he fooled them! He 
always won!
He was soon banned from all turkey shoots because of his good aim.
	Not only was Nelson a good shot, so was his wife Annie. One 
day, Nelson and
the boys went bird hunting. They had no luck but had to swallow their 
pride. For
supper - 2 birds. Annie looked up from her sewing by the window and saw 2 birds
in her flower bed. She slowly and quietly got her .22 rifle, opened the window,
and waited for the right time and shot. Two birds with one shot!
Chet, Edna and Lawrence all went to Onalaska High School after graduating from
the Cinebar School. Chet and Edna graduated from high school in 1936 and
Lawrence in 1939.
	Chet married Ruby Jo Keegan and had two daughters, Helen and 
Mary, and two
grandchildren.
	Edna married Jack Corbin and had two children, Roger and 
Myrtle Ann, and 4
grandchildren.
	Lawrence married Lillian Faylene (Faye) Shelton, had one 
daughter Elaine and
no grandchildren.
	Nelson passed away January 1, 1942, and Annie passed away 
November 15, 1944.
Both are buried at Salkum Cemetery close to Nelson's mother, Ida Bell Reddick
Madden Brown who died in June 1949 and father, John G. Madden who passed away
May 16, 1983 and son, John Chester Madden who passed way November 9, 1979. By
Mary A. Madden Fischer

  (photo): Ida B. Reddick Family

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JOHN CHESTER MADDEN FAMILY

John Chester Madden was born 12 March 1917 to parents Nelson Adrian and Annie
Johnson Madden. He was born on the Madden homestead now located at 198 Madden
Road.

  (photo): John Chester Madden. Ruby Jo Keegan Madden. with children, Helen A.
Madden Brackee, Mary A. Madden Fischer, 1 Jan. 1954.

Ruby Jo Keegan was born 6 March 1930. Her parents were Pat and Vesta 
Loe Keegan.
Ruby was born in Buna, Jasper County, Texas.
	John (who was known to everyone as Chet or Chester) and Ruby 
were married 20
May 1949. They made their home in the house that was built in 1928 
when Chet was
a lad of 11.
	Ruby and Chet were blessed with 2 daughters. Helen Annie 
arrived 19 October
1951 and Mary Alice arrived 24 April 1953. Both girls were born at Morton
General Hospital at Morton. Chet was so very proud of his little girls.
	Chet was a farmer and shipped milk in cans to Darigold. He 
shipped until
Darigold stopped taking cans in 1964.
	I can remember going out to the fence that was around the 
yard, and telling
the truck driver Clarence Guenther - "Do you know that my Mommie is out of
flour?" Next shipping day there was a sack of flour on top of the empty cans.
Boy did I get a spanking for telling Clarence.
	By September 1950 Chet purchased a tractor, a new Massey 
Harris #30. This
tractor is still in use today. Helen and I could drive it before our feet could
barely reach the pedals.
	Chet was an active member of Alpha Grange. Every second and fourth Saturday
nights would find him at the meetings. He held his position as Steward for over
20 years. Some times we were the first ones to arrive. He would start the fires
to get the building warmed up. Later when Alpha held dances on the first and
third Saturday nights, he was there at the door with fellow Grange member and
friend Don Cole.
	Haying season was a very busy time. Chet, John McDougall, and 
Chet's Uncle
Richard Johnson, all got together to do the haying at each other's houses.
	Chet was a very kind and helping person. He would stop what 
he was doing to
help his neighbors and friends. Sometimes they didn't have to call and ask. He
just somehow knew and showed up.
	Helen met and married Rick Brackee 11 November 1971 at the 
church in Adna.
They have two children - Chester Ervin 16 July 1972 and Betty Ann 11 July 1974.
They live in the Madden homesite at Cinebar.
	Mary met and married Gerald Bruce Fischer 26 August 1972 at 
the Community
Building in Chehalis. They have no children and live west of Chehalis.
	Chet and Ruby were divorced March 1973. He married Pearl 
Vigre 19 January
1974 at Mary's house with Helen standing up with them.
	Chet died 9 November 1979 with A.L.S. or Lou Gehrig disease. 
He is buried at
the Salkum Cemetery next to his parents Nelson Adrian and Annie Johnson Madden.
By Mary A. Madden Fischer.

JOHN G. MADDEN FAMILY

Both John G. Madden and Ida Bell Reddick were born in Indiana. John was born
June 19, 1855, and Ida on June 27, 1862.
	John's parents were John C. and Sarah T. Winterbower Madden. John had 3
brothers and 2 sisters. Ida's parents were William Harvey and Nancy E. Hall
Reddick. Ida had 1 sister and 3 brothers.
	John and Ida were married in Lynn County, Kansas on July 15, 1880.
	Their first child came almost 3 years later. A son, Tempy E., 
arrived June
3, 1883. He died close to his third birthday on May 19, 1886. Their second
child, Nelson Adrian was born April 15, 1886. And Myrtle C. was born July 4,
1888. All three children were born in Blue Mound, Lynn County, Kansas.
	John was advised to leave Kansas because of his health. So he moved his
young family to Washington Territory. They arrived here September 6,1888. Baby
Myrtle was just 2 months old and Nelson was 2 years old.
	They made their home just off the now called Calvin Road. Part of this
homestead is still in the family as it is owned by their granddaughter, Edna
Maddn Corbin.
	Just 2 months shy of their 13th wedding anniversary, John 
passed away May
16, 1893. Ida now had to be both mother and father to Nelson age 7 and Myrtle
almost 5.
	One year later, June 13, 1894, Ida and Robert T. Brown were 
married. Robert
was born in Ireland, August 1886. Robert received his certificate of 
citizenship
on October 17, 1896.
	They built a large house off the now called Madden Road (then 
M.W. Shanklin
Road). The M.W. Shanklin Road was established in 1889. Parts of this road are
still in use today- Justice, Madden, and the Shanklin roads.
	The house is gone now, but the homesite is still in the family as it is
owned by their greatgranddaughter Mary Alice Madden Fischer.
	Ida was able to see both children married. Nelson married 
Annie Johnson and
had three children, John Chester, Edna Ella, and Lawrence Adrian. 
Myrtle married
William Lawrence Hobbs and had one son, Johnston.
	Ida outlived both her husband and her two sons. She passed 
away June 1949.
Ida and her two husbands, John and Robert, are buried at the Salkum Cemetery,
along with Nelson who passed away January I, 1949, and John Chester November 9,
1979. Myrtle passed away in Oregon, July 1973, and is buried in 
Oregon. By Marry
A. Madden Fischer

  (photo): John G. Madden Family

AUGUSTA MADSACK

Augusta Madsack, born November 28, 1888, in Germany, to Catherine and Philip
Insel, settled in Chehalis along with her mother and brother Chris Insel, and
sisters, Bessie Schueber, Marie Stickney and Margaret Ulrich, all born in
Germany. She married first to August Gaulke and had two children, Lillian and
Carl Gaulke; her second husband was Oswald Madsack and their two children were
Kathryn and Jack Madsack.

  (photo): Augusta Madsack, 90th birthday, 1978

She made her home on Second Street in Chehalis until 1943. After the death of
her husband Oswald, she resided with her children, Lillian
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Joachim, Kathryn Hayes, Carl Madsack and Jack Madsack. She lived with Lillian,
her daughter, until age 90. All resided in Olympia, Washington.
	She had many descendants, fourteen grandchildren, eighteen
great-grandchildren, and ten great-great-grandchildren. She passed away at the
age of ninety-six, having worked hard and living a full busy life.

MALNERICH

John Denny Malnerich, was born on the family farm on Lincoln Creek, November
1929. His parents were John and Gertrude Malnerich. Denny has two sisters,
Mildred Hickman, Centralia, Dorothy Boyd, Chehalis, and one brother Tom,
Seattle.
	Denny went to Galvin grade school and graduated from 
Centralia High School
in 1949. Some of the jobs Denny had thru the growing up years were, farm labor,
working in the woods, working at the Martin Brothers coal mine in Oakville and
at the Kraft Cheese Plant in Chehalis.
	John Denny Malnerich married Ruth Payne in 1949. They have 
two children,
Trudy Ruth Malnerich Jenkins and John Robert. Denny and Ruth were divorced in
1960. Then Denny, his parents and children worked the family dairy farm until
1969. At this time he bought into Midway Meats, a Centralia packing plant; also
that same year, Denny married Deloris Parypa, a widow with three children. They
combined their families and bought, from William and Donna 
McAllister, the Floyd
McElfresh place in Galvin, a twenty acre small farm where they raise holstein
replacement heifers.
	Deloris A. Malnerich, was born in Centralia, November 1929.
	She is the daughter of Agnes E. Herriford. The W.T. Herriford 
family were
pioneer settlers on the Toutle River.
	Deloris graduated from Centralia High School in 1947. In the 
years before
marriage and family, she worked at the National Bank of Commerce.
	In 1952 she married Lawrence Parypa of Adna. They had three 
children, Robert
Neal, Joseph Lawrence and Krista Lynn.
	Widowed and remarried to John Denny Malnerich, Deloris is a 
fine artist and
plans to paint for the rest of her life.
	Her sister is Dixie Rogerson a local artist gaining national 
recognition.
Her brother is Richard Earl Dodds, a retired Naval Officer.

MANBERG FAMILY OF LINCOLN CREEK

The fall of 190 I marked the beginning of the Salamon Manberg family's life in
Lewis County. At that time, the first seed was sown as a farm was purchased on
Lincoln Creek west of Centralia. It came about through a family visit to see
Mrs. Manberg's brother, Mike Lepisto, who lived in the area. However, it was
still to be four years before an actual move was made.
	First to be completed was the matter of finishing "working" a gold mine
claim in the Klondike region of Canada, a project which was to take four years.
It was here near Dawson that Manberg had first come to Canada as a 
prospector in
1896. He was later to meet and marry Hanna Lepisto there in 1899. Both of them
were of Finnish ancestry having previously emmigrated from the "Old Country."
Prior to their visit to the Lewis County area, two daughters had been born -
Hilma (1900) and Lillian (1901). Following their return to Canada, another
daughter, Hulda (1903), and a son, Edward (1904), were added.
	Once his claim was finished in 1905, the now weary 
"sourdough" gathered his
family together for a return trip to Lewis County. However, they were to arrive
minus one as Hulda had died of illness on the journey "out."
Soon after their arrival back on the valley, active farming was begun on their
160 acres. In the next few years to come, two more daughters were to join the
family - Mamie (1909) and Annie (1911). The family kept busy during the next
several years clearing land as their diversified dairy-poultry operation
expanded.
	Manberg was later to work outside the home as a road 
supervisor for several
years and was also on the school board. Meanwhile, all five children attended
the local one-room school in the upper valley and later Centralia High School.
The four girls were to go on to college and all went into teaching. Edward,
after one year of college, began to help his folks out on the farm. Then, in
1947, after first leasing it for a time, Edward and his new bride, Marie, began
to purchase the farm from his folks. By now his parents had moved into
Centralia.
	Ed and Marie went on to raise three children on the farm, a boy and two
girls. After fifteen years, they sold the farm and moved to Mossyrock 
where they
still live. There they went into the family-run restaurant business from which
they are now retired.
	In addition, the four sisters are still alive. Hilma Eko 
lives in Rochester,
Lillian Bundy and Mamie Mortimer both live in Kelso, and Annie Makela lives in
Belfair. By Edward Manberg

WILLIAM AND OLGA MANNIKKO FAMILY

William Mannikko was born 24 October 1890 in Lapua, Finland. He immigrated in
1915 to the United States. He worked in Canada, then in Eastern Washington
farming and timber falling in King County.

  (photo): William Mannikko and wife, Olga Elina Jalonen

He married Olga Elina Jalonen in 1922. Olga was born 10 July 1901 in 
Hankilahti,
Finland. She emigrated in 1921, bringing her niece home to Seattle. Olga's
intention was to stay and earn money for an accordian, then she 
married William.
	William worked in the Black Diamond Coal Mines. Their first 
child, Bertha
Wilhelmina, was born 15 January 1923 in Hobart.
	They moved to Winlock. Working days constructing railroads, 
they built a
house at night, using a coal miner's lamp. Their second child, Reino 
Walter, was
born 13 March 1926.
	William and three friends built chicken houses from lumber 
obtained tearing
down the "Little Falls" Opera House.
	In 1936 they traded their home for a 40 acre farm. They 
raised chickens,
cows, hay and grain.
	Bertha and Reino graduated from Winlock Schools.
	Bertha married Wilbur Wigner. They moved and still live in Mt. Vernon,
Washington. Wilbur taught English and Literature at the Mt. Vernon High School.
Their children are Carol, Nancy, William, Jr., and Nancy.
	Reino married 29 June 1946, Jean Lois Perry, born 5 July 
1928, daughter of
Lyman and Marguerite Perry of Toledo. (See Lyman Perry Family)
William and Olga built and moved into a house on the King Road after retiring.
William died 30 November 1974 and Olga died 8 August 1982. They are buried in
Winlock. They were members of the United Finnish Kalevala Brothers and Sisters.
	After his parents retired, Reino and Jean moved onto the farm 
on Co-Op Hill.
Reino also worked poultry farming, and driving milk truck. From 1950-1972 he
worked at the Grange Supply in Chehalis, as a gas truck driver, mechanic, shop
foreman, salesman, then manager. From 1973-1983 he drove log truck for B&R
Logging of Toledo. In 1983 he became self-employed doing Christmas tree ground
renovation for Kirk Co.
	Jean worked at the Chehalis Cannery and as a waitress. She 
also kept busy on
the farm and raising their seven children; Douglas, Sandra, Joan, Tina, Rene,
Jeffrey and David.
	The family enjoys fishing, clam digging, hunting, and 
camping. Reino spends
many hours playing the accordian.
	Douglas married Patricia Shellhart and lives in Seattle. They 
have three
children; Tanya, Darren, and Jeremy. He works as a mortician.
	Sandra married John Davidson and lives in Castle Rock. They 
have two sons;
Timothy and Mark. He is a retired policeman and does insurance 
appraising. Sandy
drives school bus, and does income taxes.
	Joan married Raymond Mathis and lives in Cathlamet. Their two 
daughters are;
Kimberly and Rebecca. Ray is a logger.
	Tina married Joseph Sickles and lives in Winlock. They have 
one daughter,
Nicole. Joseph works for Kirk Co.
	Rene married Jerome Parkison and lives in Centralia. He works 
as an auto
parts counterman, and she is a bookkeeper.
	Jeffrey and David still live at home. By John and Sandra Davidson

MARKHAM FAMILY

My grandfather, Edwin Daniel Markham, was contacted in Wisconsin in the late
1890s by the Weyerhaeuser Brothers, then located in Minnesota, to come to the
state of Washington. My grandfather was the foremost timber cruiser 
and surveyor
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Weyerhaeuser Brothers wished to obtain his expertise in promoting their venture
into the Pacific Northwest. My grandfather led the way into their tremendously
successful venture.
	He brought his young family to Washington to settle in the 
family-oriented
community of Centralia. His wife was Amelia Ward Markham. His four 
children were
Kathryn, Mabel, John and Nell. These pioneer children attended school in
Centralia and contributed to the heritage of the area. My father, John Howard
Markham, went on to attend the University of Washington where he distinguished
himself with football letters, memberships in Sigma Nu, Oval Club, 
and Fir Tree.
	My father, John Howard Markham and his wife, Grace Young 
Markham (herself a
member of a notable pioneer family in Grays Harbor County) raised a family of
three in Centralia: Jane Markham Abel (Mrs. Don George, Jr.), John H. Markham,
Jr. and William E. Markham. By Jane M. Abel

MARTIN FAMILY

My grandparents, C. Lee Martin and Hattie Belle McClanahan, were 
married January
19, 1896, in Newport, Missouri. Portions of the following are excerpts from a
family history, PATTERNS, written by C. Lee.

  (photo): C. Lee and Hattie Belle Martin Late 1890

After two years at Newport, "I still had the West in mind so left there and
headed westward landing at Winlock in 1901. I commenced teaching in the Turner
District (near Toledo) and sent for her (Grandma) in late spring (1902).
Teachers' wages ran from $25 to $40 a month, and it was necessary for me (and
her) to work at other things. She made a good deal by sewing and 
picking hops in
season. I worked at various things in summer such as firing a dry kiln for hops
and driving shingle bolts on the Cowlitz

  (photo): Fred Leslie, C. Lee Martin

River from Sulphur Springs to Castle Rock. (See picture).
	Later, Grandpa took "the Principalship for the Toledo 
schools," and then
accepted "the job of Superintendent at Tenino. So we moved once more in the
summer of 1907, going by two wagons, and it was a two-day trip from Toledo to
Tenino." According to my father, they camped one night along the Skookumchuck
River near the Pearl Street bridge in Centralia.
	Their household goods were on the wagon with the hayrack with 
a cow tied on
behind. Part of the time, he also walked along behind to keep the cow moving.
	C. Lee also taught school in Mossyrock and Naselle before retiring in
Tenino.
	FAMILY RECORD
Centennial Lee Martin - Cedar Co., Missouri, October 4, 1876-January 29, 1949
Harriet Belle McClanahan - Pettis Co. Missouri, January 7, 1879-November 10,
1946
Thaddeus Carl - Missouri, October 27, 1896-February 17,1964
Fred Leslie - Missouri, June 25, 1898-April 15, 1984
Dorothy Frances - Missouri, August 28, 1900-April 25, 1975
Zona Belle - Toledo, July 28, 1902 - November 30,1971
Robert Centennial Lee - Toledo, February 16, 1907-February 15, 1967 Lillian
Renfrow - Tenino, September 26, 1913-February 17, 1975
My parents, Fred Leslie Martin and Elma Swigert Martin, were married 
February 1,
1925, at high noon in her parents' home in Mossyrock. They lived their entire
married life in Tenino raising seven children.
	Martin Children of Fred and Elma Martin: Frances Aleen - 
December 12, 1925,
Roger Allen - October 16, 1927, Patricia Ann December 7, 1930, Robert Lee-May
25, 1933 - February 7,1958, Frederick Leslie-December 18,1937, Dorothy Jean -
November 26,1939, Mary Carolyn - October 19,1942.
	I am the grandson of C. Lee and Hattie Belle Martin and the 
third son of
Fred Leslie and Elma Swigert Martin. In 1959, I married Marilyn Lee Kalla. Our
three children are Fred Leslie, born June 8,1960; Deidra Kay, born 
May 23, 1964;
and Tamara Lee, born September 28, 1965. Although I moved back to Tenino in
1972, I still own and operate three businesses in Centralia: Lee and Martin,
Surveyors; Qik Pic One Hour Color Prints; and AM Lot Cleaners. By 
Fred L. Martin

MARTIN - GWEN MARTIN EPPERSON

It never was clear to me why my parents decided to homestead in Eastern Lewis
County. I was born in Lewis now Packwood April 26, 1915. My father was Robert
(Bob) Martin and my mother Elva Cook.
	They had met in a logging camp near PeEll where Mamma was 
working in the
cook house that her sister, Bettie Lester ran for her husband, Ed Lester.
	Mamma and Aunt Bettie had come west from Tennessee as young 
girls with their
father Eli Cook. Their mother had died when Mamma was four and Aunt Bettie was
one year old. Grandpa Cook ran a cable ferry across the Cowlitz River near the
old Nesika Bridge. Grandpa soon sold his homestead there to Johnny Cook and
bought in Glenoma so his girls would be near a school.

  (photo): Grandmother Almeda, Harry, Ruth and James Martin in front of their
first house on the homestead. 1914

They went to the Vale School, about where the Rainey Valley Cemetery 
is located.
	Dad had left Pennsylvania, stopping in Oregon, eastern Washington and
landing in Chehalis in 1906.
	Mamma and Dad were married in 1908. They stayed in the 
Chehalis area, Opal,
Manford and Kenneth were all born in Chehalis.
	Traveling with horses and wagon, they picked up their young family and
traveled south to Mary's Corner, turning left on the slab and 
puncheon road that
is now State Highway 12. The first night was spent at the Roadhouse and Hotel
just across the bridge at Mayfield. The next night at Grandpa Cook's. Most
travelers stayed one- half mile east at Wilbur Coleman's store and 
rooming house
run by his wife Annie. The third night was spent at Kitchen Rock beyond Randle
and the next day they would be in Lewis.
	They were soon joined by my grandparents, Sylvester and 
Almeda Martin along
with their two youngest children, Ruth and James. Later Uncle Harry, 
Aunt Mattie
and Uncle Claude came to homestead. They were all from Pennsylvania.
	When I was a year old, oil well drillers from their home 
state, influenced
the four brothers with their families to leave for Montana and Wyoming to work
in the newly developing oil fields there.
	When I was two all our family were hospitalized with typhoid 
fever. When we
were all well again we came right back to Glenoma.
	In May, 1919, a brother Jack was born but died three weeks 
later. Virginia
and Robert Jr. (Tink) were born there, Virginia September 1920 and Tink August
1922. Later my half brother Tom was born to my dad and stepmother Edith.
	Mamma died in 1933, Dad 1968, Kenneth 1960, Manford 1968 and Opal in
1979.
	Virginia Korhonen lives about a mile from me here in Chehalis 
on the Logan
Hill Road. Tink and wife are in Fairbanks.
	My husband since 1940, Floyd Epperson and I retired back to 
Lewis County
after spending our working years in Alaska. Our twin sons, Claude and Dean live
in Juneau, Alaska. Also our grandchildren, Sherry, Mikko and Elise. Our oldest
son Thomas died in 1971.
	I do art work here and winter in Arizona. By Gwen Epperson

WILLIAM B. AND PHYLLIS M. MASON

My maternal grandfather came to America from Italy in 1848 at the age of four.
My mother, Mary Arcuri Sanders, now living in Chehalis,
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was one of seven children. Their home was in Patchogue, Long Island, New York.
My paternal grandparents, the William H. Sanders, emigrated to the U.S. from
England. In America he became a teacher and an accountant. He kept an office in
the city and his family in rural Long Island. He became interested in American
politics and was a friend and aide to gubernatorial candidate, Franklin D.
Roosevelt, and the presidential hopeful Alfred E. Smith. My father, Arthur P.
Sanders, met Mary Arcuri and they eloped in 1926. They settled in his hometown
where they had seven children. My father was a construction foreman 
and traveled
many places. In 1945 he took a job for the Alaska Railroad and fell 
in love with
the vast grandeur, the lure of Alaska, and sent for his family. He eventually
bought a house in Seward, Alaska, and we settled down and grew up.
	Bill's father, Edward Mason, ran away from his home in 
Tennessee at the age
of 12. He roamed as far west as Hawaii where he became an apprentice candy
maker. Back in the U.S. he was a cowboy, and when he met and married 
Mamie Dayin
1915, he was a foreman in the gold and silver smelter in Durango, 
Colorado. They
bought a ranch and began to raise their six children. His untimely death caused
by "tick fever" left Mamie to sell the ranch and move into the town of Alamose.
Bill, all grown up at the age of 15, left home to find his fortune and to help
his mother. He held many and varied jobs not the least of which was horse
trainer and jockey, until he became too heavy. In 1940 he joined the Army,
fought in the South Pacific, was discharged in 1945. At that time he went to
work for the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad and eventually headed north to
Alaska and the Alaska Railroad, where he worked until his retirement.
	After my first marriage failed, I moved to Moose Pass, Alaska with my
year-old son, James Clark. I was a kind of "my girl Friday" in my
brother-in-Iaw's business. When Bill was transferred to Moose Pass, we met and
married. Our daughter, Michelle, was born there. When the earthquake of 1964
devastated the southern section of the railroad, Bill was transferred for a
short time to Whittier and then to Anchorage for three years, and finally to
Palmer in the beautiful Mantanuska Valley. I went to work for the school
district and became the payroll and personnel coordinator. We retired from
Alaska in 1979. James, our son, soon followed and is living in Centralia. Our
daughter still lives and works in Anchorage.
	Meanwhile, my sister, Nancy Estes, left Alaska in 1974, 
driving south to
find a nice place to live. She was charmed by the countryside and city of
Chehalis. My mother followed her and lives with her here. We decided that we
also liked the area and finally found the lovely setting there. We now live in
the Onalaska hills.

MR. AND MRS. IRA SPILLERS MATHENY

Ira S. Matheny was born in McClean County, North Dakota, November 30, 1908, to
Ira and Martha Spillers Matheny, the second child of five. When he was 26 he
came to Lewis County, residing in Centralia, WA. He married Martha Hackney
Schmitz that year and the next year went to work for Addison Miller, railroad
contractors, and eventually became an employee of the Northern Pacific Railway,
retiring in 1960. He later worked for the Centralia Plywood Mill, the Centralia
Steam Plant, and Date Lumber Co., as a guard, with his final 
retirement in 1984.
Ira also farmed at home for 43 years.
	Martha Matheny was born June 18, 1917, in Chehalis, W A to Margaret and
Simon Hackney. They came to Lewis County in 1903 from Grundy, Virginia. Martha
received most of her education in Oregon, afterwards moving to Cowlitz Prairie
and finally on to Centralia.
	Ira and Martha had three children. First born was Maridel 
Martha, Mrs. Spiro
Anagnos, of Lodi, CA. Maridel is a home economics teacher at Tokay HS, and has
two children of her own, Katrina 17 and Karin 15. Second born was Ira Lee,
currently of Modesto, CA. Ira married Patricia Lord and they own a construction
company. They have three children, Kenneth 22, Elizabeth 20, and Brent 14. Last
born was Dian Lois, Mrs. William Keepers, of Centralia, W A. Dian works for
Sherwood Forest Farms and Bill works for the Dept. of Transportation. They have
two children, Kim 19 and Willie 18.
	Martha worked after her children were of school age. She worked at Yard
Birds, Ritter and Duby Veterinary Hospital, and the Dept. of Social and Health
Services, retiring in 1977.
	Ira and Martha Matheny have spent all their married life in 
the Centralia
area, the past 32 years at their home on the Goodrich Rd. By Martha Matheny

MAUERMAN

My grandfather, Fred Mauermann, was the child of Adolph and Amelia 
Mauermann and
grandson of George Waunch. Fred married ZelIa Blackburn from Yamhill, 
Oregon. He
attained a sixth grade education. Zelia attended college at both Linfield in
McMinnville and Oregon College of Education in Monmouth. She was a teacher
before becoming a farm wife on Lincoln Creek. They had an 80-acre farm
approximately eight miles from Galvin. It was carefully tended with all
equipment, buildings, and fences kept in good repair. Each building received a
fresh coat of paint every fourth year and the result was one of the 
"show-place"
farms of the county. Fred was hardworking and somewhat short on patience, but
was sought out for his advice on nearly any subject by folks from 
throughout the
county.
	They had two children, Vern Lyle born on November 20,1911, 
and Reta Fae born
on February 17, 1919. They were both raised on the farm. Reta married Reid
Thompson and remained on the farm until her death in 1978. When high school
graduation came, Vern was strongly encouraged to go to college. Although it was
in the Depression, he completed two years at Centralia College and then two
years at Washington State. He graduated with a degree in Electrical Engineering
in 1935. It took a year to locate a job with the Weyerhaeuser Timber Company in
Longview. That employment lasted for 41 years, mostly as superintendent of
chipping and barking in the pulp mill.
	On May 6, 1939, he married Esther Christopherson of South 
Bend. She was the
daughter of Norwegian immigrants and was born in Seattle on December 29,1915.
They had three children: myself, Douglas Vern, born August 14, 1940; Reta Diane
born December 3, 1946; Sally Ann born April 4, 1951. Sally died in 19730 of
pulmonary thrombosis. R. Diane lives in Olympia working as a school 
librarian in
the Shelton School System. My father, Vern, died June 30, 1978, of a massive
stroke. My mother, Esther, died of complications due to esophogeal cancer on
January 25, 1984.
	I was raised in Longview, graduating from R.A. Long High 
School in 1958. I
spent my summers at the family farm on Lincoln Creek until I was 16. I worked
five summers for Weyerhaeuser, first on a forestry crew, then pulling 
lumber off
a "green chain" in the sawmill and finally as a chemist assistant in the pulp
mill. I attended Linfield college in McMinnville, graduating with a Bachelors
degree in Chemistry in 1961. I went to work as an analytical chemist for
Weyerhaeuser at the Cosmopolis pulp mill where I stayed for five 
years. In 1967,
I left Weyerhaeuser and spent a year studying biochemistry at Portland State
University and then attended the University of Washington Dental School. I
graduated in 1972 and immediately set up a private general practice 
of dentistry
in Centralia.
	I have four children (three by a previous marriage to Phyllis 
Rice): Barry
Douglas born August 13, 1962; Karen Esther born December 22, 1965; 
Kathryn Marie
born June 13, 1967; and Tiffany Ann born November 15, 1975. Barry 
graduated from
the University of Washington and is an automation engineer at Hewlett 
Packard in
San Diego. Karen is a sophomore at Evergreen College, studying 
nutrition. Kay is
graduating from Centralia High this spring. Tiffany is an active fourth grader
at Centralia Christian School.
	My wife, Deena (Pickens), and I reside at Mary's Corner. We share an
interest in outdoor activities and in working with our hands. I am 
interested in
wood-working and jewelry making, while Deena works at rosemaling, knitting and
other types of handwork. She also assists me at my office. By Douglas V.
Mauerman

HARRY AND PEARL MAUERMANN FAMILY

My grandfather, George Waunch, was born in the State of Baden Wurttenberg,
Germany, in 1820. He came to the United States in 1841. After a stop in
Missouri, he came to the Oregon Territory in 1845, where he settled on 320
acres. The homestead was on a prairie that was later to bear his name (Waunch's
Prairie). He was the first white man to settle in what is now Lewis County.

  (photo): Harry and Pearl Mauermann

He married Harriet Jane Ford in 1847 and they had one child, George L. Waunch,
11. George and Harriet soon separated. In 1855, George married Mary Hagar, with
whom he lived the rest of his life. They enlarged the farm to 640 acres and had
11 children: Amelia, Henry, Caroline, Aurora, William, Charles Edward, Frank,
Edith, Walter, Charles F., and Flora.
	Amelia married Adolph Mauermann; Aurora, also called Addie, 
married Charles
Burgeson; Henry died at age 8; Caroline died at age 2; William married Zula
Curtis; Edward married

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  (photo): Amelia and Adolph Maueremann

Angie Ford; Frank married Jessie Ford; Edith married Charles Rebholz and later
married Mr. Nylander; Walter married Florence (name unknown); Charles 
F. died at
age 8; Flora married Lee Minard; and George Waunch, Jr. married Emma Jennings
and later Katherine Wallach.
	George Waunch, Sr. died at his home on Waunch's Prairie on 
July 7, 1882. His
wife, Mary, later married August Sewall. They built a new home near 
the old one.
She lived in the new home until she died on September 20, 1916.
	Determined not to spend two years of his life in military service, my
father, Adolph Mauermann (with an older brother, Keydon) left his home in
Germany and came to the United States. His brother went to Canada to live while
Adolph came to Lewis County, where a cousin had already made his home.
	In 1872 he met and married Amelia Waunch. They settled on 
land across the
Skookumchuck River from the George Waunch claim and started clearing ground. My
mother was very strong and helped my father falling trees and sawing wood to
sell. Five children: Evelyn, Joseph, Daisy, Edwin, and Fred were born 
to them on
this location.
	In 1884 they loaded all their household articles on a hay 
wagon pulled by
their yoke of oxen, "Buck and Bight," and leading their three cows and two
calves, they moved to a new home on Lincoln Creek, located about five 
miles west
of their old home. They cleared more ground and farmed. Three more children:
Frank, Maude, and I (Harry) were born.
	My father farmed on Lincoln Creek with the help of his family 
until 1910. He
then moved with his wife to Centralia, where he died in 1912. Amelia, 
my mother,
then lived alone until she died on August 30, 1948.
	There have been many changes since I was born on March 27, 
1893. Then there
were neither automobiles nor electricity. We traveled by foot or by horseback
and used kerosene lanterns for light. Indians still came and camped by Lincoln
Creek at one of their old summer camp sites which was on part of the farm my
father claimed. They dug camas and fished.
	I was the youngest child of Adolph and Amelia Mauermann and 
grew to manhood
helping my father and brothers farm on Lincoln Creek. When my father and mother
moved to Centralia, I helped my brother Fred. I stayed on the farm for a while,
but I soon found work in the logging camps and began life on my own.
	While working near Tumwater, I met and married Pearl Jones, 
whose family had
come from Missouri by wagon some years earlier. We purchased an 80 acre farm
from Mr. Higgens that was adjacent to and west of the farm my father owned on
Lincoln Creek. We cleared more ground and raised grain, hay, cattle, and
chickens.
	Times were rough through the "Great Depression," but we 
managed to acquire
93 more acres; raise three children, Edith, Lyle and Bonnie; and save a little
money for our old age. I worked at other jobs, logging, and in the mills when I
could, but always continued to farm.
	I served on the school board as a director for many years and 
helped the
community to grow in many other ways.
	My daughter Edith married Russell Webster, my son Lyle married Margaret
Breckenridge, and my daughter Bonnie married Richard Browning.
	In November 1974, my wife Pearl passed away. Since my children were all
grown and had families of their own, I lived alone on the farm with 
help from my
children until December 1983.
	Now at age 92, by my choice, I live at the Royal Care Nursing Home in
Centralia. My mind is sound and my health is good for one of my age. Each week
my children take me to their homes to visit and at Royal Care I keep up with
world affairs by watching television and reading.
	I have nine grandchildren, fifteen great-grandchildren, and one
great-great-grandchild. By Harry Mauermann

LYLE MAUERMANN FAMILY

As a Centralia, Washington, Lewis county native, I, Lyle D. Mauermann, was born
on Lincoln Creek on June 26,1919 to Pearl and Harry E. Mauermann. My 
grandmother
was Amelia Waunch Mauermann and am the great-grandson of George Waunch and and
Mary Hagar Waunch.

  (photo): Mr. and Mrs. Lyle D. Mauermann

I attended Centralia High School and in my sophomore year became friends with
another classmate, Margaret M. Breckenridge, born November 8,1918 in Pretty
Rock, North Dakota, to Mary and Preston Fay Breckenridge. They came to
Washington State in 1934 living in Galvin then moved to Salzer Valley in 1943.
The Breckenridge family roots date back to early America with history 
records in
"Sangamon County, Illinois history of 1876."
We continued our friendship throughout high school both graduating in the class
of 1937 from the Centralia High School. We were married September 12, 1940. I
worked as a logger and Margaret as a dental assistant. In March of 
1941 we moved
to Kelso, Washington and I worked for Weyerhaeuser at their mill.
	On January 16, 1943 our daughter Gerrie Lynne was born. The 
United Staes
Army inducted me into World War II service on October 20, 1943. I moved my
family back to Galvin. I was injured in the invasion of Leyte in the 
Philippines
and, from November 1944 to June 14, 1945 was spent in Convalescent Hospitals. I
was given an Honorable Discharge June 14, 1945.
	We moved back to Longview to again work at the Weyerhaeuser 
mill. On October
30, 1945 our son Roger Lyle Mauermann was born. In the fall of 1946; we decided
to move back to Centralia and I went back to work in the woods. On February 1,
1947 our daughter Margie Ann Mauermann was born.
	April 1947 I took a civil service examination for the Centralia Police
Department and was hired as a police patrolman. My 25 years on the police
department I held various positions retiring as a shift sergeant in April 1972.
Margaret was a homemaker while our children were small and when our youngest
daughter was nine years old she took a position as an office clerk and
bookkeeper for the Centralia Elks Lodge #1083 and held that position until May
1972 after the Centralia and Chehalis lodges merged into one Lodge as 
Elks Lodge
#2435.
	Our family has also grown from three children to: Allen and 
Gerrie Sibley
and sons Robert and Mark; Roger Mauermann and wife Katherine, daughter Kimberly
and son Jason and stepsons Edward, and Michael Swanson, and Margie 
and sons Todd
and Tyler. Two of our grandchildren are married, Robert Sibley to 
Diane Erickson
and Kimberly Mauermann to Timothy Smith.
	The home we presently live in was designed and built by me 
and my family in
1959-1961 and has been enjoyed by all the family in the twenty-four years of
occupancy. In our retired years we are enjoying our home, traveling, 
fishing and
hunting.

HENRY CLAY MAYFIELD

Lewis County pioneer, Henry Clay Mayfield, arrived in Chehalis in 1883 and
founded the first newspaper in the county with his cousin Albert Tozier. The
first issue of the Lewis County Nugget appeared July 14, 1883.
	According to the paper, Chehalis residents had asked to be 
informed when the
first issue was ready to go to press.
	"At 5 p.m. everything was ready and was announced at the ladies sewing
society which was meeting at Mrs. Birmingham's, and in a few minutes the
society, and what other citizens that could get into the building, 
were present.
Mrs. Chas. Shepherd, a lady that had been in this county since she was five
years old, and Mrs. Wm. Birmingham, a native of this county, were chosen to run
off the first paper. Mrs. B. did the rolling, and Mrs. S. the pressing."
Early-day news papering had its hazards. By Aug. 4, the paper was advocating a
hog law because a "fierce-looking old sow" had wandered in and eaten the
composition roller, which was composed of "beer, molasses, glue, pitch, ink,
dirt, etc."
Mayfield sold his interest in the Nugget in June 1884 and went into the grocery
business in Chehalis. In April 1885 he went to the Mossyrock area, where he
continued to keep a store until he established a store in the new community of
Mayfield in August 1891.
	In 1895 he became postmaster of the Ferry post office, at which time he
moved it to his store and renamed it Mayfield. He remained postmaster until his
death in 1905.

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Mayfield was born in Spencer, Indiana, on Sept. 18, 1839. He moved to Kansas as
a young man, where he and his first wife, Rachel Bilderback, had 6 children -
George, Henry, Mary, Charles, Rachel Ann and Mauvia. He served during the Civil
War with the 13th Regiment, Kansas Infantry Volunteers.
	In March 1885 in Chehalis he married a young widow, Mary 
Ellen Goodwin, who
had come north from California in 1883 with her first husband, Samuel Miller.
She was born in Carson City, Nevada, Jan. 29,1864. The Mayfields had 
13 children
- Leroy, Benjamin, Ida, James, Isaac, Rose, Ralph, Clara, Sadie, Guy, Louis,
Estelle, and Albert. Henry C. Mayfield died Feb 15, 1905, and Mary Goodwin
Mayfield died Oct. 28,1930. Both are buried in the Doss Cemetery at Mossy Rock.

McANDREW FAMILY

Alexander McAndrew came to America in 1856 around the Horn of South America to
San Francisco; then to Vancouver, (it was in Oregon Territory), and worked with
the Hudson Bay Company, as a surveyor. He married Amanda Shobert in 
Union Ridge,
Ridgefield, Clark County, in 1858.

  (photo): Henry and Mary McAndrew

The Fredrick Shobert family came by wagon train in 1849 from Pennsylvania to
Union Ridge, when my grandmother was 10 years old. Coming through the north
central part of Wisconsin, they had to run to a block house because of the
Indians.
	My mother's family history relates Mathew O'Conner came from Roscommen,
Ireland in 1849 to Minnesota.
	He served with the Northern Army during the Civil War, (ran 
away and joined
when he was 16 years old). Her mother's relatives came from Wales in 1830.
	My father, Henry Alexander McAndrew was born Aug. 1869 in 
Ridgefield. Mother
was born in 1879 in Salmon Falls, Idaho.
	Henry McAndrew and Mary O'Connor were married in Ridgefield 
in 1900. They
moved to Winlock and settled on a farm southwest of town in 1913. They lived
there the remainder of their lives. There were five children, Florence, Glen,
Edna, Lela and Zelda. By F. Bennett

MELVIN McCAIN FAMILY

Melvin Eli McCain born July 9, 1913 in Freedom, Nebraska. As a young man Melvin
worked in C.C. Camps and moved with family to Glenoma. He married Helen Meade
September 30, 1940. They inherited 40 acres from Meade Family, built a home and
farmed. Melvin also worked in logging for 25 years. Melvin died from a logging
accident July 24, 1964. They had one daughter, Diana Lynn born June 27, 1945 in
Morton, Washington.

ROSE MARIE McCLUNG

My mother, Anna Detering McClung, came to Washington from Indiana in 1905. Her
brothers, John, Herman H., and Edward, and two cousins, Herman C., and Henry S.
Detering, had already "come west" and they wrote the family to "send Annie out
here, there's no malaria here." She had had that malady for some time and was
willing to try anything. Her first six months here she did nothing but sleep,
and gain weight and strength. Two years later my grandparents moved the rest of
the family here. My father also followed my mother; they were married 
in 1912. I
was born in 1915 at Mr. McLaughlin's home near State Street. Dr. Dow was in
attendance and his signature is on my birth certificate. Our house was built
that year on the edge of town where streets were not built. The family numbered
it 1702 Washington Avenue, but later that was changed to 1648. Houses in
Chehalis are numbered by some engineering formula unknown to householders.
	The house was first heated by a fireplace and a wood range in 
the kitchen.
Portieres closed off the living room from the dining room and the hall. Before
long a coal furnace was installed, and each summer a year's supply of coal and
forest wood arrived for storage in the basement.
	When my aunt was released after 14 months in a tuberculosis 
sanitorium, a
screen cottage was built behind the house. Fresh air and rest were, then, the
only cure for that fatal disease. My grandfather, H.H. Detering, attended the
German Lutheran Church in the little brown building off Main Street. The
Christmas tree there was lighted with real candles. When the new white church
was built, he, the oldest member of the congregation, unlocked the door for the
dedication. The rest of us were Methodists. One of my earliest memories is the
awesome ordeal of reciting a Christmas poem before the whole 
congregation in the
old church at the corner of Main Street and Chehalis Avenue. Some 
years later we
half-grown kids managed an illicit tour of the vacant old court house just
before it was torn down.
	I went to the Cascade School. My teachers were Miss Charlton, 
Miss Pilz,
Miss Munson, Miss Cummings and Miss Farrell. Our class was one of 
those moved to
the new junior high when it was completed, and we felt quite aggrieved at being
kept there as ninth graders instead of moving up to the high school 
as freshmen.
	There were 97 high school graduates in 1932.
	We had a class reunion in 1962, and in 1980 joined with the 
class of 1931 in
celebrating the 50year reunion of the class of 1930. Our class met again in
1982, some people coming thousands of miles.
	After working 4 1/2 years for J.H. Jahnke, a Centralia 
lawyer, and 2 1/2
years for John Panesko, prosecuting attorney, I moved to Seattle, but it is
always a pleasure to return to Chehalis. A special joy is seeing that our house
has been well maintained and modernized through the years. By Rose 
Marie McClung

JOHN ELROY McCAW FAMILY

Marion Mary Oliver, eldest child of the William Hugh Olivers, attended the
Edison Grade School (on same site as the early high school where her mother was
a student) as did her eldest son, Bruce McCaw. After high school and a year at
Centralia Junior College, Marion continued at University of Washington,
graduating with honors. Her business career in real estate terminated in 1942
when she and John Elroy McCaw of Aberdeen were married. Their home for the next
three years was in Alexandria, Virginia, while Elroy served with the Army Air
Corps, leaving the service at the end of World War II as a Lt. Colonel. He was
awarded the Order of the British Empire for his work with the British in the
field of radar.
	Elroy returned to the communications industry (had 
established radio station
KELA in Centralia-Chehalis in 1937) and in the next twenty years operated radio
and television stations from Honolulu to Seattle, San Francisco, Denver and New
York.
	Bruce was born in Washington, D.C. in 1946 just prior to the 
family's return
to Centralia; Craig, 1949, and John, 1951 in Centralia; and Keith in Seattle
after the family moved there in 1953. The four McCaw sons became involved with
Twin City Cablevision (one of the oldest systems in the country) in various
capacities during vacations. After the death of their father in 1969, the four
sons took over the management of Twin City and have expanded their operations
into 15 states.
	Marion has been active in various community organizations in 
Centralia and
Seattle, including Seattle Symphony, Seattle Opera, Seattle Junior Programs, A
Contemporary Theatre and the Metropolitan Opera in New York. In 1971 Marion and
John L. Scott of Bellevue were married, She continues to have an investment in
the McCaw family company.
	Growing up in a small town was a very special experience. It was a warm
feeling to know most of the residents through school, church and community
activities. In the summer there was Chautanqua - in a big tent; the Southwest
Washington Fair with its magnificent displays of fruits, vegetables,
handicrafts, livestock, and horse and sulky races. The Pioneer Days included
parades, rodeos, pageants in Borst Park, grandstand entertainment and horse
races, There were many opportunities for outdoor activities for children: Red
Cross swimming lessons in the Skookumchuck River at Riverside Park, horseback
riding, several lakes and parks for picnics, family reunions, and water sports,
and nearby Puget Sound and the San Juan Islands for boating. A sense of freedom
made for relaxed summers for children and adults alike.
	The family ties to Centralia and Chehalis and the surrounding 
area remain
very strong. By Marion Scott

LEE AND GLADYS McEWEN FAMILY

Lee McEwen was born December 4, 1894, in Butler County, MO to William 
and Lannie
Titul McEwen; third of nine children. Lee's folks settled in the
Oklahoma-Cherokee Strip area in 1898 after it had been opened up for
homesteading.
	At 21, Lee and his elder sister, went to Colorado and took up 
homesteads in
Kiowa County, When World War I broke out he enlisted in the Army and 
served with
the 7th Engineers for 13 months in France. He came home to Colorado 
where he met
and married Gladys Oakley.
	Gladys was the daughter of Melvin and Maud Tibbetts Oakley. 
There were 3
older brothers, Clarence, Kenneth and Oscar. She was born and raised 
in Travers,
Missouri, Barry County, until she was 16 years old. Her family then moved to
Lamar, Colorado where they took up homesteads. She worked at a store 
for a short
time, then became a telephone operator, which she was doing when Mr. McEwen met
and married her.

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  (photo): McEwen Family

Lee had been raised a rancher. "A rancher he must be!" We started dry land
farming (which means no irrigation) with teams of horses. After a few good
crops, he decided to get an IRON HORSE (a Farmall tractor). Then he really
"broke up the sod!" Soon he was farming over 600 acres. So many acres of
shallow-rooted crops of beans and blackeyed peas - helped start the 
dust storms.
Farming for over 17 years with, too many times of losing our crops to hail,
windstorms, and the drought, was more than we could take. We just had to give
up, as so many of our friends and neighbors had to do in those days.
	We packed up our family and headed for Oklahoma, where Lee 
had been raised
as a boy. Again we were plagued by the drought, etc.
	Meanwhile some of our former Colorado neighbors had gone out to the
Northwest to the Cowlitz County area. They began writing us such things as "We
have found The Land of Paradise!, Money Grows on Bushes," (blackberries,
strawberries, ferns, moss), and dip fish by the buckets (Smelt). This 
sparked us
with such a ray of hope and wonderment, that Lee said "This is where we are
going!"
We landed at Sunset Lodge, Clem Boss's family filling station, between Castle
Rock and Toledo, on July 2, 1936. We settled on the Schnurstein place, 8 miles
north of Toledo, with our family of 8 children, Leota, Kenneth, Gladys, Lana,
Melvin, Marvin, Elzora and John (our 9th child Trula was born here in Lewis
County in 1940). Our family soon picked enough berries, etc. to buy school
clothes and Lee began working in the woods, bucking and falling timber. This
truly seemed like a "Land of Paradise" to us too.
	Again we found more wonderful neighbors. In those days, with 
large families
and little money, we learned to create our own entertainment. A birthday party
each month, with 8 to 10 families, usually represented ball games, music and
quilting bees, gave us a social life.
	Lee passed away October 11, 1969. Gladys with 3 of her sons 
and 2 of her
daughters (plus numerous grand, great-grand and great-great-grandchildren) are
still making their homes in the Toledo area.

McCUTCHEN  FAMILY

The first member of the family to settle in Lewis County was a daughter, Peggy
and her husband Joe Stark. They arrived in 1956 and settled with their son Joe
Jay on 40 acres off the Middle Fork road in the Onalaska area where they raise
quarter horses.
	 L to R:Harry Sr., daughter Betty and mother, Margart 
Brunhilda McCutchen,
July 1961.

They were followed in 1968 by her parents, Harry and Margaret Brunhilda (Hilda)
(Eyman) McCutchen. The parents lived in a mobile home on the Stark ranch until
Brunhilda's death in 1976. A year later Harry married Elenor Clever of Milton,
Washington, and they returned to the Pierce County area.
	Harry, Sr.'s family came to Auburn, Washington in 1907 by 
covered wagon from
Van Buren county, Iowa. His parents Robert and Alta (Franks) McCutchen were
married in Iowa in 1891. Harry was born while crossing eastern Washington in
1906.
	Margaret Brunhilda Eyman's family came to Auburn in the early 
1900's after
living in the Ellensburg area for a few years. Her parents, John and Emma
(Hecox) Eyman were married in Hancock County, Illinois in 1883.
	Another McCutchen daughter, Alta (Tootes) and her Husband 
Francis Rotter
arrived in 1967 with their two daughters, Mrs. Richard (Debra) Clarke, and Mrs.
Gordon (Donna) Dalebout. Donna and her husband have two sons, Michael and
Trevor. The Rotter family has a dozing business and live on a small farm on the
Bishop road south of Chehalis.	.
	A son, Harry McCutchen, Jr., arrived in 1969. He married a 
local girl, Edna
Riedesel in 1971. Edna came to Lewis County with her parents in 1935. Living on
the Sanderson road south of Chehalis, he works as a carpenter and she as a
bookkeeper for Gene Smith Pharmacy in Chehalis.
	The youngest McCutchen son, William, and his wife Karen live 
in Deer Creek,
Oregon with their teenage children, Tammara and Timothy.
	A daughter, Betty and her husband, William (Bill) Bolton 
arrived in 1974.
The Boltons have a weld shop and raise quarterhorses on their farm on the Avery
road south of Chehalis.
	Bill was born in 1924 in Portland, Oregon, the son of Noah and Maude
(Ingalls) Bolton. He spent the first twelve years of his life on a ranch in The
Dalles, Oregon before moving to Burien, Washington in 1936. During World War II
Bill served three years in the Air Force. He worked from 1953 until 1974 at
Pacific Car and Foundry in Renton, Washington.
	Betty was born in 1932 in Auburn, Washington, and graduated 
in 1950, from
Kent Meridian High School. After high school she worked for Walter Carpet Mills
in South Seattle for 26 years. She and Bill were married in April 1954. She now
handles the book work for their business, and as a hobby does genealogical
research. By Betty McCutchen Bolton

McINTIRE FAMILY

Commodore Chauncey McIntire (CC) was the father of 15 children and 
stepfather of
4. CC and his second wife Lavinia with their immediate family; Rhoda (McClure),
George, Cornelius, twins Noel, and Nora (Oppelt), Frank and Robert came from
Minnesota by train in 1880. They settled on the North Fork of the Newaukum at
Agate. He had previously been married to Sophronia Scott Bennett. That marriage
produced Sophia, Levina, Martha, Anna, Sarah, twins Marion and Miriam, and
Alice. Lavinia's prior marriages were: to Albert Oppelt - they had a son,
Charles; and to Andrew Gish - they had 2 sons, Andrew, Henry and a girl Ellice.

  (photo): Chauncey McIntire

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C.C. McIntire
     CC served in the Civil War in Company J, 4th Regiment, Minnesota 
Volunteers.
	Amelia Oppelt born October 14, 1875 moved with her father, brothers and
sister from Vinton, Iowa by train in 1888. Several families rented an 
entire box
car and set up housekeeping on the trip west. Amelia married George McIntire in
1890. Their children were; Elsie (Pfirter), Edna (Davis), Walter, Pearl, Harry
and Fred. George purchased land from CC Mcintire in 1889 and from the Northern
Pacific Railroad in 1900 at Agate. George's grandsons still farm this property.
Amelia, affectionately known as "Grandma Mcintire" or "Aunt Millie" had a goal
to live to 100. Shortly after attaining this she passed away in January 1976.
	I, Margaret Johnson McIntire, was born 1912. My mother, 
Sigrid Johnson and I
came to Seattle from Sweden in 1915 joining her brother, Gust 
Sandberg and other
relatives. My father, Fritz Johnson, a journalist and mother were married in
1910. He passed away in 1914. This and the fact that World War I was getting
uncomfortably close to Sweden prompted my mother to readily accept the
invitation to come to America.
	We moved to Chehalis from Ashland, Oregon in 1930. I married Fred the
youngest son of George and Amelia McIntire in 1932. During the Depression we
grew strawberries for 4 cents a pound, of which 2 cents went for picking. Many
pickers were adults and they used their earnings to purchase flour 
(79 cents for
fifty pounds), 100 pound sacks of sugar and coffee to last through the coming
winter. We hauled the supplies for our pickers. Storekeepers were suspicious of
the many 100 pound sacks of sugar we bought considering the 
bootlegging activity
in the area.
	Fred also worked for Carlisle Lumber Company, Onalaska, until 
the strike.
That was hard work, felling huge old growth firs with a crosscut saw. For
awhile, in order to keep his job we had to rent a "company house." 
The unmarried
lived in boarding houses. Onalaska had a drygoods store, drugstore, grocery,
meat market, bakery, theater and a doctor. Bus service to Chehalis was
available. Between paydays we could draw "brass" (company money) to spend in
Onalaska and a few stores in Chehalis and Centralia. Fred's logging 
career ended
when he sustained severe injuries at the Eastern Logging Company. He was a fire
warden for several years. Then, Kelley Farquhar & Company, a frozen food
establishment, hired him as a field representative. They put us back into the
berry business with 100 acres of strawberries. He worked for KFC 
until his death
in 1955. He was also employed by Nalleys at that time.
	After Fred's death I worked at the Production Credit office 
and then at the
Lewis County Health Department for twenty years before retiring.
	Our son Robert was born in 1935. He is currently employed at 
Kelly's Sport
Shop. He has also worked as an Auto Mechanic, Millwright and Gunsmith.
	Our son Donald was born in 1942. He has worked as a millwright, shake
cutter, timber feller and sporting goods salesman. He is currently working at
the Washington State Employment Security Office in Chehalis as an Office
Supervisor. He married Sandra Snodgrass in December 1959. She has worked at
Interchecks for many years. They have two daughters, LeAnn (1961) and Becky
(1971). LeAnn (Mrs. Gordon Boyd) works at Sunbirds Shopping Center as does her
husband, Gordon. Becky is a student at Olympic Middle School. Her hobbies are
horses and distance running.
	My mother remarried in 1940 to Merlin Wilkins and enjoyed 
several years of
happiness before his sudden death. She is now 95 years old.
	I, my mother, sons, granddaughters and their families, live on the home
place where my sons raise horses and cattle.

JOHN B. McKEAN AND FAMILY

Coming to Centralia from Eagle Grove, Iowa in 1922, John Bales McKean 
joined his
parents, John L. and Louise Hopkins McKean at their home on North 
Second Street.
He, having apprenticed in the printers' trade in the East and mid-West, now had
his union card and took a position as linotype operator for the Centralia Daily
Chronicle. Later he became shop foreman. His father, having sold his 
weeklies in
Nebraska and his partnership interest in an early South Tacoma paper worked at
the Chronicle too.

  (photo): John Bales McKean, Helen Welch McKean

Music and sports were an important part of McKean's life. He enjoyed classical
music and had a large collection of records of many fine artists. He was an
active sportsman and a member of the Chronicle's soft-ball and 
bowling teams. He
was a low handicap competitive golfer, often  playing on Donahoe's Course
between Chehalis and Centralia.
	On May 31, 1936, John B. McKean was married to Miss Helen M. 
Welch, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Channing Welch. Miss Welch, a graduate in Chemistry from
Washington State College, Pullman, Washington, was a science teacher in the
Chehalis Senior High School. Their home was at 120 North Washington Avenue,
Centralia, Washington, which later became the Episcopal Manse.
	Their son, John Richard McKean was born January 15, 1939, at the Sweet
Clinic, Saint Lukes' Hospital, Centralia, Washington. His early 
education was in
Bothell Grade School, Bothell, Washington, where his parents then lived and his
father was editor-publisher of the Bothell Citizen. During his high 
school years
the family had moved to Edmonds, Washington, where his father was
owner-publisher of the Edmonds Tribune Review. He continued his early interest
in clarinet, playing first chair in the high school orchestra and band and in
the Everett Junior College and University of Washington marching band.
	He graduated from Edmonds High School in 1956, and received 
his Bachelor of
Science degree in Economics in 1960 and a Ph.D. in 1967 from the University of
Washington, Seattle, Washington. He has held positions in the University of
Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, the University of Washington, and the University of
Idaho, Moscow, Idaho. He is presently a Professor at Colorado State University,
Fort Collins, Colorado. His home, in the foothills above Fort Collins, is
landscaped with native pines, blue spruce and rose slate from a nearby quarry.
He enjoys the Rocky Mountain country.
	John Bales McKean, born November 12,1900 at Dakota City, 
Nebraska passed
away on March 3, 1981 at Colorado Springs, Colorado. He was a member of Everett
Golf and Country Club, Everett, Washington for fifteen years; was a Mason and a
member of the International Typographical Union for sixty years. His widow,
Helen Welch McKean, continues to make her home in Edmonds, Washington.

McKEE

I am Gladys Mildred "McKee" Hardy. I was born June 10, 1909 near Napavine,
Washington. I grew up and attended grade school and high school in Napavine.

  (photo): McKee Family

I graduated from high school in 1928. We have a class reunion every year at
Lewis and Clark State Park, near Mary's Corner. We will be having our 
57th Class
Reunion this year. We have lost three of our classmates.
	I married Otto Martin Hardy on June 29, 1928 at Chehalis, Washington.

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Otto lived near Mary's Corner, so when we were married we moved to a ten acre
farm next to his parents. Otto's parents were Lineal and Nora Hardy. He had one
brother; Olin, and four sisters; Bessie, Blanche, Gertrude and Marge.
	My parents were Henry and Della McKee. They moved here from 
West Virginia in
1907, and bought a 17 acre farm on the Avery Road near Napavine, Washington.
	My dad worked for Emery and Nelson in the woods.
	I have two brothers and two sisters. Ralph McKee lived in Napavine. He
passed away in 1973. He had one son; Herbert, and three daughters; Dorothy,
Dixie and Sally. Also four grandchildren. Fay McKee lived in Winlock. He passed
away in 1977. He had two sons; Dale and Dennis, and one daughter, Cheryl. Also
several grandchildren. Dorothy "McKee" Mercer lives in Chehalis. She has one
son, Richard, and three grandchildren. Florence "McKee" Jacox lived at North
Fork near Chehalis. She passed away in 1981. She has three daughters; Myrna,
Marilyn, and Linda. Also four grandchildren.
	Otto and I had one son, Kenneth Duane Hardy, born August 1, 
1929. He has
three children. Ronda Linn Chumbley born Feb. 17, 1955. Married with two
daughters Jennifer Linn born 10-181 and Megan Marie born 4-19-85. Kenneth
     Duane Jr. born March 21, 1957. He was killed in a beach accident 
in 1969, at
twelve years of age. Shannon Marie born January 19, 1970.
	Duane and his wife, Connie, went to Indonesia in 1976 to work for
Weyerhauser. While they were there my sister Dorothy and I flew over and stayed
a month. We visited three different countries while staying there.
	Dorothy and I also drove to West Virginia to visit our 
relatives. We toured
from Florida to New York while we were there.
	I lost my husband Otto in 1975 at age 72.
	I have retired now and love to fish.
	My son, Duane, and his wife, Connie, have moved to Mary's Corner, and
live close to me now.

McKINLEY FAMILY

William Edward (Wink) McKinley was born, March 3, 1864, in Angola, Indiana.
Sharon Adaresta (Addie) Peterson was born May 17, 1868, in Boon, Iowa. They met
by chance in a wagon train going from Boone to western Kansas. They 
fell in love
and were married in Sharon Springs, Kansas, June 28, 1885. Between the years of
1886 and 1899 there were seven children born. They were: Henry W., Willard Roy,
Elizabeth L., Lillian M., Thaymer, E. Rueben and Celestia.
	Things did not go well in Sharon Springs so William came to 
McCormack, WA
where he found a job in a sawmill. He worked until he had saved enough to send
to Sharon Springs for Addie and the children. The weather was quite rainy so
they decided to move inland when they found the opportunity in 1901 to purchase
a hundred acre farm for $750 three-quarters of a mile south of Mossyrock, WA.
(Old timers know this as the McKinley place, now owned by Wayne Workman).
	William had a sawmill, sawing lumber for his home and farm 
buildings and for
other people in the valley. He also built homes, barns, bridges, and contracted
to move buildings, one of which was the Ajlune post office. His sons Henry, Roy
and Reuben worked with their father and followed this profession. The children
all helped on the farm and attended Mossyrock schools.

  (photo): William McKinley's Sawmill

Addie was a midwife and helped Dr. Botzer deliver babies in the community. For
some years she worked in the post office. By Jack McKinley

CHARLES AUSTIN McLAUGHLIN

Charles Austin McLaughlin was born to Edward C. McLaughlin and his 
wife, Mollie,
in March 1908. He moved with the family on their many moves and when they
returned to Lewis County lie met Thelma Lough at a dance at the Centralia Labor
Temple in 1928. Thelma was born Sept. 3,1911. Her father and mother, Jacob and
Azalea Collier, lived up the Hanaford Valley. He was a carpenter and 
built their
home himself.

  (photo): Charles and Thelma McLaughlin

Charles and Thelma were married in September, 1929. Charles was quite artistic
and would have made a good cartoonist but went to work for Harry B. Quick,
painting stripes by hand on cars, which was quite popular then and was a very
specialized job. Their first baby, a girl, named Charlene, was born June 13,
1930. They moved to Shelton, WA and lost their little girl there of 
diptheria at
the age of 22 months. Two boys were born to them there; Charles, on July 28,
1932 and Edward, on July I, 1935.
	When they came back to Lewis County they lived near Adna. 
World War II was
on and he became foreman of the paint shop at Fort Lewis and drove up there
every day from Adna. They were blessed with another daughter, 
Patricia Ann, born
on March 13, 1943. After the war Charles Senior was sent, by the government, to
work in the Naval paint shop at Poulsbo. But now the doctor sent him 
south again
for his health. This time they went to Carruthers, where Thelma's 
sister, Edith,
and her husband, Albert Raymond lived. He drove a truck and worked on the farm
until his health improved. Then they moved back to Centralia.
	He was a professional painter for many years in this area and 
also worked
for the County. This house burned in 1945, so they moved up on Davis 
Hill, north
of Centralia, and built a larger home for their growing family. A son, their
last child, was born while here on July 29, 1951 and was named Richard Eugene.
Charles, Jr. joined the Air Force in 1951. He married Louise Holly in 1957, but
this marriage didn't last. So in 1972, he was married to Ruth Gregg, which is a
happy one. He has worked for the State since leaving the service. The 
second son
married Clara Marth in Centralia, December 1955. Edward joined the 
Air Force and
made it his career. Richard was a serviceman also, and while on furlough from
Japan, he married Kathleen Irwin of Centralia. After several years in the
service, he is now working at American Systems Corp. near Bremerton.
	Charles senior died of a heart attack in February 1957 and is buried at
Claquato cemetery beside his father and mother. After her husband's death,
Thelma went to work at the Yard Birds. She met Dewey Locke and they 
were married
in August, 1959. Dewey died in 1976.
	Patsy (Patricia Ann) was married in June 1961 to James 
Russell Denny. He was
in the Air Force at the time and later became license exam

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iner for the State and now owns a dry cleaning establishment in Shelton.
	Thelma met George Cauthen at the Twin City Senior Center and they were
married on January 18, 1980, but his health failed and he died in August 1980.
Thelma still works at the Center.

EMMA EDITH AND MABEL ELLA McLAUGHLIN

These two girls came to Lewis County about 1900 with their father, E.G.
McLaughlin and their new step-mother, Mary Ellen (Mollie). They grew 
up near the
town of Littell and use to go to church at the Claquato church.

  (photo): Emma McLaughlin Anderson Standing, Mabel McLaughlin Langford, 1976.

Emma, the eldest, was married in 1909 to Curtis Anderson, who had 
come over from
Yakima to work in the woods. They lived in the Littell area and while 
there, had
two children, a daughter, Evelyn Opal, born in Oct. 1910, and a son, Lloyd
Edward, born July, 1913. They then moved to Galvin w here their last child, a
boy, was born in 1926. His name was Harold Guy.
	They moved to Yakima to a hop field and lived there until Emma's husband,
Curtis, died in 1941. Emma moved to Seattle then and became a 
licensed practical
nurse. When she retired, she moved back to Lewis County and bought a small home
in Centralia.
	Her youngest son, Harold, died in 1974 in Seattle, leaving a 
wife, son and
daughter. He is buried in the family plot at Claquato cemetery.
	Emma's daughter, Opal, was a retail clothing buyer. She 
married Edward Pride
in 1947. He worked for Bendix Radio Corporation in Baltimore, MD.
	When they retired they moved to Lewis County to be near her 
mother. They
have no children.
	Emma's son, Lloyd, married Vera Reed in Nov., 1933. They 
lived in Seattle
during the war years. Their son, Robert Eugene, was born in Yakima in 
1934. They
had gone over there to help in the hop harvest during a labor 
shortage. This son
now lives in Louisiana, with his wife and four children.
	After the war Lloyd and Vera moved back to Lewis County to be near his
mother and her relatives. Lloyd worked for Agnew and Pacific Sand and Gravel
until he retired. He then built a new home on Waunch Prairie north of 
Centralia,
where they still live.
	After high school Mabel worked for several years in Foster's 
Bakery, which
used to be on downtown Market Street in Chehalis. One day, an 
enterprising young
man named LeRoy Langford came into the bakery, and a romance started which
culminated in their marriage in Nov., 1920. He had started using the new
pneumatic painting machine and this spray painting was his life's work.
	>From this union four children were born two boys and two girls. Gerald
Edward, born January, 1922, Raymond Dalley in April, 1924, Barbara Mabel in
January, 1926, and Caroline Jean in August, 1933.
	Of these four children - Gerald (known to everyone as Jerry) 
and Barbara
lived most of their lives in Lewis County. Jerry was in the Navy in 
World War II
and met his wife, Delores Raynolds, in New York. After the war they 
came back to
Lewis County and he became a building contractor where he has built many
buildings, including his own home, in Lewis County. They have one son,
Christopher Raymond, who was in the submarine service in World War II and since
has lived mostly in the Olympia area. He was married three times and had 2
children by his first wife and one by his last one.
	Barbara married Roy Hamilton in Nov., 1947. His grandfather was W.A.
Hamilton, who came to Lewis County in 1903 from Virginia, with his ten children
– nine boys and one girl.  Most of the many Hamiltons in Lewis County are his
descendants. Roy's father was Curtis D. Hamilton, one of the nine sons of W.A.
Hamilton.
	Barbara's husband Roy worked for a time for Wibra and Cloud, 
florists, who
predated the present Benny's florists. They lived in Olympia for a few years
where he became interested in the spraying business, mostly treating power
poles, which he still does in Lewis County and other areas. Two sons were born
in Chehalis; Randy Curtis in May, 1951, and Ricky Clifford in May, 1954.
	Randy was always interested in the law and police work and 
had been a deputy
sheriff since 1973 - when he was appointed Undersheriff of Lewis 
County in 1982.
He married Susan Gatch in May, 1981, and at this time, 1985, they have 2 small
sons, Benjamin and William.
	Ricky was studying mechanics and at one time he won an award 
for the State
of Washington and a trip to Texas. He married Debra Steele in Nov., 1981, and
they have a small son named Tyler. He works with his father in the spraying
business.
	Mabel's youngest child Caroline, after high school and two 
years of college,
married Arthur Glenn Walden in April, 1954. They have always lived in the
Seattle area and had three daughters, Laura, Christa and Kylie. Caroline has
been a dance teacher for many years and changed her name from Caroline to
Karolyn.
	Mabel's husband died in March, 1955 and she worked for a time 
at the Green
Hill school in Chehalis as a practical nurse. She died in July, 1984, and is
buried beside her husband at Claquato cemetery. By Gladys E. McLaughlin

EDWARD GILBERT McLAUGHLIN

The second son of James McLaughlin was Edward Gilbert, born in 1868. He married
Eva Cole in 1891. They had two daughters, Emma Edith, 1893, and Mabel Ella,
1895. His wife, Eva, died in the late 1890's, leaving him with a small baby boy
named Ray.
	Mary Ellen Alderson, usually called Mollie, took care of Eva 
in her last
illness. Edward eventually married her and decided to go west to join 
his father
and brother. Unwilling to burden his new wife with a small child, he left Ray
with his maternal grandparents, who had been caring for him and wished to
continue doing so. Ray never saw his father again until the early 
'30's, when he

  (photo): Edward G. and Mollie McLaughlin and their first son in front of their
first home on the old Pratt place above Littel. Girls from L to R: Emma and
Mabel (his daughter from his 1st marriage)

came west to live. But the two girls, Emma and Mabel who were six and eight
years old, came with them. This was about 1901.
	Their first home was the old Pratt place, north of Littell. 
There were large
trees all around. Mollie, from the Kansas prairies, was terrified there were
bears out there and, whenever her husband left, she insisted on having a gun
with her. Whether she knew how to shoot is questionable.
	There was a large mill at Littell, in those days, with lots of Japanese
workers. Edward got work in the logging industry and hauled logs to the mills
with horses.
	Edward and Mollie lost their first baby but the second, a 
son, was born in
June, 1903. They named him James Alexander. He and William Derwood, 1905, were
born on the Pratt place. Then, they moved to a place on, what is now, 
McLaughlin
Road. There, two more sons were born, Charles Austin, 1907, and Millard Henry,
1914. When the mills closed at Littell, the) moved to Estacada, OR. By this
time, Emma had married Curt Anderson and Mabel later married Roy Langford.
	The next move was to Walla Walla, WA.  Then, the oldest boy, 
everyone called
him Alec, met a girl from Milton, OR, twelve miles away. Her name was Gladys
Ellen Groves. They were soon married so, when Edward and Mollie moved back to
Lewis County, only three boys were left They had a farm near Dryad, for many
years, and the two oldest boys worked in the mill.
	They moved to Waunch Prairie, outside Centralia, where they 
had raspberries
and chickens. William married Thelma Johnson; Charles married Thelma Lough; and
Millard married Mary Crisman.
	Edward and Mollie finally retired to a small home on Yew St. 
in Centralia,
where they lived out the rest of their lives. Edward died in December, 1946.
Mollie later married Clint Owens and they lived in her house, on Yew St., until
she died in 1962.
	She is buried beside her husband at Claquato cemetery and her 
son, Charles,
is buried near them. James is buried there in another plot but

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Millard died in California and William in Longview, WA. By Gladys E. McLaughlin

JAMES ALEXANDER McLAUGHLIN

I have written the story of my husband's grandfather, uncle and 
father so now, I
will write about my husband and myself. He was James Alexander McLaughlin, son
of Edward G. and Mollie McLaughlin, and was born in the old Pratt house, north
of Littell, in June, 1903. The old house is gone now, but was there a few years
ago and 1 have a picture of it. His mother named him for his grandpa, 
James, and
Alexander White, the mill foreman at Littell.
	I was born at Wallachet, July, 1902,.which is near Gig 
Harbor, WA. My mother
was Theresa Fisher Groves and my father, Gerald G. Groves, a school principal.
He taught at Spanaway, Fern Hill and Ruston, near Tacoma, before moving the
family to central Oregon. In 1918, we moved to Milton, OR and I graduated from
high school there. I then went into nurses' training at the old Dr. Crook's
Hospital in Walla Walla; it is gone now.
	One summer night, I went to a dance at State Line and met my 
fate. James
Alexander's friends all called him Alec and, at work, men use to call him Mack,
but he had such beautiful, black, curly hair, when young, to me he was always
"Curley". It was love-at-firstsight and we were married October, 1921. We soon
moved back to Lewis County and he worked in the woods.
	We lived in a building on the old Chilvers' place, north of 
Littell. The
main house had burned and, at one time, they had kept rabbits in the 
building. 1
always told my oldest daughter that she was born in the rabbit house, October,
1922. She was the only one of our girls born in Lewis County. Araminta Chilvers
came over to assist Dr. Pettit and my husband gave him a load of wood in
payment. How times have changed! At that time, Mr. and Mrs. Chilvers lived at
the Claquato cemetery and he took care of the cemetery. The house they lived in
is no longer there.
	   We moved often, in those early days. Many times he had jobs on dairy
farms. We were living at Duvall, W A, when our second girl, Dorothy Jean, was
born, July 1925. For a while, my husband worked with his brother-in-law, Roy
Langford, at painting. We were living on New York Ave., Chehalis, and you can
tell the year by the sign painted on an old car in the next street. It said, "I
refuse to run in 1928", which is what Coolidge said that year.
	My folks were planning a trip and wanted us to stay in their 
house, so our
third daughter, Mary Ellen, was born in Milton, OR, September, 1929. My sister
always called her "September Morn".
	We moved back to the Chehalis area and were living on a dairy farm on
Macomber Road; they use to call it Coon Canyon. While there, we had an
opportunity to get a government farm at Mt. Vernon. We lived at Mt. Vernon
several years. Our oldest daughter graduated from Mt. Vernon High School and
married Lawrence Jungquist while we lived there.
	World War II came along and my husband tried to enlist in the 
Sea-Bees. He
was too old, though, so he went to work at Mt. Rainier Ordnance Depot, near Ft.
Lewis, instead. After the war, we moved to Longview, where my husband 
worked for
the Longview Fibre for 18 years. While in Longview, I took the LPN course and
became a Licensed Practical Nurse.
	Then we moved back to Centralia to live in his mother's home, after her
death; his father died in 1946.

  (photo): L to R: Gene, James, Bonnie, Gladys, Marg

Our daughter, Dorothy Jean, married Billy Locke, son of Dewey Locke, of
Centralia and our youngest daughter married William Carson of Seattle.
	My husband died in 1971. Since his death, I have traveled 
quite a bit; he
only liked to go fishing. I retired at 79 from nursing but I keep 
active. I have
written of the McLaughlins buried at Claquato cemetery and I have my place
reserved there, too. By Gladys McLaughlin

JAMES AND ALBERT McLAUGHLIN

In 1833, James McLaughlin was born in Atheus County, OH. He married Almyra
Springer in 1858 (she was born in Pennsylvania in 1836) and they 
moved to Kansas
in 1869. They had seven children, of whom four survived. Two boys, Albert
Ausburn, August 26, 1857; Edward Gilbert, June, 1868, and two girls, Sally and
Jane. The girls never came west to live but the boys did. Albert 
married Malinda
Jane Dolph (born in Urbana, IL, 1859). They had two children in Kansas, Harvey
Ed, 1878, Ora May, 1884.
	In 1887, James' wife, Almyra died. There was a movement 
toward the west, at
that time, so James persuaded Albert and family to come to Lewis County with
him, where Albert took out a homestead claim in 1889. His grand-daughter still
has a copy of this. This was near Claquato, in Lewis County. Malinda Jane's
brother, Richard Dolph, also came west with them. My mother-in-Iaw told me he
had a hop-yard between Littell and Adna.
	After coming to Lewis County, James met and married a widow, Emeranna
Gifford, whose first husband and a son are buried at Claquato cemetery; victims
of a logging accident. Emeranna was a midwife and helped deliver many 
babies, as
doctors were not too plentiful in those days. She went to California to visit a
daughter and

  (photo): Albert, seated left holding granddaughter Adeline: behind 
him daughter
Om, Father James McLaughlin seated right holding grandson Herbert, Wife Matilda
J. Dolph McLaughlin standing

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died there. After this, James lived with his son, Albert, and family. 
Albert and
Malinda, known as Aunt Jen, had two more children, Ethel Maude, 1891; Albert
Richard (Bert), 1896. Albert, eventually, left the farm and had a home on Ohio
Avenue, Chehalis, where his father died in 1911.
	For many years, Albert had a small grocery store where 
Kaija's store now
stands. Albert was paralyzed in later years, and perished in a fire in his Ohio
Avenue home in 1929, as they couldn't get him out in time.
	His wife later married a Mr. Logan, in Centralia, and lived 
there until her
death in 1935. She rests in Claquato cemetery, beside her brother, her first
husband and her children, Harvey and Ora May. By Gladys E. McLaughlin

NORMAN McMAHAN FAMILY OF RANDLE, WA

Norman K. McMahan was born April 30, 1918 in Randle, the son of Clara H. Koher
and Clarence L. McMahan. The Koher family met and married while 
immigrating from
Germany and settled in the Lower Cispus Valley S.E. of Kosmos and S. W. of
Randle prior to 1908, 1908 being the date the Cispus Post Office was 
established
in their home.

  (photo): Frances and Norman McMahan (photo by John Nix)

Clarence was the grandson of James L. Randle. Because Mr. Randle was
instrumental in establishing the Post Office in Randle, the town took his name.
	Norman attended the Randle Schools, graduating in 1936, farmed with his
family and brothers Glen, Paul, and Jimmie. He attended WSC 2 years. In the
summer he worked as fire lookout and member of trail crew for the Forest
Service. Norman enlisted in the Air Force September 1941 and after stateside
basic training, was overseas by July 1942. Word was received in October that
"Sgt. McMahan, Air Corp, has been reported missing in action in Africa area
since Oct. 22, 1942." The family had word of his capture and interment in
Germany the day before Thanksgiving. A telegram on May 23, 1945 notified the
McMahans of Norman's liberation. Clarence died in March of 1945, marring the
reunion.
	Frances L. Pittman was born November 23, 1926 at Cora. Fourth 
child of Ruby
M. Smith and Jacob A. Pittman. Ruby was directly descended from Marcel Bernier,
first white child born in what is now State of Washington; Son of Hudson's Bay
Co. guide and general employee. He was born near Spokane Falls, November 19,
1819. At the age of 23 in 1840 he married a Cowlitz Indian woman and took up
claim on Newaukum Prairie, which is today Forest. At his death in 1899, he was
survived by three sons; Julian, Isadore, and Pierre. Ruby's mother, Margaret
Bernier, was the daughter of Julian and Celeste Gerand. In 1952 at the age of
80, Margaret Bernier Smith reigned as Pioneer Queen of Southwest Washington
Pioneer Association's 40th annual picnic at Centralia's historic Borst Park.
	The Pittman's came from West Thalen in Northwest Germany to 
Indiana, then to
Minnesota. In 1887, Jake's father, Lewis Pittman came with the Wassons by
immigrant train and settled west of Chehalis on Pleasant Hill. Lewis 
Pittman and
Mary Wasson married.
	Jake and Ruby married in February of 1916. Hubert, Marguerite 
and Eileen
were born, and in 1922, this family moved to Cora, 10 miles east of Randle. It
was at Cora that Frances was born.
	The children born to Frances and Norman, after their marriage 
December 26,
1945, are the recipients of this rich heritage. The family tradition started
when a l0XI0 log cabin was erected on the south side of the Cowlitz River
opposite the town of Randle. To this wilderness setting Jim Randle's 
family came
to join him from Tennessee in 1887. Daughter May Randle married Jim McMahan
(parents of Clarence) and together farmed the land until Norman and Frances
moved to the property with their baby son William. A daughter, Marilynn, was
born in 1949. A son Allen, born in 1951 (died in car accident at age 
of 20). Two
more sons were born. Ross in 1959 and Jake in 1966.
	It was in 1956 that the farm became a Grade A Dairy. Norman 
became a brick
mason and with the help of Bill and Allen, built a block building, welded
together pipes for stalls. Milk was shipped to Darigold in Chehalis 
in 10 gallon
cans until 1959 when a bulk tank and pipe line were installed. 
Irrigation system
for irrigation pasture was added in 1958. In the spring of 1973, Bill and his
wife Laura, and baby Joshua, returned to Randle from Tacoma to become farm
partners. Expansion was inevitable, and in 1977 property was purchased on
Skinner Rd. This purchase added 120 acres and is located 3 miles south and west
of the home farm. It too is situated on the banks of the Cowlitz River. When
articles of corporation were voted on, we named the farm Cowlitz Meadows Dairy.
	The ingenuity and talent of our master builders came to the fore, and
besides the barn, a house for Norman and Frances was built. Bunker 
silo, milking
parlor and loafing shed followed. Bill and family moved to the home place.
During this time, Ross had finished two years at Centralia College, married his
high school sweetheart, and worked for two years on a dairy in Curtis. His
weekends off were spent in Randle building barns with Bill, Norman, and Jake.
The moved to Randle came December 1983. The first milk was shipped in November
of 1984.
	Jake graduated from high school this June and his ambition is 
to remain in
the Big Bottom Valley, and continue working in agriculture.
	Looking back at the rich heritage left to us by these hearty 
pioneers: The
five generations who have farmed the land left by James Randle, 
Norman and I are
comfortable leaving the farming to fine energetic, community minded sons and
their families, who have the flexible ability and desire to maintain and
continue the farming tradition. A legacy left with confidence and pride. By
Frances Pittman McMahan.

McMAHAN FAMILY

My great-grandparents, Joseph F. McMahan and Josephine Edwards McMahan arrived
at Vale in Eastern Oregon about 1880 after a journey by covered wagon from
Tennessee with seven of their eight living children. Joseph had lived in Wayne
Co., Ohio. Josephine's background is unknown.

  (photo): Josephine Edwards McMahan, 1842-1906

Joseph was born May 13, 1833, and she January 26, 1842. They were married
February 1, 1858. They left behind an 18 year old daughter, Mary Elizabeth, who
was married to Wilbur Osborne.

  (photo): Franklin Bogart McMahan, age 22,1872-1936

They were at Vale long enough to plant and harvest one crop. While there Joseph
died. The oldest son, John William, now about 22 went to San Francisco to work
and changed his name to John Osborne. The next son, Steven Ulyses Grant, stayed
behind to farm.

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Frank and Annie McMahan and family. L to R: Mae, Marie, Frank B., 
Young Frank in
front of Grandpa, Zella, Jim, Annie (Grandma) holding Hattie, Bill and Steve.

  (photo): The Frank and Annie McMahan homestead

  (photo): Steve McMahan, c.1924

Josephine, now a forty year old widow, traveled with her five 
youngest children,
her wagons, cows, horses, oxen and crated chickens to Lewis County in
Washington. Her oldest child with her was James Foster, 15. He later moved to
Randle and married May Randle. The others were Celesta Isabell 13, Franklin
Bogart 10, Harrah Mariah 7, and Joseph Tate 4. A son Robert Ira Cleveland died
in 1865 at five years. Franklin Bogart became my paternal grandfather.

Josephine arrived in Chehalis in 1882 and filed for a homestead in Swofford
Valley. She traveled 30 miles to Mossyrock and on east six more miles 
over wagon
roads but the final access to her property was cut through forests 
and swamps by
herself, her children and whoever else may have been there to help.
	She was the second white person in that area. It was just she, the
wilderness and the Indians. When she arrived several Indian families 
were living
in their tepees on her land. They treated her exceptionally well, helping build
her log house and helping dig her well. They kept her in fish and 
meat. In later
years my grandfather didn't like for anyone to talk unkindly about the Indians
because he considered them his friends.
	Her youngest children attended school between Riffe and 
Nesika under a big
tree when weather permitted. It was a walk of two or three miles one 
way through
the timber with their dog. Frank carried a gun and one day the dog treed a
cougar on the way to school and Frank shot it. Later Josephine gave land for a
school which was known as the McMurry School.
	Josephine married Pete J. McMurry, the father-in-law of her daughter
Celesta. Celesta and her husband had one son, James McMurry, born in 
1887 and in
later years he stayed with my grandfather. Celesta's husband died and she
married Monte Phillips. She died in 1906.
	About 1906 Josephine went to San Francisco and shortly after 
died there in
1907 at the age of 65.
	About 1893 when Franklin Bogart became 21 he filed for his 
own homestead
which joined his mother's on the south. He later took over hers. The Swofford
Road between Ajlune and Riffe later went through his farm. The road 
to Green Mt.
intersected on the west side. That part was later owned by my father, 
Steve, and
was where I grew up.
	In 1897 Frank (10-25-72 to 11-26-36) married Elizabeth Ann 
Hunt (3-28-1881
to 10-1930). Annie, as my grandmother was called, came from West Virginia with
her parents John and Nancy (Coleman) Hunt to the Riffe area.
	Annie was one of 10 children. They were McClelland (Mac), 
Julia (married
Jasper Pfeifer of Centralia) , Tom, Elizabeth Ann, Mary (married Louis Lindberg
of Glenoma) Rachel (married George Schoonover of Salkum), Pricey (married John
Cook of Riffe),Moses, Bill, and Della (married John Bloomstrom of Glenoma). Her
father was a little short man who lived between 105 and 110 years, 
the record of
his age became uncertain during the Civil War years. He also had 11 children by
a previous marriage.
	Frank and Annie had twelve children. They were Marie Olive 
(1898 to1970),
John William (Bill) (1899 to 1933), Steve (1901 to 1985), Zella Maude (1902),
Eva May (1904), Jim (1906), Benjamin Franklin (1909 to 1959), Myrtle 
Belle (1910
to 1911), Hattie Elizabeth (1912 to 1929), Helen Sarah (1915 to 1984), Kathleen
(1917) and Charlie (Pat) (1920).
	There was lots of hard work. They raised all their food including their
flour which they ground at the Sulphur Creek grist mill near Riffe and owned by
Annie's father. At times they raised pigs which they drove to market 
at Morton 8
miles away. Clearing the land of the huge fir trees was a never ending job.
	All the children went to the McMurry School. There was one 
room for eight
grades. Later the woodshed was made into another room. Sometimes the teachers
would board with Frank and Annie. When my father was 12 and in the 
7th grade his
father was very sick so he had to quit school to help Bill, now 14, with the
farm work. A year later Zelia quit in the 7th grade because of eye 
problems. She
joined her brothers in the fields planting and harvesting the crops.
	Frank made about two trips a year to Chehalis in his wagon, a 
trip of 36
miles which required staying overnight at someone's home along the way.
Sometimes he bought cloth by the bolt. The girls' dresses and the boys' shirts
were made from the same material.
	One source of fun were dances, often in the Odd Fellows' Hall at Riffe.
Grandpa and Joe Kiser played their violins and Mattie Stinson played the piano.
Years later I loved to hear grandpa play his Jew's harp which he always carried
in his pocket.
	Annie died when 49 with diabetes and tuberculosis. Frank had 
a severe case
of blood poisoning in his leg about 1913 and spent months in the hospital. He
developed a sore that never healed and in 1934 had his leg amputated. He died
with cancer in 1936 at the age of 64. They are buried in Swofford Cemetery.
	When Bill and Steve were about 17 they worked in the woods, 
later working in
logging camps at Grays Harbor.
	Today the old homesteads are mostly under Riffe Lake, the 
resevoir behind
Mossyrock Dam. The Swofford Pond's pumping tower in Riffe Lake is near where my
grandparent's house stood. When the lake drops unusually low you can 
see most of
their land. My uncles, Jim, Frank and Pat, my father Steve, and Aunt 
Marie, wife
of Jason Justice, had to move to make room for Riffe Lake. Marie and Jason's
fields can be seen on the north shore and part of ours on the south shore.
	In 1921 my mother, Hulda Josefina Westerlund (4-16-1900/5-1-1966) immigrated
to Grays Harbor from a Swedish part of Finland. She was a cook's helper at the
Wynochee Logging Camp where she met my father, Steve McMahan 
(322-1901/4-25-85).
They were married in Montesano on December 17, 1922. On Christmas Day 
1923 their
first baby, a boy, died at birth. They moved to Swofford onto part of Grandpa's
homestead where they built a new home. On June 6,1925 I, Dorothy Josephine, was
born followed by Lloyd Steve on January 27,1927.
	My father was a fire-warden for many years; he also drove a bus for
Mossyrock School. He loved to hunt and was a good story teller of his life's
experiences.
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During the Depression years there wasn't much money but we always had enough to
eat. Dad kept us supplied with deer and bear meat. He trapped bears in orchards
where they had fattened on fruit. During the hardest times Mom 
rendered the bear
fat and it was used for greasing Dad's caulked shoes as well as 
making Mom's pie
crusts. She didn't like to use it for cooking as it had an odor when warm but
her company would compliment her on her pies - I think she kept her recipe
secret.
	About 1935 Dad built a fire patrol trail from Green Mt. to 
Winters Mt. to
connect with a trail to Green River. It was several miles to walk each day but
Lloyd and I took turns helping throw out cut brush and caring for the 
horse. One
day the horse got pretty excited and Dad sent me back to bring it up where we
were. Going home Dad showed me fresh cougar tracks in our new trail.
	When I was grown my parents divorced. On November 5,1950, Dad 
married Nora
(Shields) Blankenship and they had one son, David, born October 17, 1951. In
1964 they had to move because of Riffe Lake and bought a farm at Randle, where
he farmed until he was over 80 years old.
	In 1966 Dad was severely burned over most of his body while burning log
piles for road rightof-way in a remote Cispus area. He spent almost five months
in the hospital, had 8 operations and lost all but two of his fingers. He loved
to work and, although handicapped, worked on his farm for another 15 
years until
the affects of diabetes took their toll and he began losing his eyesight.
Several months before his death, April 25, 1985, he was blind. My 
mother married
John Hellman in 1961 and died suddenly in Port Angeles May 1, 1966. Lloyd died
January 1, 1982 in Olympia.
	My half-brother, David McMahan married Phyllis Cline from 
Morton and they
have two daughters, Karla and Tracy.
	My parents taught me early that work should not be shunned 
and that it could
be fun. From Dad I learned to love the outdoors, especially the mountains and
the quietness found there.
	I went to first grade in the one room Riffe school across the 
road from our
house. It was built about 1929 on my grandfather's property after the McMurry
School burned. There were 25 students in six grades. Mildred Senter was our
teacher. The older boys carried drinking water from our well and the water pail
with its communal dipper sat in the cloak room. The next year we went to
Mossyrock. I liked to study so guess that was why I was valedictorian of my 8th
and 12th grade class.
	In the thirties we raised almost all our food besides growing 
potatoes and
corn for our pigs and cows; so lots of summer hours were spent 
hoeing. The chore
I liked least was watching our cows turned out to pasture where there weren't
fences to control them. There was always fun, the homemade kind.
	Special memories as a child in the Depression years are that 
little things
meant a lot, like a penny given you or a stick of gum which I tried 
to make last
at least a week.
	Candy and oranges were mostly for Christmas and ice-cream for 
the 4th of
July. For awhile the government gave away free oranges at the stores but Dad
didn't allow us to take them for free.
	I remember on July 4, 1933, our picnic's main treat was 
creamed new peas and
potatoes from our garden. I don't think they could spare a chicken that year.
Dad gave us each a dime. Lloyd bought firecrackers and I bought ten sticks of
candy with a different ring on each stick - one for each of my fingers. School
often delayed starting in the fall so kids could pick blackberries to 
sell to G.
Ghosen's cannery at Mayfield. One year we got 3/4 cent a pound, a 
hundred pounds
was a hard days picking for an adult.
	When I was in the sixth grade at Mossyrock we were taken on a trip to
Olympia. It was the first time there for a lot of us. You could tell what
families had things a little easier because their kids brought their lunches in
paper sacks - but a lot of us had to use newspaper to wrap ours in.
	There always were big wooden gates everywhere to open and 
shut when we got
off the main road, sometimes four or five of them in half a mile.
	A special trip was picking huckleberries at Pinto Rock south 
of Randle in
the fall after the CCCs built roads in the Cispus area about 1932. For a while
we could buy bulk peanut butter at Safeways in Chehalis for 15 cents for a 10
pound pail - Lloyd and I could hardly wait to get home with it.
	I was 12 when we got electricity. I pretended to be too sick 
for school that
day so I could be there when it was turned on. From then on things were easier.
Those were hard and difficult times but still truly "the good old days".
	On February 8, 1943, four months before high school 
graduation, I married
Harold Powell from Salkum who had graduated from Mossyrock two years before and
had been enrolled at W.S.C. at Bellingham. Three days later he left for the
Army. During his five months of basic training in Texas I finished my senior
year. I spent nine months with him in several states before he was sent to
England and then on to France after D-Day. He was overseas for 21 months during
which time I worked for Boeing in Chehalis, building wing assemblies for their
B-17s and B-29s until the War ended -a day longed for by so many for so long.
That night we spent in Centralia where the business part of Tower Avenue was
roped off so people could dance in the streets - so different from the
atmosphere of almost four years before when the newsboys on Tower Ave. were
telling of the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
	In 1948 we bought our farm at Salkum where we raised our six 
children who
all graduated from Mossyrock High, also. They are Dorothy Elaine (12-27-46)
married to John Jasperson, Harold LeRoy Jr. (1-13-48) married to Kathy Sander,
Linda Ailene (10-25-49) married to Peter Welch, Ellen Ann (1-24-51) married to
Richard Berdan, Diane Louise (8-24-55), and Gary Dean (4-27-59) married to
Veronica Calapp.
	We have eight grandsons and five granddaughters. They are 
Janet and Ryan
Jasperson of Coupeville; David, Rhiana, Brian and Julie Powell of Sterling,
Alaska; Heather and Eric Welch of Renton; Aaron and Shelley Berdan of Salkum;
Jeremy, Ty and Devyn Powell of Salkum.
	Harold worked as a resawyer for Howard Lbr. Co. at Winston 
Ck. from 1946
until they shut down in about 1961. In 1967 he began working for Tacoma City
Light at Mayfield Dam, the last twelve years there as a power house operator.
Our youngest son, Gary, and our son-in-law Richard Berdan are also operators
there. Harold Jr. has been a carpenter in Alaska for the last seventeen years.
He now lives with his family at Sterling on the Kenai Pennisula. Another
sonin-law John Jasperson will retire in two years from the U.S. Navy. A third
son-in-law, Peter Welch, works for Boeing Computer Services at Renton. Diane
works for the State at Olympia. Ellen received her B.A. degree from C.W.U. at
Ellensburg in 1973 and taught school until she had her own family to care for.
	Today there are 147 descendants of my grandfather, Frank B. 
McMahan. All
those descendants owe their very being to the courage and resourcefulness of my
great-grandmother, Josephine McMahan McMurry and that for some reason she chose
Swofford Valley to homestead in! By Dorothy McMahan Powell

McMAHAN

I, LeAnna Joyce West McMahan, was born on January 21, 1960, in Morton 
to Leo Orn
West and Anita Louise Cannon West. I was born the youngest often 
children, being
raised with two of four half-sisters and five half-brothers. We lived the first
six years in Randle, moving to Packwood in August 1966 to accommodate a large
family.

  (photo): LeAnna and Ross McMahan and Baby Joel

While attending White Pass Jr. High I met Ross Michael McMahan. Ross 
was born on
December 6, 1959 in Morton, to Norman Koher McMahan and Frances Lois Pittman
McMahan. He was raised on a dairy farm in Randle with three brothers and one
sister.
	Ross and I started dating in February 1975. After graduating 
from White Pass
High School in May 1978 we continued to college, Ross to Centralia Community
College and I to Peninsula Community College in Port Angeles. Ross studied
business management and I accounting. Ross and I took turns making the three
hour drive from Port Angelers to Chehalis on weekends.
	We became engaged in April 1979 and set our wedding date for 
September 8,
1979. Our wedding was scheduled for 7:30 p.m. as Ross' family being dairy
farmers needed time to get to the wedding following their afternoon 
milking. Our
first home was a brand new apartment in Centralia which Ross reserved when it
was nothing more than a foundation.
	We completed our second year of college together at Centralia Community
College. Ross would get up at 4:00 a.m. to clean the shop for Fred B. Moe
Logging, come home just in time for breakfast and then it was off to our 8:00
classes. We were finished with classes by noon, had lunch, then Ross 
was back to
the shop to service log trucks, often until 9:00 p.m. I worked afternoons for
Harry S. Hill, accountant, during income tax season often also 
working late into
the evening. After we graduated in June 1980, I went to work for Twin 
City Dodge
(now Rainier Mazda Datsun) as a title clerk, later to become assistant office
manager.

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Ross changed jobs several times due to the bad economic times. After being
laid-off from Moe Logging he went to work for Brown Chevrolet in the service
department then to Moduline, building mobile homes. Once we learned of the
possible lay-offs at Moduline Ross got a job at Walsh Double Diamond Ranch, a
dairy farm in the Boistfort Valley, Curtis, W A. Through all of this Ross was
never more than two days between jobs.
	   We moved to Curtis in November 1980, Ross starting as 
morning feeder,
later to herdsman and some time as assistant manager. Due to the differences of
our work schedules and my having to commute I quit my job in December 1981 to
fulfill my desire to become a full-time housewife.
	   Our first child, Joel Anthony, was born on September 21, 1982, in
Centralia. He has quite an imagination and a real talent for teasing. 
Joel loves
going to "work" with his daddy and especially enjoys the motorcycle and tractor
rides. At 21/2 he can't understand why he can't have a motorcycle of his own.
	Due to our building a second Cowlitz Meadows Dairy, we moved 
back to Randle
in November 1983. Ross worked swing shift at Cowlitz Stud Co. while 
working days
with his brothers and father building the dairy. We started milking 
in September
1984 and became full-time dairy farmers in February 1985.
	We are now enjoying getting to know our old community again, 
introducing
Joel to it all and looking forward to the birth of our second child 
in November.

IRMA WHITEMAN McNAIR

I was born near BawFaw Peak, first child of William Henry and Mary Etta Rhodes
Whiteman. My brother Leslie and sister Vera were also born there. In 1917 we
moved to V alier, Montana, where I grew up. Brother Lee and sisters Doris and
Thelma were born in Montana and moved to Washington in 1924.
	My husband, Fred McNair, came out from New York state in 
1923, to serve the
Baptist Church in Valier. We were married in 1924, moving to 
Kalispell, Montana,
soon after. After a year there we went east, where Fred pas to red a church
while attending post-graduate school in New Jersey.
	We then moved to central New York state, where Fred pastored 
another church
and where our sons Richard, Lee, and Stephen were born. In 1937 Fred suffered a
nervous breakdown, so left the ministry, going into other work. Thinking to
improve his condition, we moved out to Washington in 1939, settling 
on a farm at
Curtis, where we lived for five years. There our son Fred and daughters Elaine
and Carolyn were born.
	In 1944 Fred decided it was necessary for him to leave the 
family. We moved
to Tenino, where Richard, Lee and Stephen graduated from high school and Fred,
Elaine and Carolyn started school.
	For better opportunities for us all I moved to Centralia with the three
younger children in 1953, where they finished their schooling and I as trained
as a licensed practical nurse. I was so employed for 20 years, 
retiring in 1977.
I still live in Centralia. By: Irma McNair

ROBERT McNEE FAMILY

One of five children born to James and Jessie Brown McNee, Robert 
McNee made his
entry into the world on September 2,1862, in Braeside, Ontario, Canada. He had
three brothers - John and Duncan of Minnesota, and Willie of 
Vancouver, B.C. His
sister, Jessie, resided in Braeside, Ontario.

  (photo): Back row: Nona and Robert McNee. Front row: Clara, Wade, Myrtle and
Esther. Horses: Dan and Pansy.

When Robert was 13 years old, his parents died. He then lived with his brother,
John, working as a farmhand and carpenter. He became a United States Citizen in
1883.
	Later, Robert moved to Washington state and was one of the 
first settlers in
Randle. He homesteaded in Vance, located about three miles south of Randle.
After a few years, he sold his property and purchased (from Pat 
Kehoe) 160 acres
two miles east of Randle.
	About the turn of the century, Robert's first house burned. 
He rebuilt, and
his second dwelling is still standing.
	Nora Stout was one of six children, born May 4, 1877, to 
Andrew and Clara
Hastings Stout in Van Alstyne, Texas. Nora had one brother, George, and four
sisters - Jennie, Ella, Mattie, and Lena.
	In 1885, when Nora was eight years old, the Stout Family 
moved from Texas to
Washington state in a covered wagon. Encountering the colossal Rocky Mountain
Range with grit and determination, Nora drove the wagon while the others spent
most of their time outside, pushing the vehicle with all their strength.
	Upon arriving in Lewis County, they settled six miles east of Randle.
Staying with them was Uncle Billie Jobe (Andrew's brother).
	Billie Jobe raised a pet bull. Every day he rode it to the 
creek for water,
then led it back to the barnyard. One morning, Billie Jobe was leading his bull
from the creek to the barnyard, and he stopped to lean against his favorite
large fir tree - as he often did. As usual, his bull stood obediently beside
him. Suddenly, with no warning whatsoever, the bull turned on Billie Jobe and
viciously gored him to death. He was first to be buried in the Randle Cemetery.
	In 1895, Robert McNee married Nora Stout, and six children were born
(fifteen grandchildren): Robbie (Married Ruth Tanger), grandchildren: Richard
and Harlin. Clara (married Clyde Goble), grandchildren: Ray, Charlotte, and
Clarabell. Esther (married Sanford Floe), grandchildren: Dorothy, Maxine, and
Sandy. Wade (married Elmo Spears), grandchildren: Dale, Billie and Dean. Myrtle
(married Frank Pratt), grandchildren: Robert and Arnold. Edward (married Jane
Ball), grandchildren: Rosalie and Barbara.
	Clifford Orr taught the children in a one-room schoolhouse (grades one
through eight). In the wintertime, Clifford built a fire early in the 
morning so
the building was warm and comfortable for his students. During those cold
months, the youngest McNee children rode Dolly, the horse, while the older ones
walked those two miles to school. In the springtime, rather than 
accommodate the
little ones, Dolly had to plow in the field.
	Before and after school, the children had many chores; 
nevertheless, they
found time for play. Clara and Esther not only rode horseback in their spare
time but often challenged some grazing steers by climbing upon them, determined
to not get bucked off.
	One bright, spring day, Clara was on her way to Silver Creek when she
noticed a black and white animal with a pretty, bushy tail. She 
thought it would
be fun if she could make friends with this interesting creature. As she
carefully moved closer to it, the animal moved away. Clara, not being one to
give up easily, tenaciously continued her endeavor to, at least, touch this
newly found "Toy" - that is, until she was abruptly sprayed with an offensive,
odorous secretion only known to the skunk family! Needless to say, 
her perplexed
parents had no choice but to "keep" Clara, doing their best to clean her from
head to toes, but it didn't take them long to bury all her clothing!
Esther had a cow called "Ribbon," and Clara's cow was "Whiteface." One day the
two girls had a debate as to which cow was strongest. The only solution was to
braid and tie the two cows' tails together while they were still in the barn.
The girls gasped as the cows headed toward the barn door, nearly knocking it
flat as they attempted to go outside. The bewildered cows finally ended up
against a tree, and Ribbon lost the end of her tail. Later, Papa McNee not only
noticed the condition of the barn door but also Ribbon's predicament. 
He scolded
the boys, who accepted his criticism rather than become tattletales.
	Papa (Robert McNee) was a master broadaxman. He hewed the 
logs for the first
church built in the Randle vicinity. Attending Christian Church services was a
very important part of the McNee family activities. Robert was the official
decorator for the church's special events, and Nora taught Sunday School. In
fact, in the buggy (on the way to Sunday School each week) Nora taught the
children a new Bible verse.
	In the summertime, immediately after church services, everyone came for
lunch to the McNee Family's large grove of beautiful shade trees, which stood
elegantly near the front of the house. Robert had build a long picnic table,
with benches, and everyone furnished food. Delightful Christian Fellowship was
enjoyed by all.
	During the fall of the year, two or three neighbors went 
together in their
own wagons from Randle to Chehalis, which was a three-day trip each way.
Groceries were purchased in large quantities (coffee, salt, baking 
powder, soda,
a barrel of flour, 100 pounds of sugar, etc.), to last throughout the winter
months.
	Because the Cowlitz River had to be crossed both to and from 
Chehalis, the
Indians furnished canoes. Each wagon was put into two canoes and taken from one
side of the river to the other; then the boats returned to get the 
horses, which
swam behind them.
	Robert McNee passed away August 30,1955 - only three days 
prior to his 93rd
birthday. Nora died April 3, 1962, at the age of 84.
	The McNee children still surviving are Clara, Esther, and 
Edward. Robbie
died in 1953, Wade in 1983, and Myrtle in 1985. By Esther McNee Floe

McPHERSON FAMILY

Their roots are in the midwest, but the family moved to California in the mid
thirties, during the Depression. They settled in the San Fernando Valley until
the late seventies when three families came up to Washington and settled in
Lewis County.
	Forrest W. McPherson and his son, Forrest Lee McPherson and 
family came in
1978. Then Corwin McPherson, brother to Forrest W. McPherson came up in 1983,
with his family.
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Forrest W. McPherson married his old classmate from Nebraska via the Pomona
Valley in California, in 1979. They have a home on an acreage outside of Salkum
and Corwin McPherson and family live next door. He is starting a worm farm and
his wife has a Montessori preschool in their home.
	Forrest Lee McPherson is Police Chief in Winlock. He and his 
wife, Brenda,
have three grown children: Mark and wife, Cheryl, live in EI Paso, Texas, where
Mark is stationed in the service; Robert and wife Barbara, live in Aberdeen, WA
where Robert is a member of the police force; Kathy McPherson, only daughter,
works for Dr. Wong, optometrist in Winlock, WA.
	Thus, the McPhersons have become quite well established in 
Lewis County in a
relatively short time.

BALLARD M. MEADE FAMILY

Ballard was born October 10, 1877, in PikevilIe, Kentucky. He served 
in the U.S.
Army and later married Jane Dingess in Puyallup, Washington. Jane was born
October 2, 1876 in West Virginia. Coming to Randle, Washington in 1915, later
moved to Charlie Kiona farm near Randle. They finally moved to the 
Nels Anderson
farm in Glenoma on Meade Hill. Ballard and Jane farmed their home and 
raised two
children. Their son, Richard, born December 13, 1918, served the u.S. Army,
married, (had one child, a son, Richard Adrian born May 1939 (died Jan.1957)
Berniece Blake. Richard Sr. died from injuries of a logging accident. Their
daughter, Helen, born March 27,1923 at Randle, W A married Melvin McCain.

THOMAS M. MEIKLE FAMILY

Thomas McGavin Meikle was born at Kinsman, Ohio Aug. 21, 1845, the first child
of James Barr Meikle and Elizebeth Howatt, and grandson of Thomas Meikle and
Mary Barr who had come to America from Lanarkshire, Scotland in 1842 
and settled
in Trumball County, Ohio. "Tom", as he was known, travelled over much of the
western United States on foot, by horseback and wagon and later by train. He
told of the train crews "speeding" to get to the passing siding ahead of
schedule so that they could play croquet while waiting for the train going the
opposite direction. He worked and prospected as he went and arrived Clark
County, Wash., where he contracted in 1872 to clear ten acres at Vancouver for
two hundred dollars ($200.00). Then he came to Catlin, (now west Kelso and
Longview) where he met Cilicia Ann Black at the Fred Catlin home where she was
helping with the household duties.
	Alfred and Mary Jane Washburn came to Cowlitz County (then a 
part of Lewis
County) in 1852 with their six sons and two daughters. Their daughter Marilla
married John Black from County Cork, Ireland Jan. 14, 1855 at Kelso and they
settled at Lexington, later moving across the Cowlitz River to Stockport where
they raised their family of five sons and five daughters. Their 
second daughter,
Cilicia Ann, married Thomas M. Meikle Feb. 13, 1879. They set up 
housekeeping in
a log house on property he had purchased across the Cowlitz River, 
from Vader on
Feb. 6, 1879. Within a couple of years they built, with rough lumber, a two
bedroom house with an attic bedroom. Then in 1887 the "big house" was built. It
was an eleven room, two story "T" shape plastered house with cellar. It was
built with planed clear lumber (not a knot in the entire house) and is still
standing at 580 Mandy Rd., Toledo. "First he slashed and burned 22 acres for

  (photo): Back: Young Thomas, William, Walter, Elizebeth, Father Thomas, Effie,
John, Jazmes.  Front: Marilla, Cilicia, Mother Cilicia, Frederick, Kenneth
Meikle.

	the first hay crops, which grew among stumps and logs, and 
had to be mowed
with scythes" and built a barn for storage. When he was able to produce more he
marketed hay, grains, potatoes and dressed and cured meats, all of which were
shipped via steamboat to Kelso, Portland and farther. His "T M M" 
brand potatoes
were in demand on the San Francisco market.
	Thomas and Cilicia had eleven children: James Howatt b. Feb. 
3,1880, d. July
27,1950, never married. Effie b. Nov. 19, 1881, d. Oct. 28, 1955, m. Plinny
Shepardson Oct. 5, 1902. (see Plinny Shepardson story). After graduation from
the eighth grade, Effie got her teachers certificate and taught school for two
years to get money to go to high school. Walter b. Aug. 24, 1883, d. Feb.
2,1971, m. Oline Saterback, had no children. William b. Aug. 9, 1885, d. July
13, 1968, m. Edith Morris, had no children. Mary Elizebeth b. Mar. 12, 1887, d.
July 14, 1973, m. William Rogers and lived on a farm south of Toledo. They had
two children, Ernest Harold and Mary Eleanor. Thomas b. June 21,1889, d. April
2, 1975, m. Marzella Kregleo Doll Feb. 28, 1914, settled in Idaho and had four
children. John Elmer b. Sept. 16, 1891, d. Dec. 16, 1971, m. Julia Ameretta
Osgood and lived in Cowlitz County, they had three daughters. Marilla b.
	Nov. 30, 1895, m. Harold E. Oliver and made their home in Kennewick, WA
where she still resides. They had three children. Kenneth Iver b. Feb. 24,1898,
d. July 22,1947, m. Melza Varner and lived in Cowlitz County, one daughter.
Cilicia Ann b. Aug. 17, 1900, m. Wilfred J. Whitten and is living in Portland,
OR, no children. Frederick Clinton b. Nov. 27, 1904, m. Leonie Ahonen and had
one son. Now living with second wife in Portland, Oregon. By Fred C. Meikle.

CHRIS METZENBERG FAMILY

October 1908, Chris and 'Lizzie' (Zaugg) Metzenberg, with their small son,
Ernest, bought a 100-acre tract of land near Littell. The present 
address is 256
Stearns Road, Chehalis. They built a house and farm buildings. Lizzie died in
1940 and Chris died in 1958.
	Chris was born in Switzerland and 'Lizzie' was born in 
Nebraska of Swiss
parents. Their first home was Miller, South Dakota. After coming west, they
lived a few years in Sumner, WA.
	Five children were born to them: Ernest (1905); Bertha 
(1909); Clara (1912);
Roy (1914) and Eva (1918). All five children are now retired.

  (photo): Bertha, Roy and Clara Metzenberg

Ernest married Arlene Johnson (1930). Two children were born to them: Clifford
(1936) and Carol (1939). All live in Portland, OR. Ernest retired 
from Grandma's
Cookies (1970). Clifford married Carolyn Perkins (1964), and Carol married
Robert McCaleb (1963).
	Bertha married Marc Girardot (1929). Marc passed away in 1972 
and Bertha
lives near Castle Rock, WA. Two children were born to them: Carmen (1932) and
Patrick (1935-1952). Carmen married Roger Sharp and they live in Oak Grove, OR.
Bertha retired (1974) as an accountant and co-owner with her husband 
of the Twin
City Ornamental Iron Works and Fireplace Shop in Longview. At 75 she is still
active with volunteer work and teaches six classes of Aerobics to Seniors each
week.  Clara married Gerry_Jones (1933). Gerry was a barber for 20 years (Jones
Trim Shop). He passed away in 1972. Clara has always lived in Chehalis. Two
children were born to them. Marian (1935) and Phillip (1939). Marian married
Gerald Macomber and Phillip married Cathy Ridener. Marian lives in Chehalis and
Phillip in Missouri. After retiring from Enterprise Electric in 1976, Clara is
still active in church work.
	Roy married Luella Esler (1937). Roy and Luella lived many 
years in Seattle.
Roy retired from Safeway. They now live on Crego Hill and are enjoying 40 acres
of beautiful country. They enjoy traveling, fishing, bowling and garden club
activities.
	Three children were born to them: Virginia (1939); Diane 
(1942) and Steven
(1949). Virginia married Gordon Neale (1965); Diane married Ron King (1968) and
Steven married Nan-

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cy Schumaker (1971). Steven and Diane live in Seattle. Virginia lives 
at Odessa,
WA.
	    Eva married George Mueller (1937). Three children were 
born to them:
Jean, Shirley and Eddie. After eleven years, they separated. Eva 
married Russell
Davies (1950). Three sons were born to them: Glen (1953); Jim (1955) and Chris
(1956). Eva retired as a rural route mail carrier for the Tenino Post Office.
She was the first mail carrier Tenino had. Russell retired as Operation
Superintendent for Thurston County Road District. They own their 31-acre farm 2
miles from Tenino and now are doing what they love best, raising a nice garden,
beautiful flowers and Christmas trees. Their recreation is hunting and fishing.

ROY METZENBERG FAMILY

Roy, son of Chris Metzenberg, was born on a dairy farm near Littell, where he
spent his boyhood. He attended three schools. The first at Littell, then Adna
and Chehalis. In 1937 he married Luella Esler, whom he met while attending High
School in Chehalis.

  (photo): Luella and Roy Metzenberg 1937

Their first home was in McCleary, WA. Roy worked in a mill. In 1939 a daughter,
Virginia, was born. Roy saw no future in his job so he took a course 
in airplane
mechanics offered by Western Air College in Alhambra, California. After
finishing his correspondence course at home he went to California to complete
his studies. Luella and baby moved back to Chehalis with Luella's. mother until
Roy could send for them.
	After graduation Roy was employed by North American Aviation 
Co. He sent for
his wife and daughter to join him in Inglewood, California. It wasn't long
before they were missing family and friends. They longed for green 
trees, rivers
and open spaces.
	In 1941 they returned to their home state, where they made 
their home for
the next 30 years. Roy worked for Boeing for four years. In 1942 another
daughter, Diane, was born. A house was purchased in White Center. 
This was to be
their home while living in Seattle.
	In 1945 Boeing shut down for a period of time. The war was 
over. Roy went to
work for Safeway Stores Inc. driving semi-trucks. He liked his job and did not
go back to Boeing w hen they resumed operations. He drove trucks for 
the next 27
years. In 1949 a son, Steven, was born. This completed their family. In 1964
Luella found time heavy on her hands and went to work, part-time, for The White
Center Library.
	Roy retired in 1972 and Luella quit her job to return to 
Lewis County. They
had purchased 40 acres on Crego Hill in 1968 from Luella's Uncle, John L.
Battisti. It was originally the home place of John and Maria Schwarz Battisti,
Luella's grandparents.
	A house was built after tearing down the old one which was 
beyond repair. It
stands on the same spot as the original house. Later a barn and other out
buildings were constructed. The fields are now leased. Luella and Roy are
enjoying their retirement back in Chehalis. They have noticed many changes. The
old high school was torn down after the earthquake. One way streets were
developed. Planters add color. People no longer go to Chehalis Saturday nights
to shop and visit. Now we have shopping malls. They enjoy the progress but are
glad for the memories.
	Their daughter, Virginia, married Gordon Neale in 1959. They 
live in Odessa,
WA. They have three sons, David, Kenneth, and Brian.
	The second daughter, Diane, married Ron King in 1968. They 
live in Seattle
and have two children, Lorri and Ryan.
	Their son, Steven lives in Seattle. He married Nancy Shumaker 
in 1971. They
have two sons, Chad and Jason to carryon the Metzenberg name.

JOHN MEYN FAMILY

My father, John Meyn, was born in Germany on August 24, 1859 and came to the
United States with his parents as a small child. His father, Johan Meyn died
before John was born. It was Johan's dying wish that his wife, Metta Johanna
Miller Meyn, marry Johan's cousin, Peter; so the children of this second
marriage also carried the Meyn name. After the birth of three other children,
the family moved to New York in the winter of 1864. They later moved 
to Chicago,
where they saw the funeral train carrying President Lincoln and they also
witnessed the Chicago Fire in 1871.
	Later they moved to a farm at Cedar Lake, Minnesota. They 
were hard working,
honest, church going people and Peter loved to sing hymns. Johanna could speak
four languages German, Latin, English and French; and was an excellent
seamstress. Peter moved his family to Boistfort in the 1890's. His 
youngest son,
Gus, owned a small farm and they all lived together. Peter died on 
this place on
December 16, 1899 and is buried in the Boistfort cemetery. Metta 
Johanna died in
Walla Walla on November 11, 1909 and is buried there.
	My father, John Meyn married Hendrietta P. (Etta) Zimmerman 
at Crown Point,
Indiana on March 24, 1886. In late 1889 they came west on an immigrant train to
Tacoma. They had two children, William C. and Irene Sarah, who was just a baby
then. Three more children, Irven John, Lillian May and Elmer Edward were born
while they lived in the Tacoma area.
	In September, 1903, John bought Gus's place at Boistfort and 
continued to
live there until his death in 1945.
	I, Ada Meyn Pier, their youngest child, was born at Boistfort 
on October 17,
1906. My father farmed and for several years he drove the horse drawn cream
wagon from Boistfort to Ceres. There the train picked up the cream and took it
to Turner and Pease in Seattle. In winter, my father made one trip on 
Monday, in
the summer he made two trips each week, Monday and Thursday. Each was a long,
all day trip. He often did errands for any neighbor who needed help. My parents
belonged to the Methodist Church and my mother belonged to the Helping Hand
Ladies Club. We continued to live in the valley many years. My mother 
died at my
sister, Irene's home at Willapa on August 20, 1940. My father also died at
Irene's home on February 7, 1945. They are both buried in the Menlo Cemetery.
	I graduated from Boistfort High School in 1925 and married 
Edgar W. Pier on
October 8, 1926 at Vancouver, Washington. We have two daughters, Gladys and
Caroline. Edgar was a logger most of his life. We bought my parents 
old place at
Boistfort and lived there until October, 1964. Then we moved to 
Waunches Prairie
in Centralia. On December 5, 1964, Edgar was killed in a car wreck 
and is buried
at Mt. View Cemetery in Centralia. I am living in a mobile home on 
Gladys' place
in Vancouver. By Ada Meyn Pier

MAUDE MONTGOMERY MEYERS

My grandfather, Joseph Gibson, came by ox team to this area in 1852, marrying
Narcissa Henness and settling near Bucoda. I was born in Bucoda Mar. 29, 1891.
Later my parents had a big farm near Cedarville. My father could speak to the
Chehalis Indians in their own language. He often gambled with them 
when one team
would pile up goods to bet with and then the other team would guess into whose
hand a pebble had been dropped. The gambling would last through Saturday,
Sunday, and until Monday morning when they had to go to work.
	I graduated from Centralia High School in 1909. One memory 
from those years
is of being sent out to the enclosed porch of the school with the Dickerson
twins and another girl to work until 4:30. But just before that time, we were
inadvertently locked in and everyone had gone home when we discovered this. We
began to scream and finally were heard by Mr. Dunckley who lived a block away.
When we were released we were all very hoarse.
	I worked for Fry and Co., meatpackers, in Centralia for eight years,
transferred to Seattle, and then went to Bellingham and then Anacortes for a
year. The 1918 flu epidemic hit the country while I was in Anacortes. I was
asked to find a bookkeeper for the company but every time I'd find one, she
would die. I finally caught the flu and came home.
	December 29, 1919, I married Charles L. Myers, who had been a 
meatcutter in
Lexington, Kentucky. Together, we had a meatmarket and then a grocery store,
both on N. Tower. Once, while delivering meat to a private party in Winlock we
found we were at some sort of celebration where the men were out in the yard
drinking and the women were in the kitchen cooking. In the kitchen we looked at
a rather strange looking man against the wall with a white cloth around his
head. Someone said, "That's the corpse." And it was the central figure for the
celebration, a custom from their Old World country.
	My husband and I became interested in union affairs and 
worked for them for
a long time. I was interested too in the Red Cross and my sister 
Blanche Croxall
and I each worked for them for a while.
	With friends I sometimes look at the old pictures or at my old hat
collection. But I live in the present. My eyes are still good and I read a good
deal, some about the pioneers but also new novels and often a 
Harlequin romance.

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PAUL LUDWIG FULSANG MICKELSEN AND JOHANNA SVENSEN VOAD

Paul Ludwig Fulsang Mickelsen, born Feb. 14,1878 in Hoelstand, Denmark, died
Nov. 17, 1968 in Winlock, Wash. He served an apprenticeship as a shoemaker.
	Johanna Svensen Voad, born in Sunds, Denmark, Sept. 23, 1881, 
died March 2,
1965 in Win1ock. Paul Mickelsen came to New York with a group of 20 
young men in
the early 1900's. After short stops in Cleveland, Council Bluffs and Salt Lake,
he came to Portland. Hannah came to join her father in Omaha at the 
age of 14 on
a Danish ship the Thingvalle. This ship sank on its next sailing.
	Paul and Hannah met in Portland and were married there Aug. 
15, 1907. They
first moved to Winlock in 1913 and about a year later returned to Portland,
where he operated a shoe repair and retail store. They returned to Winlock in
1917 to a 20 acre stump ranch; built a home and bought an adjoining 20 acre, on
an income from 7 cows and 1000-1500 chickens, plus 2-3 summer's work at a
sawmill and on the county roads.
	Their first 3 children were born in Portland: Victoria, 1908; 
Walter, 1910
and Douglas, 1912. The remaining 5 were born in Winlock: Irving, 1914; Clayton,
1918; Mildred, 1920; Pauline, 1924 and Arlene 1929.
	All their children graduated from Winlock High. Five lived 
most of their
lives in Winlock.
	Victoria Klement worked many years in the office of 
Washington Co-op Egg and
Poultry Assoc.
	Douglas started a chicken farm after graduation. Irving 
settled on a small
farm and drove a milk truck for Darigold.
	Clayton built a dairy farm now operated by his sons and son-in-law.
	Arlene Bay graduated from Pacific Lutheran Univ. and became a 
teacher. She
built a home on part of the family farm.
	Walter graduated from the University of Wash. He worked in 
Washington, D.C.
for 36 years. After retirement he returned to Chehalis.
	Mildred Architect and her husband owned a air tool repair business in
Portland and continue to live there.
	Pauline Dicky went to Washington, D.C. after high school and 
worked there
for several years as a secretary and court reporter. She now lives in Medford,
OR.
	The Mickelsen farm bordered the north side of the Winlock- 
Toledo Hiway on
the top of Pikes Hill, 2 1/2 miles east of Winlock. This Hiway was 
paved in 1921
from Winlock to Cowlitz Corner. It was called a "Farm-to-Market" road and built
under the Donahue Road Law, which required everyone living within a certain
distance of the road to pay construction costs. This law was in effect only a
few years, then discontinued. It caused much hardship for those farmers owning
acreage adjacent to the road.

CLETUS MIKOTA

I, Cletus Mikota, was born at Evaline in 1902. My grandparents Mathias,
1845-1920, and Anna Hernecek Mikota, 1855-1915, and their children John, Mary
(Germaine Leitner), Louis (my father), Agnes (Deuber), Andrew, Cecelia (Howard)
and William left Spillville, Iowa in 1881. A 300 acre farm located between the
Forest-Napavine Road and Highway 603 became their home. Ed, Rose 
(Scollard), and
August were born in Lewis County. In order for timber cut at the Chehalis Mill
Co. at Salkum to be

  (photo): Louis J. and Mary Allen Mikota, (Esther) Sister M. Genevieve O.P.,
Agnes Tedro, Cletus Mikota, Louis and Doris (Hamburg) Mikota, Aunt Mary Leitner
(sister of Louis J.).

	transported by rail to Chehalis, thirty acres was purchased from my
grandfather on which a spur was built. The "Galloping Goose", a gas 
car operated
by the railroad, transported passengers to Cheha1is. The heirs to the property
were forced to sell when the highway was built.
	My parents Louis Joseph Mikota (1876-1960) and Mary Agnes 
Allen (1881-1951)
lived with her widowed mother for ten years. My mother serviced the oil lamps
along the railroad tracks. My sisters Agnes, 1904, and Esther, 1906, were also
born in Evaline. Grandma Blair attended the births as midwife. In 1911 the
family home on Stella Street was purchased. Dad had an interest in a saw mill,
was a plasterer, a farmer, and served a couple terms on the Napavine Town
Council. My brother Louis was born in 1917. All the children delivered bottled
milk in Napavine, selling it for six to ten cents a quart. Eventually Dad
purchased 92 acres of land which my nephew Mike purchased in 1969. After the
local Catholic Church burned, Mass was celebrated in our dining room.
	I attended school at Evaline and graduated from Napavine high school in
1920. I enlisted in 1942 at age 40 to serve as a yeoman during WWII. I was a
bookkeeper for Pacific Highway Transport until my retirement in 1969. 
I do enjoy
working outside in the garden and trimming brush in the woods, and the local
bingo games.
	My sister Agnes was a bookkeeper for Gesler McNiven for 
twenty-two years.
She married Herbert Tedro and they had one boy James and a grandson 
Brian. Agnes
is now living in Pasco.
	Esther (Sister Genevieve) is a Dominican Sister and lives in 
Chehalis. She
taught for fifty years in Montana, California, and Washington. She will
celebrate her diamond jubilee in June, 1985.
	My cousins Helen and Louis A. Mikota, children of John 
Mikota, came to live
with us in the early 1940's. Helen worked as a registered nurse at St. Helen's
Hospital for twenty-five years. Louis was a watchman at the local mill.
	My brother Louis Edward graduated from WSC majoring in animal 
husbandry. He
was a production manager for All West Breeders for 32 years, a Burlington
volunteer fireman, and is a 4th Degree Knight of Columbus. He had six children:
Michael 1943, Richard 1945, Carolyn 1947, Roger 1949, Tom 1951, and Margaret
1953. By Cletus Mikota

  (photo): Mary, Agnes, Cece1ia, Andrew, Anna, William, Mathias, Louis, John.

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MICHAEL  MIKOTA

I, Michael John Mikota, was born in Ferndale, Washington, March 17, 1943.  My
father, Louis Edward Mikota was born in Napavine in 1917. My mother Doris
Hamburg Mikota was a daughter of a pioneer family in Newport, Washington. They
met at a college Sadie Hawkins Dance and were married in 1940. Her sister
Ernestine married John Pingry Galvin of Centralia.

  (photo): Debbie, Mike, Patrica, Mark, Daniel, 1985

My childhood was spent in Burlington. During my high school years my brother
Richard and I cared for up to 3,000 laying hens. The money we earned was
earmarked for our college education. I studied business at Skagit Valley
Community College before enlisting in the Navy to serve during the Vietnam War.

  (photo): Louis J. and Mary Allen home, Napavine, now the Mikota home.

After being discharged I decided to settle in Lewis County remembering the good
times I had on my grandfather's farm as a boy. In fact, I purchased the farm
from my father Louis, my uncle Clete, and my aunt Agnes Tedro. After doing some
refencing, I started to work for Bank Check Supply in Centralia which is now
Interchecks Inc. I was a Napavine volunteer fireman for ten years and am active
in the Knights of Columbus.

In May 1979 Dwight and Beverly Obermire introduced me to Deborah 
Sass, a teacher
in the local grade school for nine years. Deborah was born in Mt. Vernon,
Illinois in 1946. She lived most of her childhood in Twin Falls, Idaho, and
graduated from Mt. Angel College, Mt. Angel, Oregon, in 1970. Within two weeks
after we met, I proposed to her in the woods on the farm. We were married
October 27, 1979 at St. Joseph's Catholic Church, Chehalis, where she had been
active in Altar Society and in forming the folk group in 1977.
	Our home was to be my grandfather's home which had been 
severely damaged by
fire in 1978. We did as much of the work ourselves as we could. My 
father Louis,
and father-in-law Bob donated several weeks labor to speed up the remodeling
project. We moved into the big house in August of 1981, retaining as 
much of the
old style as was feasible.
	We have three children: Patrice 1980, Daniel 1982, and Mark 
1984. I raise a
few head of cattle mainly to keep the grass down in the fields. There 
is a small
tree farm which I hope will benefit my grandchildren some day. I love this area
- the mild climate, the clean air, and the green trees. To me the farm is a
great place to raise a family.