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Husband Georae Washinaton Shewmaker Born

3 Jun 1817 Place Washinaton Two .• Jackson. Indiana

Christened Place

Died / 12 Oct 1894 ') Place Waitsbura. Walla Walla. Washinoton '·-Burled

Oct 1894 Place Waitsburo Citv Cemetarv. Waltsbura. Walla Walla. Washlnaton

Married Abt 1834

Place Jackson. Indiana/Mahaska. Iowa Husband's father

James Shewmaker Husband's mother

Anna Looan Wife Elizabeth Cox

Born 6 Jun 1817

Place • Jackson. Iowa

Christened Place --Died (/ 3 Mar 1887-. tiace Waitsburo. Walla Walla. Washinaton Burled

Mar 1887 Place Waitsbura Citv Cemetarv. Waitsbura. Walla Walla. Washlnaton Wife's father

Solomon Jr (Younaer) Cox Wife's mother

Ann Comer or Comber

Children List each child in order of birth.

1 F Marv Ann Shewmaker Born

21 Dec 1835 Place

• Jackson. Indiana Christened Place

-Died ( i2 Seo 1909 ' Place Waitsbura. Walla Walla. Washinaton Burled -·- Place Seo 1909 Waitsbura Citv Cemetarv. Waltsbura. Walla Walla. Washlnaton Spouse . . . ) ...

James Woodruff .. .. .. "- ,. •(' ~ '· .J_,_ .. ·. ' .. ~- ' .. '

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16 Nov 1865 Place Walla Walla. Walla Walla. Washinoton Territnrv 2 F Eliza Jane Shewmaker

Born 8 Aua 1837 Place • Jackson. Indiana

Christened Place

Died Place

Burled Place

Spouse Felton

Married Place

3 F Elizabeth A. Shoemaker Born

19 Mar 1840 Place

• Jackson. Indiana Christened Place

Died -~ -- ' Place ( 17 Jan 1878 Davton. Columbia. Washinaton Buried ---- ··-- .

Place Jan 1878 Davton Citv Cemetarv. Davton. Columbia. Washinaton Spouse

John W. Miles Married

13 Mar 1862 Place • Mahaska. Iowa

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Husband Georae Washinaton Shewmaker Wife Elizabeth Cox Children List each child In order of birth.

4 F Anna Mariah Shewmaker Born

7 Seo 1842 Place

•• Iowa Christened Place Died

1 Mav 1908 Place Waitsbura. Walla Walla, Washinaton Burled Place '·' 'j ;;) M~ V/P,~, lo~ ( 1 \_a I / .,;"- ltL.t I 1a Spouse

Newton Aldrich MT VJ-e,u, 0~ . ~ ~ -Marrled16 Nov 1865 (Div) Place Walla Walla. Walla Walla. Washinaton Territorv Spouse

Jeffrey Dooaett . Married

<Div) Place

5 M James Marion Shewmaker Born

29 Jan 1845 Place

•• Iowa Christened Place Died

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Place Waitsbura. Walla Walla. Washinaton 27 Dec 1909 Burled

Dec 1909 Place Waitsbura Citv Cemetarv. Waitsbura. Walla Walla. Washinaton Spouse

Marv Susan McCluna ~(2.. Married

8 Jun 1879 Place Davton. Columbia. Washinaton Territorv 6 F Martha Ellen Shewmaker

Born 18 Feb 1847

Place .• Iowa Christened Place Died

1921 · Place Waitsbura. Walla Walla. Washinaton Burled

1921 Place Waitsbura Citv Cemetarv. Waitsbura. Walla Walla. Washinaton Spouse

Georae Kellicut Married

15 Jan 1871 (Div) Place Waitsburo. Walla Walla. Washinoton Territorv 7 M John A. Shewmaker

Born 4 Mar 1849 Place

•• Iowa Christened Place Died Place Burled Place Spouse carrv Klemaard Married

14 Jun 1883 Place Waitsburo. Walla Walla. Washinaton Territorv 8 M Sylvester C. Shewmaker

Born s Aua 1852 Place , Mahaska. Iowa Christened Place

--Died ,r -- Place Mav 1899 _, Davton. Columbia. Washinaton Burled

Mav 1899 Place Davton Cemetarv. Davton. Columbia. Washinaton

Spouse Ann Laura Baxtor ,., Married

I) • 28 Jun 1888 Place . Columbia. Washinaton Territorv "F

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Husband Georae Washinaton Shewmaker Wife Elizabeth Cox

~ Children List each child in order of birth.

9 M Solomon Clark Shewmaker Born

8 Mar 1855 Place • Mahaska. Iowa

Christened Place

Died Place

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~ ~ Spouse ;~ Minerva Jane Demaris

~ Married

27 Oct 1878 Place Walla Walla. Walla Walla. Washinaton Territorv

F Iowa Celestus Shewmaker ~r Born Place _J-i-..)-JL- 26 Jun 1857 •• Iowa Christened Place .... _ Died ' Place

~-~ \ 6 Dec 1913 _. Walla Walla. Walla Walla. Washinaton Buried Place

Mountain View Cemeterv 2nd Ave .. Walla Walla. Walla Walla. Washinton ;: K Spouse

Lewis C. Shell Married

27 Jun 1884 Place

Walla Walla. Walla Walla Washinaton 11 M c. C. Shewmaker

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Notes HUSBAND - George Washington Shewmaker

Note: From Babara Baker website G.W. changed spelling of name from Shewmaker to Shoemaker. This name change appears to have occurred among Shewmakers as they moved into KY/IN, etc.

Page 290 James Shoemaker son George & Elizabeth Cox of Henry County, Iowa.

CHILD 1 - Mary Ann Shewmaker

Obituary from Waitsburg Times dated 24 Sep 1909 MARYANN WOODRUFF DEAD Mrs. Maryaa Woodruff died at the home of L C Shell, Walla Walla, Wednesday morning, Sept. 22, at 9 o'clock, aged 73 years, 9 months. Death was caused by dropsy of the heart with which she had been suffering since last March. The body was shipped to this city Thursday morning and the funeral services were held from the First Christian Church at 11 o'clock Rev.MA Thompson preaching the funeral service. Mrs. Woodruff had made her home with her sister , Mrs. L C Shell, near Bolles, for a number of years.Deceased was also a sister, Mrs. Martha Kekkicut, of Prescott, James Shoemaker, of Portland and Clark Shoemaker of this city.

CHILD 4 - Anna Mariah Shewmaker

Note: Don Bailev told me that she was murdered by a distant cousin of her second husband and that he was the first man

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F~mily Group Record Husband Georae Washinaton Shewmaker Wife Elizabeth Cox Notes CHILD 4 - Anna Mariah Shewmaker (Continued)

hung in the Washington State Prison at Walla Walla.

1880 Federal Census Dist. 3 Walla Walla Washington FHL Film :# 12255398 Roll: T9_1398 Page: 233C NEWTON ALDRICH farmer self m m w 47 NY fa. RUSSIA mo. RUSSIA ANNA ALDRICH keeps house wife f m w 37 IA fa. KY mo. KY MINNIE ALDRICH at home dau f s w 13 WA TERR fa. NY mo. IA CLARA ALDRICH dau f s w 4 WA TERR fa. NY mo. IA

CHILD 5 - James Marion Shewmaker

1880 Federal Census Dist. 1 Columbia Washington FHL Film #1255396 Roll: T9_1396 page 9 JNO.P.NOLAN CENSUS J.M. SHOEMAKER other mm w 34 IA fa.-- mo.-- occ. sheep herder

Notice in Waitsburg Times 27 Dec 1909 Lew Shell and daughter, of Walla Walla, was in the city Wednesday to attend the funeral of James Shoemaker and incidentally shakes hands with old friends.

CHILD 6 - Martha Ellen Shewmaker

Note: See Sylvester Shoemaker's census for Martha. She was living with her brother.

CHILD 7 - John A. Shewmaker

1880 Federal Census Cowlitz Washington FHL Film: #1255396 Roll:# T9_1396 page: 1910

listed under Gish Wiest census

JOHN SHOEMAKER other m s w 30 laborer IA fa. IN mo. IN

CHILD 8 - Sylvester C. Shewmaker

1880 Federal Census District 3, Waitsburgh Walla Walla, Washington Page: FHL Fikm #; 1255398 Roll: T9 _1398 page:217D SYLVESTOR SHOEMAKER farmer self m s w 26 IA fa. IN mo. IN IOWA SHOEMAKER keeps house sister f s w 23 IA fa. IN mo. IN MARY MILES niece f s w 2 WA TERR fa. IA Mo. IA ( John W. Miles dau) MARTH KELUCUT sister f m w 33 IA fa. IN mo. IN (George Kellicut's wife)

1900 Federal Census Waitsburg,, Washington ANNA SHOEMAKER

CHILD 9 - Solomon Clark Shewmaker

Note: From Donald Bailey website off Genealogy. com.

1880 Census District 3 walla walla Co. Washington FHL Film: #1255398 Roll: T9_1398 page 233C CLARK SHOEMAKER head farmer self m m w 25 IA fa. IN mo. IN MINERVA SHOEMAKER keeps house wife f m w 17 IA fa.-- mo.--BERTHA SHOEMAKER dau f s w 5/12 WA TERR. fa. IA mo. IA

1900 Federal Census Waitsbur Precinct {Coxlensive) Walla Walla Co., Washington

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CHESTER SHUMAKER, a prominent ~tockman and farmer of Asotin county, resides some· seven miles south of Ana tone. He was born. in Winnebago county~ \i\Tisconsin, on April 12, 1850, the son of Charles and Lucy (Toi.vle) Shumaker, natives of Saratoga and Troy, New York,.respectively. The father fol­lowed merchandisi~g. · Our subject was e<lu­~ted in the common schools of his na.ti ve coun­try and spent his younger days in Neenah and then went into the woods of \,Visconsin, where he worked for four years. In I 876 he moved to Utah,.and after spending orie winter, came to Daytoll{, ,·Washington, where he l'ocatecl, re­maining-,three years. He engaged in farming amLthen .took land north of Anatone, now the property of L. K. Brown. In 1888 Mr. Shu­niaker bought the home he now lives upon, which is located on the Grande Ronde river at the .mouth of Pearson's gluch. The place is a first-class stock farm, and he also has about ten acres of irrigated orchard. For sixteen years Mr. Shumaker has been making a splendid suc­cess fa his stock raising and has a very nice place, well improved,' besides good bands of stock . .. At Green Bay~ Wisconsin, on June 17, 1874, Mr. Shumaker' married Miss Flora Nims. the daughter of Loyal and Silvey (Angle) Nims, natives of New York state. The father was an early settler in Dodge county, \Visconsin. ancl also an emigrant- to Columbia county, \Vash­ington. The mother's native place is Water­town, New York. Mrs. Shumaker was horn in Hustisford, Dodge county, \Visconsin, on Janu­ary 6; 185 r. To· our subject and his wi f c the following · named children have been liorn: Anna Luella, the wife of Richard J [oskins and

living in Wallowa county, Oregon;. Charles Lloyal and Ella Almeda, both at .home. Mr.· Shumaker was raised under th(, influence of the -Presbyterian church but does not belong to any <lcnomination.

\Vhcn he came to this country he was ac­companied by Major Carr, of Dayton, and L. Nims. :Mrs. Shumaker has two sisters, Mrs. Annie Carr, of Dayton, \Vashington, and Mrs. Almeta Fox, of Pomeroy. Mr. Shumaker is_ a man u( reliability and prominence in the com­munity and has shown his ability in the success he has won here. ----- ~----~-~------c;r;;;i,7-

/'"'(Ct O ~l10emakcr, horse.s, leltshoulcler; '--'•-~ cnttle, right bip.

17 ~ r141 Mrs. Samuels w.as born Lillian A.

Shoemaker, daughter -of Mr. and Mr~. Jnmes Shoemaker. At the time

l\'IUS. 1101\:IER SAMUELS • I of her death Ehe was about 65 and Mrs. CJnrlc Israel reports that hnd been living in Portland since

word lms been received here that she and her husband Jeft here in t.he M1·s. Homer Samuels, Portland, nn- enrly l920's. live o( Columbia county, hncl died DN,iclc:,; her husl>:.md she is sur­nt hc1· home in Porthmd, March 4, vived by one son, Cecil Samuels, of a heart nltacl{. also of Po1·Uand.

]llss Etlnn :,ihoemakt•r News has been recein~u in Dayton

or the denlh or l\Ilss Elinn Shoemaker in Pol'tlnud, Wednesday, Fl•ln·u~u-r· 9. The deceused wus born nnd re~tt·t.•tl in Cohnnbiu county nml comr>hm~Ll hl~r high school etlucution in Dnyton. She earh- took up mission work nnd hull gpeciul trninin~ for her cho!-!en carel~l' nt un l•usleru sl'hool. Sh\? was sent to till' l'ot'l~lgn rtcltl by Lilt> Ba11tlst mission hoard, untl when hl•r health full(•d sht! wus emplor1.•d tu Chinn. She is sun·h·ed l,v her mother, i\ll's. J. M, Shot.!mll lrnr, ~ne brother. Hl,r Shol,­mutwr. anti I hrct• t-ilslm·s, ull ol' wlwm lirn ln Portland.

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AGED WOMAN MURDERED. -----MRS. ANNA ALDRICH, RESIDING NEAR j DIXIE, DROPS FROM SIGHT. !

Her Mutilated Body, After Long· Search, Found Beneath a Brush Heap Near the Head of the Coppei.:.She was Wealthy and Robbery is Believed to Have Been the Motive of Her Slayers­Three Brothers Under Arrest, Charged with the Crime.

Wllllam, George and Jackson Barnes, three brothers who have long borne an evil name, are In the jail at Walla Walla charged with the murder

i of Mrs. Anna Aldrich, · a wealthy woman of seventy, who resldell near Dixie. TheY: were arrested on Wed-, ncsclny. Mrs. Aldrich suddenly dis-, ap1wnred from her hmqe on Friday ol' Inst week. · She was last seen alive on the evening . of that day, clrlvlng with William· 01· "Bud" Barnes along the lonely gulch road leading to her home ..

Her brother, James Shoemaker of Dayton, was· notified of her dlf'ap­pearance and with Sheriff Havlla•1d of Walla Walla County at onr.e began a search for her which was partlcl­)latcd In by 9:11 the ranchers of the region, but which, owing to the wild and inaccessible nature of the coun-

, try in wh(ch It was made, had no definite Issue tJll 'rhursday morning. Moamvhile, on Tuesday, searchers found in the rear of the Aldrlcll home the strong box in which the mtssJng woman was known to keep her vnln­nble papers. · It had been ht•o!:en oJwn with an axe an<l rtnecl or Its con­run ls. Al.,out the same time there was fo11n1l in the. ~tu\·~. ·Cf·· lne~· A:iifi•ic!i• i'1rn11e the charrecl remnants of n tlii111J1le, and ashes indicating, the hnr­rir d tlc~truclion ~r a number of pa­pen;, 'l.'hese dlscoverles strengthened the belief that Mrs. Aldrich had been m m·d e red.

Hocly l!,ound Tlrµrsdny Morning. 'l'hursday morning at daybreak

.Dorsey Brunton and Fred Roff be­gan a search of the Cappel road, where they soon found tracks of a

I newly shod team, pulling a rubber­I tired buggy. They followed these · tracks to a point where the buggy 1 had been driven frotri the road and onto v. blind trail. This was at the .:,dgc Gf a mountain ranch owne<l by Mre. Aldrich on which there Is con­sidcr!tble timber. From there. the ~:enrchers followed the course of the rig over to the other fork of the Coppol, and to a spot where the con­·.11 tion of the thiclc brush Indicated ·:hat I he tenm had been halted for n

considerable time. About seventy yards from this point they came upon an up-rooted tree, at the hnse or which they found the dead bocly of the missing woman. The tree when felled by the wind had torn n great hole In the ground, and in this with head dowuward the body was lying. 'rhe face was turned upward, and the forehead was bruised, showing clearly the manner of death. The clothing had been slightly disarranged when thg body was thrust Into the hole,

: a:id decom[losition had already set In. While Roff guarded the body, Drun­

ton hurried to the nearest tele1>honc and notified the sheriff's ofilce nt Walla Walla. Deputy Sheriff Painter, Prosecuting Attorney Rupp and Coro­ner MacMartin left at once for the scene, too le possession of the body, u.nd had It conveyed to Walla Walla, where on Thursday night an auto11sy was performed by Drs, Shaw and

: Van Patten. Th_e only marlts nf vio­lence found on the body were two wounds on the head-one on the right temple and reaching back to the top of the heai:l and the other on the left of the base of the.brain. Both wounds, either of which was sufficient to pro­duce Instant death, consisted or deep fractures of the skull. It was plain that Mrs. Aldrich had been dAad sfnce l~ridny of last weelc; Followi"g the autopsy, the body was tnlccn ln charge by rela!lves, and yestetclny afternoon buried in the City Cemetery at WalJa Walla.

Thursday night a new l)ick handle, covered with blood was ·found n few

i feet from where the buggy had been stopped just off the Cappel road. There little doubt that this is the wea1>on with which the murderer committed the crime. A few- feet from where the pick lay was found a purse, believed to have been the one carried by the murdered woman. There was no money or other valu­ables in it.

DM Barnes Murder 1tfrs. Alclrlch 1 It is believed by the authorities

that Mrs. Aldrich was murdered by "Bud" Barnes, an employe of the dead woman, who, with · his two younger brothers, was arrested Wecl­nesday on suspicion, and who Is now definitely charged with tho crime. Their theory ls that Mrs. Aldrich was Jurecl from her home Inst Frlclny afternoon, by Darnes, driven far up : the lonely mountain ·rand, prcsnm-:

· nhty with the i«~en she was nhont to 1

visit tho ranch from which she <leslr- i e<l to sell some timber, and klllecl

_ by being ~~ruclc t~lce over tho hend I

with a pick handle. This theory is bnsecl on tho fnct thnt Dn1•nes nnd Mrs. Aldrich w.ere • seen by several farmers driving u1> the lonely Cop­pet road Friday afternoon; that as many more Inter saw Darnes return­Ing down the canyon alone, p.nd that Tuesday night, during n visit to Wnlln Walla, and in an awkward effort to conceal his crime, Darnes made dam­aging admissions to two women of the underworld of that city.

"Bud" Darnes stoutly asserts his in-nocence, and it ls believed that his

I younger brothers had lcnowledge of the murder only after Its commission. It Is known that they helped "Dud" Barnes burn conslcternble stuff nl,out the Aldrich home before the trio were arrested, and from this the office.rs deduce that Barnes told his brothers that be had committed the crime. "Dud" Barnes Is twenty-five years old and both of his brothers are under . twenty.

The theory also receives some credence in official circles that "Buel" Barnes, who ls ignorant .ancl dull witted, was merely a tool In the · tragedy and that back of him Is a man, as yet unsuspected, who planned

; the murder and who ex1>octed the \ lion's share of the. profits of the en­terprise. "Bud" Dames was married last October to the daughter of W. E. Abby, a highly respected farmer of the Dixie ·neighborhood. She was at the Aldrich home when her husband ,vas arrested, but is now at her father's home. It ls not believed that Mrs. Barnes, who ls only seventeen years old, lmew anything nhont the crime until her husband was arrested, and much sympathy is expressed for her.

· Tliough Mrs. Alclrich was n wealthy woman n.n<l robbery the evident motive for her mnrclcr, her slayer got ::mr .. .i~ thn way of hooty, ai; sh~ iu

believed to havE: ht .. , ;:;J~ !':' '':'cend i

$100 in her stron:; l,o:< at the t.lr111i or her disappca.a·nnc~. l t ls 11oi,;1:,iule that she had niuch more cash In her home, but this is considered unlllrnly, as she usually kept her money in n

, Walla Walla banlc, drawing It out as i needed.

Though "Bud" Darnes ls regarded by the authorities as Mr. Aldrlc:h's murclerer, diligent search Is being made by the anthorlttes for .Jeff Dog­gett, a former husband of the dead

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. woman, who was em1>loycd \Jy her us a ranch hand and who ctlsa1>t>enrcd Monday. Doggett wns lust ht'nrd of

' In Pasco, where he wns put off the train Monday night In n drunlcen con­

, dition He had some money i.lnd a : ticket to S1>rague, and salcl he was : going to Montana. It i~ not helleve<l i that he hacl anything to clo with t11e · actual nnirder, but It is consl<lcred 1>robable that ho lmows something about it, ancl that "Bll<l" nnrncs sent. him out of the country wlt.h the i<lca

j of later fastening the crime on him.

THINK BARNES IS GUILTY WEB TIGHTENS AROUND ALLEGED ;

MURDERER OF MRS. ALDRICH. .

When Arrested He Was Preparing to Dis-: pose of Some of Her Stock-Bought the Pick Handle With Which She Was Done to Death-Other Evidences of Guilt-Arraigned in Court and Will Soon be Brought to Trial.

"We, the coroner's jury, find that Mrs. Anna Aldrich came to her death from a fracture of the skull caused by some · blunt instrument in the hands of some tmrty or 11artlcs to us, your jury, nnlmown."

Such was the verdict returned by the jury in the case of Mrs. Anna Aldrich, who was brutally beaten to death with a piclc handle In a lonely spot in the Blue Mountains on May 1. Dr. W. M. Van Patten made an ex­amination of the body and testified that the head bore many wounds, one where the skull was crushed for five inches above the right ear, any one of which would have caused death. The flat sicle of the ptck handle would have cnusecl the wounds, he said. Dorsey llmnd told of finding the bocly and R. W. Griffith of finding the pick hnnclle an<l the woman's hand satchel about 100 feet from the spot where the body was found. Two pools of blood were also found, lncli­cating that the body had been car­ried after death to the foot of the tree where it was cllscovered.

Nm,· Proof of HurneH' Guilt.

It ls the belief of the authorltles that Mrs. Aldrich drove with "Bud"

· Barnes away from her home in clay­lhJh t, and that he had 11ors11aderl hor to go with him on the statement that some oilo "·h;,t! !!"~~! _ot,.q IJug f~11cn­vosts she owned. The offlcers believe , the woman was taken to the lonely: spot and there kllled with l>lows on · the head and her body hidden. Barnes

1 returned from the scene of his crime

I to his father-in-law's house and stayed there over night, showing signs of great excitement. The next morning he returned to the Aldrich ranch and took possession. When arrested he was getting ready to sell some of her stoclt, claiming he had leased the place from Mrs. Aldrich.

Further evidence that Bames mnr­cl6f't!d Mr::.• Aldrich hns come to light In the last few <lays. It has ueon ,lls­covorod thnt tho plcl< Jmndlo with which Mrs. Aldrich was beaten to

: death was bought IJy Durno:; n.t Cochran's lmrdwnro store at Dixie on the afternoon of May 1 while Barnes and Mrs. Aldrich were in that town.

The two drove up to the postomce. : Barnes got out to call for the mall and then leaving Mrs Aldrich to hold the horses, walked across the street to Cochran's store and bought the pick handle. Wnlldng back across the street he carelessly threw ft in

• the back of the buggy, Later he and ; Mrs. Aldrich continued t.helr journey up the Co1>1Jei which enclecl in Mrs. Aldrich's clenth. ,

It has also been found that Darnes' 1:1pent a portion ·of the night previous to his arrest, in the tenderloin district or Walla Walla, and there, .according to Emo Arulorson, nn inmat..:i, he left a pair of leather gloves. 'fhese gloves nre stained with blood, or a substance that looks like blood. They have been turned over to the officers.

: narnes also hn<l one of the Inmates write a letter to a daughter of Mrs. Aldrich. nnd purporting to come fa-om Mrs. Aldrich, saying thnc she hacl lensed her ranch to W. H. {Duel) Barnes nnd hnd gone to Spokane. 'l'hls letter was never sent, but n a copy of it was ltcpt.

Ul'others of Unrnes Exnmlnccl. Saturday afternoon Sheriff Havl­

lancl nnd n cornmllloe of neighbors of the cleacl woman maclo nn cxhnnstive examination of John and ,Jnck Barnes, younger brothers of "Bud", nncl the men macle a full ox1>lnnntion of their connection with the Aldrich farm nnd stoclr. Ench clenlod nny lmowleclge of there being anything wrong ,mttl Sunday, May 3, when Bud told them to "keep their mouths shut." They ~x1,tnlncd fnlJy their n.cllons and it was clearly shown thnt hncl the crime i been committed by their brother,

: neither of them could have hacl any , information of it. Bud Barnes has i not been on close terms with either : for years. They told of their ohler brother taking them to the Aldrich fnrm, of .theft• sleeping in the heels · an<l onttng meals, meeting neighbors and refusing to tell them anything, In

! compliance wf th the Injunction of : Buel. This fact was the first to point i snsJ)iclon to them. i Buel Dames was arraigned In the i Su11erior Court nt Walla Walla Sat­; nrdny nncl pleacled not guilty to an : indictment charging liim with tho I murder or Mrs. Aldrich. Jlo inform­I ed the court that he was without I counsel. and Oscar Caln, formerly i 1>rosec11ting attorney of Walla Walla ; Connt.y, wns nRsl,;ncd to ,tcfon,l him. I i 'l'h,i case will 1,rohahly he cnllrnl fo1· '

1 trial In nhont ton ,lays, i Jefferson Doggett, the dlvorcecl bus-

bnncl of Mrs. Alclrlch waH on Satur­day arrested nt S1u·ng110, where he had been 011 a <ll'ttnlccn debauch, and· lodged in jail at Wallu Wu.lla. Dog­gett, for many years, h:ul been fore­man or Mrs. Aldrich's far111, working for wages after the so1mration and having charge of Jll'nctlcnlly the en­tire farm. Following the disappear­ance of Mrs. Aldrich, Doggett took the train at Waitsburg ror Pasco, where he landed In n drunken condi­tion. Thence he was · traced to Sprague. He denies having had any

I part in the murder of hi~ for~te~r~~e-~

')ARNES POSED AS RICH : WON WIFE BY THIS SORT ·oF DECEP- :

TION-KNOWN AS CHAMPION LIAR I

Winds Again Devastate South-Forty-three I Clubs Entered for Northwest Shoot- !

· Grand Lodge Knights of Pythias at Walla Walla Next Week-Convicts Pass 1000 Mark-Convict Pleads for Death Penalty.

An incident bas come to light in the life of "Bud" Barnes, accused of the murder of Mrs. Anna Aldrich, which shows his. total disregard for the truth, and the role of gay deceiver he played that won the heart of one of the most respected and popular maid­ens of the neighborliood in which he lived. The devotion and faith of the 17-year-old wife is patheti~. Miss Nellle Abbey, daughter of a well-to-do and highly respected family, became enamored of the man that bas startl­ed the whole state by his brutality in

~- the murder of a few days ago. Dud

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· always bad an unsavory reputation and has been considered the cham­pion liar and, also, of the kind who would "stick lo n lie he told if he clierl for it." Nn.llll'ally, Mr. and Mrs. Ahhey Herlom11y ohjectocl to hlH ntt.cm­Uons and won Id not corrn<.ll,(., ~n t.he marrlnge. Bamo8 1>0Red ns a well-to­clo young man, to hiH sweetheart, claiming that he had a considerable sum of money saved up, almost enough to buy a farm, which was a fairy story, but it had its effects in showing his superiority as a business man over his neighborhood chums. I The _parents, finding opposition of no avail, agreed that if Barnes would go away for a year, and the girl still. wantecl to marry him at the end of that time . they woulcl give their con­sent. Barnes went to California and remained n year, and his absence only seemed to "make the heart grow stronger" in the cnse of the young lady, so the mnrrlage wns no longer opposed, ancl his chllcl wife, stlll fond­ly clings to tho hope that he ls Inno­cent.

Someone who ls acquainted with the couple believe that the fact of his claim to a considerable bank ac­count was an Indirect motive for the murder. Before his marriage he had talked of bu7ing a farm and now there seemed no excuse for him not buying ont, if he had the money he claimed. He did not want bis wife to k:ttow that he hnd no money ·ancl hnd deceived her. It ls difficult to im­agine auyone so ignorant as to be­lieve that s.uch an ati~oclous murder could. be committed and concealed, and yet those· who know him believe that such is his ignorance.• In giving out the information that Mrs. Aldrich had gone away he seemed perfectly confident that the publlc would be satisftecl with the story and · also would not doubt tbat he had the ·verbal lease he claimed to have on the farm, and thnt 110 wonl<l not be molested in running the farm for five years. · A story ts also told of an instance of his lying. and sticking to it. He re-: ported ·one time that he hn<l ldlled n clear when it was lmown by parties with him that he did not. The time wns the closed season for deer and the game officer calle<l on him and · accused him of violating the game law. The fine was five clollars, which he paid. He hacl not ldllc<l the deer, but he hnd claimed to kill it and paid the fine rather thnn go haclt on his He.

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L. N. SlJOPSHIRE is a dealer in coal and wood in the town of \Vashtucna. He is a nati,·c of Pike county, Ohio, born on J unc 1,

1'855, the son of Thomas ancl Sarah (Hanken) Shopshire. The parents settled on a farm in Ohio during the early days, where they reared

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l\lr. Shopshirc received a good grammar school education in his native state and at the age of t\\'cnly-one he went to Jowa. Coing tu Nevada two years later, he engaged in work on a stock ranch, which he followed one year, then went to Idaho, where he engaged in 'min­ing. I-le remained in that business three years, a rter which he spent a year in tra ve11ing over tlie states of Oregon and \Vashington, finally locating a homestead and timber culture in \Vhitman county, \Vashington. Here he re­mained as a farmer seven years, then went to Dayton. \Vashington, where he engaged in the saw milling business. Returning to his farm he three years later sold it ancl came to \Vash­l11c11a a11cl c11g-agcd in his present business. J\t the same time he purchased one and one-half acres of land in the town of \Vashtucna, where he has a heauti_fnl home, and owns besides sev­eral additional tnwn lots .

.I 11 1887 J\,I r. Shopshirc was married to l\fa­tilcla Kerby. daughter of Morgan and Sarah ( .\ycrs) Kerby, natives of lVf issouri who re­mo\'Ccl in an early day to Oregon, having crossed the plains with team ancl wagon. They came to \Vashington in 1874 and settled at Dayton.

The marriage of l\fr. and !virs. Shopshire has been blessed with seven children, Ver lie, Roy. Gladis. Goldie. Scott. l\farguerite and 1\forgan.

Politically, 1-1 r. Shropshire is a Democrat, and active in the affairs of his party. He was appointed deputy sheriff in r902. which posi­tion he fills at the time of this writing. He is

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Jerusha Short F 7 Aug 1832 In [ 1ty], Tioga, Pennsylvania, USA

Drusella Short F 15 Jan 1834 In Wastenaw, {county], Michigan, USA

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Cementha Short F 25 Jan 1837 In city , Whiteside, llllnols, USA

Mary B Short F 1838 In 'c ty', Whiteside, Illinois, USA

Maxie B Short M 31 Oct 1838 In [city,, Whiteside, Illinois, USA

Ira Short M 5 May 1840 In I 1ty), Whiteside, llllnols, USA

Alfred D Short M 4 Mar 1842 In {city , Whiteside, llllnols, USA

Elizabeth Short F 17 Oct 1844 In I city , Whiteside, Illlnols, USA

Grant Hall Short M 1 Sep 1845 In Ft Hall, Oregon Trail, Idaho, USA

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Jeanette Short 1854 in city , county , Washington, USA

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Pg 88-8 June 1860-Clark Co., Washington Territory-P.O. Vancouver

Esther Short A.O. Short Grant Short Matilda Short Emeline Short Curtis F. Short

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Pa Estate $10,000-$500 Ill Ore Ore W.T. Pa

Pg 20-16 June 1870 Walla Walla County, Washington Territory-P. 0. Walla Walla, Wash

Amos Short Head 35M Teamster Mich Estate $600 Ann Short Wife 34F Keeping house Ky Janet Short Dau 16F At home W.T. Rose Short Dau 14F At home W.T. Walter Short Son 13M W.T. Robert Short Son 11M W.T. Oscar Short Son 9M W.T. Eva Short Dau 7F W.T. Allen Short Son 5M W.T. Ella Short Dau 3F W.T. Louisa Short Dau 1F W.T.

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Pg 7-4 June 1880-East Marengo T11-R40-Columbia County, Washington

C. Amos Short Head 44M Merchant Mich Mich Pa E. Ann Short Wife 51 F Keeping house Ky Ky Ky Robert Short Son 21 M Clerk in Store W.T. Mich Ky Ann Short D-1-L 18F Keeping house Cal Ky Mo Linnie Short Niece 3/12F W.T. W.T. Cal Ella Short Dau 13F At School W.T. Mich Ky Lulu Short Dau 11 F At School W.T. Mich Ky Allen Short Son 15M At School W.T. Mich Ky

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Pg 6-District #3-Columbia County, Washington Territory J.A. Campbell 30M Head Blacksmith Canada Scotland R. Campbell 24F Wife Keeps House Wash. T. Indiana Lillie Campbell 4F Dau Wash. T. Canada P. Campbell 4M Son W.T. Canada

1900 Census

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Allie Short 34M Head Mar 1866 Farm Labor Wash Mich Ky- m.24yrs Ophelia A. 39F Wife June 1871 Ark Ark Ky-1 child Lina P. Short 5F Dau May 1895 At School Wash Wash Ark

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Sheet #5A-5 May 1910-Marengo Precinct-Columbia County, Washington Allen Short 45M Head Laborer of Odd Jobs Wash Mich Ky Ophelia A. 39F Wife Ark Mo N.C. Lima M. 14F Dau Wash Wash Ark Dallas A 8M Son Wash Wash Ark

Amos Short 75M Head Merchant-Retail Grocery Mich Josie L. Short 60F Wife

1920 Census

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Allen Short 53M Head Laborer-Road Wash N.C. 111 Ophelia 48F Wife Ark Ark N.C. Dalas A 17M Son Wash Wash Ark

1930 Census

Sheet #1A-2 Apr 1930-Precinct #122-Portland, Multnomah, Oregon Dalla A. Short 27M Head Wash Wash Ark Conchita K 28F Wife Wash Ore Calif Dallas A. Jr. 2M Son Wash Wash Wash (Dallas was 22 and Conchita was 23 of age at the time of their marriage )(Dallas was a complaint clerk at the telephone office.)

(Just a few houses down is) Olphelia Short 59F Head Widow Ark Mo Ky

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Why Esther Short slapped the French Canadian (1845)

Amos and Esther Short and their eight children landed at Fort Vancouver on Christmas Day 1845. After exploring part of the Willamette Valley looking for a place to start their potato farm, they returned to the fort, claimed a section of wilderness nearby, and built a log cabin. The eastern boundary of their land, marked by a balm of Gilead tree on t he banks of the Columbia River, would one day become Vancouver's Main Street.

British try to evict the Shorts Hudson's Bay Company officials at the fort looked at their new neighbors with suspicion and resentment. Since the fort was founded, no Americans had dared claim land in its vicinity. To make matters worse, just a year before the American settlers had dared to establish the Oregon Provisional Government and create the District of Vancouver. The British tried every means possible to evict Amos and Esther, including destroying their fences.

Esther goes boating on the Columbia One time when Amos was away, they even loaded Esther and her children in a boat and cast them adrift on the Columbia. Somehow she managed to get the children safely back home, but after that Amos kept a gun handy. He ordered his enemies to keep off his land, but they disregarded his warnings and a shooting followed. Two men were killed.

A slap for Facette While Amos was away defending himself against murder charges (the court later found he acted in self-defense), another band of Hudson's Bay men under the leadership of an adventurous French-Canadian, Francis Facette, was sent down to destroy the fences once again. Fed up, Esther hit Facette with the open palm of her hand and knocked him to the ground. The Hudson's Bay Company gave up in the face of her determination and Esther Short was here to stay.

A short time later, Amos drowned in the Columbia River while returning from selling his potato harvest in California. Undaunted, Esther carried on with the task of helping build the city of Vancouver (at first called Columbia City). In 1855 she donated Esther Short Park and a long strip of waterfront for the city's use forever. Vancouver was incorporated two years later on January 23, 1857 •

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Esther Clark Short did have a sister named Jane Clark. It is thought that she married Amos Short's brother, possibly Ira. I'll have to check. As far as a saloon in VA that strikes a bell for Esther had the first hotel in VA and ran the Alta house. Her son Grant (my grandfather) owned a restraunt and saloon in Camas, WA, and his son Jim had a hotel and grandson, Melvin had a saloon and restraunt there also. We had a Short reunion the summer of '03, I believe, and I have some of the geneology·s that were passed out. So I will look up to see if there·s a Dimit family there. This reunion was held at the Esther Short Park in Vancouver. Did you know that Esther Short had a native american parent? What state are you from?

_ ~!!_get back to you when I check the r:__cords. A. Patt~rso~ __ _

. No one r ve talked to seems to know the names of Esther or Amos parents. I was in Olympia, WA just recently and in their state library I did find in a rare book an article about Esther Short in 1854, "the older portion of the Pacific House was built by Mrs. Esther Short on the comer of Main and 2nd Streets, across from a house which was a saloon and ten-pin alley by Pete Fergussen. Esther opened with a "grand ball" even though the building had not ben completed." On July 4, 1854 Esther had the ball on the same day as the ten-pin alley. opening the Alta House in Vancouver, WA. (I couldn't help but chuckle thinking of her competiveness and good business sense. ----

Grant Short and wife Susan Durgan are buried next to my great grandfather in Washougal Cemetery.-•-•--- -- -----------• ~ · --

family folklore is that the shorts came to Tioga Co., Pennsylvania with William Penn on the ship Welcome so Amos must decend from Adam Short. I beleive his fath.ers name was Amos also . I have ~o proof just family stories by the old timers

Adam Short and wife Miriam Came on the Welcome .. His wife died on board

Ann Short is generally accepted as one of the passengers who accompanied William Penn to Pennsylvania on the ship "Welcome". One of the most completely researched works states it is "highly probable" than Ann Short was such a passenger. George F. McCracken, The Welcome Claimants Proved, Disproved and Doubtful: With An Account of Some of their Descendants (Publication of the Welcome Society of Pennsylvania, No. Genealogical Pub. Co, 1970). The argument is as follows: Isaac Ingram, a proven passenger on the "Welcome" died en route.

In his will he left to "my Sister Miriam Short lately deceased her three Children*** Adam, Miriam, & Anne Short all that Thirty pounds lying in Ambrose Riggs hand ... to be equally divided between them (viz) Tenn pounds apiece further it is my will & minde that my Sisters Children aforesaid have all the goods on board the Welcome equally divided between them•. The assumption is made, as there was no provision for the sale of the goods on board for transport of the proceeds to England, those na~med ~ere also on board the ship.-Ted

Amos Meade Short and Esther Lucy Clark may have been married in Tioga county, NY. Bible --

says 22 November 1829. Amos had a brother Ira who was marri · May have also had a sister or cousin named Priscilla who married~~- C~~ung Co~nty, NY. have b~n brother to Esther. Esther also had a sister named J wh' ,am _ark. Wilham may Beyea ,n Washtenaw County Ml 1834 ane o mamed first Charles Ira claimed the Meade and Short familie:~~f ::n;:unker in Berrien County, Ml. Descendant of http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/NYTIOGA/2003-~~foC7o10u3n36ty,8NOY to Tioga County, PA. (From

- esthermlchels@aol.com}

I found this on a messageboard at Ancestry.com:

Amos Meade Short (1810-1853) m Esthe L Cl rk County, PA Amos had brother Ira· b cir~ 1~63 ·nan (1806-C 1862) 22 Nov 1829- all in Tioga County NY circa 1832 Esth '114 ' · . 1 ,oga nty, NY. Son of Ira bom in Steuben Esther.' Esther Short di~ in ~~nco:~~nX'~n·c~;d;:;.rokee. N~ecd p~rents of both Amos and Clark, Samantha Alfred Delo Er b ' · 8 names. urtis, Jerusha, Druzilla, Amos Matilda. Family f~gend sa s a 1ea~: 8th• _Ira, Maxey, Grant Hall.Hannah Ernaline, Esther Rev~lutionary War. Druzilfu married H~am~~ns~~~i Meades and Sho~ families both served in Burhngame families may have traveled tZether ~ folio n C~a~Cn~~ WA area 1852. Short and focal documents say Short family from n C ' we , m "' Ml, IL, to WA by 1845. All the Tioga County Shorts. Ira's children: ~f;neo:Yg· :,AJHaveAbfleen unable to connect to any of Jerome. • 1 • ane, en, Ira H., George Lyman, Anne,

I

~ound thi~ site on the Internet A lot of it isn't necessary so I've cut and pasted this information. It 1s a questioner and answer site about Amos and Esther Short . I ~a~_!_put the site at the bottom of the page.

ID: 196378177 Name: Ira SHORT Given Name: Ira Surname: Short Sex:M Birth: 5 May 1840 in Whiteside Co.,lllinois Death: 12 Jun 1841 in Whiteside Co.,lllinois Note: Ira drown in aeek June 12,1841 Whiteside Co.Illinois

Father: Amos Meade SHORT b: 13 Apr 1810 in Tioga County, Pennsylvania Mother: Esther Lucy CLARK b: 24 Dec 1806

a book from the courthouse at Morrison (clerk's office) a History Of Whiteside Co. it mentions Amos living there in 1840,and the death of his child drowning.Other sources re­late him moving out west to oreogon and Washington. The census of 1850 Oregon Clarke Co Shows his wife Ester and Children. Concerning Ira B.Short: There is a big write up (weeks long) inthe Clinton Iowa Herald newspaper March 11-13 1933 The article presents in the life story of Jerome Short the famous river pilot a lot of details about Ira Short and the rest of the families. Basically.it tells when and where they where born.lived and died. I have a copy of this paper and other information and glad to share.

Hello Alice, Here is a little info. on Amos Short.From the Bent Wilson History of Whiteside Co. pgs.462 and 463 there are a couple refrences to the History of Ustick Tnshp. "Amos Short.from Indiana, and Edward Rolph, also came and settled in i837"(so the family may have been enroute from N.Y.). "The first death was a child of Amos Short.who was drowned in a spring on Mr Short's claim in 1840" "The first school was taught by miss Armenia lngam, in the chamber of Amos Short's log cabin in the so. entrance to the school room was by a stairs leading from the outside of the building.The cabin was situated by the spring near where Levi Houghton's present house. The scholars were Char-les c.Knight and Miss Ingham and Mr Short's children". The next ref. I have is the 1850 census of Oregon dark CO and various message board comments under surname short. One reference states Amos left W.S. co in 1845 with wife Ester Clark and children Curtis ,Jerusha, Delos, Amos Clark Samantha.Maxey, infants Ira and elizabeth died in W.S.cO. I will relate Ira' Info later Tom _ ~- _

Hi Tom, Thanks for the info of Nov 22 on Amos Short. I was really interested to find that he started the first school In his log cabin. He and Esther did the same thing when he built his log cabin in Vancouver, WA. I have a ton of info about them when they lived there. I will try to find the Bent Wilson History of Whiteside Co., you·ve given me some wonderful info. Do you have any info about them when they lived in N.Y.? There seem to be a lot of Clarks (Esther's last name)in Tioga Co. rve seen Esther's handwriting in the family Bible and she had a beautiful hand, therefore wa~~ educat~~-~------ ~-~

I was surfing the net when I ran across your post about Esther Clark, who I am told is my great great aunt. Lets see now, just to make sure I have it right. I happen to be a distant relative to the esther short or esther Clark side. My Aunt who is 90 years old tells me that her father who would be my grandfather was a nephew to Esther Clark. I believe it is his mothers sister. So that would make Ester Short (dark) my Great Great aunt. My grandfathers name was james Dimit, who married Pearl May Jackson. The interesting thing about this is the story that goes along with the setting in early Vancouver History. The records so I am told tell of my grandfather as a young boy finding his father shot dead inside his office late after hours. I guess there was some foul play from his partner who allegedly took money about $3,000 which was to pay off the saloon that my great grandfather owned in Vancouver. I'm certainly not quite sure on all the facts. But I was recently talking with my aunt over the christmas holidays

about.the stories ~f Esther ~hort P~rk, a~d she preceded to tell me more det;ils. Supposedly th~re _1s_ so~eo~e in th~ family who Is quite well versed on the subject. I need to validate some of th1~ , 1t Is quite mterestmg. Let me know if any of this is interesting to you. I am sure that I am quite a distant relative. Not sure how?

(Written by Susan Campbell)

Amos Meade Short was married to Esther Lucy Clark.Their son,Amos Clark Short

married Ann Smith 1853 Vancouver.They moved to Marengo,Columbla County,Wa in 1866 1810-1853, Born Tioga County, PA. Amos Meade Short was married to Esther Lucy

Clark.Their son.Amos Clark Short married Ann Smith 1853 Vancouver.They moved to

Marengo,Columbia County,Wa in 1866

Migration steps: to Washtenaw County, Ml in abt 1833 to Whiteside County, IL in abt 1837 to Clark County, WA in 1845

(Also written by Susan Campbell on another website)

Amos Meade Short b.April 13, 1810-Tioga Co

his wife Esther Lucy Clark b.Dec.24, 1806 Tioga.Co Married November 22,1829 Tioga

Co. two children born before westward migration- Curtis F.Short b.Oct.17, 1830

Jerusha Short b.August 7, 1832 Family left Tioga Co. prior to 1834

I found this about Amos and Esther on the net - all credit to the source:

Mrs. Esther Short One of the city's founders.

January 18, 1928 - taken from a story by Erwin Rieger, Columbian staff writer

On a Christmas day more than four score years ago - the twenty-fifth of December,

1845 - a man, a woman, and eight children, a hardy little band, stepped ashore

from the broad Columbia to find Fort Vancouver a little trade center in the

wilderness, hospitable to the travelers it was later to fight so determinedly.

Thus the Shorts, farmers of Pennsylvania and Illinois, came to Vancouver.

There is no history to which one can tum to find out what these pioneers thought

of this one spot in a wilderness. But they must have liked it even then. Maybe the

man, bearded and rugged, saw in the untouched forest a farm, and a home a a

peaceful if active end to the trail from Illinois. Maybe the woman, sturdy and

strong and capable, saw a bright home and a land where her children might hew

their way unhampered for lack of enough room in the world.

They must have wandered about looking, this Amos S. and Esther Short, and they

must have said, "Now there's a likely place. Twoutdn't take so much clearing, and

the land is good ... " They must have looked, and they must have spoken, for they

came back.

Not just right away, of course. This was a broad land. they would look elsewhere.

But they came back in 1847, from the place that is now the town of Linnton,

Oregon, and so this city of Vancouver began, unknown to the pioneers.

Amos and Esther Short, man and wife, took up a homestead - a donation land claim -

in the wilderness near the fort Its eastern boundary was one day to become Main

street and its northern boundary was even later to become Twenty-sixth street, but

the forest trees that towered along the Mure thoroughfares gave no hint of such

a future.

That was a contrast with the present dayl It is hard to realize, here in this old

city, that the bustling commerce, the old buildings and even the stately shade

trees all hark back to a man and a woman and a homestead in the forest.

Britain Wanted Land Then came the cloud. A new yound United States of America and an old wise British

crown were contending for mastery and ownership of the broad land cleaved by the

Columbia. Britain wanted to hold everything down to the north back of the river.

And so the Shorts, Americans and settlers, suddenly became a menace to the claims

of England and a bulwark to the claims of the United States.

Family Ordered Away It did not take the British long to decide that the thing to do was to remove the

Shorts. Only Amos and Esther Short and the children (there were ten now) would not

remove. So began the strife that was to last for years and was to find Esther

Short, undaunted, standing her ground alone and vidorious.

The British swooped the first time when the father was not home. They took the

mother and her children, put them in a boat. and took them across the Columbia to

Hayden island - the Yankee side to the river where they were put ashore and told

to stay.

Stay? Not Esther Short. Not Amos Short. They came back. That was in 1848. And the

British, swooping again, caught the whole family unprepared. The family was loaded

into a scow and set adrift on the Columbia without oars. But Amos Short and his

wife and children reached land - and they came back! These Yankees would not back

down.

Esther Short Struck There was always trouble after that Once a man coming to the cabin door, struck

Esther Short across the face with a heavy club. Thereafter Amos Short carried his

rifle handy, and one day there was a battle.

Again the men of England came down to evict the homesteaders. Short warned of

their coming took the four or five men who were working for him and who

volunteered, and went forthe to meet the British.

He ordered them to keep off his land. They came on. He warned them of what he

would do. They did not heed. Battle followed, and Short shot down two men, one a

Hawaiian and one a white man, who exonerated him in an affidavit before he died.

Short was in legal battles after that to save his life, and he won. A territorial

judge who acquitted him is reported to have said. "The only trouble I find with

you, Short is that you didn't shoot more of them. 11

That was the highlight of the struggle for freedom from aggression, but there were

other bright flashes of courage. Once another expedition came down, finding the

mother alone. Strong woman that she was, she came out alone and slapped the

leader, knocking him to the earth, and the man went away convinced that she was

too brave a mother to be evicted.

Husband Drowned The treacherous Columbia River bar claimed the ship that was bearing Amos home

after he had delivered potatoes to California. Where demand for food was high with

the gold rush on and Amos and Esther were making good money. He was lost on

January 7, 1853, that left Esther alone. And alone she carried on - building a

city, now that Britain's claims had been relinquished.

With her husband lost, Esther Short, then under the terms of an old law took the

eastern half of their land claim, the half that went always to the widow. The

western half went to the children, and so was divided into ten strips by parallel

north-and-south lines.

Settlers were coming, more and more. And Esther Short, renting some of her land at

first, presently saw a better plan. Thus it was in 1855 that the city of Vancouver

was platted up to Eighth Street, and that she gave Esther Short park to the city,

and that she gave to the city also a long strip of waterfront to be the city's

perpetually.

•

To Susan50

Esther Short died on June 28, 1862. She rests in the old city cemetery. She had

been born in Pennsylvania in 1806, and she had mothered ten children besides

losing two more. Curtis, Jersusha, Drusilla, Clark, Samantha, Maxey, Deloss,

Grant, Esther and Emmaline - these children, with the spirit of the pioneers

strong in their souls, scattered far and wide. Left to recall her in memory is

only the youngest, Emmaline, who came home to live in a modem hotel on a part of

the land in the city that dates back to a noation land claim and a man and a woman

who knew no fear and who could not be cowed.

Last Edited on May 2, 20071:49 AM

Hi Susan, No one rve talked to seems to know the names of Esther or Amos parents. I was in Olympia, WA just recently and in their state library I did find in a rare book an article about Esther Short in 1854, "the older portion of the Pacific House was built by Mrs. Esther Short on the comer of Main and 2nd Streets, across from a house which was a saloon and ten-pin alley by Pete Fergussen. Esther opened with a "grand ball" even though the building had not ben completed.11 On July 4, 1854 Esther had the ball on the same day as the ten-pin alley. opening the Alta House in Vancouver, WA. (I couldn't help but chuckle thinking of her competiveness and good business sense. Let me know of your linage.

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First court with Amos Short (1850)

Clark County has had four courthouses in its history; five if you count the log cabin of Amos Short where the first session of the Clark County Probate Court was held on July 2, 1850.

Elected In June 1850, the county's first commissioners were Amos Short, John C. Allman, and William Goodwin, and the first County Clerk was Richard H. Lansdale. The court was held three days a month at Amos Short's log cabin, about one-half mile below Fort Vancouver. Amos received $20 a month for the use of his home.

The official records of the first session were destroyed when the second courthouse burned down in 1890. However, it is said that the first business of the county fathers was to grant a license to Forbes and Barclay to operate a ferry across the Columbia River at the "upper Landing of the Indian Village." Ferries remained in business until 1917 when the Interstate Bridge was constructed.

The second item of business was to install a wagon road beginning opposite the mouth of the Willamette on the north bank and running up and along the river bank to the home of Joseph Gibbons on the Washougal River. This was the first of many roads to crisscross the county.

The Probate Court of Clark County met at the Amos Short Cabin untll April 1852 when they moved to an old Hudson's Bay Company building. Three years later the county's first permanent courthouse went out for bid.

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WALLULA (1862 - Operating) Established 17 Sep 1862.

Wallula, Wash ington is located on US Hwy 12 ap­proximately 27 miles west of Walla Walla. The original post offi ce was located near the site of Old Fort Walla Walla (Fort Nez Perce). Accord ing to Post Office Depart­ment records the location was in section 28, T7N, R3 IE. The nearest post office was Whitman 15 miles to the east on post route 16622.

J.M. Vansyck le is credited with platting the town site of Wallula in early 1862. Mr. Vansyck le, originally from Ohio, was an express agent in Stockton, Cali forn ia and Portland, Oregon before comi ng to Wa llula. He carried out a general business in Wa ll ula before moving to Walla Walla.

In 1883 the Oregon Railway and Navigation Railroad laid tracks that were away from the original town site. Lewis McMorris established the second town site closer to the railroad. As a railroad town of the 1890"s Wall ula had a population of 800 compared to 140 in 1990.

The original town site and the second town site were fl ooded by Lake Wallula upon completion of McNa,y Dam in 1953. Prior to this fl ooding a third location was being establi shed for \Vallula. During the trans ition the Post Office was temporarily located in the womens' restroom of the Un ion Pacific Railroad Depot.

Since 1953 the Wallula Post Office has been located on Columbia Way, but did not move into the present site until the I 950"s. Prior to that the post o ffice was located in a store immediate to the south.

The first mail to pass through Wallula was in 1859, which arri ved by steamer. The mail was then carried to

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Wallula Post Office was robbed on July 8, I 90 I. At that time the Post Office was located in the Cummings Store. The thieves used an explosive to crack the safe which resulted in doing partia l damage to the store.

Wal lula was a 4th Class post office until Jun 25, 1959 when it was upgraded to a Thi rd Class facility.

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On Sep 17, 1962 the Wallula Post office celebrated · its I 00th annivery. A pictorial postmark authorized by the United States Post Office Department was used for the occasion. The postmark had the words "WALLULA WASH POST OFFICE" in an arc above a sketch depict­ing Wallula Gap and below the sketch the words " 1862 THE GAP 1962". (Illustrated below)

Postmasters of Wallula, Washington 99363

Louis Whittingham Alvin Flanders Aflreci H. Emanuel William C. Painter Bailey Gatzert Leon Metzger Amos C. Short Mrs. Flora F. Stump

17 Sep 1862 6 Jul 1865

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29 Jun 1868 26 Nov 1869 16 Sep 1873 27 Apr 1876

Amos Cummings Herman M. Hodges Eathan A. Linn Amos Cummings James F. Fendell Eathan A. Linn Chas. F. Cummings Edgar A. Lowman Florence W. Harrison I. Elaine Cherry Edwin E. Bellis

Clara A. Hopper Lois Betty Gross Genevieve Ross Cheryl Tolar

Postmaster Relief: Lori Hoover

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16 Jun 1894 19 May 1897 31 Mar 1898 16 Mar 1917

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26 Jul 1952 6 Mar 1967

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4- 26--C. T, Stiles, General Merchandise and Post Office. 5-T. Cunningham, Wines, Liquors and Cigars.

6--W. Suttie, Furniture.

9-L. McMorris, Livery Stable. 10--Hencler;on & Ege, Blacksmiths.

I I-Thomas Delaney, Meat Market. 12-Denison ,&_ Wilkins, Spirit Office; ,.

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14- Mrs. John Rash, Hotel. 15-H. L. Caples, Merchant.

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he had an accommodating neighbor, who always raised a great deal of lettuce, this summerfallowed land grew up with the rankest crop of Chinese lettuce I ever saw growing. It was from six to eight feet high. I lost sev­eral sales on this land because of the lettuce, all the buyers stating that they would rather have the land not surnmerfallowed than left in the condition in which they found It. The land was very light soil. As all know the lettuce has an immense tap root and In growing digs Itself down Into the soil many Inches, but when It dies, as It does anually. this tap root becomes only a pithy stem and makes a first-class water conductor down deep Into the soil. The land was in this condition when a man braved the Chinese lettuce and bought it. In the early spring he sowed this land to wheat and he harvested forty ·bushels per acre, twenty bushels being the most ever raised on it before. I attribute this Increased crop to the fertilization and preparation given it by tne Jong tap root of the Chinese lettuce, which formed a rnservciir for water d eep in the ground.

Any farme~ who desires may laugh at this sugges-

(By G. W. Jewett)

PATAHA CITY is located on the creek from which it takes it name. Its location is admittedly the most nearly ideal for a ci ty in Garfield county. It i~

situated where the valley is wide and level, near the cen­ter of the county, surrounded by a rich farming district, Immediately below the Behlmler Springs, from which was in tsalled, at little cost, an efficient water system in 1887, by Houser & Harford. The name '·Pata.ha" means Brush Creek.

The original town site was Laken up by James Bow­e r s, who appear s lo have been the fir ,t settler, and who sold it to his son-In-law, J. Benjamin Norton, who ob­tained patent to the land September 14, 1872. Mr. Nor­ton was the first victim of the Nez Perce Indian massacre in 1877 .

A patent was issued to Walter W. Rigsby, for the land on which Iligsby's Addition is located, on April 5, 1 874.

-~- Benjamin Norton and wife deeded to Angevine J. Favor on January 8 , 1873. Mr. Favor laid out the town in June 187 8, and flied a d eed of d edication to the orig ..

· inal City of Pataba, Au gu st . 21, ·1882, which included all that part west of the west boundary of the S. W. quar ter of the S. E. quarter of S. 34, T. 12, .N. of R . 42, E.W. 11'1.

Walter·w. Rigsby dedicated the la nd known as Rigs­by's Addition to Pataha. City, October 27 , 1882, and this comprised all that portion east of the above boundary.

The survey for the above plat was made by A. T. Beal ; • and the city was first known as "Favorsburg" and · then

"Watertown" but the proprietor preforred the name of Pataha ·city. Be tw·ccn ·the time the town was laid out, in 1878, a nd October 1882, several deeds wer e executed by Messr s. Favor an tl Rigsby, among the purchasers of la.1!.£_belng the following:

tion, and I do no t Intend to advise him to sow Chinese lettuce for the purpose mentioned herein, but I do not hesitate to state to him t hat he need not be frightened if some of his tenants should be so thoughtless as to per­m i t bis farms, which h e has r ented, to grow up with .a heavy crop of Chineso lettuce. I would prefer it to the tarweed, which some of the ranchers have a llowed to grow on their places, and It Is ever preferable to t uml,>le weed . Nothing wlll eat tarweed or tumbleweed, whlle horses and cattle Jove the Chinese lettuce, and wlll grow fat on It. Do not, however, give them to big a feed ot Chinese lettuce fo r the f irs t meal or It may termiuate in the colic.

I have undert.aken, J\Ir. Editor, to make a few sug­gestions to the readers of your paper, and, while they may not be the best sugegi:tlons for the farmers to follow, but it t_hey should be the means of generating a healthy criticism they have done some good in the discipline or mind, and I have accomplished my purpose and ~ul!illed my promise to you.

Respectfully,

Peter Palmentier, Jacob Blhlmaler, C. ·T. Stiles,_ Ran­some Long, N. C. Will iams,. Thomas C;mning-ham, A. C. Sh or t , John ·Ellis, J. A. Campbell, George Mochel,,.School Distr ict 9 , Sewell 'J'ruax, S. Fleender. , ) ·. • .'

Ca:sander ·woolery deeded to J. M. Bowman · and George Snyder a water right for the flour mill. · This was arterwaros · bought by John H ouser.

Others to whom property was deed er were : F.rank and John Paine, Malinda Pomeroy, J. W.' 'Ii:niicn;·'rl. E. Wills, Mary Benbow, J. S. Denison, Mary .A. Montgomery, J. F . McGee, William Suttle, J . A. McC~nse, J. R. Snod­derly, Mrs. M. Delaney, Jackson O'Keete, John Buchet, Sr., Aaron Rice, J. W. Stallcop, D. H. Mohler, J. A. Lynch, John Harford, W. W. McCalley, Mary E. Jacobs, J. H. Wan, J . H. Woods, C. G. Austin , Elizabeth A. Hunter, C. , R. Morrison, I. Kaufman, Hilda A. Rauch, C. B. Foote, C. , A. McCabe, D. H. Poyneer, Ida Y. Davis, Mira Ferguson, Ophe'la Short, Mllllam Hait, Charles Ege, George Sable ,

. C. M. Ish, . Margaret C. Gearhart, C. F. Bunnell, }l. L. Lanning, Elmer Sage, C. C. Smelcer, R. M. Smith, Peter Talbot, Cyrus Davis, J. W. Hart, Mary .S . Kirby, Loren L. Forrest, Charles Jerrel, Minnie Kluge, Clara R. Spedden, Amos Yallen, A. J. Buchet, Lilllas Shr.nnon, John Bram­ley, Ida May Gallagher, John Long, C. F. Gray, P. ci. Westline·, Tho~~s- Ruark, G. D. Wilson, Florence H . Krouse, P eter Cook, W. M. Ladd, James. Palmer, Georgia I Brig~ , E. D. Briggs.

The U.S. issued patent to J. W. Rigsby in 1873. A right or way was deeded to the O. R . & N. in 1880.

It seems that A. J. Favor located at Pataha City In 1 868. Charles Ward, whose !arm was within the cor­porate limits of the city, filed a government homestead upon the same in 1866, and has continued to reside there­on from that day to this, and perh aps he has lived longer .witi1 in the confines of what ls now Garfield county tha n any other m a le citizen who ls now a live.

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Al the time the town was laid out, J . N. Bowman and ,1' ~ r ,:"e Snyder were building a flouring mill, which is nr known as the Pataha City Flouring Mills. Imme­ately after the town was laid out, H. L . Caples and C. . Stiles opened a store, which was the first general mer­Ullldise store in the city.

In J'-\hort time a government post office was estab-shed th c. T. Stiles as postmaster. It seems that r. F~vor bad theretofore acted as postn1aster, perhaps ithout an appointment from the government, and be-1rc a rlc'i;ular postoffice was established.

J ol::n Campbell was elected justice of the peace, and no cc his first official _acts was to unite in marriage 'rank Day and Miss Emma James, now Mrs. Emma Whit­iore, on March 2 9, 18 7 9. This was the first marriage eremony performed in Pataha City.

or course, in a thriving town like Pataha City, one or ti,! first business establishments was a saloon. Th~mas :unuingham opened the first one, and was ably assisted

11 dispensing "liquid joy" by Charles Gallacher and John •. Buchet, as bartenders. Judge H. L. Caples opened a ILW office, and helped· clients settle their difficul ties. By he end of the year 187 8 the little village had a popula­lon of about 200, and the following enterprises: Regu­ar M. E . church services by the Rev. Rigby; a school, in marge of Mr. Ogleby, with about twenty pupils; a res­:aurant run by Zumwal t & Billings. The flouring mill, fow ow~ed by the Houser family, was being built, and a school house was in course of construction, which was p.fterwards ualnted by our fellow townsman, A. H. Men­denhall. This was the first building painted by him in

Garfield county. Residences were being built by the carpenters, H. C.

iuce, C. A. Lundy, Billings, Mochel, T. C. Benbow, Bax­ter, Emerson and L. Ritter. A blacksmith shop was opened with J ohn Campbell at, the forge.

· T, pioneers of those days believed in celebrating tbe l : th r,f July in the way intended by our forefath- ' ers, and so celebrated it that year . They were joined by the settlers in the surrounding neighborhood, and the first celebration was held in Rigsby's grove, with about 400 in attendance. The following Is the program: Mar-

shall of the day, "Josh" Billings; patriotic songs, choir,

1led by Mrs. Rigby; prayer, Rev. Rigby; reading Declara­

;uon : of Independence, by E. C. Spe_dden, now of Grange­'v11le, Idaho;· parody on Declaration of Independence, by J . Henry Fleener; oration·, by Judge H. L. Caples.

Those early patriots thought it would not be a cele­bration without an American flag, and not one could be found _In the place. · Miss Caples, now Mrs. Harry Sped- , den, of Chewelah, Wash., made the flag, which floated in the breeze from .the school house cupola that day and for more than a year a~terwards.

The following ran more citizens settled at Pataha, among them being the Houser family, the Wills family, .or Dayton, and the Rash family and many others. Im­mediately following the starting of the town, many .bus!- · ness houses -were opened, among them being general , stores run by Stiles & Caples, A. C. Short; Ben Steele, i Buchet Bros., Peter Talbot, James Palmer, Koenig & Bornhouser, Allen & Adams·. Hotels--Moll!e Montgom­ery, Zumwalt & Blllings, l'<!rs. John Rash, Mrs. Rash, Sr., Mrs. Mary S. Kirby, William Smith, George Colgate and Mrs. Sewell Briggs. Blacksmith shoJ)s-Campbell & For- . r est, Henderson & Ege, CharlesF. Bunnell, H. C. Krouse, E 1mer Sage. Wa-gon shop-James Bramley. Dray­Add" n Jacobs. l'hyslclans--Drs. M. Dallas J ennings, Hai 1y, J. s: Denison, D. H. Poyner, R. H. Mitchell. Stag<o Drivers--;- A. J . Favor, John Rash , Riley Dixon and H. L. Lanning . . Dressmakers-Mrs. J. W. Hart and Miss Carrie Buchet. · ·Stage llne--=-:Mrs." Fetus, r.:ew!s McMorris: Attorneys, Henry L. Caples, H. B. Ferguson. Butcher shops-Weller &. wma:rd, To~ ·Delaney, A. J. Buchet, wl~h Mert Dunham at the block; A. E. Allen, Rummens and._Crumpacke~ anks-Harford & Son . Hardware

stores-Wl!Ham Halt, Ferguson, Lundy & Rice, C. G. Austin, with G. L. Campbell as clerk; James Wan, Charles Clark, Allen McQueen, George Sables and John Harford · & · Son, with o.: S. Williamson as ma~ager . Postmaster.s-:-.-A. J. Favor, C. T : St!les, Dr. ·J . S .. Denison, Jam E!s Wan. Ca_rpentei:_s--;r-r . . c: Rice, C. ·A.' Lundy, ,Joe Rawnsley, "Ge9rge .Mochel i . Baxter, Lewis · Mochel, T. C. Benbow; Emerson·'a~4 ~ :'R1tte1i .. -· Ma:son:....:....c°h.arle'; ·Je~r~l.

·.muons rom . Cunni~g_ha·ni~· John Rash, R: · M: Smith; Jac_ob Behlmier, with Tom Shannon a:s bartender ; Charles Jerrel and Edson . . ~d Sewell Briggs. Livery stables-:-George. Mochel, John· Hughes, Joe Schnebly, L. McMorrls, Wllliam Montgomery; John Rash, William Whitson, Elmer Sage, J. H. ·walker. Furniture stores -Wllliam Suttle, Morrison Bros. and Ross & Shields. Tahnery- Aaron Rice.

· The !!rst bridge across the creek, at Pataha, was built \ in 1880 by John B uchet, Sr., ·who was one of the early I road supervisors.

The names of some of the ear ly school teachers are : Mr . OglebY, Mr. Hungerford, t C. Tomlinson, Mr. York, Miss Daisy Edwards, H. C. Benbow, Miss Mary Elsensohn, Miss Hannah Throssel, Mrs. H. T. Spedden, Mrs. Feather­stone, Mrs. Ella Wilson, ·G. W. J ewett, Miss Mamie J ohn­son, Mr. Greene, Lewis Elsensohn, .D. E. Schnebly, Miss Ot!llla Houser and Mil!B Lizzie Dickson. Of late years the school has been in charge of Mr. Cabbage, and Is doing good wor k. · · '

On April 3, 1888, the town was legally incor porated. Forty-two taxpayers, the majority of the property owners within the proposed corporate limits, petitioned Judge

William G. Langford, of the district court of Washington Territory, held at Pomeroy, that "His Honor do grant us an incorporation of Pataha City, as a v!llge incorporat!oli by the name or Pataha City." To this p·etltion were ap­pended the names or the following persons: J . H. Walker, A. J. Favor, G. D. Wilson, John Harford, John Houser, H . B. Ferguson, W. J. Wills, B. Steele, H. L. Caples, Thomas Cunningham, C. A. Lundy, Rober t Gam­mon, J. S. Denison, A. McQueen, W. B. Wetzel, A. E. Al'en, Thomas W. · Shannon, Elmer Sage, R. M. Smith, Peter Cook, Henry C. Krouse, Harry Lanning, L. F. Koenig, R. Bornhouser, Charles Ward.

The ·first paper, known as the "Pataha Spirit,'; a !!ve­cnlumn four-page paper, was founcd In January, 1881, by G. C. W . Hammond. February 4, 1882, if was trans­ferred to Dr. J. S. De?,lson and Charles Wilkins.

Pafaha City was the first county seat of Garfield county. At the fist election after the formin g of Garfield county, which was held. on the second Monday In Janu~ry, \ 1882, great rivalry_ existed between Pataha City and Pomeroy as to whkh s·hould be the permanent seat of justice. Pataha, without doubt, as between it and Pom­eroy, was the real choice for county seat, but Pomeroy, having some astute politicians, led by Jay Lynch, and others, succeeded In dividing the vote, by starting a to,~n at the foot of the McKeirnan grade, which they named "Hent0r," and also by encouraging Asotin City to enter the fi f-!d. The result· was that Pomeroy received 41 1 votes, Asotin City 287 votes and Pataha City 259. Mentor received 8 2 votes.

The next set-back Pataha received was in the death of C. T. Stiles, which ~ccurred in the latter part of. August, 1 88 6. .

With great tenacity, the business men o! Pataha fought for business and political supremacy, until April 7, 1893, when the greater portion of the business houses or the city were destroyed by tir e. This was followed by t1e bankruptcy of John Harford & . Son, which was a l>usiness disaster felt by the entire county. From the ashes of this calamity it was never able to arise.

For a number of years Pataha's existence _as a sep­arate unit was a thorn in· the side of temperance advo­cates, and many times compulsory dis-incorporation had

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been threatened. As early as June 3, 1 886, the temper- I a11ce question was a burning issue. In this issue of the I F.ast ·Va~l,io gtonlan dated July 3, 1886, we find the fol- I lowing r.ditorlal: l

"There Is a general feeling of indignation lu regard I to the way the election was carried on and terminated in I

---i.Pataha City. The result was a surprise to every one ex- i

ccpt thr. few who were Instrumental In bringing it about. , It was a matter of common notoriety that during the forenoon the votin g was at least two to one for prohibi­tion. About noon one of the judg!ls proposed that they adjourn for dinner. On its being suggested t hat the bal­lot box be taken along he proceeoed to read law to the effect that the box should not be taken away from the polling place. The front door was locked and the ballot box with tho talley sheets left on the table in the room. 'I'he voting was done in a room having connecl!on with the , aloon of R. M. Smith, by doors going out of the sa­!o•rn Into a little card room and from the card room Into the balloting room. The judges and Ins pector were ab­sent somewhere from one to one and a hair hours, accord-' i r,g to a lmost the universal te$t,mony of those who at­l tnded the election. After dinner the polls r eopened and the election went on, th'e larger part of the whisky vote t.oniing In after dinner, and the ballots of course would nutu rally be those nearest the top or the box. When the C'ounting o! the ballots had gone on to about 150 or 160 the count stood considerably In favor of pr.ohlbltion. It was generally remarked that from that time on to the r.nd or the count the prohibition vote would be way ahead. There was general surprise, however, to find 86 votes C'ounterl out consecutively all against prohibition, except four. The people were generally thunderstruck at the re,;ult, and the belief ls universal that there was foul play with he ballot box during the adjournment for dln­'Pr. IL was a put up job from the first to get the elec-

n:i held In the room adjoining the saloon, where there was a doorway connection between the ballot room and the bar room. The judges of the election have laid themselves· liable to a prosecution· and a fine o! $2,000 or imprisonment for a year, and wlll be fortunate I! they escape. The outfit who planned and executed the fraudu­lent substitution, o! votes ought all to b'e in the peniten­tiary. Tampering with the ballot box ls a kind of busi­r,css only engaged in by thieves and scoundrels of the blackest dye."

The fight between the .. ,vets" and "Drys" seems to have continued from the early uays up to the final dis-. solution of the city nd· the final dissolution was brought about largely for the purpose of including the city within the unit composed of Garfield county outside or Pomeroy, and for the purpos'3 or making it dry. A special_ election was held on Monday, April 10, 1911, to ascertain the sense of. Its cltizen!i upon the proposition of discontinuing lt>1 organization as a town, and of surrendering Its pre­rogatives of self-government for the future. .The vote s tood: twenty .In_ favor or ·dis-Incorporation and two against, but it was stated that one of those two votes was erroneously cast, and tho result was practically unani­rnous.·ln favor or the step.

The first meeting of the board of trustees of Pataha was held in Harford & Son's bank, on April 12, 1888. John Ha r ford was mayor, and the councilmen were: John Houser, A. J. Favor, J.- Ff.' .. Walker, G.D. Wilson. H. B. Ferguson was clerk of he board, H. C. Krouse was city marshal and E. D. Briggs superintendent of streets, and

G. Harford treasurer. The little child of John Campbell was the first person

who died in Pataha City. An effort has been made to ascertain the name of the first child born in Pataha City, bu~s~r_!:O on~eems to know.

On June 7th, 1884, the Pataha City corresvondent to the East Washingtonian stated: "We learn that the Pomeroy baseball club has raised an untold amount or wealth to wager on the baseball game In the near fu­ture."

On June 14th~l884, the East Washingtonian stated: "The match. game of baseball between Pataha City nine and the picked nine from Pomeroy came off last Sunday, resultllfg' In a victory for the Pataha City boys, score 36 'to 41." The line up, as nearly as vosslple to obtain at the present time, -was as follows: For Pomeroy-;-Gardner, the blacksmith, Ed. Pomeroy, Lew Frary, Frank William-

son, Dave Hughes, Charles Mowrey. For Pataha City­Fred Harford, A. J. Buchet, George Campbell, Mert Dun­ham; J oe Rafferty; Harry Harford, H . C. Benbow, Pete Talbot, Charles Cavles. This ls suvposed to be the first game of baseball vlayed In Garfield county.

Among the early marriages we find the following: Frank Day and Emma James, Thomas Delaney and Ida B. Warfield, F. H. Waldrip and Ella Short, James B. Warren and Marietta L. Mccanse, Wllllam N. Whitson and Emily Davidson, John H. Walker and Mrs. Sylvia Palmer, George A. Sables and Caroline Patton, Sanford · F. Williams and Mollie Benbow, Elmer E. Sage and Ollie White, Lewis Lubking and Addle Dell Minnick, Fred G. Harford and Emma J. Frary, Walter W. Rigsby and Ellen Hoffman, C. A. Gallacher and· Ida May Bonney, John L. Stember and Amelia Zable, Charles G. Vlnnegarholz and Mary A. Mochel, Robert R. Santo and Martha E. Fleener, James S. Denison and Jennie Hand, Benjamin F . Decker and Elizabeth C. Crumpacker, Henry C. Krouse and Florence Rawnsley, Robert E. Wills and Mary T. Elsen­sohn, Allen McQueen and Hattie Davis, John W . Hazelton and Caroline Zables, W . W. McCauley and Liille Stiles, Fred Sherill and Nora Hoffman, William J. Wills and Mary B. Ish, John L . Tewalt and Cassandra Wollery, John Gustafson and Lillie M. Fanning, H. B. F erguson ~nd Myra Montgomery, A. J. Buchet and Eva M. Talbot, Ed Wilson and Ella Wllls, J. R. Macl\Iaster and Jennie \\"ills, L. F. Koenig and Lelah Williamson.

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I The Business Houses of I I Pomeroy ·- : I (gm h- --<Y~

(By J. J. McGrath)

THE leading general merchandise s t ores here twenty-

I seven years ago mre Brady & Rush, B. Cohn & co. and Ben Hirsch & Co. T he leading grocery

was Dirk Zemel; hardware, H. Darby & Sons ; jewelry, .ill'cCabe & Whitcomb; shoe store, J. H. Hagy; furniture, Vassar & Sacknitz; bakery, George Eller; harness; C. Ed :'.lioore and W. W. Swank ; drug s tores, Central Drug Store and I. C. Sanford & Co.

There were a few smaller stores, among them being Dr. Storey's secondchand store and dental parlor.

Soon after this Ben Hirsch closed out and S. Kasper opened a store.

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INTERESTING EXPERIENCE ~ lUrR. 1•!. 1•'• H11Uot11h 'l'«~ttH H«~1,orl~r nr

Jlcr Lire J>urlng the W11r.

A1>ropos or I.he ma or J.,lncolu ahown

In film Snturclay night nt the IJ1·c1un­

Jand Theatre, come Mrs. E. t••. J.lnt­tolt>h's memories or wn.1• limes nnd President J.,fncoln. Sho said tho 1,1 c­tn re wns vor)' true to Jlfo In thnt 1>erJod, but thnt Ltncoln Joolted oldai· and more wor1i In reality than tho : photo-play showed him.

After tho Clvll War bt·oltc out, Mrs. Buttolph and a gh-1 friend stl(,i,od away from their home In Boston, nnd joined the service as scouts and or­derlies. They often ·cn.rrlect dispatches to Lincoln, n.nd personnlly 1rnew Gon­cl'nls Rosccrnn, Bragg, l..oo, Beaure­gard, Grant an«l many others known to most of us only fl'om history. 'l'ho girts cut their hair and donned boys' clothes so they could get. about the country easily. Mrs. Uuttol1>h WM

sent from place to place and some or the Umc wn.s stnllone(1 In Washington.

Mrs: Lincoln wns a Southerner, and hacl two brothers who were orrtccl'B on the Confederate slclo. No one defl-

~ttely knew that she was trencborous .J the faith of her husbanct, but It was suspicioned, nncl MrR. But.tolph won a fentller rot• her ca11 hy proving MrK. Uncoln's guflt, Ono dny Mrs. I~lncoln set out for the Confederate Jines with a big bouquet or ·nower& ror her brothers, and Mrs. Uuttoh>h, who look­ed like a srnnll boy, asl<0d tr she might have t.hcm. Mrs. Lincoln rcfnsocl, nnd Mrs. Buttolph lnsfstecl, but It did no goo~. Finally Mrs. Duttoh>h snatche<l the flowers from her hnncls and In tho middle or the bouquet was n note writ­ten In some ldnd of a ch1hor. She hastened to headquarters on horseback and gave the message, which muRt. have conlalno«t somo or 1,lncoln's plans, written for tho eclltlcatlon oC the Confederates, to a Onion Jeacler.

noL nnnlhor shell waR dlroctocl to­wards the Cumber1nnd unut tho boys had safely landed from · their daring exptof L They hnd no sooner reach eel shore, however, than they were rnnde prisoners, and tn.kon 1n a barred car to UblJy prison whore they wero lcept foul' months. 11hey were then transferred to DelJe Isle, a.net from thoro Mrs. nnttolph made her oscnpo. Her companion, Pnutlne Cushman, who had come Crom Boston to join the service with her, mlstmcl her, and set out for the prison, taking along an extra hor,m. Mrs. Jlullolph Hnw hor friend Rlt·oll by 0110 afternoon, nn«l that night J!mdc hor csmwo. 'l'hc git-ht rocle a Jong distance then set thof r horses free nnd went In another cllrcc­tlon. They stained their faces with walnut juice, and assuming the nc~ro cllalcct, went ns clnrlcy boys to n Con­fedcrnle cnm11 n.nd nstrnc1 for work. General Dt·ngg was writing notes In o. barracks below the level or the grouncl, and here Mrs. Duttolph anc~ her frloncl were 1mt to work hnnllng out sand. •rhe general went otit lo tall< lo someone a moment, and when he got back his notes and colored ·boys were both gone. The "boys" stop1>cd to talk to some or t110 soldtors as they were lenvlng, so theh· departure would not ap11ea1· to he the rtlght ft waR, nn<l one oC 'them said to MrR. Bnllol11h,

· "Sny, boy, you're getlln' klncl or whfl.o." ,

"WelJ he ought lo be,'-' repllecl Pntt-' line, who was a few years older than she, "his mother was a while woman," an«l no more thought was given to her

· Rtrcmlcocl cnm11lexlnn, which tho hot o.Clemoon n.1ul her well moaning cont. sleeve had almost oradlc11tcd.

Shortly nrter that Mrs. nuttoh>h wns thrown Into Andersonvllle prison, where she spent nine horrible months before sho manngecl to escn1>c In com­pany with some other youngsters. As soon as they were at a sate distance they Jumped Into a .river in an their

: clothing, I.hen procccdocl to n. hom.:e I where a womn.n kindly outfitted them ' with tlry things, which also w-tmld act

Mrs. Buttolph was sent, soon after she entered the service, to o. relay house near Savage Station, an«l acte<l as chore boy for the owner of the house. She pecldled butte!' nncl eggs rrom camp to cnm1,, nncl wnR orten In­side lho ConCedet•o.te as well as the Union llnes. She saw the sinking or the Cumberland by the Confederate's

\ as dlsgulsement, shoul<l any or tho I J)rlson offlcia.1s hn1>Jl8ll along.

\ Mrs. nnt.t.oll)h rouncl hnri-mtr stilt nt.

I\ ~roat. «liKll\llCl~ rroin tho Union HUCK,

180 put on an old wra11ve1· over her

lnnlfot·m, amt n.s nn ol«l ar,t>le J)e<hll~r nllemplcd to gel lhrotti;h the enemy s

, llncs. She wns t.al,en prisoner again, nncl Ute Molcllcr1;, thlnlclng to lmvc

- ~-clad Merrimac In Ham1>tori .els, and was with a ct·owcl of boyR

"110 1·owcd out to the Union flag sUll waving from tho main mast that. was left pnrtlntty a.hove water. The Con­federates hn«l been firing steadlly un­til the h':)!S 11t.artccl for the flag, but

somo r nn with the old woman, })\lt her Into the ancldle backwards, and made her rhlc lhnt wny. Tho sol«\lcrs soon t.urnerl their nt.tcnt.1m1R otscwhorc, nncl bl' the Ume the Union canw wns ln sight Mrs. Buttolph bnd removed her I wrapper, and rlght.ed herself on the

horse. ·

"Trn la. Ja, General Roeect•an, I'll\ see yon later," sntd ~rs. Buttolph, as she rode away, but she was cut across \ th~ lip by tl1e genernl's sn.ber, and was'. wonnde<\ In the lmee, before she could get. n.wny. She cnrrlo<l angry scars from these wcnmds for years, nml sttll haR tnnl'l<R thn.t. remind he,· or lhose epoch making days.

Mrs. nnttol11h m,ml to en.rry «lls-1,nt.ches In tho l1eele of her shoes, and when sho wns co.11tttr_od, her Important mosum1;os wero not. cllscovorotl. Her l1eols wel'e hollow' and the lower llfts were held ht ))lace by screws, and as the· notes were written on Usstte pa-1>er, they wore enslly cnrrled tn u,ose small compartments.

Mr~. nnttoh>h nrrl-ved ln Gettysburg thr. nl~ht of .TttlY Utlr<l, nncl WnM 11res­cnl during the rom· dnys' batllo. She slept ht a. cemetery wlllle thel'e, and wn.s tha.nltful for a c~ust of bt•eo.d to

cnL . 1 During her three years or serv ce Rho became a. sldllful horsewoman and could ride any kind bf a horso, sadclled n.ml brlclled m· not, nnd could change n saddle with twice the faclllty of the average roumt-up relay rider, who Is vlewocl wtu, wonder today. When­evel' sl,e saw n horse tn a Cleld fresher t.hnn hera, she took It, lenvlng bet• own tn cxchnngc. She swam tho Potomac twlco, once on borsebncl<, nn<l once a-fool. She saw her own rather In the Union Jines, and called him by name, hut. he clhl not know slle wns In the service, so <ltd not recognl~e her in the hnbltlments ot a boy. She tnlked to hlm about the people a.t home, and RI.Ill ho clldn't lmow her. He ,lied not lmo,vlng he hn.d lately met llls own daughter, and she never saw him n.gntn. MrR. 13nttoJph's fn.mtlY (tld not lmow where s110 went when she left home, n.ncl woro not nwn.rc of the <lnn­g,wK Rhe conrt.011 nnU1 ,-;ho rolurnc<l to Doslon nt the c.loso or t.ha wn.r.

MrR. Dnttolph wm; In Wnshlngton when T...tncotn was n.sKnsstnn.t.o«l, but not tn For«l's Thcntrc t.hnt nlght, tbough she aftet'war,ls -vtslt.ed ll She saw Lincoln ns he lny ht state, but cll<l not stay fot• the fnncrnl AR sllo hn«l not. yet been dtschni•gcrl, nnd ha(\ to

, go to an outlying cam)) nJ,, Uie com­mnrid-of an omcer.

Mt's. nuttolph lms long boon n resl-clcnt oC this country, nncl l1ns worlced fnlthhtlJY ln Ute W. R. C. to l<eep allve tho \oynltY «tuo those faithful veterans whom slto saw in theh· youth ahcd<ll~g hloo<l for the country that. t.otlny ls a light among nations. She ts nhn.11laln of the orcler • an<l she reacts the sacred rlt.nnl wtt.h u,c mulerstan<Ung n.11<1 cx­r,r~Rslon that only he1· years or Ret·vko, llvln~ Urn hen.rt-throbs or I.ho Grnnd

Army, conlrl give.

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I '1 ~-tlV E. F. Uuttolph. I eJ;f I ~Ir. E. F. Iluttolph, a respected Pio•

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neer or this coun ty, a soldier or the Ci ,·11 War, died at Retsi l. Washington,

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1 June 4th, aged about ;s years. Mr. Duttolph is survi ,•ed IJy his wits

1 j or Retsil and son, Bert Buttolph, or I thi~ county, and two daughters. j I 1 he runeral was held at Retsil ar.d I J the remains were placed in the sol• · cliers plot. I

/ Mr. Buttolph had been failin g for

j :~ve'.·al ~ea rs. ~nd w:15 here only a few eeks aoo to ,·1s1t his old friends, who

will regret to learn of his death i\lrs. E. F'. Buttolph arrived · from

Rets il. Washia;ton. Thursday and im· mediately w<?:: t home with her s tep· son. Dcrt 8m tolph.

Jo t;JJ-A lhcw1•r . l\ul,ln lph. /'1.,C The Chronicle lws rccc ivetl Lhe

news or the wecltiin ;; or ~l r. Augustus Algcve r tln<I Mrs. K 1". llullolph a l Iletsil, Washinglon, a short lime ago. The exact date was nol given. Mn,. Buttol ph is 81 years or a:;c. bn l t.hc I ai;e or her h1111han1l wa11 nol Jearne1l.

j Congratulation s. I

MARENGO OF 1885

The Marengo of 1885 was the hub of the communit y with a post office,

which serviced the Tucannon, the Tucannon Ridge and Dry Hollow . We rode the

six miles by way of the Kimble Ranch, south over the rocky hill to the

Tucannon and about t wo more miles to Marengo. Like many other towns of

early days, Marengo had visiomof becoming a city . A main street was

surveyed and at one time there wer e ten fami l ies or more l iving there .

The city boasted having a General Store , Post Office, blacksmith shop, a

hotel, which was a large house with three or four extra bedrooms and a

dining room, and a flour mi 11, which was used only t ~Jo or three :§'ears .

It used a mi ll race and water whee l for power .

When t he railroad was built to Starbuck the people living in Marengo

were certain the line would proceed t o Marengo , but hope was short lived as

the l i ne went to Pomeroy instead . By about 1906 Rural Free Delivery began,

thus closing the r ural Post Office . Peopl e on the ridge and Dry Hollow

then had mail boxes at the top of Marengo Grade , which meant a horseback

ride of onl y f our and one-half mi l es . Families began t o l eave Mar e ngo ,

bu t the school continued t o func ti on until the early 1960 1 s when school

busing took the chi l dren to Dayton.

It was at Marengo where I heard my first phonograph and first

t e l ephone . The l ong dis t a nce t e l ephone l ine f r om Dayton to Pomeroy went

through the town , where the r e was a pay te l ephone in the Pos t Office .

This was the only phone bet,,1een Dayton and Pomeroy .

Mai l was delivered to Marengo in the morning and t o Dayton in the

a fte rnoon . Thi s r equired a twenty mile drive one way for the mai l wagon ,

vh i ch was a light hack, as they were called. It was pulled by two hor ses

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and had t~o seats so three or four passengers could be accommodated as

well. The driver would remain in Pomeroy overnight.

The general store used to do a big business in Harter's Bitters, a

medicine which came in pint bottles with the promise to cure any complaint.

The contents was 65% alcohol with a little flavoring and cherry bark. Some

people would consume a whole pint in a day and testify that they felt better

after each bottle!

The Post Master and Store Keeper was a very large man by the name of

Mr. Short. Mr. Short always wore brown corduroy pants that had to be 56"

around the waist. In the summerti~e during idle hours he could be

found sitting in front of the Genrral Store with a fly swatter, a piece of

leather nailed to a stick. He would swat flies on his pants or shoes while

his pet chicken, a little black hen, reaped the benefit. One night some

people camped near his store and the next morning his hen was missing and

Mr. Short was a very mad man.

About 40' in front of the store was a tree with a hitching rack built

around on all four sides, where we tied up our saddle horses and buggy teams

when we came for the mail, which was about twice a week. We subscribed to

the Spokesman Review which was delivered on Wednesday and Saturday for

$1.50 a year. My folks also subscribed to the Toledo Blade which came

from Ohio.

The story was told of my Uncle F~ank Jackson telling a friend in

Dayton how he might obtain a wife, Mrs. Honeycut, his housekeeper. Uncle

Frank would no longer need her as he had married a Miss Oliphant, who would

help to raise his motherless children. As the story goes - the man from

Dayton drove his horse and buggy over across the Tucannon, a twenty mile trip

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EARLY MARRIAGES

OF

WALLA WALLA COUNTY

1862 thru 1899

WASHINGTON ~ERRITORY ABD STATE

Touchet

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Columbia Co.

Waitsburg •

Dixie •

Walla county

Walla Walla *Lowden • • •

umapine •

• Dayton

• Milton-Freewater Umatilla County, Oregon

Copied and compiled by members of the

WALLA WALLA YA.LLmI GEBEALOGICAL SOCIETY Published by the Society

WALLA WALLA, WASHIIGTON

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as Frenchtown

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~i::ORT, Asa C. and Harriett A. BRAl'JSTEI'TER: 15 Jun 1870; O.P. Lacy, JP .SHORT, Walter and Mila N. JOirnSON': 7 Sept 1877; H?M. Hodges, JP;

Wit: Henry D. Chase and Esther Perkins; at res of T.J. Perkins SHORT, Walter, of Wallula, and Cinda SIMS of Touchet: 28 Sept 1887; _

Rev. J .Co Steele; Wit: Gid Summ:i.ngs and Lucy A. Cummings; res of Walter Short·; SHORT, Walter and Grace E. HAGINS: 4 Apr 1898; H.W. F,aga.n, MG ;

__ \_vit~: ~~•E_. Short and J .s. Schrock --~- -----~-· ~~--

Pneident U.S. Onnt Patent to 160l

Thaaaa P • Re,nolde Wile Polly

Toa Jotm M • Silcott

Wife Jane March 28, ll14

Sewell Traax laid oat, tbe tom where all ww1d liw. The dedicatim ot Tom site •• Hq 28, 1876.

Por the t011ft site J. M. Silcott ottered to donate 20 aorea and 10 more for the Mill aite. Th••• dates are when tbe people purchased their lots.

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Oscar Short

A. L. Short

1884 1900

Wife Ophelia

Antos c. Short

John A. Campbell Wife Rosal.th&

Deaanber 9, 1886

Josie L. Short p,r/1"'"

Wife of Amoe c. Short I Died lfov. 1911 Children I !fettle Bounde Robert Short

wl.u RQa Allen Short, Roea Campbell

Grandohildrena Abbie Ciana • grand-daughter PeffJ" Waldrip -~ Ceoil Boyle• grand-daughter Wayne Wa11'JII grandson

Allen Short Wife Ophelie

1915

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PIO_NEER. KILLED ON · / · .. · · ·-:·. 61ST:. -,JURTHDAY

• , Alie11 S~ort, . ~1 y:~:~: ~as i~st.;,tly 1 kil1ed la5t Tli~rsd_ay;_.·wben the Earl!

~Mc_G~e-__ co·~-~irie, ·. on . which he was ! ~or~mg, bpp~~. over, catching him! beneath-it · :.-.·. - : .·' · ,·'. .'.,:

'-: ~~-· S~Q;t_ w~ -borµ }~. Wai1a:\vaila / ~~~st1 12, '1865, and died'' Aug\Ist- 12; / ~926• · · ~~ cam_e . tc? · this · county in ,,

.. ~~S .8~~ ·r~sided ·bt?re _~·lnio"ki continu-: o,u,~l~ ~mce,~- ;~esides bis. widow . Or- 1

1 phelia Sho t··h· · · :-,..•• -•~· ··.; • . _ -. . ~ _,: . e 1s survive<t. by ·one , ~~1:ght~r, · ~r~ •. ~Imer _- Cantril!- of· Ta­c~~~;, a~d one )3~h; J?ali~-- ~hbrt, :~£ fi\,c~_p~a'.i ~ont-· fun~ral r services w~r9 _hel~ fr<irri~ tlie Hubbar./, 9_i. ·R' ·.(l ·' . h. .. 1 · - $1- ex, ogg c ~1>-~ .~t; ~ o'clock .. S.~nday. af~ern~on~

. The ' com bin~ ·on: :·which )\fr~ -,Shi>rt was · ~nding head~r -was_: m·aki'n~ its -way_ aroun~. a 1,iiHside I ~li~ii ·_the''iow~r :W~eel __ ~:ropp~d- in~ ''a:. riitfwith · the resultant tu · · Th , ·· • · · · , . . . mover. e header was ·thP'ltlJe4_:.;,,~-~-~~~m'~W. .: .c~~.;.. ove1:_'° the - resber '. art - th . ' --.~-?'",'.'-\•••?1T,·'•-~0C

-· 1,,: ...... -·~· : -~ ... ,!./!!. e _macb~nt;, •.. It,.~as a ~osp_a~~~~Ui:; after· th"ehacddent. be'­

. ~re.,. it ~!l~- p~ssible to get Mr~ :Sho~t'~ oody"'~----· " ·· b ... -·. ·•4,_•r •·• ,. -·~ · ,-=---:: ';~ ~~-"•.\ ut .· he.-: .~as-)'"so, badly

crushed=· that~ ··t·· ·•·. · ... • .» : .( · · · : .. ·. . . , . _ .. · l ·,: 1S, .a cettaintyd;hat -~!_~th came instantly •. Affair: gettiJik ,~h~i~,ad~r:,-~ut: J<?Ose from· th¢1.rest.-:of th~.machine and! r .... T'···•V •.·_,,.••;

f,, .• .· , . .,_ ·.•::, ·.Ql'~. Sho~s,bc@Y .. ~µt rorn- _under_. t~e ·wreck, the·'.ilachlne

. r~ne~ 0 ~~r fiy~; ~imes •nior~t~~Wf ~iie h1ll'."and,.:accord· _._ t .. ... ,,,.j.••~,\.,,:.a .·

:1 ~ .. ''"y,:;;a·~-1.: •• , .•. _.., ... , !~g .· o: r_ eP,orts.-'., lS __ fa wtal 't'wr "1~~--- Th" . ,. . .- .,. ··Jll$ii. ... t- . ••. , .. • . : ': ,.·, ~c~~'r--~ .. 1S; _, was,.-: tlieUecond . ~~:ti:: -~:oe~ s ~~~in8-:,: tff~f)\. ~:-/::·

•• ., ~-• r ... ,;--- )··,-.-~.P.P was .. tbe. o~y oth~ m~.11: .. 9.~ .. th.~ ~g:·:who· wairhtirt and.·he n~rrowl:f escaped . severe· irij~~Y-. ·~h'~-n a, }ever •on.- the.· overturning' ·/1n.;,.,.h •. :· . .. .. b . . • , .. _ - . . •. ..... 1ne ca~g ~ t -~~~; at· ~h'e

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knee, but. Jhii- ran through -the,~ flesh. · , · · ·

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-Fofm~·r Resident· -B-ufied:,,Here . i -~;:· ;•:.: . : .. ' ' ' ,:~~ ~ :: . . ..

iaLGriveside-•:· services , were held' .bftlif! Dayton cemetery Wednes. dat·. afternoon, of .last· week for ~s.:.QtheJi~· Sh~ w~o diedJin Po~l~~d., ,BliJ.'ial was b~side ner· husband.who-had died in a har-· vest· accident' 20 or 25 yiars ago. . Funeral services bad been held hi, · Portland and the remains ~rqught' -here by Iter daugh~~r, Mr~- . Elmer: Cantril, also of Por~­land,. and. her son. Dallas Sho~ , of. Pendleton. Other survivors in- · clud~d a grandson and two ·great grandchildren. · . . :, · Mrs. Short' was born Othelia _Butler at Asotin City in J"anuary, 1871, .but both she and her hus­band: were residents of Colum­Qi~l county many. years before 'movirig to Portland. · .

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WAI'l' ANnEnsoN merchn.nt, of Elberton, ·wash., wns born m cw1ston, n., '

1 ' • f V t November 8th, 1803. He is the son of Sylvester :M. Wn1t, t\ nnhve o ermon ,

born )foy 2:Jcl, 1822, nnd ~fory Hargrove Wait, born in Illinois, lforch ~2d, 1830 . Younrr\Vnit's <:mly education wns received inn private school at ,vuitsburg, nt Unvt;l nnd nt li'ol'cst G1·ove University, Ore., s1111plenumted by n course in tho Ne~~. Y~rk Collcue or IJy"'icnc and n business college in Illinois, n.fter which ho rotnmc•l to Hayton, ,vn~h. His firi;t occntmlion \llncctl him in ch1\rge or his !uthor':3 pinning-mill 1uul, hLtcr on, u flour-mill. '\\'hon his Cuther sold out nt the cud of two yctu-s he nc:cumpanilld him to Elberton, wberc the father, nlready the

founder of Waitsburg nnd Dayton, }>lotted the town site of Elberton. Our sub• jcct remnined with his father I\ short time, engaged In various avocations for nbout five years, and then went to Pt1get Sound, wl1cre he took charge of a gen­eral merchnndise store nnd town site for Cnin nrothcrs, rcmnining with them until his fntl1cr's denth in 1891. lie then returned to l•~lhcrton and took chnrgc of his fllther's estate, He wns married July 21st, 1888, to Miss Nanr.y n Sboct; born 1'forch 0th, 1808, dnughter of J. H. and Lottie (Kirby) Short, both of whom Wl're pioneers of an early date. They have two children. )Ir. Wuit has handled the business left to him by his father's death inn very creditnblc nnd successful rnnnncr, He is a. l?cpublican, and is rclntcd to Judge Wnit of the Supreme Court of the United States •

l'f/(

Marengo Store Destroyed. The old store building at Marengo

was destroyed by fire a few days ago. Of this ancient building the East-Wash ingtonian says: . The building, which was erected by its former owner for a small store and dwelling combined, had served this dual purpose ever since 1876.

The late Mr. Short, who occupied ft during nearly· all these years, built it with his own labor, having no tools ex­cept a broken hand-saw, an axe and a hatchet. He hauled the lumber from Eckler's mill on the mountain south of Dayton.

It was valuable onJy as an old land­mark. The present owner, Mr. Allen Short, says h~ feels a loss in this re­spect only, and that the neighbors seem to regret the destruction of the old house as keenly as he does. He will rebuild next fall. The old trees were not badly injured, which after all, is the important thing so far as Mr. Short's interests are concerned. The building "·as older than nor house ln Pomeroy or Dayton today.

Widow oi \"pfn:111 .\~min u Hric!<•. It is not usual for such n iwchuled.

spot as the :-;tudy of a :\Ietlwtlii-t pnr­sonnge to he dr;tped on short notice with the Star~ nnil Stripes. But such patriotic garh th•~ )[etho<list l•:pisco­pal parsonagC' ll( t hii-: city was called upon to a,h,pt la:-t Tuesday evening,

when standin;.: h••11••:1th the fla~s Mrs. .Josie I... Short. a~t:'ll ti.:,. was nti\lTied to E<hrnr F. B111tolph. a few Yt~nrs her

! senio1:. Buth ha«! a special wi~h for

: this decoration. for hoth of tht•lll hncl / given their <'nnnt ry loyal sen·ice in the davs of battle.

:\Ir. f111ttnlph is one of the grallually l'i111inishing number of the country's ·. elerans. an<I is a proud memht•r or the local post or the G. A. H. His hri<le enjoys a llouhle honor. and even more. :--:ot only is she now marric<l to an old soldier. she is the wicloiv of A.

1 L. Short. a rnion snlllier. gone 10 his

i rest within the la~t year. She i:-: stiJI

more promt of the fact that she. her­self, served. hy commission from Abraham Lincoln. as a spy in hehalf of the t:nion army.

Both l\Ir. an1l Mrs. Buttolph have Jived in Columhia county for many vcars. and the old solclier couple start ~ut on their pilgrima~e together with the respect and hcflt wishes of the en­tire comm,mit~·. The Rev. A. W. Hol>­erts performed the ceremony.

William H. (Bill) Siruerman came to DS3"ton in 1888 end spent his en-ti1'"e lifetime here except £or two years, 18~92, which he sperm ini Seattle and Calitonda. .

Jre was born1 Fem"lla1.'7 a, 1868 in.1• a.. midwest distillery where his parents, Pemmylvania;.Dutcb, lived ror the winter while they were migrating lfl' covered wagon., f:rom. Iowa. 'ah.ere they had grown1 up and married, to Missouri~ In: the spring after Bill 'a b:lrt!i, his folks continued· to· Missouri where they homesteaded;; He attended a. one-rocm school and during his las~ tei,n, the one teacher had a. daily attendm:l.oe average or 1s· students. Bill. remembered there were over 100 · eligible studeuts;

It' the. time Bill was 19 he had tired of walking 2§' miles to school and ot w~ out- £or ~ cents a ~. rre heard: or tliia wonderful Territor.r of WasJiin.gbon where a;·. mani could. get Sl a~ da.v and board. He landed in· Spokane Falls, ~w Spokane·, _in·M~ of 1888 and worked there&. few ~s:· at 82 a~. It eos-ft:. ~- dollar a. de, to live at a. good hotel. It was 25 cents a:. meal and 25 cen:ts a~ n:1.{#lt for a bed. He came on to DaNton·. that same month and got oft the train over bJ' Rock Hill where the depot was located at that tfine~ .

In 1895 Simerman was married to Mary- Maxwell, the dallgj\ter of a pioneff family. ~• was also born ih Mi~souri but. moved. to Dey-ton when: she was nine years old in:1880. She kept. ~ouse and eooked for her rather and five brothers in tile Alto district. until her marriage.

Mr. Simerman acquired his first. land, which was an, original railroad grant, £or 812 an acre, peye.ble over a. ten year period at six per cent interest and wheat.was.selling for 23¢ a bua~el. He contim.ied to add to hie term land, beying and selling horses when they brought. good prices and there was a reaey me:rke-t: and. working in a .wamhouse to help PS-'Y' for his land. lie ofteni commented that· be had paid as hi@Jl. as 241' interest and bad. hs:r.vested 64 erops of wheat in-.li.is lifetime. Re elffl\Ys· decla'.red that Columbia. Co\lll.'t1 is the best place in: the world to live •

. Mr; Simerman was first president alld organizer of the Whetstone Fe:rm Bureea, f'irst um t. or tlie Columb:l.a'.• County Farm. Bureau, in 1925. Two years later he was elected as second coun.ty president. following Denry Delaney.

Mrs. Simex-man: passed awq in: 1948 antt Mr; Sime1'2Jl8Dl in 1959, at the age of 91. !heir two dau€J}ters survive,. Mrs. G. Jl~ {Viu) Moyer who lives: on a. farm. nortli ot Da;rton and :Mrs. Carol Geiger. who makes: her home in Spokane. i'hea­grandson.~ Bl.lly J!. Moyer is ~ton· Postmaster. and he end his~ wife, the former :Betty Allen, make their home on the f'a:rm and tbe house his- ga.r.a.dpa:rents: buil 1. ancf called home in the Whetstone area.

The great grandsons s.lso have inheri tad the love of the land~ James W •· Moyer bas ear.ned his:doctorate degree in:plant pa.tliologr at Pennsylvaxda:.State trnive:nsity and is working in research of'~plant diseases. Gerald M. Moyer is a .. graduate of Wa.shington\State University fUld is employed tu a chemical comp~ im the Tri-ci v .. ·. ~~a es a.. £a.Tm. chemical consul tent salesms;zt;

. . . . ., Billy Simerman, pioneer farm er' and ·horsema n of C.o~;

lumbia count y. Billy sa id in t he. " good old days~• whe1i horses were worth real moQey a nd had a ready ma.r ~et· he made as muc h money from ouying and selli_ng ho rses a s he did ra ising w heat .-Pix by Pa t : -:-. ·· .. ,; , , · :~-! ;_:.

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The least I ever worked for was 50 cents a day; the least I ever sold wheat for was 34 cents a bushel; the most I ever got for wheat was $2.50 a bushel. I've paid as high. as 24 per cent a year interest on a loan but bor­rowed $7000 at 6 per cent to buy a farm, when a dollar was worth about two dollars. I was fortun­ate in marrying a wonderful wife and helpmate, or'I wouldn't~have what little I have accumulated today. My success was in grow­ing wheat and buying and sell­ing horses when they brought good prices and there was a ready market. , t / .

Thus does a pioneer sum up his life which he has spent here

, since 1888, except for two years, 1 1890-92 which he spent in Seattle I and c;:alifornia. 1 In the 85 years since Billy

(William· H.) Simerman kicked his way . into this world in a midwest distillery, a lot of chan­ges have ta ken place. At, the

I time, his parents ... Pennsylvania j Dutch, were migrating by ·cov-. ered wagon from Iowa where 1

they had grown up and m arried, 1

j to Missouri. The senior Mr. Sim- • 1 erman was a distiller. In the fall I prior to Billy's· advent, they had started the trip but holed up for :

, a time when Mr. Simerman ran ; i in_t? a _Job ~t the ais~illery in ,

I w,11.::h Lucy !:ved the ... wmter and : Billy was born February .8, 1868. 1 Billy was the fifth child. ,

In. the spring after Billy'.s birth nis folks continued to Missouri where they homesteaded.- He at­tended a one'-room school and during his last term the ·one teacher had' a d;,.ily attendance average of 76 ~~udents. Billy r~­members thP.re were over- 100 eligible s:t:.!rlcnts. ·

1 By the ,·•ae Billy was 19 he

I hacl tired of waiking 2½ miles to school and of working out for 50 cents a day. He heard of $17 a month being paid cowpunchers

. fr, Kansas, sc he headed there. : He worked-on the Cockrel;Broth- : ers ranch until "I hea rd . of this ' wonderful Territory of Washing­ton where a man could get $1 a

· day and board." , Billy landed in Spokane Falls,

1 now Spokane, in March of 1888, ' '

I and worked there a few days at $2 a 'day. "It cost ine a dollar ·a day to live at a good ,-iot~l,'';Billy remembers. It was ;25 cents a meal and. 25 cents a· night for a i bed.'He -came •on to Dayton th~t

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ntinued from Page -1) month and "got off the

o~er by Rock hill." The de-located • there at that

next. day he. hired.. out to le JI. J. Torrence for a dol­day and board . . Landing

"4.th ~15, Billy spent $7.51'.rof bedding to take to the farm hltp: . . . 1 e . the newcomer took a

job with the late Charlie Robin­son "°sawmill and worked on a flume that carried lumber to Dayton from the mill location up the creek. He ·says that" was easy money. ✓

Come harvest though. he took a job at $1.50 a day and thought he had "hit the jackpot." Bill says ''I went to work for Will Max­well and in 1895 married· his sis-ter to get even. with him." .

Two years before he married, Billy had bought his first 160 acres of land. Wheat was then bringing 34 to 40 cents a bushel. Besides raising wheat he also had to work In a warehouse to

l help pay for .the land. f It still makes Billy mad when , he thinks about that land deal. , It was railroad land and the , company had sent out . an ap-1 praiser -to make the . deal. The I appraiser plainly let Billy know that the value set was entirely up to the appraiser. Billy says today, " II I'd of had $50 or $100, I could have gotten that land for four or five dollars an acre; sev­eral of my neighbors made 'such buys, but because I didn't have the cash to grease the palm, it cost me $12 an acre."

Talk about getting "hooked." Billy recalls that about that time he bought a span of horses from a man who lived on the Patit The pric~ was· $300 but since Billy didn't have the cash he gave the fellow his note. That was a bad year and the fellow later a-sked fQr his money·so that he could . save his · place from foreclosure. Bill didn't have the money and neither did the banks. Billy went to a · fellow for a pri­vate loan. J,.. few days later the

L~) fellow t~ld, ~lll,.,~~•ve _come_ across some.- eastern·· money> I ,can get y~>tl. blif th~_: interest is. high~.~~ per -~_nt:a 'month ~,.(24:per· cent-a· yearl.::.Billy~:Jelt .he,_liad to:;!take up his ·note to help the ·other fel­low: out,· s~ )le· agreed jo thEr in­terest _ charge:·! arid, tlien. he was told he'd have.,to::t>orrow:$350 so: the. loan .. · shark•. could. get- a · $50 cu~:· .. He"agreed:;to: that stipula-·' tion,•. too.::-And_-.even·then, ·Billy says, ·the. ·fellow., stlll --lost\ his farm •.. ··: . ~ .-<- ; · · .- · ::· · ·~:\,. ·· · Btit·.·in sp{te .of what,. toC,ay looks like adversity,- Bllly Slmer­man. "made· a, go· of lt." He·kept adding __ to . ."his .·holdings:·· Bought the place.· he now lives · on with ~ne ··of hls.·'daugHters ln 1902 •. He has .. tw9. ~augl\ters, .. ~9( _which 11 am very-proud/' .he says. He says he has· always done lots of hard · ·work and had a· lot of fun as he went along.:There has been some sorrow, too,· but all in· all,· Billy_ thinks it's a grand old world-and he wants· to stay arQund as long as he can get along on .his own power and "~ake ca_~ ·of myself.''·

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Mrs. ~yra_ Epley Died Tuesday

Mrs. Myra Freelove Simerman Epley died at the home of her son, Ed Simerman, Tuesday about noon. She had suffered an attack and received hospital treatment and was "getting I alo~g fine" when taken to the I son s home for convalescence.

Mrs. Epley was born at Fort Scott, Kansas, May 5 1874 She came west with her paren~, Ce- . phas Colton and . Laura Bell, in 1881 and the family settled in Columbia county where Mrs. Ep­ley has since resided. Her son is the only survivor.

Funeral services will be held at the· Hubbard-Rogg chapel Fri­day ~t.ernoqn at ~ o'clock with tbe·Rev. Charles L.:Graybeal of-ficiating. .

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: tqtizel Sunmll8n, 80, of 218 E.: >~D~yton Ave~;_died June 28, 19901 1. at Dayton .Genera• Hospital.· · · 1:-~~ ,The funeral·was 2 p.m;Mon­~--daJ ;t the ·Hubbard-Rogg Chapel, : 1~-~o~d SL, Dayton .. Tu,e :, Rev .... DJvid . . Bruce offiaated. ~·- Cremation followed the. sef\!ice. :i lnummentwas in Ut~.~y plot ,.,.-,.· ·, '.'\"" . ... . ... .. , .. ,''. "· :· ._at_p~y~!)-J~itY, iCemetery. ; : . •· ~-.: }:· Memorial contrib1:1~m may b,e · -(~~~-;~: the,f:P~~~ia C.Ounty fun-. i b~l~#ce '.f:~114 :gr a charity• of the , } donor's choice~ . : . . -· . J:l;t~ Mrs~ Simerinan\vas .bom Feb .. ,

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ts~,19.10,Jn:Dayton to Jacob and· 1 Ullie. Qwens· Mye~t She

1gradu­'.: a~ .-~-;).~f~oi•~ayton High .. \School~ ,i}·:,:.:--· ~: .. . ;. ·:~? OnNov;J~;·l~g;~he,~ed · .. · · Ed Sµnerman in w.ua Walla~ 1 she 'tworked:as:·a dental assistant·for · ·:or.'. George~McCauley (or.about·. 20 years. She was later employed for 12 years as supervisor of house­keeping at Dayton Gen~ral Hospi-tal.

She is·proba~ly best known for her 2S yeais as secretary-treasurer of the Columbia County Ambu­lance. She was a 44-year member of Schuyler Rebekah Lodge. .

SurvivoJS include her husband, at home; and five cousins, Wanda ,Bushong and ~-Black of· : Dayton, Bm Culbertson of Pasco, ~rank Thompson of-Seattle and Letha· Bell of Sequim, VI_ A. ..

Ed Simerrnan Ed W. Simennan, 88, of218 East

Dayton Avenue, died December 28 1992 at Sacred Heart Medicai -mTer, Spokane.

The funeral was held on Thursday at Hubbard-Rogg Chapel. The Rev. David Bruce officiated. Cremation followed the ~rvice with inumment in th~ family plot at Dayton City Cemetery.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Columbia County Senior Cintizens Center Building Fund.

Mr. Simerman was born April 30 1904, in Dayton to Elmer.and M~ Colton Simerman. · . He attended school at Turner, just east of Dayton and Dayton High School.

As a young man, he farmed for his father, then worked for Albert Land as a carpenter and cabinet maker. He married Hazel Myers on Novem­ber 10, 1930, in Walla Walla. She died June 28, 1990.

He was past president of the Columbia County Senior Citizens Group, he attended United Brethren Church activities and he loved the mountains and fishing.

Survivors in~lude two· cousins, Carol Geiger of Dayton and Laura Litz of American Falls, Idaho.

Pictured here is Mrs: G eorge ~ ~yrai°~pley, w~O with l her family, the Coltons, came west to Dayton· from Fort i Scott, Kansas, 70 ye.ars ago. _

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,;1..1 (J)er /' 4 'l VISITED GRANpDAUGHTER

Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Skillman, Walla Wulla, former Dayton residents who may move back here som'e day, were in town· last weelt; Mrs. Skillman re­por.ted they had just returned :from

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middle western trip· where, among other places, they · visited their daughter, Mrs. Harold Buelow, and heJ.Yfamily at Mhtpeapoli!· The Bue­low~ bad a ne}V granddaughter, Deanne Marie,,_:for the visitors. Mrs. Buelow is the /01mer ~aura Arm­strong.

The Skillmans also visited the home of Mrs. S~illman's brother, Godfred HarUng;. at Rhinelander, Wi~~onsin. The visitors were gone six:.weeks and ret~r*ed convinced theR was no_ pla.c'e li.ke h~~e.

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:~rss Ja S. Skillman ;~ies of Pneumonia

in This County in 1886-Fun•

eral From Baptist ChW'ch, Bur-' faJ at Walla. Walla.. l

1t Yrs. San!ord Skillman died at , · home six miles southwest ot

;E°n Sunday evening from pneu­;t<iia after an illness of but a few (1:5' duration. · Funeral services >.:e held from the Baptist church terday morning at 10 o'clock with Rev. W. c. Gilmore of the Con­tlonal church officiating. In­

' ent 'WaS made at the I. O. o. P. • etery fn Walla Walla. 1 Sarah Ida ~es. youngest daugh- ·

of the late Mr. and Mrs. W. E. ' early settlers of Columbia

ty, was born at the Ayres home­d, just two miles from her 1 r home, January 14, 1886. She 1

"up here, and was .married to: lford 'Sk'illma.n in 1909. Her en- , . Ille was spent in this community, ' j she had a wide circle of friends :

l!rs. SkilJman is survived by her • tband, J. s. Skillman, three sis­

Mrs. Sherman Martin, Dayton . .. Dora Beale, Pomeroy, and Miss llY C. Ayres, Boise, Idaho, and !

brothus, Palmer Ayres and ·1

s P. Ayres, both ot Columbia ty.

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OIIARLES SICII.MAN Charles Skillman, 69, dlecl al

the Brining hospital Monday af­ternoon following an illness of about two weeks' duration. Fun­eral services were held from the Hubbard-Rogg chapel '.l'hurs­day at 2: 00 JI· m. with the Rev. Merle A. Glew of the Church of the Assembly of God officiat­ing, and internment was made lh the Dayton cemetery.

Born in St. Clair county, Mo., November 8, 18 7 3, the deceased had lived here the last 4 2 years. Besides his widow, Mrs. Bertha Mahan Skillman of this city, he leaves two daughters, a brother, Sanford Sklllman of this city and other close relatives.

Jri:::-: Alice SJdl!muu Passes Away. :i'.J i~fl All ice Skll1 man <lied at Wash­

tucna, i\fon<lay, li'ohruary 13, 1911, from I.ho el'f<•ets or <~anccr, nged 39 years. The rmnains Wfl1•c Hhf ppell to Dayton for burial. 'J'ho runcrnl was held

1 'l'umalay at 2 p. m. from the Baptist d1111·ch, ncv. H. C. Mlllcr officiating. Tho <leecasecl was well known in Day­ton, having resided bere with her pare11ts. and lmvint~ takeu an active part in church and Suuday school wo1·k. She is survived by her father, .I. P. i,l<illman; four sister, Mrs. -Tom McClain, or Washt11cna; Mrs. Elisha Pcl(•rs or Walin Wnlla; · Mrs. Arch Collard of Hnlo, Wash., and Miss Bmrnio Skillmai1 of Washtucna; three I l1rothcrn, Sanford SltJJlmnn of Wash­tucna; Charley Skillman of Dayton, fLtHl .Joo Sldllmnn or Washtucna.

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M1 s. d well known an P. Skillman, a~ 1 \y of this county' highly res11ecte a esldence in Brook· i died at the [amllY r :M ch 25 aged .I

·d evening, ar ' tyn Thurs ay The cause of 57 years and 10 U:~n~!~erculosis fr~m death- was due d had been a patient which the decease •

al ·months. ' i sufferer . for sever will be held : The funeral servic::is morning at i\ trom the residence T .. S Dulin of

'clock Reverend • · · . ten o n' ti t church, officiating. the First ap 8

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Former Resident Dies In Yakima

Joseph P. Skillman died ~ud­denly last Sunday, March ~5, m a Yakima hospital fo1lowmg a heart attack.

Mr. Skillman was born in St. Clair county, Missouri, Octobei: 8, 1879. In 1900 he came west with his family settling in Dayton. ~n 1902 he homesteaded in Franklm , county and farmed there for ~ev · 1 cral years. Then he farmed for several years in Arbin Valley, Idaho. He then moved to thE: Yak­ima valley and farmed until two years ago when he bought ~n acreage nearer Yakima.

On December 28, 1910 he mar­ried Miss Carrie Rattlemiller. They had two children _born ~ut one died in infancy. He 1s surv1v ·

I ed by his wife, Carrie, a daugh• ter, Lenora, at the home. Also surviving are a sister, Mrs. Nora Peterson of Walla Walla, and a brother, J. Sanford Skillman, al­so of Walla Walla. Also several nieces and nephews.

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J. S. Skillman Final Rites Held July 11

Funeral services for James S. Skillman, 71, former Columbia county resident who had been mak­ing his home on Route 3, Walla Walla, were conducted Monday, July 11, from a Walla Walla funeral home.

Services were conducted by the Rev. William Foegc. Interment was in the IOOF cemetery at Walla Walla. Mr. Skillman passed away Friday, July 8, at a hospital in Walla Walla.

Born May 7, 1889, in Tiffin, Mis­souri, Mr. Skillman moved west to Dayton in 1900. Ile spent brief per­iods in Franklin county and in Pomeroy. Since 1916 until his re­tirement in 1946 when he moved to Walla Walla, he had farmed on the Hogeye. Ill health forced his re­tirement and the farm was leased to a nephew.

He and the former Mollie Harding were married in 1935. Local Membership

Mr. SkiJlman was a member of Columbia County Farm Bureau, Columbia County Grain Growers ancl Washington State Wheat Grow­ers. Assn. Ile also belonged to the Pomeroy IOOF Lodge No. 16 and the Walla Walla Yacht Club.

In addition to his wife at the home in Walla Walla, survivors in­c1ude two step-children, James H. Armstrong of Los Gatos, Calif., and Mrs. Harold Buelow of Opportunity; a sister, Mrs. Lenora Peterson, of Walla Walla, and six grandchildren.

Millie Skillman Funeral services for Mollie Skill­

man, former long-time Dayton resi­dent, were held at Thornhill Valley Funeral Home in Spokane on June 6. Mrs. Skillman died on June 2. She Jived in Dayton from 1924 until 1948 when she moved to Walla Walla with her husband, Sanford Skillman, and then to Spokane after his death in 1960.

She is survived by a son, James H. Armstrong of Garden Grove, Cali­fornia, and a daughter, Laura Bue­low of Spokane. Also surviving is a sister, Mrs. Anna Koch of Portland, Oregon, 7 grandchildren and 7 great­grandchildren, numerous nieces and nephews.

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