[or-roots] Green or Brown? more

[Cecil Houk]

Below is the best photo I have of the Shea house.  You'll notice that it is a double exposure as were all of the pictures my mother took of the front of this house. ??  Although it was a 2 story house, the 2nd floor was never finished.  My mother used the second floor to hang the wash when it rained.


Shea house 1880?-1948
Foster, Oregon

Electricity was a mile to the left (in Foster), and it would have cost us a fortune to have it brought to us.  There was a small room in the area that looks like it was the living room (far left), but we used as a bedroom.  I have no idea what this tiny room was intended for when the house was built circa 1880, but we put our useless electric devices in it.  Specifically the washing machine and the waffle iron.  These and other goodies stayed hidden away in there until the Willamette National mill brought electricity to us.

Can anyone tell me the year that the Willamette National Lumber Mill at Foster was built?  I watched it happen, but I do not recall the year - after 1943 before 1948.

Cecil

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Cecil Houk 
  To: or-roots 
  Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 3:21 PM
  Subject: [or-roots] Green or Brown?


  Green or Brown?

  I was born brown (1939 Sisters), but grew up green (1942-1957 mostly around Sweet Home).  A great number of my ancestors traveled by wagon train to Oregon 1843-1868; some remained green, some moved to brown.  My paternal grandfather (Wm. Houk) was born near Lebanon in 1868; just a few days after his parents unloaded their wagon.  He relocated, married (Nora May Montgomery), and raised a family in brown territory.

  Now I'll beat the Shea property to death.  In 1943 my father bought 20 acres a mile east of Foster.  This was what all that was remaining of the J. Shea homestead.  When Nora May was a child her father (Canada Montgomery) operated a freight wagon between central Oregon and the Willamette Valley.  I don't know the exact route or the years, but I do know that the Montgomerys would stop at the Shea "ranch" to buy onions.  Here is a link to a photo of the house Nora May saw as a little girl (1800?), and I lived in age 4 - 9 (1943-1948):
  http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~cchouk/rulaford/3/foster-house0.jpg

  Stand by for a bomb blast and do kill the sound track - I'M NO KIDDING!  Here's a link to much more about the Shea place:
  http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~cchouk/rulaford/3/index2.htm


  This is a link to Nora May's entry in my GEDCOM.  It includes a photo of her and Wm. that was taken in (I think) 1939.  Her obit from the 1953 The Oregonian is also there.
  http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=cchouk&id=I00043

  To read about and see (some) of my Oregon Trail families go to:
  http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~cchouk/oregon_trail/

  Born brown, raised green, ended up in San Diedo, and now I'm dark brown.  :-)

  Cecil

  Cecil Houk, ET1 USN Ret.
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