[or-roots] Green or Brown? more

[cjp joppe]

I'll ask my relatives by marriage that have lived in
Sweet Home their entire lives (Grimes & Howery's). 
They'll recall.

Cecil, I love the part about the second floor not
being finished/ used for laundry - what a dream (for
your mom) not to have to worry about dragging in the
wash from the line when it rained.  But living w/o
electricity - by today's standards it's nearly
unthinkable! 

Boy o boy the things we have now that are taken for
granted (electricity, indoor plumbing tv remotes
computers & internet...)We have it easy now!
--- Cecil Houk <cchouk at cox.net> wrote:

> 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.
>   PO Box 530833
>   San Diego CA 92153
>   FAX 619-428-6434
>   mailto:cchouk at cox.net
>   ANDERSON - BLAKELY - FORD - HOUK - KIMSEY - MOE -
> RULAFORD - SIMPSON
>   Searchable GEDCOM:
> http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/~cchouk
>   My web page MENU: http://members.cox.net/~cchouk/
> 


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