[or-roots] Green or Brown? more

Thu Sep 29 11:15:39 PDT 2005

My grandparents lived on the Oregon Coast.  They had a large porch that
surrounded the house.  Used of course for drying clothes.
When my folks got some money ahead the first thing they bought was a clothes
dryer.  [Still used the old ringer washer].  My dad objected to racks of wet
clothes hanging in front of the heater. This was at Lebanon.  They got a
porch after my brother and sister and I were all married and built it for
them.  Kind of nice not having rain dripping down your neck when you are
trying to open the door.

Barb
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "cjp joppe" <cjpjoppe at yahoo.com>
To: <or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us>
Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005 9:46 AM
Subject: Re: [or-roots] Green or Brown? more

> 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/
> >
>
>
> carole
> cjpjoppe at yahoo.com
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