[or-roots] timber in Whitman County WA

[Harguess, Dale]

Have to pop in here.  I have been searching for my great grandfather for
years.  I didn't know if he died or what, I only knew that he and his
wife divorced and she remarried.  They were both born in Oregon and my
grandmother was too.  It never occurred to me to look in Washington.
Can you believe that I found him with a new wife living in Whitman in
the 1910 census and on top of that I found my grandmother's first
husband also living in Whitman in the same census.  Now if I could just
find out what happened to him after that.  He just disappears.

His name was Thomas Howell and he too had remarried a woman who had a
daughter.  I don't know where they got married but the census said they
had been married either 3 or 4 years, I can't remember.

Dale

 

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Judy

 

Thanks!  

 

Now that I brought it up, I thought I'd check the actual BLM records.
Surprise!  These kids had either homesteads, or "cash sales entry - 3
Stat. 566" entries. No "timber culture." Go figure. 

 

So, some family "legend" was not quite on target. But what about
2ggrandpa?  I don't find his land in Whitman at all. Yet, I've seen the
plat maps for said land, and been to the farm personally. My guess is he
bought it from the patentee, and it was a secondary sale, therefore not
on the land records.

 

Shows to go you -- never trust your relatives memories.

 

Pat

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JudyRobertson39 at aol.com
	Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2006 15:49
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	Subject: [or-roots] timber in Whitman County WA

	At one time, before the farming became so prevalent and late in
the 1800's there was significant timber on the Palouse Hills.  So much
so that Rockford Wa (located in southern Spokane County) was inundated
with loggers.  The loggers tended to enjoy Saturday night and Rockford
boasted of the highest crime rate in the US for the period of time that
logging went on in the area. These crimes consisted primarily of
murdering each other.(Spokane and Whitman counties adjoin)

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