HALLIE PEARL KINNEY, (1890 - 1973): My great grandmother, Hallie, was born on May 23, 1890, in Inland, Clay Co., Nebraska. Her parents, Joseph Richmond Kinney and Etta Imogene Summers, were from Mitchell Co. and had been married in Beloit. Hallies family seemed to move about Nebraska and Kansas quite a bit. In the 1895 Kansas State Census The family was again living in Mitchell Co., this time Bloomfield Twp. Mitchell Co. newspaper, "The Western Call", ran a short item in Sept. 1895 about Hallie's sister Blanche Kinney having her 10th birthday party in Bloomfield Twp. In 1903 Hallie's family said goodbye to Kansas once and for all. They traveled by wagon westward to Washington State, and settled in the Vale of Cashmere in Chelan Co. In those days the town was known as Mission, but in a few years it would be called by it's present name, Cashmere. It is famous for it's apple orchards and is the home of applets and cottlets. A young orchardist by the name of Frederick Charles Scaman used to eat meals, cooked by Hallie's mother, at the Kinney home on his way to work in his orchard. Hallie married him on Jan. 11, 1911, services were held in the Kinney home. Fred built a house for them to raise a family in, they had five children starting with twins named Jack and Joe. My grandmother Marjorie followed, then Ruth and finally Fred Jr. Fred Sr. was a successful orchardist and the family did very well. My grandmother said they measured their success by buying a player piano for $1000, a lot of money in the 1920s. Then things started to go wrong. Jack suffered a bone infection and had one of his legs amputated. Years later as a small child I remember tapping on his wooden leg. In 1927 their house burned down....though neighbors saved the player piano and the family photos. Luckily Fred had $5000 insurance coverage. But then in 1929 they lost their money in the Great Depression. The family had to move out to live in the ranch house in their orchard. At first the kids were fascinated at having to use an outhouse, after having been used to a nice bathroom. Still they were luckier than some families. Fred took all these events badly. My grandmother said that her father was avery proud man. He suffered from alchoholism. Fred was in bad shape by 1940. My grandmother married in March of that year, but Fred did not attend the wedding. Then in the following month, while on his way to the orchard Fred vanished and was never seen again. The irrigation ditches and the Wenatchee River were dragged. It was assumed that he was drunk and had drowned. His son Jack was in San Francisco at the time, and burned his car engine up racing home. He went to try to identify bodies found in the Wenatchee and Columbia River, none were his father's body. The mystery has never been solved. It is said that Hallie felt some resentment and left Cashmere. She went to live in Seattle where she worked for the Washington State Training Center for the Blind. she retired in 1955 and went to live with her son Jack, who had become a very successful business man in the apple industry in Yakima. I knew my great grandmother when I was a small child in the late 1960s and early 1970s. She was a member of Eastern Star and Amaranth and was honored as a matron in 1971. She suffered a stroke in 1972 and was placed in a nursing home in Cashmere. She died in 1973 and is buried in the Cashmere Cemetery. She once said that she was excited to have traveled to Washington in a wagon and had lived to see men land on the moon. -Mark Vernon Seattle, WA