Dear Mark and other Listers! Thank you very much, Mark, for your efforts on my behalf. I am so grateful, but I guess we can only regret that Portland newspapers are so hard to find... Now, you mention finding references to his wife Emma Hill in "Genealogy Bank" in the Washington newspapers. Do we have any listers who subscribe to that and who may be willing to help me? I would be so happy and for ever indebted... Thanks again for your great assistance in this matter! Very sincerely yours, Lars E. Oyane ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ On May 18, 2015, at 6:52 PM, Mark Erickson via wrote: > I looked for this man today, but noticed that there are very limited Portland newspapers for the year he died. I’m not sure why. There are plenty of other Oregon papers, but Portland seems to be missing 1894. Not just online, but also in microfilms. I haven’t done extensive research into the papers available for that date in Portland, but I did find him in the Oregon archives online. It says he died 2 April 1894, City of Portland. > > His wife seems to show up in GenealogyBank in the Washington newspapers, but I don’t have a subscription to that. > > -Mark ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dear Annette and other Listers! Thank you very much, Annette, for your attempts to find Erick Hill's obituary in Portland, OR. Maybe they never wrote one... Could it be that Erick Hill just "took off" abandoning Emma, just like he "took off" from his first "girlfriend" in Minnesota when she was pregnant? I keep wondering about Emma. Regardless of Erick, Emma must have lived somewhere between her marriage to Erick in 1890 and her 2nd marriage to Herbert Davey in 1918, but although I have today spent considerable time looking for her in the 1900 and 1910 censuses, even in city directories, I just canNOT find her, at least not for sure! There are several Emma Hills in various city directories from the Seattle/Everett, WA area, but none that can for sure be identified as Erick's wife or widow! Is it perhaps possible to find an obituary for Emma Holte Hill Davey from Mar. 12/16, 1931? A Seattle obituary probably wouldn't tell us much, but since her family lived at Stanwood, WA and she's buried there, maybe a "better" obituary can be found in the Stanwood paper? Thanks again for your wonderful assistance in this matter! Very sincerely yours, Lars E. Oyane ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ On May 17, 2015, at 6:46 PM, Annette Bowen via wrote: > This is a site for Historic Oregon Newspapers. > http://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/search/pages/ > > I didn't have any luck finding your man. > > Annnette > > On 5/17/15, Lars E. Oyane via <norway@rootsweb.com> wrote: >> Dear Listers! >> >> I have tonite done some "brainstorming" on this problem, and I found this >> death record in Seattle, WA: >> >> ~~~~~~~~~~~ >> >> Name: Emma Davey [Emma Holte] >> Gender: Female >> Marital Status: Married >> Race: White >> Age: 56 >> Birth Date: 13 Oct 1874 >> Birth Place: Norway >> Death Date: 12 Mar 1931 >> Death Place: Seattle, King, Washington >> Burial Date: 14 Mar 1931 >> Burial Place: Stanwood, Wisconsin (should be Washington!?) >> Father: P Holte >> Mother: >> >> ~~~~~~~~~~~ >> >> And I find the marriage of Herbert E. DAVEY and Emma G. HILL in Seattle, WA >> July 15, 1918 >> >> Herbert Edwin Davey was born in England Feb. 27, 1881 and returned to >> England where he died in Hammersmith, London 4th quarter of 1972. >> >> Interesting is it to see that Emma was buried at STANWOOD, WA. Find-a-grave >> reveals that's also the burial site of her father Jacob Holte who died in >> 1899, 64 years old, as well as her brothers Peter and Gotfred Holte! Erick >> Hill doesn't appear to be there!! >> >> Another "intreaguing" question would be: WHERE was Emma Hill between 1890 >> and 1918?? Was she maybe married to someone else between Erick Hill and >> Herbert Davey?? >> >> Thanks again for any additional information anyone can provide on this >> family! >> >> Very sincerely yours, >> >> Lars E. Oyane >> >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> >> On May 17, 2015, at 7:57 AM, Lars E. Oyane via wrote: >> >>> Dear Listers! >>> >>>> From the Oregon Vital records index I have found that the Erick Hill who >>>> died in Portland, OR, died on Apr. 2, 1894. Maybe with an exact date it >>>> may be possible to find "something" in the Portland, OR NEWSPAPER? >>> >>> Thanks again for your great assistance in this matter! >>> >>> Very sincerely yours, >>> >>> Lars E. Oyane >>> >>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >>> >>> On May 16, 2015, at 5:11 PM, Lars E. Oyane via wrote: >>> >>>> Dear Listers, >>>> >>>> I just made an unexpected discovery which may make the tracing of this >>>> Erick A. Hill somewhat easier: >>>> >>>> E. A. Hill of Snohomish Co., WA and Emma E. Holte of Snohomish Co., WA >>>> were married in Seattle, WA on Mar. 8, 1890 by Rev. C. O. Rosing! >>>> >>>> This has to be "my" Erick, but strangely enough, there is just nothing to >>>> be seen of this couple in any other sources. Maybe they moved directly >>>> to Portland, OR? >>>> >>>> Any suggestions would be more than welcome! >>>> >>>> Very sincerely yours, >>>> >>>> Lars E. Oyane >>>> >>>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >

I have a Genealogy Bank subscription, but I'm not finding much. There is a simple death notice in the Seattle Daily Times for March 14, 1931 " ​Davey, Emma - 1600 Terry Ave., 37 - March 12" There are some other references to an Emma Davey, but they are from 1939, 1943, and 1949--too late for your Emma. There are also some articles about women named Emma Holte, but none are the right Emma. Marian ​ On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 5:14 PM, Lars E. Oyane via <norway@rootsweb.com> wrote: > Dear Mark and other Listers! > > Thank you very much, Mark, for your efforts on my behalf. I am so > grateful, but I guess we can only regret that Portland newspapers are so > hard to find... > > Now, you mention finding references to his wife Emma Hill in "Genealogy > Bank" in the Washington newspapers. Do we have any listers who subscribe > to that and who may be willing to help me? I would be so happy and for > ever indebted... > > Thanks again for your great assistance in this matter! > > Very sincerely yours, > > Lars E. Oyane > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > On May 18, 2015, at 6:52 PM, Mark Erickson via wrote: > > > I looked for this man today, but noticed that there are very limited > Portland newspapers for the year he died. I’m not sure why. There are > plenty of other Oregon papers, but Portland seems to be missing 1894. Not > just online, but also in microfilms. I haven’t done extensive research into > the papers available for that date in Portland, but I did find him in the > Oregon archives online. It says he died 2 April 1894, City of Portland. > > > > His wife seems to show up in GenealogyBank in the Washington newspapers, > but I don’t have a subscription to that. > > > > -Mark > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > >

Dear Marian and other Listers! Thank you very much for your comment on Emma Holte Hill Davey! I was afraid there wouldn't be much to be found in the Seattle, WA paper in regard to Emma Davey, and am I right to believe, the Genealogy Bank doesn't include the smaller newspapers from Stanwood or Everett? By the way, Marian, you mention that you have tried looking for Emma under the Holte and Davey last names, but did you try under the name Emma HILL? The city directories from Seattle, WA from the early 1900's prior to 1918 referred to by ancestry.com include several Emma Hills, and we have of course no way of keeping them from eachother as long as they don't say like "Emma HILL (wid. Erick)", but the articles themselves might have some information connecting them to "our" Emma? I should add that a couple of the Everett, WA city directories from 1903-1907 refer to an "Emma HILL (wid. James)", who appears to be a Mrs. Emma Hill from the 1900 Everett, WA census born in WI Dec. of 1876 with parents came from MI and VT. Maybe her husband was James, but I see no mention of him! I feel we are so close to finding the answer to what happened to Erick and where Emma was at the time, and yet they sure hide extremely well!! There just has to be some write-up about this couple somewhere!? Thanks again for your wonderful assistance in this matter! Very sincerely yours, Lars E. Oyane ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ On May 18, 2015, at 8:30 PM, Marian Hill via wrote: > I have a Genealogy Bank subscription, but I'm not finding much. > > There is a simple death notice in the Seattle Daily Times for March 14, > 1931 > > " > ​Davey, Emma - 1600 Terry Ave., 37 - March 12" > > There are some other references to an Emma Davey, but they are from 1939, > 1943, and 1949--too late for your Emma. > > There are also some articles about women named Emma Holte, but none are the > right Emma. > > Marian > > > ​ > > On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 5:14 PM, Lars E. Oyane via <norway@rootsweb.com> > wrote: > >> Dear Mark and other Listers! >> >> Thank you very much, Mark, for your efforts on my behalf. I am so >> grateful, but I guess we can only regret that Portland newspapers are so >> hard to find... >> >> Now, you mention finding references to his wife Emma Hill in "Genealogy >> Bank" in the Washington newspapers. Do we have any listers who subscribe >> to that and who may be willing to help me? I would be so happy and for >> ever indebted... >> >> Thanks again for your great assistance in this matter! >> >> Very sincerely yours, >> >> Lars E. Oyane >> >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> >> On May 18, 2015, at 6:52 PM, Mark Erickson via wrote: >> >>> I looked for this man today, but noticed that there are very limited >> Portland newspapers for the year he died. I’m not sure why. There are >> plenty of other Oregon papers, but Portland seems to be missing 1894. Not >> just online, but also in microfilms. I haven’t done extensive research into >> the papers available for that date in Portland, but I did find him in the >> Oregon archives online. It says he died 2 April 1894, City of Portland. >>> >>> His wife seems to show up in GenealogyBank in the Washington newspapers, >> but I don’t have a subscription to that. >>> >>> -Mark >> >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~