-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Saturday, February 06, 1999 4:07 AM Subject: [ORKLAMAT-L] Red BRITTON >Looking for information on Red BRITTON, longtime sheriff of Klamath County. >He was the grandson (I believe -- maybe the son) of my wife's great uncle, >James BRITTON, who settled in Klamath County in about 1930. This is a branch >of the family we have very little information on. I understand that Red >BRITTON may have died within the last year or so. If anyone has access to his >obituary, we would love to have a copy. > >Tom in Michigan Strange how a name can stick with you over the years. 1951 hunting season, my first time in the woods for game. We drove out of Klamath Falls up into Swan Lake on the " Old Incline" this had been a rail line but the rails and ties had been removed, leaving a roadbed and a couple of tressles. Returning home that night we made a side trip further east into sparse trees, brush and medow lowlands, and we stopped to say hello to an old friend of Dad's. This man, Red Britton, had a log cabin and pole corral, perhaps some smaller out buildings. There were deer antlers everywhere you might look, on the roof of the cabin, nailed over the door, in the branches of the large evergreens standing nearby, hanging on the rails of the corral, and lying on the ground. The Cabin was perhaps 14' square and there was no obvious machinery in that yard. There was no one home but I was very interested in the things that I saw, being not yet 12 years old. There was a notice nailed to the corral that Dad read. It was a sale notice. Red had been killed by a bull in that corral some time earlier. The stock and all had been sold at auction. This may not be your man and after near 50 years, memory may not serve me well, but that is how I remember it. Dad was Henry Dallas Cox, born and raised at Olene. His mother was Mary Viola Stout, daughter of Milton and Hattie (Gardiner) Stout. They ranched south of Olene and had leased lands from X- Ranch that was summer graze for the herds. Milton and Hattie went to Utah about 1910 and died there. Mary Viola died after giving birth to twins in 1916. Her first husband was J W (Johnnie) Cox who vanished about 1907 without any warning from working his father-in-laws stock. Next was John T. Cox whom she married after the seven year wait and she bore him Elma Cox, who married Willard Bowdoin, the son of the newspaper publisher at Klamath Falls, and the twins, who both died in infantcy. John T. then married Rose Saunders, a woman with 2 sons from a previous marriage. I'm told that Harold and William Saunders both died in the fifties or sixties. Mother was Eva Fern Cox, doughter of Joe and Dotha (Myers) Cox, Grand daughter of Isreal and Ruthina Cox, all of whom lived at Olene around 1900-1920. Isreal W. and his brothers John T. and Joseph E had a parcel of land in Olene and worked farms in the area. Mom learned to cook working in the harvests with her mother, they would serve 50 or more at a setting, 3 times a day, while the men thrashed and reaped, hauled, and bagged the grain from before dawn to dusk. I have not lived in the Klamath area since 52, lost all contact with the cousins there, and know very little more about the Olene-Merril-Bonanza area. I enjoy reading this list but will try to keep my peace. Thanks for the chance to share a bit. Harold G. Cox [email protected]