Fwd as has an old Umatilla name from there. Maine Wilton [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: Laura C <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Thursday, September 14, 2000 1:20 AM Subject: OBIT CHARLES ADKINS Charles Adkins was born at Umatilla, Ore. Feb 6 1875 The Herald-Republic, Yakima, WA, Thursday November 19, 1970 Sam's Valley by Sam Churchill "Goodbye Charlie...White Swan lost one of its most respected & fascinating residents the other day. He was 95 year-old Charles Adkins who was at old Yakima City (Union Gap) in 1885 when half the business firms and homeowners migrated north to the new townsite of North Yakima..... His father, L. H. Adkins, owned a homestead in what is now downtown Yakima...Old L. H., way back when, carried the mail from The Dalles to Ellensburg via horseback. The schedule depended upon mail needing delivery and ability of man and horse to get through. In the early 1880s he moved to Yakima City and took over a hotel. He owned the first saloon in North Yakima. Charles Adkins was born at Umatilla, Ore. Feb 6 1875. Among other things he tenant farmed at North Yakima for seven years, hauled the stone blocks for the Carmichael home in Union Gap, and carried the mail (1905-1909) from Yakima City to Fort Simcoe. Following the mail contract he moved to North Yakima where he clerked in grocery stores for years, was a salesman for Gibson Packing Co. and managed Borthwicks Market for six years. When the depression hit he moved his family to a Medicine Valley hop ranch. Charlie finished out his days in a little white house across from the White Swan grade school. He kept a neat yard, liked to whistle, walked to the post office for the mail every day, took pride in voting and was usually No. 1 at the polls on election day...He was sharp of mind and physically active up to the time of his death. But as his son, Don, says: "After more than 95 years dad's heart just stopped." Laura of Seattle, WA GALLOWAY, HALES, GIBSON, PORTER, TURNER, FINE, JOHNSON, TEEL, KIRBY, ALEXANDER, SMITH, KEELE, LEWIS, CHAMBERLIN, LONG, BELIEU, WHITAKER, HEDGES, FUDGE, POLLARD, BATEMAN