This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Smith Classification: Lookup Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2dB.2ACI/2299.1 Message Board Post: Clark & Della arrived in the Methow Valley in Sept of 1905.Clark moved his family from from nebraska, to Wenatchee via the train, then took a steamboat up the Columbia to Ives Landing (Pateros). They settled across the Methow River from the current site of Carlton and raised 5 daughters there. They built a house, barn, ice-house, plowed, and planted fruit trees. della bought 2 milk cows and built up a nice sizedJersey herd, from which she sold cream to the Twisp Creamery. Clark was a good blacksmith and wheelwright, working out of his home, and in 1906, opened a blacksmith shop. On 9/14/06 her went to the Dr. with a red-hot cinder in his eye.The local paper stated that "Clark Smith, our up-to-date blacksmith, bought a gramaphone...he keeps up with the times..."Clara Smith attended Libby Creek School for 2 years until the new school was built in Carlton. She later married Wid Smith from Libby Creek, and they settled on Gold Creek in the Methow Valley.