Try SSDI. On Floyd Cole they have one match: b Aug. 8, 1917, d June, 1983, Hoodsport, Mason County, Wa.; ss# 537-03-8374. On Richard Cole they have three possible Wa. matches. Jim Pearson pearson@rio.com

Hello everyone! I belong to the Cole rootsweb listserv, but someone on that last suggested that I subscribe to this list because of the research I'm doing. I'm trying to find out who Elias Cole's parents were. He is my great grandfather. I believe that he was born in Canada, Ottawa possibly in either 1880 or 1881. He then lived in Astoria Oregon and became a U.S. citizen is 1883. He later married Reinette Whitbeck (date unknown) and had two children Floyd Albert Cole and Richard Cole. I have been to the Astoria public library and found several newspaper articles in the Astoria Daily Buget about him, one of which was his obit. He died in 1943 and was living in Raymond Washington and his surviving relatives were: wife Mary Cole, three sons, Richard, Floyd, and Delbert; and two stepchildren Myrtle and William Martin. Any info. would be greatly appreciated because I'm totally at a loss at to where to look next. Like wise if I can provide any info I would be happy to. The other surnames in my family are Biltgen, Whitbeck, Scott, Ghramm, Watts, McLain. Thanks,

If you need an obit, let me know, I'll go down to the Shelton Museum and look it up for you. Evelyn at JOHuffER@aol.com.

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Fred Perry, Hi, My great grandfather James Knox Soash had a logging operation going in the Shelton area around Lost Lake, in Mason County in 1910. He was killed when a tree fell on him 10 Sep 1910 and is buried in the Shelton cemetery on top of the hill along side his spouse Mary Jane Soash. Do you have information on him in you book "Shelton The First Hundred Years" ? Ken Devenny Tacoma, WA Kensgenes@sprintmail.com -----Original Message----- From: Fredi Perry [mailto:fperry@oz.net] Sent: Monday, December 07, 1998 5:21 PM To: PSRoots-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: Book: Shelton - The First Hundred Years Plus Ten I have copies or copies are available at the museum. The cost is $15 + tax + shipping which comes to 18.22. Mason County Historical Society, 427 W. Railroad, Shelton 98584. (PS: I'm co-author. Berwyn Thomas wrote the original First 100 years and two years ago I republished, redesigned, added additional info and new photos.) Fredi Perry Bremerton

Sorry folks, I don't know how my private message to Evelyn went to the list when I clicked on "reply" it should had went to her. I only meant to send one to the list, not two. Michelle

Evelyn, Do you know how far back does the year books go? My grandmother would have graduated around 1938 -- Myrtle Buchanan. Wouldn't that be something to have in the genealogy collection? LOL My mother, Susan Bogden, would had graduated about 1966. Her brother, David Bogden, would had graduated about 1965 (they are one year apart) This is a list of my aunts and uncles that graduated from Shelton High School (I am assuming they only had one) Elsie M. Buchanan (b. Jan 1925) 1943 Hazel E. Buchanan (b. Jul 1926) 1944 Francis M. Buchanan (b. Mar 1929) 1947 Henry E. Buchanan (b. Mar 1931) 1949 Betty J. Buchanan (b. Sep 1932) 1951 John A. Buchanan (b. Mar 1939) 1957 Sandra L. Buchanan (b. Nov 1940) 1958 I believe the original posting says 1966 was available. I would be forever grateful if you would check to see if she is in that year book and if she is, please get it for me. I will reimburse you what ever costs there is (of course postage.) Thanks bunches Michelle A. Day 1336 E. 349th Street Eastlake, Ohio 44095-3033

Fred and everyone else who wanted to help with my posting, I am deeply sorry for not being able to type.. LOL (And I try looking over each mail before sending but sometimes some things get by me) It is 1937 (not 1837). My uncle has a LONG obit explaining his accident in the Mason County Journal (?) on October 26, 1937. I suspect that the business was either taken over by someone or was closed. Interesting about this too, my aunt sent me a copy of a picture she found with my uncle and grandfather taken in the Peerless Meat Market -- boy was things sure cheap back then.. LOL I have two pictures (I didn't realize this) but in one picture the back wall says Peerless Meat Market. The other picture says "Sell Carstens. U.S. Governemnt Inspected Meat Products -- T.F. Cheslock Prop." Both pictures has the same meat counter in it. Seems the store went under some renovations at one time, even the back wall behind the counter is different in both pictures. LOL.. one picture says "Credit Make's Enemies -- Let's Be Friends" How much of that holds true today? Thanks for everyone's help. Michelle michelleann@ameritech.net

Sorry but this is not usual process of cutting down an evergreen! But I love you description. >usual process of cutting down an evergreen is to remove all the limbs as you >climb up using a belt around your waist and around the tree. You've seen the >pictures of the lumberjack at the top of the tree, leaning back in the belt. >Then you cut sections off the top of the trunk as you come down. When those >large, heavy sections fall, the trunk whips back and forth, and the lumberjack >rides it out - like a bucking horse. It was a status job because of the skill >required to stay alive. The cutting the sections off the top was/is seldom done except in logging shows. Staying alive was one of the big risk as the tree can and some times did split down the middle when the top was cut, squashing the tree climber to death. This is the method of creating a spar tree or pole, limbed to make it free for rigging. Because of the danger involved and other reasons, many of the biger logging operations no use the commercially made portable metal towers. The spar tree and the Tower is used to drag the loges into the landing. One of my sons last logging jobs was using a spar tree to high line logs over a swampy area. The DNR and Fisheries were so impressed with his work they came out and took photos. >Old time loggers involved in cutting timber were generically known as >bushlers. Bushlers were divided into sub categories. First - the faller: In >the old days, fallers were a couple of men teamed on a crosscut saw to fall >the tree to the ground. Next - the bucker, using an ax, would trim all >branches from the fallen tree and then buck (saw) it into lengths (logs). To day the are still called fallers and buckers, only now they use chain saws and axes and wedges. The last time I saw the Lester area, was on an air search, we did not find the downed aircraft there but did see a lot of elk. Kit, Olalla WA.

My mom lived and graduated (I think) in Shelton. However, she would had graduated around 1966/67. I am racking my brains to figure out who could possibly be in those years books from my family. Only people it could be is cousins. I have several pieces of my family still living there. My grandfather lived there after he finished high school in Raymond and ended up dying there. I for one feel very sad that Shelton finally grew to obtain a Walmart.. LOL (those of you older then me will know what I am talking about.) Oh and will someone please send me a strawberry shake from Burger Master. I remember that place when I came to visit over 16 years ago (I was 13 at the time). I visted Shelton two years ago and would LOVE to come back. Thinking of which and this may be a good time to ask considering I was thinking about this other day. Is there anyone who I can contact regarding history of a small businesses that was in Shelton? I am particularly interested in a meat market named Peerless Market that was on Cota Street. This business was in operation in 1837 and my great uncle, Tony F. Cheslock was the owner. My grandfather worked in there also, Joseph Bogden. I was also going to see if anyone around the Shelton area knows anything about my grandfather that they could tell me (if someone is possibly still living). I was told her was a very well known man in that town and I would like to get peoples opinions and memories of him. The other name of my ancestors still living in Shelton is Buchanan's. My Grandaunt Betty Johnson, my research sidekick, lives there with her brother John down the street. Thanks everyone.. If I don't talk to anyone or get a chance to say this -- Happy Holidays. Michelle michelleann@ameritech.net

Submitted to the Oregon-List by "Cathy" http://www.mit.edu:8001/geo Happy Holidays, Everyone! HOLTON-L List Owner The Rootbound Researcher * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ^ ^ Kitty (CURTIS) Martin Kent, Washington - - k9504m@aol.com Researching: CURTIS, GATES, HENSLEY, HOL(E)TON, JAMES; ZIEGLER, SWIFT, POLK, GREGORY, GRACE (etc.) * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Woods/8946/index.htm

I know that Shelton isn't exactly on the way to anywhere for a lot of people! But, I would be happy to find out if there is a Saghalie year book available for the year you are seeking, buy it and send it to you. Just let me know. Evelyn

>From the Shelton Journal, Dec 17, 1998: SAGHALIES from 78-89 on sale. Several old copies of the Shelton High School yearbook, the Saghalie are on sale in a fundraising effort to send books to needy readers. The Shelton School District recently gave hundreds of out of date textbooks and other books to a group that is shipping many of them to poor countries and other places that can use them. To raise postage money, some of the used books are being sold. The old Saghalies are from 1978, 1980, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, and 1989. They are going for $5 each at Dumb Dick's Daughter's pawn shop at 123 South Second Street in downtown Shelton. * * * * * Just thought you should know! Evelyn

Hi Pam I am looking for descendants of Nazareth Brower Hill, a Loyalist from NY. He and family went to Ontario in 1790. Any connections? Ellen Pam Dollarhide wrote: > Hi Michele! > > Do you have a Hannah Crooks in your line? I have Hannah Crooks b 1882 in > Osceola?, Iowa m: George Henry Viles on November 26, 1903 in Prosser, Wa.; > Parents of Hannah: Robert Crooks & Mary Jones. > > *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+ > HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO ALL!!!!!! > *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+ > > Pam Dollarhide > > Researching: VILES, ROCK, WRYE, MCKINLEY, HILL, LANE, HUNSBERGER, Etc.

Sorry, no Hanna CROOKS in my line. My Crooks all hailed from Edwards County in Illinois. Henry CROOKS b. 1791 married Mrs. Mary CARPENTER in Wood County, VA They had three children: Olive b. 1811, Dorcas b 1814, and Guy b 1817. They moved to Edwards County between 1812 and 1814 with one son from Mary's previous marriage. Guy CROOKS b. 1817 married Nancy BOREN They had two children that I know of (probably more): Mary b. 1840, and Charles W. CROOKS b.1856/7. Charles William CROOKS married Alice Mary FUQUA b 1859. They had 9 children: Rollie (Rowland) b 1880, Carl b 1891, William b 1887, Walter b. 1892, Alta b 1885, Melinda b 1889, Otis b 1881, Zadie b 1883, and Pearl b 1901. In 1898 they left Edwards County IL and moved West to settle in an isolated area known as Lester in the state of Washington. By 1902 they had moved into the city of Tacoma. I'm descended from Zadie Mary CROOKS. She and James Orval COFFEY produced two children: Orvie Lewella and Homer Kenneth COFFEY. Orvie was my grandmother. I'm trying to locate Alice Mary FUQUAs parents. Everything points to her being born in Illinois but there are some references to Kentucky. Can anyone out there help? Michele On Fri, 18 Dec 1998, Pam Dollarhide wrote: > Hi Michele! > > Do you have a Hannah Crooks in your line? I have Hannah Crooks b 1882 in > Osceola?, Iowa m: George Henry Viles on November 26, 1903 in Prosser, Wa.; > Parents of Hannah: Robert Crooks & Mary Jones. > > *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+ > HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO ALL!!!!!! > *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+ > > Pam Dollarhide > > Researching: VILES, ROCK, WRYE, MCKINLEY, HILL, LANE, HUNSBERGER, Etc. > > >

Hi Michele! Do you have a Hannah Crooks in your line? I have Hannah Crooks b 1882 in Osceola?, Iowa m: George Henry Viles on November 26, 1903 in Prosser, Wa.; Parents of Hannah: Robert Crooks & Mary Jones. *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+ HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO ALL!!!!!! *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+ Pam Dollarhide Researching: VILES, ROCK, WRYE, MCKINLEY, HILL, LANE, HUNSBERGER, Etc.

On Thu, 17 Dec 1998 Swimref@cmc.net wrote: > Not only will they not allow camping, they won't even allow the day trip! > The entire valley is closed and posted no trespassing, to preserve the > watershed. Special permission to enter can be obtained from the Tacoma > Water Department. > > Kevin Fraley > Swimref@cmc.net > > >> Michele, > >> > >> Check out this web site. It has a bit about Lester, Washington and a whole > >> lot about the NP Railway! > >> http://pw2.netcom.com/~whstlpnk/np.html > >> > >> Here are some other sites of interest: > >> http://m2.aol.com/mmcgee5924/lester.html > >> > >> http://www.armadillo.com/monad/phillips/store.html > >> > >> http://www.employees.org/~davison/nprha/nagrom.html > >> > >> Enjoy! > >> > >> ^ ^ Kitty (CURTIS) Martin Kent, Washington > >> - - k9504m@aol.com > Back in '68 I was one of the last few Lester non-residents allowed to go eastbound through the Tacoma watershed from Palmer past the H. A. Hanson dam to Lester. The roadway doesn't show on today's maps. That is the winter route to Lester, unless you have a snow-cat like the crew of the Stampede pass weather station crew. In the summer time you can get there from the east off I-90 if your rig can run a rutty road. The railroad recently decided they want to run freight trains through Lester again, but they no longer need the work crew stationed there as they did before. The one remaining woman stays only in summer now. John *====*====*====*====*====*====*====*====*====*====*====*====*====* # John Wm Sloniker <johnwms@serv.net> Seattle, WA # *====*====*====*====*====*====*====*====*====*====*====*====*====*

There was quite an article on Lester and the lady who still goes back to live in the summer time. She is quite elderly now, and cannot manage the tasks of staying there, stoking her fire and carrying wood. However, she might be a treasure trove of information if anyone knows her name and where she is living now. ] My aunt lived at Kanasket, another one of the little whistlestops along the train tracks in the same general area of east King County. Those little communities knew everything about EVERYBODY. Another little place was Selleck, and another, Cumberland. I used to play on the train trestle that crossed the Green River up near the Howard Hansen Dam. Swam in the river below the bridge that the only road through that part of the county goes. That's no trespassing property now! Evelyn

Hi Terri, It's been a long time since I watched the training films, but I think that the usual process of cutting down an evergreen is to remove all the limbs as you climb up using a belt around your waist and around the tree. You've seen the pictures of the lumberjack at the top of the tree, leaning back in the belt. Then you cut sections off the top of the trunk as you come down. When those large, heavy sections fall, the trunk whips back and forth, and the lumberjack rides it out - like a bucking horse. It was a status job because of the skill required to stay alive. I don't think I'm making this up! <Grin> Diane in Shoreline (state of wa) dhettrick@earthlink.net > Terri wrote: > > > I'd be interested to hear also. I'll have to check my notes but this is > > where an ancestor of mine was stationed? lived? He was "buckin' trees" ( I > > think this is the way it is said) for the railroad. This would have been > > 1900-1910 or so. Terri, Redmond, WA

Lester has an interesting history. Did you know that there was another little RR stop up there also? The name of the place was Nagrom. Named for the family that lived there. Morgan. When I was a kid 40 to 45 years ago I had an acquaintence who used to take the train past Lester and was dropped off at Nagrom each year to go camping. I had a more sheltered childhood than my friend but he used to tell me about the fun he had exploring the area. Anyone else ever hear of the place? George Lowe Terri wrote: > I'd be interested to hear also. I'll have to check my notes but this is > where an ancestor of mine was stationed? lived? He was "buckin' trees" ( I > think this is the way it is said) for the railroad. This would have been > 1900-1910 or so. Terri, Redmond, WA > -----Original Message----- > From: Bothell Publications <bizcom@u.washington.edu> > To: PSRoots-L@rootsweb.com <PSRoots-L@rootsweb.com> > Date: Thursday, December 17, 1998 3:41 PM > Subject: Lester, WA > > >I just found out my CROOKS ancestors settled in Lester Precinct in 1898, > >prior to moving to Tacoma in 1902. The Tacoma librarian said Lester is > >the city of Tacoma's watershed and the city bought the town outright at > >some point in time to protect their water. The people who lived there > >were allowed to remain and no one new could move in. According to the > >librarian, there's only one person left in the town today. > > > >Does anyone have information on this area, particularly at the turn of the > >century? > > > >Michele > > > > > > > > > >