Karl My notes tell me that James Stinson and family left Greenbrier Co, WV on 19 Sep 1893 with a colony of over 60 people. All the families had sold their homes in WV to move to Oklahoma where the Cherokee Strip had been opened to homesteading. One of the men was afraid of going into the country without knowing something about it so he told his son to go there and stay for the summer to see what kind of place it was. The young man filed a claim and plowed about 30 acres and planted it to corn. He got about $7 out of the crop as the hot winds and grasshoppers destroyed the crop. The young man's grandfather had fought in the civil war and soon after the war one of his buddies came to Washington State. He liked it so well that he went back to WV and recruited the group to come west. When they all decided they didn't want to go to Ok. they all came to Wa instead. Barbara Bartley Pearson -----Original Message----- From: KARL R STINSON <medartkstinson@pics.net> To: WALEWIS-L@rootsweb.com <WALEWIS-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Friday, June 04, 1999 8:14 PM Subject: RE: [WALEWIS-L] Stinson, Workman, Thompson Families of EasternLewisCounty >Rodney, > >My belief is that the Stinsons did not reside in WV prior to the 1893 trip >to WA. They were residing in Russell Co. (Actually right on the Russell and >Buchanan line, on Big A Mountain). I'm not sure of this so I'll copy this >to Barbara Pearson, my cousin to see if she can clarify. > >The Oliver Workman you found on the 1880 Greenbrier Co., WV Census is my >GGrandfather. He was born abt 1862 VA (now WV). His daughter Mary Alice b. >3/14/1882 was my grandmother. She marred George Floyd Stinson in Riffe in >1905. She died in Riffe in 11/1924 from complications of childbirth after >giving birth to her 9th child. She was buried, along with many other >members of the Stinson, Workman, and Thompson families in the Riffe Cemetery >(We think it was originally called the Stinson Cemetery, as James Stinson is >reported to have donated the land for the Cemetery) and later moved to Doss >Cemetery when the Riffe Lake was formed. > >Karl > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Rdvsr@aol.com [mailto:Rdvsr@aol.com] >Sent: Thursday, June 03, 1999 6:35 PM >To: WALEWIS-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [WALEWIS-L] Stinson, Workman, Thompson Families of >EasternLewisCounty > > >I don't understand why the families you mention, with exception of WORKMAN, >were not in 1880 Greenbrier Co Census. >In Wyoming Co there is a James WORKMAN with a son Oliver age 17, in 1880 >I have that a duaghter of R.S. & Dulcena (Roberts) WORKMAN had a daugher >Rebecca WORKMAN md Oliver WORKMAN. Rebecca was b ca 1870. There are no >RIFFE or STINSON families in 1880 Greenbrier census are there? There are >several THOMPSON families though. > >Rodney V > > >==== WALEWIS Mailing List ==== >Scan those PHOTOS, identify in writing who they are >and Protect Them for future generations! > John Blair/Listowner/ jblair@kalama.com > > > >==== WALEWIS Mailing List ==== >LEWIS COUNTY, WASHINGTON. One of the most beautiful >places on the face of the earth. Trees everywhere, >green, rivers, creeks, No Place like Home! > >