This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.washington.counties.spokane/5422.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Don't have a 1910 list this one is from 1915 Canadian Pacific RR Chicago Burlington & Quincy RR Chicago Great Western RR Chicago Milwaukee & St Paul RR Chicago Rock Island & Pacific RR Chicago St Paul Minneapolis and Omaha RR Chicago & Northwestern RR Great Northern RR Lackawana Line Minneapolis & St Louis RR Northern Pacific RR Oregon Short Line RR Oregon Washington Railroad & Navigation Rock Island Lines Southern Pacific RR Spokane Columbia River RR Spokane International RR Spokane Portland and Seattle RR Spokane Traction Co (Streetcar railroad) Spokane & British Columbia RR Spokane & Inland Empire RR Charles

Gloria It was somewhere near Cheney Charles ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, January 07, 2007 12:30 AM Subject: [WASPOKAN] Where is Spence in Spokane county? > Hi List, > Can anyone tell me where Spence Township was located in Spokane county? > Thanks...Gloria > >

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.washington.counties.spokane/5422/mb.ashx Message Board Post: What were the names of Railroads serving the city of Spokane ca 1910 ?

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.washington.counties.spokane/5421/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Born in Ireland c 1878, was living in Spokane in 1906, married Joseph Duncan there and moved to San Francisco. Any help will be very much appreciated.

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Hi List, Can anyone tell me where Spence Township was located in Spokane county? Thanks...Gloria

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Bowen Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.washington.counties.spokane/5413.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Valerie No it does not give where Bert Bowen was born nor date of birth. It was in the Spokesman Review newspaper. Send me an E-Mail and I will mail you the copy. The LDS will have a copy of his death certificate on microfilm, and that should give his place of birth and date. Charles [email protected]

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Bowen, Doughty, Tallman, Valentine, Garrett, Smith, Scrivner Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.washington.counties.spokane/5413.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Charles, Thank you for the information. Did the obit give information as to where he was born or his date of birth? Do you have the name of the paper the obit was in? Vallerie [email protected]

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Bowen Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.washington.counties.spokane/5413.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Valerie Bert Bowen was survived by his wife Ruth Bowen and children Verta McGee, Patricia Brummund, Lorain Bowen and Emil Bowen. he was buried in Riverside Cemetery according to his obit. Charles [email protected]

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.washington.counties.spokane/5418.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: You need to go to the Digital Archives and check for your Gardners, several of their Marriage Certificates are online there. Charles http://www.digitalarchives.wa.gov/default.aspx

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Tierney, Smith Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.washington.counties.spokane/5419/mb.ashx Message Board Post: if someone could make a copy of Obituary of: Richard TIERNEY, who died Dec. 1988, at Spokane, WA, aged 82 yrs, was born 23 Nov 1906. Thanks, from Wisconsin.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Gardner/Patey/Blair Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.washington.counties.spokane/5418/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Any info on a William Gardner Born 1840, Oxford, England, who moved to Spokane circa 1882. Married to Ann Maria(Pearson) Born 1839, Oxford, England. Emigated to America 1872. Children Amelia (1861), Jane (1862) married William Patey. Elijah (1867) married Abbie circa 1908, Martha (1870) married ? William F. Blair. All children born in England. Another child Joseph born 1879 Wisconsin. I think another two children born in Wisconsin.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: ABERCROMBIE Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.washington.counties.spokane/5416.1.3/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I have sent you two e-mails but am not sure you received them so wonder if you could see if there was an obit or death notice on FRANCES ABERCROMBIE. I found FRANCES (correct birth info & birthplaces for parents) in the 1930 census. Perhaps she had TB. I have recently learned that many TB patients went to available state hospitals. Perhaps she d. of TB? Frances Abercrombie that died 8/13/1930 in Spokane County ========================================================= 1930 United States Federal Census Name: Frances Abercrombie Espanola, Spokane, Washington Age: 40 Estimated birth year: abt 1890 Birthplace: Nebraska Relation to Head of House: Inmate Race: White HOUSEHOLD: Eastern State Hospital ABERCROMBIE, FRANCES age 40 b. NE father b. NE mother b. MD =============================================== Wonder if you found the obit for her if you could include it with her parents obits. Thank you!

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: ABERCROMBIE Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.washington.counties.spokane/5416.1.2/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I have sent you two e-mails but am not sure you received them so wonder if you could see if there was an obit or death notice on FRANCES ABERCROMBIE. I found FRANCES (correct birth info & birthplaces for parents) in the 1930 census. Perhaps she had TB. I have recently learned that many TB patients went to available state hospitals. Perhaps she d. of TB? Frances Abercrombie that died 8/13/1930 in Spokane County ========================================================= 1930 United States Federal Census Name: Frances Abercrombie Espanola, Spokane, Washington Age: 40 Estimated birth year: abt 1890 Birthplace: Nebraska Relation to Head of House: Inmate Race: White HOUSEHOLD: Eastern State Hospital ABERCROMBIE, FRANCES age 40 b. NE father b. NE mother b. MD =============================================== Wonder if you found the obit for her if you could include it with her parents obits. Thank you!

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Abercrombie Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.washington.counties.spokane/5416.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Jacqueline Lillian died March 1, 1934 in Spokane City age 66. I made copies of the obits if you want them. The one for William has his picture, but it is not real great from the microfilm, but the newspaper keeps an archive of photos they have published and for a fee the newspaper will make you a good copy. Charles [email protected]

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: ABERCROMBIE, RUTHERFORD, GOODMAN, KIMBALL Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.washington.counties.spokane/5416.2/mb.ashx Message Board Post: My thanks to DIANE who transcribed this biography yesterday just hours after my request! ===================================== "Spokane and the Spokane Country, Pictorial and Biographical, De Luxe Supplement" The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company; Spokane, Chicago, Philadelphia; 1912 No author listed; Vol. 1, page 117 COLONEL WILLIAM R. ABERCROMBIE Military commander, scientist, explorer and promoter of various important business projects which have been of almost incalculable value in the development of the northwest, was born at Fort Ridgely, Minnesota, August 17, 1857. His father, General John J. Abercrombie, who was in Baltimore, Maryland, was a graduate of the West Point Military Academy of the class of 1822 and after fifty-five years' service in the United States army retired in 1877. He won distinction and honors in connection with service in the Indian wars, participating in the Seminole and the Black Hawk wars, also the Mexican and Civil wars. In the last named he passed through all of the grades from that of second lieutenant to general officer. Through previous generations this military trait has been traced, the family being descended from Ralph Abercrombie, of the English army, who Settled in this country after the battle of Ticonderoga. Of the three was sons of General John J. Abercrombie two served in the army and one in the navy. The eldest son, J. J. Abercrombie, who became captain of artillery, is now retired and is living in Chicago, where he is conducting a brokerage business. Ensign F. P. Abercrombie, who was in the volunteer service, is now division superintendent of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The two daughters are: Mrs. W. E. Goodman, living at Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia; and Mrs. John Cole Rutherford, of Park, New Jersey. Colonel William R. Abercrombie, whose name introduces this review, was educated in Queen's county, Long Island, New York, pursuing his course in Flower Hill Academy. He became connected with the United States army at the age of nineteen years and was commissioned second lieutenant in the Second Infantry by General Grant in March, 1877. In July of that year he came to the Pacific coast to take part in the Nez Perce war. He went form, Atlanta, Georgia, to San Francisco, thence by boat to Portland and by river steamer to Lewiston, farm which point be marched to Spokane Falls. Here in October the regiment was divided and Company E, of which Colonel Abercrombie was then second lieutenant, took its station at Fort Colville. Two companies built log cabins there while another company went to the Palouse country and the remainder of the troops went to Coeur d'Alene. In 1878 Colonel Abercrombie took part in the Bannock Indian war and the following year was quartermaster of an expedit! ion into the Moses country in what is now known as the Great Bend, and encamped at the mouth of Foster creek on the Columbia river through the winter of 1879-80. In the spring of the latter year he proceeded by boat down the Columbia river and began building a post at Lake Chelan. Owing to the roughness of the country that post was afterward abandoned in the fall of 1880, and Colonel Abercrombie was appointed to duty at the mouth of the Spokane river, where he acted as quartermaster and commissary. In 1882 trains began running to Fort Coeur d' Alene and with many of the events which have marked the upbuilding of this section of the country since that time Colonel Abercrombie has been closely associated. In 1882 lie was detailed to take the census of Indians on the Colville and Moses reservations, and in 1883 he made a survey of Pend d'Oreille river and Pend d'Oreille lake to the forty-ninth parallel and in 1884 commanded his first expedition into Alaska, locating the Copper river delta. Two years later he conducted an expedition and made a survey of the Priest river country and from 1886 until 1896 was stationed at Fort Omaha, Nebraska. He participated in various Indian campaigns throughout the west and was called out for active duty at the time of the riots in Chicago, in Butte and in other places. In 1897 he was stationed at Fort Harrison, Montana, and made surveys between the forty-seventh and forty-ninth parallels, and from the one hundred and ninth to the one hund! red and eleventh meridians, which included the Miras Indian reservation and other public lands. In 1898 he was quartermaster of the Reindeer train which was attached to the expedition for the relief of destitute miners in the Yukon country in Alaska. and after the completion of that work, in the same year, he commanded the Alaska exploration expedition, No. 2 for the exploration of the Copper river valley with a view to discovering and locating an all-American route from tide water on Prince William's Sound to the international boundary between Canada and the United States, and Belle Isle and the Yukon river. In 1889 Colonel Abercrombie commanded the Copper river exploration expedition operating from Port Valdez, Alaska. He discovered and located an all-American route from Port Valdez to the Tanana river, and the same year was appointed chief engineer of the department of Alaska and construction chief engineer of the department of Alaska and construction engineer of the trans-Alaskan military road. From 1899 until 1901 he was engaged as constructing engineer of the trans-Alaskan military road. From Valdez to the Yukon river, covering four hundred and eighty miles, and in 1902 he was acting engineering officer of the department of the Columbia at Vancouver Barracks, Washington. In 1903 he was in service in the Philippine islands and in 1905-6 was on recruiting duty in the northern part of the state of New Jersey. In 1907 he was commander at Fort Reno, Oklahoma, and in 1908 was on foreign service in the Philippine Islands, while in 1910 he was commander at Fort. Wright, at whic! h point he retired from active service and came to Spokane to make his home. He continued in active military duty for thirty-three years, spending ten years, summer and winter, in tents. He is now connected with mining projects, having owned mining property since 1884. This is located at Cornucopia, Oregon, and he is also chief engineer of the development in the Willapa Harbor, in Pacific county. He has gold and silver bearing properties and the company is now operating a twenty stamp mill. Colonel Abercrombie is also interested in the Willapa-Pacific Townsite Company, the town site being located in Willapa county, at the mouth of the Willapa river about two miles south of South Bend. His long and varied experience in engineering work during his connection with the army well qualifies him for important duties that are now devolving upon him in this connection. Colonel Abercrombie was the first soldier that came into the town of Spokane and the first man he met in the settlement was James Glover. The Indians had been dancing and making merry for a week before his arrival. Being a good fisherman he obtained promise from the commanding officer, General Wheaton, allowing him to go ahead of the command so he could fish. At that time there were only about three houses in the town and these mere shacks. In front of one was sitting a big, handsome fellow who called to the colonel as the latter went by, and he noticed that the man did not look very happy. His expression changed, however, to one of joy when in response to his question as to bow many soldiers were behind the Colonel he was informed that there were about seven hundred. The man was Mr. Glover and Colonel Abercrombie afterward learned that be had not slept for several nights and it was a question when the sun went down whether he would ever see it rise again, for the Indians w! ere getting excited and were showing marked signs of hostility. Colonel Abercrombie became well acquainted with the early settlers including James Monaghan, Cowley, Dumheller, Gray, Yetson, Post and a host of others, and it was this that induced him finally to settle in Spokane. As he said he "learned to know these men as one only can in days when their worldly possessions were represented by a sack of flour and a slab of bacon." It is in such days when privations are great and hardships are many that the real nature of the individual is seen and in those pioneer times men learned to know each other for what they were really worth in character and ability. It was because of the strong friendships which he formed in those early days that Colonel Abercrombie returned to Spokane to make this city his home. It was on the 13th of October, 1886 in New York city, that Colonel Abercrombie was married to Miss Lillian Kimball, a daughter of General A. S. Kimball, of the United States army, under whom he had served as department quartermaster at Vancouver Barracks, Washington, when the General chief quartermaster of the department of the Columbia. Mrs. Abercrombie is a Daughter of the American Revolution. By her marriage she has become the mother of two daughters, Frances K. and Clara De Normandy both of whom are now students at Brunot Hall. Colonel Abercrombie's club relations are extensive and indicate his high standing in the different localities where he has resided for any length of time. They are also indicative of the nature of his interests. He belongs to the National Geographic Society, the Geographic Society of Philadelphia and the Explorers Club of New York, of which he is a charter member. He is likewise a charter member of the Army and Navy Club of New York, is a member of the Arctic Brotherhood of Alaska, the Army and Navy Club of Manila, the Spokane Club, the Spokane Country Club, the Officers Club of Fort Wright, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, the Tillicum Club of Valdez and the Wanderers Club of Hong Kong, China. His have been thrilling experiences which can never come to one whose interests are confined to a single locality or whose efforts are concentrated along a single line of business. In fact, in purpose and in activity he has reached out over constantly broadening fields, meeti! ng with such experiences as have caused him to place a correct valuation upon life and its contacts. He has preserved a splendid balance between the physical, mental and moral development and his friendships are largely with those whom experience and ability have raised above the ordinary level of life. ============================================================

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: ABERCROMBIE Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.washington.counties.spokane/5416.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: According t their obits both William and Lillian Abercrombie were cremated and no cemetery listed. Thanks for replying to my post. If you were able to access the obits for WILLIAM & LILLIAN - can you give me the dates of their obits so I will have an idea of when both died? I have no access to LDS FHC. I lived in very rural northern coastal CA and the only center near me has such antiquated machines I gave up long ago ordering microfilms. THANK YOU. I probably no longer need WILLIAM's obit as per my request yesterday someon transcribed a wonderful biography of him that I will next place on this board. Regards,Jacqueline Sleeper Russell website: http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=SRCH&db=jacquelinesr&surname=A

Jacqueline Spokane County had a TB Sanitarium from about 1910 into the 1950s, today it is a apartment house, It was called Edgecliff, and the records for Edgecliff are at the Eastern Regional Archives of the State of Washington http://www.secstate.wa.gov/archives/archives_eastern.aspx The Hospital was for the insane, and they had a poor farm at Espanola also. I had checked the Spokesman Review newspaper for the obit for Frances and did not find her, but ran out of time before I could check the Chronicle. If she was at the poor farm there may not be an obit for her as our papers charged by the word for obits, and a lot of people did not have the money in 1930. Eastern State Hospital has a cemetery, and until recently they would not let anyone see those graves, but the state cemetery board got them to open up the records for those buried there. Each grave just has a numbered stone on it, and now you can add a tombstone with the name of the person buried there. She is not listed in either of her parents obits, so I assume this is the correct Frances. Will get the other obits in the mail tomorrow, Charles ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2007 2:27 PM Subject: Re: [WASPOKAN] Obit lookup: COL. WILLIAM RALPH ABERCROMBIE,d. Spokane, 7 November 1943 > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Surnames: ABERCROMBIE > Classification: queries > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.washington.counties.spokane/5416.1.2/mb.ashx > > Message Board Post: > > I have sent you two e-mails but am not sure you received them so wonder if > you could see if there was an obit or death notice on FRANCES ABERCROMBIE. > I found FRANCES (correct birth info & birthplaces for parents) in the 1930 > census. Perhaps she had TB. I have recently learned that many TB > patients went to available state hospitals. Perhaps she d. of TB? > > Frances Abercrombie that died 8/13/1930 in Spokane County > ========================================================= > 1930 United States Federal Census > Name: Frances Abercrombie > Espanola, Spokane, Washington > Age: 40 Estimated birth year: abt 1890 > Birthplace: Nebraska > Relation to Head of House: Inmate > Race: White > HOUSEHOLD: Eastern State Hospital > ABERCROMBIE, FRANCES age 40 b. NE father b. NE mother b. MD > =============================================== > Wonder if you found the obit for her if you could include it with her > parents obits. Thank you! > > Eastern Washington Genealogical Society programs > http://www.rootsweb.com/~waewgs/ > > January 6 Annual Luncheon Meeting Knights of Columbus 302 E Boone Area > Railroading Charles Mutschler > > January 20 Internet Education Class Top 10 Websites Donna Potter > Phillips > > February 3 The Rest of the Library by the Library Staff other collections > of interest to genealogists > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.16.2/613 - Release Date: 1/1/2007 > 2:50 PM > >

Are you able to locate obits in the spokane area. IM looking for John Benner who died around 1947 and his wife Elizabeth who died in 1955 I belive. Johanne Benner is buried in Colfax and his wife anna about 1920. thankyou very much Connie

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Abercrombie Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.washington.counties.spokane/5416.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Jacqueline According t their obits both William and Lillian Abercrombie were cremated and no cemetery listed. The WA death index shows a Frances Abercrombie that died 8/13/1930 in Spokane County but I could not find an obit for her. You can get a copy of all three Death Certificates from the LDS on microfilm. Charles