Johnson's

Clement and Hester Johnson's timeline:

1860 Troy, Monroe, Iowa

1870 Caldwell, Appanoose, Iowa
Clemment Johnson 58
Hester A Johnson 51
Wm T Dolson 21 farm hand

1880 Fremont, Colorado
Clement Johnson 68
Hester A. Johnson 64
Clara Noble 19 adopted daughter
W.A. Reed 42 son-in-law
Alice A. Reed 39 daughter

1900 Queets, Chehalis, Washington
Clemmen Johnson 88
Hesther Johnson 85
William C Reed 18

Clara Vincent Noble
Birth: 4 Sep 1860 in Albia, Monroe County, Iowa
Death: 12 Mar 1942 in Rifle, Garfield County, Colorado
Burial: Rose Hill Cemetery, Rifle, Garfield County, Colorado

About a year after coming to the Queets ('94 or '95) Mrs. Alice Banta passed away and was buried on the Matheny place beside Adam Matheny who had died a short time before. Hers was the first white woman's grave in the valley. In 1902 her father, Clement Johnson, passed away and was buried beside her. In 1908 her mother died in Hoquiam and is buried there.

Clara was claimed as an adopted daughter by Clement and Hester Johnson at the time of the 1880 census, He was a gardener in Fremont County, Colorado. He had come to Colorado from Monroe County, Iowa.
Source: "The Rifle Telegram", March 19, 1942
Mrs. Clara Armstrong died Thursday night, March 12, at 9 o'clock at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Herbert Brosius, on Rifle Creek. Mrs. Armstrong known to her many friends as "Grandma George" had been seriously ill since last Nov. when a paralytic stroke made it impossible for her to leave her bed. She suffered a third stroke before her death and lapsed into unconsciousness.
Clara Vincent Noble was born at Albia, IA, Sep. 4, 1860 and passed this life Mar 12, 1942, at the age of 81 years 6 months and 8 days. She was the daughter of G.W. and Marietta Noble. Her mother having passed away when she was yet an infant of 18 months. Her father passed away in 1912.
Clara came to Colorado at the age of 18 years. She was married to Alfred George, March 18, 1886 at Emma, Colorado [town no longer exists]. To this union five children were born; Claude, Annie (who passed away in 1901), Harry, Margaret and Jasper.
The family had resided on Rifle Creek since the year of 1887, a period of 55 years. Several years after the death of Mr. George, Mrs. George married Jack Armstrong of Grand Junction who passed away 6 months later.
Mrs. George is survived by her four children, 20 grandchildren and 8 great grandchildren, several nieces and nephews, and one sister, Fannie Manifold of Fort Morgan, Colorado. Her husband Alfred George, preceded her in death in 1928.

Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon, March 15, at the Christian church with Rev. Otto B. Duckworth officiating. In the choir were Mrs. Harry Harp and Mrs. Wm Fulton, who sang Sweet Hour of Prayer, The Old Rugged Cross, and In The Garden, with Robert MacIntosh at the organ. Interment was in Rose Hill Cemetery. Sayer Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.

Some More of the Story - by Gene Homer George (1986)
Clara was actually 17 months old when her mother died at child birth, leaving the father with two small daughters to raise. He remarried two years later. As an adolescent she didn't get along well with her stepmother, so as a young teenager she went to live with the Johnsons, and lived with them until grown.
Mr. and Mrs. Johnson were the parents of her father's first wife and no blood kin to her. Clara referred to them as Auntie and Uncle Johnson and they called her their adopted daughter, but none of this was legally so. The 1880 census lists Clement and Hester A. Johnson as their names but the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel calls him L. B. Johnson and calls Clara his niece.
William "Will" A. Reed was a son in law of the Johnsons. His wife was Alice A. Johnson Reed.
Clara grew up and was educated in the Monroe County schools. Her education was pretty good for that time, as the Albia school system was good enough to allow graduates to receive their teaching certificates. No record is found of Clara receiving hers, although her sister did.
In the spring of 1879 after she was 17 years old, she left with a wagon train from Iowa to Colorado. They traveled across the prairie ending up in Canon City. She said the wagons were heavily loaded and that she walked most of the way. She was traveling in the company of the Johnsons and Reeds and also among these Iowans was Josie Bitsenhauffer a childhood companion. Josie would remain a part of the rest of her life. Josie married McCamble and they settled in the mining town of Victor, and they are the ones mentioned in other stories in this text.
One story told, after their arrival in Colorado, was that of a picnic near Canon City. It seemed the young women were shopping for husbands, and a man was noted walking down the road toward the picnic. Clara said she told the girls "that one is mine". It turned out the man was Al George. In later years when Al was asked why it took so long for him to decide to marry her, he replied, "I had to wait for her to grow up". She was 17 and he was 26 at the time.
She lived a few years in Canon City, but no record shows of her being employed. She was living with the Johnsons during this time and Mr. Johnson worked as a gardener. The next record found she is listed with the early homesteaders on the Roaring Fork. Of the twenty or so listed she is the only woman. How this tiny little woman managed to prove up on a homestead is a mystery to me. Her land bordered that of William Harris, one of the earliest settlers and a brother to Charles Harris, the first settler on the Roaring Fork. William Harris made numerous attempts to get her to marry him, but she claimed all he wanted was her land. Charles Harris later married her sister Rose.

The Wilds of North Western Washington

In 1902 I made my advent into the Wilds of North Western Washington where I remained for some 20 years; married and raised a family in those back woods. Only making a trip to the civilization once per year for a new stock of clothing and a years supply of previsions, consisting of such staples as flour, sugar, coffee, salt, etc. At the time this incident happened we had gone to the outside, as we referred to the nearest town some 60 or 70 miles away from the ranch. While there during the winter we acquired some much needed furniture including a piano. All our furniture up to that date was mostly home made, excepting chairs and stoves, wood stoves of course. The time about 1918. We had traveled back into the woods to the ranch again awaiting the furniture to be sent in on the boat which came into the mouth of the river, a gasoline sloop which brought previsions and such to the settlers of which there was about 200 counting the Indian families that existed at the mouth of the river.
Having heard that some of the furniture had arrived I prepared to go for it. My husband being away with several of the pack horses packing supplies for the state highway, which then was only a few miles from Lake Quiniault mearly a slashed out trail. Our oldest daughter was 12 years old at the time, 2 sons 10, 9, and a small girl 5 years. Leaving my daughter to care for everything I proceeded to hitch my cay ouse team weighing about 2500, to the wagon, no cars those days in there, only a rough road if one could call it such, many muddy ruts and crooks and turns where one had to be constantly on the alert and handling a small team was no small job. Between me and the mouth of this river was 29 miles with six river crossings, each crossing had to be made at the head of a rapid as the river was very swift, 900 ft. drop in 29 miles. I knew I must be gone close to 3 days so I prepared the children for it, children now days staying alone and knowing they had to care for cattle, pigs and chickens, cook for themselves and be careful of fires, as all cooking had to be done on wood stoves. They had been brought up to be trustworthy and still are very independent.
Well as I stated I started, made the mouth of the river where I stopped for the night, next day I had much help to the loaded up, load probably weighed 10 or 15 hundred lbs. But I knew my team, one was a little bay mare blind as a bat, the other a tough strawberry colored with blazed face and 4 white socks. Formally on the No. Beach rack track. I only went 9 miles that day, but rose early next a.m. determined to make home. Well it started to blow a chooneck wind which always melts the snow in the mountains. I urged the horses all I could, after making 2 crossings and noting how the river was rising, I was really worried, when at last arrived at the last crossing I stood a few minutes contemplating as this crossing was at the head of a mile long rapid which run between two bluffs, and no one could possibly come through it alive, I knew if I didn't make it, on the opposite bank, in just such a place we were gone, but again my babies was fore most in my mind, so, I took a long rope and lashed down the wagon box both to reach and standards, than as the team knew it was near home they were anxious to go, so I took the chance, guided my team up stream as far as they could pull the load against the current, I let them have rein and we hit for the other shore 85 yards away, I must say when the water hit right under the root of the horses tails and came into the wagon box I had a few misgivings and prayed for the little ones sakes to reach the other shore. If the wagon had not have been loaded so heavily I would never have made it. We surely would have gone over the rapids. But after what seemed hours we climbed the other bank where I let my poor little team rest for a half hour while I rubbed them poor little fellows were sure faithful, for that was a hard pull over those rocks and the high waters. I reached home one hour later much to the joy of the little folks and with a determination not to try such a stunt again. When my husband heard he 'said' he would not have done it, really commended me on my pluck which was a very dangerous one. I assure you I didn't have the piano that trip. I left that to the men folk.

By Edith Dinsmoor Hunter


I first saw Washington on October 6th, 1902. Having lived my 18 years in the East and Middle West, and read so much about the far West. It was a real thrill. As I came through Seattle, stopping at the old wooden depot with its huge totem pole beside it and only two train tracks I wondered where the city was, but on we went until we arrived in Aberdeen, what a sorry sight for mid western eyes, as I waited in that little depot with its pot bellyed stove, for my Uncle Winferd Dinsmoor to come, I was sure fed up, it was raining and literately snowing saw dust ,what a dirty town was my first thought. Truly if I would of had the price of a return ticket I would not have left the depot until I boarded a train back over the mountains. Thats 57 years ago and I am still in Washington. In the spring of 1903, I had a chance to go up North in the big sticks to work for Clarence Read and care for his inviled grandmother Mrs. Johnson in the Queets country. While in Aberdeen I became acquainted with a Mary Patton and her nephew Will Hunter. It was largely through her influence I went into the woods . She was homesteading a 160, about 25 miles from the ocean up the Queets river. She had proceeded me about 1 week, but left her nephew to accompany me. We left Aberdeen, May 1st and stayed in Hoquium over night so as to be on time for the mail man. He having a heavy wagon and a team of draft horses made the trip to Humptulips, in around 8 hours over a very rough cordory road. Mr. Evans was our driver, and of course Will accompanied me, he was a very bashful young man of 19 and I had no end of fun with him. We stayed all night at the Humptulips Hotel, and on arising early the next morning found the mail carrier from there to Quinault Lake, Ernest Paul, ready with horses for us to ride. Ernest was from the middle west too and we had much conversation as we walked by our horses and hurried the rest of them with the mail on their backs that was another hard day, for me. We stayed that night with Mr. and Mrs. Ewall at the little shake hotel over looking that beautiful lake with its snow capped peaks of heavily timbered mountains. Such a beautiful lake I had never seen, and when in the morning a tall blond man Arte Highby (Orte Higley) arrived and said he was the Queets mail carrier and that I would after crossing the lake have to walk. Arte was a very good natured person and I know I held him back, and with that huge pack of mail on his back too. Will was still with us and very faithfully carried my small pack, how little either of us thought than that we'd carry each others burden down a long long road. We arrived at the Read ranch about 4:30 p.m. Elta Young and her mother was there helping out besides a bunch of settlers to meet the mail. I was so exhausted I could not eat and found when I retired was too tired to sleep. I'll always remember, the old Evergreen Waltz, which Clarence played on his violin and Arte accompanied him. I was rather stiff and sore the next day as more tender feet are, but had the good luck to meet the Donaldson Girls, Marg, Reat, and Jeanie and their little sister Belle. They were Scottish folk and their mother and Grandparents, Grandpa and Grandma Gowan, were so quaint one could not help but to love them. Jean is still here, but the rest have been called to that great beyond, where none return. It took me quite some few weeks to get used to the ways of the woods. I found all provisions and such was brought in by a small boat Captain Tompson to the mouth of the river and each settler took an Indian dugout or hired some one to bring such up the river, of course I wanted to learn like Jean and Maggie to pole and paddle a canoe, it was all such a thrill to me. And there was always a bunch of young people around. For recreation there was a dance now and then at some settlers home. We had to go and come in the day light, for our only means of traveling was walking a trail or going ni a canoe when the boys around about were so nice as to take us, some had horses to ride too.

By Edith Dinsmore Hunter

Kerr

One of the saddest moments on the Queets is the death of this couple. 

Within a few months, they were taken together.

..." Kerr finally married a white girl. On their way in to the Clearwater, they stopped at the Indian hotel at the Agency (Taholah). There a tornado smashed the hotel and killed both Dave and his bride."...

..."He himself with his new wife lost their lives in a bad storm which blew down the Indian hotel at Taholah, where they were stoping in the winter of 1903 or 1904
Dale Northrop’s wife Eva’s sister Mary had been married to Dave Kerr of Clearwater. They were returning to their homestead on Clearwater from Hoquiam. They stopped overnight at Taholah with Harry Shale and his wife Jessie who were Indian friends of Dave’s. It was a stormy night and a tornado blew down the house and the Indian church nearby. They were sleeping up stairs and were killed instantly...."

Hibbards

Henry "Harry" G.Hibbard Father b.England
George Y. Hibbard Son b.4/1877 Missouri

George's parents from England



1892 Grays Harbor County
1894 Chehalis, Grays Harbor County Henry is listed as a "Moulder"
1900 Queets
1900 George moved in with Carrie McKinnon.
Big Canyon, Humptulips, Queets, and Queniult Precincts, Grays Harbor, Washington, United States

1904 Land patent HIBBERD, GEORGE Y 8/1/1904 154.95 acres


from "Recreation, Volume 17"
by American Canoe Association, League of American Sportsman 1902 George O. Shields

..."I see your readers can not agree as to how grouse drink. The fact of the matter is that in wet weather grouse take water from the leaves; and in dry weather drink from springs and streams. Last fall I camped at various spots along the Queets river in the Olympic mountains. One morning I went to a spring near camp to wash dough from a pan. While I stood silently watching a lot of salmon fry eat the dough, out came a grouse from the brush. dipped his bill in the water and drank. exactly as a barnyard fowl would do. Having got his fill, he took a dust bath in a spot where the loose, dry earth had been pawed by an elk. Then he returned to the spring, took another sip, and flew up the mountain side."...

G.Y.Hibbard, Queets, Wash.

Barringtons

Barrington, Joseph Hook  b.abt 1848 England
Florence Adeline/ADELAIDE Vaughan Barrington b.Chicago, Ill d.11/22/1940 Seattle
m.9/3/1873 Cook,Ill.
Florence's parents are William Vaughan/VAUGHN and Florence A. Fellows

children:

1.Charles E Barrington
2.Florence A. Barrington b.Chicago
m. John Young 11/1/1898

3.Gertrude Maude Barrington musician
m.9/1/1898 Thomas Newton Rathbone
m.5/28/1901 John Dyke, Jr. Seaman Port Townsend

4.Mabel "May" Edith Barrington Simpson Tibbles/Tibbals White
b.3/6/1882 Des Moines Twp, Pocahontas, Iowa
m.James E. Simpson 11/8/1901 Seattle
Mabelle Tibbals and Harry C. Tibbals b.1860 Wa
Mabel E. Tibbals/
m. Robert J. White 8/14/1934 Kitsap County

5.Arthur M. Barrington b.La Conner, Wa  d.8/24/1958 Painter/musician orchestra/roofer/carpenter
m.Leah E Dougherty 3/14/1908 Seattle Seamstress

6.Frederick William Barrington b.5/26/1886 Mt. Vernon, Washington d.4/23/1957 Seattle
Rancher in Clearwater
Conductor
Seattle Transit - Operator
m. Lydia Crites 4/5/1913 Seattle

Joseph and Florence timeline:

1851 Devon, England
arrival 1870
1873 m.9/3/1873 Cook,Ill.
1880 West Bend, Palo Alto, Iowa
1885 Skagit
1889 Skagit
1910 Evergreen, Jefferson, Washington
1913 Clearwater, Wa.
1920 Juanita, King, Wa.
1927 @ 1811 Lane Seattle
1928 @ 1811 Lane Seattle
1929 @ 1516 E Prospect Seattle
1930 Seattle they had a female japanese servant 18yo Lillian Sumi Arai
1934 Mabel is a widow @ 1516 E Prospect Seattle
1938 Florence A is a widow in Seattle
living with Harry L. and Mabelle E. Tibbals
@ 1516 E Prospect Seattle

1920 Quinault, Grays Harbor, Washington

partial listings

Albert Pruce abt 1856 England
Frank Pruce 1869 New York Brother
Irvin Mcmaster Head
John Mcmaster Son
Raymond Mcmaster Son
Ransome L Higley
Margaret Higley
Annie O Higley daughter
Isabelle Gowans 1863 Scotland
John C Rambo shingle mill laborer
Mary E Rambo
Clair Rambo Son
John E Aaker
Ort L Higley
Helen F Higley
Helen B Higley
Orlo R Higley
Leroy M Streeter
Constance Streeter
Marion Streeter
Herbert V Olson
Julia Olson
Richard V Olson brother

Gowans

William Gowans b.3/22/1834 - Bathgate,​ West Lothian,​ Scotland
d. 4/18/1918 Quinault, Grays Harbor, Washington
Father James Gowans
Mother Jane Fleming

Isabella Dick b.abt 1836 - Scotland
Arrival: 1888

Isabella Gowans b.5/20/1860 Bathgate,​ West Lothian,​ Scotland
Anna Jane Arthur Gowans b.3/3/1862 Bathgate,​ West Lothian,​ Scotland
John Gowans  b.7/30/1864 Bathgate,​ West Lothian,​ Scotland

Jane Donaldson says:

"In 1901 my maternal grandparents, the Gowans, came from Scotland to live with us. As they were then about sixty-five years of age, it was quite an experience for them. Once when wolves came into the clearing the dog barked and barked until they went back. Then one wolf attacked the dog. Grandpa Gowans thought it was just another dog fighting ours, so he chased it off with his cane. But our poor dog died from his wounds. And the next day we saw the tracks of a wolf. The Gowans lived in the eighties."...

..."Mr. and Mrs. William Gowans, were born and married near Bathget, not far from Edinborough. Three children were born to them: Isabel, Annie Jane (my mother) in 1862, and John."...

Aaker

John B Aaker b.6/30/1858 Norway  d.11/13/1942 Aberdeen
Father: Berent Aaker
Mother:Betha Akistad
1882 Arrival
1884 Nov 11 Whatcom County Clerk, Naturalization Records Declaration of Intention
1920:Quinault, Grays Harbor, Washington
1930:Quinaielt, Grays Harbor, Washington

I tried to run his parents, but to no avail...

1900 United States Federal Census Queets, Chehalis, Washington

*please note that there are "2" 1900 Census'.

The other is for Queets, Jefferson County

*note the boarders and whom they stayed with...

the other is on this blog...

1900 United States Federal Census Queets, Chehalis, Washington

Clemmen Johnson May 1812 Maryland Head
Hesther Johnson Nov 1816 Maryland Wife
William C Reed Dec 1881 Colorado Grandson
Frederick Streater Dec 1849 New Hampshire Head
Elizabeth Streater Jun 1857 New York Wife
Leroy Streater Mar 1886 Colorado Son
John Streater Aug 1887 Colorado Son
Ruby Streater Feb 1893 Washington Daughter
George Streater Apr 1895 Washington Son
Otto Streater Jun 1897 Washington Son
Edward Newman Jan 1864 New York Head
Anna Newman Sep 1865 Iowa Wife
Ethel Newman Jul 1892 Washington Daughter
Ruth A Newman Feb 1898 Washington Daughter
Guy E Newman Apr 1900 Washington Son
Nels Sorensen May 1854 Denmark Head
Anna Sorensen Oct 1855 Denmark Wife
Iverdt F Sorensen Jun 1893 Washington Son
John B Aaker Jun 1858 Norway Head
Thomas Killea May 1864 Pennsylvania Head
Martin Killea Nov 1865 Pennsylvania Brother
George Whitaker Sep 1828 England Head
May H Patten Dec 1863 Illinois Head
Margaret Donaldson May 1884 Scotland Boarder
Jane T Donaldson Apr 1886 Scotland Boarder
John Olson Oct 1861 Sweden Head
Caroline Olson May 1857 Sweden Wife
Esther Caroline Olson Jun 1895 Washington Daughter
Carrie Mckinnon Apr 1861 Minnesota Head
George Hibberd Apr 1877 Missouri Boarder
Joseph Northrop Mar 1846 Illinois Head

McKinnons

Husband and wife

Neil A. McKinnon b.abt 1857 Canada Farmer

Carrie R. McKinnon b. Apr 1861 Wisconsin Housekeeper

married in 1884

Carrie was the first postmaster of the village of Queets in 1892

Neil and Carrie later had a store in their home.
The post office, then located in a general store,
served the native Americans on the reservation as well as the white settlers.

Carries parents are from Vermont
..."Mrs. McKinnon was not a rugged pioneer. She owned a poodle dog named "Tippy Toodles". One day Mrs. McKinnon came to see mother at the same time that Mrs. Donaldson came with her big shepherd dog. When Mrs. McKinnon left, both Mama and Mrs. Donaldson walked across the clearing with her. At the edge of the woods the shepherd dog bit or somehow hurt the little poodle slightly. When he let out a yelp, Mrs. McKinnon cried, "Oh, my poor Tippy Toodels" and was on the verge of tears"...

below is what I believe to be my subject Neil as the unnamed McKinnon on line # 5262

and I believe line #5256 is related to him, either a brother or sister.

All the dates and ages and localities line up nearly flawlessly.

I've done close to 2,000 people thus far, and I feel extremely confident that this is our man.

Or speaking in a percentile,...99.99% accurate.

if anyone has more information on this couple, I'd really like to hear from you.

shoot me a comment below, it would be greatly appreciated.

Streater Family

Fredrick Streater Dec 1849 New Hampshire
Elizabeth Streater Jun 1858 New York Wife
Le Roy Streater Mar 1886 Colorado Son
John Streater Aug 1888 Colorado Son
Ruby Iona Streater b. Feb 9,1893 Wa. d.Jan 11,1988 San Joaquin, Fresno, CA.
George Streater Apr 1895 Washington Son
Otto Streater b.Jun 29, 1898 d.Jan 1967 Port Townsend, Jefferson, Wa.

Jettie Streater

Killea Family

The three Killea brothers in Queets were:

Thomas J. Killea
Martin F.Killea * I believe he is buried with the Streaters
William M. Killea

their family is:

Parents
Patrick J. Killea
Katherine E. Lynch Killea

they had 9 children

1. Thomas J Killea b. May 1864 d.1932 Multnomah, Oregon
     early 1900's Steilacoom,Wa. Western Washington Hospital for Insane
    1930 Russellville, Multnomah, Oregon Patient In Insane Hospital

2. Martin F. Killea b. Nov 1865
3. John Killea b. abt 1869
4. Kate Killea b. abt 1871
5. William M. Killea b.Dec. 9,1872 Nicholson Pa. d.Jun 30, 1931 Seattle
6. Michael Killea b. abt 1877
7. Elizabet Killea b. abt 1880
8. Grace E. Killea b. abt 1891 m. Harry J. Callahan
9. Steveson J Killea b. abt 1902

1880 Nicholson,Wyoming,Pennsylvania

        William Killea married Gertrude M. Barrington
 in 1901 Seattle

witnesses were:

William Pyncheon
Mamie Entwistle Pyncheon

William and Gertrude had 2 children

1. Thomas Killea
2. Francis L. Killea daughter b.1910 Wa.

Frances L Killea 1928

Timeline for both William and Gertrude, as they were married til death do us part.

1900 William passport
(Thomas by 1908 had sold his property)
1910 William Evergreen, Jefferson
1917 William sold his property
1919 William clk 1204 1/2 6th Ave. Seattle
1920 William clk 1204 1/2 6th Ave. Seattle
1921 William lab 1204 1/2 6th Ave. Seattle
1922 William 1314 6th Ave Seattle
1924 William 1718 Bellevue Ave. Seattle
1925 William 1318 6th Ave. Seattle
1926 William clk 1718 Bellevue Ave. Seattle
1927 William 1718 Bellevue Ave. Seattle
1928 William clk O V Hall 1718 Bellevue Ave. Seattle
1929 William w/ Francis clk Marion Billiards 1718 Bellevue Ave. Seattle
1930 William 1718 Bellevue Ave. Seattle and Francis student at UofW
1931 William w/ Francis clk Marion Billiards 1718 Bellevue Ave. Seattle and Francis L tel opr Cragin & Co.
1931 William passes 6/30/1931
1935 Gertrude widow 1718 Bellevue Ave. Seattle


..."The Forest Service completed the Killea (now Queets) Guard Station in the winter of 1929. The name Killea was derived from the William and Thomas Killea families who both homesteaded on the Queets River in the mid to late 1890s. As part of the Evergreen community founded in 1890 by John Banta and S. Price Sharp that extended for several miles up the Queets River, William and Thomas Killea established homesteads on opposite banks of the Queets River in T.24N. R.11W. Sec. 1 and 12. By 1908 Thomas Killea sold his property, and in 1917 William Killea did likewise. William Killea's property, known earlier as "Killea Field," was purchased by M. M. Kelley, and subsequently became known as "Kelley Field."...

Constance Seraphia Olson Streater

The Higley's

Alfred V. Higley

  d.11 Oct 1915 Quinault, Grays Harbor, Washington

..."Higley Expedition. Alfred V. Higley had no thoughts of a national park in the mountainous interior of the Olympic Peninsula when he and his son, Orte, traversed the southern portion of the Olympic range in 1890. Higley, instead, was intent on establishing a home at the newly formed settlement on Quinault Lake. Born in 1849 in East Hebron County, Pennsylvania, Alfred Higley was only a teenager when he enlisted in the Union army. Later on in the Civil War he was with General William Sherman on his renowned March to the Sea. After marrying, Higley and his family settled in Kansas. Following the death of his wife and daughter in 1888, Alfred Higley and his then nineteen year old son, Orte, traveled west, and after a brief stay in Pueblo, Colorado, they headed to the Pacific Northwest. The father and son team arrived in Seattle on Christmas day 1889. It was while in Seattle that they learned of the new settlement on Quinault Lake."...

(Aberdeen Daily World 1966, 26 January; 3, 11, 19, 25 February; 5 March).

..."In August 1890, fully outfitted for their journey, the Higleys sailed by sternwheeler from Seattle down the Hood Canal. At Hoodsport they disembarked and entered the mountains only a few weeks after Joseph O'Neil's second exploring expedition set off into the Olympics. Alfred and Orte Higley, accompanied by Fritz—Herbert Leather, Peter Hartney and Le Barr, started their trek up the North Fork Skokomish River. According to an account written by Orte Higley many years later, the party camped at Duckabush Divide for four days before proceeding to the head of the Duckabush River and the Quinault Divide (Higley 1973, 181). At Hart Lake, near present-day O'Neil Pass, the Higley party encountered the O'Neil party. A few days later the Higleys moved their camp to Little O'Neil Creek and stayed there for three weeks. By early October 1890, the Higleys traveled down the East Fork of the upper Quinault River and arrived at Quinault Lake where they selected a homesite and later became prominent members of the settlement there."...

(Aberdeen Daily World 1966, 26 January; 3, 11, 19, 25 February; 5 March; Higley 1973)

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Orte Lovelock Higley b.Sep. 28, 1870 d.Oct. 3, 1954 Amanda Park, Grays Harbor, Washington
Helen Francis Fairbairn Higley (1864 - d.14 Jan 1935 Quinault, Grays Harbor, Washington
Children:
Helen B Higley Sparks b.Mar. 3, 1899 d.Nov. 29, 1981
Orlo Robert Higley b.Nov. 9, 1903 d.Apr. 13, 1987 Amanda Park, Grays Harbor, Washington

Ransom Luther Higley b.12/01/1879 d.12/1963
m. Margaret F Donaldson 1904 Innkeeper
Anna Orpha Higley daughter
m. Cristel Omalley 1947

Lester Martin Higley d.24 Oct 1940 Jefferson, Washington son of Seneca F. Higley
m.Fannie Kathyren Collins Higley d.7 May 1938
children
Marie
Robert
Louis
Beatrice

Shaube

George Albert Shaube b.3/18/1891 Providence R.I.
Alta R Northop Shaube
Lorne R Shaube son

George Shaube took a claim on the upper Queets in the early 1920's.
George and a 6 man crew built the Tshletshy Creek trail,
he improved and maintained the trail for the Forest Service.

C.J. Andrews

Postmaster
Justice of the Peace
U.S. Commissioner
Notary
Gen Mdse and Dairy
Cattle and Poultry Breeder
Merchant Tailor
Husband


Charles James Andrews b.9/1846 England
Eve S. Andrews wife dressmaker b.5/1854 - ?d.5/2/1916?
m.1874
immigrated 1883

1889 Jefferson, Washington Tailor
1900 Port Townsend Ward 2, Jefferson, Washington Merchant Tailor
1990 Queets
1910 Clearwater, Jefferson, Washington Farmer
1910 Hoquiam Ward 3, Chehalis, Washington Eve lodger
1911 Grays Harbor made their home @ 804 3rd
1914 C.J. Andrews is appointed United States Commissioner, Clearwater
1920 Hoquiam Ward 3, Grays Harbor, Washington Eve S widow
Dave Kerr and C. J. Andrews cut the Jefferson County survey trail from Forks to the Clearwater-Queets, via the upper Hoh and down Christmas Creek.

Jack the Ripper Beard

His actual name was John William Beard, who married one of the earliest Queets settlers, Rose Wartman.

John Wm. Beard b.abt 1862 - d.July 21 1943 Bremerton, Kitsap, Washington
Rose Wartman

6 children
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1.Harley A Beard

2.Bessie Beard

3.Elmer Beard
b. 1902 d. 1984 Twin Firs Cemetery
Belfair, Mason County, Washington, USA
m.Oda Leota Beard
b. Mar. 31, 1903 d. Apr. 5, 2000 Twin Firs Cemetery
Belfair, Mason County, Washington

4.Robert Beard

5.Lester Beard
b. Jul. 13, 1907 d. Dec. 11, 1965 Twin Firs Cemetery
Belfair, Mason County, Washington, USA

6.John W Beard Jr.
b. Dec. 30, 1909 d. Oct. 11, 1961 Twin Firs Cemetery
Belfair, Mason County, Washington, USA

Eugenia "Jean" Beard
b. Dec. 11, 1915 d. Aug. 27, 1991 Twin Firs Cemetery
Belfair, Mason County, Washington, USA

The Beard family does not show in the area (Belfair) until the 1910 census, when John W., Sr. is
described as being a 49-year-old originally from Virginia, but all of his children, the oldest at 12,
having been born in Washington.

Historic Dike #45MS159
The dike is said to have been built by John W. Beard, Sr. between 1910 and 1920 using horse
drawn wagons.

The Klingel Dike was constructed to reclaim estuarine salt marsh for agricultural land. It was
built in the 1950s by Elmer Beard, using a drag line machine. Elmer
Beard was the son of John Beard, who built dike 45MS159.

1900 Queets Jefferson County Census transcribed

*note there are 2 1900 Census', see the 2nd on this blog!
James Brown Feb 1830 Tennessee Head
William Prentice Oct 1859 Pennsylvania Head
Emma Prentice Jun 1866 England Wife
Harry Prentice Jul 1888 Minnesota Son
Blois Prentice Jan 1891 N. Dakota Son
Alberta Prentice Jan 1899 Washington Daughter
Herbert Blois Mar 1867 England Brother-in-law
Benson L Northup Jan 1845 New York Head
Florella Z Northup Jul 1853 Illinois Wife
Ray A Northup Sep 1881 Washington Son
George H Northup Dec 1887 Washington Son
Lester J Northup Apr 1892 Washington Son
Benson L Northup May 1884 Washington Son
George W Brown Jul 1868 Oregon Head
Bessie W Brown Mar 1880 Ohio Wife
Hanna Harmon Jan 1884 Ohio Son-in-law
C J Ebey Feb 1867 Indiana Head
Carrie P Mckinnon Apr 1861 Wisconsin Head
May Patton Dec 1863 Illinois Head
Margrate Donnaldson May 1884 Scotland Head
Jean Donnaldson Apr 1886 Scotland Sister
Thomas J Killea May 1864 Pennsylvania Head
George Hibbard Apr 1877 Missour Head
Clim*Ts Johnson May 1812 Maryland
Hester Johnson Nov 1817 Maryland Wife
William C ReedDec 1881ColoradoGrandson
Fredrick Streater Dec 1849 New Hampshire
Elizabeth Streater Jun 1858 New York Wife
Le Roy Streater Mar 1886 Colorado Son
John Streater Aug 1888 Colorado Son
Ruby Streater Feb 1893 Washington Daughter
George Streater Apr 1895 Washington Son
Otto Streater Jun 1899 Washington Son
Edward G Newman head
Anna Newman wife
Ethel M Newman daughter
Ruth E Newman daughter
Guy E Newman son
N S Sorenson
Anna Sorenson
Ivan T Sorenson son
John B Aaker
Martin F Killea
George Whitaker Sep 1827 England
Jos A Northrup Mar 1842 Illinois
John Olson Oct 1861 Sweden
Caroline Olson May 1857 Sweden Wife
Esther Olson Daughter
C J Andrews Sep 1846 England Head

Ransom L. Higley marries Margaret "Maggie" Donaldson

1904

witnesses

W. Clarence Read (Banta) and Mother Jane Donaldson

   From the Glover Archive

   Queets Collection

   Unidentified young male approx. 1890-1910