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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Have to pop in here.  I have been
searching for my great grandfather for years.  I didn’t know if he
died or what, I only knew that he and his wife divorced and she
remarried.  They were both born in </span></font><font size=2 color=navy
  face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Oregon</span></font><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'> and my grandmother was too.  It never occurred to me to look
in </span></font><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
  10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Washington</span></font><font size=2
color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>.  Can you believe that I found him with a new wife living in
Whitman in the 1910 census and on top of that I found my grandmother’s first
husband also living in Whitman in the same census.  Now if I could just
find out what happened to him after that.  He just disappears.</span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>His name was Thomas Howell and he too had
remarried a woman who had a daughter.  I don’t know where they got
married but the census said they had been married either 3 or 4 years, I can’t
remember.</span></font></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>-----Original Message-----<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>From:</span></b> or-roots-admin@sosinet.sos.state.or.us
[mailto:or-roots-admin@sosinet.sos.state.or.us] <b><span style='font-weight:
bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b></span></font><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
 style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>Kith-n-Kin</span></font><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, March 21, 2006 3:25
PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> </span></font><font size=2
 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>or-roots@sosinet.sos.state.or.us</span></font><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> RE: [or-roots] timber in
Whitman County WA</span></font></p>

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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>Judy</span></font></p>

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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>Thanks!  </span></font></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>Now that I brought it up,
I thought I'd check the actual BLM records. Surprise!  These kids had
either homesteads, or "cash sales entry - 3 Stat. 566" entries.
No "timber culture." Go figure. </span></font></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>So, some family
"legend" was not quite on target. But what about 2ggrandpa?  I
don't find his land in Whitman at all. Yet, I've seen the plat maps for said
land, and been to the farm personally. My guess is he bought it from the
patentee, and it was a secondary sale, therefore not on the land records.</span></font></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>Shows to go you -- never
trust your relatives memories.</span></font></p>

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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>Pat</span></font></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:
.5in'><font size=2 color=black face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;color:black'>-----Original Message-----<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>From:</span></b> or-roots-admin@sosinet.sos.state.or.us
[mailto:or-roots-admin@sosinet.sos.state.or.us] <b><span style='font-weight:
bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>JudyRobertson39@aol.com<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, March 21, 2006
15:49<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> </span></font><font size=2
 color=black face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;
 color:black'>or-roots@sosinet.sos.state.or.us</span></font><font size=2
color=black face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;
color:black'><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [or-roots] timber in
Whitman County WA</span></font></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial id="role_document"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black'>At one time, before the farming became so prevalent and late in
the 1800's there was significant timber on the Palouse Hills.  So much so
that Rockford Wa (located in southern Spokane County) was inundated with
loggers.  The loggers tended to enjoy Saturday night and Rockford boasted
of the highest crime rate in the US for the period of time that logging went on
in the area. These crimes consisted primarily of murdering each other.(Spokane
and Whitman counties adjoin)</span></font></p>

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