I am researching my Aunt Martha's descendants in Pacific N W Wa and Ore.
Martha Ellen mar Francis (Frank) Bland in ILL abt 1872. Moved to Lewis Co Wa abt 1873.
he died in 1877 in Mill accident in Ore.
Mattha and Frank had 3 ch
. Nora 1873 , Wiliam 1876 who died abt 1891 of T B. at 15 yrs, and John Hamilton
Bland. b 16 Apr 1874 in Little Falls, Lewis Co Wa. d in Everett, Wa.
. Martha remarried to William Griffis b Ohio, mar in Lewis Co.W abt 1878.
. William aquired a Land Grant in Lewis Co and built a log cabin home where they raised
these ch and lived till they died.
Children;
Mabel 1879, Mary Etta 1880,
Ingabe 1883, d 2 Apr.1902, Cleveland 5 dec 1884, Jefferson
1886, Otis 26 Mar 1891.
John Hamilton Bland mar 27 Mar 1897 to Annie Carlson had 4 ch. Div. Aug 1905.
children;
son infant Oct 1897 died, Anna Mae 2 Dec 1898, Edna Lowida Oct 1900, Clyde Wendell
26 Feb 1903,
John then mar abt Dec 1905 to Gerda Peterson. Lewis Co Wa or in Everett Wa?? John d
11 Feb 1928 in Everett, Wa.
They had 5 ch.
Children;
Clyde Irving 17 Deccc1906, Lillian Marie 15 Sep 1908, Hazel Evelyn 11 Aug 1910,
Russell Hamilton 23 Jan 1914,, Harold Otis 17 Dec 1916/17 ?.
MARY ETTA GRIFFIS b 22 Aug 1880 mar Jul 1900/01. to Irving Leroy Hinkley b 1874
in Lasbon?, Maine. he died 12 Jan 1947.
Mary Etta d 15 Oct 1962. was of dau of Martha and Frank Bland.
Children of Mary Etta and Leroy Hinkley;
Clyde Everett Kinkley b 6 Jan 1902 in Aberdeen Wa d 19 Mar 1963 mar to Carrie ??
Mabel 1904/5 died at 1 yr and 9 mo's.
John Pershing Hinkley mar. to Mary ???
Ralph Otis Hinkley b 23 Nov 1908 d 13 jul 1967 mar Emily Smith ?
I also have a date of 29 Aug 1918 as a birth ot mar of one in this family. Also a
name of Evelyn Smith in Lynwood, Wa.
I have more on these .
Other connecting names to these are above in subject line.
Will appreciate anything on these people.
William
willma(a)sprynet.com