Kittie May Ellis
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In 1870 they are in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln,_Nebraska Lincoln, Nebraska]. By | In 1870 they are in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln,_Nebraska Lincoln, Nebraska]. By | ||
Sep 1879 they were living at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarkio,_Missouri Tarkio, Missouri]. They left Takio about Mar 1883 and went by "team and wagon" arriving in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colville,_Washington Colville, Stevens Co, Washington] on July 3rd 1883<sup>[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Diary_of_Miss_Kitty_May_Ellis/6.16.1958.html#Page_59]</sup>. | Sep 1879 they were living at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarkio,_Missouri Tarkio, Missouri]. They left Takio about Mar 1883 and went by "team and wagon" arriving in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colville,_Washington Colville, Stevens Co, Washington] on July 3rd 1883<sup>[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Diary_of_Miss_Kitty_May_Ellis/6.16.1958.html#Page_59]</sup>. | ||
| − | Soon they had moved to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spokane,_Washington Spokane Falls, Washington] or the vicinity, Kitty states they lived in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevens_County,_Washington Ellis, Washington] "12 miles north of old [ | + | Soon they had moved to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spokane,_Washington Spokane Falls, Washington] or the vicinity, Kitty states they lived in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevens_County,_Washington Ellis, Washington] "12 miles north of old [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Spokane Fort Spokane] on the 4th of July on her father's pre-emption. This can't be 1883 unless Andrew had been living there without his family for some time. Her obituary states that her father was the first postmaster of Ellis, which post office evidently only lasted a few years. She relates an interesting story about |
Ellis.<sup>[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Diary_of_Miss_Kitty_May_Ellis/6.16.1958.html#Page_60]</sup> | Ellis.<sup>[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Diary_of_Miss_Kitty_May_Ellis/6.16.1958.html#Page_60]</sup> | ||
| − | They are also found on the 1885 State Census for Stevens County, Washington. | + | They are also found on the 1885 State Census for Stevens County, Washington. Kitty states that on July 23 1888: <blockquote>"... I sold my home in Spokane Falls the day before and my Parents Andrew M Ellis and his excellant Wife Rachel Ann Ellis, my dear Brother Perry Ellis, and I Miss Kittie May Ellis left Spokane Falls for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashland,_Oregon Ashland, Ore] by team and Covered wagon it required 7 weeks to make the trip over the then bad roads. Whire I traded my race mare daisy in on a $700 dollars lot built a house and sold it and we moved to Deskins Sawmill now know as Prospect [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson_County,_Oregon Jackson County, Oregon] arriving there on the 29 day of December 1888 and we had 4 inches of Snow that winter but 4 feet the next winter." </blockquote> |
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| − | < | + | In the Summer of 1891, they camped for three months in California. <sup>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diary_of_Miss_Kitty_May_Ellis/3.17.1957.html#Page_72]</sup>, |
| − | + | but otherwise they stayed in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prospect,_Oregon Prospect] for nine years. In March 1892, Andrew got a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homestead Homestead] at Township 33 South, Range 3 East and within a few weeks, Perry and Kitty bought the surrounding lands. | |
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| + | ==Middle life== | ||
| + | In Jan 1898 the family went to <A title="Seattle, Washington" | ||
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle,_Washington">Seattle, Washington</A>, | href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle,_Washington">Seattle, Washington</A>, | ||
on their way to the <A title="Alaska Gold Rush" | on their way to the <A title="Alaska Gold Rush" | ||
