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[First Page] [295], (1) Lines: 0 to 47 ——— 0.0pt PgVar ——— Normal Page PgEnds: TEX [295], (1) 兵 其 11 At Home in Seattle Chalcraft’s concluding chapter chronicles him and his wife in retirement . Returning to Seattle, Edwin and Alice settled into a comfortable routine centered around their home, children, and grandchildren. In the mid-1930s, they became interested in genealogy and began tracing their family histories. Sadly, Alice contracted stomach cancer and passed away on November 22, 1938, before completion of the project. Approximately two years later, Edwin Chalcraft began writing this memoir, which took him about a year and a half to finish and was accomplished only eleven months before his death. Although he had maintained generally good health throughout his life, he suffered a fatal heart attack on September 11, 1943, and was laid to rest next to his wife in the Lake View Cemetery in Seattle. On our trip from Siletz Reservation to Seattle, we traveled in a rather leisurely manner, stopping overnight at the Chemawa School and again in Portland, to visit friends. Christmas week was spent with Pickering’s family in Seattle, then we went to our home. The house had been rented for so many years there was much to do in putting it and the grounds in good condition. When this was done, I did some surveying in the city with instruments I had kept since leaving that work in 1883; but my principal industrial work was in caring for the lawn and garden. Our home is only a few blocks from the First Christian Church, which we attended.We were both members of the PioneerAssociation 295 [296], (2) Lines: 47 t ——— 0.0pt Pg ——— Normal Pa PgEnds: TE [296], (2) of the State of Washington, which met each year in its own building in Seattle; and Alice and Hallie belonged to the Seattle Chapter of The Daughters of the Pioneers of Washington, 1870. Both were active in W.C.T.U. work,also. While most of our lives had been spent elsewhere in the Indian Service, we were constantly in touch with our Seattle friends, and this with our relatives in the city made the return to Seattle a real homecoming. We were both from large families living in, or near, Albion. Alice had four sisters; two of them, Eleanor, wife of William S. Mayfield; and Mary (Mamie), wife of Henry J. Phillips, with their seven children , lived in Seattle. A cousin, Mrs. Eliza McCredy, with her three children, lived here also; and two cousins, Ernest and Roy Pickering, with their families were at Issaquah. I had one relative, a cousin, Nellie Henderson Meyer, wife of Dr. Meyer, at Richmond Beach. These were our only relatives in Western Washington. As both of our children were born in Seattle and had little knowledge of relatives living in the east, other than that learned from occasional visits, we decided to make a list of them for our children’s information and began doing so. My dear companion passed away before this was completed, leaving me to finish the list, which was done; but I went further than was originally intended by either of us, in compiling genealogical data of our four parents back to their English ancestors. This data contained the names of both parents, including the wife’s maiden name, dates of birth, marriage, death, and a brief statement concerning each family in the line of descent down to Alice and me; children and grandchildren with dates of their birth, marriage and death, were listed with their parents, making a complete genealogical record of our four parents and consequently of ourselves. This was followed by data relating to our own family. As this record had taken so much time and research,in which much valuable assistance had been received from my sister, Mrs. Rosa C. Gooch,atAlbion,it seemed worthy of preserving. Mimeograph copies were made and appropriately bound for our two children, Alice’s four sisters, and my sister and two brothers’ families. After these had been delivered, the Edwards County Historical So296 其 At Home in Seattle [297], (3) Lines: 57 to 63 ——— 0.0pt PgVar ——— Normal Page PgEnds: TEX [297], (3) ciety at Albion requested a copy, which was sent them. Later, the State Library at Springfield asked for a copy, and this was followed by a request from the Congressional Library in Washington, D.C. These were furnished and the letters of acknowledgment from the librarians contained expressions...

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