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Camas Prairie & Vicinity Pioneer Association

October 6, 2002, Glenwood Memorial Church, Glenwood, WA. We start with a potluck at 1:00 p.m. going into a meeting, with a program. . We will talk about the books to be published and history.

The Organization start with 53 people signing the roll call on January 1, 1901, whom became the Charter members. From this organization's summer picnics in June came the Glenwood "Ketchem Kalf" Rodeo Association and annual rodeo.

The Organization embraces all of that portion of Klickitat County lying west of the Klickitat River. Its object started out to cultivate a better Social Benevolent and Educational interest in the community, thereby improving and elevating both old and young to a higher state of practical usefulness.

The Organization met January 1, and the second Friday in June. We now meet the First Sundays in May and October. As we know to date, we are the oldest historical organization that has been meeting continually in Washington State, for almost 100 years. The Organization met in Glenwood, Husum, White Salmon, Appleton, and other places. Todays meetings are held in Glenwood, at the Glenwood Memorial Church. We are planning to celebrate our 100th year in the Summer of 2001 in Glenwood.

We are working on gathering information to go with the information we have, to publish a book or books, starting with the Organization, the history of the Chartered Members & members. There is other information on the schools, sawmills, towns, cemeteries, and etc.

Some of the things that we need to put the book/s together are:

Sites of the Camas Prairie & Vicinity Pioneer Meetings

Bowman Hall - January, 1901; Glenwood Hall - 27, September, 1901 - Permanent organization formalized with a Constitution & ByLaws adopted (Cole, Frasier, Troh); Glenwood Picnic Grove - 1902 - 1904; Bertschi Hall - January, 1905; Pioneer Photo taken - 8, June, 1906; Bertschi Hall - 1907 - 1908; White Salmon Opera House - 11 June, 1909 (dinner in IOOF Hall); Snipe's Hall - December, 1909; Glenwood Hall - 1911; Trout Lake - June, 1912 - 1913; Kuhnhausen Hall - January, 1913 - 1914 - 1915 - 1916 & November 1914; Colburn Hotel - June, 1915 (Commercial - Club Rooms); Wildwood Park Hall - January, 1917; Krep's & Cole's Grounds at Husum - June, 1917; Husum-White Salmon River banks - June, 1918; No meeting - January, 1919 (influenza epidemic); Trout Lake School - June, 1920 & Thode Hall; White Salmon Gym & Methodist Church - June, 1921; Glenwood School - January, 1922 -1923 & June, 1922; Bingen - 1925; Husum-White Salmon River bank - June, 1926 (Dancing - Carter's Hall); Glenwood - June, 1927; Bingen - 1929; Korthase Park at Lyle - June 1932 - 1933; Glenwood 1934 - 1935 (picnic, meeting, parade, rodeo); Fiftieth Anniversary - Glenwood School, July, 1951. Any and all historical pictures of the area would be greatly appreciated. Even if you do not know the place or the people, we maybe able to come up with the places and names of the people.

Othe pictures and family information needed: August Berg - 1904; Jane Ayers Conboy Myers - 1904; Chester Dymond - 1904; Leonard Stump - 1904; William Frasier - 1907; Lucinda Chapman - 1908; Noah Chapman - 1889; Steven S. Whitcomb - 1908; Nancy Hendryz Anderson Cole (Mrs. Newton John Cole) - 1909; James O. Lyle - 1909; Laura Shellenberg Byrkett (Mrs. Rufus A. Byrkett) - 1909; Nathan M. Wood - 1909 or 1910; Elizabeth Westover Bradshaw Gilmer Whitcomb - 1910; James W. Overbaugh - 1911; Emma Austin Dymond - 1912; Mary Ellen Cole (Mollie) Bertschi (Mrs. Herman Bertschi) - 1913; James O. Shaw - 1913; Simon Peter Kreps - 1913; Henry Restorff, Sr. - 1914; Sarah Leah Richards Cole (Mrs. Wm. Kendrick Cole) - 1914; Howard C. Cook - 1914; Mary Elizabeth Crunk Morris (Mrs. John L. Morris) - 1915; Malinda Frazier - 1916; Joseph Michael Kast - 1916; Thomas Quigley - 1916; Nettie Barker Cole (Mrs. benjamin Breckenridge Cole) - 1917; Alois Weingartner - 1917; Amos Underwood - 1918; Mrs. Thomas N. Talbert - 1918; John Singleton - 1918; Harriet E. Beach Coleman (Mrs. George E. Coleman) - 1918; Wenzel Borde - 1919; Matt Wilkin (E. M. Wilkes?) - 1919; Catherine See Kreps - 1919; Joseph Silva - 1919; Louise Harsh Wellenbrock Borde - 1919; Jake Prahl - 1920; and history on the Staack, Kreps, Troh, Wellenbrock, Ladiges, Murray, Knutson, Parrott, Jebe, Restorff, Kuhnhausen, Bertschi, Hoult, Coate, Moore, Jewett, Shaw, Colburn, Conboy, Olson, Byrkett, Hanson, Hansen, Leaton, Booher, McEwen, Rankin, Lane, Akerill, McCumber, and any other pictures and/or history of members up to the present date.

Please, Never through away any historical pictures, we would be glad to take them for you. The present Officers of the Organization are: President, Joann Hutton, Glenwood; Vice-President, Frank Ward, Gresham; Secretary, Harold Cole, Glenwood; Treasurer, Lois Dechand, Glenwood; and Historian, Anne Ward, Trout Lake. We have about 25 to 30 people coming to our meetings from all over the area and beyond. More members are always welcomed. To become a member you must be a descendant of a pioneer within the area of the organization or have lived within the area for ten years and be of legal age (18), and admitted by the organization. Or you maybe admitted as an Honorary Member, which they cannot vote. We meet to share the history of our ancestors, the area, and to remeber what it "use to be like."

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