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NO. 20dottier of the First White Child.Iia I On Thursday, the 23d inst, the nine-»rk I lieth birthday of Mrs. Sidney S. Ford, on I t large party of old-time friends gather I *red at the home of her daughter, ed I vlrs. John Shelton, Oentralia and a N. ery enjoyable evening was spent in nt,| whist playing, music, and social chat, lat Mrs. Ford is an old pioneer of this all state, having crossed the plains in un 11845, and spent her first winter at a m- place called Linn ton on the Willam-its, ette river in Oregon, which was a sly Hudson Bay trading post at that time. red In the spring of 18*46, together with lat her husband, Judge Sidney S. Ford, ■he and six children, she came down the tit- Willamette and Columbia rivers and nd up the Cowlitz river to what was then he known as the “Old Cowlitz landing/’ iis now the Northern Pacific station Ole-in 1 qua, where they landed and had to make their own road out to a French settlement on the Cowlitz prairie, and from there they proceeded to what is now familiarly known as Ford’s prairie and on the 10th of May, 1846, settled on a donation claim of 640 acres, one mile noth vest of Centralia, where they erected a log cabin, occupying it for a long time, and afterwards build-in a large mansion, which at that time was considered the finest residence in the then territory of Washington. Mrs. Ford resided there until*years ago, when she came to Centralia to live with her daughter Mrs. Shelton. Her husband, Judge Ford, has been dead thirty years. During bis lifetime he was a prominent figure in Republican politics of the territory. He was elected three times to the territorial legislature, but sickened and died before the third termU':IS SPTVM/l rc T^nr/l lino flinhelesisat-onii-hether-nsitsrksor•heireys.rvengad
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Shelton Mason County Journal
Shelton, Washington, US
Fri, May 08, 1896
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