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Family
Marriage: Children:
  1. Charles Thomas PASLAY: Birth: 27 MAR 1895 in Gordon, Douglas Co. WA. Death: 11 AUG 1970 in Chelan, Chelan Co. WA

  2. Roy Daniel PASLAY: Birth: 30 JAN 1897 in Gordon, Douglas Co. Washington. Death: 4 MAR 1947 in San Antonio, Bexar Co. Texas

  3. Fredrick Dewey PASLAY: Birth: 26 OCT 1898 in Gordon, Douglas Co. Washington. Death: 4 JAN 1899 in Gordon, Douglas Co. Washington

  4. Lulu Fay PASLAY: Birth: 17 APR 1900 in Brewster, Okanogan Co. WA. Death: 16 OCT 1966 in Bridgeport, Douglas Co. WA

  5. Pansy Elizabeth PASLAY: Birth: 11 FEB 1902 in Gordon, Douglas Co. WA. Death: 21 JAN 1980 in Bridgeport, Douglas Co. WA


Family
Marriage: Children:
  1. William Riley PASLAY: Birth: 23 DEC 1905 in Gordon, Douglas Co. WA. Death: 14 AUG 1982 in Leavenworth, Chelan Co. WA

  2. Gladys Mildred "Dolly" PASLAY: Birth: 5 MAR 1908 in Gordon, Douglas Co. WA. Death: 27 APR 2000 in Port Orchard, Kitsap Co. WA

  3. Vivian Boone PASLAY: Birth: 10 FEB 1910 in Gordon, Douglas Co. WA. Death: 19 APR 2000 in Brewster, Okanogan Co. WA

  4. Leslie Morgan PASLAY: Birth: 16 NOV 1912 in Gordon, Douglas Co. WA. Death: 14 DEC 1946 in Crescent City, Del Norte Co. CA

  5. Bessie Phyllis "Phyllis" PASLAY: Birth: 23 JUL 1915 in Gordon, Douglas Co. WA. Death: APR 1997 in Wenatchee, Chelan Co. WA


Notes
a. Note:   In the 1880's the family migrated from Polk Co. OR up through the Palouse country to Spokane, WA where they operated a restaurant on what is now BOONE St. (where J.C.Penny located in 1950's). The restaurant was burnt out in huge Spokane fire of ______ 18____.
  In the late 1880's or early 1890's, the the family migrated to Conconnully, Okanogan Co. WA. Sarah (13) told of the "lynching of an Indian boy in Conconnully in the fall or winter of 1890 following the murder of a well known freighter Samuel Cole on the Colville reservation." This prompted a a period of near -hysteria customarily known as the Indian Scare of 1891.
  10 Jul 1894, Sarah married Morgan Paslay in the home of her parents Daniel M. and Elizabeth A. Boone at Scotch Creek Crossing (several mile below Conconnully) by JP Walter Fifield. Sarah recounts her honeymoon "We left there via team and buggy at 4pm, drove all night and arrived at the G.M. Adams home (near Pateros) at sunrise. After a two hour rest we, with several others, left for a two week camping and honeymoon trip on Lake Chelan, going and coming the entire length of the Lake (40+ mi.) in row boats. We crossed the Methow River (where the present Ives Landing hotel now stands). There was no bridge so they crossed the wagon in two canoes and swam the horses. Afterwards we crossed in canoes that belonged to the Indians."
  Morgan Paslay died 16Aug1902 at Gordon, Douglas Co. WA. Sarah married Morgan's brother William's son Thomas Riley PASLAY in Aug1904. They operated the orchards that Morgan and brother William (Tom's father) started in the 1880 on the banks of the Columbia near Central Ferry Canyon (T.30N, R. 24E; T. 29N. R. 24E) until they were sold to settle the probate (Douglas Co. Superior Court case #135, Vol. 1, Page 160, Film P4, and Case #345, Vol. 2, page 108, Film P7; 3Feb1908 - 21Apr1910, Journal "E" Page 247) of Morgan's and William's estates in about 1910. In Apr 1911, Sarah and Tom purchased and operated the Central Ferry (Gordon, Douglas Co. WA) until 1916 when they sold it Frank Spaulding and moved to Pateros, (Turner Brown place) Okanogan Co. WA. In 1912, they had build a house [4BR, K, LR with bay window] on a small tract at the Ferry Landing. Viv and Dolly recall "When they had dances there, they put the piano in the bay-window. The house had the Post Office - Sadie was the Post Master." For entertainment they had "Edison Phonograph, piano violin - favorite songs were Preacher & Bear, Wild Irish Rose, Clementine. Friday Literary meeting at the [Central Ferry] school house - programs of singing, poetry. Viv (5) and Dolly (7) had blue dresses (made by Sadie) and sang "Two Little Girls in Blue" and "Slide Down My Cellar-door" at one of them" in 1915.
  The Columbia River steamboat "Bridgeport" was built and launched sometime in 1916 in Pateros. Tom fired boilers on it. Sarah said she cooked on the boat for about six weeks around Nov 1916. Viv and Dolly recall that "Roy Paslay and Pearl Dezellem took care of all but Phyllis, Phyllis went with them on the ferry."
  In May 1918, they moved to Mills Flats (above Methow, Okanogan Co. WA. south of McFarland Creek) and engaged in diverse farming until Oct 1923. Dolly and Viv said they lived in "a big two story farm house. Big bedroom upstairs hadn't been portioned off so they all slept in one room. Les, Dolly, Viv, Bill and Phyllis went to school 3 miles away at McFarland Creek. (Isabel Healam Dunbar, Thurow, Jean Horton, Beryl Kellogg Mabel Button --teachers), Willard and Charles [Paslay] were a half mile away."
  In 1929, they staffed the USFS Squaw Creek Ranger Station for Thee and half months each summer. They continued this into early 1940's. Tom worked the rest of the time for apple warehouses in Pateros. Sarah started and maintained beautiful flower gardens around the Ranger Station.
  In the early 1940's, Tom and Sarah moved to and operated the USFS Chiwaukum Creek Fish Hatchery, in Tumwater Canyon on Chiwaukum Creek, Chelan Co. WA. (North-West of Leavenworth, WA).
  About 1944, Tom and Sarah moved to Highgrove, San Bernardino Co. CA. Tom worked in the citrus warehouse operated by son Bill.
  In about 1948, they moved back to Pateros, and lived with Sarah's daughter Lula. Later they moved to Chelan and lived in a house of Sarah's son Charlie. Tom passed away 11Jun1951.
  In about 1962 Sarah took residence in the Chelan Nursing Home.


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