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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:   Marriage to Sarah may have been in Aug1904. After marriage to "Sadie" they operated the orchards founded by Morgan and William until they were sold (probates of the estates of William and Morgan) in about 1910. They then purchased and operated the Central Canyon Ferry between Okanogan and Douglas county on the Columbia River, Sadie was Gordon Postmaster. In 1918 they moved to Mills Flats above Methow and started farming. In about 1929 they started working for the US Forrest Service, manning the Squaw Creek Ranger Station below Methow for many years, and the Chuwalkum Creek fish hatchery West of Levensworth in the early 1940's. In the mid 40's they moved to Highgrove, Riverside Co. CA and worked for thier son William R. Paslay at the L.B.W. Brown Estate citrus packing shed. In the early 50's, they moved back to Pateros, and lived with Sadies daughter Lulu F. Dezellem. Later they moved to Chelan with Sadies son Charlie.
  Tom was born 30Jan1882 in Uniontown, Whitman Co. Washington Territory. This about the same time his father, William R. Paslay established a 160 acre homesteaded (Wof NE and SE of NE of Sec 31 and SE of NW of Sec 32 of T.12N., R46 E. WM; Bk 3 of Patents, Pg 169, Whitman Co. Homestead Cert. #1191, Application #2200 GLO-Walla Walla, granted 18Nov1888) about 4 miles due south of Uniontown. It appears that one or more of his brothers may have stayed on and maintained this homestead while William and family went on to Douglas Co. WAin about 1885.
  In about 1885 some of the Paslay clan, at least Morgan (23) and William (27) and his family moved to (squatters) open land on the Douglas Co. WA bank of the Columbia River just East of the Methow River. Here they set out an the first (in the county) apple and soft fruit orchard. Morgan and William built a 48 foot diameter Water Wheel to irrigate their orchards. Tom told: "They were hooted and ridicled while building it, but the needs of a young orchard gave them courage. The castings were made in Waterville but we did all the work ourselves. The buckets were made of planks. There were 18 of them each holding about ten gallons. They swung by an iron hinge."
  1888, "When the steamboat started on the Columbia river William worked as an engineer for a while and did other frieght jobs."
  1890, "Tom remembers his mother, Mildred, herding her brood into the hills when Indians approached their home. Once on his own initiative, hid in the flour barrel."
  Tom's Uncle Morgan Paslay died 16Aug1902 at Gordon, Douglas Co. WA. Tom married his widow Sarah 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 intertainment 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 diversied farming until Oct 1923. Dolly and Viv said they lived in "a big two story farm house. Big bedroom upstairs hadn't been partioned off so they all slep in one room. Les, Dolly, Viv, Bill and Phyllis went to school 3 miles away at McFarland Creek. (teachers: Isabel Healam Dunbar, Thurow, Jean Horton, Beryl Kellogg Mabel Button) Willard and Charles [Paslay] were a half mile away."
  In 1929, they started operating 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 Levensworth, WA).
  About 1944, Tom and Sarah moved to Highgrove, San Bernadino Co. CA. Tom worked in the citrus warehouse operated by son Bill.
  In about 1948, they moved back to Pateros, and lived with Sarah daughter Lula. Later they moved to Chelan and lived a house of Sarah's son Charlie.
  Tom passed away 11Jun1951.


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