|
a.
|
Note: 30 phone: 208-983-1134. Mary was fastidious and probably assembled this from "proof" documents.
I, David Crea, personally knew her as "Auntie Collie", sort of a family matriarch. She had no children of her own, but essentially "adopted" all of her nieces/nephews, and always gave out presents at Christmas time that were greatly anticipated. She helped us go to college by paying the tuition for each semester as I recall, about $150/semester in the early '70s as I recollect.
About 1989, we met at Stanley with her and visited the place on the River at Cape Horn where they used to escape the heat for part of the summer. That was where Lola met Robert McAllister, my grandfather. He had popped into the area in the mid-1920s, homesteaded right at the Cape Horn valley, and had several mine prospect holes into alluvial gravels, none of which apparently found anything. Their locations, and that of the cabin which the Mullins family used to stay in, are marked on a topo map that I have. All that was left of the cabin was some rotten wood that remained barely outling the walls, and an outhouse hole.
She showed us a large distinctive rock at the river's edge that they sat on and which they called "The Rock of Ages".
Robert named two steep mountain creeks in that area for the girls Lola and "Collie" (Hazel), and they are now captured on the USGS Quadrangle Topographical Map (Cape Horn is the name of it I think). They are to the north of Cape Horn and west of the river, accessible by the trail that goes down the river. A USFS trail runs up Lola Creek. I have hiked up to it, and cut across the valley to the Lola Lakes there, pretty glacial lakes with some skinny fish. I have not been into Collie Creek's basin--that should be a good target for a future trip.
Hazel was a notable "saver" and apparently found an equally tight partner in Joe. it is said that they would "drive across town to save a dime". Her lifelong habits paid off for her however, as she was able to live well, and spend her last decade or so in a very comfortable retirement/assisted living complex. She eventually ended up on its hospital from a stroke, and dies about a month after that.
She never did learn to drive, and that hindered her after Joe died. Her weakness was food, and did not get enough exercise. She was quite "stocky" so long as I knew her.
I don't know why they never had any children.
Note: Source of original data to David Crea is: Mary Lyons, 515 S. Meadow St., Grangeville, ID 835
|
