William Andrew Stamps Date: 97-11-09 23:09:21

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SOME HISTORY OF THE ANDREW AND CLARINDA STAMPS FAMILY

(SON OF THOMAS STAMPS & MARY SUSSANA BOHANNAN STAMPS)

AS WRITTEN BY: (Signed this month of May 1980 by...Lena Catherene Daniel Stamps Falk(married to Grover Stamps Feb 28, 1919 at Eureka Springs,Ark)at Wenatchie, Washington. Mother of Herbert Andrew and Wayne Stamps and Cloye Catherene Stamps Shaw)

Some was told to me and some I remember after I married in to the Stamps family. Willam Andrew Stamps, known as Andrew Stamps, was born on a homestead 3 miles North of Grandview, Ark. in the Carroll County on the Kings river, on Nov 6, 1866 . His father and mother had homesteaded 160 acres of land there in about 1860. They built a large log cabin near a creek and spring and a large barn. They cleared some of the land and did deversifired farming. I don't know how many children they had, Andrew was the oldest one. I met 2 of his brothers John and Frank and got to know John and his family real well. Him and frank both had small farms South of Berryville, Ark. in Carroll County, John and his family visited the Andrew family often, When the Stamps family came to the homestead near Grandview, Ark. a family by the name of Warren lived on a homestead 3 miles West of Grandview. Clarinda Warren was born on Sept. 7 1871. Her and Andrew Stamps were married on Nov. 13, 1887 in her fathers home. Andrew had bought 40 acres of land ajoining his fathers homestead. He built a large one room log cabin near his fathers home. Andrew took Clarinda to that Cabin after they were married. They lived there untill his parents died in the 1890's. Andrew and Clarinda had 9 children.. 3 of them were born in the first cabin. As their family grew they built onto the log cabin until it became a 4 room house. His father had built onto his first cabin too until it was a large house by the time that Andrew and Clarinda got married. After his parents died in the 90's Andrew bought his brothers share of the homestead and nmoved his family into the big house. There was large barns on both the homesteads and his farm. Their 3 oldest kids were born in the cabin that Andrew built. they had 9 children 6 were born in the big house on the homestead. There children were: Herber Andrew, Rosie,Lona, Amanda, James, Bessie, Grover, Alta, and Hattie, Alta and Hattie died while they were infants. Andrew and Clarinda's farm now consisted of 200 acres about half of it was river bottom land. They raised hay, corn, oats, and other crops, they had about 3 acres of fruit orchard grapes and other berries. The upper land was in timber and pasture. The small log house burned down in 1912. Andrew and Clarinda's family lived in the large log house untill 1915. The county road was changed in 1914 , a new road was built 1/4 mile east of the old county road. It was decided to build a new house on the new road, it was a large frame house. They built a large barn first 100x100 ft large, to house the horses and the cows and vehicles. They built a large shed behind it to house the farm machinery. The house was finished in Jan 1916 and they moved into it . It was a big house with 4 bedrooms upstairs and 2 bedrooms a sewing room, living room (parlor), dinning room, kitchen and pantry downstairs. There was a wide porch (veranda) on the front side of the house. It had dormer windows upstairs and one in each bedroom. There was 2 picture window in the living room. All winndow were covered with shades and lace curtains except the one kitchen window. It has a shade and cottage curtain. I remeber the windows in the living room and sewings room had lace curtains had to come down and be laundered by hand . all had to be starched and put on curtain stretchers to dry. The driers were wooden frames the edges of the curtains were put on those pegs when they were dry they needed no ironing. All of the floors were covered with the best linoeleum then all but the kitchen and pantry was covered with axminister room size rugs. there was no such thing as vacuum cleaners. We did have a hand power rug sweeper. In the spring all of those rugs had to be taken up and hung over the clothes line to be beaten clean with a rug beater. There were some people who made a business out of doing that but we always did our own . The heat for the house was furnished by wood heaters in the living room and dinning rooms, with a wood range in the kitchen. it took cords of wood every winter. Ma Stamps had a 4 burned Kerosene cook stove to cook on in the summer time. The wood was cut off of the farm and put in a shed behind the house for winter, almost every kind of trees grew on the farm,Oaks, Hicory, maples, ash.

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Walnuts, pecans, maple, sycamore, cedar, and a few others. Was plenty of wood. By 1917 the Stamps house and barn were about the biggest and best in the community - but after War I a lot of people built big houses and barns. In about 1915 it became the trend for people to have a herd of dairy cows. New creameries went in at BerryVille and Eureka Springs- was a good market for the cream. So Andrew and Clarinda got a herd of 28 dairy cows; a De Loval cream separator and utensils for a dairy farm. There was no milking machines in those days so the cows had to be milked by hand. The cream was separated from the milk. The skimmed milk was fed to the young calves and hog. One guernsey cow (PAGE 8) furnished whole milk for the house hold. The milking began at 4 am in the morning. All was done by 7 am, then we all ate breakfast and started our days work. All hands helped with the milking. Pa always had one or 2 hired men to help on the farm. The evening milking began at 4pm, and finished by 7pm. then they all ate supper. Dinner was at noon. When the Stamps family moved to their homestead the closest school house was at GrandView 3 miles away. The Stamps children went to school there what little they got to go. The school term was for 3 months in the winter time. Andrew went only to the 3rd grade then his father died. Him being the oldest child he had to take his fathers place. He was about 11 yrs old . He did (PAGE 9) learn to read and "count" but he never did practice writing consequently he never learned to sign his own name. But he could "count" in his head and do figures faster than most people could do it with a pencil and paper. No one could ever out do him in a deal. He had 2 brothers that i know of. John and Frank Stamps, then went to school more and learned to read and write and count good. After Andrew and Clarinda bought the homestead they donated land on the Northeast corner of the homestead on the new road to build a new one room schoolhouse. It was 1/4 mile from the Stamps new house all of the Andrew Stamps children went thru the 8th grade there. Usually there was from 25 to 30 kids went to (PAGE 10) school there, the school district was called Granada district so the school was called Granada school. Clarinda and her sisters and brothers all went to school at the log school house in GrandView and graduated from the 8th grade. The closest high school was in BerryVille and Eureka Springs. Very few farm kids got to go to high school, all had to work on the farm. Everyone went to church on Sunday, there was a Baptist and a Methodist church in GrandView. Most people went to them until a Nazarene church was organized in the community of Pleasant Ridge in 1912. Oak Grove was about 5 miles from GrandView. GrandView was a small country town with about 150 or 200 population. It had 2 grocery stores one (PAGE 11) mercantile store, a Post Office, grist mill, pool hall, school, 2 churches and a R.R. Depot & blacksmith shop, and a nice city park. The Missouri, North Arkansas R.R. ran thru the town. It ran from Saligman, MO. to Kennsett, Ark. a distance of about 200 miles, It connected with the Rock Island R.R. at Saligman Mo. and with the Missouri Pacific at Kennsett, Ark. It was a busy R.R. hauling lumber, ore from the lead and zinc mine R.R. ties and farm products. There was only one passenger train a day each way. I rode those trains many times after we moved to that country in 1916. GrandView was about 6 miles south of the Missouri Line. On most of the homesteads there was a few head of sheep to furnish wool to make (PAGE 12) YARN to weave clothes for winter clothes and blankets out of. Ma Stamps had a spinning wheel and a loom to weave the wool and cotton materials on. She had several sets of cards to card the wool and cotton with. The wool was sheared from the sheep then washed good. It was carded by hand with the cards into strips about 1 foot by 3 inches long. The cards were flat boards about 14"" long and 4" wide with wire bristles all over one side, like a hair brush. The wool was spread over those bristles till it could be taken off of the cards in strips, the strips were spun into threads on the spinning wheel, then woven into material on the loom. I learned to operate the cards, spinning wheel and loom right away after I was married into the family. It was fun for me:(PAGE 13) We used the cards, spinning wheel and loom as late as 1923. Mostly for fun and past time.

The Stamps farm was diversified. They raised some of most everything but Cotton. The climate was too high and the season too short to grow cotton too good. They grew a large vegetable garden and truck patch. There was no refrigerators nor freezers in those days. So the vegs and fruits were canned or stored in a root cellar or veg pit. There was a large storm and root cellar behind the new house. It was equipped with shelves for canned food and bins for vegetables. It was large enough to have space for a small wood stove, cots and table with benches.They were used often cause there was a lot of tornados and cyclones in the spring and summer, there (PAGE 14) still is. Everyone had a good storm cellar.

The water supply for the first log house was furnished by a spring near the house. there was a creed that ran thru the homestead that furnished water for the animals. When Andrew build the new house on the new road he had a deep well drilled right by the back door and build a "WELL" house over it. The well house was about 14x16 feet. The well was on one side of the building the milk separator was on the other side with a long cabinet for utensils. The water had to be drawn out of the well with a windless and a water bucket until Andrew bought a Delco Electric plant in 1918 and then he put an electric pump in the well and ran water pipes into the kitchen. The well house served as a back porch. It had(PAGE 15) a concrete floor and a concrete walk that went to the back gate. There was a concrete walk from the front porch to the front gate too. Until about 1919 there was no lawn mowers. so the grass was mowed by sheep or two and cut with a hand scythes. Everything was done the hard way for years until things began to get more modern. The clothes were washed by hand on a wash board in wash tubs. They had to be boiled in a iron pot over a fire out side later years Ma had a clothes boiler to use on the kitchen range. I never knew her to have a washing machine.The irons were flat irons that were heated on the kitchen range until Grove and I married. We bought a gasoline iron to use, that helped alot.(PAGE 16)

In 1918 Andrew bought a Delco Electric System for the farm. Him and the boys wired the house and barn and installed the system themselves. So we had electricity on the farm, the system was run on batteries Pa traded a buggy and team of buggy horses with harness for the system. It supplied electricity for lights for the house and barn and to pump water with. That was a big improvement. It was used in the farm until an REA line was built in the area in 1932.

In 1920 the Stamps got the first radio that came into the area. It was an Atwater-Kent table model. Pa traded a horse and saddle for it. We could get only 2 radio stations at first, one was in Eureka Springs and one in Fayettville (PAGE 17) Ark. at the state Agriculture College.

Both Stations are still on the air.

Until about 1935 the farmers all took their wheat and corn to the grist mill in GrandView to have it ground into flour and corn meal for home use. They paid for the grinding with corn and wheat. The grist mill burned down in 1934 and wasn't rebuilt.So the farmers bought their flour and corn meal from the stores or took their grain to a grist mill in BerryVille. Carroll County Arkansas was a large County, It had 2 county seats. One at Eureka Springs and one at BerryVille. As far as I know it is still the same. They are about 20 miles apart. We did most of our shopping and business in BerryVille. Maybe once a month we would go to Eureka Springs to (PAGE 18) spend the day and go shopping our grocery shopping was done on GrandView. Very little did we have to buy. Everything was grown on the farm.Hogs were butchered and cured for bacon and ham and head cheese- some of the meat was cooked and stored in Stone jars, a fat steer was butchered for the beef- some of it was canned for future use. We always had lots of chickens, geese, turkeys, ducks, and peacocks- besides the wild animals that were plentiful and where was no hunting season until 1948. Saturdays were always set aside to go to GrandView for all day to shop and visit . All of the farmers gathered there. We took our cream and eggs to GrandView. In the summer time there would be an ice cream social in the city park all afternoon, In the winter people gathered in the school house . There (PAGE 19) was lots of "gatherings". On Sundays there would be services in the mornings then "dinner" on the grounds in the summertime , In the school house in the winter time. Then singing all after noon till People had to go home to the chores. There was lots of "play" parties , pie suppers and get to get to gethers the year round in the school houses, No one ever missed them. There was a lot of square dances around the area but the Stamps kids weren't allowed to go to dances until they grew up and got married. A lot of kids weren't allowed to go to dances. They were tho't to be too sinful.

In about 1900 Ulysus and Elizabeth(Lizzie) Hussey bought a homestead ajoining the Stamps homestead on the North. They had 2 baby boys when they moved there- Edward and John, 3 more (PAGE 20) sons and 2 daughters were born on the homestead. The Husseys farm was in the Pleasant Ridge School District , so all of the Hussey kids went to school at Pleasant Ridge school house. The Hussey kids were Edward, John, George, Lizzy, Thelma, Everett and Carl. The had to walk 2 miles to school or ride in a wagon with a team of horses. In 1910 all of the schools were changed from 3 months terms to 6 months terms. They went to school from Oct. till March. The teachers roomed and boarded with someone near the school house until later on when the school districts built cottages besides the school house for the teachers to live in. The Stamps kids and Hussey kids grew up to gether. There were other neighbors and friends. Two families named Summers lived on Kings (PAGE 21) River- they both had large families. The Ellis family lived south of the Stamps place about a mile . A brother and sister, Ashmore's, farm joined the Stamps farm to the north. The Mc Clelland moved onto a farm on Kings River to the East of the Stamps farm.They were father and 3 sons, one son was Married. The father was John Sr. They moved there in 1911. The sons were Aubrey and John Leroy. Aubrey married Maude Etta Clay in 1916, they had one son. John Leroy went to school at Granada school, he graduated from the 8th grade there, then went to high school in Eureka Springs and to college and law school He became good lawyer then a good U.S. Senator, serving in Washington D.C. for serveral years. Mr. McClelland died in 1921. Tim, Aubrey, Maude and their son stayed on their farm (PAGE 22) until they sold it in 1939 and moved into BerryVille. They were awful good neighbors. The Hussey family sold their farm in 1928 and moved to a farm near Neosho, Mo. Now for what happened to the Stamps family.

Herbert Stamps married Mary Moore at BerryVille on Nov. 10, 1910. He had left home when he was 15 years old, Him and Edward Hussey left home together, they worked on a farm south and went to a uncle in Louisiana , Herbert stayed on that farm and got to be the foreman for over 30 years, After him and Mary married they bought a 80 acre farm adjoining the Clay farm - he still was foreman on the clay farm. Him and Mary had 2 children a boy, Alvin and a girl Mabel, Mary died in Feb. (PAGE 23) 1921 and is buried near BerryVille.

Alvin and Mabel went to live with Pa and Ma Stamps until Herbert married Louisa Ferguson in May 1923 in BerryVille, they took Alvin and Mabel home to live with them. They lived on their farm until they retired in 1942 and moved to Southern (Redlands) Calif. to work in defence work. Mabel had married in BerryVille and her and her husband had moved to Redlands, Calif. to work in defense work during War II . Herbert worked in an airplane plant there. Louise died in 1955. Herbert worked in that air craft plant for 15 yrs. He died in 1975 at the age of 85 yrs old. Him and Louisa had some children but I do not know how many . I don't know where any of their family (PAGE 24) are. Haven't heard anything about them since Thelma Wiseman died in 1960.

Rosie Stamps married Lon Walfenbarger in the Stamps home on Jan. 22, 1911. Lon was born and raised on a farm south of BerryVille. They moved to Cassville Mo. in Barry County after they were married .Lon was elected Sheriff of Barry County in 1912 and held that job until he retired in 1940. Lon and Rosie bought a home in Cassville soon after they moved to Cassville. They had one child, a girl Thelma Mae, born April 30, 1913. Rosie and Thelma spent every summer on the Stamps farm. Rosie died in Aug. 192? and was buried in Cassville. After she died Thelma went to live with her grandpa and grandma Stamps on the farm.(PAGE 25) She graduated from the 8th grade in the GrandView grade school. the Granada School dist. had consolidated with the GrandView dist. by then. She married a Robert Latimer, who was born and raised in GrandView in aug. 1927,in Eureka Springs, Ark.

Robert had a sister living in San Francisco, Calif. Robert and Thelma moved to San Francisco, in June 1929, their son was born, Robert Jr. soon afterwards. Robert Sr. went back to Arkansas after the Marriage broke up. Thelma and Bobbie stayed on in Oakland, Calif. Thelma went to work in a food cannery in Oakland, calif. Thelma had met a Harold Wiseman in the food plant. they fell in love and were married in Oakland in May (PAGE 26) 1934.

Bill and I and our family lived at Lake Wenatchee in North Central Washington by then. Thelma and I had kept close contact with each other thru the years, So afater Harold and Thelma married they decided to move to Seattle , Wash. and look for work. They were very lucky to find jobs right away cause the big depression was on then and so manyu people were out of work. Harold got a job with the Dennison Canning Co. right away. They rented a small house on Alki Point in West Seattle, later they bought the house and remodeled it into a nice home. In Nov. 1934 Thelma went to work for the St. Regis Paper Co. in Seattle. She stayed with them until she died in 1960. She worked up to be Personal Supervisor and was transfered to the plant in Tacoma in 1958. She worked untill she had major surgery in May 1960 , She died from complications from that surgery. She is buried in the Forest Lawn Cemetary in Southwest Seattle.

In 1959 Harold had a bad accident at the Dennison plant, Injured his hands so he was disabled and couldn't work anymore, So he had to retire, He sold their home in oct 1960 and moved into the Fry Hotel then to a rest home in Southwest Seattle after he no longer could take care of himself. He had a son and his wife in Oakland, CA. They transfered him to a rest home in Oakland in 1963. I have heard no more about him.

Thelma's dad, Lon Wolfenbarger stayed Sherriff of Barry County,Mo. untill he retired in 1940, He lived ion his home in Casville until he (PAGE 28) died in 1955.

Amanda Stamps married Corbett Walk in the Stamps home on Jan. 20, 1917. Corbett and his mother had a farm in the Pleasant Ridge School District about 4 miles formn the Stamps farm. Corbett took Amanda to live with him and his mother on that farm. our Dianel family had moved to the Pleasant Ridge District in 1916. We lived on a small farn one mile from the Stamps farm, My father was a Minister and Pastor of the County Church at Pleasant Ridge. He preformed the Wedding Ceremony for Corabett and Amanda and I sang at the Wedding.

In Nov. 1918 Corbett and Amanda had a baby girl,Clara Belle, Amanda died soon after she was born. The baby was a sickly baby, she died when she was 4 mons old. Amanda and her were (PAGE 29) both buried in a Rural Cemetary near the Stamps farm. My dad peached at their funerals. They were buried side by side. She died in March 1919. In Nov. 1919 Corbett died from cancer and was buried beside Amanda and Clara Belle. My dad preached his funeral and I sang at the funeral too.

Lona Stamps married Andrew Fisher in Eureka Springs,Ark in oct 1918. Andrew and his parents had a farm near Eureka Springs. Andrew took Lona to that farm, at first they had milk cows on their farm and sold cream at the creamery in Eureka Springs, Eureka Springs was a very famous health resort town. It had several mineral Springs in the area and lots of people came there to use the spas and stay in the Hotels. (PAGE 30)

Goats milk was in big demand and brought a good price , so after Andrew and Lona married they wsitched from milk cows to goats, at one time they were milking 80 goats and selling the milk to the Hotels and Resorts. Later years they switched back to beef cattle. Andrew's parents both died in the early 1930's.

Andrew and Lona had 2 daughters ,Dorothy was born about Aug. 1919 , Ruth was born in 1921. Dorothy and her husband Cleo Davison and Lona still live on the Fisher farm. I don't know if Dorothy and Cleo had any children or not. Ruth and her husband have 5 children, they live near Eureka Springs. As of xmas time 1978 Lona was still living on the farm with Dorothy she was 88 yrs old then. I don't know if she is still living or not.(PAGE 31)

James (Jim) Stamps was born on Jan 6, 1896, He never got married . He stayed at home and worked on the farm until him and John Hussey enlisted in the army in March 1917.They were stationed at Camp Pike, Ark. near Little Rock, Ark. for a year then were transfered to Seperate camps. Jim went to Ft. Riley, kansas where he stayed for the duration of the war. John Hussey was transfered to Camp Beauregard, La. then was transfered to Ft. Dix, N.J. for the duration. Both were discharged from the army in Dec. 18, 1918. Jim returned home and stayed on the farm until he decided to go to Eastern Oregon in 1922 where his sister Bessie and her husband Floyd Richardson lived at Ontario, Oregon. He went to Ontario in Dec 1922 He got a job in the R.R. depot as baggage man right away . There (PAGE 32) he met a young Buster Hickey that worked at the depot. They became good buddies. In the early spring of 1923 they both decided to go to Bend, Oreg. to work in a logging Camp abouat 30 miles from Bend. They hired on with the logging company in May 1923 to work for big wages. Neither one had a car so they rode the train to Bend. They had to stay in camp all summer. They decided to take a furlough in Nov. and comne to Ontario for Thanksgiving and Xmas. They had to ride the Log train from camp into Bend.On Nov 23rd they were riding the train out when there was a real bad accident, 10 men were riding on a flat car at the end of the logs.There was a derailmaent about half way to Bend,3 men was killed instantly (PAGE 33) the rest were injured. Jim Stamps was one of the men killed , Buster Hickey was hurt bad. Jim's brother -in-law Floyd Richardson went to Bend to bring Jim's body to Ontario, He was buried in the Ontario Cemetery on Nov. 28th 1923 one day after Thankgiving, more about that time later on.

Bessie Stamps married Floyd Richardson in BerryVille ,Ark on july 3rd 1919. They had been school sweet hearts when the Richardson Family had lived near the Stamps farm. The Stamps and Richardson familiew grew up to gether . In aboaut 1915-16 there was a big migration for farm familiew from CArroll County, Ark. and Southern Mo. The Richardson family migrated to Ontario, Oregon from GrandView,Ark. They settled on a 5 acre tract one mile from town . There was 4 Richardson children (PAGE 34) Floyd and Lloyd who were twins, Ernest and Helen. Mr Richardson died in about 1919, Mrs Richardson, Helen and Ernest stayed on their farm. Floyd and Lloyd both enlisted in the army in 1917 and was discharged from the army in June 1919. Floyd went right to the Stamps farm for him and Bessie to get married. He took Bessie to Ontario, Oregon just a week after they were married in BerryVille, Ark on July 3, 1919, There was always a big day celebration in BerryVille over the 4th of July. Everybody and their dogs went to that celebration. Floyd and Bessie were suppose to be married by my dad on Sat. July 6th 1919. The Stamps family all went to the celebration on July 3rd. Had to go home in time to milk those 28 (PAGE 35) cows. Floyd and Bessie decided to say in a Hotel in BerryVille that nite, so the rest of us went home. We went back in the morning July 4th to celebrate some more. Bessie's brother Gover and I had married in Feb. 1919, so we were at the Stamps home too, we both worked on the farm. We went to the 4th of July celebration in BerryVille too. When Pa and Ma ,Jim and Grover and I got to BerryVille on the 4th morn. Bessie and Floyd informed us thay had gotten married in a Justice of the Peace home the evening before. So the wedding was ove. I had a new blue taffety dress with blue hose to match. Bessie liked it so she borrowed it to wear to BerryVille on July 3rd that s what she was married in. Her pretty White Wedding grown hung in the closet at home. A party (PAGE 36) was held for them at the Stamps farm in July 5th. Then they left for Ontario on July 6th. Bessie came home to GrandView every fall untill she got her Dad and mother, Grover and Me and our 2 children talked into moveing to Ontario in 1923.

When they got to Ontario they rented a big house 1 mile from town in the Ontario Vale Highway. Floyd did farm work in the Ontario area. In 192? he took a job as forman on a big cattle and hay ranch, 4 miles from Ontario, they lived there for 3 yrs then moved onto Mrs. Richardsons farm. Her, Ernest and Helen had moved into town into a home she owned on Main Street. Floyd.went to work for a lumber and wood company in Ontario, he delivered lumber, wood and coal all over town. We had to laugh, he worked for that company for about (PAGE 37)5 years and he never had time to haul a laod of wood to his own home.Bessie and I hauled wood for them in our cars. We loaded and unloaded it too. Floyd always had a load to deliver to a customer on his way home. Floyd and Bessie has 4 children, Earl, CArl, Gerald and Betty Jean. Earl was born in 1922. I have no data on the others. All are still living ,Earl, CArl and Betty live in Oregon. Gerals lives in South Washington. All have grown kids that are married. Floyd went to work for the State Highway Dept. in about 1929. He stayed with that intil he died in the1950's. They bought a home in Ontario in 1932, lived in it till Floyd and Bessie both died. I think Bessie died in about 1959 or 60. I have no data on her or Floyd.

Grover Stamps and Lena Daniel (PAGE 38) were married on Feb. 28, 1919 in Eureka Springs, Ark. We had to elope to get married, our parents tho't we were to young to get married. I was 16 yrs old and Grover was 19 yrs old. My dad and Grovers mother were dead set against us getting married but my mother and Grovers Dad wasn't against it so much.

Pa Stamps helped Grover get a loan of $30 at the bank and my mother made me a new dress and bought me new shoes to get married in. They knew we were going to get married but didn't know when. We both had a few dollars saved up before Grover got the $30 loan. We planned to get married in Eureka Springs then ride the train to Independence, Kansas, where we had friends living. So on Feb, 27th, 1919 we eloped to Eureka Springs. We rode Grovers saddle horse to the edge of Eureka Springs (PAGE 39) then we turned her loose and let her go home. She was at the barn yard gate the next morning when the folks got up. Grover and I walked on into town and went to the R.R. depot to wait intill the Court House and a lawyer friends office opened at 8:00 a.m. Our lawyer friend, A Mr. Sweat went to the court House with us and swore we were of age (18 and 21 yrs). He stood up with us in the Judges office to get married. After we got married we went to a Cafe and ate breakfast then we went back to the depot to wait for a passenger train to come at noon. We was scared every minite that a policeman would come to arrest us and take us back home but no one came to bother us. We caught the train at noon , rode it to Seligman, Mo. changed trains there and (PAGE 40) rode the Rock Island R.R. to Independence Kansas. We both went to work right away. Grover worked in the Cement plant and i worked in the company cafeteria. We lived in a company cottage. We arrived in Independence on March 1st. by easter time in April we had been able to save $350.00. that was a lot of money in those days. We were very mature for our ages we tho't. We went home on Easter weekend and got ready to build us a frame house on the 40 acres of land that Pa Stamps had given us for a wedding present. We went home to Ark. on Easter weekend and was welcomed with open arms. All WAS FORGIVEN!

We lived with Pa and Ma Stamps and Bessie and Jim while we cut trees to make lumber out (PAGE 41) of off of our land Pa had given us for a wedding present. Grover and the hired man hauled the logs to a saw mill near Eureka Springs with team and wagon, had them cut into lumber for our new hosue. We didn't have to pay any money to have the lumber cut. The mill took logs for there pay.

We had us a lot of help to build us a 4 room house with a front and a back porch.We had to buy the doors and windows and shingles and nails. It all cost us $185.00 in cash. By June 1st we moved into our new house on 40 acres of land. The only furnature we bought was a new cook stove and an ice box. All the furniture was bought used or given to us. The lumber was green that we built the house out off. We had to wait for it to dry out and shrink (PAGE 42) then the floors were covered with oak flooring and linoleum. The walls were covered with ceiling and papers. We did all the work ourselves-before wintertiome we had the house all painted and fixed up nice. Even had lace curtians on the windows. After we moved into our house in June, relatives and friends gave us a combination of chivoree and house warming. They brought us a lot of nice things. The party lasted all nite.

Pa always had one or two hired maen. He had one man when Grover and i got married. He was a Harley Bryant whose folks lived near Golden, Mo. across the Mo./Ark. line from the Stamps farm. Harley came to work for Pa when he was 16yrs old His family migrated to S.W. Idaho in 1917, but Harley stayed on with the Stamps. The (PAGE 43) hired roomed and boarded with the family. After Jim and Grover became 18 yrs old Pa paid them wages to work on the farm just like he paid the hired men. Grover took most of his wages in Milk cows, then a team of horses and buggy and he bought 2 saddle horses all before we were married.

By the time we were married the Stamps family were milking 28 dariy cows and raised most of the hay for them. There was aslways serveral head of calves, hogs, and horses always lots of chickens, turkeys, and geese. Theeggs were sold to the grocery stores in exchage for staples and clothes. Ther turkey , geese, and ducks were for our own use. The geese were plucked every spring to furnish down and feathers for feather beds and pillows. I always (PAGE 44) hated to see them plucked cause I tho't it hurt them, but I was assured that it didn;t hurt them at all, cause they shed their feathers every spring anyway. But in 1924 the State Legislature passed a law against plucking live geese. I was glad to hear that .

After Grover and I came back home form Kansas we both worked on the farms along with the rest . We were paid wages like the hired hands.

In 1918 a new cannery was put in at GrandView and everyone put in acres of tomatoes. So the Stamps put 6 acres of corn land into tomatoes and had a bumper crop. There was no irrigation in that county then . All was dry land farming. The tomaotes were ready to harvest in August. We had hired help to help harvest (PAGE 45)them. Lizzie. Thelma, and Evertt Hussey came to help pick the tomatoes. I remember they were paid $3.00 a day wages.

Just after Grover and I got married my Dad and Mother and 6 kids moved from Pleasant Ridge,Ark. to Vilonia, Ark. 150 miles from us. I got pregnant soon after we were married. It was decided that i would go to Vilonia to be with my mother and a family doctor, we had known for years, to have my first baby. So on Nov. 21st I want to Viloina by train to stay with my folks. Grover came to Vilonia on Dec. 21st to be with me. He was able to get a job right away working for Dr. Mums on his farm near Vilonia. Our baby Herbert Andrew Stmps was born in Vilonia in My mothers home on Jan 7, 1920 at 3:30 a.m. We stayed on (PAGE 46) at Vilonia untill we went home to the Stamps farm in April 192_. Grover worked for Dr. Mums on his farm untilol we went home.

We leased an 80 acre farm adjoining the Stamps farm from a Belle Ashmore , and moved into her big house. We lived ther for 2 yrs. Wayne Denver Stamps was born in the Belle Ashmore house on April 9, 1922.

In Jan. 1921 Bessie Stamps Richardson , came home to visit from Ontario, Oreg. Where her and Floyd had gone to live after they were married in 1919. She visithed us for a month and talked so much about Oregon being the "promised land" that Grover and Jim got the bug to go to Oregon. In Dec. 1921 Jim went to Ontario, Oreg. where Bessie and Floyd lived. He stayed in Oregon until he (PAGE 47)killed in a logging train acciedent at Bend, Oreg. in Nov. 1923.

I didn't become convinced that we should go to Oregon. I hated to leave both of our families in Ark. and Kansas. By that time my folks had moved to Chase, Kansas to pastor a church. So we stayed on our farm in ARk. After our crops were layed by in June 1922 Grover and I and our 2 baby boys went ot Chase , Kansas to visit my folks. The grain harvest was just getting under way in the Big Bend area of Kansas. My dad had already signed on to work o one of his church members big wheat ranch thru the harvest. He tlked us into staying in Chase and going to work on Mr. Bolts ranch where he was working. Grover took a job driving a Chase (brand name) tractor pulling a grain header till (PAGE 48) the harvest was over then he did some plowing on the ranch . Him and dad worked untill the Middle of Oct. Sister Ann and I hired on in June to as cooks and helpers on the same ranch. We worked until Oct. too. The ranch was 8 miles from Chase. We commuted to work. My mother and her kids baby sat our 2 boys. Grover and I went home to Ark. the last of Oct. in time to harvest our milo fodder and corn crops. We helped with the work on the farm all winter and spring.

In July 1922 we went to Chase, Kansas again to work thru the harvest on the same ranch again. We went back to Ark. the 1st of Oct. 1923, when we got home Bessie and her baby boy , Earl were there visiting from Ontario, Oreg. Bessie had her dad and mother talked into going to (PAGE 49) Oregon if Grover and I would go with them. Grover wasn't hard to convince that we should go to Oregon. I was out numbered so i gave in. Our lease was up on the Belle Ashmore place in Dec. anyway. We all had an all day auction sale and sole off all the animals, farm implements, furniture and other stuff tht we didn't want to keep. What we wanted to keep we stored in our little house in our farm . Pa and Ma leased their farm and our land to a family taht lived near Bolder, Mo. on Kings river for one year. And we all went to Ontario, Oreg. to see how we liked it.

Ma Stamps left the lace curtains up at the windows on the house so it wouldn't change the looks of the outside of the house. Bessie and Earl stayed on to (PAGE 50) help us get ready to move to Oregon. The people tat leased the farms bought some of the cows and horses and farm implements. The price of the lease was 1/2 of all the crops grown on the farms. We didn't get very much for our share because the renters weren't very good farmers. There was a big lawsuit over that after Pa and Ma got back home from Oreg. the fall of 1924.

Grover and I had a 1920 used Ford touring car . We sold it to Tim McCullan when we left Ark. Pa and Ma had a 1922 Ford Sedan Car the first Sedan Model that the Ford Co. made. They wanted to take the car to Oregon with them. So it was decided that Bessie and Earl , Me and Hurbert(Buster) and Wayne would go to Oregon by train. Pa, Ma and Grover would travel by car (PAGE 51)to Ontario, Oregon. Bessie,Me and the kids left GrandView, Ark. on Nov 10, 1923. We arrived in Ontario, Oregon on Nov. 14, 1923. We had to change trains in Seligman, Mo. Kansas City, Mo. and Denver , Colo. It was a long old ride.

Floyd Richardson was at the depot in Ontario to meet us. We went to Floyds and Bessies home to get ready for the arrival of Pa, Ma and Grover and for Jim Stamps who was coming from Bend Oregon.

Jim had gone to Ontario, Oreg. from Ark. in Dec. 1921, He got a job right away in the train depot. He met a Buster Hickey that worked at the depot too. They became good friends right away. In 1922 they heard about the good wages the logging companies were paying in the Bend, Oregon area about 200 miles from Ontario. They (PAGE 52) decided to go to Bend and sign on with a logging company. The comapny had a camp up in the mountains. Jim nor Buster either one didn't have a car, they rode the train to Bend then rode the logging tarin to the camp. They didn't come out of camp untill Nov. 21, 1923 when they took a furlough to come to Ontario to stay for Thanksgiving and Xmas. Them and 4 other men were riding on a flat car at the end of the logs, there was a derailment about 10 miles out of Ben, All of the men were thrown off the flat car. Jim and one other man were killed instantly, the other 4 men were all injured. Bessie and Floyd were notified about (PAGE 53) Jim right away. Floyd went to Bend right away to bring Jims body to Ontario. They arrived back in Ontario on Nov. 25th 2 days before Thanksgiving. The funeral was on Nov. 27th the day after Thanksgiving. JIm was buried in the Cemetary at Ontario.

Pa, Ma and Grover had left the Stamps farm in Ark. on nov. 10th in Pa's Ford sedan headed for Ontario, Oreg. The car was loaded down withg their camping gear and clothes and Grovers dog. they traveled by car to Denver Colo. via Chase,Kansas to visit my folks for a day and a nite. They arrived in Chase on Nov. 13th. They wrote us a letter from Chase and that was the last we heard form them till they arrived in Ontario on the 25th just 4 hrs before Floyd arrived in Ontario with Jims body from Bend. We tried (PAGE 54) every way known to find them after we got word about Jim but no one could find them on the road anywhere. There was no State Patrol Dept anywhere in those days, only County Sheriffs and City Policemen.

They had gotten as far as Denver Colo. by nov. 20th and had found out there that all highways over the mountain Passes were closed with snow for the winter. No traffic could get over the passes, so they shipped the car and belongings by train it Twin Falls,Idaho about 200 miles from Ontario. Them and the dog came to Ontario by train on the Union Pacific R.R. They arrived in Ontario at 8p.m. on Nov. 25th. Bessie and Floyd didn't have a phone yet so was no way for them to call us. They didn't think about sending us a telegram from Denver. They just (PAGE 55) got on the train and come to Ontario. When they got off at the depot Pa went and asked the agent if he knew Floyd Richardson and if there was a taxi or anyway they could get to Floyds house. The agent told him there was no phone to "Floyd's house and no taxes in town. He told Pa that Floyd wasn't at home, then told him aboaut Jim being killed at Bend. He told Pa that Floyd's twin brother Lloyd lived right up the street from the depot.. He called Lloyd and Lloyd and his wife Inez came to the depot and brought Pa, Ma and Grover out to Floyd's and Bessie's house. That was how they found out that Jim was dead.

That was a very bad Thanksgiving for the Stamps family. We had a nice dinner with lots of food that friends and neighbors and the people form the Nazarene church (PAGE 56).............(PAGE 57) them to graze on Forest Service Range in Burns, Oregon area. The winter that we moved into the Hinton house their forman of the sheep hand quit his job,Pa Hinton and his partners talked Grover into taking the job, he hauled supplies to the Pacher and hearders and kept an eye on the herd. It didn't take all of his time to take care of that.He had plenty of time to take care of our 5 acre prune orchard and do other things for Pa Hinton.

Our daughter , Cloye Catherene Stamps was born in that Hinton house

(as we called it ) on Aug. 5, 1924. All of Grover's life he had wanted to be a rodeo Bucking horse rider. There were no Rodeo's in Ark. but he'd read about them being out West and he read every Western Story he could get hold of when he was growing up. (PAGE 58) He learned to breach and train horses when he was a teenager. He broke horses for people all over Carroll County, Ark. Soon after we moved to Ontario he got acqaninted with Rod Hickey (Buster's brother) who was a Rodeo rider and lived in Ontario. Rod had a good friend Yakima Canutt, that was a professional Rodeo rider and he visited Rod often. Both rode in Rodeo's all over the West. In the fall they would go to the Jordon Valley south of Ontario and round up a bunch of wild horses bring them to the stock yards in Ontario and break them to ride then sell them. From the first fall Grover worked with Rod and Yakima breaking horses - he got lots of practice and loved it. The fall of 1924 (Sept) , her rode bucking horses in the Malhuer County Fair at Ontario and took 2nd prize. (PAGE 59)

From then on he rode in Rodeo's all over Oregon and Idaho. In June 1926 he rode in a 3 day Rodeo at Eugene, Oregon. The horse he drew the last day fell over backwards with him and saddle horn injured his stomack inside. He was rushed to the hospital in Eugene where he was treaated and told he would have to stay in the hospital for at least a week or 10 days to give his stomack a chance to start healing up. He was to stay on a diet too. 2 of his buddies from Ontario and Vale, Oreg. had gone to Eugene to ride in the Rodeo, they had to come home Sunday nite after the rodeo was over, both had jobs and a family to take care of. They went to the hospital in Eugene to visit Grover before they came home. Grover talked them (PAGE 60)

into bring him home from the hospital in Eugene. He checked himself out of the hospital and his buddies poured him into his car and brought him home. One of his buddies drove his car straight to the hospital in Ontario. I was getting ready to drive to Eugene that Monday morning when the call came from the hospital saying that Grover was there. He stayed in the hospital one week then came home. He did layu off work for a month then went back to work. He was suppose to stay on a strict diet but he didn't do it. So the sore (ulcer) in his stomack turned into a carcoma cancer. It took his life on May 20, 1927. He wouldn't give up to having surgury untill it was too late. He was buried beside Jim in the(PAGE 61) Onterio Cemetary on May 23, 1927

Back to Floyd and Bessie and their family. Pa and Ma Stamps stayed on with Floyd and Bessie on the Harter place. In March 1924 they moved to the Clagget ranch 3 miles from Ontario. Floyd took the foreman job on tht hay and Cattle ranch and Pa hired on as a ranch hand feeding cattle and doing chores. They all moved to the Claggett ranch in March 1924.

Ma just couldn't get use to living in Oregon, she missed her relatives and friends in Ark. and her and Pa missed Jim so much. So in Dec. 1994 they went home ot Ark. They sold their car to Floyd and Bessie and went home on the train. They moved back into their home on the farm in Jan 1925. They didn't restock the farm, only for (PAGE 62) a milk cow and some chickens . They bought them another Ford sedan right away. They stayed on the farm that year then sold it in the spring of 1926. It was too lonesome for them on that farm and too big a place. The spring of 1926 they bought the 80 acre Ellis farm next door to their farm. They bought it lock, stock and barrell. 12 head of milk cows , horses, chickens, ect, farm emplements,and cream seperator. They started milking cows and selling cream again. They lived on the Ellis place wntil about 1942 when Pa's health began to fail.they sold the Ellis place and all of the stock but one caow and some chichens. They bought the Dr. Everett home in '"GrandView in 1942 and lived there till they both died. Pa died in 1949 and Ma died in(PAGE 63) 1959. I do not know if they are buried in the GrandView Cemetary or the rural Cemetary near their Stamps farm.

Floyd, Bessie and 2 sons Earl was born on the Harter farm in 1923, CArl was born on the Claggett ranch in 1925. They stayed on the Claggett ranch until Mr. Claggett sold it the spring of 1926. Mrs Richardson and her daughter, Helen, had moved into a house they owned in Ontario. Floyd, Bessie and the boys moved into Mrs. Richardson's house on the 5 acres out of town. Floyd got a job with the Payette Lumber Company in Ontario as delievery man, he delivered lumber, wood and coal all over Ontario area. He had a nice dapple gray team of horses and a wagon to deleiver with at first , then he got a truck to use.. we had to laugh when (PAGE 64) he worked for the lumber company he never had time to haul a load of wood or coal to their own home. Bessie and I hauled the wood and coal for them home in our cars. Floyd always had a load of something to deleiver to a customer when he went home from work.

Floyd stayed with that job until about 1929 when he got a job with the State Highway Department. He stayed with that job and became District Supervisor until he got sick and had to retire in the '50's. Him and Bessie and their 3 kids moved into Mrs. Richardsons house in town in the 1940's. I don't know where Mrs. Richardson lived then.

Later Floyd and Bessie bought a home in Ontario and lived there until they both died in the 1950's. I don't have any data as to when they died. Both were buried in the Ontario Cemetary. Somewhere along (PAGE 65) the line their daughter ,Betty Jean Richardson was born about 1935. As far as I know all of their children are living in Oregon and Washington States. All are married and have families. I have no data on them. They have an Aunt Helen Richardson Everly living in Caldwell, Idaho. She is the last one of the Willis Richardson family that is living now.

I want to go back to when my Daniel Family moved to Northwest Ark. in Dec. 1917. We moved onto a 40 acre farm known as the Bunkow farm, i mile from the Stamps farm and 1/2 mile from the Hussey and Belle Ashmore farms. My dad pastored a country church in the Pleasant Ridge District. The Stamps and Hussey families attended that church. Right away Bessie Stamps and I became good friends that lasted thru the (PAGE 66) years. Altho' we had to attend seperate grade schools . Bessie was 3 yrs older thatn I was and 3 grades ahead of em. I didn't like Grover too well at first. He was a big tease and called me Preachers girl like some other kids did. But soon he wanted to date me, so we went steady for 2yrs before we eloped and got married and lived happy ever after.

Our son Wayne had Polio in Aug 1925. He was the first victum of Polio in the state of Oregon when an epidemic hit. He was treated for 2 yrs in the Ontario, Oreg. Hospital and Providence Hospital in Portland. After he came home from Portland or family doctor sent him to a Oesteopath Dr. in Ontario for massage treatments, he did get better but was left lame in his left leg for the rest of (PAGE 67) his life. He had several surgeries thru the years to correct some of the lameness in his leg and got so he could walk with out braces, crutches or a cane. He went thru high school and had been able to work and support himself until he had ot retire in 1967. He lived 4 miles from me near E. Wenatchie, now. Son Hewrbert(Buster) graduated fromn high school in Leaveworth, Wash in 1938. He worked for the U.S. Forest Service for 6 yrs. He inlisted in the U.S. Aircops in Dec. 1941 the day after Pearl Harbor. He stayed in the Service for 18 yrs.Had to take a medical discharge after he lost a lung to T.B. in the Korian WAr. He married Martha Miller in Trenton, N.J. in 1943. They had 2 bvoys, Herbert Andrew Jr. and Wayne Anthony. The boys still live in Trinton, N.J.(PAGE 68) Martha died in 1975. Is buried in Trinton. Herbert married Mildred Paatterson later. They live near Sumner, Wash.

Catherene Stamps married Jack Shaw on Feb. 23, 1946 in Seattle. They went to live at Methow, Wash. in the Methow Valley. They moved to Twisp, Wash, in 194_ and Jack went to work for the Wagner Lumber Company working in the woods that year. He just retired from that job in Dec. 1983. The logging company had changed hands twice since he started working for them. Bill Coleman bought the company, then Crown-Zellerback bought it . It all closed down and the Mill is being dismantled now.

Catherene and Jack had 4 children Grover Dean born Nov. 1 1946 He is a single man -lives at home with Catherene andJack. He drives (PAGE 69) the Wenatchee World paper route and the U.S. Mail form Paateros, Wash to Twisp, Wash.

Kathy Lou Shaw married Ronald Saling Feb. 19, 196_ in The Dalles, Oregon. They had 2 children. Kori Michelle Saling born Sept. 3, 1970 and James Russell saling born Oct. 25, 1974. Both born in Ellensbury. Ron is Post Master at Methow, Wash now.

John Alton Shaw was born Aug, 10, 1953 at Twisp, Wash. Married Kimberley Shalsky on may 26, 1979 in Snohomish, Wash. They live at Monroe,Wash. John is mangaer orf a Paint Store in Lynnwood, Wash. They have 2 sons, Matthew John Shaw born Nov. 16, 1979 and Michael Joseph Shaw born Nov. 7, 1981.

Merrie Ellen Shaw was born Dec. 23, 1955 at twisp, Wash. She married Byron Akita on Aug. 6, 1982 near Ellensburg, Wash. They have one (PAGE 70) baby boy ,Daniel Hubuney Atika, They live in Portland, Oreg. now. Byron is going to Medical School.

After Grover Stamps got sick in 1926 and had to stay in the hospital for so long I had to sell our place. I rented a house in Ontario on main st. I had to go to work to make a living for us. I worked in the Blue Bird Cafe for 25cents an hour. Usually worked 10 to 12 hours a day. Bessie and Mrs Richardson baby sat my 3 kids free of charge. One of them wnet ot the hospital to sit with Grover until I'd get off from work. I had a new Maytag washing machine,Bessie didn't have a washing machine yet so we took my washing machine to Bessie's so she could use it. Grover insisted tht i keep our 2 ford cars. He had a 1917 ford (PAGE 71) touring car and I had a 1926 ford touring car, at the time a new ford touring car cost $500.00 and licenses cost $3.00 a year. I managed to buy license for the 1926 ford but didn't buy license for the 1917 model. I left it parked at Mrs. Richardson's until we came back to Ontario in 1930. I sold it then for $150.00, more that Grover paid for it in 1923,$125.00 he paid.

With the help of Bessie, Floyd and Mrs. Richardson I managed to make a sort of living for me and my 3 kids. There was no such thing as government welfare for the needy people then. The County had a poor farm near Vale, Oregon the county seat where they sent poor people . Thank goodness we didn't have to go to that poor farm.

In 1926 Grover had taken out an Life Insurance policy with a friend of (PAGE 72)his, when the premium came due in Nov. I couldn't make the payment . The premium was #30.00 a year. I tho't the policy was cancelled out. After Grover died in May 1927 this insurance agent that sold the policy to Grovercame to my door one evening and handed me a check for $5000.00 from the Prudential Life Ins. Company. The agent said he knew we would pay him back. I did and I took out insurance on me and my kids. I paid the rest of 'Grover's Hospital and Doctor bills and put the rest in Savings. I has managed to satay out of dept only for the hospital and Dr. bills. In July of 1927 a\fter Grover died. I decided to take trip to visit my parenats and 6 kids in SweetWater, Texas. Via ElCajon, CAlif. near San Diego. My sister Ruth had married Clyde (PAGE 73) Parker in Aug. 1926 in Neosho. Clyde had property and a job in El Cajon so he took Ruth to live there.

I planned to visit them in El Cajon then go on to Visit my folks in SweetWater, Texas. I fully entended to go back to Ontario to live. I had left my furniture , Winter clothes and other things in Mrs. Richardsons rental house in Ontario. Only July 28th I loaded my 26 ford with my 3 kids and clothes and we headed for El Cajon, CAlif. We traveled with a Methodist Minister his wife and 4 teenage kids who were going ot Los Angeles. We had a good trip and enjoyed it. We camped out and had a picnic all the way. The kids and I landed in ElCajon on July 30, 1927. Ruth was working in a Resort place called Knowles House . It was a nice place owned and operated by Aunt Lou Knowles. When I got there Ruth (PAGE 74) and Aunt Lou had it all figured out for me to go to work at Knowles House . So i decided to stay in ElCajon and work for a while. I went to work on Sept. 2nd and worked until I married William J. Falk in March 1928. and that is another story!

In Sept. 1927 Floyd and Bessie the kids made a trip to El Cajon to visit in and see California. They made the trip in their 1926 chevorlett touring car. They did enjoy the trip and we enjoyed seeing them. We didn't see again until in 1930 Bill, Me and our kids went to Ontario in June 1930. By that time Bill and I had twin baby boys 6 mon. old. Bill was on construction work, we were sent to Ontario to work on an Irrigation Project for 2 months, when that was done we came to Wenatchie, Wash, to work on a Dam and (PAGE 75) and Power line project. And here we have stayed for 50 years in the Wenatchie area. We stayed ion close contact with Floyd and Bessie and their kids until both died in 1950's and 60's

There is only one of the Andrew Stamps family left that i know of. She is Lona Stamps Fisher. She lives on the same farm near Eureka Springs, Ark. that Andrew Fisher took her to in 1916. Andrew passed away in the 1940's. Their daughter Dorothy and her husband Cleo Davison live with Lona on the farm. Lona is 87 years old. Is in poor health from broken bones and poor eyesight. Dorothy was good to write and tell em about them until lately. I haven't heard from them for 2years now. Andrew Stamps had some Brothers and a Sister but I don't have any (PAGE 76) data on any of them. I did Know his brother John Stamps. he lived near BerryVille. He had 5 or 6 children. I knew the 2 older sons quit well. They worked for Pa Stamps on the farm a lot after they became teenagers. They were Alvin and Edger Stamps. John and his Wife had some younger kids but I can't remember all their names, A girl was names Myrtle. Their mother died when they were young. They were put in an orphans home after their mother died. I don't know if any of them are living yet or not. The last I heard about John , their father he was going to Joplin, Mo. to work in the coal mines in 1922. Clarinda Warren Stamps was born near GrandView, Ark. and lived there all of her life only for one year at Ontario, Oregon. She had some(PAGE 77) brothers and Sisters that lived and died near GrandView. All are buried in the GrandView Cemetery. This ends my Story. There are still several Stamps relatives living in the Carroll County Ark. Area. and the Osage, Ark area. That is about all I know about the Andrew and Clarinda Stamps family.

Signed this month of may 1980 by : Lena Catherene Daniel Stamps Falk at Wenatchie, Washington. Mother of Herbert Andrew, and Wayne Stamps and Cloye Catherene Stamps Shaw.

Typed by : Cheryl (STAMPS)Flores

Sept. 1998

William Andrew Stamps- BORN- Nov. 6,1866... DIED- March 29,1949

Clarinda Alta Warren- BORN- Sept. 7, 1871... DIED- Jan 17, 1959

( Married Nov 13, 1887)

BIRTHS

Rosie Stamps- Born- Aug. 2, 1888... Died- Aug. 24,1926

Herbert Stamps- Born- March 6, 1890...Died- May 26, 1975

Lona Stamps- Born- Jan. 13, 1892... ALIVE in 1977

Amanda Stamps- Born- July 2, 1897...Died- March 19, 1918 (soon after childbirth@Ark.)

James Stamps- Born- Feb. 8, 1894..Died- Oct. 23, 1923 (logging train accident@Oreg.)

Bessie Stamps- Born- July 27, 1898...Died-ca. 1959-60 (complications of surgery@Oreg.)

Grover Stamps- Born- May 5,1900... Died- May 20, 1927(rodeo accident/stomach cancer@Oreg.)

Alta Stamps- Born - Oct. 1, 1903...Died Jan. 2, 1904

Hattie Stamps- Born- Jan. 11, 1907...Died Aug. 9, 1908

Lon Wolfenbarger} Aug. 6, 1909 @ GrandView, Ark.

1 child> Thelma Wolfenbarger- Born -@ Cassville, Mo. Feb.10,1911...Died May 14, 1960

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Mary ? } Nov. 8, 1911@ Berryville,Ark.

Alvin Stamps- Born... Sept.9,1913

Mabel Ellen Stamps- Born...April 1915

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Andrew Fisher} June 4, 1915 @ Eureka Springs, Ark

Dorothy Fisher -Born @ Eureka Springs,Ark

Ruth Fisher- Born @ Eureka Springs, Ark

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Corbett Walker} Aug. 10, 1916 @ Grandview/Stamps farm(Corbett Died Nov, 1918)

Clara Belle Walker -Born...Aug 1917- Died ...June 1918

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James Stamps -Never married

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Floyd Richardson } July 3, 1919 @ BerryVille, Carroll Co. Ark

Gerald Richardson} all born at Ontario, Oregon

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Lena Daniel } Feb, 28, 1919 @ Eureka Springs, Ark

Children

Herbert (Buster) A. Stamps- Born- Jan. 7, 1920 @ Vilonia, Ark(lost lung to T.B.)

Married (1st)

Martha Miller in Trenton, N.J. in 1943 (she died in 1975...buried @ Trenton N.J.)

Children :

Herbert Andrew Jr.}

Wayne Anthony } they still live in Trenton N.J.

Married (2nd)

Mildred Patterson } they now live near Sumner, Wash.

Wayne Denver Stamps- Born- April 9, 1922 @ GrandView, Ark...Died June 1985 ( had polio 1st in the state of Oreg.)(he lives 4 miles from E.Wenatchie)

Catherene Stamps- Born Aug, 5, 1924 @ Ontario, Oregon

Jack Shaw ...on Feb. 23, 1946 @Seattle

Children:

Grover Dean Shaw ..born Nov. 1,1946 a(single)

Kathy Lou Shaw...

Married: Feb 19, 196_ @ Dalles, Oregon

Ronald Saling

Children

Kori Machelle Saling....born Sept. 3, 1970

James Russell Saling... born Oct. 25, 1974

John Alton Shaw ...born Aug. 10,1953 @Twisp, Wash.

Married : on May 26, 1979 @ Snohomish, Wash.

Kimberly Shalsky

Children

Matthew John Shaw... born Nov. 16, 1979

Michael Joseph Shaw ...born Nov 7, 1981 } they live in Monroe, Wash.

Merrie Ellen Shaw...born Dec. 23, 1955 @Twisp, Wash.

Married : on Aug. 6, 1982 near Ellensburg, Wash.

Byron Akita } they live in Portland, Oregon now

Children

Daniel Hubuhey Atika