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Descendants of Daniel Pegg Wilson

5. MARTHA ELIZABETH⁵ WILSON (DANIEL PEGG⁴, JAMES³, THOMAS², JAMES¹) was born 3 March 1839 in Near Springfield, Illinois, and died 9 May 1872 in Pacific County, Washington. She married JOB BULLARD 11 October 1857 in Pacific County, Washington, son of MARK BULLARD and ABIGAIL WHITCOMB. He was born 24 March 1828 in Stockbridge, Vermont, and died 3 July 1911 in Menlo, Washington.

Notes for JOB BULLARD:
Job and his brother Mark came to the Pacific Coast from Stockbridge, Vermont, in 1849, having taken passage on the ship Restless, they reached San Francisco on 1 May 1850. They tried mining around the American River in California for awhile, then went north to Oregon, staying in Milwaukie for about one year. In Oregon they mined the Rogue river mines. They traveled to Washington Territory and Job, with partners Sameul Woodward and J. H. Whitcomb started logging in the Stewart Slough area on Shoalwater Bay (now called Willapa Bay) on 12 August 1853. Hired help in this logging operation were Henry Woodward, James Hamilton, Daniel Cuppy, H. P. Doucett, Captain Charles W. Stewart and Mark Bullard. Later Job and Mark were joined with their brother Seth and they made claims in the Willapa Valley and began farming careers.
Seth Bullard was killed in 1860 when he tried to intervene in a money dispute his brother Mark was having with a hired hand and Seath was stabbed to death possibly by accident.
Mark Bullard had taken up a claim at what is now Menlo in 1853. Mark never married. His land an house were passed on to his nephew, V. M. Bullard after Mark moved to Lakeview, Oregon where he was the founder of that city.
John Bullard came to Pacific County in 1885 but soon left for California, returning in 1996.
Job Bullard served in the Territorial Legislature 1856 to 1857, representing Chehalis County, for in those days it was thought that Menlo was outside Pacific County.
Job's son, Van Marion Bullard, wrote of his father on 15 March 1952. His story of Job Bullard, in his own words is as follows:

" My father Job Bullard came from near Readland, Vermont. When he came west he came around the Horn in a sailing vessel also came through the Straits of Magellan and an incident happened while they were in the Strait of Magellan. The crew went ashore on a little hunting trip and had a good fortune to kill a sea otter, which was very valuable, worth several hundred dollars and a lady worked her passage from New York on this vessel and the crew after killing this Otter came to near mutiny as the Captain wanted the Otter and the crew decided to give it to the lady so the lady got the Otter.
They came up the Pacific Coast stopped at Santa Barbara and finally landed in San Francisco during the 1849 gold strike. Worked about one and one half years on the gold strike mostly on the American River, then on to Milwaukee, Oregon and came overland horseback most of the way with wagons. At Milwaukee he run a tavern.
In 1853 or thereabouts he came to Pacific county, crossing the portage from the Columbia river, came down in whale boats and came to Unity, which now is Ilwaco. They then came down Stewart's Slough just below South Bend, Washington, and hewed out square timbers for three shipments to San Francisco, Calif. This was near the Carruther's place on Stewart's slough. The first cargo they hewed out square timber, shipped to Frisco and got return on that carload. Second carload they never heard from and the third car load froze up in the ice and went to sea. Then he moved up on the farm, Job Bullard Donation Land Claim, Spring of 1854 or 1855."
"One of Daniel Peg Wilson's daughters was Martha Elizabeth Wilson, married to Job Bullard and the family consisted of Marion Van Bullard and Branch Arthur Bullard and daughter Clara A Bullard, who met and married Emmett Soule at the time Daniel Peg Wilson was running the mill at Mill creek and lived on the Old Bullard homestead near Fort Willapa, later called Fort Giesy, which was occupied during the Indian Wars.
The farmers of Willapa Valley which included the Keil people, homesteaded a greater port of the valley, built a substantial Fort which is now Fort Geisy, and worked on their farms in the daytime with their muzzle loaded guns at their sides called old yagers.
My father Job Bullard made the remark that after they had got all fixed up, they wished the Indians would come in and try them The fact was they had the proper intentional fortitude.
The Kiel people were a Suiss Colony that came in from the East and settled here about 1855 were here for some time then moved to their headquarters in Aurora, Oregon.

Children of MARTHA WILSON and JOB BULLARD are:

20.	i.	BRANCH ARTHUR⁶ BULLARD, b. 5 August 1858, Washington Territory; d. 8 October 1917, Willapa, Pacific County, Washington.
21.	ii.	VAN MARION BULLARD, b. 26 June 1861, Washington Territory; d. 15 September 1952, Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington.
22.	iii.	CLARA ABIGAIL BULLARD, b. 29 July 1863, Washington Territory; d. 23 June 1907.

6. SARAH FRANCES⁵ WILSON (DANIEL PEGG⁴, JAMES³, THOMAS², JAMES¹) was born 7 November 1841 in Illinois, and died 22 December 1913 in Tacoma, Washington. She married JOB LAMLEY 5 June 1856 in Pacific County, Washington, son of WILLIAM LAMLEY and MARTHA ARSON. He was born March 1830 in Worchester, England, and died 25 June 1911 in Tacoma, Washington.

Notes for JOB LAMLEY:
Job Lamley was a sheriff, politician, river pilot and businessman. He was born in Worchestershire, England in 1829, and came to America with his parents as a small boy. He was living in Richland County, Ohio with his parents when he was 10 years old. Job first met his future wife, Sarah, daughter of Daniel Pegg Wilson when she was only 6 years old in Springfield, Illinois. Job enlisted in the Army at age 18 years at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas in 1847 under General Price, in the Santa Fe Battalion for service in the Mexican War. He fought Comanches on the Arkansas River, 4 Jun 1848, during the march to Santa Fe. Starting in the Spring of 1849 he crossed the plains in government employ, carrying supplies for the Army, arriving in Oregon City in November 1849. He tried to leave the Oregon country for the gold fields of California by embarking on the brig Josephine at Astoria, Oregon, it then shipwrecked 14 Dec 1849 on the Columbia River bar. Lamley dragged himself ashore on Bakers Bay (near present Ilwaco, Washington) and joined with Dr. Elijah White in the building of Pacific City on Bakers's Bay near Ft. Canby. He made his living fishing but soon turned to politics. Job was one of the surveyors that located the Washington - Oregon state line. In the year 1851 he signed a petition with other residents asking that new election precincts be created in that area. The result was the creation of Pacific County by the Oregon Territorial Legislature in February 1851. Pacific was the third county created North of the Columbia River. Lamley was elected Pacific County Sheriff in Jun 1852 for which he served two years. In 1854 Job was appointed Pacific County Assessor by the Board of County Commissioners, serving two years.
His first home in Pacific County was on the mouth of Deep River where he was the first settler there. Job, on March 1853 took up a 301 acre Donation Land Claim on Tods Bay near what is now known as Knapton Cove. Job was a seafaring man and often served as a pilot on the Columbia River.
Job was an associate of an industrious man named Joel Brown, who with others such as Daniel Pegg Wilson, William C. Wilson, Samuel Woodward, Henry Whitcomb, Job, Mark and Seth Bullard and Captain Jackson had cut a wagon road on the portage, crossing from Willapa Bay, Washington to the Columbia River. Joel Brown died before he could finish his dream of developing the Shoalwater Bay area, so Job Lamley and his associates carried on where Joel Brown left off. Their intention was to induce a large immigration of pioneers from Portland to settle on Shoal-Water Bay, now called Willapa Bay. Job Lamley ran an advertisement in the Oregon Statesman newspaper in 1853 describing his route to Shoalwater Bay. Job solicited settlers to travel on the U. S. Mail Boat Union from Portland to Astoria, then to Chinook, then up the Chinook River to William McCarty's Landing, thence by their wagon road to William C. Wilson's Landing and Hotel, then via the Bear River to Shoal water Bay........ "Having the best of sea boats on this line are prepared to take passengers and freight safe and with despatch from Astoria via Chinook, Shoalwater Bay, and back the same route. Accommodations rough and charges high"..... Quite an interest was excited by him among immigrants of Oregon to make Shoalwater Bay their home.
In 1853 Job was brought before the Pacific County Grand Jury, to investigate a possible homicide in an incident when a drunken Indian threatened Job with a club for which he hit the Indian with a paddle and killed him. The first Grand Jury in Pacific County dismissed this case against Job Lamley finding that he had acted in self defense.
In 1857 Job married Sarah Frances Wilson, the daughter of Daniel Pegg Wilson. Job and Sarah together had nine children.
In 1868 Job ventured into a cement making factory with partners J. B. Knapp, J. H. Burl and George T. Hopkins. A large kiln and barrel factory was built near Job's land to handle the anticipated production of cement but unfortunately the raw material were too limited and the operation was closed down.
On 31 May 1869 Job and his wife sold the major portion of his Donation Land Claim to J. B. Knapp who built a large saw mill near there.
On 2 August 1869 Job Lamley took office as the Pacific County Commissioner from his district. He was instrumental in getting the first roads authorized for Knapton, Naselle, Deep River and Grays River.
Job and his family lived in Astoria for some time. He also lived in Bay Center, South Bend, Raymond, Washington. He divorced his wife Sarah, but re-married her and they both lived the rest of their lives in Tacoma, Washington with their sons. Job died at his residence 45TH East B ST Tacoma, Washington on 25 Jun 1911. Job and his wife Sarah were buried in the old Washington Cemetery which has also been known as Riverside Cemetery, Section 18, Town 14 North, Range 8 West, in the present township of Raymondin, Washington.

TRAP CREEK: A logging camp on Trap Creek in the 1910s and 20s. The logging camp was owned and operated by the Quinault Lumber Company of Raymond. The camp took its name from Trap Creek. Some residents say the name Trap Creek" was derived from the fact that both Indians and white settlers trapped animals in the vicinity. Others say that John Louderback and Job Lamley were blazing a trail from Naselle-Grays River to Willapa Valley when Lamley got his foot caught in the branches of a vine maple. Louderback, Lamley's brother-in-law, gave the name Trap Creek to the stream. (13,34)

Sources:

" Knapton The First 50 Years Pacific County, Carlton E. A. 1975.

" The Northwest Coast", James G. Swan.

Pacific County Historical Society, files on Job Lamley.

The Oregon Statesman, 23 Aug 1853, P3 col 2.

Children of SARAH WILSON and JOB LAMLEY are:

JOB H. JR⁶ LAMLEY.

Notes for JOB H. JR LAMLEY:
Job H. Lamley Jr became a famous Columbia River Boat Captain. He was in Nome, Alaska in 1900 to 1903.

Citation: Tacoma Public Library
Union (steamer)
The propeller Union was built at East Portland by E. Sorenson for a party of Gray's River farmers, making her trial trip November 2, 1883. Capt. W. P. Dillon and Job Lamley operated her on the lower river for a few years, and she was finally sent to Alaska. E. W. Wright, Marine business of 1883, Lewis and Drydens Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 308.
Citation: Tacoma Public Library

	ii.		FRANK H. LAMLEY.
	iii.		JOSEPH LAMLEY.
	iv.		LAURA LAMLEY, m. (1) BURNSIDE; m. (2) WILLIAMS.
	v.		WILLIAM L. LAMLEY.
	vi.		GEORGE LAMLEY, b. Abt. 1873; d. 9 April 1891.

Notes for GEORGE LAMLEY:
George drowned as a young man, he was a merchant's clerk employed at Bay Center. He is the first burial at Washington Cemetery which has also been known as Riverside Cemetery. Section 18, Town 14 North, Range 8 West, in the present township of Raymond. The land for the cemetery was donated by Sarah Lamley in 1903.

	vii.		ALICE LAMLEY, m. JAMES CASEY, 31 August 1877.
	viii.		ALLEN LAMLEY.
	ix.		DAN LAMLEY.
	x.		HATTIE LAMLEY.

7. NANCY LOUIZA⁵ WILSON (DANIEL PEGG⁴, JAMES³, THOMAS², JAMES¹) was born 2 January 1844 in Illinois, and died 1 April 1890 in Pacific County, Washington. She married JOHN MARION LOUDERBACK Abt. 1861 in Pacific County, Washington, son of DANIEL LOUDERBACK and REBECCA. He was born 14 May 1832 in Illinois, and died 7 August 1906 in Pacific County, Washington.

Notes for JOHN MARION LOUDERBACK:
John Louderback was an Indian War Veteran. He was a fruit grafter of Willapa Harbor.

Children of NANCY WILSON and JOHN LOUDERBACK are:

	i.	VERLINA B.⁶ LOUDERBACK.
23.	ii.	DANIEL E. LOUDERBACK, b. 29 January 1864, Willapa, Washington Territory; d. 4 January 1934, Willapa, Washington Territory.
24.	iii.	ELMER FLETCHER LOUDERBACK, b. 1 January 1866, Willapa, Washington Territory; d. 24 November 1930, Willapa, Washington Territory.
25.	iv.	ARCHIBALD W. LOUDERBACK, b. 1869, Willapa, Washington Territory.

8. ANN ELIZA CLARK⁵ WILSON (DANIEL PEGG⁴, JAMES³, THOMAS², JAMES¹) was born 13 July 1849 in Illinois, and died 30 January 1880 in Pacific County, Washington. She married WILLIAM MILLS 17 November 1865 in Vancouver, Washington, son of ROBERT MILL and MARGARET MCGREGOR. He was born 8 May 1843 in Wood County, Ohio, and died 16 June 1915 in Vancouver, Washington.

Notes for WILLIAM MILLS:

William Mills was the youngest son of Robert Mill and Margaret McGregor who were from Scotland. William Mills was born in Wood County, Ohio. His father and older brother, John Mill, were already in Oregon when he made the journey to join them in 1857. He traveled from Ohio with his older sister, Mary Jane Mills, to Oregon via the Isthmus of Panama and on the ship Golden Gate.
From about 1857 to 1867, William probably lived in on his father's large farm in Clackamas County on Rock Creek near Damascus, Oregon. It was here probably that William met his future wife, Ann Eliza Wilson. Ann Eliza was a sister of William C. Wilson. William Mills' sister, Mary Jane Mills, was married to this same William C. Wilson. William C. Wilson, John Mill and Robert Mill all had adjoining farms in Clackmas County, Oregon.

The following was taken from the Pacific County Edition of the South Bend Journal dated 1900:

William Mills of Bay Center, one of the pioneers of the oyster business on Willapa Bay, and the leading merchant in Bay Center, was born in Wood county, Ohio, in the year 1843. When he was fourteen years of age his parents removed to Oregon, coming by way of Panama and setting in Clackamas county, where worked on a farm for nearly ten years, married and departed for western Washington, reaching Pacific county in September 1867 and Iocating on the Palix river, where he took up a ranch. In that region at that time there was little else but ducks, oysters and Indians that lived, breathed and had their being.
The possibilities of this region were not unknown, but that he would ever live to see the resources developed was problematical. Naturally, however, having come here for that purpose, he set about in a small way to develop them himself. He farmed for some time and oystered some, devoting whatever spare time he had to keeping peace with the wary Indian, of whom there were some three hundred in his immediate vicinity. Finally he dropped the farm and confined his efforts to oystering and merchandising and has followed this joint enterprise for twenty-five years. He is now enjoying the fruition of his labors, owning large and profitable oyster beds and a prosperous mercantile business. When he had gotten fairly started in the oyster business he began shipping to California about 1200 baskets of the bivalves annually, and from that the annual shipments gradually grew to 3000 baskets and upwards. Up until the first of August this year he shipped 2100 baskets. Mr. Mills store at Bay Center is one of the best kept, most largely patronized and prosperous merchandising establishments in the county. For quarter of a century it has stood as a monument to the integrity, thrift and industry of its Pioneer proprietor. Personally Mr. Mills is much esteemed as an upright man, an enterprising citizen, a good neighbor and a firm friend.

Sometime after 1902, William Mills moved to and lived the remainder of his life in Portland, Oregon. He was a member of The Oregon Pioneers Association. William died at St. Josephs hospital in Vancouver, Washington, while visiting his daughter, Bertha Crandall. His estate was valued at $12, 000. He was buried in the old Pioneer Cemetery , alongside his wife, Anelisa, in Bay Center, Washington.

Children of ANN WILSON and WILLIAM MILLS are:

26.	i.	ADA FRANCESS⁶ MILLS, b. Abt. 1867, Oregon; d. Abt. 1943.
27.	ii.	BERTHA LEONA MILLS, b. 20 January 1869, Bay Center, Washington; d. 8 August 1960, Montgomery, Alabama.
28.	iii.	ROY WILSON MILLS, b. Abt. 1871, Bay Center, Washington; d. 1946, Woodland, Washington.
	iv.	DANIEL ROBERT MILLS, b. 23 July 1873, Bay Center, Washington; d. 11 January 1892, Bay Center, Washington.
	v.	MAY ELLA MILLS, b. Abt. 1875; d. Aft. 1960, Seattle, Washington.

Notes for MAY ELLA MILLS:
May was also known as Ella Mills. She was living at 348 Mill Street, Portland, Oregon in 1915.

29.	vi.		ROSA JUNE MILLS, b. 19 June 1877, Bay Center, Washington; d. 13 August 1970, Bay Center, Washington.
30.	vii.		LLOYD ROLAND MILLS, b. Abt. 1879, Bay Center, Washington; d. Aft. 1964, Portland, Oregon.

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