The Old Family Album
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My Parents

Elmer Ellsworth Rice & Grace Mildred Smith
1899 WA - 1981 CA-------- 1902 KS - 1990 CA
They moved from OR to Long Beach, CA in 1946

My Grandparents

Alfred E. Smith  & Claudia French
1860 KS - 1924 OR--- 1867 IN - 1952 WA
Alfred worked for Southern Pacific RR
The family moved to Kelso, WA from KS about 1908
 

Young, Alfred Smith

Martha "Malissa" Church & Burgess William Rice
1868 WA Territory- 1960 OR  ------ 1850 Kent, England - 1912 OR
Burgess was a Riverboat Captain on the Columbia River
Malissa was said to be the 1st white woman born in
the Long Beach, area of Washington.
 
 

 Church sisters: Bertha, Malissa & Belle
1958

Great Grandparents

Margaret Heller
1844 IN - 1928 KS
 Jay George French
   1843 IN - 1911 KS
They moved from Bluffton, IN about 1886 to Mayview, KS

Younger picture of Jay George French

Aaron Church & Sarah Francis Shaver
1840 -1918 ---- 1848 - 1909
Both of them traveled the Oregon Trail with their parents to Oregon City
Aaron in 1846, Sarah in 1852

Great-Great Grandparents

 Catharine Kreps   Levi Heller
1805 - 1884 ----  1804 - 1883
Pioneers to Wells County, Indiana arriving in 1838
from Pennsylvania via Ohio

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Great, Great, Great Grandparents

Elizabeth Walker
1800 PA - 1877 OR
Married William Shaver 1792 PA - 1842 IA
Traveled on the Oregon trail as a widow from Iowa to Oregon
in 1852 with eleven children

The Old Family Album, pg 2
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The Old Family Album, pg 4
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