Herald Reporter - Dec 7, 1950
MRS. ADAMS, A PATEROS PIONEER, RECALLS EARLY DAYS
There was nothing but one cabin on the hill beside the Columbia where the town of Pateros now lies when Mrs. A. L. Adams arrived with her husband and two children in 1888. Few, if any, of today's residents could take issue with Mrs. Adams' recollection of the spot for she is generally regarded as Pateros' oldest living pioneer at 84.
Born in Cassville, Missouri, Mrs. Adams, then a Pasley, crossed the plains and mountains with her mother and six brothers and sisters when she was about 12. As part of a long wagon train, they came to join her father who had homesteaded in the Palouse country, then in Oregon territory.
After marriage and a few years to the South of the Columbia, Mr. and Mrs. Adams followed her parents here. They traveled by steamboat from Rock Island and alighted at the William Pasley ranch across the Columbia and a mile North of present day Pateros. They took up their homestead on the West side of the river, planting their first orchard in 1889.
"We planted two or three entire orchards," says Mrs. Adams now. "We had mostly peaches first but those trees didn't bear too long. Then we put in apples but when the Delicious were fistt being grown everything else had to go out."
Pasley, Mrs. Adams' father, had given up cattle raising in what is now eastern Washington to start fruit growing here. It proved more successful than raising livestock most of which perished in the severe winters' six feet of drifting snow.
To visit her parents and brother who also homesteaded on the East side of the river, Mrs. Adams frequently seated the children on the planking of rowboat or canoe and paddled the width of the Columbia. She speaks of it today as if it were not great feat.
In fact, one has the impression when talking to Mrs. Adams that she has always been a lively person. "Why," she says, "I haven't picked apples since I was 80 years old." Asked about this year's apple crop she finds it "one of the heaviest crops we ever had. and we had about the least help."
Of her six children, four are here, her daughter, Mrs. Clyde Miller, and her sons, Francis, Arthur and Ralph, the last two of whom handle the orchard work and "run the place."
Mrs. Adams survives her twin sister, Mrs. Juliza Tuttle, a Chelan resident for many years, who passed away recently in a Seattle hospital. But she heads a family which includes 10 grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren.
Washington Death Certificate
Name: Anna Liza Adams
Death Date: 03 Feb 1951
Death Place: Brewster, Okanogan, Washington
Gender: Female
Age at Death: 84 years
Estimated Birth Year: 1867
Father's Name: Pasley
Mother's Name: Rubble
Film Number: 2032979
Digital GS Number: 4223319
Image Number: 155
Volume/Page/Certificate Number: rn 2855
MRS. ADAMS, A PATEROS PIONEER, RECALLS EARLY DAYS
There was nothing but one cabin on the hill beside the Columbia where the town of Pateros now lies when Mrs. A. L. Adams arrived with her husband and two children in 1888. Few, if any, of today's residents could take issue with Mrs. Adams' recollection of the spot for she is generally regarded as Pateros' oldest living pioneer at 84.
Born in Cassville, Missouri, Mrs. Adams, then a Pasley, crossed the plains and mountains with her mother and six brothers and sisters when she was about 12. As part of a long wagon train, they came to join her father who had homesteaded in the Palouse country, then in Oregon territory.
After marriage and a few years to the South of the Columbia, Mr. and Mrs. Adams followed her parents here. They traveled by steamboat from Rock Island and alighted at the William Pasley ranch across the Columbia and a mile North of present day Pateros. They took up their homestead on the West side of the river, planting their first orchard in 1889.
"We planted two or three entire orchards," says Mrs. Adams now. "We had mostly peaches first but those trees didn't bear too long. Then we put in apples but when the Delicious were fistt being grown everything else had to go out."
Pasley, Mrs. Adams' father, had given up cattle raising in what is now eastern Washington to start fruit growing here. It proved more successful than raising livestock most of which perished in the severe winters' six feet of drifting snow.
To visit her parents and brother who also homesteaded on the East side of the river, Mrs. Adams frequently seated the children on the planking of rowboat or canoe and paddled the width of the Columbia. She speaks of it today as if it were not great feat.
In fact, one has the impression when talking to Mrs. Adams that she has always been a lively person. "Why," she says, "I haven't picked apples since I was 80 years old." Asked about this year's apple crop she finds it "one of the heaviest crops we ever had. and we had about the least help."
Of her six children, four are here, her daughter, Mrs. Clyde Miller, and her sons, Francis, Arthur and Ralph, the last two of whom handle the orchard work and "run the place."
Mrs. Adams survives her twin sister, Mrs. Juliza Tuttle, a Chelan resident for many years, who passed away recently in a Seattle hospital. But she heads a family which includes 10 grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren.
Washington Death Certificate
Name: Anna Liza Adams
Death Date: 03 Feb 1951
Death Place: Brewster, Okanogan, Washington
Gender: Female
Age at Death: 84 years
Estimated Birth Year: 1867
Father's Name: Pasley
Mother's Name: Rubble
Film Number: 2032979
Digital GS Number: 4223319
Image Number: 155
Volume/Page/Certificate Number: rn 2855
Herald Reporter - Dec 7, 1950
MRS. ADAMS, A PATEROS PIONEER, RECALLS EARLY DAYS
There was nothing but one cabin on the hill beside the Columbia where the town of Pateros now lies when Mrs. A. L. Adams arrived with her husband and two children in 1888. Few, if any, of today's residents could take issue with Mrs. Adams' recollection of the spot for she is generally regarded as Pateros' oldest living pioneer at 84.
Born in Cassville, Missouri, Mrs. Adams, then a Pasley, crossed the plains and mountains with her mother and six brothers and sisters when she was about 12. As part of a long wagon train, they came to join her father who had homesteaded in the Palouse country, then in Oregon territory.
After marriage and a few years to the South of the Columbia, Mr. and Mrs. Adams followed her parents here. They traveled by steamboat from Rock Island and alighted at the William Pasley ranch across the Columbia and a mile North of present day Pateros. They took up their homestead on the West side of the river, planting their first orchard in 1889.
"We planted two or three entire orchards," says Mrs. Adams now. "We had mostly peaches first but those trees didn't bear too long. Then we put in apples but when the Delicious were fistt being grown everything else had to go out."
Pasley, Mrs. Adams' father, had given up cattle raising in what is now eastern Washington to start fruit growing here. It proved more successful than raising livestock most of which perished in the severe winters' six feet of drifting snow.
To visit her parents and brother who also homesteaded on the East side of the river, Mrs. Adams frequently seated the children on the planking of rowboat or canoe and paddled the width of the Columbia. She speaks of it today as if it were not great feat.
In fact, one has the impression when talking to Mrs. Adams that she has always been a lively person. "Why," she says, "I haven't picked apples since I was 80 years old." Asked about this year's apple crop she finds it "one of the heaviest crops we ever had. and we had about the least help."
Of her six children, four are here, her daughter, Mrs. Clyde Miller, and her sons, Francis, Arthur and Ralph, the last two of whom handle the orchard work and "run the place."
Mrs. Adams survives her twin sister, Mrs. Juliza Tuttle, a Chelan resident for many years, who passed away recently in a Seattle hospital. But she heads a family which includes 10 grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren.
Washington Death Certificate
Name: Anna Liza Adams
Death Date: 03 Feb 1951
Death Place: Brewster, Okanogan, Washington
Gender: Female
Age at Death: 84 years
Estimated Birth Year: 1867
Father's Name: Pasley
Mother's Name: Rubble
Film Number: 2032979
Digital GS Number: 4223319
Image Number: 155
Volume/Page/Certificate Number: rn 2855
MRS. ADAMS, A PATEROS PIONEER, RECALLS EARLY DAYS
There was nothing but one cabin on the hill beside the Columbia where the town of Pateros now lies when Mrs. A. L. Adams arrived with her husband and two children in 1888. Few, if any, of today's residents could take issue with Mrs. Adams' recollection of the spot for she is generally regarded as Pateros' oldest living pioneer at 84.
Born in Cassville, Missouri, Mrs. Adams, then a Pasley, crossed the plains and mountains with her mother and six brothers and sisters when she was about 12. As part of a long wagon train, they came to join her father who had homesteaded in the Palouse country, then in Oregon territory.
After marriage and a few years to the South of the Columbia, Mr. and Mrs. Adams followed her parents here. They traveled by steamboat from Rock Island and alighted at the William Pasley ranch across the Columbia and a mile North of present day Pateros. They took up their homestead on the West side of the river, planting their first orchard in 1889.
"We planted two or three entire orchards," says Mrs. Adams now. "We had mostly peaches first but those trees didn't bear too long. Then we put in apples but when the Delicious were fistt being grown everything else had to go out."
Pasley, Mrs. Adams' father, had given up cattle raising in what is now eastern Washington to start fruit growing here. It proved more successful than raising livestock most of which perished in the severe winters' six feet of drifting snow.
To visit her parents and brother who also homesteaded on the East side of the river, Mrs. Adams frequently seated the children on the planking of rowboat or canoe and paddled the width of the Columbia. She speaks of it today as if it were not great feat.
In fact, one has the impression when talking to Mrs. Adams that she has always been a lively person. "Why," she says, "I haven't picked apples since I was 80 years old." Asked about this year's apple crop she finds it "one of the heaviest crops we ever had. and we had about the least help."
Of her six children, four are here, her daughter, Mrs. Clyde Miller, and her sons, Francis, Arthur and Ralph, the last two of whom handle the orchard work and "run the place."
Mrs. Adams survives her twin sister, Mrs. Juliza Tuttle, a Chelan resident for many years, who passed away recently in a Seattle hospital. But she heads a family which includes 10 grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren.
Washington Death Certificate
Name: Anna Liza Adams
Death Date: 03 Feb 1951
Death Place: Brewster, Okanogan, Washington
Gender: Female
Age at Death: 84 years
Estimated Birth Year: 1867
Father's Name: Pasley
Mother's Name: Rubble
Film Number: 2032979
Digital GS Number: 4223319
Image Number: 155
Volume/Page/Certificate Number: rn 2855
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