The Goldendale Sentinel, Goldendale, WA., November 30, 1944, page 1

LINC HUOT PASSES AWAY HERE SUNDAY; FUNERAL WEDNESDAY

Lincoln Huot, long a resident of Goodnoe Hills, passed away early Sunday morning at the Goldendale General hospital, where he had been admitted only the evening before. However, he had been ill for the past two months.

Funeral services were held Wednesday at 1:30 at the Phillips Funeral home, with J.C. Gaw, minister of the local Church of Christ officiating. Interment was at the I.O.O.F. cemetery.

Linc Huot was 58 years old, having been born February 12, 1877. He came to Washington in 1902, and was married in 1904 to Oma Gerling. He is survived by two sons and eight daughters: Leland of Vancouver and Roy of the U.S. Navy, now home on leave and Mrs. Lloyd Barrett of Duval, Mrs. Willard Doughty, Hood River, Mrs. Glenn Powell of Goldendale, Mrs. William Frey, Mrs. Robert Frey, Mrs. Carl Suksdorf and Mrs. Raymond Scott of Bingen and Mrs. Kenneth Barnes of Spokane.

Besides his wife and children, he is also survived by two brothers, Leon and Albert of Camino, Calif., one sister, Mary and a half-sister, Elsie of Sacramento and 20 grand-children.
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Lincoln was the son of French Joe Huot and Kate (Severiano). Joe was a miner and our family story has it that Kate was an orphin found on a raft after a California flood and raised by a Mexican family, her own family never found her. She was Joe's second wife. Joe's first wife and child died in the same flood (note there is a newspaper story about this). French Joe Huot later married Lincoln's mother Kate Severiano as a child bride. They were married April 1872 in Weaverville, Trinity County, CA. Sadly Lincolns aging father died in 1892 and his young mother died in 1898 leaving the children to fend for themselves.
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1900 California (Shasta County) Census
DH # Last Name First Name Relation Age Birthplace, Fathers BP, Mothers BP, occupation

1900 Buckeye Township, Shast County, California
305 Forrester, Elizabeth Head 66 IL KY blank Farmer
*Huot, Lincoln Boarder 23 CA FRA CA Laborer
*Huot, Albert Boarder 14 CA FRA CA at school(Lincoln's brother)
*Huot, Mary Boarder 11 CA FRA CA at school(Lincoln's sister)
*Smith, George Boarder 8 CA CA CA (blank) (Lincoln's 1/2 brother)
*Smith, Elsie Boarder 6 CA CA CA(blank) (Lincoln's 1/2 sister)

1900 Round Mountain Township, Shasta County, CA
184 *Huot, Joseph blank age 25 CA FRA CA Common Laborer (Lincoln's brother)
*Huot, John 24 CA FRA CA Common Laborer (Lincoln's brother)

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Sent to us Feb 2005 from my cousin Rachel (Visser) Lotts

1910 Census Sand Springs, Klickitat County, Washington

LINCOLN HUOT age 32 Head
(born in California; Father's Birthplace- France; Mother's Birthplace- California)
OMA C. HUOT age 25 wife b. WA fa b. Germany mother b. Wisconsin
LELAND F. HUOT age 3 son b. WA
MARY H. HUOT age 2 daughter b. WA
FRANCES L. HUOT age 10 months daughter b. WA
ERNEST L.GERLING age 32 brother in law b. WA father b. Germany
EDWARD S. GERLING age 34 brother in law b. Oregon father b. Germany

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1920 Census Sand Springs, Klickitat County, Washington

Lincoln Huot age 43
Oma Huot age 34
Leland Huot age 13
Mary Huot age 11
Francis Huot age10
Gladys Huot age 8
Edna Huot age 5
Dolly Huot age 3
Verna Huot age 1

Doughty W.G. age 35 Oregon
May wife age 31 Missouri
Willard Son age 13 Oregon
Ruth daughter age 11 Washington

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The Morning Oregonian Newspaper
GOLDENDALE, Wash., Aug. 30, 1929
Watermelon Weighs 50 Pounds.
A Cuban Queen watermelon grown
by Lincoln Huot, gardener and orchardist,
near Squally Hook on the Columbia river in
the Goodnoe hills section of Klickitat
county, is on exhibition at Goldendale.
The melon was grown without irrigation
and Mr. Huot says that his September melons
will attain a much larger size and weigh
in the vicinity of 60 pounds.

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1930 Census Spring Creek, Klickitat County, Washington

Lincoln Huot age 53 b. Washington father b. France mother b. California general farmer
Oma Huot age 44 b. WA father b. Germany mother b. Wisconsin
Francis Huot age 20 daughter
Gladys Huot age 18 daughter
Edna Huot age 15 daughter
Dolly Huot age 14 daughter
Verna Huot age 11 daughter
Roy Huot age 9 son
Etta Huot 8 daughter
Vada Huot 4 years 7 months daughter
Ed Gerling age 53 brother in law works on farm

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1940 Census Goodnoe Hills, Klickitat, Washington Sheet 1A

Lincoln Huot Head age 63 Diversified farmer own farm value 800 b. CA
Oma Huot Wife age 53 b. Washington Completed Elementary school, 8th grade
Roy Huot age 19 son b. WA
Etta Mae Huot age 17 daughter b. WA
Vada Huot age 13 daughter b. WA

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from cousin Richard M. Powell 2003 info

"Oma Huot was my great-grandmother. Other members of my family have done a bit of research into the family histories. Just a little random information that has been passed along to me:

"... Lincoln Huot fell in love with the farmer's daughter, Oma Carrie Evalina Gerling. Oma Gerling's father was not too fond of Lincoln Huot and made some attempts to dissuade the two from getting married but Oma would have no part of it. Lincoln Huot and Oma Gerling were married September 4, 1904, at high noon in the Hall Hotel in Goldendale, Washington. His brother Leon [Huot] and May A. Courtway stood up for the bride and groom at the wedding.

"The first home of Lincoln and Oma's was the Tone Cortney (or Courtway) place located on the Chamberlain-Goodnoe Road about 3 miles west of the old Goodnoe Hills store. Before 1906, Lincoln applied for a 'Homestead' on 120 acres of land located about 1 and 1/2 miles north west of the Tone Cortney place. He finally received his 'Patent' deed in 1909 on this 120 acres. His brother applied for a piece of land at the same time, just one mile south of Lincoln's and received his 'Patent' deed at the same time." [Donald J. Barnes, 1998]

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Lincoln's Father-in-law's (Fred Gerling) interview also gives us a tidbit:

"My daughter Oma, and her husband, Lincoln Huot, now raises watermelons on a farm that was once part of the place owned by "Chance" Goodnoe. Cook & Co."
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Written by Vada (Huot) Scott on April 9, 1965 continued from Oma's family tree notes:

"This love affair terminated into a long, happy and fruitful marriage (we'll speak of the fruit later. Their wedding night was one long to be remembered in the halls of time, as relatives came to the happy little honeymoon cottage and spent the night with them playing cards. So began a lovely and peaceful life together."
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According to a typed page from Mae and Willie Doughty's descendents:
"Linc and Oma's first home was "The Old Courtney Place" later owned by family (The Doughtys)"
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Written later by Vada (Huot) now remarried as Jones and placed in Klickitat Book:
"One year after their marriage Oma became critically ill with pneumonia. To save her life, Linc put her in the buck-board and took her over the treacherous grade to Goodnoe station where she was transported by train to St. Vincent Hospital in Portland. Her 30 days in the hospital cost $30 (for a private room)."

"Oma and Linc ran the Hungry Tiger Restaurant in Goodnoe Hills. After Dollie's birth they moved to Chamberlain Flat where Linc farmed a 160 acre ranch.
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An article in the "Goldendale Sentinel" dated about 1935 gave him the title "Watermelon King of Klickitat County". The Old No. 27 School house in Chamberlain Flat was where all the Huot children attended school from the 1910s until it was no longer used in the late 1930s."
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Linc died in the Goldendale Hospital in 1944. Oma then made her home in Bingen, Washington in 1945 where she spent the remainder of her years, joining her husband in heaven in 1970.

Property belonging to Oma Huot was sold around 1946 to family (the Powells). The old house that was once a stage coach stop was remodeled.

Lincoln and Oma Huot were the parents of:
Leland Huot (see his collection upstairs Goldendale Museum)
Mary Hilda (Huot) Barrett
Frances
Gladys
Edna
Dolly
Verna
Roy
Etta
Vada*

"MEMOIRS OF GRANDMA AND GRANDPA"
(as related by Aunts Gladys, Nola, Etta and Edna in 1975 Huot Cuz'n Reunion held in Hood River Oregon

Lincoln Huot was "watermelon king" one summer with an editorial in the newspaper.

Grandma "Omie" pulled the phone off the wall of our house to take to Aunt Frances and Uncle Willard a few miles away, so she could call the doctor when Lawrence Doughty, the first grandchild was born.

Summer times- huge picnics at the Wheat Rock or Towal and we went by wagon to the Wheat Rock down over the sand hill through the sage brush. We would swim all day in the Columbia River.


Grandpa and Grandma Omie would bundle up the children into the end of the truck with a long seat on each side to go to Goodnoe Hills school to dances and dance all night getting home in time to milk the cows before they went to bed, The ten miles to the dance was over a steep one way grade with muddy ruts. Neighbors on our way, who didn't have rides would ride with us and we were loaded to capacity but the time we arrived. The younger ones slept after a few dances on the school benches and the older ones danced the night away. Midnight was coffee, cake, pie and sandwiches!

Once a year usually the 4th of July Grandpa Huot would call Mt. Hood Ice Cream Company in Portland and have 5 gallons each of vanilla and strawberry ice cream sent by train to Towal. It was packed in ice in wooden kegs- what a day going to the station to pick it up!

Every Christmas Grandpa Huot ordered from Pacific Fruit and Produce Company a wooden crate of oranges, a whole stock of bananas in a round wooden crate packed in shredded paper, 25 pounds of hard candy in a bucket (and it didn't have a false bottom) Also coconuts and sweet potatoes- What a feast!!!

Instead of candy bars- Grandma Omie made taffy and cooled in shallow buttered plates. The older ones would pull the taffy with buttered fingers some tinted with green or pink The little ones had saucers of taffy to pull, so only a teeny amount as we'd drop it. And after pulling it, the taffy would be almost a chocolate color, but we ate our own...dirt and all!


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