Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Rhonda Schiessl of Wisconsin (daughter of Omer Hays), Ginger Henze (granddaughter of Floa Hays Hillis) and John Segraves (grandson of Floa Hays Hillis) on the cemetery bench after its dedication.
WAITSBURG - The third reunion of the Joseph and Ebby Breeze Hays family was held July 8-10 in Waitsburg and Walla Walla.
In 1899, the family migrated west when Joseph and Ebby Hays brought three of their children from Jefferson County, Illinois, to Hood River, Oregon.
Going back eight months later to the Ebby's farm in Illinois, the family was destined to return to the West, settling in Waitsburg as cousin Elmer Stonecipher started growing wheat.
With a need for workers, he brought out the eldest, Robert Mancel in 1912 at the age of 19. Floa Myrtle arrived in 1913 at the age of 17, arriving in...
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