Married George Milton Read Jan. 1, 1874 in Anacortes, Skagit, Washington, USA.
Census listings:
1880 - Peshtigo, Marinette, Wisconsin
1900 - Marinette, Marinette, Wisconsin
1910 - North Yakima, Yakima, Washington
1920 - Opportunity, Spokane, Washington
1930 - Seattle, King, Washington - widowed
From The Samuel Slaughter Story:
"Aunt Nan has always seemed to be an independent person. At fourteen, she may have already gone out to work, maybe as a maid, as most girls did in those days, In 1869, when the family packed up and moved down into the states, it didn't take long for her to find a job. In 1870, she was a dressmaker in a store in Menominee, Michigan. In 1874, she and George moved to Peshtigo, Wisconsin before their first child was born, and stayed there until their ninth and last one was born.
Menominee were relatively untouched. The book, "Disaster in the Woods" by Josephine Ingalls Sawyer, said, "the whirling wind carried the fire, now high, now low. Marinette directly in its path, escaped. Only the brush and low growth around the town caught fire, though it kept the men busy trying to control it.
"Of course people of nearby towns were not idle. Men of Marinette and Menominee forced their way through burning logs and hot ashes and brought the survivors of the Peshtigo fire to Marinette, where barracks had been built to house them. The women of the town were volunteer nurses. We in Menominee helped. From far and near food and clothing poured in. It continued coming for months. After the fire destroyed Birch Creek, it leaped over about ten miles of green forest and burned the beautiful beech forest near Greenwoods. Several days after the fire, I went with some friends to try and locate some of their relatives who lived there. It was strange to see those great forest trees lying row after row as though cut with a scythe, their tops pointing towards the north. The trunks of some of those great trees still lie in the birch grove beyond Birch Creek. The fire burned so deeply into the peat bogs near Cedar River that it was still burning a year later. At times during the first winter after, smoke came up through the snow."
Nan and George were the ones to lead the way to the west in 1909.
Sam Slaughter in his memoirs, said, " they left their dog with us (Ed's family), because they couldn't take it on the train." George was the foreman of the Milwaukee Lumber Company, sawmill in Spokane, Washington. He died of cancer of the stomach and is buried in the Fairmont Cemetery, Spokane, Washington. His parents were (3), George and Hannah Reid of Stillwater, Maine. He was a cousin of Thomas Brackett (Reed) http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=11745 - Speaker of the House three consecutive terms."
Mary Ann and George had nine children:
Mary Matilda "Mayme" - (1875-1944)
Martha Jane "Matt" - (1877-1956)
Alice Hannah - (1879-1887)
George Whitney - (1880-1882)
Roderick Charles - (1882-1953)
George Milton Jr - (1884-1900)
William John - (1887-1945)
Leila Irene - (1889-1981)
Maurice Edwin - (1891-1977)
Census listings:
1880 - Peshtigo, Marinette, Wisconsin
1900 - Marinette, Marinette, Wisconsin
1910 - North Yakima, Yakima, Washington
1920 - Opportunity, Spokane, Washington
1930 - Seattle, King, Washington - widowed
From The Samuel Slaughter Story:
"Aunt Nan has always seemed to be an independent person. At fourteen, she may have already gone out to work, maybe as a maid, as most girls did in those days, In 1869, when the family packed up and moved down into the states, it didn't take long for her to find a job. In 1870, she was a dressmaker in a store in Menominee, Michigan. In 1874, she and George moved to Peshtigo, Wisconsin before their first child was born, and stayed there until their ninth and last one was born.
Menominee were relatively untouched. The book, "Disaster in the Woods" by Josephine Ingalls Sawyer, said, "the whirling wind carried the fire, now high, now low. Marinette directly in its path, escaped. Only the brush and low growth around the town caught fire, though it kept the men busy trying to control it.
"Of course people of nearby towns were not idle. Men of Marinette and Menominee forced their way through burning logs and hot ashes and brought the survivors of the Peshtigo fire to Marinette, where barracks had been built to house them. The women of the town were volunteer nurses. We in Menominee helped. From far and near food and clothing poured in. It continued coming for months. After the fire destroyed Birch Creek, it leaped over about ten miles of green forest and burned the beautiful beech forest near Greenwoods. Several days after the fire, I went with some friends to try and locate some of their relatives who lived there. It was strange to see those great forest trees lying row after row as though cut with a scythe, their tops pointing towards the north. The trunks of some of those great trees still lie in the birch grove beyond Birch Creek. The fire burned so deeply into the peat bogs near Cedar River that it was still burning a year later. At times during the first winter after, smoke came up through the snow."
Nan and George were the ones to lead the way to the west in 1909.
Sam Slaughter in his memoirs, said, " they left their dog with us (Ed's family), because they couldn't take it on the train." George was the foreman of the Milwaukee Lumber Company, sawmill in Spokane, Washington. He died of cancer of the stomach and is buried in the Fairmont Cemetery, Spokane, Washington. His parents were (3), George and Hannah Reid of Stillwater, Maine. He was a cousin of Thomas Brackett (Reed) http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=11745 - Speaker of the House three consecutive terms."
Mary Ann and George had nine children:
Mary Matilda "Mayme" - (1875-1944)
Martha Jane "Matt" - (1877-1956)
Alice Hannah - (1879-1887)
George Whitney - (1880-1882)
Roderick Charles - (1882-1953)
George Milton Jr - (1884-1900)
William John - (1887-1945)
Leila Irene - (1889-1981)
Maurice Edwin - (1891-1977)
Married George Milton Read Jan. 1, 1874 in Anacortes, Skagit, Washington, USA.
Census listings:
1880 - Peshtigo, Marinette, Wisconsin
1900 - Marinette, Marinette, Wisconsin
1910 - North Yakima, Yakima, Washington
1920 - Opportunity, Spokane, Washington
1930 - Seattle, King, Washington - widowed
From The Samuel Slaughter Story:
"Aunt Nan has always seemed to be an independent person. At fourteen, she may have already gone out to work, maybe as a maid, as most girls did in those days, In 1869, when the family packed up and moved down into the states, it didn't take long for her to find a job. In 1870, she was a dressmaker in a store in Menominee, Michigan. In 1874, she and George moved to Peshtigo, Wisconsin before their first child was born, and stayed there until their ninth and last one was born.
Menominee were relatively untouched. The book, "Disaster in the Woods" by Josephine Ingalls Sawyer, said, "the whirling wind carried the fire, now high, now low. Marinette directly in its path, escaped. Only the brush and low growth around the town caught fire, though it kept the men busy trying to control it.
"Of course people of nearby towns were not idle. Men of Marinette and Menominee forced their way through burning logs and hot ashes and brought the survivors of the Peshtigo fire to Marinette, where barracks had been built to house them. The women of the town were volunteer nurses. We in Menominee helped. From far and near food and clothing poured in. It continued coming for months. After the fire destroyed Birch Creek, it leaped over about ten miles of green forest and burned the beautiful beech forest near Greenwoods. Several days after the fire, I went with some friends to try and locate some of their relatives who lived there. It was strange to see those great forest trees lying row after row as though cut with a scythe, their tops pointing towards the north. The trunks of some of those great trees still lie in the birch grove beyond Birch Creek. The fire burned so deeply into the peat bogs near Cedar River that it was still burning a year later. At times during the first winter after, smoke came up through the snow."
Nan and George were the ones to lead the way to the west in 1909.
Sam Slaughter in his memoirs, said, " they left their dog with us (Ed's family), because they couldn't take it on the train." George was the foreman of the Milwaukee Lumber Company, sawmill in Spokane, Washington. He died of cancer of the stomach and is buried in the Fairmont Cemetery, Spokane, Washington. His parents were (3), George and Hannah Reid of Stillwater, Maine. He was a cousin of Thomas Brackett (Reed) http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=11745 - Speaker of the House three consecutive terms."
Mary Ann and George had nine children:
Mary Matilda "Mayme" - (1875-1944)
Martha Jane "Matt" - (1877-1956)
Alice Hannah - (1879-1887)
George Whitney - (1880-1882)
Roderick Charles - (1882-1953)
George Milton Jr - (1884-1900)
William John - (1887-1945)
Leila Irene - (1889-1981)
Maurice Edwin - (1891-1977)
Census listings:
1880 - Peshtigo, Marinette, Wisconsin
1900 - Marinette, Marinette, Wisconsin
1910 - North Yakima, Yakima, Washington
1920 - Opportunity, Spokane, Washington
1930 - Seattle, King, Washington - widowed
From The Samuel Slaughter Story:
"Aunt Nan has always seemed to be an independent person. At fourteen, she may have already gone out to work, maybe as a maid, as most girls did in those days, In 1869, when the family packed up and moved down into the states, it didn't take long for her to find a job. In 1870, she was a dressmaker in a store in Menominee, Michigan. In 1874, she and George moved to Peshtigo, Wisconsin before their first child was born, and stayed there until their ninth and last one was born.
Menominee were relatively untouched. The book, "Disaster in the Woods" by Josephine Ingalls Sawyer, said, "the whirling wind carried the fire, now high, now low. Marinette directly in its path, escaped. Only the brush and low growth around the town caught fire, though it kept the men busy trying to control it.
"Of course people of nearby towns were not idle. Men of Marinette and Menominee forced their way through burning logs and hot ashes and brought the survivors of the Peshtigo fire to Marinette, where barracks had been built to house them. The women of the town were volunteer nurses. We in Menominee helped. From far and near food and clothing poured in. It continued coming for months. After the fire destroyed Birch Creek, it leaped over about ten miles of green forest and burned the beautiful beech forest near Greenwoods. Several days after the fire, I went with some friends to try and locate some of their relatives who lived there. It was strange to see those great forest trees lying row after row as though cut with a scythe, their tops pointing towards the north. The trunks of some of those great trees still lie in the birch grove beyond Birch Creek. The fire burned so deeply into the peat bogs near Cedar River that it was still burning a year later. At times during the first winter after, smoke came up through the snow."
Nan and George were the ones to lead the way to the west in 1909.
Sam Slaughter in his memoirs, said, " they left their dog with us (Ed's family), because they couldn't take it on the train." George was the foreman of the Milwaukee Lumber Company, sawmill in Spokane, Washington. He died of cancer of the stomach and is buried in the Fairmont Cemetery, Spokane, Washington. His parents were (3), George and Hannah Reid of Stillwater, Maine. He was a cousin of Thomas Brackett (Reed) http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=11745 - Speaker of the House three consecutive terms."
Mary Ann and George had nine children:
Mary Matilda "Mayme" - (1875-1944)
Martha Jane "Matt" - (1877-1956)
Alice Hannah - (1879-1887)
George Whitney - (1880-1882)
Roderick Charles - (1882-1953)
George Milton Jr - (1884-1900)
William John - (1887-1945)
Leila Irene - (1889-1981)
Maurice Edwin - (1891-1977)
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