Edward PALMS (information from 1880 Census) Male
Other Information:
Birth Year <1872> Birthplace IN Age 8 Occupation At School Marital Status S <Single> Race W <White> Head of Household Joseph L. PALMS Relation Son Father's Birthplace NY Mother's Birthplace CAN
Source Information: Census Place Perry, Noble, Indiana Family History Library Film 1254301 NA Film Number T9-0301 Page Number 409B
7. Freida Anna Laura Montgomery
Letter written by Helen (Blake) Palms:
..My mother, Frieda Anna Laurie (Montgomery) Blake, met my father, Milton Henry Blake, while still at Bellingham Normal (now Bellingham State College). After she graduated, they were married in 1911. Mother earned her teaching certificate at that time. Mom and dad separated in the summer of 1921 and a year or two later were divorced. Soon after that, dad remarried to a lady from Seattle, named Alice Smith (her previous married name).
Mother, Marge, Bill, and I lived with Grandma & Grandpa Montgomery in their large log cabin. It was located in a valley between two mountains (Mt. Quartsite and Mt. Fairview), northeast of Chewelah, WA. The winters of 1921, 1922, and 1923, all three of us went to a one room country school with about six other pupils. Our mother taught all 6 grades. We walked to and from school. Some of the other students rode horseback to school. Mother and the older children would build a fire in the iron stove and we brought water from the nearby stream (or spring) for the day. The farmers and parents kept a supply of wood for the stove by the door of the school house.
In 1924 and 25, the three of us went to school in Chewelah. We walked 2 miles to a small school bus to ride the last three miles. In January of 1926, mother died in a Spokane hospital. She had been very sick with the flu which developed into meningetis.