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DEAT 2 PLAC Spokane Washington

Gladys was a Latin and English teacher and librarian in the Wilbur, Washington schools for many years. She went back to teaching after the death of her husband, and retired in the 60's. She then substitute taught all over the region and took up golf.
She loved to garden.
From early pictures, she seems to have done a lot of outdoor sports with her husband. She remained devastated by his sudden death She had taught earlier (1920's?) at Roosevelt School in Spokane, where her niece Joy Mewhinney has taught kindergarten in the 1990's.
An autobiography prepared for Miss Marguerite Cross (my first French teacher) for some organization.
Upon my granguation from high school in Colorado Springs, Colo,June 1917, I had earned the scholarship to the University of Colorado, but my parents thought I was too young to live away from home at that time, so I attended Colorado College in Colorado Springs.
At the end of that year, our family moved to Davenport, Washington, and I entered EWSC for the year 1918 plus its summer session. On Aug 2, 1918, I received my Normal School Elementary Diploma.
That school year of 1918, I began teaching departmental in grades 5,6,7, and 8 in Wilbur,WA . In those days, 8th grade graduates had to pass state examination and I fondly remember being notified that the highest examination grades in the state were attained by my students in all their subjects I had - geography, history,physiology,etc.
I was working for ? per month ?? at the larger town of Pasco, Wa for $100 per month to teach just the siixth grade appealed to me and I taught there the next two years. I then applied in Spokane and got a sixth grade position which I held for four years.
I recall it was there in Spokane where i first had the privilege and opportunity to vote in the state and national elections. I have always enjoyed every place I've ever taught, but I had met the one and only Stanley Breed, District Manager for the Washington Water Power Company in the Davenport area, so I was ready to retire - and that despite all the earlier urging in 1918 on the part of Dr. C.S. Kingston, my favorite teacher with the master mind, who had always urged me "Gladys, don't ever give up but go on to get a degree." I'm sure only Stan could have influenced me to give up on teaching.
I retired at the end of the school year , and we were married on June 154, 1924. Stan always said that was why the flags were flown everywhere on that (flag) day.
We lived at Davenport, when my husband was promoted to the larger district of Wilbur, WA. It has seemed rather odd to have Wilbur so woven into my existence. We lived in a rented house until we built our new home adn moved there in 1936. But that joy was short lived. On November 3, 1943, my husband, so young, hale and hearty, died instantly of his first heart attack.
The school soon, in November, was calling me to substitute. My first substitution was in grade two, and I'd never taught that low, but it was a joy. I remember the small son of friends in whose home I visited addressed me as "Gladys" for he was familiar with that name. I didn't let on at all, and he never again repeated that alleged offense. The school kept me busy substituting most of that year and I was hired for grade seven the next year. To me it was oddly interesting that I came back to the room where my same desk, used in my first year of teaching, was located -facilities used by Mrs. Rhinehardt.
Beginning that first summer when I was alone, I enrolled at the University of Washington to do as the learned Dr. Kingston had urged me - to earn my degree. It was the only thing I wanted to do, and I've sometimes hope Dr. Kingston knew I heeded his advice.
I was , of course, continually rehired in the grades until I had had my eight U of W summer sessions and had earned my B.A. degree inthe College of Education in August 19, 1949 (majoring in English and Library Science) and finished my fifth year credits on June 10,1950. Then I came back from that summer session to have the Superintendent of the Wilbur Schools, Walter Hitchcock, ask me to take a position in the high school instead of the grades.
English and Library Science had been my major fields so , after doing history, Latin,physical education, plus " what have you", I soon was the all-school librarian (setting up the library in our lovely new building), the head of the English Department,and advisor of the Girls' League for the next fourteen years, supervised and coached declamation, had P.E.,etc. My Latin student won the all-state competition in that subject, I've forgotten the year, but I didn't think a small school student had a chance. Also I handled the
competitive spelling matches and my girl student went to the top in Spokane's competition.
On June 6, 1965, I was given a marvelous retirement reception by the faculty. townspeople, and many students. Thereafter, I kept too busy to think of moving elsewhere. I've substituted in Wilbur, Almira, Grand Coulee, Coulee Dam, Nespelem, Omak, an was asked to sign bu the year at Creston and Omak. But I'd gone through with the disagreeable settling of retirement and didn't want to upset it. At Nespelem I had a long substitution setting up a high school library "from scratch", and having three helpers employed, and I was at Omak on the library, too. Also, I taught English in the night extension classes at the Moses Lake Community College at Grand Coulee. This later I decline the second year as winter driving was too foggy and hazardous. Anyway, my experience has included elementary, high school, and adult education classes, all of which I've enjoyed.
I still judge the declamation contests here and in neighboring towns, get remembered by my former Girl's League, have fun being included in class reunions, get Christmas pictures of the offspring of former studentss, etc. I have so many albums I feel I'll ultimately leave them to the local museum.
I've no idea what you expected in the way of an autobiography, but I'm sure you'll find mine long and tedious. Somewhere, I do remember
we were asked to send in a compilation of our teaching experiences, and, though I'm not sure where to send it, I've tried to fulfill the request, Sincerely, Gladys Breed

Gladys married Stanley Breed on 14 Jun 1924. Stanley died on 3 Nov 1943 in Wilbur, Washington. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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John Thomas Fulkerson was born October 9, 1862, in Salinas County, Mo..
As a young man he went to New Mexico as a cowboy. He spoke Spanish while there. He farmed two orchards in Arkansas, and traded for a stock ranch in Colorado, 15 miles north of Colorado Springs. The family moved to Colorado Springs where they owned various properties, including a block of buildings. In 1917, the family moved to Davenport, Washington where he ranched, worked as custodian in the county court house, and died in on January 1, 1950.
He had a stock ranch 15 miles north of Colorado Springs, He married Nancy Plumlee, in Arkansas, on Nov. 11, 1887. She was also born in Saline County, Mo, Feb 16, 1867, and died on June 1, 1934, in Davenport, Wash. They had five children.
Grandpa was tall. He called me " Blossom"
He was the son orphaned by the death of Elizabeth Zinn, and went to live with grandparents. His father remarried. They ran a hotel in San Francisco in the late 1860's - early 70's , then returned to Berryville to run 475 acre orchards. He left home early to be away from the new family. He returned for Nancy Laminda Plumlee. He said he was waiting for her to grow up to marry her, in 1887.
At 14, Grandpa left home to run a hotel (interview with Earl T.
Fulkerson 12/88) Returned to Arkansas. Homesick for Arkansas and the land.
Grandpa went to Texas, Mexico,and then to Arkansas to marry Nancy Plumlee 25 or 30. Then farmed in Arkansas for about 10 or so years. Gladys was born in Arkansas.
According to ETF, they farmed in Arkansas for about 10 or 12 years and moved to Colorado Springs to seek a healthy climate for Grandma (Nancy { Minda} ) Plumlee. He traded a stock ranch then irrigated farming, then moved to Colorado Springs. Houston was too high. La Junta, Colorado.
They moved to the Northwest to Creston Butte, WA to stock raising area.
Lots moved from Arkansas. The Plumlees lived with and off of Grandpa.
He had a 1/2 sister, Sarah (Sally) Rutter and her husband Arthur who lived in Davenport. Sarah?died before he got there. Her grave is in Davenport. THey moved in 18998 to Davenport .Friends practically raised in Colorado moved. Arthur had a brother or two. They had three children.
Tom finally moved to ? probably all dead (ETF)
Jim Rutter laid carpet , hung wallpaper
When Sally died, AA moved to Spokane and remarried.
Jum and Charles Rutter were really stepbrothers to Granpa. Sally was a step-sister
Jim was thefather of Lois who married a Gilkerson who lived in Grangeville.
Gilkerson had a grocery store in Grangeville, Idaho. The house burned down. All the family history that she had collected was lost. Her children died young.
Plumlee family mooched off grandpa in Colorado.
Great Grandma died during Price's raid
Berry ville was an island in the White River. Parents retreated to Jefferson City during War and Jessie may have been born there. Birth certificate shows Jessie born at Carroll Co, near Eureka Springs.
Plumlees lived near there
Developed fruit drying process

John married Nancy LaMinda (minda) Plumlee on 11 Nov 1887 in Oak Grove, Carroll, Arkansas, USA. Nancy (daughter of Joel Plumlee and Mary Jane Potter) was born on 16 Feb 1867 in Saline, Missouri, USA; died on 1 Jun 1934 in Davenport, Washington. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Nancy was called Minda by her friends
Her quilts are shared by her granddaughters whom she never knew The last time Dad saw her was a Mother's Day picnic when Dad was graduating from Washington State at Pullman.
She is buried in Riverside in Spokane with her husband.
There are letters to her from Fern, her daughter-in-law.

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taken from history compiled by Ruth Richardson Kennedy and others.
He moved with his family to Saline County, Missouri in 1853. During the Civil War hw was an officer in the Union Army. He commenced his service as a recruiting offficer and then was made Captain of the 45th and 50th Volunteers.
He married first a Miller, who had a heart attack and died a few weeks after their marriage. His second wife was Elizabeth Zinn. They had two children John Thomas Fulkerson and an infant.
Rebel Quantrell and his band are said to have frightened the young wife so she would tell the whereabouts of her husband . She and the newborn baby soon died. Tom went back to his grandparents, Fredrick and Sarah Fulkerson, to live - or to his Zinn grandparents.
(Per Earl T. Fulkerson 12/88 :) Great Grandpa Fulkerosn was in the Civil War , starting as a recruiting officer and was captain of the 45th and 50th Volunteers.
James' third marriage was to Ellen Worthington I847 d. 189?. Ellen lived in Saline County, MO and was a friend of the Fulkerson family. (She probably lived at their home with a group of families banded together for protection).
In the late 60's or early 70's they moved to San Francisco and ran a hotel for several years. They became homesick for Arkansas and land.
Civil war
Missouri was North and Arkansas South
raiding parties
Great grandma died during Price's raid
Farms, land, character buy land
Berryville was an island in the White River. Parents retreated to Jefferson City during War and Jessie may have been born there. Birth certificate shows Jessie was born in Carroll City near Eureka Springs.
Plumlees lived there and developed a fruit drying process.
California period had property and a farm. (per E.T. Fulkerson 12/88}

James married Elizabeth Zinn. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Lived at the boundary of the North and South. She died giving birth as a result of fright from a raid by Quantrell, during the Civil War leaving Grandpa as a 2 year old. Granpa went to his father's family in Missouri as a 2 year old.
interview with E.T. Fulkerson 12/88

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info from Ruth Royston ( Champlin)
Joel Plumlee born in Carrol County Arkansas, who fought in the Civil War (North) County Surveyor, Sheriff, served on juries. Had 11 children, see info under Julie Champlin
per Earl T. Fulkerson 12/88: Joel Plumlee carried a ball in his lung until he died at age 57. He was a great swimmer. He had a farm on an island on the White river in Arkansas, at Berryville.
per J. Randall Houp:
Joel Plumlee, Jr. born the 28 May 1837 in Carrol County, Arkansas and died in 1889 in Carroll County, Arkansas. He is buried at the Black Jack cemetery ,just north of Berryville, Arkansas. Joel Plumlee, Jr. Married Mary Jane Potter, daughter of Milton M. Potter on the 26 December 1864 in Webster County, Missouri. Mary Jane (Potter) Plumlee was born the 23 May 1847 in Drew County Arkansas and died the 30 May 1920 in Colorado Springs, El Paso County , Colorado. Civil War records found on Joel Plumlee, Jr. indicate thtat he was married once before, but his first wife, name unknown, died during the Civil War and that there were not any children born to this union. Joel Plumlee, Jr., along with his brothers, Zachariah Plumlee, Francis Marion Plumlee and Charles Montgomery Plumlee all served inthe same unit together during the Civil War, on the Union side in Company "I" of the 24th Missouri Regiment Infantry. Joel Plumlee, Jr. enlisted the 24 November 1861 at Rolla, Missouri and was mustered into duty as a private on the 28 December 1861, into Company "H", but on the 1 January 1862 was transferred to Company "I" . During the battle at Pleasant Hill, Louisiana, on the 9 April 1864, he received a gunshot through his left breast, which disabled him for 6 months. He was also taken prisoner at this place, but after two months confinement, made his escape and returned back to his regiment. After the Civil War, he engaged in farming and returned to Carroll County, Arkansas in1867.
He served three years in Carroll County, Arkansas as surveyor. In 1884, he was elected sheriff and collector and served until 1886. There were 11 children born to Joel, Jr. and Mary Jane (Potter) Plumlee, but 3 died in infancy, so only eight are listed: Francis Marion Plumlee, born 12 November 1865 and died 19 May 1946; Nancy L. Plumlee, born February 1867, death date not known; Julia M. Plumlee, born June 1870, death date not known; Elizabeth Columbia Plumlee, born 1 December 1873, death date not known; William Montgomery Plumlee, born 16 September 1877 and died in August 1850; Mary Gertrude Plumlee, born 27 December 1879, death date not known; Cora Virginia, born 12 June 1884 and died 12 May 1943; and Lester T. Plumlee, born 16 August 1887, death date not known.

Joel married Mary Jane Potter on 25 Dec 1864 in Webster, Missouri, USA. Mary (daughter of Milton Potter and Elmira Kendall) was born on 23 May 1847 in Drew County, Arkansas; died on 30 May 1920 in Colorado Springs, El Paso, Colorado, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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name is sometimes found Patter

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Frederick Moore Fulkerson married Sarah Ridgeway in 1831 in Missouri.
According to family legend Frederick was a large man with a sense of humor and a hot temper. The jokes that his boys played would have ignited most tempers. Before the Civil War he owned slaves but feeling that slavery was wrong he freed them. His older sons fought in the war on the Union side. After the war he was appointed a judge for several years. ( per Laila Thompson )

Frederick married Sarah Ridgeway in 1831 in Missouri, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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b. 1797 White COunty Tenn Source??
per J. Randal Houp:
After their marriage Joel and Rachel settled on a farm in White County, Tennessee and lived there several years before finally coming to Arkansas in early 1832.
Joel Plumlee, Sr and his family left White County, Tennessee on the 29 March 1832 and headed west fo the territory of Arkansas. They traveled in an old fashioned wagon drawn by two yoke of oxen and a man who traveled with them to be company. The family traveled to Nashville, Tennessee and then to the Ohio River at Ford's Ferry and then to Chester on the Mississippi amd from there to Fayetteville, in the Territory of Arkansas.
From Fayetteville, they traveled to their final destination point, which was War Eagle, four miles northwest of Huntsville, in what was then Washington County, now present day Madison County, arriving Tuesday, the 29 May 1832.
Joel Plumlee, Sr. and his family located on a homested about 6 miles northwest of Huntsville on War Eagle and erected a log cabin. That winter they cleared and fenced about 8 to 10 acres of land. Joel Plumlee can be found listed on the Washington County tax list in 1836. Arkansas had only become a territory in 1819 and was still a howling wilderness with an abundance of wildlife such as deer, turkey, bear, panther, wildcats, wolves, and even a few elk. According to William Plumlee, his father Joel killed 72 deer in the summer of 1833, killing as many as six in one day.
While still living in Washington County, Joel's father, Isaac Plumlee died in White Counnty, Tennessee in 1835.
Denton Plumlee, as previously mentioned a brother of Joel Plumlee, Sr., along with his family also came to Arkansas in 1832. It is very interesting to note at this time a deed record that was found at the courthouse in Sparta, White County,Tennessee, dated the 3 January 1836.
Joel and Denton Plumlee, both of the County of Washington, Territory of Arkansas sell 175 acres, more or less, on the south side of Caney Fork in White County, Tennessee to a William B. Cummings for $1000. This had been the same land that Joel and Denton Plumlee had purchased from a Thomas H. Clarke for $500. on the 1 February 1826.
Early tax records of the Territory of Arkansas and of the State of Tennessee indicate that only one brother, Denton Plumlee, along with his family came to Arkansas along with Joel Plumlee. William Plumlee, their brother did not come to Arkansas in 1832 as indicated by previous Plumlee researchers and historians, but instead left Tennessee and settled in Carroll County, Arkansas in 1837, showing up on the tax record that same year. It is easy to consider the fact that Joel Plumlee, Sr. had a brother by the name of William Plumlee and also a son by the name of William Plumlee, which would no doubt cause confusion in anyone's gealogical research.
Joel Plumlee, Sr. lived on this land in what is now Madison County, Arkansas until the 7 April 1837, when he moved to where Berryville is now located. He built a house near a large ever-flowing spring north of the town proper and cleared a small farm. His home was located about 250 yards north of the Old Mill Spring at what is now the corned of College and North Main Streets. On July 1838 the first Baptist Church was formed in Carroll County at the home of Joel Plumlee, Sr. and was known as the Union Baptist Church. Church services were held one a month at Joel's home until sometime in 1839 when a church was built located 5 miles north on Clabber Creekand was known as Blackjack. Joel Plumlee,Sr., and his family lived on this land for 12 years until 1849. During this time he was elected and served as Justice of the Peace in Carroll County. In 1849 he sold part of his land to Herderson Blackburn Berry from Alabama and moved to Taney County, Missouri, (now Stone County). Henderson Blackburn Berry opened a store and was soon followed by others, thus was the beginning of Berryville, Arkansas.
In 1850 we find Joel Plumlee, St and his family in Swan Township, Taney County, Missouri, which two years later became Stone County with the County seat at Galena. His occupation was a farmer with a real estate valued at $300. Again in Stone County, Joel Plumlee, Sr. seved as a Justice of the Peace and can be found performing two wedding ceremonies; one of Henry Seats to Jane Roberds on the 30 April 1852 and one of James Ragan to Mary Jennings on the 20 May 1852. Joel, and his family returned to Carroll County, Arkansas around 1854 and settled in Prairie Township. Although we find Joel Plumlee, Sr and his family listed in Prairie Township, in Carroll County, Arkansas, on the 1860 census schedule as a farmer with his real estate valued at $1600, and his personal estate valued at $1545, he is not found on the 1860 tax list. He is found recorded in 1859 with the following 280 acres valued at $1600. 1/2 of N.E. 1/4, Section 32, Township 20, Range 24, containing 80 acres;S.E.
1/4 N.E. Section 32, Township 20, Range 24, containing 40 acres; W, 1/2 N.E. Section 29, Township 20, Range 24, containing 80 acres; and N 1/2 N.W. Section 28, Township 20, Range 24, containing 80 acres. There is little doubt that Joel had acquired much of this land from his brother William Plumlee, who had left Carroll County in 1858 and settled in parker County, Texas, Joel and his family remained in Arkansas until the outbreak of the Civil War and once again moved to Missouri settling on the White River in Stone County, Missouri.
This 75 acres of land is best described by Deed Book D, located at the Stone County, Missouri courthouse in Galena as the following: Nineteen acres and 35 hundredths of the southwest fraction of the sourthwest Section 14, Township 22, and Range 24. Nine acres and 33 hundredths southeast fraction of southwest Section 15, Township 22, and Range 24. 48 acres abd 25 hundredths, northeast fraction of northeast Section 22, Township 22, and Range 24. Unfortunately today this land is now inundated with the damming of the White River, which formed Table Rock Lake in the 1950's.
In February of 1863, Joel Plumlee, St. died in Stone County, Missouri.
The exact burial location is not known, but most likely occured on his land which was mentioned earlier as now being part of Table Rock Lake.
The Corps of Engineers did everything they could to assure all graves and cemteries were relocated, but if Joel Plumlee, Sr.'s final resting place did not have a marker of some kind then it was never relocated. Some Plumlee cousins,including Lorus Plumlee, now deceased, of Berryville, Arkansas and Denton Plumlee of Oak Grove, Arkansas, both great-grandsons of Joel Plumlee, Sr., claim that his grave was moved and that he is buried just north of Kimberling City, in Stone County, Missouri on a small hill on the left as you are heading north out of town. Denton Plumlee and I visited this cemetery in October of 1983, but never did find a marker with Joel Plumlee Sr.'s name on it.
Joel Plumlee Sr.'s land in Stone County, Missouri, earlier described, was sold to a Miles F. Reed for $300. on the 17 of July 1869, by the legal "heirs of his estate " . The legal heirs listed and who signed this document were: William Plumlee, Joel Plumlee, Frances M. Plumlee, Montgomery Plumlee, Isaac Plumlee, and Nancy Johnson. This document was witnessed and signed by the following: D. McElyea, Joseph Standlee, David Leonard, adn Gideon White. Almost the same document was again recorded on the 1st day of July 1875, but this time also included the names of Sarah L. Peebles and Nancy J. Manley. Research has determined that these were daughters of Elizabeth (Plumlee) Carr, a daughter of Joel Plumlee,Sr. Elizabeth (Plumlee) Carr had died in Stone County, Missouri around 1856 and evidently the daughters felt they were legal heirs of Joel Plumlee, Sr. and should have been included. The second document just listed their names and it appears nothing was changed and Miles F. Reed retained the land as well as the original agreement.
Joel Plumlee, Sr. still owned land in Carroll County, Arkansas upon his death. It wa a number of years later that Joel Plumlee, Jr. was made the administrator of his father's estate and through probate court this land was sold on the 30 September 1878 for $160. to Dr. Isaac Plumlee, Joel Sr.'s oldest son.
On the 1880 census of Eastland County, Texas, we find Rachel Plumlee, the widow of Joel Plumlee, Sr. living with her ildest son Isaac Plumlee and his family. She later returned to Carroll County, Arkansas and died the 17 or 18 February 1888 and was buried at the Blackjack Cemetery, located a little over 4 miles north of Berryville.
There were 11 known children born to the union of Joel Plumlee, Sr. and Rachel (Simmons) Plumlee. The 1840 census of Carroll County, Arkansas possibly indicates as well as Lorus Plumlee, a great-grandson, that here may have been 12 children born. I have a ston feeling that there were 12 children and that one was a daughter named Margaret Plumlee, but I have no proof of this and it is only an assumption on my part. Taking for granted though that the first children born were customarily named after their parent's parents then the name Margaret would have been a likely choice, as Joel's mother was Margaret Plumlee. The Margaret Plumlee that is buried on a farm northwest of Berryville and has the death date as 1845 could be this Margaret Plumlee, mother of Joel Plumlee, Sr. that possible came to Arkansas to be near her family. The 11 known children of Joel and Rachel were: (see siblings in charts).

Joel married Rachel Simmons about 1820 in White County, Tennessee. Rachel (daughter of James Simmons and Statia (roberts) Simmons) was born in Feb 1802 in South Carolina, USA; died about 17 Feb 1888 in Carroll County, Arkansas, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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according to Ruth Royston (Champlin)
Milton Potter was a farmer, teacher, and captain of a regiment in the Civil War (North). He died after the war, is buried on an island on the Missouri River. Does not know how many children they had

Milton married Elmira Kendall. Elmira was born in Tennessee, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]