Sarah Emmaline Cuyle [66309]

  General Notes:

CUYLE FAMILY CAME TO OSCEOLA DISTRICT FROM MINNESOTA

By Edgar Cuyle as told to Mrs. R. W. Thomason

The Cuyle family, with our relatives, the George Forests, came from Minnesota to Osceola in 1883. First to San Francisco by train, then to Seattle by boat, arriving in Enumclaw a year or so before the railroad.

My father had worked in the railroad shops in Brainerd, Minn., and knew they were building a railroad through this territory.

We brought our goods in from Seattle by pack horses via Puyallup and Marion where we crossed the White River on an old bridge, now gone, and came up on this side back of the Tuttle place.

An uncle of mine, Geo. Canfield, had come to this country four years previously and was living where the Evergreen cemetery is now. We lived at Krain the first year, then bought land from the railroad next to the Lou Smith place at Osceola. The Jas. Johnson's (Chas. Johnson's father), Vanderbeck's, White's, Cooper's, Mason Smith's, Lou Smith's and some others were already here.

At first we did most of our trading at Boise Creek and Buckley. In time there was in general use in Buckley two kinds of "Buckley Chips" one issued by the Page Mill Co., and the other by the Casey, Knowles and Jones Lumber Co. Of course these chips were to build up trade at the company stores.

We went to school at the old Osceola School House which stood about where the pickle factory is now. Wm. Montgomery was one of the pupils there then. Some of the scholars came clear from Boise Creek. I remember Bill Carna, Vida Carna, Josie Harrington and two Harrington boys, Annie Winters, Charley Winters, Herman and Bill Winters. I broke a window with my sling shot and got a licking from the teacher, Gabrielle Pommelle. Later Mrs. Griffin taught there, and also Clem Lockridge.

One time we had a spelling match and all the scholars went down on the word "tapioca". My small brother Clyde, 5 years of age, was visiting school that day and spelled tapioca correctly. The kitchen at home was papered with newspapers and the word tapioca was right above the table. He had learned to spell it from that.

One time about 1889, the Morris Garners, from up near Mud Mountain, the Lou Smith's, the White's, and our family went to the Barnum and Baily circus in Tacoma. We went by team and camped just outside the circus grounds. One of the men took a team and a lumber wagon with all of the women and went sightseeing through the town.

I worked on the first locomotive the White River Lumber Company had about 1898. They took it up the wagon road by laying down rails and then picking them up and putting them in from of the engine again.

  Research Notes:

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Sarah married Jacob Benjamin Osburn [66308] [MRIN: 551619363]. (Jacob Benjamin Osburn [66308] was born on 21 Sep 1874 in Wade, Washington County, Ohio, United States of America and died on 2 Jan 1939 in Enumclaw, King County, Washington, United States of Ameica.)