Once and future family: Jordan's, Blonquist & Canaday - Newcastle, WA

Glen · March 17, 2009

This page from the 1871 Washington Territory Census near Newcastle, WA has the names of John & Sarah Jordan and their two younger daughters, Eliza Ann and Martha. The girls two future husbands are also listed on the page, John Blonquist and Robert N. Canaday. The couples were married later in 1871. Martha and Robert were married 'at the coal mines' by the Rev. Daniel Bagley. Their older sister, Elizabeth had married Amasa Galloway a few miles north on Amasa's homestead in (what is now) Bellevue in 1870.

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