Julia and Friend's "Golden" Scrapbook with Pictures Depicting the Life and Times on Coyote Creek and Surrounding Areas
no part to be reproduced without written permission of Larry McLane, 1187 Placer Rd, Sunny Valley, OR 97497 or Thomasine Swoape Smith, 961 Sunrise Ave., Medford, OR 97504
Thomasine Smith cites visiting grandparents Ed and Julia (Dysert) Wallace at Wolf Creek Ranch, southern Oregon; remembers Aunt Audrey Alena Wallace and her husband Tom Swoape. credits information from Aunt Thelma King and Uncle Earl Wallace of Medford, cousins Wally Stanciu of Richland, Oregon and Kevin Mittge of Kirkland, Washington. historian Keith Clark and Lowell Tiller's book Terrible Trail: the Meek Cutoff, 1845. Roger Ramsey, of the Dysert family, bought Coyote Creek property of Golden, hoping to restore and preserve this historic little town. church was built by Mr. Ruble in 1892 (100 years old at time of this publication). photos from collection of historian Larry McLane (descendant of the Meeks family)
Thomasine Smith lists names: Mike & Joy Carter, Sherwood Davis, Hap Fitzpatrick, Aleta Harper, Jack & Marie Leonard, Clyde McIntosh, Marvin & Shirley McIntosh, Webb & Norma Ruble, Beth Rondeau, Thomsine Smith, Corrine Stumbo, Sally Tanner, Gib Walter................1992
photos and descriptions; recipes; handwritten note of S R Wallace