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 died. But I had forgotten how he made me ride as a child and it appealed to my lively sense of humor.

After she left La Grande, still as a small child, her subsequent places of residence can now be given in accurate sequence, but not the length of time or the exact years she spent at each place, because biographical matter regarding her is not explicit on these points and because of her own nonchalant attitude towards dates. The order of her later homes was Portland, the farm on the Willamette, Oregon City, Portland again, back to La Grande as a married woman, and Bellingham in 1888 as her permanent home.

It was early in 1870 that she removed with her parents to Portland—then a village amongst the stumps—and lived in a white colonial house with a portico and green blinds at the northeast corner of Fourth and Lincoln Streets. All that she remembers of Portland at that time were the lamplighters, the house in which she lived, a Scotch broom tree, the "plaza" where a military band played on Saturdays, and the old Ladd and Reed houses.

They went from Portland to the farm, which was located at Risley's Landing, the location of which she has described:

Risley's Landing was between two and three miles south of Milwaukie—across the river from Oswego and perhaps a half-mile south. It was directly opposite what is known—or was a few years ago—as the Morey estate, which was then known as the "Bullock Place." (I'll never forget the family's convulsions of mirth when I asked if they kept cows there, too!). I knew all about bullocks from the family Bible. There was a tiny island just south of our landing. My sister used to row me there to gather ferns and orchids.