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Note for: Earnest Walter Dickinson 1897 - 20 JUN 1960 Index

Ernest Walter Dickinson Death Certificate, Provided by La Maunte Virginia Fritz.

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Note for: Allen John Hilt, 10 DEC 1905 - 28 FEB 1966 Index

1920 Port Angeles, Callam Co., WA Census
Hilt, John F. Head M 41 KS
        Minta Wife F 39 MI Canada OH
        Allen J. Son M 14 ID
        Dowell M. Son M 11 ID
        Ida M. Daughter F 6/12 WA
        Melvin S. Son M 6/12 WA

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     Allen left home in 1921 at age 16 and worked at a farm in Freshwater Bay, west of Port Angeles, for the Gilhart family. He was working with the Everett's at Olympic Hot Springs as a guide and packer in 1927/1928 when he met Vivian.

She had moved to Washington after she filed for a divorce from Arthur Bliven, to visit one of her girlfriends (Winifred Hyck) that was living on Pine Hill at 509 West 10 St. in Port Angeles.

Allen worked for the C.C.C. in 1933 for a month and was released when he got a paying job, signing up at the Elwha Camp and moving to Slab Camp to work on the Deer Park road. From there he worked for Crown Zellerbach until his retirement in December of 1965.

He is buried at Mt. Angeles Cemetery.

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Note for: Vivian Ethel Thompson, 5 DEC 1905 - 24 NOV 1993 Index

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Divorced Armour Bliven June 12, 1928.
Vivian is buried in Mt. Angeles Cemetery, beside her husband, Allen.

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Note for: John Francis (Chuck) Hilt, 20 MAR 1878 - 4 OCT 1953 Index

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1880 Rooks Co., KS Census
Hilt, John Head M 37 KY OH VA
        Jane Wife F 36 IN KY IN
        George Son M 13 IA KY IN
        Annie Daughter F 11 IA KY IN
        Edgar Son M 5 KS KY IN
        Joseph Son M 5 KS KY IN
        John F. Son M 1 KS KY IN
Hilt, Rosana Mother F 56 VA VA VA
    Samuel Brother M 21 IA OH VA

1920 Port Angeles, Callam Co., WA Census
Hilt, John F. Head M 41 KS
        Minta Wife F 39 MI Canada OH
        Allen J. Son M 14 ID
        Dowell M. Son M 11 ID
        Ida M. Daughter F 6/12 WA
        Melvin S. Son M 6/12 WA

     Served in the Spanish American War as a Wagoner in Co. H, 1st Idaho Infantry.

Civilian Occupation: Machinist

After his service in the war, John worked for the U.S. Forest Service at Lowman, ID. We have a letter citing John for his superb action fighting the Clear Creek-Deadwood Divide fire in Aug. 1906. When he came to Port Angeles about 1910 he worked for the U.S. Forest Service at the Elwha District, under Chris Morgenroth, living up about where the present day Ranger Station is, near Griff Creek. To confirm the dates, John F. Hilt is listed in the 1910 census as single, registered in Piedmont Precinct of Olympic National Forest.

I don't know when he quit that job, but he had to ride a horse from there to work the Sol Duc Burn fire on Snider Ridge. His obituary states he left the Forest Service in 1914. He then worked at Penn. Garage, which is just south of Angeles Millworks at 16th & C streets. A job as a boilerman at the Charles Nelson Mill was next in the 1930's, then with Washington Motor Coach, located at Lincoln and Railroad streets, as a mechanic and bus driver on the Seattle to Port Angeles route. The last place he worked at was for the P.A. Western R.R. as a watchman and fire stoker.

John is buried in the veteran's plot at Ocean View Cemetery in Port Angeles, WA.

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Note for: Dowell Milton Hilt, 8 MAR 1908 - 17 NOV 1999 Index

1920 Port Angeles, Callam Co., WA Census
Hilt, John F. Head M 41 KS
        Minta Wife F 39 MI Canada OH
        Allen J. Son M 14 ID
        Dowell M. Son M 11 ID
        Ida M. Daughter F 6/12 WA
        Melvin S. Son M 6/12 WA

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Dowell quit school after his mother's death in 1924 to care for the twins, Melvin & Mabel who were only 5. By 1927 he was working at a blacksmith's shop and later worked for Crown Zellerbach as a boomman. Dowell moved to Alaska in 1932 and was grubstaked by the territorial governor, Mr. Troy. They found gold traces but by the time they made arrangements to get the equipment in to start mining, the place had been designated a National Park. He married Bev in 1936 and returned to Alaska in 1942, working on the Alcan Highway, making enough to buy the farm on Reddick Road in Port Angeles. In later years, 'Pop' Hilt, as he was called, was a mechanic for Owens Brothers Construction and a 50 year member of the Dry Creek Grange.

Dowell's remains are interred at Oceanview Cemetery in Port Angeles, WA.

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Note for: Melvin Samuel Hilt, 19 JUN 1919 - 19 MAR 1983 Index

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Melvin was drowned in the Queets River when his drift boat overturned. He was buried in Port Angeles, WA.

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Note for: Allen William McDougall, 4 FEB 1849 - 18 NOV 1907 Index

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1900 Brandt, Saginaw Co., MI Census
McDougall, Allen Head M 51Canada Scotland Canada
                    Ida M. Wife F 45 OH CT OH
                    Minta Daughter F 18 MI Canada OH
                    William A. Son M 12 MI Canada OH
                    Bessie E. Daughter F 8 MI Canada OH
                    Marinda Mother F 71 Canada MA ME

     Allen is buried at Morris Hill cemetery.

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Note for: John Jorgensen Yuhl, 14 FEB 1896 - 3 JAN 1990 Index

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US Army Veteran, World War I

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Note for: Frances Terrance (Scud) Deane, 27 NOV 1917 - 25 JUL 1999 Index

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Scud Deane is buried at Ocean View Cemetery in Port Angeles, WA.

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Note for: John Thomas Hilt, 27 MAR 1842 - 27 MAR 1920 Index

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1910 Boise City, Ada Co., ID Census
Cramer, Lewis Head M 26 KS KY IN
                Addie Wife F 23 KS KY IN
                Florence Daughter 3 ID KS KS
                Carl Son M 4/12 ID KS KS
Hilt, John Father-in-Law M 68 KY OH KY
Gutke, Samuel Border M 26 OR IN Denmark

     John Hilt served in the Civil War as a Private in the 4th Iowa Cavalry, Co. G, mustering in on 1 Sep 1862 at Mt. Pleasant, IA.

Hilt joined the regiment in the field at Helena, AR on 23 Nov 1862. In May and June of 1863 the 4th Iowa was a part of Major General U. S. Grant's Army of the Tennessee, under Colonel E. F. Winslow, seeing action in Mississippi at Raymond, Jackson, Birdsong's Ferry and 14 Mile Creek during the Vicksburg Campaign. Hilt became sick and was furloughed for 7 months in Sep 1863. The entire regiment was granted a 30 day furlough in Iowa in early 1864 and Hilt and the regiment returned to quarters at Memphis, TN at the end of the furlough as 'Veteran Volunteers'. William Tecumseh Sherman took command of the Army of the Tennessee and the 4th was assigned to Major General McPherson's 17th Army, Cavalry Brigade, during Sherman's Atlanta Campaign. Brigadier General Sturgis was given two Divisions and Winslow's Cavalry Brigade to guard McPherson's southern flank. They met General Nathan Bedford Forrest at Brice's Crossroads, MS and were badly beaten. The 4th Iowa and Company G is specifically mentioned in dispatches to higher headquarters describing their gallant efforts at the center of the battle. After the battle General Sturgis faced a Board of Inquiry for his actions. The 4th Iowa was later hand-picked for a Cavalry campaign in Missouri, fighting brilliantly at the Battle of the Osage. The unit returned to Benton Barracks, St. Louis MO in November of 1864 and Hilt was hospitalized again on 9 December where he served out his term of enlistment. Later, the unit was moved up the Ohio River to Louisville and on to Nashville. The 4th was involved in some of the last engagements of the war and was at Edgefield, TN when the war ended. Hilt was mustered out 15 Jun 1865 at St. Louis, MO.

John Hilt was married after the war and moved with his parents to homestead a parcel of land in Olive Branch precinct in the southwest corner of Lancaster County, Nebraska about 1870. John, along with the Thomas Ivers family, moved to Stockton, Iowa Precinct, Rooks County, Kansas by early 1874. John and Jane's twins (Joseph and Edgar) were born in Stockton. By 1889 they had moved to Boise, ID, by train, as described in letters from Mabel Ivers Scott, John's niece (she was born to Polly Hilt and Tom Ivers in Boise in 1890). John's death certificate, with information provided from his daughter, Addie, stated he was born in KY and his father was born in Scotland. She may have been remembering a family story that the Hilt's were of Scotch descent, but Jesse himself reflected in several censuses that he was born in Ohio.

John Thomas Hilt Death Certificate: Submitted by La Maunte Virginia Fritz.

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Note for: Ruhamah Jane Laddusaw, ABT 1844 - 16 MAY 1896 Index

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John called her Janie

Ruhamah Jane Laddusaw Hilt Headstone: Submitted by Michael Hilt

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Note for: George Robert Hilt, 3 FEB 1867 - 14 NOV 1936 Index

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Note for: Anna Bell Hilt, 31 MAY 1869 - 22 FEB 1939 Index

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Buried at Brush Prairie Cemetery.

Headstone Photo

the following is excerpted from John and Annie Laddusaw's 50th anniversary announcement:

Their move to Oregon by covered wagon began at Le Mars, Iowa on June 16, 1888 (John had family living there). A group of seven wagons traveled via the Landers cutoff of the Sweetwater Trail. Annie remembers the frustration of making camp in the evening after a long day's travel while still able to look back and see the camp of the night before. They forded the Snake River 10 miles below American Falls, arriving in Boise City on September 2, 1888. Boise was just a military barracks at the time, the first hotel was under construction and the bank was a log cabin. The men found work cutting timber or hauling ore from the mines and decided to stay in Boise.

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Note for: Edgar Hugene Hilt, 4 FEB 1875 - APR 1962 Index

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Note for: Joseph Edward Hilt, 4 FEB 1875 - 18 AUG 1939 Index

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