Page 1 of 33 
 
Washington Women’s Heritage Project records, 1900-2000 
University of Washington Libraries Special Collections 
Etta May Bryant Alldredge 
January 25, 1998 
Cassette 1, Side 1 
 
 
Stephanie Holan  00:02 
--Stephanie Holan, and I'm here on January 25th, 1998 at 3:00pm interviewing Etta Alldredge 
about her family background. 
 
Etta Alldredge  00:15 
Now, you have to talk louder so I can sure hear you.  
 
Stephanie Holan  00:18 
OK. So now you spell your name E-T-T-A?  
 
Etta Alldredge  00:22 
Yeah.  
 
Stephanie Holan  00:22 
OK. And then how do you spell your last name? 
 
Etta Alldredge  00:27 
Alldredge? A-- I wrote-- just wrote it down [laughs]. 
 
Stephanie Holan  00:32 
A-double L-- 
 
Etta Alldredge  00:34 
--D-R-E-D-G-E. 
 
Stephanie Holan  00:40 
And what's your maiden name? 
 
Etta Alldredge  00:42 
Oh, Etta May.  
 
Stephanie Holan  00:43 
Etta May? M-A-Y?  
Page 2 of 33 
 
 
Etta Alldredge  00:45 
What? 
 
Stephanie Holan  00:47 
M-A-Y?  
 
Etta Alldredge  00:48 
Yeah, M-A-Y, yeah. 
 
Stephanie Holan  00:51 
Any nicknames?  
 
Etta Alldredge  00:53 
What? 
 
Stephanie Holan  00:53 
Did you have any nicknames when you were growing up?  
 
Etta Alldredge  00:58 
No, I don't think so. I don't remember [laughs]. 
 
Stephanie Holan  01:03 
And when were you born? 
 
Etta Alldredge  01:05 
I born August 14th in 1900. 
 
Stephanie Holan  01:10 
Wow. You were born five days after me. My birthday's August 9th. 
 
Etta Alldredge  01:16 
Is that right? Wasn't born 1900 [laughs].  
 
Stephanie Holan  01:20 
Nope. And where were you born? 
 
Etta Alldredge  01:23 
Well, I was born in a log cabin.  
 
Stephanie Holan  01:25 
In a log cabin?  
 
Etta Alldredge  01:27 
Or a house, I guess you-- cabin. 
 
Page 3 of 33 
 
Stephanie Holan  01:30 
Here in Washington? 
 
Etta Alldredge  01:31 
Yes. 
 
Stephanie Holan  01:31 
What part of Washington? 
 
Etta Alldredge  01:32 
East-- East of Spokane. And up in the, like, you know where Colville, Washington is? Well, I 
was out about three miles east of that.  
 
Stephanie Holan  01:48 
Wow.  
 
Etta Alldredge  01:48 
Kettle Falls. And they had a little town by the name of Rice.  
 
Stephanie Holan  01:54 
Oh, wow.  
 
Etta Alldredge  01:55 
And then we had-- and then we lived in a neighborhood what they called Arizina.  
 
Stephanie Holan  01:59 
Arizona, like the state?   
 
Etta Alldredge  2:02 
No. It's just a post office is all it was. 
 
Stephanie Holan  02:07 
OK. So we'll start with your mother's name.  
 
Etta Alldredge  02:14 
Clara Moe. 
 
Stephanie Holan  02:18 
C-L-A-R-A? Moe? 
 
Etta Alldredge  02:23 
M-O-E.  
 
Stephanie Holan  02:24 
M-O-E. And is that her maiden name? 
 
Page 4 of 33 
 
Etta Alldredge  02:27 
Yes.  
 
Stephanie Holan  02:27 
Yes? When was your mother born? 
 
Etta Alldredge  02:32 
I don't remember.  
 
Stephanie Holan  02:33 
You don't remember? Do you remember where she was born?  
 
Etta Alldredge  02:37 
What? She was born in Missouri, someplace. 
 
Stephanie Holan  02:41 
In Missouri? 
 
Etta Alldredge  02:49 
Her father came West, and he bought a place, and then he had-- they have two sisters. And he 
brought them out here.  
 
Stephanie Holan  03:00 
Oh, yeah? 
 
Etta Alldredge  03:02 
Up near Kettle Falls. 
 
Stephanie Holan  03:07 
And where's Kettle Falls? 
 
Etta Alldredge  03:08 
It's out about three-- about four, let's see, about three miles-- no, um... It's not very far from 
Colville. Colville was the county seat.  
 
Stephanie Holan  03:21 
Oh, OK.  
 
Etta Alldredge  03:21 
Yeah.  
 
Stephanie Holan  03:23 
What nationality are you? Like, I'm Norwegian. What na-- or, actually, what nationality was 
your mother? Do you know? You don't know? Do you remember when she was married? 
 
Etta Alldredge  03:38 
Page 5 of 33 
 
Well, I wasn't born yet [laughs].  
 
Stephanie Holan  03:39 
You weren't born yet [laughs]? Do you know where she was married?  
 
Etta Alldredge  03:43 
Well, I imagine they born-- married in Colville, where the county seat is. 
 
Stephanie Holan  03:48 
In Colville? And did your mother ever work? 
 
Etta Alldredge  03:53 
No.  
 
Stephanie Holan  03:54 
No? She was a housewife?  
 
Etta Alldredge  03:56 
Housewife.  
 
Stephanie Holan  03:58 
Do you remember when she died? When she passed away?  
 
Etta Alldredge  04:01 
[Laughs] yes, I remember, but I don't know the... If I'd known this before, I could have had it all 
in-- [?on mind?]. Now, see... it was in May... When was the World's Fair?  
 
Stephanie Holan  04:40 
1969? 
 
Etta Alldredge  04:41 
'60. '61, right? 
 
Stephanie Holan  04:42 
'61? 
 
Etta Alldredge  04:44 
Well, she died three years before that.  
 
Stephanie Holan  04:48 
So 1958? 
 
Etta Alldredge  04:50 
Yeah. 
 
Stephanie Holan  04:50 
Page 6 of 33 
 
May of 19--?  
 
Etta Alldredge  04:51 
That's about-- somewhere around there. I just don't know [inaudible]. 
 
Stephanie Holan  04:58 
And did she pass away in Colville? 
 
Etta Alldredge  05:05 
She was in a nursing home-- 
 
Stephanie Holan  05:07 
She was in a nursing home?  
 
Etta Alldredge  05:12 
--in Colville. 
 
Stephanie Holan  05:14 
OK. And she doesn't-- how many was your-- how many times was your mother married?  
 
Etta Alldredge  05:20 
One.  
 
Stephanie Holan  05:20 
Just one? And how many children?  
 
Etta Alldredge  05:22 
She had four children. Two boys and two girls.  
 
Stephanie Holan  05:28 
And what are your brothers' names? 
 
Etta Alldredge  05:30 
What?  
 
Stephanie Holan  05:31 
Your brothers and sisters?  
 
Etta Alldredge  05:32 
Oh, yes.  
 
Stephanie Holan  05:33 
OK. 
 
Etta Alldredge  05:34 
Well, my brother, oldest one, his name was Winton.  
Page 7 of 33 
 
 
Stephanie Holan  05:37 
And how do you spell that? 
 
Etta Alldredge  05:39 
W-I-N-T-O-N. Winton. 
 
Stephanie Holan  05:46 
And his last name is Moe? Or May? 
 
Etta Alldredge  05:49 
No, my father's name was Bryant. That's my name, was my name. Bryant. He married Clara 
Moe, my father did.  
 
Stephanie Holan  05:58 
OK. So, and it's-- how do you spell Bryant? 
 
Etta Alldredge  06:02 
B-R-Y-A-N-T.  
 
Stephanie Holan  06:06 
And what's your other brother's name?  
 
Etta Alldredge  06:09 
Then I-- his name was Raymond--  
 
Stephanie Holan  06:12 
Raymond?  
 
Etta Alldredge  06:14 
--Bryant. And I had older sister.  
 
Stephanie Holan  06:21 
And what's your sister's name?  
 
Etta Alldredge  06:22 
Her name is Wilma.  
 
Stephanie Holan  06:23 
Wilma? How do you spell that?  
 
Etta Alldredge  06:26 
W-I-L-M-A. And she's still alive.  
 
Stephanie Holan  06:34 
She is?  
Page 8 of 33 
 
 
Etta Alldredge  06:34 
She's 101 years old. 
 
Stephanie Holan  06:36 
Wow. You have a picture of her?  
 
Etta Alldredge  06:40 
Yeah, in a nursing home there.  
 
Stephanie Holan  06:43 
Oh, wow.  
 
Etta Alldredge  06:44 
That's on her 100th birthday.  
 
Stephanie Holan  06:47 
Wow, that's so-- that's incredible.  
 
Etta Alldredge  06:50 
And she's still alive.  
 
Stephanie Holan  06:51 
You guys are incredible ladies, you really are.  
 
Etta Alldredge  06:55 
Yeah? [Laughs].  
 
Stephanie Holan  06:58 
So what was your dad's name?  
 
Etta Alldredge  07:00 
George.  
 
Stephanie Holan  07:01 
George. And that's G-E-O-R-G-E? 
 
Etta Alldredge  07:03 
Mm-hmm, just plain George. 
 
Stephanie Holan  07:08 
Bryant. 
 
Etta Alldredge  07:08 
Bryant.  
 
Page 9 of 33 
 
Stephanie Holan  07:11 
And do you know when your father was born?  
 
Etta Alldredge  07:19 
I might at one time, but I don't know now. He was-- see now, he was born in [?first?] country, I 
think, down around Dayton, Washington, somewhere down in there.  
 
Stephanie Holan  07:34 
OK.  
 
Etta Alldredge  07:36 
Now I don't know if this is true, but I know it's somewhere down there. 
 
Stephanie Holan  07:40 
[Laughs] And what did your father do? 
 
Etta Alldredge  07:47 
Ranch. Run-- we had a ranch.  
 
Stephanie Holan  07:49 
He ran the ranch?  
 
Etta Alldredge  07:53 
Mm-hmm.  
 
Stephanie Holan  07:53 
And that was in Colville?  
 
Etta Alldredge  07:54 
No, that was in this little town out by Rice, Washington. 
 
Stephanie Holan  07:58 
Rice, Washington, that's right. And do you remember when your father passed away? 
 
Etta Alldredge  08:11 
I know when he did-- I don't know.  
 
Stephanie Holan  08:17 
You don't remember? 
 
Etta Alldredge  08:18 
No. 
 
Stephanie Holan  08:19 
And your father was married how many times?  
 
Page 10 of 33 
 
Etta Alldredge  08:22 
One.  
 
Stephanie Holan  08:22 
Just one? And four children?  
 
Etta Alldredge  08:25 
Four children.  
 
Stephanie Holan  08:28 
And we got your sisters. Do you know when your sister was born?  
 
Etta Alldredge  08:32 
What? 
 
Stephanie Holan  08:32 
Do you know when Wilma was born? 
 
Etta Alldredge  08:37 
Oh, no, I don't know. She's four years older than I am, and I'm 97, so she's 102. Now, what-- I 
was born in 1900-- 
 
Stephanie Holan  08:54 
So that would be 1897?  
 
Etta Alldredge  08:56 
Something like that.  
 
Stephanie Holan  08:57 
Around 1897?  
 
Etta Alldredge  08:57 
Mm-hmm. My brother was born early-- before that. He was older, a year older than she was.  
 
Stephanie Holan  09:05 
Oh, wow. And which brother was that? 
 
Etta Alldredge  09:07 
Winton. 
 
Stephanie Holan  09:08 
Winton? And did your sister ever get married?  
 
Etta Alldredge  09:13 
Yes.  
 
Page 11 of 33 
 
Stephanie Holan  09:14 
What was her husband's name?  
 
Etta Alldredge  09:16 
Giberson. G-I-B-E-R-S-O-N.  
 
Stephanie Holan  09:18 
G-I-B-E-R-S-O-N. Was that his first name or his last name?  
 
Etta Alldredge  09:23 
George. 
 
Stephanie Holan  09:24 
George. Just like your dad!  
 
Etta Alldredge  09:26 
Yeah.  
 
Stephanie Holan  09:28 
And do you know when they got married? Do you remember? 
 
Etta Alldredge  09:32 
I was 13 years old. Now would that be... 
 
Stephanie Holan  09:37 
1913?  
 
Etta Alldredge  09:38 
Yeah. Yeah, that was-- yes, she married in 1913. 
 
Stephanie Holan  09:43 
Do you remember what day?  
 
Etta Alldredge  09:45 
No.  
 
Stephanie Holan  09:45 
No? OK. And do you remember where she was married? 
 
Etta Alldredge  09:55 
I suppose in Colville, I don't know. I can't remember.  
 
Stephanie Holan  09:59 
In the county seat?  
 
Etta Alldredge  10:00 
Page 12 of 33 
 
Yeah. 
 
Stephanie Holan  10:03 
And did your sister ever have a job? 
 
Etta Alldredge  10:06 
No.  
 
Stephanie Holan  10:06 
No, she was a housewife?  
 
Etta Alldredge  10:08 
No. 
 
Stephanie Holan  10:09 
No? 
 
Etta Alldredge  10:10 
No. Had five children.  
 
Stephanie Holan  10:13 
Five children? And she was married one time?  
 
Etta Alldredge  10:18 
One time.  
 
Stephanie Holan  10:22 
Do you know her-- wah! 
 
Etta Alldredge  10:25 
[Laughs] oh my gosh, I've-- been so long till I thought about that. 
 
Stephanie Holan  10:29 
Do you know her children's name? 
 
Etta Alldredge  10:33 
Well, one was Rhoda.  
 
Stephanie Holan  10:36 
How do you spell that? 
 
Etta Alldredge  10:39 
R-H-O-D-A, or something like that. Yeah.  
 
Stephanie Holan  10:42 
OK.  
Page 13 of 33 
 
 
Etta Alldredge  10:43 
And then she had Lucille, 
 
Stephanie Holan  10:47 
L-U-C-I-L-L-E? 
 
Etta Alldredge  10:53 
Then she had Olive Jean.  
 
Stephanie Holan  10:56 
How do you spell that? 
 
Etta Alldredge  11:00 
J-E-- E-A-N. Olive, oh, Olive Jean.  
 
Stephanie Holan  11:06 
Olive Jean, OK. 
 
Etta Alldredge  11:07 
[Laughs] goodness sake's.  
 
Stephanie Holan  11:12 
And then, Rhoda, Lucille, Olive Jean... 
 
Etta Alldredge  11:19 
And then Mabel.  
 
Stephanie Holan  11:20 
Mabel?  
 
Etta Alldredge  11:25 
And then Henry.  
 
Stephanie Holan  11:26 
Henry? And your sister is still with-- Wilma's still with us.  
 
Etta Alldredge  11:37 
What? 
 
Stephanie Holan  11:37 
Wilma's still alive.  
 
Etta Alldredge  11:38 
Yes.  
 
Page 14 of 33 
 
Stephanie Holan  11:39 
And where does she live? 
 
Etta Alldredge  11:40 
She's in a nursing home in Colville.  
 
Stephanie Holan  11:42 
OK. And do you remember when Winton was born? You said he's a year older. 
 
Etta Alldredge  12:00 
He's a year-- he's a-- yeah, he's a-- he was a year older than my sister at-- she was, I'm four years 
older than she is. So - he'd be five years older than I was.  
 
Stephanie Holan  12:16 
So...  
 
Etta Alldredge  12:17 
That would be-- 
 
Stephanie Holan  12:19 
About 18-- 1896?  
 
Etta Alldredge  12:24 
Yeah, something like that. You can look that up at [inaudible] [laughs] in the [inaudible]... 
 
Stephanie Holan  12:33 
OK, we can look it up.  
 
Etta Alldredge  12:34 
Yeah.   
 
Stephanie Holan  12:35 
Did he ever get married?  
 
Etta Alldredge  12:37 
Yes. 
 
Stephanie Holan  12:37 
And what was his wife's name? 
 
Etta Alldredge  12:39 
Eva.  
 
Stephanie Holan  12:40 
Eva? E-V-A?  
 
Page 15 of 33 
 
Etta Alldredge  12:41 
Mm-hmm. 
 
Stephanie Holan  12:42 
Do you know her maiden name? Do you remember?  
 
Etta Alldredge  12:49 
No, I don't remember.  
 
Stephanie Holan  12:50 
OK. Do you remember when they were married?  
 
Etta Alldredge  12:52 
No. 
 
Stephanie Holan  12:53 
No?  
 
Etta Alldredge  12:54 
Oh, yes! I don't-- I remember-- I don't know the date. Don't remember the date, but I know he 
was married in-- the preacher met-- they married in a little town called Orin, out of Colville, our 
county seat. He met him on a bridge, and as he-- was on their way to Spokane, and they didn't... 
So they stopped, and the preacher met them there. And they was married, and I was one of the 
witnesses. 
 
Stephanie Holan  13:25 
Aww. How old were you? Do you remember? 
 
Etta Alldredge  13:30 
I'll see... I'd have to think on that a little bit.  
 
Stephanie Holan  13:42 
OK! You can tell-- anytime, if you remember something, we can always come back to it.  
 
Etta Alldredge  13:46 
Yeah. 
 
Stephanie Holan  13:47 
No problem. What did your brother do for a living? 
 
Etta Alldredge  13:53 
He would put on the ranch with my father.  
 
Stephanie Holan  13:55 
He was on the ranch too? And how many times was your brother married? 
 
Page 16 of 33 
 
Etta Alldredge  14:02 
One. No, twice!  
 
Stephanie Holan  14:04 
Twice? 
 
Etta Alldredge  14:05 
Yeah.  
 
Stephanie Holan  14:05 
Do you remember his second wife's name?  
 
Etta Alldredge  14:07 
Yes. She's still alive.  
 
Stephanie Holan  14:08 
Oh, she is?  
 
Etta Alldredge  14:09 
She lives in Spokane.  
 
Stephanie Holan  14:11 
In Spokane? And do you know her name?  
 
Etta Alldredge  14:13 
Florence. 
 
Stephanie Holan  14:14 
Florence? 
 
Etta Alldredge  14:15 
Florence. 
 
Stephanie Holan  14:17 
F-L-O-R-E-N-C-E? And is your brother still with us? Or did he pass away?  
 
Etta Alldredge  14:24 
No, he's passed away, about five years ago.  
 
Stephanie Holan  14:28 
About five years ago?  
 
Etta Alldredge  14:31 
I don't put the dates, exactly. I don't-- I never paid attention. Oh, I've got all kinds of records. I 
could go look it up, but... 
 
Page 17 of 33 
 
Stephanie Holan  14:42 
Well, we could do it together, too, maybe. 
 
Etta Alldredge  14:44 
Yeah. 
 
Stephanie Holan  14:45 
Where was he living when he passed away? 
 
Etta Alldredge  14:48 
He was living in Spokane with his second wife.  
 
Stephanie Holan  14:51 
OK. 
 
Etta Alldredge  14:52 
His wife passed away. Or she-- they divorced, and she was living in Spokane when she passed 
away. 
 
Stephanie Holan  15:00 
And how many children did they have? 
 
Etta Alldredge  15:02 
They had three.  
 
Stephanie Holan  15:04 
Three?  
 
Etta Alldredge  15:05 
Dorothy, Beulah-- 
 
Stephanie Holan  15:10 
How do you spell Beulah? B-U-H...? 
 
Etta Alldredge  15:12 
Huh? 
 
Stephanie Holan  15:13 
Beulah? How do you spell it? B-U-H-L-A? 
 
Etta Alldredge  15:18 
Uh-huh. [Laughs] [inaudible] funny [inaudible].  And... Now, wait. I guess they-- oh, one passed 
away. They had a baby that passed away. There were just two daughters.  
 
Stephanie Holan  15:41 
Aww, they had a baby that passed away?  
Page 18 of 33 
 
 
Etta Alldredge  15:42 
Yeah. They have three children, and the baby passed away. It was a infant.  
 
Stephanie Holan  15:56 
Just when he was little tiny?  
 
Etta Alldredge  15:57 
Yeah.  
 
Stephanie Holan  16:00 
Do you remember... what's your grandmother's name?  
 
Etta Alldredge  16:06 
Grandma's name was [inaudible]. Oh, gosh, isn't that-- I can't think today, for some reason! 
 
Stephanie Holan  16:13 
Oh, that's OK. 
 
Etta Alldredge  16:19 
Go on. Maybe it'll come to me.  
 
Stephanie Holan  16:22 
OK. Do you remember her maiden name, before she married your--? 
 
Etta Alldredge  16:25 
Her name is Moor, Moor, M-O-O-R. That was her maiden name.  
 
Stephanie Holan  16:31 
And--  
 
Etta Alldredge  16:31 
[Inaudible] what grandma's name is. I can't take it. Go ahead now.  
 
Stephanie Holan  16:36 
Do you remember-- do you know when your grandma was born? No? Do you know where she 
was born? 
 
Etta Alldredge  16:49 
She was born in the East, in Ohio, I think.  
 
Stephanie Holan  16:52 
In Ohio?  
 
Etta Alldredge  16:53 
And they came out in the covered wagon.  
Page 19 of 33 
 
 
Stephanie Holan  16:57 
They did?  
 
Etta Alldredge  16:58 
Yes, they came out West, yes. And they settled in Oregon. 
 
Stephanie Holan  17:02 
Oh, in Oregon? What part of Oregon? 
 
Etta Alldredge  17:07 
Willette Valley? Yeah. 
 
Stephanie Holan  17:10 
Will-- what valley?  
 
Etta Alldredge  17:12 
Willamette Valley down in Oregon.  
 
Stephanie Holan  17:15 
OK.  
 
Etta Alldredge  17:21 
W-I-M-A-T-T-A-- you know that famous valley there in Oregon?  
 
Stephanie Holan  17:25 
OK. 
 
Etta Alldredge  17:27 
Willette-- Winette... Valley. [Laughs]. 
 
Stephanie Holan  17:32 
And do you remember when she was married? Did you-- did your mother-- do you know? 
 
Etta Alldredge  17:37 
No, I don't.  
 
Stephanie Holan  17:38 
And did your grandmother have a job? 
 
Etta Alldredge  17:40 
Oh yes, she had seven children. 
 
Stephanie Holan  17:42 
She had seven children. Wow. OK...  
 
Page 20 of 33 
 
Etta Alldredge  17:47 
Now I have to give all their names?  
 
Stephanie Holan  17:49 
[Laughs] do you know all their names?  
 
Etta Alldredge  17:51 
Yeah. Well, George was the [inaudible] one.  
 
Stephanie Holan  17:54 
George, and that's your dad.  
 
Etta Alldredge  17:55 
That's my dad.  
 
Stephanie Holan  17:56 
OK. 
 
Etta Alldredge  18:00 
Then there was twins, Spang and Marge.  
 
Stephanie Holan  18:05 
Spang? 
 
Etta Alldredge  18:06 
Spang.  
 
Stephanie Holan  18:08 
How do you spell it?  
 
Etta Alldredge  18:09 
S-P-A-N-G.  
 
Stephanie Holan  18:11 
And Marge? 
 
Etta Alldredge  18:12 
And Marge. And Della. 
 
Stephanie Holan  18:19 
Dylan? 
 
Etta Alldredge  18:20 
Della. 
 
Stephanie Holan  18:21 
Page 21 of 33 
 
Della? 
 
Etta Alldredge  18:22 
Yeah, Della, D-E-L-L-A. 
 
Stephanie Holan  18:26 
Oh, that's a pretty name. 
 
Etta Alldredge  18:29 
[Laughs]. And then there's Clem. 
 
Stephanie Holan  18:31 
How do you spell her name? 
 
Etta Alldredge  18:32 
Clementine.  
 
Stephanie Holan  18:33 
Oh.  
 
Etta Alldredge  18:34 
They called her Clem. How many is that now?  
 
Stephanie Holan  18:42 
That's George, Spang, Marge, Della, and Clementine. 
 
Etta Alldredge  18:45 
That's five.  
 
Stephanie Holan  18:46 
Five.  
 
Etta Alldredge  18:47 
Then they had [?Oni?]. That's-- he's the youngest one. [Inaudible]. I'm missing one [laughs]. 
 
Stephanie Holan  18:57 
Do you spell [?Oni?] I-N-I?  
 
Etta Alldredge  18:58 
Mm-hmm. That's the youngest one, that.  
 
Stephanie Holan  19:02 
That's the youngest?  
 
Etta Alldredge  19:04 
There's another one; they had seven children. I think that's only five.  
Page 22 of 33 
 
 
Stephanie Holan  19:09 
That's six.  
 
Etta Alldredge  19:14 
Oh, Marge! Oh, uh... Almost had it [laughs]. She married a man by the name of-- I can't think of 
it now. 
 
Stephanie Holan  19:37 
OK. We can come back to it. And your grandmother was married one time?  
 
Etta Alldredge  19:45 
One time. 
 
Stephanie Holan  19:45 
One time. And do you remember when she died? No. 
 
Etta Alldredge  19:53 
I can look it up. 
 
Stephanie Holan  19:55 
OK. We could look it up. 
 
Etta Alldredge  19:57 
I guess I can. I don't know [laughs]. 
 
Stephanie Holan  20:00 
Do you know your-- do you remember your grandfather's name? 
 
Etta Alldredge  20:03 
His name was-- well, just... He was a-- in the army. I've got a big picture of him. I can see him in 
my mind, but I can't... What was your name? Frank. Frank. Yeah. 
 
Stephanie Holan  20:28 
Frank Moor? Was that his last name? 
 
Etta Alldredge  20:30 
No, Bryant.  
 
Stephanie Holan  20:31 
Bryant, oh, your-- OK. 
 
Etta Alldredge  20:33 
And my father's...  
 
Stephanie Holan  20:34 
Page 23 of 33 
 
Your father's father.  
 
Etta Alldredge  20:35 
Yeah. 
 
Stephanie Holan  20:37 
And do you know when he was born?  
 
Etta Alldredge  20:39 
No.  
 
Stephanie Holan  20:40 
No? We'll look that one up.  
 
Etta Alldredge  20:42 
His name is William Colin Bryant.  
 
Stephanie Holan  20:45 
William Colin?  
 
Etta Alldredge  20:48 
Colin. Bryant.  
 
Stephanie Holan  20:50 
OK. And you called him Frank?  
 
Etta Alldredge  20:52 
Yeah [inaudible] he'd-- that was his middle name. What-- no. I don't know how that got in. But 
he-- [laughs]. 
 
Stephanie Holan  21:04 
Do you know where he was born? Your grandfather? 
 
Etta Alldredge  21:07 
In the East, somewhere. 
 
Stephanie Holan  21:08 
In the East? And what did your grandfather do? 
 
Etta Alldredge  21:16 
Huh? 
 
Stephanie Holan  21:16 
What did he do for a living? 
 
Etta Alldredge  21:18 
Page 24 of 33 
 
He was in the army.  
 
Stephanie Holan  21:19 
Oh, he was?  
 
Etta Alldredge  21:20 
Yeah. 
 
Stephanie Holan  21:22 
Was he just a soldier, or did he have any titles in the army? 
 
Etta Alldredge  21:25 
[Laughs]. He was a soldier, I guess, yeah.  
 
Stephanie Holan  21:34 
A soldier? And do you remember when he died? 
 
Etta Alldredge  21:41 
No, but I think I was about four years old when he died. 
 
Stephanie Holan  21:45 
Oh, wow, you were just little. And do you know where he died? 
 
Etta Alldredge  21:55 
I guess where they lived, I guess. I don't know.  
 
Stephanie Holan  21:59 
You don't know where-- do you know where they lived?  
 
Etta Alldredge  22:01 
Oh, they lived in the neighborhood there, around Rice, Washington somewhere. 
 
Stephanie Holan  22:06 
And he married one time?  
 
Etta Alldredge  22:09 
One time, yes.  
 
Stephanie Holan  22:10 
Just one time? OK. Do you remember your mother's mother's name? No. Or your mother's 
father's name? Did you know anything about-- 
 
Etta Alldredge  22:19 
Now, who?  
 
Stephanie Holan  22:20 
Page 25 of 33 
 
Your mother's-- your mother's father-- 
 
Etta Alldredge  22:23 
No.  
 
Stephanie Holan  22:23 
--your grandfather on that side?  
 
Etta Alldredge  22:24 
Oh no, I never knew them.  
 
Stephanie Holan  22:26 
You never knew them? 
 
Etta Alldredge  22:31 
No, unh-uh. 
 
Stephanie Holan  22:31 
We will see what we can find on that. So what was your husband's name?  
 
Etta Alldredge  22:39 
His name, Ward.  
 
Stephanie Holan  22:40 
Ward? Alldredge?  
 
Etta Alldredge  22:45 
Yes, Alldredge. 
 
Stephanie Holan  22:49 
And when were you two married? 
 
Etta Alldredge  22:52 
On June-- well, I was 19 years old. [Laughs]. 
 
Stephanie Holan  23:03 
You were 19! Where were you married? Or what year did you get married? June of... 
 
Etta Alldredge  23:18 
1919, I guess.  
 
Stephanie Holan  23:20 
1919!  
 
Etta Alldredge  23:22 
Yeah, that's right. 
Page 26 of 33 
 
 
Stephanie Holan  23:25 
And where did you get married?  
 
Etta Alldredge  23:26 
In Colville. 
 
Stephanie Holan  23:27 
In Colville? Do you know when your husband was born, what his birthday was? 
 
Etta Alldredge  23:34 
Yep. The third of January.  
 
Stephanie Holan  23:36 
January 3rd.  
 
Etta Alldredge  23:38 
Now, he's eight years older than I was.  
 
Stephanie Holan  23:41 
Ooh, an older man [laughs]. Do you know what year he was born?  
 
Etta Alldredge  23:48 
No. I did one time, but I don't know, 
 
Stephanie Holan  23:51 
Probably like 1893, if he's eight years older than you? 
 
Etta Alldredge  23:55 
Yeah, yeah. 
 
Stephanie Holan  23:55 
1892? 
 
Etta Alldredge  23:56 
Yeah, yeah, something like that. [Inaudible] I'd remember [laughs]. 
 
Stephanie Holan  24:04 
Do you know where he was born? 
 
Etta Alldredge  24:07 
Yes, he was born... She came-- his mother came from Utah-- Oregon. Or Utah-- Utah.  
 
Stephanie Holan  24:21 
Utah? 
 
Page 27 of 33 
 
Etta Alldredge  24:27 
No. They didn't go to the hospital in those days. And I guess he's going at home, I guess, I don't 
know. 
 
Stephanie Holan  24:35 
Home in Utah, somewhere?  
 
Etta Alldredge  24:37 
Huh? 
 
Stephanie Holan  24:37 
In Utah?  
 
Etta Alldredge  24:38 
No, in-- no, she came out from Utah, and then met my-- her husband out here. And then they 
had... No, I-- I know one t-- I guess she born in the house, I guess, on their place, I guess, in what 
they call a little town by the name of Pleasant Valley.  
 
Stephanie Holan  25:08 
Pleasant Valley? Is that by Spokane, too?  
 
Etta Alldredge  25:11 
No, it's about-- just on the-- Rice was one side of the mountain, and Pleasant Valley was on the 
other side [laughs]. 
 
Stephanie Holan  25:19 
And what did your husband do for a living?  
 
Etta Alldredge  25:21 
He was a real estate man. 
 
Stephanie Holan  25:23 
He was? And where did you and your husband live? 
 
Etta Alldredge  25:31 
What? 
 
Stephanie Holan  25:32 
Where did you and your husband live? 
 
Etta Alldredge  25:35 
Me and my husband? Well, we married and then went-- he homesteaded in Montana.  
 
Stephanie Holan  25:40 
Oh, he lived in Montana?  
 
Page 28 of 33 
 
Etta Alldredge  25:41 
No, he homesteaded.  
 
Stephanie Holan  25:43 
Oh, OK.  
 
Etta Alldredge  25:44 
And then after we married, we moved back to Montana and spent a year back in-- on his place, 
on his property.  
 
Stephanie Holan  25:51 
Oh, yeah? And then, did you move back out to Washington?  
 
Etta Alldredge  25:55 
Yeah, and then I moved out back out to Rice. 
 
Stephanie Holan  25:57 
To Rice? 
 
Etta Alldredge  26:00 
[Inaudible]. Then we moved to Colville, the county seat. And that's where we lived most of time.  
 
Stephanie Holan  26:07 
Aww. And do you remember when he died, when your husband died? 
 
Etta Alldredge  26:17 
Oh, my gosh. So many memories, so many dates. Not now. I can't think of it now.  
 
Stephanie Holan  26:32 
Not now? OK. Do you remember where he died?  
 
Etta Alldredge  26:35 
Where he died? He died in the hospital, here in-- 
 
Stephanie Holan  26:41 
In Colville?  
 
Etta Alldredge  26:42 
In Colville. 
 
Stephanie Holan  26:46 
And how many children did you two have?  
 
Etta Alldredge  26:48 
We had three.  
 
Page 29 of 33 
 
Stephanie Holan  26:50 
Three children? And he was married just one time, to you? To you, I assume? [Laughs]. And 
what-- and then your children's names? 
 
Etta Alldredge  27:02 
I have Barbara-- Barbara May.  
 
Stephanie Holan  27:05 
Barbara May. And that's B-A-R-B-R-A, Barbara May? And that's M-A-Y, or M-A-E?  
 
Etta Alldredge  27:16 
Huh? 
 
Stephanie Holan  27:16 
How do you spell May, M-A-Y?  
 
Etta Alldredge  27:18 
Yeah. And then, then I had Ruby Julia.  
 
Stephanie Holan  27:25 
Ruby Julia? And then... 
 
Etta Alldredge  27:30 
Then Wanda. Wanda Julia. 
 
Stephanie Holan  27:36 
Wanda Julia. And is Julia a significant-- are they named after somebody?  
 
Etta Alldredge  27:41 
That's her mother, Nancy's mother, yeah. 
 
Stephanie Holan  27:46 
Is-- OK. OK. That's the family background. So, you ready to talk about you a little bit? 
 
Etta Alldredge  28:04 
Well, I-- I don't care. 
 
Stephanie Holan  28:05 
Where did you go to school? 
 
Etta Alldredge  28:08 
I went to school in Arizina, where I lived, out by Rice.  
 
Stephanie Holan  28:12 
OK. And did you go to elementary school and high school the way they-- we do it now? 
 
Page 30 of 33 
 
Etta Alldredge  28:24 
I went to the eighth grade in a one log-- house-- cabin.  
 
Stephanie Holan  28:30 
In a one room schoolhouse? Oh, wow. 
 
Etta Alldredge  28:33 
Then they built a new schoolhouse, and I went there till I graduated on the eighth grade, from the 
eighth grade.  
 
Stephanie Holan  28:42 
OK. 
 
Etta Alldredge  28:43 
And I went to one year of high school. 
 
Stephanie Holan  28:45 
One year of high school? 
 
Etta Alldredge  28:47 
I rode horseback for three miles.  
 
Stephanie Holan  28:50 
Every day? 
 
Etta Alldredge  28:51 
Every day. 
 
Stephanie Holan  28:52 
Wow.  
 
Etta Alldredge  28:54 
And with my girlfriend, or neighbor, her and I was about the same age. We-- she had a horse, 
and I had a horse, and we rode to high school.  
 
Stephanie Holan  29:04 
Wow. 
 
Etta Alldredge  29:05 
And then they had a big hall there, and they built a barn, because they used to have-- didn't have 
cars, you know. They had-- they just had horses. So when they'd comes to the dances or to the 
[?lodge?] or anything like that, they'd put their horses in this barn. Well, that's where we put our 
horses when we-- 
 
Stephanie Holan  29:28 
When you went to school?  
Page 31 of 33 
 
 
Etta Alldredge  29:29 
When I went to school. 
 
Stephanie Holan  29:32 
Wow, that's really neat. So you liked to ride horses?  
 
Etta Alldredge  29:37 
Huh?  
 
Stephanie Holan  29:38 
Did you like to ride horses? Or you did it to get around? 
 
Etta Alldredge  29:41 
What'd you say?  
 
Stephanie Holan  29:42 
Did you like to ride horses? Did you like riding them? 
 
Etta Alldredge  29:46 
Oh yeah, yeah. Always, yeah, yeah, we did.  
 
Stephanie Holan  29:51 
And did you work?  
 
Etta Alldredge  29:54 
No.  
 
Stephanie Holan  29:55 
No? So you went to one year of high school... 
 
Etta Alldredge  30:00 
And then they shut down that school and moved the school up to Kettle Falls, which is about an 
hour's drive from where we lived, and they didn't have no busses running up there, so I didn't go 
to-- finish high school.  
 
Stephanie Holan  30:15 
So what did you do after that?  
 
Etta Alldredge  30:18 
Stayed home. 
 
Stephanie Holan  30:19 
Stayed home, and helped on the ranch?  
 
Etta Alldredge  30:21 
Page 32 of 33 
 
Yeah. 
 
Stephanie Holan  30:22 
What'd you do on the ranch? 
 
Etta Alldredge  30:25 
Everything [laughs], just about. 
 
Stephanie Holan  30:28 
Like what?  
 
Etta Alldredge  30:29 
I-- help Mother, oh, pull weeds [laughs]. 
 
Stephanie Holan  30:35 
You pulled the weeds?  
 
Etta Alldredge  30:37 
Papa had a big field, and he had to keep the weeds down. He made his living by raising hogs.  
 
Stephanie Holan  30:46 
By raising hogs?  
 
Etta Alldredge  30:47 
Uh-huh. 
 
Stephanie Holan  30:47 
Wow. So did you help with the hogs? 
 
Etta Alldredge  30:50 
No.  
 
Stephanie Holan  30:51 
No?  
 
Etta Alldredge  30:54 
I helped milk the cows.  
 
Stephanie Holan  30:57 
Oh, you did?  
 
Etta Alldredge  30:57 
Oh, yes.  
 
Stephanie Holan  30:58 
You milked the cows?  
Page 33 of 33 
 
 
Etta Alldredge  31:00 
Not by myself, but my brother and I milked the cow. My sister milked [laughs]. 
 
Stephanie Holan  31:12 
And then, how old were you when you weren't-- when you stopped going to high school, when 
you-- when the school closed down?  
 
Etta Alldredge  31:18 
[Inaudible] eighth grade. [Inaudible] that year-- a year. 
 