Sunday Drive: More Middletons - Oregon, 1950

No motor vehicles this time (or cows either)...

[From my personal collection]

Three horses, three humans and a big red barn. Roger Middleton is half-visible on the left and his sister Joelita is holding the horse that I'm perched on.




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Sunday Drive: Long Beach, Washington - 1950

As I promised last week, I'm returning to some color slides that include members of the Middleton family, It looks like the Curreys and Middletons took a little trip to Washington's Long Beach Peninsula.

[Left to right: Joeleta Middleton, me, Bernice (Grenfell) Currey, Lloyd Middleton and his wife Florence; from my personal collection]

Lloyd is blocking our view of the side of his shiny new 1950 Ford so I can't tell which model it is but that's probably Joeleta sitting in the back seat. Over Lloyd's shoulder you can catch a glimpse of the Currey's trailer parked farther up the beach.

[From my personal collection]

Sadly at this point Lloyd had only a few more months to live:

[Date: Thursday, December 7, 1950   Paper: Oregonian (Portland, Oregon)   Page: 20  

This entire product and/or portions thereof are copyrighted by NewsBank and/or the American Antiquarian Society. 2004.

Source: GenealogyBank.com]

And I still don't know how the Curreys came to know the MIddletons.


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Sunday Drive: Truck, Trailer & Cow - Oregon, 1950

If not for the caption on this slide we would never understand why our truck was hitched to a trailer carrying a dairy cow. Fortunately Dad wrote "Roger - Lloyd Middleton Auction near Portland" and this slide is one of several obviously taken during the same visit in 1950.*

[From my personal collection]

Who were the Middletons and why were we visiting them?

Here's the family's listing in the 1940 U.S. Census where their place of residence was given as Eastwood in Multnomah County, Oregon, and Lloyd was a truck driver.

[Year: 1940; Census Place: Eastwood, Multnomah, Oregon; Roll: T627_3376; Page: 13A; Enumeration District: 26-23. Ancestry.com. Original data: Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1940.]

Dad's note on another slide suggests that by 1950 the Middleton's were living in Estacada and daughter Joleta's obituary states she was raised in Boring.

I have only the vaguest memories of how Dad Currey** was connected to them but they may have fallen into the category of what he called "shirt tail relatives."

As for the cow, I don't know if she was coming or going.


*Stay tuned, I'll be posting at least one more from this series in the future.
**I believe they would have been Currey rather than Grenfell connections because of their location in Oregon.


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