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About Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 24, 1972)
" m .CD O lX ritt! : ' ) V L- Ir r vr luv p " An Oregon Wool Growers tlrirk A. Ha by Cont. from page 12 lost his leg after a logging accident on his homestead and had to move his family into town where they lived beside the Jasper Crawfords for awhile and then moved down Gale St. beyond the Methodist Church. Their homi? Wis protected some what during the flood by part of another building which washed beside it and diverted the water and debris. LEFT IN 1905 Tne family moved to Boise in 1905. Later U.A. did farm work at Phoenix, Arizona, married, and he and his wife went into Salvation Army work. Later yet they located in Chico where he had a used furniture store and then did maintenance work for the pub lic schools. His older brother Ed Raby married Ida Adams of Sandhollow. The Raby' s son Delbert is the director of Boy Scout camps in Cal ifornia. The three enjoyed visiting the museum and talk ing with Mrs. Harnett; they purchased Homesteads and Heritages; Bill Weatherford tried to help them locate the old Raby homestead. J. Garnett Barralt It would be hard to find another second-generation pioneer who has been as ac tive in civic life as J. Gar net Barratt who served on the Heppner school board, was a charter member of the board of directors of the Northwest Livestock Produc tion Credit Assoc., served in an important session of the state legislature, was a county commissioner and county judge. He platted and developed the Barratt Addi tion to Heppner and donated 10 lots where the Pioneer Hospital stands. SOME FAMILY HISTORY His parents, William Bar bour Barratt who came from Who's - - - - - ..n. r Convention, 1901. The man in England in 1883 and Eliza Ann Hynd who came from Scotland in 1899 ranched in Rattlesnake Canyon off Sand Hollow near where the Jerry Doughertys are new. His father changed from a "city dude" to an outstanding and progressive sheep rancher after arriving here broke in his 21st year. Miss Hynd, a sister of his nine year sheep-rearing partner Robert Hynd, whom Mr. Bar ratt met when he visited End land in 1897, and who came to Heppner for their marri age in 1899 when he was 37 and she was 30, adjusted nicely to the change of en vironment and became a fine wife and mother. The family began to spend their winters in their home In Heppner when Garnet was school age. The parents also had three daughters: Helen, Mrs. E.C. Rieman of Cor vallis; MJletta, Mrs. Fred Hodecker, Redmond; Mar garet, Mrs. John A. Heltzel, Salem. GARNETS PROGRESS Garnet graduated from Heppner High in 1918, took a quick look around O.S.C., and came home to trail sheep and to go into a partnership with his father. In 1920 he married Cyrene Lieuallen of Athena. They have two sons, Bill of Spokane and James of Corvallis. . By 1929 the Garnet Barratts bought the L.V. Gentry Ranch just east of town, and their sons were convenient to Hepp ner's schools, and Garnet really became involved in or ganizations. He knew the town and its citizens well as he had carried a large Ore gonian route as a boy, and hati of course, spent his win ters there during all of his school years. Garnet married Gretchen "Peggy" Bailey of Glacier, Montana in 1943. He filled out the term as Commissioner Who in Our First the front holding the papers is when C.W. McNamer died In office and then was elected judge for two 6 yr. terms, but he had to resign for health reasons in Jan. 1958. TO MESA, ARIZONA Since that time, he and Peggy have made their home at Mesa, Arizona but have returned toHeppnerforapart of their summers. Garnet is associated in the Barratt Ranches, Inc., a family corp oration. The Barratts have many friends at Mesa and are certainly widely acquain ted here. When one visits with Garnet one finds that there can't be much that has gone on in the county that he has not been involved in, and that he is very proud of his Morrow County and Heppner background. THE ORIGINAL SCRIP He is pleased with the re vival of sheepskin scrip this centennial year. He was on the school board in the 1930's when the original sheepskin scrip was issued and was backed by county and school district warrants. The Garnet Barratts are at home this summer in the basement apartment of the Barratt Apartment building, in the Barratt addition, out toward the Barratt Ranch. Mrs. Homer Green (Pearl Brannon) Mrs. Pearl Green and her twin sister Merle Bran non must be about the coun ty's oldest twins. Born in 1896 in Heppner, they are daughters of Irishman Wesley Webb Brannon and Ella Sail ing Brannon who were home steaders in Eight Mile before fences were built there. The Brannons had 6 other child ren: the first three died quite young; however, sonLeslives in Heppner, son Marvin at Mt. Vernon, and son Jimmy Century Wnv B. Barratt, Garnett's father. on Rhea Creek. Merle suf fered damage from a very high fever when she was 2 years old, and Pearl has mot hered her since their mother died 51 years ago. Pearl started to school at Eight Mile but the family mov ed into Hardman during the winters so the children could go to a bigger school there. At Eight Mile the Brannons had wheat, sheep and an or chard. MARRIED AT HARDMAN Pearl met her husband Ho mer GreenfromOhioatHard man, and they were wed there by Justice of the Peace George Bleakman in 1914. They had seven children. Their oldest daughter, Myr tle (Mrs. Nfarcellus Van Sch- oiack) died in 1943; daughter Dean's Second Hand Store and Fix-It Shop Buy-Sell-Trade John's Wrecking Yard Buy and Sell Used Cars Car Repair Work Heppner (Pic from Garnett Barratt) Lucille (Mrs. Clair Marvel) lives in The Dalles; Dorothy (Mrs. Art Warren) lives in lone, and their four sons live in Lexington. Harry is a custodian ofHeppner spools, Kenneth and Floyd ork on ranches, and Jerry works at l the Prowler Industries, Pen dleton, but is home garden ing every weekend. Pearl recalls what an ex citing place Hardman was when she was a young girl. There were horse races and lots of parties and dances. She says she saw her first car there when she was about 14 years old it belonged to Jim Knighten. She remem bers George Bleakman also had a car about 1910. She says it was mighty exciting Cont. on page 14
