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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
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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
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