P.. Elmer Govier's House

Bob Zybach: Okay. How about those three trees there, do you know anything about them?

Eugene Glender: No.

Bob Zybach: No story, huh?

Eugene Glender: No.

Bob Zybach: There's a dump through here somewhere, are we coming up on that?

Eugene Glender: I don't know. There isn't any dump that I know of.

Bob Zybach: You showed me some spot down here below the road where you said there was a dump at some time.

Eugene Glender: No.

Bob Zybach: Well, okay. We 'lljust

P. Elmer Govier's House

Bob Zybach: Okay. The house that we couldn't remember their name was the Griffin house. And then the little swale just past the school house site, the family that moved in there dumped their stuff and the school stuff over the hill there?

Eugene Glender: I don't know if the school dumped it in there, but I know they did. I saw stuff in there when those people lived there.

Bob Zybach: Did they dump it right next to the road or just off to the side of their house?

Eugene Glender: In a swale beside the house.

Bob Zybach: Now, we're ... this house here, do you remember how Griffins spelled their name? Griffus or Grzffen [Griffin]?

Eugene Glender: G-r-i-f-f-e-n, I think.

Bob Zybach: E-n. Okay.

Jan Meranda: [Jan] And that was Hazel and Guy?

Eugene Glender: Yeah.

Bob Zybach: Now we're in front of... what house is this called? Who's house was this?

Eugene Glender: Elmer Govier.

Bob Zybach: Was he the one that owned the mill?

Eugene Glender: No. He was a brother.

Bob Zybach: The brother. Do you know how long this family was here?

Eugene Glender: They were here as long as I can remember, up to the time the Camp took over.

Bob Zybach: Now, are there any relatives of Elmer's still alive?

Eugene Glender: He had some daughters.

Bob Zybach: And do you know where they might live?

Eugene Glender: Corvallis.

Bob Zybach: So there's still do you remember any of their married names?

Eugene Glender: I'll probably ... maybe think of one pretty quick. I know one, but I can't think of it right now.

Bob Zybach: I've got a list of some Goviers and their married names, so I think we could probably find one.

Eugene Glender: You probably can get it from ... there's a bunch of Goviers live up here yet.

Bob Zybach: Did Elmer Govier farm?

Eugene Glender: Yeah.

Bob Zybach: Okay, so this area out through here then was probably the Govierfann?

Eugene Glender: Yeah.

Bob Zybach: So it went Govier, Mallow, Glender brothers?

Eugene Glender: Yeah.

Bob Zybach: Wiles and Beals? That would be kind of the main farmers through this area in the '30's?

Eugene Glender: Yeah.

Bob Zybach: Okay, where was the old barn at here?

Eugene Glender: It used to be over in there, I think. Someplace.

Bob Zybach: Where that old building is right there now?

Eugene Glender: Back there someplace.

Bob Zybach: Okay, the road cuts out here and goes out on a right angle and the old road Ic. 1853] used to go from about that corner and run straight. Here's a place where they took a straight road and put in a corner. Do you know anything about that?

Eugene Glender: No.

Bob Zybach: This is just the way it was when you were a kid, then?

Eugene Glender: As far as I can remember it's always been like this.

Bob Zybach: Okay. Anything Jan?