Lewis County family hopes to exhume, relocate remains of Civil War veteran
Автор: KING 5 Seattle
Загружено: 2023-05-25
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Whitney McMahan hopes to pull off a family reunion for the ages.
Her great, great grandfather, James Randles, died in 1920 and was buried in Centralia’s Mountain View Cemetery. The rest of his family, generations worth, are buried in the town 50 miles to east that bears his name, Randle, Washington.
The Civil War veteran headed west and established the town of Randle in 1883. According to McMahan, the family wanted free mail delivery and the U.S. Post Office would only deliver to established cities or towns. That’s when the town took his name, sort of.
”He sent in the petition, and his name happened to be right on top, so they picked his name and dropped the S,” said McMahan.
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