For many years I use to hear the story about grandpa's horses acting up. I think aunt Chris was also with him at the time. These horses had names that I can not remember at this time. When their names were mentioned it brought a smile to everyone's faces because they had such strong personalities. The horses were attached to a wagon carrying grandpa. They got wild and started running and tossed grandpa out. He continued to chase them as they ran down the neighbor's road to their house. I think aunt Chris caught them. It must have been quite a scene as 70 years later we were put in touch with Paul Cappoen (Cappoen Road in Sherwood was named for their family-Their's is the only house on it and it still stands). Once Paul understood who we were he said he remembered only a few stories, but one in particular...and he proceeded to tell the very same story of the run away horses, calling them by name! He laughed very hard too thinking of the scene. Mom said they all use to go to the Cappone's and play in the creek that runs in front of their place. Mom was named for Mrs. Rose Cappoen. Aunt Marie was Paul's god-mother and Aunt Chris was Paul's sister's god-mother. Another memory of Paul's was that he remembered an old Indian woman who use to sit on the floor at either Kittson's or the Lebeau's. The LeBeau's were grandpa's first cousins.

The relatives tell us another story too, that we don't have all the pieces to. The Kittson's had one house up on Lebeau Road and had later moved to another that still stands at the end of Holznagle Road (it would have been Kittson Road probably had they stayed) Somehow grandpa made some kind of a gamble and lost both pieces of property! I don't think grandma with all their children was too happy with him then. Grandpa as an older man living with my parents in Salem use to go play cards with the then governor, Charles A.Sprague. I never did hear who was the one who won most often.

The above pictures are of grandma and grandpa. The other set of pictures are of pioneer, Donald McKay in his buckskins (We have another in which he was in a suit with his long hair) and his daughter, Minnie (in her indian dress). Grandma use to tell us a story that when he was an old man, Donald McKay took her to church in an old buckboard wagon. This was probably when she and grandpa lived out on the Umatilla reservation. Grandma had an old beaded bag that an indian woman had given her. None of us remembers for sure if this was a relative or a friend. I have often wondered if it was from Minnie. Unfortunately after grandma's death one of the other relatives got the bag which had a beaded picture of a bear fishing in the rapids of a river. When this relative died the purse was never seen again. We are sure that who's ever hands it ended up in never realized what an important item they had.

This might look out of place here, but due to new information I wanted to extend the Bonin History here only from the point of Pierre Bonin (my gg grandfather)whose name was spelled in a variety of ways (Bonin, Bonnin, Bonnit, and many, many more). He married three times to the following women.

1. Louise Rondeau married Pierre Bonin on May 4th, 1846. They had one known daughter, Aurelie Bonin. Aurelie was 2 years old when her mother died. Louise was the daughter of Antoine Rondeau & "Marie Walla Walla". We have not learned her native name as yet. In an affidavid, which we have a copy of, Chief Jim Kanine stated that Louise's mother returned to the tribe and married a native man, Pat-e-chum, and by him had 3 known daughters. One of these daughters he states was his (Kanine's) mother-in-law. We need to find her name to help possibly find the native name of our ggg grandmother. What might help is an obituary in CUJ newspaper for Chow-e-se-pum (Lillian Kanine Hoptowit) whose grandfather was Chief Kanine. (article in August 7th, 2003 edition). This article and a secondary one on her lists many family members. I did after a reasonable time, try to reach family through the newspaper, but was unsuccessful at the time. I will again search this line as feel there may be others who might know this history there, if only in part. Recently also (2007) I found in the Native Census a Pat-e-chum who was too young to be the said man above, but may have been his grandson? or may be connected in some way. This younger Pat-e-chum is shown with his wife Sack-Mot and two daughters Pe-Te-Nits and Mollie. I do not see the date of this census on the print out, but knew what it was when I first found it. The header is blank at top, but shows a partial set up date of "189_" This Pat-e-chum was shown as 33 yrs old and wife as 27. This would only have made him around the age of our grandmother. That is how I know he is not the one we need to find, but if he received the name of a grandfather, then he could be a connection. If anyone who knows this line or Kanine's, it would be great to hear from you.
2. Rose Wagner was Pierre's 2nd wife. They married in 1855. They had three known children 1. Alonzo (my mother noted in her records that she met Uncle "Lonzo" as an old man when he came to stay with them for 2 weeks-no date given of that visit), 2. Anastasia (Stacey), and 3. Augustan (Gus)(my sister litterally stumbled accross his grave when we went to the old cemetery up at Cowlitz to try and find family history).
3. Salome Raymond was Pierre's 3rd wife. They married in 1865. It is not known if she had any children by him, but from the ages in the 1880 census it is doubtful, however, the census do show that they had an adopted daughter, Mary, who used the Bonin name until her marriage to Albert Dupuis. This Mary and Albert had a son, Alfred, who was born in Puyallup, Washington in 1892. Alfred's great-grandson is the man who got in touch with me this fall of 2004 and while the two of us researched, he found the 1880 census entry for Pierre under the name "Peter Bonnit". This shows Pierre with all of his known children, including young Mary. It clearly shows her as an adopted daughter, thus the mystery remains as to who her birth parents might have been, but at least she and the family are now found in the census.

   I had also found the names in a 1923 Seattle directory showing an Albert DuPuis and under him an Alfred & Margaret DuPuis. Albert was shown as a writer (wtr ?) and Alfred was shown as a clerk (clk) for the SLCo. Margaret was shown as a student and is possibly Alfred's wife(?) These may or may not be the right family, but seems to possibly fit.

The following will resume as I had originally written this page with the information on Aurelie's descendants.

Grandma was born Virginia Brouillard and was a daughter of Frank & Aurelie Bonin Brouillard.

	Aurelie Bonin Brouillard
	Laurel Ridge School 1912

There are only a few pictures of Aurelie that I know of. Most of these pictures are held by their son's Albert's family. We have been given copies of some including the one here which I hope she will excuse me, but as small children we mistook to be a picture of a man. That verbal expression use to get me in so much trouble no matter how innocent it was back then.

Grandpa and Grandma spoke in French. Their children were only allowed to speak French at home, but required to speak English at school, so they lost most of their language. Grandma also knew the Chinook Jargon. I hope you have sound as they usually have some great stuff on this site that you won't want to miss hearing!

The children of Nazaire (1858-1945) and Virginia(1876-1961) are as follows:

1. Agness Mary who was born June 8, 1895 on the Umatilla Reservation. She died and is buried in Salem in 1930. We have a picture of her when she was maybe 8-10 years old holding her bonnet and wearing her button-up shoes. It may have been taken out on the reservation. For those cousins wanting to see her descendants need only look for the Holidays and visit the Hagg's Christmas Tree Farm to find them hard at work not only with trees, but in the Halloween pumpkin season as well. Many of Frank's descendants as well meet out there and have quite a treat for all who come.
2. Alice was born December 1, 1896 also on the reservation and died as a toddler on May 11, 1898 and is buried on the reservation.
3. Francis (Frank) was born December 20, 1898 and died August 28, 1944 and is buried in Forest Grove. Frank and all our uncles and many of our cousins use to fish with the big dip nets at Celilo Falls. Frank's family has many of these cherished and wonderfully historic pictures. They had to build their own platforms and used strong ropes to tie themselves to them in case of falling in. I understood this happened to Uncle John once. I found some ancestry and family page site on one of Uncle Frank's daughter-in-laws Mitts family. I hope more of Frank's kids will write some of their history as they have some exciting things to share.
4. Charles William was born September 26, 1900 and died as an infant in January of 1901 and is buried too on the reservation. We would like to some day find the burial sites of both Alice and Charles to see if they are marked in some way.
5. Selina Marie was born on October 9, 1901 at Umatilla and died on May 29, 1992 in Ilwaco, Wa. Mom was not able to go to her 90th birthday because she was very ill with her cancer. Aunt Marie was bedridden too so I had my video camera and asked Aunt Marie to send a hello to her baby sister. This helped mom a lot to get that sweet smile and "Hello Rosie". I understand that one of Aunt Marie's granddaughters has put together a web page on the Dickens line and when I get the address will add it here too.
6. Christina was born on Christmas Day December 25, 1903 and died in Lincoln City, Or on October 12, 1996 We have some video memories of her and her sisters singing in French. She lived to be nearly 93years old. Her grandson and great-grandson put together their families web pages and as they live so far away from us it is a great way for us to see how they are all growing. You can visit their site too and see the wonderful pictures Pat promised to bring this back on line again, so will continue to keep this up in hopes he will follow through on it. His son Jed is working with his church's missions and has begun a webpage on their work there. I see it is also in geocities, so will try to remember how to link that correctly. You will need to ask him why he uses the title nomayonnaise. It seems he told me once a long time ago.
7. John was born on March 13, 1906 also on the reservation and died on November 7, 1993 at The Dalles, Or. A picture of John was returned to us after maybe 40-50 years from my dad's side of the family. It showed Uncle John fishing on the platform at Celilo Falls as a very young man. John lived off and on the reservation over the years. He and cousin Buddy built a log cabin and other small buildings on the reservation and later built a house down the road from these. A trunk he owned was first Peter's, who passed it to Nazaire, who passed it to John, who passed it to uncle Gus's son, Gus. It is on display at the Dupont Museum. From the history of similar trunks it must have come from Shang-hi on the big sailing ships. A similar trunk was owned by Finan McDonald and was pictured in the book, "The Earlybirds". If it came when his did, this could have originally belonged to William Kittson. There is also an indication that there was another trunk which belonged to Angelique Dupre. It was gotten for her out of her inheritance from her father's will for her wedding to Peter.
8. Gertrude was born on March 21, 1908 and was the last one born on the reservation. She just celebrated her 90th birthday. She and aunt Lillie may be the last two daughters of true pioneers since Grandpa was born in 1858 before Oregon became a State.
9. Norman was born May 12, 1910 in Chemawa and he too died at The Dalles in October of 1954. John's family has many fond memories of him. He was mom's favorite and she was very saddened by his death.
10. Alfred (Fred) was born on March 15, 1912 in Sherwood Ore. He died in West Covina, Ca. and ironically was buried at Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City where we realized later was the same Cemetery where Grand Aunt Agness and Grand Uncle Charlie were buried. Had we known we may have been able to track some of their missing descendants. There is a picture of Uncle Fred that hung at Johnny's Cafe in The Dalles, Oregon. It is him standing on their platform at Celilo Falls. Another picture the family has is nearly all the uncles and one of our cousins on this same platform, each displaying their catch! One of Uncle Fred's daughters, Kim, sells avon and has a website where you can reach her and place your orders as well, so let Kim be your Avon representative for our family. We currently heard from Carol, Steve's wife and she is a car enthusist and was interviewed at cars for girls and sent this link. During this same conversation she mentioned that she & Steve became great-grandparents through Kate's son Chris. After connecting with Kate to congradulate everyone Kate added a story that shows our cousins 3 generations down are still finding each other. Her brother's co-worker was giving a potential new hire a ride and the new person had seen the Kittson name and wondered who it was as he too was related to the Kittson's. The potential new hire turned out to be Aunt Lilly's grandson Robert. I gave a call tonight to Robert's dad and they too had just heard the story from him. It gave us all a good laugh.
11. Augustan was born August 15, 1913 in St. Louis, Ore. Great grandma Auriel Bonin Brouillard Courville lived in St. Louis so grandma may have stayed with her during his birth. Uncle Gus died in Kennewick,Wa. on November 7, 1984. He opened the first industrial supply store in the area and years later opened his second. The family still work with the shops. One of his son-in-laws, Les, I owe great thanks to for providing me with the means to work on these pages. I also owe thanks to one of Uncle Fred's sons in law for keeping the computer in shape and sound. Lately I have been writing to one of Uncle Gus's daughters, Nicki, who has her own pages for her business, women especially may want to check it out.
12. Lillian was born on July 25, 1915 in Sherwood, Or. Aunt Lillie was the closest to mom's age. We have a neat picture of her four daughters with mom's four daughters. We also have a picture of her son, Bob, sitting on her lap in a group picture at the (Lebeau) Hankle Bean Farm in Stayton from around 1930.
13. Rosa Ann was born on October 4, 1917 in Sherwood, Or. Without her very little of this history would have ever been preserved and passed down the family line. Before she passed away she made a few copies of the family history book as seed. My sister Sandra and I have continued her research for her and have passed an early copy of her book on to the Dupont Museum in Washington in her memory. She died from cancer on September 8, 1993 in Portland, Oregon the feast of Our Lady's (Mary)Birthday. She is our gift back to her. Mom was buried next to Great-Grandma and Grandma in St. Louis. She was a great woman who has touched the lives of many. One of the most important lives she has touched was her "Sailer Boy" as she referred to him as in a poem she wrote about him in her book of poems titled "Aunt Rose's Poems". She was aunt to so many and shared her life with all her nieces and nephews that we felt it most appropriate that she be refered to as Aunt on the cover rather than mother. That book would not have been able to be completed without the love of one of her nieces, Lee, as a gift for our parents 50th wedding anniversary held at Champoeg Park in 1992. A new light has come into our lives on this piece of the family tree. Miss Gabriella Rose was born to Alan & Chelsea and she is a beautiful blend of the families. In some pictures you will see an amazing resemblance to her great grandma, Rose Kittson Woodruff. I will be adding her picture to the Woodruff pages soon.

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