While on our Wildhorse Resort & Casino weekend trip we found ourselves near the town of Milton-Freewater which just happened to be where my grandmother and great-grandfather's family was from. While in Milton-Freewater we found and visited the Frazier Museum. I had been told about the Frazier Museum by my cousin's wife, Charlotte, who has been a great source of our family genealogical research. The museum contains quite a bit of information about my family's history. While at the museum we talked to the director at length and had a great time learning of my family history. We were able to view a large collection of pictures and documents about my great-great grandmother, Eva Alvina Beardsley, and all of her descendants including my father, grandmother, aunts and uncle, etc. I was even able to view information about my great-great grandfather, Ralph Maxon Wood, who married Eva. He was the first baby born in Fort Walla Walla and one of my distant cousins still has the silver baby cup he received from the General of the fort at the time.
I would have to say one of the most fascinating things I saw at the museum was a collection of letters written by a great...great?? uncle during the civil war to his sister. He did not live through the civil war due to a shot to the knee, but the letters he wrote were very beautiful and eloquent. It is amazing what our ancestors had to endure. We are so fortunate!
I would have to say one of the most fascinating things I saw at the museum was a collection of letters written by a great...great?? uncle during the civil war to his sister. He did not live through the civil war due to a shot to the knee, but the letters he wrote were very beautiful and eloquent. It is amazing what our ancestors had to endure. We are so fortunate!
Frazier Farmstead Museum, Milton-Freewater
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