Pioneer Lady of the Yr Anita Anthony Ordway
This yr’s Pioneer Lady of the Yr Anita Anthony Ordway is a fifth technology Oregonian. Her great-great grandmother, Mary Pigget, got here to America from Eire after which traveled round Cape Horn by ship to Oregon. Her great-great grandfather, Milo Cushing, got here to The Dalles with U.S. Grant’s troops on horseback to Fort Dalles. They met right here and married then homesteaded close to Cushing Falls south of Seufert Park on 15 Mile Creek. Their son, William married Josephine Kneble and enlarged the Cushing Ranch. Anita’s grandfather Eble J. Anthony married Elizabeth Cushing; he helped on the farm and labored for the railroad and telegraph workplace.
Her father, James Anthony was a farm gear mechanic repairing tractors and combines for native farmers. He married Viola Oades from Nice Ridge. Anita is expounded to the Rondeau, Cushing, Howell, Oades, Anthony, Campbell, Remington, Wagonblast and Metteer households all early settlers of North Wasco County.
