Retha A. Greenaway (1915 - 1923)

Born 1915 in Alberta Province, Canada

Ancestors

Died 1923 at about age 8 in Okanogan, Washington

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Biography

Retha A Greenaway was born in 1915 in Reid Hill, Alberta, Canada,[1] where here parents had come to homestead; or alternatively, March 5, 1916 in Douglas, Washington.[3] However a couple years later they gave it up, and returned to Washington. In the 1920 census of Duley Lake, Washington, her father is shown as a rancher.[2] Retha died there at age 8, in 1923.[1]

Sources

1. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=119996096.

2. US Census, Duley Lake, Okanogan, Washington, 1920.

3. Washington Births, 1889-1929, Ancestry.com; Original data - Washington Births, 1891-1919. Various county birth registers. Microfilm. Washington State Archives, Olympia, Washington. [Name is transcribed as "Rotha Alexander Greenway," but copy iof the record is very blurred, accounting for the misspellings of her name; her parents in this record are shown as James Greenway and Effie Marshall.]