Re: Joseph Lemm, WA state, around 1900
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Re: Joseph Lemm, WA state, around 1900
10/01/01
Joe Lemm from what I've been told came down from Canada sometime in the 1800s.At the time he had the farm in Auburn, this area was pretty wild.In 1917 or 1918 my mother who was about 13 at the time was jumped by a cougar in front of the family home.As the story goes the locals hunted the cat down, and after dispatching it cut it open.In it's stomach they found handbones and a pocket knife.They guessed that the cat had jumped a boy that was whittling.Joe Lemm had a hired hand named John McCarin.(not sure of spelling) that claimed he rode with Jesse James and had a pair of matched Colts.
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