Erik Robert COUSE

John Paul COUSE

Peggy Joan COUSE

Child 1 : Gregory Eugene SALTSMAN (b. <Private>)

Child 2 : Mathew SALTSMAN (b. <Private>)

Child 3 : Danette Marie SALTSMAN (b. <Private>)

Child 4 : Shelly Lynn SALTSMAN (b. <Private>)

Robert Dewayne COUSE

Child 1 : Shawna Renee COUSE (b. <Private>)

Child 2 : Erik Robert COUSE (b. <Private>)

Shawna Renee COUSE

Stacie Danielle COUSE

Child 1 : Brian FREEL

Child 2 : Brandy FREEL

Walter Dewayne COUSE

Notes

The following history was related verbally to his son Bob (and thanks to Bob for sending it to me. -- Douglas):
Walter Dewayne( Dewayne) was born in Horse Spring Coulee August 15,1910 on the family homestead. His mother died in 1917 and Dewayne was raised by his father and his aunt Lily until she left for Seattle around 1923.
Dewayne and his father farmed the family homestead and milked 8-9 cows. Milk and cream were sold in Tonasket and were the major source of cash.
As a child Dewayne attended the Burbery school and walked to Loomis to take his 8th Grade tests. Dewayne did not attend school past the 8th grade as he had to take care of his father and the homestead. To augment their income, Dewayne stacked hay in Loomis and picked apples in Tonasket.
At 17 Dewayne purchased his first car from Al Symonds in Tonasket and was never without a vehicle from that day forward. His first car cost him $50.00 and was a model T Ford without fenders known as a " Bug". He earned the money to buy the car by fighting fire on Aeneas Mountain. His car had no spare tire and the frequent flats had to be patched in place.
Dewayne and his father used the " Bug" to haul milk and cream to Tonasket. Prior to that they used a buggy.
Dewayne and his father lived on the homestead until 1935 when they moved to Republic where Dewayne puchased at piece of property ( the Jake Rounds place up Swan Lake road) from the Land Bank. Dewayne and his uncle ( Dick Burbery) herded their cattle over from Tonasket on horseback a two day ride. Dewayne and his father lived there for about a year during which time Dewayne hauled wood for Old Man Anderson (Henry Hafer cut it) and worked for the city doing odd jobs. Unable to make ends meet, Dewayne had to let the place go back to the Land Bank.
Dewayne then ( 1936) moved to the Tom Davis place west of the Ritzschke place and continued to do odd jobs for the city. He also helped build the county courthouse which subsequently burned down.
In 1937, Dewayne met Mildred Marie Garris while working on road construction west of Republic. Two weeks before they were married on Nov 11,1938, Dewayne moved to another place at the turnoff to Swan Lake.
He then began working for Claude Trevitt assaying ore for the private mines in the area. He worked in an assay office below the Knob Hill which was owned by the Day Mining company. He worked there from 1937 until 1945. During this time Dewayne heated up a piece of high grade ore in a kiln until the gold beaded up on the surface. It was a conversation piece he was proud of all his life.
In 1945, Dewayne and his family bought a trailer and took a trip to Arizona to see about joining an acquaintance who was prospecting there. Along the way they stopped to visit Mildred's brother in California. One look at the Drywash prospecting business convinced Dewayne it was not for him. While in a trailer park in Arizona, Dewayne was offered a job in road construction as a mechanic at $1.50 per hour.
Dewayne was told he would not last long working with the Master Mechanic who had a reputation as being tough to get along with. It turned out that the Master Mechanic was one of the few supervisors Dewayne ever worked for that he truly respected. After a year, Dewayne received a raise to $2.00 per hour. During his tenure with Fisher Contractors he drove a grader 50 miles to Mc Nary Arizona, the first time he drove anything that big. He helped build the main roads around Yuma, Rulito, Phoenix and Welton. He also helped install the Phoenix sewer system.
In 1950 the family returned to Republic and built the family home on the Knob Hill Road out of material largely salvaged from the Old Red Mill south of town. He worked for Day Mines as an assayer for about six months and then worked for the Ferry County Road Department for 3-4 years. Dewayne then worked for the San Poil Lumber Company driving a " Strattle Bug" and forklift moving lumber to and from the drying kilns and to the rail loading docks.
Yielding to his desire to be his own boss, Dewayne started his own business. Among his many services he:

• Hauled Topsoil, coal,gravel and Shale
• Hauled and sold Concrete pipe and Septic Tank Material
• Installed sewer piping for the new system for the City of Republic
• Contracted for 100 cords of wood for the County Courthouse (Several Years)
• Assayed for the Day Mines while the Assayer was on vacation
• Started a refuse hauling business in 1956
• Started a Septic Tank Pumping business
• Had the only privately owned Backhoe in the county at one time

Dewayne sold his sanitation businesses to his son, Cliff, in 1983 and retired. He and Mildred purchased a motor home which allowed them to spend winters in Arizona and California for several years and to travel across the US visiting friends and family. Dewayne like to travel and he and Mildred made one trip to England with his aunt and uncle to visit some of the relatives from his mother's side of the family. S228 

Child 1 : Charlotte Mary COUSE (b. <Private>)

Child 2 : Peggy Joan COUSE (b. <Private>)

Child 3 : Robert Dewayne COUSE (b. <Private>)

Child 4 : Clifford Walter COUSE (b. <Private>)

William Henry COUSE

Notes

William Henry, his sister, Aletta( Lettie) and his two brothers, John Paul and Joseph, moved to Colorado about 1875 and settled in the Montrose/Cripple Creek area and worked in the Gold fields. Later William Henry moved to Ouray where he met and married his first wife.
William Henry moved to Seattle and about 1898 he worked at the Tom Thumb Mine in Republic, Washington. Later he moved back to Seattle before homesteading between Tonasket and Loomis in an area known as Horse Spring Coulee. He divorced his first wife at Loomis and she married a man named Hill.
William married Charlotte May Burberry on July 27, 1907 at Conconully. (Mildred Couse of Republic has the original marriage certificate.) William and Charlotte May had one son, Walter Dewayne.
Following his wife's death, William continued to run the homestead where he raised Dewayne with the help of his wife's sister, Lily. Lily stayed with Wiliam and Dewayne until Dewayne was about 13 when she left for Seattle where she lived out her life as a housekeeper.
William and Dewayne moved to Republic in 1935 where Dewayne had purchased the a piece of property from the land bank. S228 

Child 1 : Walter Dewayne COUSE (b. 15th Aug 1910)

Carol COWAN

Child 1 : Belinda MORTON (b. <Private>)

Child 2 : Stuart MORTON (b. <Private>)

Anne M. COWLING

Child 1 : Stephen M. BURBERRY (b. <Private>)