Articles written by Virginia Hays

Virginia Hays, Special To The Times|Aug 11, 2011

WAITSBURG - The third reunion of the Joseph and Ebby Breeze Hays family was held July 8-10 in Waitsburg and Walla Walla. In 1899, the family migrated west when Joseph and Ebby Hays brought three of their children from Jefferson County, Illinois, to Hood River, Oregon. Going back eight months later to the Ebby's farm in Illinois, the family was destined to return to the West, settling in Waitsburg as cousin Elmer Stonecipher started growing wheat. With a need for workers, he brought out the...