m: Harrison Charles Clark 3 Sep 1915 in Wenatchee, Chelan Co, WA
m: John P Lee 11 Nov 1934 in Chelan Co, WA
Alice Clark Lee, 87, a lifelong Cashmere resident, died Monday afternoon at her home. She was born Jan. 13, 1895, at Cashmere, raised and attended school in Cashmere and was the first graduate of Leavenworth High School in 1911.
She married Harrison Clark on Sept. 3. 1915, at Cashmere and they lived at Lucerne until he preceded her in death in 1933. She married John P. Lee on Sept. 11, 1934, at Wenatchee and they lived at Lucerne until returning to Cashmere in 1943. He preceded her in death in 1975. She was a charter member of the Cashmere Amaranth, member of the Cashmere American Legion Auxiliary and a volunteer hostess at the Chelan.
Survivors include three sons, Harrison Clark and Nigel Lee, both of Cashmere, and Jack Lee of Roche Harbor; one daughter, Sheila Slater, Renton; one sister, Ethel Fimple, Portland, five grandchildren; five great-grandchildren.
Funeral services were held Thursday (Dec. 30, 1982) at the Braun Funeral Chapel with Rev. Robert Hasseries officiating. Earl Barnes was organist and burial took place in the Treadwell-Brisky Cemetery with pallbearers Dick Olson, Rex Kish, L.B. Spurlock, Steve Crossland, Ralph Gray and Patrick Lee.
Memorials are suggested to the Heart Fund. The Braun Funeral Home had charge of arrangements.
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Exert from the story of the Brisky families who immigrated from Milltown, Alabama, to Washington told by Alice Brisky.
The South had been devastated by the Civil War – 1861 – 1865. Discouraged by conditions and loss of money, my Dad, William Brisky (known as "Bill" was born in 1848 in Milltown, Ala); wife, Laura Treadwell Brisky, Laura's brother, Dave Treadwell and wife, Emma, Laura's mother and father, and William's brother George with their two children gathered loaded up several covered wagons and left Milltown, Alabama. They stopped at Throck-Morton, Texas, where they lived for several years.
Hearing about the new territory in the Northwest, they again loaded up their wagons. They stopped at Bickleton – near Goldendale and resided there for 7 years.
George left his family in Bickleton and traveled up the Yakima River and over Blewett Pass. He went up the Icicle River where he bought land from the Northern Pacific Railroad.
During this time three more children were born, bringing the total to five – 3 girls and 2 boys. George built a log house. He came to Leavenworth in 1885. Two years later he went back to Bickleton for his family.
William Brisky and Dave Treadwell came to Cashmere in 1886. They built a log cabin near what is now known as Pioneer Avenue. The Treadwells purchased 160 acres from the Northern Pacific. In 1896 they set out their first orchard.
Bill sought land in the Brender Canyon area where he became the first settler. He also acquired 160 acres from the Northern Pacific Railway for $500. With the help of neighbors they built their cabin, corrals and dug a cellar into the hillside.
The men then returned to Bickleton and brought back all three families in 1887.
The first winter had unusually deep snow. On Jan. 25th the men were out falling trees above the cabin. Hearing a loud roar they looked up to find a large snow slide heading down the hill toward their cabin. The falling of timbers had stared an avalanche, which buried the cabin and its occupants.
Everyone dug frantically. All five children Patsy, Mary , Carrie, Henry and Belle were found safe. Unfortunately Laura had perished along with a traveling minister, Rev. Biggs.
There was no cemetery so Laura's father set aside a piece of land behind the Treadwell home. It became known as the Brisky-Treadwell Cemetery. Family, friends and neighbors who died in the early pioneer days were buried in this cemetery. The land was deeded to the city of Cashmere.
Bill returned to Bickteton where he married Nellie Gleason, a friend whom they previously known. Five children were born to this union; John, Dave, Alice, Edith and Ethel. Edith died of the flu epidemic in 1918.
Bill planted various fruit trees and built an 8-room house, which became known as home. In October 1910 he had an attack of appendicitis. Dr. McCoy came from Wenatchee. By the time he arrived his appendix had ruptured. Dr. McCoy put him on the kitchen table and operated. Bill said, "Go ahead, but it won't do any good, it's my time to go." He was 62 years old. The neighbors came in and harvested the remainder of his fruit.
Article with children contributed by Charles Brooks
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Brisky History told by Alice Brisky Lee – Jun. 28, 1979
A snow slide at 8 am one February morning in 1888 completely buried the first William Brisky log cabin and claimed the lives of two of the buried persons within. Among the dead was the first Mrs. Brisky, Laura Treadwell, and a visiting minister, "Daddy Biggs". Both are buried in the first Cashmere cemetery, the family Brisky cemetery.
Five Brisky children remained, and five more were to be born to Nellie Gleason, the second Mrs. Brisky.
A second log house was built by William shortly thereafter, this time across the canyon from the original home place in Brisky Canyon.
Alice Brisky was born on the ranch January 13, 1895.
This 84-year-old pioneer lady recalls those days as the "horse and buggy" times, with roads into town "anything but good" and the five-mail trip taking exactly one hour "to the railroad tracks."
Her mother's death when she was six, was to mean a checkered school life for this young Brisky. She counted sixteen moves and sixteen schools before she would be the first graduate from Leavenworth High School (in the class of one in 1913) and before her graduation from Bellingham Normal.
Her school memories include Judge James H. Chase, a fine orator, who came to the school often to speak to the students. "Old Judge Chase was quite a character. His lectures used to bore us to death; I'd give anything to hear him today."
Young Alice attended the town's first church, the Presbyterian Church, built in 1892, and located where the John Clark Ford agency is today. "Every Sunday we rode horseback from the ranch to Sunday school." The new Presbyterian Church, in its present-day location, was built in 1924 or 25.
She doesn't remember the exact detail, but Alice remembers when electricity came in. "We were each asked to put up $100 for the lines, and once in, we all had to buy one piece of electrical equipment. Most bought irons. It was grand." The year 1914, five years following installation of phones; one year following sidewalk paving in downtown Cashmere; and five years before the city streets would be paved.
The original Brisky orchard was to remain in the family for the next 91 years. It was sold a year ago to Bob Smith, who turned it into a cattle ranch. The original family house was sold to Mark Newberry.
The home Alice lives in today on Pleasant Street was built in 1935 by George Beam, who also built the Blewett Hotel, and was contractor for many Cashmere homes. Alice tells that the present-day Greyhound Bus Depot once served as an icehouse to the Blewett Hotel.
m: Harrison Charles Clark 3 Sep 1915 in Wenatchee, Chelan Co, WA
m: John P Lee 11 Nov 1934 in Chelan Co, WA
Alice Clark Lee, 87, a lifelong Cashmere resident, died Monday afternoon at her home. She was born Jan. 13, 1895, at Cashmere, raised and attended school in Cashmere and was the first graduate of Leavenworth High School in 1911.
She married Harrison Clark on Sept. 3. 1915, at Cashmere and they lived at Lucerne until he preceded her in death in 1933. She married John P. Lee on Sept. 11, 1934, at Wenatchee and they lived at Lucerne until returning to Cashmere in 1943. He preceded her in death in 1975. She was a charter member of the Cashmere Amaranth, member of the Cashmere American Legion Auxiliary and a volunteer hostess at the Chelan.
Survivors include three sons, Harrison Clark and Nigel Lee, both of Cashmere, and Jack Lee of Roche Harbor; one daughter, Sheila Slater, Renton; one sister, Ethel Fimple, Portland, five grandchildren; five great-grandchildren.
Funeral services were held Thursday (Dec. 30, 1982) at the Braun Funeral Chapel with Rev. Robert Hasseries officiating. Earl Barnes was organist and burial took place in the Treadwell-Brisky Cemetery with pallbearers Dick Olson, Rex Kish, L.B. Spurlock, Steve Crossland, Ralph Gray and Patrick Lee.
Memorials are suggested to the Heart Fund. The Braun Funeral Home had charge of arrangements.
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Exert from the story of the Brisky families who immigrated from Milltown, Alabama, to Washington told by Alice Brisky.
The South had been devastated by the Civil War – 1861 – 1865. Discouraged by conditions and loss of money, my Dad, William Brisky (known as "Bill" was born in 1848 in Milltown, Ala); wife, Laura Treadwell Brisky, Laura's brother, Dave Treadwell and wife, Emma, Laura's mother and father, and William's brother George with their two children gathered loaded up several covered wagons and left Milltown, Alabama. They stopped at Throck-Morton, Texas, where they lived for several years.
Hearing about the new territory in the Northwest, they again loaded up their wagons. They stopped at Bickleton – near Goldendale and resided there for 7 years.
George left his family in Bickleton and traveled up the Yakima River and over Blewett Pass. He went up the Icicle River where he bought land from the Northern Pacific Railroad.
During this time three more children were born, bringing the total to five – 3 girls and 2 boys. George built a log house. He came to Leavenworth in 1885. Two years later he went back to Bickleton for his family.
William Brisky and Dave Treadwell came to Cashmere in 1886. They built a log cabin near what is now known as Pioneer Avenue. The Treadwells purchased 160 acres from the Northern Pacific. In 1896 they set out their first orchard.
Bill sought land in the Brender Canyon area where he became the first settler. He also acquired 160 acres from the Northern Pacific Railway for $500. With the help of neighbors they built their cabin, corrals and dug a cellar into the hillside.
The men then returned to Bickleton and brought back all three families in 1887.
The first winter had unusually deep snow. On Jan. 25th the men were out falling trees above the cabin. Hearing a loud roar they looked up to find a large snow slide heading down the hill toward their cabin. The falling of timbers had stared an avalanche, which buried the cabin and its occupants.
Everyone dug frantically. All five children Patsy, Mary , Carrie, Henry and Belle were found safe. Unfortunately Laura had perished along with a traveling minister, Rev. Biggs.
There was no cemetery so Laura's father set aside a piece of land behind the Treadwell home. It became known as the Brisky-Treadwell Cemetery. Family, friends and neighbors who died in the early pioneer days were buried in this cemetery. The land was deeded to the city of Cashmere.
Bill returned to Bickteton where he married Nellie Gleason, a friend whom they previously known. Five children were born to this union; John, Dave, Alice, Edith and Ethel. Edith died of the flu epidemic in 1918.
Bill planted various fruit trees and built an 8-room house, which became known as home. In October 1910 he had an attack of appendicitis. Dr. McCoy came from Wenatchee. By the time he arrived his appendix had ruptured. Dr. McCoy put him on the kitchen table and operated. Bill said, "Go ahead, but it won't do any good, it's my time to go." He was 62 years old. The neighbors came in and harvested the remainder of his fruit.
Article with children contributed by Charles Brooks
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Brisky History told by Alice Brisky Lee – Jun. 28, 1979
A snow slide at 8 am one February morning in 1888 completely buried the first William Brisky log cabin and claimed the lives of two of the buried persons within. Among the dead was the first Mrs. Brisky, Laura Treadwell, and a visiting minister, "Daddy Biggs". Both are buried in the first Cashmere cemetery, the family Brisky cemetery.
Five Brisky children remained, and five more were to be born to Nellie Gleason, the second Mrs. Brisky.
A second log house was built by William shortly thereafter, this time across the canyon from the original home place in Brisky Canyon.
Alice Brisky was born on the ranch January 13, 1895.
This 84-year-old pioneer lady recalls those days as the "horse and buggy" times, with roads into town "anything but good" and the five-mail trip taking exactly one hour "to the railroad tracks."
Her mother's death when she was six, was to mean a checkered school life for this young Brisky. She counted sixteen moves and sixteen schools before she would be the first graduate from Leavenworth High School (in the class of one in 1913) and before her graduation from Bellingham Normal.
Her school memories include Judge James H. Chase, a fine orator, who came to the school often to speak to the students. "Old Judge Chase was quite a character. His lectures used to bore us to death; I'd give anything to hear him today."
Young Alice attended the town's first church, the Presbyterian Church, built in 1892, and located where the John Clark Ford agency is today. "Every Sunday we rode horseback from the ranch to Sunday school." The new Presbyterian Church, in its present-day location, was built in 1924 or 25.
She doesn't remember the exact detail, but Alice remembers when electricity came in. "We were each asked to put up $100 for the lines, and once in, we all had to buy one piece of electrical equipment. Most bought irons. It was grand." The year 1914, five years following installation of phones; one year following sidewalk paving in downtown Cashmere; and five years before the city streets would be paved.
The original Brisky orchard was to remain in the family for the next 91 years. It was sold a year ago to Bob Smith, who turned it into a cattle ranch. The original family house was sold to Mark Newberry.
The home Alice lives in today on Pleasant Street was built in 1935 by George Beam, who also built the Blewett Hotel, and was contractor for many Cashmere homes. Alice tells that the present-day Greyhound Bus Depot once served as an icehouse to the Blewett Hotel.
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