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- ERNEST GRANT GILMAN SANBORN, third son and fourth child of Josiah and Adelaide (Eaton) Sanborn, was born near Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 7 November 1866. After several months of poor health, following an attack of flu, he died 15 April 1939 in Port Townsend, Washington, aged 72 years, of a heart attack. He was buried at the Laurel Grove Cemetary at Port Townsend. He married Euphemia Verlinda Coffey on 24 March 1907 at Oak-Spring Farm, home of the bride, northeast of Marion, Iowa. Euphemia Coffey, daughter of John and Cyrene (Dawson) Coffey was born at Oak-Spring farm 29 April 1870; she died in Port Townsend 3 September 1944 and was buried beside her husband in the Laurel Grove Cemetary. Ernest Sanborn left home at the early age of 16, working first for relatives near Covington, Iowa and later travelling out to Montana. He was in Montana for about 20 years, prospecting and cowpunching. At one time he had an interest in a piece of property in Montana which he sold. Later this property turned out to be a rich open pit coal mine, according to his daughter, Adelaide Burgess. Before returning to Iowa in 1906, he was in the ranching business near Malta, Montana, which he also sold. Soon after his marriage, he and his new wife migrated to a homestead near Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. His brother, Emmett, was already living in that area, having moved there in 1901. However, due to the intolerable conditions-- --living in a tent, cooking over a campfire, constant insect attacks, dirty surroundings, wild animals, killing summer frosts, and extreme loneliness---- in less than a year, they moved back to the States, settling in the Ahtanum Valley, near Yakima, Washington. In January 1911, they moved to a farm located on the old highway between Arcadia and Chevy Chase near Port Townsend, where they lived for the remainder of Ernest Sanborn's life, except for a short period in Dabob near Quilcene, Washington. Soon after her husband's death, Euphemia Sanborn moved with her son to a house near Sullivan's store that Roy owned. After Roy's marriage to Estelle Lane, she moved to a house near her daughter, Alice Winters, in Port Townsend. Though he engaged in farming most of his life, Ernest Sanborn worked as a longshoreman from 1928 to his death, starting that line of work after the construction of the Kraft mill in Port Townsend. Both Ernest and Euphemia Sanborn were well known in Grange activities, having been charter members of Quimper Grange in 1919. He served two terms as master and attended many of the grange conventions, including the National Grange meeting in 1938. Ernest Sanborn was an enthusiastic fisherman and hunter. Before his death, he, along with his children, at one time or another, fished all the streams of eastern Jefferson County and part of the Discovery Bay area. CHILDREN: i. Alice May Sanborn, b. 19 April 1908 at Ahtanum Valley north of Yakima, WA. ii. Roy Grant Sanborn, b. 15 June 1909 at North Yakima, WA iii. Mary Adelaide Sanborn, b. 3 March 1911 at Port Townsend, WA
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