Ruby and Clayton both lived in Maple Falls and it was the first marriage for both. He was 20 and a lumberman. He and his parents were born in Michigan. She was 21 and a housekeeper. Her father’s name is listed as Bert, born in Minnesota, and her mother’s as Anne, born in New York. The witnesses to their marriage were ?P... ?Johnson and E A Mohler. The person performing the ceremony was William H. Houle of Bellingham, a clergyman in the Presbyterian church.320

In 1920, they are living with Clayton’s family in a rented house at 3941? Winona Street in Bellingham. William and Eliza are 60 and 51, and sons George and Earl are 14 and 12. Clayton and Ruby are 23 and 24, and their sons Vernon and Harley are 2 and 9/12 and 7 months. William, Eliza, and Clayton were all born in Michigan, Ruby in Wisconsin, and George, Earl, Vernon, and Harley in Washington. Ruby’s parents were born in Wisconsin and New York. Eliza’s parents are Canadian, and William’s are from the US. William and Clayton work as a ? sawyer and a rigging slinger at a logging camp.321