Lyman's history of old Walla Walla County, embracing Walla Walla, Columbia, Garfield and Asotin counties . He con-tinued to operate a pack train until 1869, traveling from Montana to Arizona,but in that year he sold his outfit to the government while in the latter state. In1870 he located on a homestead in Walla Walla county, where ^^or years he con-ducted a forage station, furnishing accommodations for travelers over the oldMullen trail from Walla Walla. He gradually worked into agriculture and con-tinued to follow farming for thirty years with good success but at the end ofthat time retired
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Lyman's history of old Walla Walla County, embracing Walla Walla, Columbia, Garfield and Asotin counties . He con-tinued to operate a pack train until 1869, traveling from Montana to Arizona, but in that year he sold his outfit to the government while in the latter state. In1870 he located on a homestead in Walla Walla county, where ^^or years he con-ducted a forage station, furnishing accommodations for travelers over the oldMullen trail from Walla Walla. He gradually worked into agriculture and con-tinued to follow farming for thirty years with good success but at the end ofthat time retired from active labor and divided his magnificent farm among hischildren. With a comfortable fortune he then removed to Walla Walla, wherehis last days were sjjent in ease and quiet. There he passed away on May 10, igio, leaving his immediate family as well as many friends to mourn his loss. On the 1st of January, 1869, Mr. Flathers was united in marriage to Mrs.Malinda CMcQuown) Harris, who was born in Russell county, Virginia, May 3, 1836, and in 1841 accompanied her parents, Patrick and Mary McQuown, on. MES. BENJAMIN F. FLATHERS