Lyman's history of old Walla Walla County, embracing Walla Walla, Columbia, Garfield and Asotin counties . red. He found farming bothprofitable and congenial and continued to engage in stock and wheat raising untilhe retired. He still owns 960 acres of fine land. In 1868 Mr. Ayres was married to Miss Martha S. Redford, of Henry county,Missouri, a daughter of Walker P. and Nancy (Davis) Redford, the formerborn in Virginia and the latter in Kentucky. In the 30s Mr. and Mrs. Redfordremoved to Missouri and there the father died in 1861. Three years later themother, with her children, made the long
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Lyman's history of old Walla Walla County, embracing Walla Walla, Columbia, Garfield and Asotin counties . red. He found farming bothprofitable and congenial and continued to engage in stock and wheat raising untilhe retired. He still owns 960 acres of fine land. In 1868 Mr. Ayres was married to Miss Martha S. Redford, of Henry county, Missouri, a daughter of Walker P. and Nancy (Davis) Redford, the formerborn in Virginia and the latter in Kentucky. In the 30s Mr. and Mrs. Redfordremoved to Missouri and there the father died in 1861. Three years later themother, with her children, made the long journey across the plains by ox team.For three years they resided in Union county, Oregon, and then went to Linncounty, when they came to Washington, where the mother passed away. Mr.and Mrs. Ayres have become the parents of eleven children: Eudora, the widowof W. J. Beal and a resident of Pomeroy. Washington; Willie and Robert, bothdeceased; James P., who is also living in Pomeroy; Anna; William S., a residentof Pineville, Oregon; Nancv, deceased; Mary C, a home missionary stationed > a>d >. OLD WALLA WALLA COUNTY 561 in western Oregon; Palmer, a farmer; Sarah, the wife of Sanford SkiHman, who is farming the home place; and Albert E., an agriculturist of Pomeroy. Mr. Ayres is a democrat in politics and has served as county treasurer, ascounty commissioner and as a member of the school board, which office he heldfor years. His record as a public official is highly creditable both to his abilityand his devotion to the general good, and as a private citizen he has given hissupport to movements calculated to advance the interests of his community. Hetakes justifiable pride in the fact that he has had a part in the development ofthis section and believes that nowhere can the agriculturist find better opportuni-ties. LOUIS NEACE. On the pages of Walla Walla countys pioneer history appears the name ofLouis Neace, who took up his abode in the city of Walla Walla when it was a