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Welcome to Pend Oreille
County Washington Genealogy Research
Prospectors Gypsy Copper camp
1912
Thies, George; Demer, Guy; Prouty, Henry;
Schumacher, Frank;
Prouty, Bert;Deemer (Demar), James Z.; Prouty,
Ralph B.,
My name is Bob
Jenkins and I created this
website to provide genealogy
information and links to genealogy
information to assist people in
researching
their Pend Oreille County
Washington ancestors.
I would appreciate any
contribution that you would like to
make to this site:
biographies, obituaries, birth,
marriage, death info, grave info,
photographs....etc
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County Data
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Brief
History:
Pend Oreille County
(/ˌpɒndəˈreɪ/ POND-ə-RAY) is a county
located in the northeast corner of the
U.S. state of
Washington, along the Canada–US
border. The county seat and largest
city is Newport. The county was created
out
of Stevens County on March 1, 1911.
It is the most recently formed of the
state's 39 counties. It is named after the
Pend d'Oreilles tribe, who in turn
were ostensibly named for large shell
earrings that members wore.
("Pend d'oreille", while awkward in
French, could be translated as "hangs from
the ear".)
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Since
Pend Oreille was not formed until 1911
for dates before that check
Stevens county
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