"An Illustrated History of the Big Bend Country; Embracing Lincoln, Douglas, Adams and Franklin Counties; State of Washington". Spokane, Western Historical Publishing Company, Publishers, 1904. pp. 837-838. VANTROMP DONNELL, is a native of Bates county, Missouri, born July 15, 1866, the son of Anzi and Tresia (Moore) Donnell, the father a native of Virginia and the mother of Kentucky. The parents were married in Missouri, where they lived until the fatherís death in 1870. The mother has been again married and is now living in Missouri. Mr. Donnell has one sister, Leona, and one half-brother, and one half-sister, Frank and Berthola Davidson. Vantromp Donnell has a good common school education, which he acquired in the state of his birth, in Henry and Jasper counties. At the age of eighteen he began life for himself by working in a smelter. He was thus engaged four years, then took up teaming. he followed this occupation three years, or until 1889, when he came to Adams county and located as a homestead his present farm. He subsequently purchased a quarter-section of land in addition to his homestead, and he has all of his land in an advanced state of cultivation and improvement. he has a fine house and barn, and excellent orchard and a herd of well-bred cattle. On September 17, 1902, Mr. Donnell was married to Ella E. Raney, daughter of G.F. and Susan (Williams) Raney, the father a native of Virginia and the mother of Tennessee. The parents settled in Little Rock, Arkansas, afterwards removing to southern Missouri, where they lived nine years, after which time they established a home in Taney county, of the same state, and there the father died. The mother continued to live there until 1903, when she came to Adams county, Washington, where she still lives. Mrs. Donnell is a member of a family originally comprising eight children, six of whom, besides herself, are living, Fannie, Mary L., Belle, Epps, Emma, and May. One brother, William, is dead. Mrs. Donnell is a member of the Rebekah fraternity and of the Methodist Episcopal church. The subject of our sketch is a member of the M. W. A., and in his political convictions he holds aloof from either party, leaving himself free to vote according to the dictates of his conscience and for the man of his choice irrespective of the political party upon whose ticket he is a candidate. Mr. and Mrs. Donnell have one child, Thelma E., born June 26, 1903. Submitted by: Georgia Harter Williams, georgiahw@earthlink.net