Bernier, Peter. - Born in Lewis County, Washington, in 1848, died at his home in the same county, Dec. 18th [1914]. He was a relative of Marcel Isadore Bernier, who was born at Spokane Nov. 10th, 1819, and who died in Lewis County Dec. 27th, 1889 - the first white child born in either Oregon, Washington or Idaho. The Bernier family were among the first white people to come here to live, being connected with the fur traders of a centur ago. In 1830 the family went back to Eastern Canada, but in 1841 returned and located on Newaukum Prairie about half way between Puget Sound and Columbia river, where has ever since been the family home.
Source: Prosch, Thomas W. "The Pioneer Dead of 1914." The Washington Historical Quarterly, Volume 6, No. 1 (January 1915), p. 18-19.
Transcribed by Jenny Tenlen, who has no further information on this individual.