Hull, Lindley M., compiler and editor.  "A History of Central Washington,
Including the Famous Wenatchee, Entiat, Chelan and the Columbia Valleys."
Spokane: Press of Shaw & Borden Co., 1929.  p. 267.
 
MR. AND MRS. WILLIAM W. PREWITT

     pleasantly located on a ranch near Malaga, are entitled to more than a
passing notice as pioneers. It is known that the grandparents of Mr. Prewitt
pioneered in his native state, Missouri, while Mrs. Prewitt, a native of Texas,
came of an ancestry that had spent generations on the frontier. Mr. Prewitt left
Missouri in 1878 and went to Texas, where he spent five years in railroad
construction. He then removed to Washington Territory, spending one year in the
town of Yakima, then a mere blotch on the landscape, a term probably applicable
to all towns in territorial days. In 1884, he located near Ellensburg,
Washington and followed farming four years. He then removed to the Methow
Valley, and acquired land under the "squatter right" and engaged in cattle and
horse raising, which he followed with.fair success until 1896, when a change of
location became necessary on account of illness in the family. As Mr. Prewitt
puts the case: "There were no doctors in that country, but as soon as we got to
a place where medical service was available everybody was all right." The next
location of the Prewitts was at Toppenish, Washington, on the Yakima Indian
Reservation, and for fifteen years they followed farming on leased Indian land,
which venture was attended with success. Hay and grain were grown in
considerable quantities. On leaving the Yakima country, Mr. Prewitt spent the
greater portion of one year in Montana, looking for land, but not finding
anything to his liking, he pitched his tent near Malaga, securing fifteen acres
from what had been the Grant Perry homestead. Here he has developed a place that
has returned more than a living. Diversified farming has been followed with
marked success on ten acres, the balance of the tract being planted to apples,
apricots and cherries.
     In 1885, Mr. Prewitt was married to Miss Amanda Coon, then a resident of
Ellensburg. Four children have been born to this union: Rosa, now Mrs. E. A.
Reynolds, of Salem, Oregon; Clara Prewitt in the employ of the First National
Bank of Wenatchee; Joseph, on the home place; and Beatrice, now Mrs. Raymond
Graves, of Malaga. Mr. Prewitt investigated the Wenatchee country in 1884, which
he liked well enough to undertake a filing on 160 acres, but on making
application for entry, he learned that he was one day too late.

     
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