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The Firth Family – The Family of the Bellevue Sheep Farm

By Harley Belisle
The Firth Family, known for their ownership over the Bellevue Sheep Farm in its later years consisted of Robert Firth, his wife, Jessie Firth, and their 9 children. Robert Firth was a native Scotsman from the Orkney Islands in Scotland. When he was…

James "Jimmie" Pickett, a Man Between Two Worlds – The "Forgotten" Child of General George E. Pickett

By Harley Belisle
[Rewrite. I got about three paragraphs into it.] James “Jimmie” Tilton Pickett was born on December 31, 1857, at the Pickett House in Bellingham, WA. He was the first son of General George Pickett and his Native Haida wife, Mrs. Pickett. When…
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