After a Pe Ell Fourth of July parade (year not known), a woman identified as “Crazy Mary,” as she was remembered, and Anna Damitz sit on the porch while Clancy Damitz threatens to bury Troy Conn and another man who have passed out in the yard after festivities.
The unknown man was one of two bachelors who shared a house in the area. The unknown man shown here later married and started a family; the other bachelor disappeared and was not heard from again.
This photo was taken on Mauerman Road just outside Pe Ell. The Damitz family was one of the original founding families of Pe Ell, which was settled in 1855 by the Mauermans.
(Photo and story originally submitted by Zelma Keller, niece of Chance Damitz and daughter of Ernest Damitz, for Our Hometowns)
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