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Family Stories

• Newspaper Obituary [Titled: A. W. Stanley Succumbs Here]
• CERTIFICATE OF MARRIAGE [for Albert Webster Stanley to Fanny Maria Clark]
• CERTIFICATE OF DEATH [for Albert Webster Stanley]
Their son was …

Generation 11. CHESTER LEROY STANLEY, born at Columbia Falls, MT on 14 Mar 1901, died at Healdsburg, CA on
21 Feb 1953, married at Clallam County, WA on 19 Nov 1924 to Elizabeth Ellen Pontine, born at Pysht, WA on 17
Feb 1908, died on 23 Oct 1983.

Documentation(s) provided:

• 1920 US Census [for Albert W Stanley family]
• 1920 US Census [for Otto Pontine family]
• 1930 US Census [for Chester Stanley family]
• STANDARD CERTIFICATE OF LIVE BIRTH [for Chester Stanley]
• Certified Copy of Affidavit of Birth [for Elizabeth Pontine]
• Newspaper Obituary [Titled: Chester Stanley]
• Newspaper Obituary [Titled: ELIZABETH STANLEY]
• MARRIAGE AFFIDAVIT [for Chester L. Stanley and Elizabeth Pontine]
• CERTIFICATE OF DEATH [for Elizabeth E. Stanley]

Their daughter was …

Generation 12. JUNE LOUISE STANLEY, born at Port Angeles, WA on 1 Jun 1925, died at Vancouver, WA on 19
Mar 2018, married at Port Angeles, WA on 5 Nov 1944 to Everett Raymond Backman, born at Everett, MA on 26
Dec 1919, died on 7 Aug 1945. Married at Enumclaw, WA on 2 Feb 1947 to Donald Niels Poulsen, born at Port
Angeles, WA on 20 Oct 1920, died at Vancouver, WA on 30 Jul 2009.

Documentation(s) provided:

• CERTIFICATE OF LIVE BIRTH [for June Louise Stanley]
• CERTIFICATE OF DEATH [for June Louise Poulsen]
• RETURN OF A BIRTH [for Everett Raymond Backman]
• Certificate of Marriage [for Everett R. Backman to June L. Stanley]
• Find A Grave Memorial # 181260420 [for Everett Raymond Backman]
• Certificate of Marriage [for Donald N. Poulsen to June L. Backman]
• CERTIFICATE OF LIVE BIRTH [for Donald Niels Poulsen]
• Washington State Certificate of Death [for Donald Niels Poulsen]
• Newspaper Obituary [for JUNE POULSEN]
• Newspaper Obituary [for DONALD NIELS POULSEN]
Their son is …

Generation 13. STEPHEN ROBERT POULSEN

Documentation provided:
• CERTIFICATE OF LIVE BIRTH [for Stephen Robert Poulsen – corrected!]

The 400th Anniversary

I already knew that this year was the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower’s
voyage (1620 – 2020). I wanted to get my application in as soon as possible

and I did. But being as how this was an anniversary year and a pandemic
year, things were bound to get bogged down! Four months after submitting my

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