The promise of free land brought many people westward. While Jim
Munn came west on the Canadian National Railroad from eastern
Canada alone, Ana Mae Edwards came west on the Union Pacific
Railroad from Kansas with her entire family. The two met in the
booming city of Port Townsend in 1889 just as Washington gained
statehood. They were married three years later.
Ana caught a vision of living her entire life on the shore of
Lake Leland twenty miles south of Port Townsend. Jim was happy with
her dream as the land they homesteaded or bought together gave him
the timber resource to build his dream barn. Jim was the
entrepreneur and builder. Ana became a business woman and a post
mistress. Stories of their business ventures and growing family are
typical of many pioneer families. Though the stories form a record
written for family members, the account of the lives of James
Hector Munn and Ana Mae Edwards Munn may be of interest to current
and future residents of Leland, Quilcene and South Jefferson
County.
A study of one's genealogy can develop to more than a list of
names and dates. As the author discovered more and more detail of
his grandparents' lives, it became important to him to share his
discoveries with his relatives and to leave a record to the progeny
of Jim and Ana Munn. Today when families become spread to the far
corners of the world, knowing family origins is important to a
healthy self-concept.
Hector is the conservator of the family name. He has had access
to many of the documents that Jim and Ana generated during their
lives. Additional information has been gathered by visiting the
places of their origins in Canada and Kansas.
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