John E. "Uncle Jack" Lickfold's Family
The John Lickfolds Move West
By Mary Ruth Lickfold Brownell
Two of John and Elizabeth’s 7 daughters (Laura and Louise) married Carefoot men, who were cousins. Laura and Andy Carefoot moved out to Washington State and settled in a rugged area called Chewelah Creek. We don’t know what motivated their move or why the chose to locate at the base of Calispel Peak. John and Elizabeth Lickfold owned and operated a store with a post office in Tralee, Ontario, Canada when their daughter moved and settled out west. As Elizabeth was not a good business woman, they lost the store and then decided to move west to Chewelah. I don’t know if John ever got to Chewelah. They were living at a home on Mission Street in Spokane when John died of "paralysis" on November 13, 1907 at age 75. He is buried in the Riverside Cemetery in Spokane.
Elizabeth had heard there was "gold in them thar hills" so she moved up to the Chewelah Creek area. Later she went back to Ontario and told her only son Walter and his wife, Frances, how beautiful and great it was out west. Her mission was a success as Walter and Frances and their four children moved out west, entering the U.S. in Detroit on April 3, 1915, my father, Stanley Lickfold’s seventh birthday.
They made the trip west by train, probably taking 5 or 6 days. Shirley was 9, Stanley 7, Ruby 5, and Roy 3. Frances Ellen was five months pregnant. They arrived in Chewelah by night and were met by Walter Carefoot, who took them on the last leg of their trip by horse and wagon. After a few days rest at Laura and Andy’s the men started building a cabin for Elizabeth. Shirley and Stanley carried water, a pot of beans and a loaf of bread to the hungry men. Upon completion, Elizabeth, Walter, Frances and the four children moved into the cabin. This was a one-room cabin with a loft. It was not very big for such a group. Late at night on August 6, with the children put to bed in the loft, Frances gave birth to her fifth child, Howard. Something was wrong. Elizabeth told Walter to ride into town for the doctor, but as he was getting the horse ready, she called to him that everything was all right. It was just a second baby. Hazel was born after midnight, on August 7.
It was a hard life and they had difficulty finding enough food. Aunt Ruby said that sometimes all they had was venison and berries. They were at such a high altitude that they couldn’t raise a garden. Later they did move to a house downstream and could raise potatoes and a few other things.
The move west was quite a change for the family - from flat, cultivated, civilized Ontario to the rugged mountainous area of Chewelah Creek. Through the years we made a number of family treks to the old cabin, usually combined with a picnic. I’m sorry that their life was so hard, but glad that they came and that I call Washington home.
By the time I could remember, Grandma (Frances) and Grandpa (Walter) Lickfold lived up Pleasant Valley, where they had a cow, a garden, and Grandma had lots of lovely flowers. All four of the children born in Canada became U.S. citizens as adults, but Grandma and Grandpa never did.
My mother wrote many letters trying to get birth records for my father but never succeeded. He became a citizen based on a census record taken in Owen Sound. My mother, (Margaret Denman Lickfold), my brother Ray, and I tried to find record of Daddy’s birth when we visited Ontario in 1993. The clerk said that in early April they might have had too much snow to come to town to register the birth. They moved that year and probably never had his birth recorded.
My sources: A paper written by Aunt Shirley (Shirley Lickfold Drummond) and forwarded to me by my cousin, Barbara Colley; my mother’s memories; and my own experiences growing up in Stevens County.
The John Lickfold Family
by Ray Lickfold
I believe they moved to Washington when homesteading (settle on new land and become an owner) was in effect. Also my dad [Stanley Nelson Lickfold] always said his grandmother Elizabeth Wescott Lickfold thought there was gold in those hills. It turned out to be fools gold (mica). My grandmother Francis Long Lickfold always felt that her mother in law did them a misdeed when she wrote and told them what a beautiful place she had.
As a result they left civilization in Ontario for wilderness in northeastern Washington. The area where they settled was at the base of Calispel Peak a 6000 Ft plus mountain. The area was real wilderness and has gone back to a national forest at the current time. My dad use to tell about walking to a one room school house and a cougar (mountain lion) would let out a blood curdling scream from somewhere in the woods.
That move was a big step backwards for this branch of the Lickfold family. Life was real difficult for the whole family, however it made my dad and his brothers and sisters very close. My dad quit school after the 8th grade to help support the family.
While we were growing up our grandparents, 2 uncles and an aunt all lived in Pleasant Valley near Rice, Washington. Another aunt lived only 14 miles away. We went to grade school in a one room school with 8 grades and about 16 kids. High School was 14 miles away in Kettle Falls. We made many trips up to Chewelah creek for deer hunting and just to see where they grew up. Somewhere I have a picture of me sitting on the wall of Elizabeth Wescott Lickfold's log cabin which I would guess the walls still stands.
Descendants of John E. "Uncle Jack" Lickfold
Annie E. Lickfold (1871-1957)
Sarah Emily Lickfold (1874-1903)
Laura Edith Lickfold (1877 - 1956)
Florence L. Lickfold (1878 - 1951)
Olive E. Lickfold (1883 - 1967)
Walter Lickfold (1885 - 1958)
Queenie Lickfold
Lydia R. Lickfold
Descendants of Walter Lickfold
Shirley Viola Lickfold
Stanley Nelson Lickfold (1908 - 1975)
Ruby Thelma Lickfold
Roy Elliot Lickfold (1912 - 1962)
Hazel Ruth Lickfold (1915 - 1934)
Howard Ellsworth Lickfold (1915 - 1984)
Everett Walter Lickfold (1918 - 1976)
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Descendants of Stanley Nelson Lickfold
Ray Denman Lickfold
Mary Ruth Lickfold Brownell
Descendents of Ray Denman Lickfold
Lisa Ann Lickfold
John Scott Lickfold
Daniel Allen Lickfold
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Descendants of Roy Elliott Lickfold
Larry Roy Lickfold
Tamra Faye Lickfold Humes
Linda Sue Lickfold Holland
Trena Ann Lickfold Pehl
Glenn Elliot Lickfold
Allen Carey Lickfold
Descendants of Larry Roy Lickfold
Douglas Lee Lickfold
Deborah Lyn Lickfold
Descendants of Glenn Elliot Lickfold
Dustin Lickfold
Jacie Lickfold
Descendants of Allen Carey Lickfold
Savannah Renea Lickfold
Kayla Renea Lickfold
Brandon Lickfold
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Descendants of Howard Ellsworth Lickfold
Dennis Lee Lickfold pfcitymech@juno.com
Barbara Ann Lickfold Colley
Duncan Scott Lickfold
Descendants of Dennis Lee Lickfold
Marvin Lee Lickfold
Bridgett Kay Lickfold Holten
Clifford Lickfold
Descendants of Duncan Scott Lickfold
Charity Mykeen Lickfold
April Angela Lickfold Starr
Brandon Scott Lickfold
Andrea Brooke Lickfold
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Descendants of Everett Walter Lickfold
Brian Kelly Lickfold
Sherie Kay Lickfold Wardian
Descendants of Brian Kelly Lickfold
Sean Kelly Lickfold
Sheila Francis Lickfold
Sarah Marie Lickfold
Descendants of Sean Kelly Lickfold
Daniel Kelly Lickfold