Group of Strawberry Point, Alaska settlers and their children showing off their newly built schoolhouse located just west and north of the Salmon River Bridge. Click on photo for identifications.

Identifications Lt. to Rt. back row: May (Parker) White, Edith A. Parker holding granddaughter Anne White, William "Bill" White, Sr., Glen Parker, "Uncle" Pearl Haynes, Louis "Louie" Mideke.

Henrietta White (in front of Bill White, Sr.), and Charles White (in front of "Uncle Pearl").

Bottom row Lt. to Rt.: Leslie "Les" Parker, three stairstep children Gloria White, Genevieve White, Alberta Parker, Dorothy White (dark hair) behind Jennie Parker (seated), Bert Parker standing in front of porch rail far right.

Editors Note: Children Henrietta, Charles, Gloria, Dorothy, Genevieve, and Anne are all children of homesteaders May and "Bill" White, Sr.

Alberta Parker is daughter of homesteaders Jenny and Albert "Bert" Parker.

"Uncle" Pearl Haynes is Edith A. Parker's brother.

Louie Mideke lived just south and west of the Salmon River Bridge which later became the Ruth & Fred Matson homestead. His name is spelled on various records as Medeke, Medike, Medieke. GHAA believes the proper spelling of his name is Mideke, the spelling apparently used on application when he applied for homestead entry with United States Department of the Interior, General Land Office (as determined by their correspondence in response).

Editors Note: Glen Parker in May/June of 1933 protested the homestead entry of Louis Mideke after Mideke decided against proving up. Although Glen Parker was sent the proper documents to protest the entry, he decided against the Mideke property and filed for homestead land east of the Salmon River which he proved up 1938. That cleared the way for Harry Hall to encourage Fred & Ruth Matson to file and prove up Mideke land just west of the Salmon River Bridge, which they did in 1940.

Group of Strawberry Point, Alaska settlers and their children showing off their newly built schoolhouse located just west and north of the Salmon River Bridge. Click on photo for identifications.

Identifications Lt. to Rt. back row: May (Parker) White, Edith A. Parker holding granddaughter Anne White, William "Bill" White, Sr., Glen Parker, "Uncle" Pearl Haynes, Louis "Louie" Mideke.

Henrietta White (in front of Bill White, Sr.), and Charles White (in front of "Uncle Pearl").

Bottom row Lt. to Rt.: Leslie "Les" Parker, three stairstep children Gloria White, Genevieve White, Alberta Parker, Dorothy White (dark hair) behind Jennie Parker (seated), Bert Parker standing in front of porch rail far right.

Editors Note: Children Henrietta, Charles, Gloria, Dorothy, Genevieve, and Anne are all children of homesteaders May and "Bill" White, Sr.

Alberta Parker is daughter of homesteaders Jenny and Albert "Bert" Parker.

"Uncle" Pearl Haynes is Edith A. Parker's brother.

Louie Mideke lived just south and west of the Salmon River Bridge which later became the Ruth & Fred Matson homestead. His name is spelled on various records as Medeke, Medike, Medieke. GHAA believes the proper spelling of his name is Mideke, the spelling apparently used on application when he applied for homestead entry with United States Department of the Interior, General Land Office (as determined by their correspondence in response).

Editors Note: Glen Parker in May/June of 1933 protested the homestead entry of Louis Mideke after Mideke decided against proving up. Although Glen Parker was sent the proper documents to protest the entry, he decided against the Mideke property and filed for homestead land east of the Salmon River which he proved up 1938. That cleared the way for Harry Hall to encourage Fred & Ruth Matson to file and prove up Mideke land just west of the Salmon River Bridge, which they did in 1940.