The Tale Ends

Phoebe Goodell Judson ends her memoirs in 1889, the year that Washington attained statehood. She lived until 1925 and died at the age of 95. She is buried in the Lynden Cemetary next to her husband, Holden. The pioneer years in the Pacific Northwest were effectively over. Washington would no longer be isolated from the rest of the country.
The Civil War had focused Americans attention away from expansion on the West Coast for a time. As transportation and communication improved across the now-great expanse of the country, many people heard glowing stories of life in the west and continued to add themselves to the population of Washington.
Their lives here would have challenges, but they would be quite different from those of the pioneers who came only a few decades before to carve “an Ideal Home” from the wilderness.

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