My Paternal Grandmother, Etta Mae Smalley was born in Arago, Coos County, Oregon to parents Andrew Smalley and Emma Tillman the last of 14 children.  She was first married to James Albert Claude Freeman in 1923 and had 8 children two of them twin boys who died in infancy.  That marriage ended in divorce in the 1940's and remarried in 1953 to Arthur Ellison.  She is buried at Hillcrest Memorial Park in Medford, Jackson County, Oregon.

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