Pylant Geneology

(An Illustrated History of Klickitat, Yakima and Kittitas Counties with an outline of the early history of the State of Washington, Interstate Publishing Company 1904, pp. 913-914, 979.75 D3i.) [UND:] MARTHA A. PILAND[:UND] Mrs. Martha A. Piland, who lives on a farm ten miles east of Cle-Elem, was born in Virginia in 1844. She is a daughter of William and Elizabeth (Stiner) Rutherford. Mr. Rutherford, a native of Virginia, was a blacksmith by trade, and a veteran of the Indian wars of 1835 and of the Civil War. After the former struggle he assisted in putting the Indians in Indian territory. He was of English stock, his father having come from England, as a boy of seventeen, in company with General Howe, during the Revolutionary War. His father died in 1850. Mrs. Rutherford was born in Germany in 1822 and received her education in Berlin, marrying soon after completing her course, or to be more specific, in the year 1840. She passed away in 1864. Mrs. Piland, whose life record forms the subject of this review, received her school training in Athens, Tennessee, whither her parents had taken her when she was one year old, and where she lived for thirteen years, going then to Missouri. In this state she lived for thirty-five years, and here she was married to Mr. Piland. In 1890, Mrs. Piland came to Seattle, and the next year found her in Kittitas county, where she soon purchased her present home, consisting of a one hundred and sixty acre farm, one hundred and five acres of which are under cultivation. Besides this farm she has a house and lot in Springfield, Missouri. Mrs. Pilant's husband was born in Hopkins county, Kentucky, January 30, 1845. His father's family were from Windsor, North Carolina, whence they had moved to the Blue Grass state. Soon after his birth they again moved, going to Missouri and here he gained his education, working betimes on the parental farm. When eighteen years old he enlisted for service in the Civil War, and from that time until the close of hostilities he lived the life of a soldier in active conflict. He was mustered out of service May 12, 1865, and immediately returned home, where he died in 1871. The brothers and sisters of Mrs. Piland are: John O. Rutherford, born in Tennessee, now living in Indian Territory; William T. Rutherford, born in Missouri, now in Wyoming; Mrs. Malinda McCoulah, born in Tennessee, now in Missouri; Mrs. Sarah Bowles, born in Missouri, now in Texas; Mrs. Celia Pattie, born in Missouri, now a resident of Indian Territory. The children of Mrs. Piland are: Mrs. Mary Walker, born in Missouri, February 17, 1867, now living in Springfield in that state, and Mrs. Millie Manning, born in Missouri April 18, 1869, and now in Seattle.