Aidmbreefifig Editor, The Journal: When Fred Edward Ferris died recently at age 87, he was identi- fied ashaving workedin Shelton as a logger for the Simpson Timber Company, retiring in 1971‘ Fred was that and he was more He was one ofthe last ofour logger historians who could recall the noise and the fury ofsteam logging days back to the 1920s So many have gone in recent years, histo- rians like Virg Adams, Dave Adams, Gib Rucker, Bud Puhn, Andy Stevenson, Pop Hulbert, Purl Jemison , , the listis along one They lived as loggers and remembered who loggers were and what they did when the big trees were being felled and hauled to the mills. $1: E I was especially thankful to Fred Ferris for the memories and pic- ture identifications he so generous- ly gave me in the writing of Gris- dale: Last of the Logging Camps, and Big Trees and Steam Lokiesl Fred and his father, also Fred Fer- ris, were linked with Mason Coun- ty logging clear back to the begin- ning ofSimpson Logging Company 103 years ago. Fred could look at a fading Kinsey photograph of 3 Simpson woods crew and name them offand tell which one died in an accident or performed some heroic rescue, He was a valuable helper in pre- serving the history of the camps A good logger, Fred Ferris Dave James . Bainbridge Island , OCR Text: Aidmbreefifig Editor, The Journal: When Fred Edward Ferris died recently at age 87, he was identi- fied ashaving workedin Shelton as a logger for the Simpson Timber Company, retiring in 1971‘ Fred was that and he was more He was one ofthe last ofour logger historians who could recall the noise and the fury ofsteam logging days back to the 1920s So many have gone in recent years, histo- rians like Virg Adams, Dave Adams, Gib Rucker, Bud Puhn, Andy Stevenson, Pop Hulbert, Purl Jemison , , the listis along one They lived as loggers and remembered who loggers were and what they did when the big trees were being felled and hauled to the mills. $1: E I was especially thankful to Fred Ferris for the memories and pic- ture identifications he so generous- ly gave me in the writing of Gris- dale: Last of the Logging Camps, and Big Trees and Steam Lokiesl Fred and his father, also Fred Fer- ris, were linked with Mason Coun- ty logging clear back to the begin- ning ofSimpson Logging Company 103 years ago. Fred could look at a fading Kinsey photograph of 3 Simpson woods crew and name them offand tell which one died in an accident or performed some heroic rescue, He was a valuable helper in pre- serving the history of the camps A good logger, Fred Ferris Dave James . Bainbridge Island , Mason County Genealogical Society,Obituaries,Obituaries for Shelton Cemetery,F Last Name,Ferris, Fred Edward #2.tif,Ferris, Fred Edward #2.tif, Ferris, Fred Edward #2.tif