Kittie May Ellis

In Jan 1898 the family went to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle,_Washington Seattle, Washington], on their way to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Gold_Rush Alaska Gold Rush]^{[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Diary_of_Miss_Kitty_May_Ellis/6.16.1958.html#Page_13]}. They never made it to the Gold Rush because of what Kitty refers to several times as: "deep-dyed treachery". She states that the proprietor of their hotel tried to poison her family, by putting poison in their food, and then later to break in and rob them in their hotel room.^{[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Diary_of_Miss_Kitty_May_Ellis/3.17.1957.html#Page_81]}. But they were saved by Dr [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frantz_Hunt_Coe F. H. Coe], the Seattle Health Officer. By 1900 they were in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillsboro,_Oregon Hillsboro, Oregon].

Their mother had died in 1908, from stomach cancer,^{[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Diary_of_Miss_Kitty_May_Ellis/3.17.1957.html#Page_56]} but not before arranging that Kitty was to receive the land and house provided she care for her father and brother until they died.

In 1909, Perry married and he and his new wife and children lived with Kitty and their father. Without the mediation of their mother, this caused conflict which eventually resulted in Andrew permanently leaving the house.  Kitty variously describes her father as treacherous, a fiend, a robber, and cruel and she states this is why she never married: "... for I didn't want to run the risk of bringing Children into the world to maybe be fiends like my Father."^{[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Diary_of_Miss_Kitty_May_Ellis/6.16.1958.html#Page_22]}