Tina Anderson Waldher
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My family's roots in Wilkeson run deep. We trace back to 1893 with the arrival of the Bevan family, and the family has grown to include: Webb, Williams, Hawkes, and Lewis.
The Mouldens came from Kapowsin to Wilkeson in 1923 and operated two Wilkeson bakeries; later my mom had a restaurant where I waitressed for 10 years and shared town history with tourists. Family names: Moulden, Westlake, McDonald, Stingle, Estabrook, Whitmore, Anderson, Deacon, Holyan, Ingram, Paulson, and Waldher.
My paternal line, the Anderson family, has been in this immediate area since 1935 — in Wilkeson, Buckley, and Enumclaw. Regional surnames include Welling, Ellison (Orting area), Aschenbrenner, Robinson, Waltman, King, Moran, and Dorian.
I came to this work through Scouting. I was a Scout leader for twelve years while my twins were growing up — both are Eagle Scouts now — and it began when they were Tiger Scouts, placing flags on veterans' graves every Memorial Day. Years later, when I saw Scouts out flagging graves here in Wilkeson, I went over to lend a hand and realized just how much documentation the town's cemetery still needed on Find a Grave.
My focus is the Wilkeson area cemeteries — adding headstone photos, dropping accurate GPS pins, and reconnecting families across the old immigrant coal-mining sections. Much of that means piecing together the Finnish, Italian, Welsh, Slovakian, and other families who built this town: matching worn stones to names, tracking down the history and the connections, and confirming the veterans laid to rest here. I extensively research each burial and check with original cemetery plot maps, surveys, past research projects, newspaper archives, NARA, Fold3, BIRLS, special repositories, wills, land information, census information, birth and death records (and many others that I may run across).
These aren't just names on a map to me — many are neighbors, friends, and family, and I consider it an honor to help keep their stories findable.
I'm not here to collect numbers, but to complete the work that needs to be done — fill in the missing information, connect the families.
If I manage a memorial that you're related to, please reach out; I'm happy to transfer and share information as well.
My family's roots in Wilkeson run deep. We trace back to 1893 with the arrival of the Bevan family, and the family has grown to include: Webb, Williams, Hawkes, and Lewis.
The Mouldens came from Kapowsin to Wilkeson in 1923 and operated two Wilkeson bakeries; later my mom had a restaurant where I waitressed for 10 years and shared town history with tourists. Family names: Moulden, Westlake, McDonald, Stingle, Estabrook, Whitmore, Anderson, Deacon, Holyan, Ingram, Paulson, and Waldher.
My paternal line, the Anderson family, has been in this immediate area since 1935 — in Wilkeson, Buckley, and Enumclaw. Regional surnames include Welling, Ellison (Orting area), Aschenbrenner, Robinson, Waltman, King, Moran, and Dorian.
I came to this work through Scouting. I was a Scout leader for twelve years while my twins were growing up — both are Eagle Scouts now — and it began when they were Tiger Scouts, placing flags on veterans' graves every Memorial Day. Years later, when I saw Scouts out flagging graves here in Wilkeson, I went over to lend a hand and realized just how much documentation the town's cemetery still needed on Find a Grave.
My focus is the Wilkeson area cemeteries — adding headstone photos, dropping accurate GPS pins, and reconnecting families across the old immigrant coal-mining sections. Much of that means piecing together the Finnish, Italian, Welsh, Slovakian, and other families who built this town: matching worn stones to names, tracking down the history and the connections, and confirming the veterans laid to rest here. I extensively research each burial and check with original cemetery plot maps, surveys, past research projects, newspaper archives, NARA, Fold3, BIRLS, special repositories, wills, land information, census information, birth and death records (and many others that I may run across).
These aren't just names on a map to me — many are neighbors, friends, and family, and I consider it an honor to help keep their stories findable.
I'm not here to collect numbers, but to complete the work that needs to be done — fill in the missing information, connect the families.
If I manage a memorial that you're related to, please reach out; I'm happy to transfer and share information as well.
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