newspaper clipping of murder of Judah Church (@1-2)

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Ebey’s Landing House (hub.catalogit.app) Photograph of the second house on the Ebey farm built at Ebey’s Landing in the late 1850s. C. 1953 or 1961. The newspaper clippings pasted on the reverse of the photo describes the Ebeys, relations with Indigenous islanders, the Engle family, and the murder of Judah Church.

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After [Judah] Church had been missing several days a search was organized and his body was discovered a mile from his claim.

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Though no criminal cases were set down in scanty Island County records for 1853, Whidbey settlers were stirred early in May that year by the murder of 60-year-old Judah Church at Crescent Harbor.