Yelm’s First Pioneer Settlers Betsy and John Edgar

By Ed Bergh

Posted 1/8/15

The Edgars were gone by the time the railroad arrived in the 1870s. Betsy and John Edgar were the first settlers on the Yelm Prairie we know the names of. He was a naturalized American citizen, and …

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