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- Early years
Posted 18 May 2014 by jawildman
Taken from memories written by Florence Wildman Trullinger:
Raymond Lewis Trullinger was born in Astoria, Oregon on October 3, 1895. His parents were William and Hallie Raymond Trullinger. When Raymond (who was given his mother's maiden name according to the Trullingers' family custom) was four or five years old, his mother died in childbirth. His father, griefstricken and apparently unable to care for his child, entrusted him to his brother John and his wife.. I know very little about Raymond's parents; he several times memtioned that his mother was a very good dancer and danced the cakewalk in an amateur show in Astoria. His father worked for the electric light company in Prtland.
Raymond's Unce John was an artist and studied in England and France. When in England he and his wife and Raymond lived in one of the quaint villages on the Cornish coast -- Newin although he as spoke of St. Ives and Mousehole. He told me there was so much dampness there by the sea that mushrooms grew in the house.
There were more memories of Paris than of Cornwall. Here Raymond went to school and learned to speak Frence fluenty and thus was able to do the shoping for his aunt and and various errands which required a knowledge of the language. I believe in the summers they lived somewhere in the country outside Paris. Uncle John was a better than average painter and had a painting hung in the Petite Salon in Paris.
When Raymond was twelve or thirettn years old, his uncle and aunt decided he was becoming too French and should go home to his father. He returned on a shop in the care of a couple who were friends of his relatives and they in turn put him on a train in New York City in the care of the conductor He arrived in Portland safely and joined the household of his father and his second wife and their two children. He was unhappy in his new home and ran off to his Grandmother Raymond's small ranch/farm. He adored his grandmother and was most congenial with his mother brothers and who loved the Oregon country, the hunting and fishing as much as he did.
I do not know how old Raymond was when he married a young woman from Bellingham, Washington State. I only know they came east to New York where he entered Columbia University as a Pre-Med student and also worked as a night clerk at the Pennsylvania Hotel. I do not know how long he was able to continue this difficult kind of moonlighting; I only know he was forced to five it up because of his health. He and Ella later seperated and were divorced.
Tri City Herald (Pasco, Washington)
Thursday, January 19, 1950 Page 4
'Australia Peculiar Country' by Robert C. Ruark
Melbourne, Australia, Jan 19
"...My stateside hunting chum, Ray Trullinger, might be interestsed[sic] in what comprises a mixed bag acquired on a casual inspection tour of a ranching property. We wound up with two kangaroos, seven dead wild hogs, two live pigs, 14 wild ducks, two live wild swans, 56 rabbits and frilled lizzard the size of an alligator, nobody was hunting, either."
1920 United States Federal Census
Name: Raymond Trullinger
[Raymond Hullinger]
Age: 24
Birth Year: abt 1896
Birthplace: Oregon
Home in 1920: Seattle, King, Washington
Street: Bellevue Avenue
Residence Date: 1920
Race: White
Gender: Male
Relation to Head of House: Lodger
Marital Status: Single
Father's Birthplace: Oregon
Mother's Birthplace: Oregon
Able to Speak English: Yes
Occupation: Salesman
Industry: Wholesale Hardware
Employment Field: Wage or Salary
Able to read: Yes
Able to Write: Yes
U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918
Name: Raymond Trullinger
Marital Status: Single
Birth Date: 3 Oct 1895
Residence Date: 1917-1918
Street Address: 421 East 3rd
Residence Place: Deer Lodge County, Montana, USA
Physical Build: Medium
Height: Medium
Hair Color: Light Brown
Eye Color: Green
U.S., World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942
Name: Raymond L Trullinger
Gender: Male
Race: White
Birth Date: 3 Oct 1895
Birth Place: Astoria, Oregon, USA
Residence Place: Chappaqua, New York, USA
Military Draft Date: 1942
Occupation: N Y World Telegram
Height: 5 9
Eye Color: Blue
Hair Color: Blonde
Weight: 175
Complexion: Light
Next of Kin: Florence W. Trullinger
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1895 - 1963 (68 years)
