Sean C. Morgan
Gayle Griffith’s great great grandmother was married at the age of 12 to an older man.
That was what she discovered when she first started researching the life of Amanda L. Smith Donaldson, a pioneer woman who eventually settled in the Tillamook area and reared a family of 15 children.
She didn’t quite believe that nugget of information and it prompted her to investigate her great great grandmother’s life further. As it…