Rachael (Fike) Blackford
May 14, 1916; Oregonian, p 16
"Clatskanie Pioneer Dies"
Clatskanie, Or., May 13

   Another of Clatskanie's earliest pioneers passed away at her home Tuesday night when Mrs. Rachael Blackford succumbed to a long illness.

   Rachael Fike was born in 1835 in St. Claire County, Ill.  She crossed the plains to California with her parents in 1852, the caravan being made up of 60 families.  Miss Fike was married to James Craine.  In 1856, her father, mother and husband having died, the 20-year-old widow and her baby and two sisters, returned to their old Illinois home.

   A few months after arriving home she was married to Thomas J. Pulliam, a wealthy young man of the neighborhood.  Eight children were born to this union, three of whom survive, together with one daughter of the first union.  After Mr. Pulliam died Mrs. Pulliam and her four children moved to Oregon in 1889.  Those who survive her are Mrs. Mary E. Hamilton, of Holley, Linn County, Or.; James Pulliam, of Altoona, Wash., and Walter S. and Charles Pulliam, of Clatskanie.

   Mrs. Pulliam in 1905 married William Blackford, a Civil War veteran, who died two weeks ago.