Henry Thode

Heinrich Wilhelm Thode

26 March 1864 – 24 June 1896

Born Groden, Cuxhaven, Lower Saxony, Germany

March 1886, German immigrant, Henry Thode, purchased two tracts of land near Phantom Lake and built a house in 1894.  It was a two-story nine room log house made with hand-hewn logs and shingled on the outside.  

Henry and his wife Emilie Bruchert (14 August 1864 – 24 December 1935) intended to farm, raise cattle and sell milk to the coal workers at Newcastle. 

In 1894, Thode redirected the Phantom Lake outlet to Lake Sammamish, resulting in reduced water flow to Kelsey Creek and massive erosion. Henry was declared insane later that year and committed to a mental institution, Western State Hospital (1889 to the present), formerly Western Washington Hospital for the Insane

He died two years later (1896) and Emilia remarried Jacob Kamber, a Swedish immigrant.(14 September 1852 – 29 October 1937)

(2 March 1902–1930) Emily L Kamber was born about 2 March 1902, in Bellevue, King, Washington, United States, her father, Jakob Kamber, was 49 and her mother, Emilie Bruchert, was 37. She lived in King, Washington, United States for about 20 years. She died in 1930, at the age of 28, and was buried in Kirkland, King, Washington

https://eastsideheritagecenter.org/blog/2021/11/18/larsen-lake-cabin

https://digitalarchives.wa.gov/Record/View/86B257B7F705294DB180311551BAB022 died 1922 wrong Henry Thode?