Illahe by Kay Atwood

Lou Reuben Martin pg. 166

Lou Reuben Martin, a miner who was born January 15, 1894, at Sprucehead, Maine, lived for many years in the Whisky Creek cabin. Lou came to the Rogue River in the late 1920's, and mined first at Howard Creek where an abandoned cabin welcomed him the first winter. At various times he also lived on Rum Creek, Tyee Bar, and in a tent house at Rainey Falls. Lou Martin was married once; his wife and baby died in the 1918 flu epidemic. He told me that after their deaths he knew he didn't want to live near where they had all been together. He left the East for good, and stayed alone the rest of his life.