If you travel a mile south of McCleary and pass the intersection
where the Mox-Chehalis Road East joins Mox-Chehalis Road, you
will see no trace of the once promising community of Sine. Yet
early in the 20th century this settlement counted 52 resident
families and had a school with 85 students. Sine had a post
office, grocery store, dance hall, and shingle mill. If not for
Henry McCleary, it is possible this area would have been known
as the home of the twin towns of Summit and Sine. The Sine
family left their home in Monongalia County, West Virginia (on
the Pennsylvania border) in March, 1891. The trip to the new
State of Washington required 10 train changes. Upon arrival they
spent their first week with George Wade, a relative of Mrs.
Sine, up the Wynochee. The final leg of the trip to what would
later be known as Sine was made by oxen team. The family
consisted of Joseph Jackson Sine (1840-1917) who was known as
Jackson, his wife Lydia (1847-1914), son George and daughter
Ida. Jackson Sine had purchased th