[or-roots] elderly travelers on the Oregon Trail

[W David Samuelsen]

Count my 4gg mother among the elder travelers.

Mary (Ramsey) Lemons Wood crossed on her favorite bay horse at age
of 67, in 1852. (Incidentially the Lemons Family is having annual
reunion, and it's 150th anniversary). She built up a fortune in
Hillsboro, including sizable real estate holdings.

She died Jan 1, 1906. Age 120. Was first Pioneer Queen, in 1905.
Photos and articles about her aplenty.

David Samuelsen

Anne & Don Comer wrote:
> 
> At 6:51 PM -0800 05/4/2002, Cecil Houk wrote:
> >For those who do not know her, the widow Tabitha Brown crossed
> >the Oregon Trail in 1846 at the age of 66; and she is just one of my
> >Oregon Trail Families:
> 
> As long as we are enumerating our "elder" trail crossers, I have this one
> to offer from my list of Oregon Trail Families.
> 
> The widow Gertrude Van Valkenburg Peek crossed the Oregon Trail in 1847 at
> the age of 77 with her son James and his family.  She filed a Provisional
> Land Claim in the spring of 1848.  She continued to live in Oregon
> Territory/Oregon State for the next 20 years, until her death  in June
> 1867, at the age of 97.
> 
> Anne
> 
> CRABTREE, 1846
> PEEK, 1847
> PRINE, 1850
> POWELL, 1852
> RUTLEDGE, 1852
> SMITH, before 1860
> HUDELSON, 1876
> 
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