[or-roots] How did they get here? A transportation querry

[dgoodma02 at comcast.net]

Thanks.  My GGF Samuel Mark McLane was married to Josephine Berry  1856 In Oregon and my GGF Thomas Goodman was married to Susan Bryant in Oregon. There  oldest child was Oscar K Goodman b. abt 1873 in Oregon.
How would I go about gettin an Oregon Pioneer Cwertificate?

Thanks again for the Info 

--
Duane R.(Bob) Goodman
> The Oregon Pioneer Certificate is issued to people who can prove descent
> from someone that was here before October 1872.
> 
> I believe the reason for that is because the trains reached Oregon in
> October 1872.  The Iron Horse not wagon trains.
> 
> I know my Bates family arrived in the Corbett area by train in the late
> 1880s.  They hired a boxcar, stuffed the family and all their possessions
> inside and came out from Nebraska.
> 
> Barb
> wulf at bendcable.com
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <dgoodma02 at comcast.net>
> To: "Oregon State" <or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us>
> Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2003 2:53 PM
> Subject: [or-roots] How did they get here? A transportation querry
> 
> 
> > My mother (Cora Belle Dye) was born in Missouri (near or in Joplin) in
> 1895
> > and was married in Oregon abt 1920,(I was born In 1928). Also my
> father(Duane Cecil Goodman) was born in 1897 in Lyons Oregon.  My
> Grandfather (Prince W. Goodman) was born in 1876 in Linn Co. Oregon. My

> grandmother Goodman (Corabelle McLane) was also born Linn Co Oregon in 1878.
> OK, The question is--How did they travel out to the West?  Did the Railroads
> extend to the Oregon Washington (Oregon Territory) during that time?  Or did
> they most likely come most of the way on the Oregon Trail by Wagon?  It
> appears to me that my Father's family was out in Oregon considerably earlier
> than the Dyes.
> > I know I"m asking for an educated guess..
> > Any Ideas?
> > Thanks,
> >  Bob
> >
> > --
> > Duane R.(Bob) Goodman
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