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

[dgoodma02 at comcast.net]

Thanks!  That's relly exciting. It will be very helpful.
Bob Goodman

--
Duane R.(Bob) Goodman
> Couldn't resist trying Dorothy's suggestion;
> 
> Richard Goodman;	from
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> http://www.peak.org/~mransom/a2m.html
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> Train from MO 1864
>   Author: jacquie heiberg  Date: 11 Jan 2003 5:43 AM GMT
>   Classification: Query
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> The following people were members of a wagon train leaving Missouri in May
> 1864 on the Oregon Trail. Arabella Clemens Fulton, a member of that train,
> included these names in her journals and later compiled a book, "Tales of
> the Trail" which is available (with index) at the LDS library. Arabella
> settled in Idaho, as did several of the others included here. In addition to
> these people in her immediate group, many of the people named as Idaho
> friends and acquaintences had traveled the Trail on earlier trains. Arabella
> lived in Texas in the 1880s and many Texas families are also included in her
> book.
> 
> Freeman Goodman, Train Captain
> Adeline Clemens, Angeline Clemens, Tom Jones, James Purdin, "Colonel"
> Flournoy, Caley Purdin, Lucinda Purdin, Sally Taylor, Benton Hubbard, Mrs.
> Galbraith(Galbrath), Mrs. Godman(Goodman), Mr. and Mrs. Dryden and 8
> children (1 dau. named Lucy - 1 Dau. named Mary - both married after
> arriving in ID)
> 
> from;
> 
> http://boards.ancestry.co.uk/mbexec/message/5538/topics.migration.oregon-tra
> il/103
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> GOODMAN, James H.
> GOODMAN, John B.		from
> discussion of DLC records as source of wagon train arrivals;
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> http://pw1.netcom.com/~symbios/gfo52.html
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> A fellow Goodman chaser;
> 
> From:          Joan Archibald <joanarc at netwiz.net>
> 
> Subject:       Grave sites for Arthur Howard and Jennie Thomas Goodman
> from;
> http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/OREGON/1998-10/0908172639
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> http://www.waldsfe.org/UnitStudies/WestwardMovement.htm
> contains a short bibliography of pioneer transportation sources including 5
> or 6 wagon train books
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> "I have tried to keep track of the members of our wagon train, but most of
> them have crossed the Last Divide.  Uncle Hughie Goodman, head of the
> Goodman clan, had three grown sons.  They were big bodied with powerful
> shoulders and long legs, and were quiet, sober, God-fearing men, who did
> their share and then some, and were afraid of nothing.  Then there were the
> Pollards and the Briagans.  Uncle George Taylor's sister married Jim
> Longmire.
> 
> from;
> 
> http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/waltcr/ji-ints.htm
> 
> Subject: Re: [or-roots] How did they get here? A transportation query
> 
> Well I gotta go pursue one of my buttonhole cousins before the wife comes
> home and chains me up in the kitchen.
> 
> Looks to me like you have a long search, lots of info on Goodmans, I have a
> family of Melvins that came by Wagontrain before 1858 and I can't get a
> clue, not even to whether in fact they came through Oregon as we believe or
> came to California. The only clue is a legend that they travelled with a

> Mrs. Barnes,
> 
> Les Chapman
> 
> Quoting dgoodma02 at comcast.net:
> 
> > 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
> 
> Bob;
> Have you tried the lists of people on the wagon trains?  I'm sure I saw some
> Goodmans on at least one list. I noticed because when I was growing up on
> the Oregon coast, there were some Goodmans in Waldport, Or.  I understand
> they came over on some of the wagon trains.
> 
> Dorothy Webb
> kat1928 at integrity.com
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