[or-roots] Re: Lee-Hutchinson-Soper

Mon Nov 3 04:58:49 PST 2003

VIRGENE:  thanks so much for what you put on the list.  every little bit
helps.  i should have gotten more data from candis as i think she has the
lee family way back.  this is not a direct line for me but anything with the
name bonney attached is of interest.  if i remember correctly candis desc.
thru this bonney/lee line.  thanks again to you and all who helped me with
this line.
gary, now in az.
-----Original Message-----
From: Virgene and Dean Travis <travis.north at centurytel.net>
To: Oregon Roots List- OR <or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us>
Date: Sunday, November 02, 2003 2:10 PM
Subject: [or-roots] Re: Lee-Hutchinson-Soper


>Gary --
>   Philander Lee is on the 1860 census in Clackamas Co., OR, Family 1068
...
>unfortunately I didn't record the page number.
>        Philander Lee (1801-12 Jan 1887) had a son named Heman Allen Lee,
b.
>29 March 1833 in Jefferson Co., NY; d. 7 Jan 1914 in Canby, Clackamas Co.,
>OR .. is in the Zion/Pioneer Cem. there.  For more info. on Heman see:
>An Illustrated History of the State of Oregon, H.K, Hines, D. D. Lewis
>Publishing Co., 1893, page 689.
>        A daughter of Heman A. Lee is named Clara C. Lee (b. 17 May 1868 in
>Canby, d. 15 March 1926 in Newberg, Yamhill Co., OR and buried in the Canby
>Zion/Pioneer Cemetery.)   She m. (1st) Elijah Dow Hutchinson on 1 Jun 1890
>in Clackamas Co.  Elijah Hutchinson died 16 May 1902 in Eugene and is also
>buried in Canby.    Then in about 1912, Clara married (2nd) Ransom or
Ranson
>SOPER.  He was b. about 1868 and died Jan. 1914.    (From writings of Myra
>Weston of Canby, OR-- a Clackamas Co., Oregon historian) comes the
>following:  "Clara had six children, was Canby milliner and first telephone
>operator; as widow she married Ransom Soper."   I don't have date of the
>marriage, but probably you
>can find it somewhere in Oregon Marriage Records.
>Clara's Death Certificate:
>Newberg, Yamhill Co., OR, Reg. No. 47
>Clara C. Soper, 721 First, Newberg
>Female, White, Widowed
>   etc.
>          As far as I know, Clara and Mr. Soper did not have any children.
>He may have been married previously???   A KEITH SOPER was one of the
>pallbearers at the funeral of Leonard Garver in Walla Walla, WA in June
>1964.   Leonard Garver is a descendant of Philinda Lee Green Terwilliger.
>Philinda is a sister to Philander Lee.
>
>   Have fun trying to put this puzzle together!
>       Virgene Travis
>        in Montana
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "gary murray" <gmurray1 at cox.net>
>To: <or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us>
>Sent: Sunday, November 02, 2003 6:42 AM
>Subject: Re: [or-roots] Re:REUBEN SOPER
>
>
>> VIOLET:  thanks so much for the search results.  i have a real problem
>> taking anything from the internet.  when i first started this obsession,
>> about 30 -35 years ago, i did not bother with sources but i soon learned
>> that sources are everything.  if you can't prove where the info came
from,
>> it is worthless info. and the internet is full of family genealogies with
>no
>> sources.  i have written to many, and i mean many, of the listers on the
>net
>> and have gotten less than a few returns.  mostly people that seem to do
>> genealogy are name gatherers and not genealogists.  the very few
responses
>i
>> have rec'd list sources as someone elses gedcom or nothing at all.  i do
>> certainly want to thank you for your time and trouble on this one.  my
>> powers line goes back to walter power who was the immigrant.  i have a
>> wonderful power/s book which lists all the sources.  thanks again for
your
>> post.  it is much appreciated.
>> gary in az.
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Violet Sunderland <ndloop at wvi.com>
>> To: or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us <or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us>
>> Date: Saturday, November 01, 2003 11:01 PM
>> Subject: Re: [or-roots] Re:REUBEN SOPER
>>
>>
>> >Hi Gary,
>> >
>> >I found these with Google:
>> >
>> >http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jselwa/webpage/g374.html
>> >
>> >http://www.gbnf.com/genealogy/jagard/html/index/ind0044.HTM
>> >
>> >I was interested because I've just made a breakthrough on my POWERS
>> >line (paternal) but mine is Kentucky, possibly back to South Carolina
>> >or Virginia.
>> >
>> >I subscribe to the LEE list and the only Philander LEE was in
>> >Tennessee in the 1860 census. Not mine either. Mine traces to one
>> >Peter LEE in Massachusetts. Some of his descendants were Loyalists who
>> >went to Canada and my line was in Eaton Co. MI in the 1850s.
>> >
>> >One other surname lately is BOWEN. It is known in Cornwall and
>> >Devonshire also. Did you know that ap in Welsh means 'son of'? When
>> >the name starts with a vowel, the p becomes b and the a is dropped, so
>> >ab Owen becomes Bowen. In one instance I know of, it became BONE,
>> >possibly when a parish clerk or census taker spelled what he heard. My
>> >grandfather's sister-in-law was born in LaMar, Colorado in the early
>> >1880s, the daughter of one Josh BOWEN. (No other info on him.)
>> >
>> >Violet Sunderland
>> >mailto:ndloop at wvi.com
>> >~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
>> >
>> >gary murray wrote:
>> >>
>> >> GOOD MORNING:  does anyone know anything about reuben soper who m.
>> tryphena
>> >> priscilla powers on 13 feb. 1853 in portland, oregon?  would also like
>to
>> >> know if he is related to any of the other soper's that married into
the
>> >> hutchinson line.  thanks.
>> >> gary in az.
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