[or-roots] childhood memories

[Aileen Itzen]

My great grandparents came to Oregon in 1874.  Their son, my grandfather,
fortunately loved history and kept every record he could find including old
school records, census records, even two original survey maps of the area
done in 1892 and the original homestead papers on their place signed by
President Harrison.  I have been blessed to have had those in my
possession.  When he was about 90 years old the family made several tapes
of conversations with him of his families trip from Minnesota to Oregon and
of the many things he had seen during his lifetime.