[or-roots] childhood memories

[Aileen Itzen]

My g-grandfather was George Washington Carl, his father was Hiram Carl.
Both, with their wives came out in 1874, by rail to SF, boat to Oregon City
where George's wife, Ella Fish Carl, had an uncle who owned a store.  They
wintered in Silverton area with her relatives and then on horseback went to
the valley to find 'home'.  Hit the Nehalem River about where Hwy 26 now
crosses it and traveled up river until they found the closest place to
'market'.  Market being the closest place to the Columbia River which
happened to be about the Columbia/Clatsop county lines.  There were
ultimately the families of Bergs, Olsons, Nelsons, Norstroms, Johnstons,
Banzers, Buschs, Libels, and many more.

Were some of your family in the Valley during the early days?  Aileen


At 07:01 PM 09/12/2003 -0700, you wrote:
>Aileen,
>
>What family names from Nehalem?
>
>Barb
>wulf at bendcable.com
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Aileen Itzen" <hai at callatg.com>
>To: <or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us>
>Sent: Friday, September 12, 2003 5:37 PM
>Subject: [or-roots] childhood memories
>
>
>> 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.
>>
>> From all this information I put together a 'book' for the family which
>> included copies of letters written to their Congressman requesting postal
>> service into the Nehalem Valley, pictures and odd tidbits of things he
>> remembered.  He had the foresight to ask contemporaries to write down
>their
>> remembrances of coming into the valley.  Some of these things I have given
>> to local historical groups so that other could enjoy them.  Therefore I
>> feel strongly that everyone should write down their history for
>generations
>> to come.  No matter how incidental you may think your life was.  It will
>be
>> important to your family in years to come.  Aileen.
>>
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