[or-roots] Hardenbrook & Wilson

[Nanci Axelton]

Hello, my name is Nanci,

I was hoping someone out there might be able to help me find out more about 
my gr gr grandparents, Bradford HARDENBROOK and Sarah Ann WILSON.  They were 
married in Douglas County 7 April 1859 at the home of Read Hudson and wife. 
I'm not sure what town. Their 11 children were mostly born in Elkton. He 
filed a donation land claim but never fullfilled the requirements.  
According to the Oregon Donation Land CLaim vol V3 certificate 
#821,"Hardenbrook, Bradford, Umpqua* Co; b 1831, Richland Co, Oh ; Arr Ore 
20 Sept 1853; SC 20 Dec 1853."

He died in Brownsville in 1911 and was buried in Vancouver. I wonder why?  I 
have nothing on Sarah except for birth states for her, MO, and her  parents, 
Tn (father) VA (mother)  from the 1900 census. Listed in the Hardenbrook 
household in same census were; Josie WILSON a female born Aug 1889 OR; 
Autumn WILSON, a male born Oct 1890 OR and Lorie (sp?) WILSON a female born 
Dec 1892 OR. They are listed as nieces and nephew. I'm hoping they will help 
me locate their aunts family.  I can't locate any of these people on other 
census'.  I did find Sarah A Wilson Hardenbrook and two of her sons, Bert 
and Francis in a Marshfield, Coos CO., Directory of 1913-1914.  I have her 
death in 1914, but when I requested a copy from vital records, it wasn't my 
Sarah.  So I'm at a loss. Can someone tell me how else I can search for her 
death? If she was in Coos Bay in 1913-14, but OR death index has a Sarah 
Hardenbrook dying in Klamath Falls in 1914... there were other Hardenbrooks 
in K Falls then, but I don't know if they are related.

I would dearly love to find out more about her family and how they got to 
OR. I have learned not to trust the family histories, "stories" being the 
root word.  I was always told that her mother was an Applegate, however that 
doesn't seem probable as that family's genealogy is pretty well documented 
and I can't find a connection.

Thanks for reading this.

Signed,
A fith generation Oregonian who refuses to give up (stubborn stock) sorting 
through the stories to find the "rest of the story."

Nanci A. Mann Axelton

researching OR surnames:
Arneson  Coffin  Hardenbrook  Mann  Rouse  Wilson

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