[or-roots] Mowses Place

Sue Steward ssteward at ccountry.net
Sat May 15 08:54:39 PDT 2004


"A Century of Coos and Curry Counties"
Thereon W. Crook, b. New York 1816.  To Curry County 1865; resided in Pistol
River and at Port Orford.  Married Nancy Hamilton.  Parents of 8 children.

"Pioneer History of Coos and Curry Counties"
Theron W. Crook was born in Erie Co., N.Y. March 8, 1816 and came to Oregon
in the fall of 1852, and in 1865 came to Curry Co., and settled on Pistol
River, then moved to Port Orford and lived ten years, but the last four
years he has resided in Pisolt River.  His wife's maiden name was Nancy
Hamilton, born in Mass., Jan 8, 1816.  They are the parents of eight
children, five boys and three girls.  Their names are Asa W., Edwin, Edward,
George, Adam, Mary, Ellen and Lucy.

Asa H. Crook was born in Whiteside Co., Ill., Dec 12, 1836 and came to Curry
Co., Oregon in 1858 and settled on Pistol River.  His wife's maiden name was
Ellen Lockwood, born in Moline, Rock Island County, Illinois, September 13,
1845, married Dec 12, 1861, and they have five children.  He follows
stockraising and dairying.

"Large numbers of Indians could be seen coming fown from Rogue River, where
not an Indian was to be seen for three days as all of them had gone to fight
the 32 white men in Pistol River.  Towards evening the Indians began
gathering on the beach about half a mile north of the mouth of the river and
the whites commenced to make preparations to receive them if they attempted
a night attack.  Crook, with eight men, was sent up the river about 300
yards to a ford to prevent their crossing and had orders to fall back if the
Indians got too many for them.  They were soon called away and the Indians
took that position. ....  Crook got all his men in safely and no Indians had
attempted to cross the ford."    There's a whole chapter about this but I
only copied a couple of references to Crook.

"Among the wonderful resources the salmon fisheries are mentioned by Mr.
Tichenor as of greater importance. ... The article was written in 1882 and
published in the Record.  At this time it appears that Mr. Hume was packing
from three to five thousand salmon daily, besides Chetco and Winchuck and
Pistol rivers were yielding large quantities of fish that were being salted,
or those from the two first named streams were perhaps hauld to Smith
River -- a place six miles south of the California line.  From 1883 to 1887
Port Orford was a marine collective port.  Capt. Wm Tichenor, T. W. Crook,
F. M. Stewart and Charles W. Zumwalt had charge successively but as little
business was transacted the office was abolished in 1887."  (page 276)

"Joint representatives for Coos and Curry ...
    1886 A. H. Crook
    1888 A. H. Crook
    1890 A. H. Crook
... "

 I could copy this information for you if you are interested.

Sue Steward



----- Original Message -----
From: "Leslie Chapman" <khanjehgil at presys.com>
To: <or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us>
Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2004 1:26 AM
Subject: RE: [or-roots] Mowses Place


> Mickie;
>
> You didn't give us much to go on and didn't mention what all you know, I
> find in the 1910 Census;
>
> John L. Crook  age 36 ma 10 yrs b. Oregon fa bp illegible mo bp Iowa
> Laura J(I think hard to read) age 32 4 ch 4 living b. Oregon fa & Mo bp
> blank
> Asa B. age 8
> Dorothy N 3
> Arthur (sp?) 20/12(?)
> Clarence 6/12
>
> In the 1900 Census John L is living with;
>
> Asa Crook    head   Dec 1836 birthdate age 63 ma 38 yrs b. Illnios Fa bp
> NY  Mo bp NY
> Ellen C   Sept 1845 54    38     6 ch 5 lvng b Illinois Fa bp NY  Mo bp
> Tennesse
> Theron W   Dec  1862 37 b. California
> John L   July 1876 23 b. Oregon
> Asa C   Sept 1891   8 b. Oregon
>
> Next door is a William Crook, wife Julia and dau Vida and at bottom of
page
> is Theron age 84 who I bet dollars to donuts is Asa's father.
>
> As to Laura she is an enigma, I had no luck locating her in Curry Co in
> 1900, and in 1880 the closest is Jane;
>
> Name  Relation Marital Status Gender Race Age Birthplace Occupation
Father's
> Birthplace Mother's Birthplace
>  Roe MOORE   Self   M   Male   W   39   MO   Laborer   TN   TN
>  Nancy MOORE   Wife   M   Female   W   30   MO   Keeping House   MO   MO
>  Delilah MOORE   Dau   S   Female   W   15   OR   At Home   MO   MO
>  William R. MOORE   Son   S   Male   W   13   OR   At Home   MO   MO
>  Budd MOORE   Son   S   Male   W   11   OR   At Home   MO   MO
>  Elizabeth MOORE   Dau   S   Female   W   9   OR      MO   MO
>  Nathaniel MOORE   Son   S   Male   W   5   OR      MO   MO
>  Jane MOORE   Dau   S   Female   W   2   OR      MO   MO
>  Ida MOORE   Dau   S   Female   W   9M   OR      MO   MO
>
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
--
> ----
> Source Information:
>   Census Place Chetcoe, Curry, Oregon
>   Family History Library Film   1255080
>   NA Film Number   T9-1080
>   Page Number   416D
>
> If these are your folks and you don't have this info I can email the
images
> to you, or I can just paste the relevant family info in emails, if your
> connection is as slow as mine it will take a few minuts for each image to
> come through.
>
> Les C
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:  MICKIE DUVAL
> Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 8:52 PM
>
> Hi Bill, No mowses place come from the fact that my first name is
> Mickie(like the mouse) and mowse has been a nick name for me, so it
sounded
> like a good email name for me. No, I don't think the Duval line (my
husbands
> name) comes from that one, they are from Canada and it's been a devil of a
> time tracing them. Those Duval's did live in the Bend/Redmond area for a
lot
> of years Had a place between Bend and Redmond until, their son(my
husband's
> father) sold it and finally retired. At one point and time if I remember
> correctly the Duval's owned a whole township?? a large block of land out
> there.
> But I am trying to find some people from over on the coast, Brookings
area,
> my husband mothers side. Her last name was crook, and her first husband's
> name was Mellen. Her mothers name was Laura Jane Moore born 15 Nov 1878
from
> what I can find out but can't find much else. So If any one knows anything
> about the Crooks, or Moore's from that area I would love to hear from you.
> Thanks Bill, have a great weekend. Mickie (mowse)
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