[or-roots] Haynesville, Oregon

[Beth Perry Johnston]

Les and Sue,

Thank you for your help with this one. It certainly appears as though the 
only Haynesville in Oregon was in Klamath County, although in my mind I was 
betting on a discontinued post office somewhere in the 
Morrow-Union-Umatilla counties area.<g> The Langell Valley reference helped 
me change my mind.

The owner of the autograph book was Martha Ann (Smith) Gerking, second wife 
of Samuel Isaiah Gerking. My grandmother, 5th of their 12 children, was 
born in Morrow Co. in 1892, and the next two siblings were also born in 
Morrow County in 1894 and 1985. The child after that, though, was born in 
Merrill, Klamath Co. in 1896. We knew that the family had moved to Klamath 
Co. by 1896, but the entries in question were all made by members of a 
Copeland family on the same day, June 25, 1893. I have no idea yet whether 
the Copelands were part of the family or friends, perhaps known from 
church; but I've now found a George W. Copeland in Langell Valley, Klamath 
Co. so am giving up my discontinued post office dream.

Sam was a real wanderer, and it would appear Sam took his family to visit 
the area where he would next move them, and Martha got the three Copeland 
autographs. After a few years in Merrill he moved them on to Yolo Co., CA, 
and in 1902 they headed to Putnam Co., FL, returning to Yolo Co. in 1904, 
and eventually to Umatilla Co. FWIW, there's a slide show of a small diary 
Sam kept on the return trip from Florida to California at
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~athena/gerking/sig1903-04trip/1903-04_trip_intro_and_thumbnails.html 
(that URL will most likely wrap and have to be copied into your browser 
window).

Again, thanks so much for all your help.

Beth

At 09:00 PM 9/11/2004, Leslie Chapman wrote:
>Beth;
>
>I'm not sure this is the right Haynesville?
>
>According to the USGS it is 4 km (about 2.4 miles) south east of a place
>called Lorella in Klamath County.
>
>http://terraserver-usa.com/image.aspx?S=14&T=2&lat=42.1367&lon=-121.2314
>
>should take you to a map image showing that name on the map, the streams in
>that area are a little confusing, it is kind of between Cambell and Nail
>springs. It is on a branch of North Canal (???) and in Langell Valley. It is
>about 32 miles east south east of Klamath Falls as near as I can figure it.
>
>Les C

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