[or-roots] POWELL in 1851

[kat1928 at integrity.com]

Quoting Albert Belanger <skipb at rcn.com>:

> Bonjour,
>
> There were several POWELL folks on the Trail in 1851.  When where your
> folks traveling?
>
> Albert
>
> Albert Edward Belanger
> 128 Middle Road
> Brentwood, NH 03833
>
> Researching the 1851 Oregon Trail Migration
>
> Dorothy Wrote:
>
> Nancy:
>
> Your Stevens family may have joined in with another train coming
> through.
> Quite often that happened.
>
> My POwell families had another train join them.  It was the Hunter
> train.  I can
> find no record of the Powell train (about 50 wagons) and I am trying to
> find
> something on the Hunter train.  That way one knows about what our
> families
> experienced along the way.  You might try that.
>
> I am writing a historical novel about the Powells travel to Oregon
> Territory and
> I'd like to have more than what I have to make the book interesting.  A
> lot has
> to be fabricated to glue the facts and dates together.
>
> The Powells came over the trail, branched out onto the Barlow Trail to
> Oregon
> City (where I live) and then up the Willamette River to Linn County,
> Oregon.
>
> Howell Prairie is beautiful farming country.  Sam Barlow , who built the
> Barlow
> Trail, lived a little north of there.  Linn County is quite a bit south
> of
> Howell Prairie.
>
> I can take a picture of Howell Prairie area for you if you'd like.  It
> wouldn't
> look like in the 1800's but you could see the terrain.
>
>
> Talk Later;
>
> Dorothy
>
>
>  <http://www.incredimail.com/index.asp?id=409&lang=9>
>
Albert;

Joab Powell's wagon train came to Oregon in 1852.  I don't know if the Hunter
Train started with them or if they joined later.  Thanks for answering.

Dorothy Webb