[or-roots] I need help - HAMILTON

[Sue Steward]

Oregon State Archives
Case# 7-255b
Name Hamilton, Olive L & McKellips, C. Melville
Date 12-31-1903
Record Type Marriage
County Benton
Source Genealogical

Oregon Death Index:
Name:  Mckellips, clarence M
County:  Portland
Death Date:  14 Dec 1919
Certificate:  3210

Benton County 1910 Census, Corvallis  (S. Fifth St.)
Clarence M. McKellips   M    W  age 42   M (1)
Olive H McKellips           F      W   age 35  M (1)  -0- children   b.
Minnesota   FA:  Illinois    MO:  Indiana

Benton County 1920 Census, Corvallis   (9th St)
Olive H McKillips          F        W     age 45  Widowed       b.
Minnesota     FA:  Illinois    MO:  Indiana   "Roomer"
Roll 625-1491  Enumeration District 7  Page 24B

Oregon State Archives
Case #0664
Name:    Hamilton, Harry
Date:    12/31/1941
Record Type:  Coroner's Report
County:  Linn
Source:  Genealogical

Case #:  7-058b
Name:  Hamilton, Lillian E & Johnson, B. W.
Date:  12/31/1897
Record Type:  Marriage
County:  Benton
Source:  Genealogical

1900 Census, Benton Co., Corvallis
Burtis W. Johnson  b. Aug 66  PA    "Postmaster"
Lillian, wife, b. Jan 1873, Married 3 years -0- children  b.  Minn   FA:
Ill    MO:  Indiana

1910 Census, Benton Co., Corvallis
Burtis W. Johnson, married 12 years, Postmaster
Lilian C. wife
William B.  Son   age 5/12

Oregon Death Index
Johnson, Lillian        ??????????????????????????????????????????????????
County:  Portland
Date: 27 July 1915
Certificate:  1318              ?????????????????????????????????????????

Case # 8-308b
Brooks, Helen B. & Johnson, Burtis W.
Date:  12/31/1917
Record Type:  Marriage
County:  Benton
Source:  Genealogical

1920 Census, Benton Co., Monroe PCT
Burtis W. Johnson
Helen B. Johnson, wife
William B. Son, age 10


Sue




----- Original Message ----- 
From: Denise Merritt
To: or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us
Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 10:01 PM
Subject: Re: [or-roots] I need help - HAMILTON


I'm assuming you've checked the Oregon Archives Search engine but I did
notice that Olive Hamilton is listed in Multnomah Co in 1895 and there were
several other entries for an Olive Hamilton.  You may have already checked
those as you mentioned several of the documents that are listed for T.M.
Hamilton on the search engine.

Fascinating mystery you have!

Just in case others aren't aware of the Oregon Historical Records search
engine visit  http://genealogy.state.or.us/start.lasso?location=search

Denise in Idaho with Oregon Roots back to 1844
----- Original Message ----- 
From: LinLouVan at aol.com
To: or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us
Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 7:53 PM
Subject: [or-roots] I need help - HAMILTON


I guess it's time for me to call on the seemingly magic talents of the
Or-roots researchers.
I have been up and down through Ancestry - and Heritage Quest - and can not
find this family in 1900.

I am researching Civil War Soldier Thaddeus M. HAMILTON. Here's what I know.

He was born 3 Jan 1848 in Brown County, Illinois to parents William &
Elizabeth Hamilton.
    I found the family in the 1850 U.S. Census.

On 1 Feb 1864 he was mustered in to Co. A, 50th Ill. Infantry at Mendon,
Illinois
    He was mustered out 13 Jul 1865 at Louisville, Kentucky

He was in Sparta, Chippewa Co., Minnesota in the 1870 U.S. Census taken 10
Jun 1870
    He was single, age 22 and a farmer.

In 1875 he homesteaded 160 acres in Minn. - filed 3 Apr 1875 at the
Litchfield Land Office.

At the time of the 1880 U.S. Census, he was in Eugene City, Lane Co.,
Oregon.
    He was enumerated as T.M. Hamilton, with a wife, Florence and three
children: Olive,
    Lilian, and Harry.

He was listed in the 1890 Veterans Schedule as living in South Eugene
Precinct, Lane Co.,
    Oregon.

In 1890 he filed for Veteran's Pension - I have sent for papers.
Also in 1890, 1891 and 1894 he re-enlisted in the Oregon National Guard -
living in Eugene,
    at least at the time of the 1891 certificate.

According to the card index of Union Vetereans done by Spencer Leonard in
the 1960s,
    Mr. Hamilton was one of the founding members of the Eugene GAR Post #40.
He moved
    to Salem and was living there in 1912 and was a member of Salem GAR Post
#10.

In the 1910 U.S. Census, he was living at the Oregon State Insane Asylum,
listed as an         employee - a gardener. He is listed as a widower.

He died at the Asylum 16 June 1916. The GAR information says he was buried
in the
    Milliorn Cemetery at Junction City.

I am trying to put together documentation to get a Civil War Veteran's grave
marker.
    And, I have become interested in what happened to his family.

SO, HERE ARE MY PROBLEMS:

I can not find any member of the family in the 1900 Census.

According to the 1880 Census, the first two children were born in Minnesota.
    Therefore, there should be a marriage listing and two birth listings in
Minnesota.

His wife apparently died before 1910, but I can not find her in the Oregon
Death Index.

What happened to Olive, Lilian and Harry???

I just know that I am missing something obvious and that one of you will
find it for me.
Thanks.
Linda L. VanOrden
Junction City, Oregon
LinLouVan at aol.com