[or-roots] Pearl Etta Wilson/Smith/Doughty -- Bay City

[Sue Steward]

There is information on Ancestry.com about Clarington E. Wilson that lists
his death in the San Francisco earthquake.

Oregon State Archives
Case#
Name Wilson, Emma vs Wilson, Clarington E.
Date
Record Type Divorce
County Tillamook
Source County
Identifier
Divorce case files usually contain information that would be helpful.

There is WWI draft registration card for Leo Forbes Wilson, son of
Clarington, on Ancestry.com.
http://content.ancestry.com/Browse/view.aspx?dbid=6482&iid=OR-1852148-2091

Apparently Barbara Wulf is also researching this family according to posting
on message board.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris & Bill Strickland" <lechevrier at earthlink.net>
To: <or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us>
Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 2:10 AM
Subject: [or-roots] Pearl Etta Wilson/Smith/Doughty -- Bay City


> Help -- I am in communication with a fellow who hopes someone can shed
> some light on his great-great aunt Pearl Etta (or Pearlyetta, etc.)
> Wilson/Smith/Doughty, who was living with my great grandmother Mary
> Elizabeth (Williams) Rose and her son Karl in 1920 in Ashland as a
> live-in nurse.
>
>    He is ultimately trying to locate his great-grandfather, Pearl's
> brother, Clarington E. Wilson, but perhaps some more information on
> Pearl will help in that quest.
>
>    Pearl was born in NY in 1862, but moved with her family to Iowa not
> long after the Civil War.  They lived briefly in Howard Co., IA then
> homesteaded in Dickinson Co., IA about 1869.  Her mother died in 1875,
> and her father soon remarried a young gal not much older than Pearl.
> Pearl shortly went back to Howard Co., where she lied about her age and
> married in 1877.  She and her husband had three children, and they moved
> up into Minnesota around 1900.  Some time between 1910 & 1920, Pearl
> divorced her husband and headed west, leaving her two grown daughters
> and about 10 grandchildren in Minnesota.  He found her in Ashland (with
> my great-grandmother) in January of 1920, but in May of 1920, she
> married a man 9 years her junior in Bay City, Oregon.  She had almost
> surely known [her new husband's] family in Dickinson Co., IA in her
> childhood, but her new husband was born in Oregon after his family
> migrated west.
>
>    They are trying to connect the dots as to why she would travel from
> Brainerd, MN to Ashland, OR, just to work as a nurse for my
> great-grandmother, then move suddenly to Bay City several years
> before Mary died.  Her brother Clarington had been one of the founders
> of Bay City in 1888-1889, but he left under a cloud, deserting his
> great-grandmother & her infant son (his grandfather) during 1889,
> returning only briefly around 1893.  Pearl apparently had some limited
> contact with him, but we have no records of him after that time.  Family
> stories (from Pearl, we think) place him in the SF Bay area at the time
> of the great earthquake & fire, at which time he totally disappeared.
> We believe he was formally declared dead around 1919, and my grandfather
> received a small inheritance, but we have found no probate records.  We
> explored the possibility that Pearl had inherited (or maybe purchased)
> some land from him in Bay City, but have found no records of that either.
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