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[Sally]

This message is on the Josephine county Rootweb page. I thought it might be
of intrest to some of you Josephine County researchers.
Sally in southern oregon


Very Old Family Photo Album / Want to find it's Family 
  Author: Nancy Adams  Date: 4 Jan 2005 9:36 PM GMT  
  Surnames: Clemmer, Haas, Carson, Wasson, Schaffer & Lady the Dog (1949) 
  Classification: Query 
Hi! 
I have a very old family picture album, about late 1800's up into the
1900's. I worked for a second hand store in Grants Pass, Oregon in 1986.
This picture album was going in the garbage, & couldn't let that happen. I
have hung on to this very special lost family treasure for 18 years now!

There may not be any family left to this old album, I don't know, but I
need to try & find them. I FEEL THE FAMILY THAT OWNED THIS PHOTO ALBUM, MAY
HAVE DIED IN : about 1986 in Grants Pass, OR.

The owner of the second hand store would buy unpaid storage units that
people left behind.

Here are all the names I found:
Minnie Clemmer..Mom's 80th birthday, taken Sept. 7-1951
Clifford Haas
Kenneth Carson
Viola Carson
Bill Carson
Harvey
Henry
Minnie
Mrs. Schaffer
Hattie
There's a newspaper clipping: Sept. 24, 1938
(about rule by force) 
Wasson Reunion
Elsie & Chuck Haas
Chuck Haas
Al Clemmer
And (Lady the Dog)...1949

There's a picture of a meeting house.
It says on back of picture:
Birminghouse? Meeting house.
Near Chadd's Fork, PA.

There is a photo of a very large group of men and reads under the Photo: 
KNIGHTS OF THE PYTHIA

There is a lot of Pictures. My sister said when I showed her that the
pictures are very old, & when they were taken, the kind of film they used
was like film from another country. 
Better film than here in the U. S. at that time.
There mostly color & very beautiful.
I sure hope Some one will recognized these Surnames.

What is neat here is the surname(Haas)is in my family & they were from PA.
...PA. Dutch, or Mennonites.
They came from there on the Oregon Trail, second wagon train to ever travel
it. Surnames in my family are:Plank, Hill, Lydall, Miller, Smith, Keck,
Housouer, Yoder, Yost, Stevens, McCubbins, Flanagan & More.

I also have family in Grants Pass, Rogue River, Gold Hill Oregon..Diess
Family & more.

Thanks! Nancy
nancydean at columbia-center.org 
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