[or-roots] Re: Your Columbia River Relatives

[Carroll Clark]

Hi Terry -thank you for your query - you are the first person to respond to my 1st posting on this bulletin.
 I can say that I do not see a surname that I can tie to at this time, but it is always well to ask.
To you, Terry, and to the Others who read this I can tell you that I have been doing genealogy since 
1983 when I was really bitten by the Gen Bug - LOL!!!  I had my 1st taste of it when I was age 12 when I 
read and COPIED my Grandparents Biographical Sketch in a History of King County (State of WA) when 
I was 12 yrs old.  It was that copy that inspired me to act upon the Info 59 years later. That story is too long
but I hit "pay dirt" right from the start in 1983 and I've been going full blast since!
 Let me say this for an intro. I knew that my ancestry went back to the OR Trail 1847 when my Clarks walked
with their ox team from IN>OR in that yr. (Brownsville, OR), soon Harrisburg, then Roseburg area of Wilbur, OR
& the Methodist - Umpqua Academy or Wilbur Academy of  Father James Wilbur. My anc. were among the 
Staff of that schooling from 1855 - 1865, when the Family migrated N to White River Valley, WA Territory in
1865.  The Family lived at White River Valley, now Kent, WA  just S of Seattle; but part of my Clarks lived 
down by the Columbia River across the River  near Lyle, WA but actually 12 mi. NE of Lyle up in the rattlesnake 
country called by the inhabitants High Prairie, but it had a Post Office turn of the last century at that area which was 
and is rolling hills and farming country.  There were/are Clark descendants of these families living along the Columbia 
River areas, and at various places in Oregon.  Some even lived in CA, and it was the CA Branch that kept and 
maintained the Clark Genealogy which goes back to 1637 London, ENG >MA in that year; then, in 1638 they 
were among the Founders of New Haven Colony, CT - so I know all my Grand parents male, & female from 
1637 Immigrant, James Clark down to my Granddaughter & all in between. 
 I hold certificates from:
  America's First Families' Ancestor Roll of Honor for James Clark imm. 1637 & of New Haven Colony 1638.
  issued in 2002  Proven in order to achieve the Certif of Membership.
  Oregon Pioneer Certif  for Jason S. Clark (Jasson Squire Clark) OR Pioneer  1983
  WA State Pioneer Certif for Jason S. Clark 1988
I am not bragging - as it took a lot of footwork and miles of travel in WA & OR, plus a lot of Library Searching 
to achieve this.  This was BC - before I owned a computer.  I slept in the back of my Volvo 1800 Ssportwagon 
on my jaunts to OR, and WA to shag  info, but I was so enthralled by what I was able to find, that I 
went "ape" in doing so.  I think you get the picture of the glassy eyed genealogist syndrome - LOL!!!
  With that, I will watch the bulletins come in from various sources and respond if I have anything that might 
"tie" or be a "clue".
 I subscribe regularly to PSRoots (Puget Sound Roots) and WASNOHOM (Snohomish County WA) of the rootsweb system and I've been quite active on those bulletins for quite a number of years.  I have written articles to those bulletins 
which are among the Archives of those sites.

Best regards to All who are on this bulletin for OR  hist & gen. 

Carroll Clark (male) Snohomish, WA  30 mi. NE of Seattle

My Personal Motto:  They Want to Be Found!  I've experience so many "coincidences" with gen. that I have come to 
  believe that our Ancestors want to be discovered - we just need to play the "clues" and keep trying to find them.
  About the time you give up - it comes to you -in the mail, or by some other means, such as this BULLETIN !

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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Terry 
  To: w7iml at gte.net 
  Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 4:20 PM
  Subject: Your Columbia River Relatives


  Hi Carroll,

  Do you have any Proebstel, Boen, Newsome, Holland, Padgett, McClure, Bentley, Merryman, Lewis or Cox Families in your list of relatives?

  Thank you.

  Terry


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