[or-roots] Thank you All :

[Carroll Clark]

Thank you for your warm response to my subscribing to this bulletin site. I will try to ans ea of you asap on this bulletin so that 
other, out there, can see what I have to say - it is a good way to make "ties" I have found.
Heather & Pat: I have no Berkshire, Correl/Coryell, Price, Pitman surnames among my vast brood, but one never knows for sure so it is best to at least try.  Thank you !
Terry: I have no Proebstal, Boen, Newsome, Holland, Padgett, McClure, Bentley, Merryman, Lewis, Cox Fams. among my gen. Thank you !
Gene Barnes - now, there is a Surname that could be a tie, but it would have to go way back to Southington, CT in the 
18th & 19th Centuries.  If you had any New England, esp. CT Barnes ancestry, and esp Southington, CT  north of New Haven, CT then we need to compare notes, LOL !!
Dorothy Wogh - Bravo ! on your marathon runs, and activity.  I see that you are KA6GUR, a ham radio oprs. call letter
in CA.  I "work" 40 CW usually on 7,040 MHz on your dial.  For those not familiar with ham radio talk, I told Dorothy that 
I use radiotelegraphy (dits 'n; dahs; or dots & dashes) with a telegraph key.  The CW means Continuous Wave, or a radio
wave signals that is steady with the telegraph key closed (making contact), but we, then, break up that steady radio wave 
into long and short sounds or telegraphy.  I've been doing it for 65 yrs. so it is 2nd Nature to me to copy and send high speed telegraphy, but I slow it down to the beginner's speed so that he/she can copy it OK. The 7040 MHz is where Dorothy would find me on her shortwave dial so that we could communicate.  So, now you ALL know the "rest of the story".
Col. Bob Goodman - I'm not sure where University Place, WA is located but I will have to look it up on my maps.
Good to see you on here!
Robert Casebeer - You wanted to know exactly what members of my Family taught at Umpqua Academy of Father
James Wilbur's Wilbur Academy back in the 1800s.  I am happy to tell you that my Grt Grt GF Jason S. CLARK
(Jason Squire Clark) was Supt. of Sunday School at the Academy.  I know this because I learned of that when I was able to see and photograph his large Pulpit Bible that was presented to him at the Academy in 1865 when they, as a Fam. were to migrate N to White River Valley, WA Territory, now known as Kent, WA. The inscription was penned in in the frontpiece of 
that Bible.  I photographed it and the various contents in the Bible.  It was a windy day in Portland, but luckily I was able to 
handhold a 35 mm. Pentax camera and photocopy the various pages, items tucked in it and the Bible itself.  It was owned
or possessed by a member of the Sorensen Fam. who'd married into the Clark Fam.  Where the Bible is today, I do no know.  I heard about another Bible that was Jason's and it is among the family branches somewhere I know not where.
I didn't get to see that Bible, ever. 
 I have a photocopy of a picture of Archibald CLARK holding his small open Bible - Archie was the father of Jason S. Clark
and he was a Circuit Riding Preacher, or Man of the Cloth back in IN, IL, OH, IA, etc. among his Circuit.
It is ironic that we have a PIX of Archie, but no one has a PIX of Jason S. Clark!!!  Really too bad.
 Another known Staffer of Umpqua Academy was James STARK who married one of Jason's daughters about the time 
the Clarks migrated North.  James STARK and his wife eventually moved up to and lived near the Canadian Border town of 
Lynden, WA d. there Mar 5, 1908.  I see that James Rice Stark was a Pioneer of Oregon, 1852 b. Terre Haute, IN
son of Jesse Stark of KYand Sarah Bates, also of KY. 
James Rice Stark, m. Elizabeth Lydia Clark Jan 28, 1864 Umpqua, Oregon. 
This DAR info and was found in the Everett Public, Library, Everett, WA
Other names connected to the Stark/Clark branch were MALTBY, KYKENDALL 
General John STARK of Rev. War Fame.
Williamson, Smith, Dahlquist, Goodell, Williams, Finnel, Stevens, Maltby.
A Narrative states that the Stark fam came from WALES in Colonial times, but were originally from Scotland. The Starks lived in VA and NH - one of which became the famed Gen. John STARK of Rev. War fame.
The Starks had Blackhawk War time; Civil War INdiana country.
In Apr. 3rd, 1852 the Starks left Monroe, WIsconsin & migrated West for the long journey -I have a description of that journey in the Narrative that I have in my possession - the DAR info.  This Narrative was written by Mollie Stark Williams
at Lynden WA Nov 1, 1943, but I never met her as I didn't know of her.  I wish that I could have!
Thank goodness she wrote of the adventure.
James Stark was a teacher at the Umbqua Academy but I do not know any details on this.
I would suggest the State Museum at Roseburg, where I visited - got a PIX of the Umpqua Academy and saw on maps 
where my Clarks were living at Winchester, I think, near Wilbur, OR.  I requested copies of the maps but never did 
receive them showing the Clarks and who their Neighbors were from those times.  The Roseburg Museum was most helpful 
and they have records from the Umpqua Academy.  I slept overnight in the back of my Volvo 188 ES Sportwagon
as the Museum wasn't open on Monday, so I slept across the St. from the Police Dept at Roseburg in order to get to the 
Museum on Tuesday and I left Roseburg around 12 noon and got back to Snohomish here, around 10 p.m. that same 
day.  Mission accomplished - BC (before computer).  I loved searching the various towns in OR including Brownsville, Harrisburg, and Umpqua territory.  When the gen bug bit, it bit me HARD !!! LOL!!!
Where do you live Robert ?
Bonjour Albert Belanger - Merci beacoup pour le info, Mon Ami-your wif's Blanchard Fam. I don't find among mine.
As for Clarks who may have come in 1851 - I think there were but I can't identify them at the moment, but I will try to keep an eye our for them.  My 1st came in 1847, but I think the word got back to middle states and our Clarks from IN 
decided to make the journey - whether they came by OX team or the RR, - it seems that I recall that some came via 
the RR.  I hope run across that info so that I can get back to you on it.  If you have any Clark names, list them, and I could recognize their names as possibly being ours.  Sorry I can't be more specific at this time.
That book you are having published should be a great one for the migration of 1851.
I ran across a book about the Oregon Trail in my Snohomish Library - it had been there all the years I was growing up
but I accidentally ran across it when I began doing gen in 1983.   It listed a lot of the names for the various years of 
migration.  I just looked at the 1847 and sure enough on one page for the Migration of 1847 in the middle of the page was 
Jason S. Clark; then a few pages later as a follow up they listed his wife Anna (Michaels) Clark as wife of Jason and that she married Jason when she was 16 and the Clarks and the Michaels traveled together in 1847 over the OR Trail.
The irregular land claim of the Michaels near Brownsville is on the maps as a curiosity as their compass was way off
when they staked out the land there.  See maps for the Michael's land claim. 
There is a Michael Fam. Cemetery listed among OR cems. which I visited on a knoll of a hill near I-5 - it is very small, private cem.  Near Brownsville -all in it were Michaels except one grave that was of another family, but was permitted to buried 
there. 
Well, this is my Story and I'm sticking to it.  Didn't mean to become vociferous, but it happens in the best of families, I guess.
Thank you, ALL for your response.  I hope that there might be some substance among my words - that was the intent.

Carroll in Snohomish, WA 30 mi. NE of Seattle
Carroll Clark

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