[or-roots] Lavadores etc

[Robert L Casebeer]

As no doubt you know, Les, there is a Rondeau cemetery up by Tiller...and it
houses a lot of French Indian family members. Bob
----- Original Message -----
From: "Leslie Chapman" <reedsportchapmans at verizon.net>
To: "Oregon List" <or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us>
Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 8:46 PM
Subject: [or-roots] Lavadores etc


> Okay;
>
> First I better state the item that inspired this letter as what started
out
> to be a short note is rapidly approaching novellette size, if you think I
am
> wordy on here, you should meet me in person!!
>
> Just found this link for those who have folks in Mt. Calvary & Gethsemani
> Catholic Cemeteries, Portland, OR
> http://catholiccemeteriespdx.com/locate.html
>
> you have to email a request and it looks like they send you a description
of
> where your loved one is, I don't know if they accept fishing expeditions
or
> not, but all they could do is say no. Also if you want info on the
Catholic
> cemetery in Eugene they ask that you phone them; (541) 686-8722
>
> about them Lavadors;
>
> Thanks Ronda; No I didn't have all those bits of info, I don't have home
> access to Ancesty and rarely make it to the FHC, mostly because I am a
long
> ways from exhausting Heritage Quest. Those clues will help me put together
a
> "slightly" clearer picture of the Lavadores. I think your Ravir in 1900 is
> actually X've from 1880 and his parentage makes him a highly likely
> candidate for being a sister to Angelique which is where my niece connects
> to that surname.
>
> As far as I know the only Lavadores I am interested in would be found in
> Oregon or Washington with big maybes for Idaho and California, some of the
> names there are definitely of interest as I have been told that many parts
> of the clan drifted back and forth over the border, the big surprise to me
> was to find folks in the Portland area in the ninteenth century from this
> group when I had always assumed they mostly traveled the Umatilla co
Douglas
> Co and wherever the  heck they went in California circuit.
>
> A lot of the stuff you have further down the list is news to me, as I also
> don't have access to the 1930 census. It just has been a real trial trying
> to put this bunch together. The biggest Irony is that from 1981 to 1987 I
> was spending my summers in that area of Douglas County and the names
> Lavadore, Rondeu, Dumont and others I can't think of at the moment that i
am
> slowly putting together a picture of how they are all connected are names
> that resonate loudly in my memory of that area and I actually became good
> friends with a lot of their descendants. Unfortunately I didn't know I had
a
> connection to them at the time. I was also one of the last people to see
> Lavadore hall still standing, the only people that saw it after us were
the
> firefighters that were trying to save it just before it burned to the
> ground.
>
> And Bob, that is one of the reasons I have pursued this so hard is I
really
> want to put it all together, then one of these days I can take my
> niece-in-law and her daughter down to that country and look up some of my
> old friends and introduce them to their kin and watch them cringe when I
> explain to them that this something or other cousin of theirs means
they're
> related to ME! Just kidding, most of them won't be offended, I hope. Also
> when we piece it all together and then I can drive them up the Umpqua past
> Dumont Creek and Dompier Creek and show them the Rondeau burn (if I can
> remember where it was) and maybe even  get a chance to visit some of those
> family plots folks have mentioned in here, if we had the time.
>
> I think I have wasted enough space blathering for one night.
>
> Les C
>
>
>
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