[or-roots] Tracking Thomas Clark

[Suz_ES]

I believe that is the wrong Thomas Clark.  The birth year is wrong.  My
Thomas was born in 1854.  Also, he married Matilda Forrest in 1876 in
Dayton.

thanks for the info
Suzanne in Newberg
suz_es at verizon.net
Clark/Sims/Henry/Lambert/Forrest (Yamhill Cty)
Averill/Robison/Orr/Kingery (Benton, Coos, Linn Cty)

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  1870 Census Yamhill Co
  By Ruth Stoller
  Yamhill County Historical Soc
  page 80
  846. Clark, Thomas     34     MW     Farmer     591    OH
  Angeline     26     FW      Keeping House     KY
  Laura           1     FW      At Home     OR

  Dayton Prec
  Aug 25 1870
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    ----- Original Message -----
    From: Suz_ES
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    Sent: Sunday, October 09, 2005 12:36 PM
    Subject: RE: [or-roots] Tracking Thomas Clark


    Carla
    I appreciate your insight, but all of his family (father, mother, older
sibs, young sibs) all stayed in Nebraska.  So, I don't think there was a
problem.  I am trying to link him to the Lamberts and Forrests who were
already in Yamhill county.  I guess I need a trip to the Yamhill county
museum to read some local histories.

    suzanne
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      From: or-roots-admin at sosinet.sos.state.or.us
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      Sent: Sunday, October 09, 2005 10:16 AM
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       Sometimes the answer lies not in the destination, but in the economy
of the home place.  Think, for example, of the number of people from
Oklahoma and nearby states that came to Oregon during the dust bowl; they
were escaping in desperation.  There was also a similar influx to the
Pacific Northwest when the shipyards and airplane plants were looking for
workers at the begining of WWII.  I did a quick Google of the midwest in
1870 and found that in Iowa they were trying to attract immigrants and had
opened land for homesteading.

      Possibly looking at local histories of the community that he came from
in Nebraska would have some answers.  There was a bit of gold mining going
on in Southern Oregon and Northern California in the 1870's...or maybe it
was just the lure of adventure.  At that time most sixteen-year-olds were
considered adults.  And besides, who wouldn't want to leave Nebraska!

      Carla

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      From: Suz_ES <Suz_ES at verizon.net>
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      Sent: Sat, 08 Oct 2005 17:21:00 -0700
      Subject: [or-roots] Tracking Thomas Clark


I've been doing to more research on Thomas Benton Clark to see how/why he
came out west when the rest of his family did not.  This is what I know:
1870 census for Grant, Washington, Nebraska as 16 yr old son of Amos and
Elizabeth Clark,
1876 marries Matilda Forrest in Dayton, Yamhill, Oregon.
1880 census for Dayton, Yamhill, Oregon with Matilda and 1 son, living next
door to John Lambert family which were the guardians of Matilda.

So, I have from 1870 thru 1876 that I am trying to trace him.  Does anyone
know if there were indian wars or gold rushes or anything like that that
would have attracted him to Oregon?  or to the Willamette valley?

Suzanne in Newberg
suz_es at verizon.net
Clark/Sims/Henry/Lambert/Forrest (Yamhill Cty)
Averill/Robison/Orr/Kingery (Benton, Coos, Linn Cty)

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