[or-roots] Tracking Thomas Clark

[Harguess, Dale]

There were tons of ex-quakers who went to Oregon from about 1845 to the
1890s.  There was a small gold rush at about the 1870's because my
ancestors picked up from a very nice farm in the Willamette Valley and
went north east to the John Day country where the gold petered out
pretty quickly.  Also, there were a lot of Campbellites that also went
to Oregon in the 1850's and 1860's. 
Dale
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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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