[or-roots] Indian Wars - everybody else

[Robert Casebeer]

Les, as a place name researcher of long duration (started doing it when I
was a college freshman (Douglas County primarily)  I am interested in you
Tiller names. Can you be more specific?  Bob
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From: "Leslie Chapman" <reedsportchapmans at verizon.net>
To: "Oregon List" <or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us>
Sent: Monday, October 17, 2005 10:01 AM
Subject: [or-roots] Indian Wars - everybody else


>
> No Hauxhurst or anything close, found some near misses for Munden - Mondan
> several Moody's and a couple of other near anagrams of Munden or Monden,
but
> didn't seem close enough to not.
>
> As I rescanned did a much better job looking for Parrott, no luck again,
>
> Williams, James nothing close the only possiblily was an Anderson
Williams,
> could be James not using given name but likely a stretch.  There are a lot
> listings of the surname , principly L.L. and R. C. both appearing several
> times, also some others that appeared only once or twice.
>
>
> That is why I am glad you gave me a given name Aileen; I would have had to
> list most of the companies to itemize all of the Williams in this list.
>
> The scary thing about this is the more I study it, the more I think, aside
> from the ommissions listed in the article, that this is a very incomplete
> listing of the folks involved.
>
> Confusing the issue is the fact that each of these companies was of short
> duration and many of these guys are in several companies, I can make that
> assertion because having scanned them all two or three times more or less
I
> see patterns of names that I recognize. The biggest shock was when I hit
the
> company that was obviously mustered from the Tiller area, the company
roster
> read like a list of place names from that area, I am really curious about
> the one with the surname Umpqua, seems to me he had to be some part Indian
> himself with a name like that, unless he was some kind of orphan??
>
> I am sorely tempted to try and turn this list into an online database,
> though I guess folks with access to Heritage Quest can locate these folks
> but with typos and initials it would be hard to find somebody that way.
>
> Les C
>
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