[or-roots] Doug co names

[Robert Casebeer]

Jackson was the man who married an Indian woman whose descendant now heads
the Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Indians...actually Takilmas..since they spoke
Takleman. Bob Casebeer
I did not know the Hershberger Mountain connection. Bob
----- Original Message -----
From: "Leslie Chapman" <reedsportchapmans at verizon.net>
To: <or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us>
Sent: Monday, October 17, 2005 1:42 PM
Subject: [or-roots] Doug co names


> Bob;
>
> I don't think any of these will be a surprise to you, I know you know all
> the place names, but some of these I had not seen the origin (I assume) of
> before;
>
> Company E. Mustered October 12, 1855; discharged --- Captain William B.
> Lewis;
>
> Privates; J. Collins (This could be a stretch, but am betting his family
is
> connected to Collins Ridge), Jacob Hershbeger ( Hershberger Mtn), Joseph
> Umpqua (backwards here, as he may be named for the stream or region if my
> orphan conjecture were true), J.W. Picket (I believe he has a creek name
as
> well as Picket Butte, but my first day working on Tiller Ranger district
we
> did a site survey for reconstruction of the Pickett Bridge.)
>
> Funny scanning the names it seemed like I saw more place names, may have
> seen the name Jackson somewhere else and thought it was in this list.
>
> Les
>
> Subject: Re: [or-roots] Indian Wars - everybody else
>
>
> 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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