[or-roots] RE: Oregon bound

[Cole, Sherry]

Thats interesting because my grandmother that married the Wood in Oregon originally came from Fairfax, Missouri area.  Her maiden name was Peterson.  We have a long history in Missouri but Oregon History was very thin so I needed to brush it up.

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My Paternal Grandmother was Woods--but they lived in Douglas Co. Missouri.

RA Chesley
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From: "Gary Zimmerman" <gzim at antiochsea.edu>
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Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 2:43 PM
Subject: [or-roots] RE: Oregon bound


>
> Sherry Cole recently wrote:
>
> <YEs, John Nelson Wood is my g. grandfather and we are going to go visit =
> the cemetery.  I will try and get his internment records because I would =
> like to find proof of his parents.  Here is the story:
> Over in Nova Scotia, I found two Wood families that we are related to us =
> - one claims us as relatives and it is written in a township book ---  =
> and the other family is the Wood family that my Dad mentions in his =
> notes to us.  That second Wood family didn't claim us because their is =
> no record of us on their side.  Recently, my brother, found a family =
> picture in an old trunk, of that second Wood family - it was sent in =
> 1900 from Nova Scotia to Oregon.  Now, not many people back then sent =
> pictures that far away unless they were related!  So, I made copies of =
> that picture and the second family, of course, claimed it and they were =
> absolutely thrilled to get a copy (the only one in existance).  They now =
> claim us but I would like actual proof.>
>
> Sherry, if you know which church denomination they would have belonged to,
> you might check with the local church near where they lived in Oregon so
> see if there is any documentation about the time of their arrival that
> shows where they came from and which church they attended back in Nova
> Scotia.  I was tracing a family several years ago who came from the
> Atlantic Provinces of Canada to eastern Washington.  In the records of the
> Presbyterian Church of Davenport, Washington, I found details of the
> family's relocation from New Brunswick to Washington Territory.  Since
> your will be near the cemetery where the Wood family is buried, you might
> also seek out the local churches to see what they have in their archives.
>
> Gary
>
> Gary A Zimmerman
> Fiske Genealogy Library, Seattle
> gzim at fiskelibrary.org
> gzim at antiochsea.edu
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