[or-roots] Look-up Augusta Bullard - Ancestry.com

[CKlooster at aol.com]

Having a fascination with a speedy new Internet connection, I did a "quick"  
lookup on Ancestry.com for Bullard in Oregon with keyword Oregonian.  I  found 
thirty-eight articles referenced and (yawn) looked at all of them.   Now I'm 
not going to begin a bash of Ancestry.com because I've found a lot of  clues 
to many different lines on that site...BUT...I've never found anything of  
value in the old newspaper searches.  This was no exception.
 
The recognition software is considerably buggy and recognizes all sorts of  
odd combinations.  In this instance it found billiards, ballards (Oregon's  
Governor Ballard made the paper frequently), bustards and a couple of Bullards  
out of state...including one who robbed a bank in Boston and one who attested 
to  the efficacy of a patent medicine in a repeating advertisment.  The only  
Bullards referenced in Oregon were A.J. Bullard who was an officer of an odd  
lodge that met in Druid Hall and his name appeared in the published meeting  
notices...frequently.  There was an article about a Rev. H. Bullard who was  
charged with assaulting one S.S. Call in a religious argument... S.S. Call was  
an "Adventist" and Rev. Bullard wanted him to stop preaching...so  he 
apparently whapped his head a few times on the floor of the blacksmith  shop where Call 
worked.  Several editions of the Oregonian carried the  continuation of that 
story.  One article referenced the founding of a lodge  in Washington state; 
one of the founders was a Mrs. Job Bullard and the lodge  was the Willapa 
branch so I'm assuming it was in Pacific County.  There was  a brief mention in 
another article of Bullard Ranch as a proposed county  seat...but I couldn't read 
which county...or even which state.  There was a  later reference to 
Bullard's beach.  Obituaries for the surname Bullard are  recent and mostly associated 
with the Kiser family.
 
So there you go!
 
Carla
 
 
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