[or-roots] early marriage record

[Layne G SAWYER]

This is an interesting research project.

The Oregon Donation Land Claim information that has been extracted by
the Genealogical Form, lists Emanuel as married to Lucintha Jane  on
8/25/1833.  A search on Ancestry shows an entry in Indiana marriages for
LaPorte County that matches that date and gives her full name as
Lucintha Jane Stilwell.

The 1850 Yamhill County census shows Emanuel in household 132.  The
wife is listed as Charlotte.  There is a William Stilwell living with
the family however which would lead one to believe that this Charlotte
is Lucintha.

The DLC entry also mentions them divorcing in Hillsboro, Washington Co
9/3/1855.  However I am not able to find a record of a divorce in
Washington Co for them on our index.  Again according to the DLC entry
Absolom Hembree is appointed guardian of two minor children of this
couple, Albert & Ann Maria, in Oct 1855.    In 1856 two men give
affidavit that Horner has not been on his claim because of difficulty
with wife and subsequent divorce.  In Oct 1855 Lucintha made out
notification on this DLC in her name.  In 1857 there is a guardianship
filed in Marion County for Stephen DeFord to be guardian for Ann Marie
Horner.  The papers say that her father is no longer around and DeFord
is married to her mother.  This guardianship is later resigned as
neighbors in Yamhill County file affidavits saying he is unfit, that his
daughter has told them that he "seduced her and threatened to cut her
throat if she told anybody."  In Sept 1875 Albert D Horner gives an
affidavit stating he is the son of Lucintha and names his two sisters
Helen Mar and Ann Maria; and makes claim along with their mother to this
DLC.  Lucintha is awarded a claim of 638+ acres by the government on
9/28/1875.

Another source on Ancestry gives a death date for Lucintha as 1886. 
However I do not find a probate or other record in our index here at the
Archives to  prove this date.  The entry on Ancestry does not cite a
source.

It also looks like Emanuel was living in Humboldt Co, Ca in the 1860
census.

You may want to check the online index for the Archives at 

http://genealogy.state.or.us/

and/or contact the reference staff here at the Archives to get copies
of some of these records if you don't have them already.

Regards,

Layne Sawyer
Oregon State Archives

>>> ssteward at ccountry.net 01/12/07 2:54 PM >>>
This information was on Ancestry.com but unfortunately their is no
name/e-mail address of the submitter.


Contact: Unknown 
ID: I0222 
Name: Lucintha Jane Stillwell HORNER 
Sex: F 
Birth: WFT Est. 1812-1840 
Death: 1886

Marriage 1 Samuel DEFORD b: 1815 in Ohio 


Married: 1857

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Harguess, Dale 
  To: or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us 
  Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 10:08 AM
  Subject: [or-roots] early marriage record


  I am trying to find an early marriage record of a Samuel Deford to a
Lucintha Horner (a divorcee).  They would have been married sometime
after 1850 and before 1860.  Lucintha had property in North Western
Oregon that she had snaked off her first husband but in 1860 she and
Samuel were living in Linn County.  I have no clue as to where they
might have been married.  Lucintha's first husband was an Emanuel Horner
and I am not sure when they got divorced either.

  Thanks,

  Dale



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