[or-roots] SE Alaska w/roots in Oregon..Wm Green Thomas

Sat Sep 6 15:37:30 PDT 2008

Married Eleanor E. Fish Clackamas County Oregon March 14, 1861
Vol. 1. p 132
Donation Land Claime on file
Walter Fish last will and testment showsdeceased grandchildren as

Father of Joseph Sr. Parrott  (have picture of Parrott in Alaska)
Father Joseph Jr. Parrott 
Edward W. Parrot aged 38 years, Astoria Oregion

Trish Neal wrote:

> Wm Green Thomas, Walter Parrott and J.E. Worden happen to be people that I do have information on. I covered all three in a history column that I wrote years ago at Wrangell.  I will dig out the story on Wm Green Thomas and send it to you.  I also have a photo that was used in the story.  I recently found information on him while researching a group of women who owned the garnet mine near Wrangell. He traveled to California to appear as a witness for the women when they sued someone for trying to sell them their own mine.  Not a great deal but thought it was interesting that he had traveled all that way with the court record book to prove that the women owned the mine. Which brings to mind that it is sure is great to have copiers and fax machines!  I have been trying to locate another ancestor of his for some time to give her the updated information but have never been able to locate her.  She left Spokane and I lost track of her.  Between the two of us we had been able to piece together his life story.  My research of him started as a result of a short story by Rick Steber about the Blue Mountain incident. A relative of someone living in Wrangell sent the clipping and asked if she could find the rest of the story.  Wm. Green Thomas was a well respected man throughout Alaska.

Trish

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This is an interesting post; I was surprised to see the information about William Green Thomas.  I have some information about this family as his sister, Catherine Thomas (m. Clarence L. Morris) was a 3rd great grandmother to my son and daughter.  Catherine's daughter, Mary Elizabeth Morris m. George Walter Young and they ranched in the Maupin area.
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> Carla 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Trish Neal <trisch at charter.net>
> To: or-roots at listsmart.osl.state.or.us
> Sent: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 4:59 pm
> Subject: [or-roots] People with roots in Oregon connected to SE Alaska
Hello!

This weekend I have been reworking a newspaper index for newspapers from Wrangell, Alaska that I completed in 1995.  I have had a recent request for the entire project and since I have better software, I thought I would try to recreate the index and burn it to a CD to make it available to more libraries and researchers in Alaska.  At the time it was pretty expensive to provide hard copies. 

Part of the index was a vital statistics section which listed names whether they were found in the newspaper or public records.  The newspapers were primarily Wrangell newspapers but I also did research in Victoria, BC so you may see some newspapers cited from that city.  

While the index was done for 1898-1899, there are other dates included because of the various researches that I was doing at the time.  I thought this information on people who lived at W rangell, Alaska might be of interest since these people were either born in Oregon before traveling to Alaska or have an Oregon connection.  

The newspapers are available through your local library on microfilm and/or microfiche.  Please note, that unless you want to have the primary source in your files, the information listed is complete – in fact some information is additional from research that I had and I added it to the name.

This is the only information that I have on these people. I hope that this information will be of help to someone.

Trish Neal
Coos Bay, Oregon

Newspaper Key
SRJ=Stikeen River Journal                          FWN=Fort Wrangel News
AS=Alaska Sentinel (Wrangell)                ;     WS=Wrangell Sentinel
AW=Alaska Weekly                                    VC=Victoria Colonist  
DBC=Daily British Colonist

Anderson, Clarence H.
            DOD:  05/20/1951
            DOB: at Scofield, Oregon
            Age 25 years; boating accident; Parents:  M/M Thomas Anderson; Sisters: Florence Miller, Doris Norton; Brother:  Arthur Anderson.
            05/25/1951  1:6 WS

Arola, Isaac
            DOD:  1932
            DOB: at Finland
            Age 71 years. Heart diseas e and asthma.  Came from Finland with wife and infant son  about 1888 to Astoria, Oregon.  Spouse died in 1893 at Oregon.  Sons: Carl, John, George. Grandaughter:  Elna Arola.  Grandson:  Edward Arola.   Was in the Klondike and Dawson.
            12/23/1932  1:4 WS

Barnes, F. C.
            DOD:  07/30/1931
            DOB:  1854 at Albany, New York
            Died at his home in Portland, Oregon;  Spouse passed away last September.  Built cannery  at Lake Bay in 1901 and operated until 1927.  Four daughters and one son.
            07/31/1931  1:5 WS

D  Black, Mrs. Scott
            DOD:  05/10/1926
            DOB:  at Oregon 1869
            Age 57 years. Cirrhosis of liver. Came to Wra ngell from Ketchikan to go into Cassiar with husband.  Spouse.  Mother survives in Portland, Oregon.  Son:  Bert Woolridge of Wallace, Idaho.
            05/13/1926  1:3 WS

Parrott, Walter Edward
            DOD:  08/18/1928
            DOB:  12/11/1861 at Oregon City, Oregon.  
            Age 67 years.  Came to Alaska in 1903.  Engaged in fishing for first 8 years.  Had a farm on Sergief  Island at the mouth of the Stikine River.  Parents:  Joseph Parrott and Elenor       Fish Parrott.  Sister:  Mrs. Jessie White and her daughter  Miss Lois White from Yakima,  Washington.
            08/23/1928 1:2 WS

Stump, Parke
            DOD:  01/14/1947
            DOB:  Oregon
            Age 65 years.  Came to Alaska when he was age 19 years, first to Nome and then to  interior Alaska.  Came to southeastern Alaska in 1925: Hyder, Wrangell and Ketchikan.   His wife, who was a sister of Mrs. Lenabelle Green of Wrangell, 
>            passed away a few years  ago in California.  Moved to Ketchikan after her death.  Step-sons (?):  W.C. Stump and E.E. Bailey
            01/17/1947  5:2 WS

Thomas, William Green
            DOD:  05/04/1930
            DOB:  01/19/1851 at Randolph county, Missouri
            Age 79 years. From heart attack.   First Married Alyda McAvoy on 01/21/1888 at Fort       Wrangell.  She precied him in death in 1918.  Married Ida F. Swift on 12/26/1924 at Seattle, Washington.   He was the U.S. Commissioner for over  
>             30 years at Wrangell.   The youngest child of a large family.  His family came over the Blue Mountains following  the Oregon Trail in 1851. He was carried off by a cougar but was sa ved from certain  death  by the men in the party.  The family settled near Scio, Oregon.    Parents:   Thomas Turpin  Thomas and Nancy Curl Thomas.  His mother died when he was 7 years old.  His father died two years later.  He had brothers and sisters of which only two sisters were surviving  at the time of  his death.  One sister died the day after William at The Dalles, Oregon  (Note: no information has been found on her at TD.)  NOTE: The Irene Ingle Public Library in Wrangell, Alaska does have a clip file on Wm. Thomas and his wife.
            05/08/1930  1:3 WS

Worden, J.E.
            DOD:  1925
            DOB:  07/04/1861 at Niagara Falls, New York.
Age 64 years.  His father died when he was age 2 years from injuries from the Civil War.  His mother passed away when he was age 9 years.  He was reared by his father’s brother.  Settled at Portland, Oregon.  Spouse:  Nina Turner on 11/28/1895 at Portland.  Moved to Fort Wrangell in 1898.  Appointed U.S. Postmaster at Wrangell and served in that capacity until 1917. Worden was also a photographer, h aving photographed a great deal of  local area.  Children:  Mrs. Lynn (Robert) Holmes, Mrs. Liberty (Louis M.) Royal, Homer Worden.  Member of Pioneers of Alaska, Redmen’s Lodge, Elks Lodge and Woodmen of the World.
            03/26/1925  1:1 WS

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