[or-roots] George H. & Emma L. (Montgomery) LIGHTLE

[ilightle2 at hotmail.com]

Thanks Les for those two web links! Flora looks to be just right - fields, 
trees, a few neighbors and mountains. Maybe there's a place there for me. Is 
volcano insurance required with a mortgage? : )  Loved the wooden sidewalks, 
we have asphalt ones here that the cars park on, concrete doesn't survive 
the spring heaving.

Here's another little scrap: George was a charter member of the  I.O.O.F. 
lodge at Flora and active for 40 years. I'd never heard of the Odd Fellows 
till I started chasing my ancestors around.

Questions for anyone: Did the settlers keep goats & ducks? I saw one 
reference to domestic geese, tarring and sanding of the feet so they could 
make the drive.  If they had feather beds was it just chicken feathers? Milk 
cows didn't seem to be in great abundance either just cattle, sheep & hogs.

I'm through the railroad era in the Wallowas and "Gateway" mentions that the 
Eagle Cap Excursion had it's first run in 2003. How has that played out?

Ingrid