[or-roots] Finally, an Oregon Pioneer in the family

[Chris & Bill Strickland]

Well, if one is patient with this genealogy, and you keep with it for a 
while, eventually you discover that everyone really is related to 
everyone else, or so it seems --

I'd always thought my Burr-Simpkins  family just "came to Oregon" on 
their own in 1909, but now I find that Rosetta Simpkins parents and at 
least one sister were already here --  they were in Kansas in 1880 and 
in Oregon around 1990 --  and Rosetta's sister, Charlotte "Lottie" 
Simpkins/Simkins, married Edgar Van Dorn in 1894, son of  southern 
Oregon pioneers Isaac Van Dorn and  Martha Wright.

Now, if any of you folks with experience in these early Oregon  
emigrants could suggest where to look to see if I could find more on 
Isaac Van Dorn's arrival in Oregon, I would appreciate it.  No, he is 
not an ancestor, but he is part of the family.  Would also be interested 
in why/when Edgar and and Lottie moved to Yakima, WA, should anyone have 
any clues as where to look.

Thank you,

Bill Strickland