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

[Kith-n-Kin]

OK, first:

Isaac Van Dorn d 17 May 1920 in Josephine County, Certificate 34
Martha Jane Van Dorn, d 1 Feb 1918, Josephine County, Certificate 18

Secondly.  

Isaac and wife Martha J are on Slate Creek in Jos. County in 1880.

Isaac, 49, b Indiana, parents b PA
Martha J, 42, b Ohio, parents b Ireland
Hellen, 17, b Oregon
Edgar, 15, b Oregon
William, 11 b Oregon
Charles, 7 b Oregon

1870, indexed Van Dom on Ancestry (I changed it), is the family, with two
children not present in 1880:
Van Dorn, Isaac, 40, farmer, Indiana
Martha J, 36, Ohio
Margaret, 12, born Oregon
 Benedict, 10, born Oregon.
Helen, 8
Edgar, 4
William, 1

Indexed as Vandorn in 1860, the family is in Jacksonville, Jackson County:
Isaac Van Dorn 24, b Indiana
Martha 23, b Ohio
Margaret, 2, b Oregon
B 5/12, b Oregon

In the "Genealogical Material found in Oregon Donation Land Claims" we have:

No 1334
Miller, Hullings, Land Co; b 1812, Washington Co, Pa; Ar. Ore. 20/25 Sept
1852; SC 15 Feb 1853; m Margaret Witt 1 Jan 1834/7, Union Co, Ind. Aff:
Thomas J Vaughn, Nancy Jane Sippy, James Howard, Isaac Vanduyne.

No 1345, Samuel Smith -- also has an Aff by Isaac Vanduyne (MA)

No 1431 Vanduyn, Isaac, Land Co; b 1810, Somerset Co, NY; Arr. Ore "at
Fosters" on or before 13 Set 1851; SC 30 Sept 1852; m Sally Miles 21 Mar
1833, Vermillion Co, Ind. Aff: John Diamond, Robert B. Cochran, James
Howard, Hulings Miller.

The Volume I Index includes:
Vandal (Van Dale, Van Dall, Vandel), Louis Jr and Marion Delors, and Cecil.
Van Duyn/Vanduyne, Isaac and Sally Miles

Vol II includes Louis Vandal again, but that's it.

Vol III has none

Vol IV has Louis again, as Vandall, Louie, Louis and Louis Sr.  Also,
Vandolf, Louis.

Backwards on the 1850 census, I find two Isaac Vandorns, b Indiana, 
 
Isaac Vandorn, Polk Iowa, b ca 1831, Indiana
Father, Jacob 56, b NJ. 
"sister"? Mary, 27, b PA
Isaac, 19 b Indiana
Alvin, 24, b Ohio
(there are two other probable sons, both born in Ohio.)

The 1856 census of Polk County, IA, gives:
Jacob, 58, b PA
Mary A, 32, PA
Mary Leoister, 62, NJ
Alban Van Dorn, 23, Ohio
George Potter, 27, Ohio
Isaac Van Dorn, 23, Indiana
James Houston, 21, Illinois
Hezekiah Van Dorn, 20, Indiana

The 1850 also has:
Isaac Vandorn, 16, Troy Twp, Fountain, Indiana:
Father is William, 63, b NJ, mother is Elizabeth, 48, b VA
(However, further investigation finds him dying in Fountain about 1917)

Have you seen this:

http://www.talenthistory.org/archive_08.html

You may find something there.

Pat
In Tucson




-----Original Message-----
From: or-roots-bounces at listsmart.osl.state.or.us
[mailto:or-roots-bounces at listsmart.osl.state.or.us] On Behalf Of Chris &
Bill Strickland
Sent: Friday, February 12, 2010 1:51 PM
To: or-roots mail list
Subject: [or-roots] Finally, an Oregon Pioneer in the family

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

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