[or-roots] Simkins southern oregon

[Sally]

In the marriage index of Josephine county there is 4 marriages for 
Simkins it shows:
  Lettie A. Simpkins  marriage to Edgar Vandorn 2/4/1894 vol 3 page 
449 listed are his parents Issac and Martha J.

also shown is Alfred Simpkins Hattie Burch 10/29/1888 vol 2 page 525 
it says groom of Yamhill

Mary Jane Attebery(maiden) Simpkins married Gustavus A Tyler 
5/23/1888 vol 2 page 511

George Simkins to Edith Butler 12/2/1896 vol 4 page 136.

G.A. Simkins to Lizzie Isham 11/14/1904 vol 5 page 56
Hope some of this is new information
Sally in southern oregon

>Subject: [or-roots] Finally, an Oregon Pioneer in the family
>Message: 2
>
>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