[or-roots] Matheny's Everywhere -- (and Simkins)

[Marsha Bradley-Luthy]

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sue Steward" <ssteward at ccountry.net>
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Sent: Sunday, February 21, 2010 2:11 PM
Subject: Re: [or-roots] Matheny's Everywhere -- (and Simkins)


> http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~jtenlen/ORBios/mcmatheny.txt
>
> We've used the Wheatland Ferry several times, I think it was previously
> called Matheny Ferry.
>
> Sue
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Dan M" <mygenrw2 at gmail.com>
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> Sent: Sunday, February 21, 2010 11:50 AM
> Subject: Re: [or-roots] Matheny's Everywhere -- (and Simkins)
>
>
> Matneny has a list on some server, I used to be on it, I used to be the
> admin for the one on rootsweb, Dianna started some one line group for 
> them.
> I know they are always showing up around Matney also, I think the name is
> French and we found Matney there as DeMatenyee <sp> close to that off 
> hand.
>   I see Matheny properties close to Matney properties and some travels in
> same areas, how ever there are more of the pioneer type people in those 
> old
> days the Matheny seemed to be to more famously known over the Matney in 
> most
> places eg Champoeg.
>   Matney like any other names has a lot of milestones but I noticed the
> Matheny seem to be more well known over all eg Walt Davis's Aunts book 
> into
> the setting sun. SO far we have not found any one who has recorded any
> Matney/Mattingly pioneer mentions too much. There is a great deal of 
> history
> for folks in the era and each name I read about seems to have its own
> history, very much fun reading about all names of the times, I always 
> wonder
> how it really was all these people on the wagon train 1843 so to speak.
> Dan M
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Chris & Bill Strickland" <lechevrier at earthlink.net>
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> Subject: [or-roots] Matheny's Everywhere -- (and Simkins)
>
>
> In this Hiram Simkins business, I find two in Oregon before 1900 -- one
> in the Wheatland area of Yanhill & Polk Counties, with connections to
> numerous of the well-known Champoeg area pioneers, and his uncle, Hiram
> Simpkins, found in the 1880 census in "Jump off Joe" in Josephine
> County, the census taker writing something that could be transcribed as
> "Irian".
>
> Anyway, of the former, less related one, I found the Matheny name
> popping up again, which, since it has been a topic on this list, I
> thought might be of interest to some:
>
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