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

[daviesw739]

YES  .YES
It was call Mathena's  or Matheny's Ferry before the town of Wheatland existed.  Daniel Matheny my 3 gt. grandfather started the town of Wheatland he owned the Ferry many years before buying it from the Methodist Missionaries in 1844.
Walt Davies


In a message dated 02/25/10 16:14:23 Pacific Standard Time, pmml at meritel.net writes:
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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> 
> To: "or-roots mail list" <or-roots at listsmart.osl.state.or.us> 
> 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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> Sent: Sunday, February 21, 2010 11:11 AM 
> 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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