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

[Marsha Bradley-Luthy]

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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: daviesw739 
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  Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2010 5:48 PM
  Subject: Re: [or-roots] Matheny's Everywhere -- (and Simkins)


  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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    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 root sweb, 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 
    &g t; 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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