[or-roots] Pickett in Oregon

[Leslie Chapman]

I think you are probably right about them not being connected to my Picketts
then, as ours came from NY and the history I find them in in WI gives them
Irish ancestry. Your Canadian folks might have been related from the old
country, but I suspect given 49 heads of household in the 1900 Census with
Pickett Surname and born in Canada that the odds of a connection would be
fairly slim. I only find one family in 1900 in Minn.

There is an Emile Pickett age 42 in Cedarbend Twsp, Roseau Co. Minn in 1910
listed as widow, and none in 1920 so your gal must be more recent? or am I
just missing them in the HQ index?

Often times I chase after other peoples puzzles like that because I never
know when I will stumble across my own people. And the chance that someone
with that name in their family tree might be connected or benefit from my
help is why I threw that comment out there Dale because I really don't
intend to pursue the connection unless someone else is interested as these
OR Picketts connected to my family are too far out in the button hole
relative of button hole relative for it to be rationale for me to pursue
them, though that's never stopped me before.

Linda; I see a German born Pickett in 1910 in Lane Co, no one in 1920,
though there is a family of Wi born folks in Alsea that might somehow have
ended up in Junction city, no Picketts at all in Lane Co in 1900 or 1920.

Les C

-----Original Message-----
From: Harguess, Dale
Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2010 9:03 AM

Well, all I know is that I think they probably died because I found my
great grandmother living with a family of Walton's when she was only
three in Minnesota.  She was born in New Brunswick Canada and I suspect
that the Walton wife was probably her mother's sister.  All just
guesses.  I doubt that any of the Pickett's in Oregon were related to
her.  I just made that comment because you mentioned the name Pickett
and it isn't very common.