[or-roots] Edward Evans Parrish Jr.

[Marsha Bradley-Luthy]

Teddie I am also connected to this family and have pictures of Edward Evans Parrish in his garden sent to grandmother (Jr.)

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> On Feb 23, 2014, at 4:53 PM, TEDDIE1938 at aol.com wrote:
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> My great uncle, George Trosper, married into the Parrish family. My family ranched in the Dayville area.
> I would like to share the following with you all. Theodora Valade Richardson
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> Edward Evans Parrish was born November 28, 1836 to Edward Evans Parrish and Rebecca Maple from Virginia and Ohio.
> Mary Elizabeth Smith Parrish was born in Clay County, Indiana January 28, 1836. They were married July 31, 1857.
> They crossed the plains by covered wagon, making their home in Jefferson, Oregon. They moved to Waterman, then part of Grant County, in 1878. They lived there for a short time on the Smith Ranch, then to Spanish Gulch to be near a school.
> In 1878, the Parrish family and many others forted up at Spanish Gulch because of the Indian uprising. The family then returned to the Willamette Valley for a year. 
> They moved back to Antone and lived on the Trosper place of Rock Creek.
> The family went to the Military Road to see General Howard’s detachment move past with 300 Indians. The General camped that night at the Shoots Ranch, later know as the Cowen Ranch, Truchot now part of Harrison Antone Ranch. This is near Camp Watson.
> The family then moved to Shoo Fly, Richmond area, where their fifth child, May, was born. In this area, Edward Evans Parrish was killed in a logging accident. 
> Mary Elizabeth Parrish moved to Mitchell where she lived for thirty-one years. She had escaped drowning in the flood there June of 1884. Her father was drowned in that flood.
> She was Wheeler County Pioneer Queen when she was 94 years old. The oldest living woman at the time in the county.
> Their children were: Rowena Erickson Trosper, Nan Whalen Waterman ( Mrs. Ezekiel Waterman), Pearl Whitney, May Barry and Edward.
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> Author Unknown
> Printed in the History Of Grant Count, Oregon
> Copyright 1983
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