[or-roots] Edward Evans Parrish Jr.

[TEDDIE1938 at aol.com]

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
 
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.
 
Author Unknown
Printed in the History Of Grant Count,  Oregon
Copyright 1983
 
 
 
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