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<P>Greetings, listers,</P>
<P>I am collecting information on several Jackson County families while
recuperating after surgery. So far I've put together notebooks containing
obits<SPAN class=520573720-27082002>,</SPAN> death certs<SPAN
class=520573720-27082002>,</SPAN> cemetery photos<SPAN class=520573720-27082002>
and/or</SPAN> <SPAN class=520573720-27082002> </SPAN>marriage
certificates<SPAN class=520573720-27082002> </SPAN>as well as locally-obtained
stories<SPAN class=520573720-27082002> and newspaper clippings, when
available,</SPAN> about the<SPAN class=520573720-27082002>se</SPAN>
families<SPAN class=520573720-27082002>.</SPAN></P>
<P>This project started innocently enough about six months ago when someone
asked me for information about his grandmother, who had married into the PENCE
family. I had heard of Richard Pence's website for his one-name study of Pences,
sent him some information I had, and realized that there were several families
linked by marriage who were in the Sam's Valley-Antioch-Beagle and Trail-Elk
Creek-McLeod-Flounce Rock areas of Jackson County. I then pulled out other
information I'd kept from RAOGK inquiries over the past couple years and the
whole thing just got completely out of hand :) Since scrolling through microfilm
or paging through old files is not terribly strenuous, I've acquired more
material, but am always looking for more, particularly photographs<SPAN
class=520573720-27082002> of family members</SPAN> (publicly available
pictures are scarce) and personal information that would flesh out the dry
born-married-died statistics. Most of the families arrived in the Rogue Valley
between about 1850 and 1900, homesteaded here and had a hand in developing their
communities. </P>
<P>While most of the information I'm acquiring is along specific family lines, I
have also made copies of information <SPAN
class=520573720-27082002>on</SPAN> folks of the same surname that may or may not
be related. They all belong to someone, somewhere.</P>
<P>Here are the families:</P>
<P>ASH</P>
<P>CUSHMAN</P>
<P>DAWSON</P>
<P>HOUSTON</P>
<P>KNIGHTEN (sometimes spelled KNIGHTON)</P>
<P>PENCE</P>
<P>RAGSDALE</P>
<P>RAIMEY (also spelled RAMEY, RAINEY, etc.)</P>
<P>TRUSTY</P>
<P>WARNER</P>
<P>WINNINGHAM</P>
<P>Several of the families had members who went elsewhere, particularly the
Eugene, Salem and Portland areas, including TRUSTY, RAIMEY and KNIGHTEN.</P>
<P>If anyone has information on these families that they'd like to share for
inclusion in the notebooks, please send it along.<SPAN class=520573720-27082002>
</SPAN>Thanks for the assistance, and if I can make copies for someone from what
I already have, I'd be <SPAN class=520573720-27082002>more than happy
</SPAN>to share.</P>
<P>Elizabeth</P>
<P>Eagle Point, Oregon, USA</P></DIV></BODY></HTML>