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<P>Beth,<BR>I didn't realize that I had a tie-in until you mentioned the Gerking name. Opal Inez Miller (1910-1998) from my Kindred line was first married to Ralph Rowe Gerking (1898-1944). My information says that Ralph was born in Merrill, OR and was the son of Samuel and Martha (Smith) Gerking. Much of my information came from another cousin (now deceased) who attended a number of Kindred family reunions that were held in the Warrenton-Astoria area. I believe that Opal had attended some of them also. Anyway, I am always willing to share and compare.<BR>Barbara Herring<BR></P>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">-------------- Original message -------------- <BR><BR>> Les and Sue, <BR>> <BR>> Thank you for your help with this one. It certainly appears as though the <BR>> only Haynesville in Oregon was in Klamath County, although in my mind I was <BR>> betting on a discontinued post office somewhere in the <BR>> Morrow-Union-Umatilla counties area.<G> The Langell Valley reference helped <BR>> me change my mind. <BR>> <BR>> The owner of the autograph book was Martha Ann (Smith) Gerking, second wife <BR>> of Samuel Isaiah Gerking. My grandmother, 5th of their 12 children, was <BR>> born in Morrow Co. in 1892, and the next two siblings were also born in <BR>> Morrow County in 1894 and 1985. The child after that, though, was born in <BR>> Merrill, Klamath Co. in 1896. We knew that the family had moved to Klamath <BR>> Co. by 1896, but the entries in question were all made by members of a <BR>> Copeland family on the same day, June 25, 1893. I have no idea yet whether <BR>> the Copelands were part of the family or friends, perhaps known from <BR>> church; but I've now found a George W. Copeland in Langell Valley, Klamath <BR>> Co. so am giving up my discontinued post office dream. <BR>> <BR>> Sam was a real wanderer, and it would appear Sam took his family to visit <BR>> the area where he would next move them, and Martha got the three Copeland <BR>> autographs. After a few years in Merrill he moved them on to Yolo Co., CA, <BR>> and in 1902 they headed to Putnam Co., FL, returning to Yolo Co. in 1904, <BR>> and eventually to Umatilla Co. FWIW, there's a slide show of a small diary <BR>> Sam kept on the return trip from Florida to California at <BR>> http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~athena/gerking/sig1903-04trip/1903-04_t <BR>> rip_intro_and_thumbnails.html <BR>> (that URL will most likely wrap and have to be copied into your browser <BR>> window). <BR>> <BR>> Again, thanks so much for all your help. <BR>> <BR>> Beth <BR></BLOCKQUOTE></body></html>