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<DIV><FONT size=2> Hi,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>This may not be what you are all looking for, But thought I would share.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>I bought my brother-in-law a book named: "History of Early Days in Oregon" by Glenn N. Riddle. It was put out by: </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>The Riddle Parent-Teacher association. This Book was first printed in the Riddle Enterprise as a series of Articles; and it was later published in Pamphlet form, from the same type and distributed in 1922. Reset and reprinted in 1948 by the Myrtle Creek Mail for the Riddle Parent Teacher Association. The Riddles, Stephens, Briggs and many others are my brother-in-laws family. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>Some of the Original Pioneer families (crossed in 1851)...Book has real stories about are: </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>W.F. Briggs & families / Samuel Briggs / Mr. Isaac Constant, crossed in 1848 / Elijah & Erastus Hill / Mrs. Elzie Logsdon / Chapmans / I.B. Nichols / J. A. Worthington(east of Canyonville) / Charles W. Beckwith(of New York state) / Baron Munchausen / "Sandy" Yoakum, Owner of the Ferry / Stephen Hussey / Weaver / Jim Catching / Raymonds / Tabitha Brown / Onna Hall / John Hall / Lucinda McGill / Campbell Crismen / John Bouseman / Jesse Roberts / Mrs. Cyrus Russel / John Arzner / I can go on & on with names, just full of our Pioneer families.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><U><FONT size=2>Here is a few paragraphs from this book mentioned above: Mr. Riddle is telling his own story, that he experienced himself.</FONT></U></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Jesse Roberts was a man of great energy and ability, but with out education. He moved from Polk County Oregon, early in the spring of 1851 settling where we found him, at Roberts Creek. He had brought with him five hundred herd of Spanish cattle. These cattle were wild & fierce. So much, that is was dangerous for a man to appear among them, though they were easily managed on horseback, as they seemed to be trained to go to the corral when started from the range. There appeared to be an old cow that would take the lead. I have seen Roberts two sons, George and Nels, aged about twelve and fifteen, on there ponies, start several hundred head of these cattle from there range around Green's station, head them for there corral two miles up Roberts Creek, all going on the run fairly making the earth shake.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>When we arrived at the Roberts place we were treated with the greatest kindness by Mr. Roberts. We were furnished all the fresh & dried beef we could use, free of cost. This was a great treat to hungary emigrants, especially the dried beef to us boys. The dried beef was cured by cutting the meat in strips, salted, then hung on ropes & dried in the sun, perhaps aided by fire & smoke.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Mr . Roberts persuaded my father to abandone his plans of going to the Willamette valley for the winter, but to leave the family in camp near his place & go on with the ox teams for supplies, which he did and on returning, we returned to what was afterwards our home at Glenbrook farm__The first donation land claim located in Cow Creek Valley.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2><U>In the next Chapter, Mr. Riddle goes on to tell of his first meeting with " MI-WU-LETA ", Chief of the Cow Creek Indians.</U></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>It brings out in his first account of The Cow Creek Indians in October 1851. The nearest house to the Riddle family was Wm. Weaver's house, Eight miles nearer Myrtle creek & Canyonville, Where Joe Knott was located, and which was the frontier house in southern Oregon, not a house south of that in the territory.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2><U>But in the next paragraph it</U> starts to read how the Riddle family got to there location at there Glenbrook land donation claim and in a very short time, the Indians started coming into the camp as they were curious. Old Squaws, papooses, and all came to the number of a <U>hundred or more.</U></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2><STRONG>So we at least know that in: 1851 there was at least, 100+ Indians living in the Area of Canyonville, OR.</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>I also have a copy of the Original book. Many, many pioneer families in this book dating back: abt: 1839 onwards. Excellent reading.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>Nancy L. Adams</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><A href="mailto:nancydean@columbia-center.org"><FONT size=2>nancydean@columbia-center.org</FONT></A></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt" <i><FONT size=2><B>From:</B></I> </FONT><A href="mailto:or-roots@sosinet.sos.state.or.us"><FONT size=2>or-roots@sosinet.sos.state.or.us</FONT></A></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt" <i><FONT size=2><B>Date:</B></I> 10/21/04 14:15:27</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt" <i><FONT size=2><B>Subject:</B></I> Re: [or-roots] Missing Cow Creeks</FONT></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>Hi Les and Others...</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>My sister and I copied and photographed the Rondeau Cemetery on the old Vernie Lerwill place above Tiller last summer and I sent copies to you, I think, and to other interested people on this list. There was a big fire that burned down from Bland Mt. and across the valley below this summer, but I don't know if the Bland Mt. cemetery was disturbed either. It is a different cemetery than the Milo/Lavadour Cemetery. I grew up in the Canyonville-Days Creek area and married a guy whose family have been residents of Drew since the early 1900's. I've been collecting local history...including family histories...of the Tiller, Drew, Days Creek, and Canyonville areas for years, and spent many hours listening to and writing down the stories of various old-timers of the area including my former husband's father, uncles, and grandfather. I was fortunate in knowing many of the older people who were also interested in the local history and some had family roots going back to the first white settlers of the area. I would have to agree with at least some of what Aloaha A. wrote...at least it matches the things I heard from oldtimers. There was a general agreement that there was not a large number of Indian people in the area when the first settlers came there, but that relations between the first settlers and the Indian people were generally amicable...until the trouble down on the Rogue River between the miners and the Indians. If you read the first-hand accounts by Riddle, it details the removal of the Cow Creek band of Umpqua to the reservation at Grande Ronde where most of them died from the disease caused by overcrowding and generally horrible conditions. While it may be possible that some of those people did hide away, I don't think they are the same people as those who now call themselves Cow Creek Indians. The current "tribe" was actually named a "historic successor tribe" by the federal government when they were seeking recognition from the federal government in the 1960's/1970's. This was in response to the Bureau of Indian Affairs assertion that none of the people seeking federal tribal recognition were actually descended from the Cow Creek band of the Umpquas. Politics aside, history needs to be recorded as accurately as possible. I've found quite a few of the family members in census records, but it is true that some of them do disappear from Douglas Co...or else they haven't yet appeared there. That is kind of the point...they aren't in the census of Douglas Co. because they are living elsewhere, such as in K. Falls. I don't know what the great attraction was in that area, but I do know that some of the guys from Tiller-Drew went to Lakeview during the 1930's to work in the woods and at a sawmill there and my former hustand's uncle talked for working in a mill near Klamath Falls (which would have been in the late 1930's or early 1940's. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>Anyway, I'd be interested in a list of who you could not find. I started looking at these census records years ago when I was putting together family information for my nieces and nephew who are descended from the Rondeau family. I might have some pieces to your puzzle.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>I'd be happy to exchange information with anyone interested.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>Carla</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>STEPHENS, HAWLEY, WHEALDON, and SHIELDS in Oregon and Washington.</FONT></DIV></FONT>
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