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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thank you for your warm response to my subscribing
to this bulletin site. I will try to ans ea of you asap on this bulletin so that
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<DIV>other, out there, can see what I have to say - it is a good way to make
"ties" I have found.</DIV>
<DIV>Heather & Pat: I have no Berkshire, Correl/Coryell, Price, Pitman
surnames among my vast brood, but one never knows for sure so it is best to at
least try. Thank you !</DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Terry: I have no Proebstal, Boen, Newsome, Holland,
Padgett, McClure, Bentley, Merryman, Lewis, Cox Fams. among my gen. Thank you
!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV>Gene Barnes - now, there is a Surname that could be a tie, but it would
have to go way back to Southington, CT in the </DIV>
<DIV>18th & 19th Centuries. If you had any New England, esp. CT Barnes
ancestry, and esp Southington, CT north of New Haven, CT then we need to
compare notes, LOL !!</DIV>
<DIV>Dorothy Wogh - Bravo ! on your marathon runs, and activity. I see
that you are KA6GUR, a ham radio oprs. call letter</DIV>
<DIV>in CA. I "work" 40 CW usually on 7,040 MHz on your dial. For
those not familiar with ham radio talk, I told Dorothy that </DIV>
<DIV>I use radiotelegraphy (dits 'n; dahs; or dots & dashes) with a
telegraph key. The CW means Continuous Wave, or a radio</DIV>
<DIV>wave signals that is steady with the telegraph key closed (making contact),
but we, then, break up that steady radio wave </DIV>
<DIV>into long and short sounds or telegraphy. I've been doing it for 65
yrs. so it is 2nd Nature to me to copy and send high speed telegraphy, but I
slow it down to the beginner's speed so that he/she can copy it OK. The 7040 MHz
is where Dorothy would find me on her shortwave dial so that we could
communicate. So, now you ALL know the "rest of the story".</DIV>
<DIV>Col. Bob Goodman - I'm not sure where University Place, WA is located but I
will have to look it up on my maps.</DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Good to see you on here!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV>Robert Casebeer - You wanted to know exactly what members of my Family
taught at Umpqua Academy of Father</DIV>
<DIV>James Wilbur's Wilbur Academy back in the 1800s. I am happy to tell
you that my Grt Grt GF Jason S. CLARK</DIV>
<DIV>(Jason Squire Clark) was Supt. of Sunday School at the Academy. I
know this because I learned of that when I was able to see and photograph his
large Pulpit Bible that was presented to him at the Academy in 1865 when they,
as a Fam. were to migrate N to White River Valley, WA Territory, now known as
Kent, WA. The inscription was penned in in the frontpiece of </DIV>
<DIV>that Bible. I photographed it and the various contents in the
Bible. It was a windy day in Portland, but luckily I was able to </DIV>
<DIV>handhold a 35 mm. Pentax camera and photocopy the various pages, items
tucked in it and the Bible itself. It was owned</DIV>
<DIV>or possessed by a member of the Sorensen Fam. who'd married into the Clark
Fam. Where the Bible is today, I do no know. I heard about another
Bible that was Jason's and it is among the family branches somewhere I know not
where.</DIV>
<DIV>I didn't get to see that Bible, ever. </DIV>
<DIV> I have a photocopy of a picture of Archibald CLARK holding his small
open Bible - Archie was the father of Jason S. Clark</DIV>
<DIV>and he was a Circuit Riding Preacher, or Man of the Cloth back in IN, IL,
OH, IA, etc. among his Circuit.</DIV>
<DIV>It is ironic that we have a PIX of Archie, but no one has a PIX of Jason S.
Clark!!! Really too bad.</DIV>
<DIV> Another known Staffer of Umpqua Academy was James STARK who married
one of Jason's daughters about the time </DIV>
<DIV>the Clarks migrated North. James STARK and his wife eventually moved
up to and lived near the Canadian Border town of </DIV>
<DIV>Lynden, WA d. there Mar 5, 1908. I see that James Rice Stark was a
Pioneer of Oregon, 1852 b. Terre Haute, IN</DIV>
<DIV>son of Jesse Stark of KYand Sarah Bates, also of KY. </DIV>
<DIV>James Rice Stark, m. Elizabeth Lydia Clark Jan 28, 1864 Umpqua, Oregon.
</DIV>
<DIV>This DAR info and was found in the Everett Public, Library, Everett,
WA</DIV>
<DIV>Other names connected to the Stark/Clark branch were MALTBY, KYKENDALL
</DIV>
<DIV>General John STARK of Rev. War Fame.</DIV>
<DIV>Williamson, Smith, Dahlquist, Goodell, Williams, Finnel, Stevens,
Maltby.</DIV>
<DIV>A Narrative states that the Stark fam came from WALES in Colonial times,
but were originally from Scotland. The Starks lived in VA and NH - one of which
became the famed Gen. John STARK of Rev. War fame.</DIV>
<DIV>The Starks had Blackhawk War time; Civil War INdiana country.</DIV>
<DIV>In Apr. 3rd, 1852 the Starks left Monroe, WIsconsin & migrated West for
the long journey -I have a description of that journey in the Narrative that I
have in my possession - the DAR info. This Narrative was written by Mollie
Stark Williams</DIV>
<DIV>at Lynden WA Nov 1, 1943, but I never met her as I didn't know of
her. I wish that I could have!</DIV>
<DIV>Thank goodness she wrote of the adventure.</DIV>
<DIV>James Stark was a teacher at the Umbqua Academy but I do not know any
details on this.</DIV>
<DIV>I would suggest the State Museum at Roseburg, where I visited - got a PIX
of the Umpqua Academy and saw on maps </DIV>
<DIV>where my Clarks were living at Winchester, I think, near Wilbur, OR.
I requested copies of the maps but never did </DIV>
<DIV>receive them showing the Clarks and who their Neighbors were from those
times. The Roseburg Museum was most helpful </DIV>
<DIV>and they have records from the Umpqua Academy. I slept overnight in
the back of my Volvo 188 ES Sportwagon</DIV>
<DIV>as the Museum wasn't open on Monday, so I slept across the St. from the
Police Dept at Roseburg in order to get to the </DIV>
<DIV>Museum on Tuesday and I left Roseburg around 12 noon and got back to
Snohomish here, around 10 p.m. that same </DIV>
<DIV>day. Mission accomplished - BC (before computer). I loved
searching the various towns in OR including Brownsville, Harrisburg, and Umpqua
territory. When the gen bug bit, it bit me HARD !!! LOL!!!</DIV>
<DIV>Where do you live Robert ?</DIV>
<DIV>Bonjour Albert Belanger - Merci beacoup pour le info, Mon
Ami-your wif's Blanchard Fam. I don't find among mine.</DIV>
<DIV>As for Clarks who may have come in 1851 - I think there were but I can't
identify them at the moment, but I will try to keep an eye our for them.
My 1st came in 1847, but I think the word got back to middle states and our
Clarks from IN </DIV>
<DIV>decided to make the journey - whether they came by OX team or the RR, - it
seems that I recall that some came via </DIV>
<DIV>the RR. I hope run across that info so that I can get back to you on
it. If you have any Clark names, list them, and I could recognize their
names as possibly being ours. Sorry I can't be more specific at this
time.</DIV>
<DIV>That book you are having published should be a great one for the migration
of 1851.</DIV>
<DIV>I ran across a book about the Oregon Trail in my Snohomish Library - it had
been there all the years I was growing up</DIV>
<DIV>but I accidentally ran across it when I began doing gen in
1983. It listed a lot of the names for the various years of </DIV>
<DIV>migration. I just looked at the 1847 and sure enough on one page for
the Migration of 1847 in the middle of the page was </DIV>
<DIV>Jason S. Clark; then a few pages later as a follow up they listed his wife
Anna (Michaels) Clark as wife of Jason and that she married Jason when she was
16 and the Clarks and the Michaels traveled together in 1847 over the OR
Trail.</DIV>
<DIV>The irregular land claim of the Michaels near Brownsville is on the maps as
a curiosity as their compass was way off</DIV>
<DIV>when they staked out the land there. See maps for the Michael's land
claim. </DIV>
<DIV>There is a Michael Fam. Cemetery listed among OR cems. which I visited on a
knoll of a hill near I-5 - it is very small, private cem. Near Brownsville
-all in it were Michaels except one grave that was of another family, but was
permitted to buried </DIV>
<DIV>there. </DIV>
<DIV>Well, this is my Story and I'm sticking to it. Didn't mean to become
vociferous, but it happens in the best of families, I guess.</DIV>
<DIV>Thank you, ALL for your response. I hope that there might be some
substance among my words - that was the intent.</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Carroll in Snohomish, WA 30 mi. NE of
Seattle</FONT></DIV>
<DIV>Carroll Clark</DIV>
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