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<DIV>Les...</DIV>
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<DIV>Are you actually looking for Susan McGinnis? Because if you are, you
have to look under several different surnames. For example, In 1930 she is
in Coaledo, Coos County as Susie E. Campion with her husband, Fred A. Campion
and son Virgil. Before that, in the 1910 cenus she was Susan
Jones in Azalea as head of household. She also appears as Susa Jones and
Susie Jones. I also have her listed under the surname Clement but no
further information or verification. There is something rather
odd also, because she was the guardian of Sanford G. Jones on his
application for veteran's benefits and her name was listed as Susan Jones
Campion so it appears that she might have been the guardian for her
ex-husband. Since both Sanford Jones and Fred Campion show connections to
the Oregon coast, you might have luck looking in Coos County records for
information.</DIV>
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<DIV>The question in all this is where were her children?</DIV>
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<DIV>Your niece e-mailed me last week and I'm going to send her what I have
(including the grave stone photos of the cemetery on Vernie Lerwill's old
ranch) as soon as I get back to Alaska.</DIV>
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<DIV>Let me know exactly what you are looking for with regard to Susan. I
haven't been able to find Marcellus (Marcellis, Marcel, etc.) but I do have a
note that he died before 1932...unverified and I'm not sure where.</DIV>
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<DIV>I suspect that Marcel might have been in Umatilla because his son Joseph A.
Rondeau was married to Eva L. Lavadore (I've changed every spelling I find of
this name to Lavadore...just so that my genealogy program will sort and merge!)
and in the census as "son-in-law" in the household of Joseph Lavadore in
Umatilla.</DIV>
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<DIV>One of the problems with documenting the history of these families is that
fable became tangled with fact in a big way during the time that they were
trying to show descent from the original Cow Creek Tribe. I've yet to find
a documented connection between any of these familes and the Cow Creeks.
John Dellenbach introduced legislation to recognize these families as a
"historic successor tribe" to the Cow Creeks after BIA opposed their recognition
because they were not Cow Creek descendents. Still the Cow Creek
myths are perpetuated, but if real research is going to be done (which is should
be, because these early settlers were historically important in their own
right) it needs to be done from the records and in the areas (and tribes) where
these people were actually from.</DIV>
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<DIV>My understanding is that some of these families were following
gold strikes or mining activities. Which would explain why they were at
Milo/Perdue (Coffee Creek) and also in the Azalea area, Wolf Creek area, and
along Cow Creek. You will note that the occupations of some of the
neighboring households in the census in these areas are listed as
"miners".</DIV>
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<DIV>I'm in Kirkland, Washington in the moment. I had a business meeting
in San Diego. I usually tack a week or so of personal leave on so that I can
rent a car at SeaTac airport and visit my son in Redmond then drive down to S.
Oregon. I'm headed for Canyonville this morning. Maybe I'll
make time to do some sleuthing while I'm there for a week.</DIV>
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<DIV>Tell me specifically what you'd like to have and I'll e-mail it to you if I
have it.</DIV>
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<DIV>Carla</DIV>
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