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<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Bright" size=2>Darlene,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Bright" size=2>I wished I knew, because my (ggg-grandfather) Hanson Stevens family left Keokuck, Iowa & </FONT><FONT face="Lucida Bright" size=2>arrived Howell Prairie/Silverton, Marion Co., Oregon abt. Oct. 9, 1852.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Bright" size=2>Same goes for my McCubbins Clan arrived Howell Prairie/Silverton, Marion Co., Oregon abt. Oct. 9, 1852 from Franklin Co., Missouri.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Bright" size=2>In fact my (ggg-grandfather) James McCubbins's son--Samuel McCubbins married a daughter of Hanson Stevens--Sarah Ellen Stevens, both pioneer families of 1852. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Bright" size=2>Please let me know if you find or</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Bright" size=2>anyone else knows of a "travel diary" </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Bright" size=2>Thanks! Nancy </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><FONT size=2><FONT face="Lucida Bright"><I><B>From:</B></I> </FONT></FONT><A href="mailto:darlene@thecasteels.net"><FONT face="Lucida Bright" size=2>Darlene Casteel</FONT></A></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><FONT size=2><FONT face="Lucida Bright"><I><B>Date:</B></I> 08/08/05 07:50:38</FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><FONT size=2><FONT face="Lucida Bright"><I><B>To:</B></I> </FONT></FONT><A href="mailto:or-roots@sosinet.sos.state.or.us"><FONT face="Lucida Bright" size=2>Oregon Roots web site</FONT></A></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><FONT size=2><FONT face="Lucida Bright"><I><B>Subject:</B></I> [or-roots] emigrant diaries</FONT></FONT></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Bright" size=2>James and Eliza Jane Hamlin left Iowa in April and arrived in Oregon in</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Bright" size=2>October of 1852. Does anyone know of a "travel diary" kept by a fellow</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Bright" size=2>traveler on this trek to the "promised land"?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Bright" size=2>Darlene Casteel</FONT></DIV>
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