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<DIV><SPAN class=701353419-09102005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Carla</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=701353419-09102005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>I
appreciate your insight, but all of his family (father, mother, older sibs,
young sibs) all stayed in Nebraska. So, I don't think there was a
problem. I am trying to link him to the Lamberts and Forrests who were
already in Yamhill county. I guess I need a trip to the Yamhill county
museum to read some local histories.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=701353419-09102005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>suzanne</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
or-roots-admin@sosinet.sos.state.or.us
[mailto:or-roots-admin@sosinet.sos.state.or.us]<B>On Behalf Of
</B>cklooster@aol.com<BR><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, October 09, 2005 10:16
AM<BR><B>To:</B> or-roots@sosinet.sos.state.or.us<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re:
[or-roots] Tracking Thomas Clark<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV> Sometimes the answer lies not in the destination, but in the
economy of the home place. Think, for example, of the number of people
from Oklahoma and nearby states that came to Oregon during the dust bowl; they
were escaping in desperation. There was also a similar influx to the
Pacific Northwest when the shipyards and airplane plants were looking for
workers at the begining of WWII. I did a quick Google of the midwest in
1870 and found that in Iowa they were trying to attract immigrants and had
opened land for homesteading. </DIV>
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<DIV>Possibly looking at local histories of the community that he came from in
Nebraska would have some answers. There was a bit of gold mining going
on in Southern Oregon and Northern California in the 1870's...or maybe it was
just the lure of adventure. At that time most sixteen-year-olds were
considered adults. And besides, who wouldn't want to leave
Nebraska!</DIV>
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<DIV>Carla</DIV> <BR>-----Original Message-----<BR>From: Suz_ES
<Suz_ES@verizon.net><BR>To: OREGON-L@rootsweb. com
<OREGON-L@rootsweb.com>; or-Roots@Sosinet. Sos. State. or. Us
<or-roots@sosinet.sos.state.or.us><BR>Sent: Sat, 08 Oct 2005 17:21:00
-0700<BR>Subject: [or-roots] Tracking Thomas Clark<BR><BR>
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id=AOLMsgPart_0_06343970-1afd-4394-a242-45c70cbf1b9c><PRE><TT>I've been doing to more research on Thomas Benton Clark to see how/why he
came out west when the rest of his family did not. This is what I know:
1870 census for Grant, Washington, Nebraska as 16 yr old son of Amos and
Elizabeth Clark,
1876 marries Matilda Forrest in Dayton, Yamhill, Oregon.
1880 census for Dayton, Yamhill, Oregon with Matilda and 1 son, living next
door to John Lambert family which were the guardians of Matilda.
So, I have from 1870 thru 1876 that I am trying to trace him. Does anyone
know if there were indian wars or gold rushes or anything like that that
would have attracted him to Oregon? or to the Willamette valley?
Suzanne in Newberg
<A href="mailto:suz_es%40verizon.net">suz_es@verizon.net</A>
Clark/Sims/Henry/Lambert/Forrest (Yamhill Cty)
Averill/Robison/Orr/Kingery (Benton, Coos, Linn Cty)
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