<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><HTML><FONT SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">I am ready and willing to throw the following names in the hat:<BR>
Michael Travers and wife Ann, called Nan, McCardle Travers both born Ireland and in Portland in time for the 1860 census with an otherwise unidentified woman named Bridget McCardle who appears only the once. <BR>
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Albert H. Gaylord came to Oregon from California about 1888-89 to work as a telegrapher on the railroad. He married Rosa Travers and they lived all over Oregon and Washington<BR>
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Fred E. Merrick came to Portland later, probably 1904, then moved to Medford about 1905. This was a New York family who lived 1 generation in North Dakota.<BR>
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My brick walls are Michael and Ann Travers before they appear in Portland. Michael died in December 1882 in Portland while Ann died in 1896 and they were both buried in the Catholic cemetery in The Dalles. The Oregonian commenting on Michael's death noted that "he was a pioneer of the Cascades area".<BR>
Phyl Purdum<BR>
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