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<DIV>You're welcome Les. I'm glad I could give you some information.
"bar C" sounds like a good reading for that brand. It's cool to have the
branding iron yet. We have my father-in-law's too. Young folks like
to decorate with them actually. You said you sent the information to "the
rest of the genealogy nuts in my Grandfather's line." I thought you might
have said the "old goats" in that line, considering they raised goats - tee
hee. Please don't be offended though. I just had to give say
that. You seem to have a good sense of humor from your other
messages. </DIV>
<DIV>Happy hunting - Gerrie</DIV>
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<DIV>In a message dated 8/22/2008 9:53:11 P.M. Mountain Daylight Time,
reedsportchapmans@verizon.net writes:</DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Thank
you Gerrie;<BR><BR>I have forwarded that to the rest of the genealogy nuts in
my Grandfather's<BR>line, I was pretty sure we were registered whether we were
in that book or<BR>not. I know the branding iron is still around somewhere. I
checked dad's<BR>"book of rememberance" hoping there was something in there, I
also have a<BR>book full of notes he made in the last months of his life for
posterity's<BR>sake that might have an explanation of the brand, I am sure I
have heard<BR>what it meant, maybe F - C or some such?? Seems like it would
read "bar C"<BR>something but what I don't know, maybe one of my older sibs
will remember.<BR><BR>Les C<BR><BR><BR>-----Original Message-----<BR>From:
or-roots-bounces@listsmart.osl.state.or.us<BR>[mailto:or-roots-bounces@listsmart.osl.state.or.us]On
Behalf Of<BR>Cuprum4445@aol.com<BR>Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 7:22
PM<BR>To: or-roots@listsmart.osl.state.or.us<BR>Subject: Re: [or-roots] Cattle
Brands<BR><BR><BR>YUP Les!<BR>Oregon Brands Recorded January 2, 1941 to April,
1942, Page 218:<BR>Space # 15 (HELP! I don't know how to read this
brand, but it looks like a<BR>large backwards letter "C" with a horizontal
line through it, so that it<BR>looks almost like an "E".<BR>F. W. & C. D.
Chapman; Cottage Grove, Lane Co. (Right) R. face Sheep
&<BR>goats<BR>There is a vertical notch in the left ear & 2 "V"
notches at the top of the<BR>right ear.<BR><BR>You know, that backwards "C"
makes sense for a Chapman name. I don't know<BR>how to "read" brands
though. I'm not in law enforcement, but I don't know<BR>why your ear
marks wasn't proof those were your goats! It should have
been.<BR><BR>Hey! My late father-in-law would be proud of me for helping
you folks! He<BR>really enjoyed his job and visiting with folks and he
loved livestock! He<BR>didn't like the book work though. I enjoy
looking at the little red book<BR>because I recognize lots of names from
different places we have lived in<BR>Oregon. Who would have thought this
book would have come in handy to help<BR>people with genealogy? I copied
pages from the brand registration book in<BR>La Grande for our family members,
and this made a fun, attractive page for<BR>our books. You might try
checking to see if the Lane County courthouse has<BR>such a book
too.<BR>Gerrie<BR><BR>In a message dated 8/22/2008 7:36:51 P.M. Mountain
Daylight Time,<BR>reedsportchapmans@verizon.net writes:<BR>Gerrie;<BR><BR>I
haven't been paying a lot of attention to the cattle brand thread because<BR>I
didn't think it would be of more than passing interest to me, but it
just<BR>occurred to me that you might have a brand registered for either or
both<BR>Francis Marion Chapman or Clare Decker Chapman in Lane county
sometime<BR>between 1914 or so and when the book was published, though I can't
swear we<BR>had a brand, I know when the goats were being rustled we had no
"proof" of<BR>ownership, even when we caught the rustlers red handed with a
truck load of<BR>our goats the fact they had our ear marks wasn't
"proof."<BR><BR>Leslie
Chapman<BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>or-roots
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