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<DIV>Dear Albert,</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>I'll start communicating with you off the list, as others may not be
interested in what I have to say about the 1851 Harpoles. But if anyone is
interested, please contact me. We visited the charming little Pioneer
Memorial Cemetery in Brooks, Marion County, Oregon and were pleased to get the
feel of the land where our Oregon Pioneers settled. I will share
information I've gathered, with the sources. I'm interested in getting
your book when it's ready.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Respectfully, </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Gerrie Stults</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>
<DIV>In a message dated 9/16/2008 8:25:34 A.M. Mountain Daylight Time,
skipb@rcn.com writes:</DIV>
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color=blue size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Bonjour, <SPAN
class=SpellE>Gerrie</SPAN>,<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 242.85pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
color=blue size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 242.85pt"><SPAN class=GramE><FONT
face="Times New Roman" color=blue size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue">I’ll</SPAN></FONT></SPAN><FONT color=blue
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue"> be happy to include your
</SPAN></FONT><st1:PersonName><FONT color=blue size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue">info</SPAN></FONT></st1:PersonName><FONT
color=blue size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue"> in my files, and
thanks for the corrections which I will make in the <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-STYLE: italic; mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Master
List</SPAN></I>. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 242.85pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
color=blue size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 242.85pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
color=blue size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue">As for my book
which is in the end stages of<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>production ….it is a Composite Journal that is a collection of excerpts
from the 122 journals and recollections I have collected of 1851 <SPAN
class=SpellE>O.T</SPAN>. pioneers, arranged in geographic order so as to take
the reader along the trek in the words of many who made the journey that
year.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I have not included any
other </SPAN></FONT><st1:PersonName><FONT color=blue size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue">info</SPAN></FONT></st1:PersonName><FONT
color=blue size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue">rmation about the
pioneers in this book. However, I do plan <SPAN class=GramE>to eventually
make</SPAN> available at some time in the future all of the one million words
of documents and background and biographical
</SPAN></FONT><st1:PersonName><FONT color=blue size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue">info</SPAN></FONT></st1:PersonName><FONT
color=blue size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue">rmation related
to the 1851 migration. The bio section includes mainly emails that I have
received from descendants similar to what you have sent and extracts from some
bios I have collected. <SPAN class=GramE>I’ll</SPAN> add your notes to this
section and I’ll be happy to add what you send about the <SPAN
class=SpellE>Harpoles</SPAN> as it relates to the
</SPAN></FONT><st1:place><FONT color=blue size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue">Oregon
Trail</SPAN></FONT></st1:place><FONT color=blue size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue"> trip …. Send me your mailing address, if
you want me to add that detail. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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color=blue size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue">Your, &c.,
&c<SPAN class=GramE>.,</SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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color=blue size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue">Albert<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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Edward Belanger<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></I></P>
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Middle Road<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></I></P>
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NH 03833<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></I></P>
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face="Times New Roman" color=blue size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-STYLE: italic; mso-bidi-font-style: normal; mso-no-proof: yes">Researching
the 1851 Oregon Trail Migration<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></I></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">-----Original
Message-----<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B>
Cuprum4445@aol.com [mailto:Cuprum4445@aol.com] <BR><B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Tuesday, September 16, 2008 1:54
AM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B>
or-roots@listsmart.osl.state.or.us<BR><B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Re: [or-roots] HARPOLE in
1851</SPAN></FONT></P>
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size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face=Arial color=black
size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Dear
Albert,</SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
<DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face=Arial color=black
size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
<DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face=Arial color=black
size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Thank
you for sending what you have on the Oregon Harpole's. I see you have
our family's bare bones data. However, it was James Walker Harpole's
wife who died on the Oregon Trail near Baker City, Oregon, and he returned
east to marry her cousin, who helped raise his younger children and they had
more kids. William Pope Harpole did <U>not</U> return east to
remarry. </SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
<DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face=Arial color=black
size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
<DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face=Arial color=black
size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">There's
much more about the Harpoles, along with various spellings, in the
<STRONG><B><FONT face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">HARPOLE COUSINS
</SPAN></FONT></B></STRONG>book. I've found excerpts of this HARPOLE
COUSINS book online and people can order an updated CD of the book, which I
plan to do. Here's the address for this source:
</SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><A
title=http://mysite.verizon.net/res736wu/
href="http://mysite.verizon.net/res736wu/"><FONT size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">http://mysite.verizon.net/res736wu/</SPAN></FONT></A></SPAN></FONT><FONT
face=Arial color=black><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> This book tells which of
our Harpole family came in the 1851 Harpole Wagon Train. It also tells
that all of Wm. P. & Nancy M. Harpole's children were born in Pike County,
Illinois and they did come west with their parents. Our Nancy E.
Harpool/Harpole was only three years old that year, so of course she was with
her parents. Susan was eight and Paul was eleven when they came to the
Oregon Territory with their parents.</SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial color=black
size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
<DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face=Arial color=black
size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
<DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face=Arial color=black
size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Our
line comes from Nancy Eveline Harpool/Harpole, daughter of Nancy Mary
McMullen & William Pope Harpole, and who married John Milton
Hagey. They and their children lived mostly in Union County,
Oregon. I'll gather the rest of my sources to share with you and
Stephanie Flora, but it may take a while. <STRONG><B><U><FONT
face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">When is your deadline to complete
your book?</SPAN></FONT></U></B></STRONG> I'd like to get our
information to you before it's too late. We don't have any 1851 Trail
Journals, but the HARPOLE COUSINS book does have stories about the
journey. </SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
<DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face=Arial color=black
size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
<DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face=Arial color=black
size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The
<STRONG><B><FONT face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">PIONEER MEMORIAL
CEMETERY</SPAN></FONT></B></STRONG> website has obituaries and much other
information on all the Harpole family buried there. The website
is: </SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
<DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face=Arial color=black
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><A
title=http://www.marioncountycemetery.com/brooks/groups/record_group.php?start=H&end=I
href="http://www.marioncountycemetery.com/brooks/groups/record_group.php?start=H&end=I"><FONT
size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">http://www.marioncountycemetery.com/brooks/groups/record_group.php?start=H&end=I</SPAN></FONT></A>
</SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial color=black><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">I just noticed the cemetery's notes
for William P. Harpole doesn't mention that their is a large family plot
marker that says HARPOLE behind the families individual stones. That
large marker is nearly covered with a shrub surrounding it however.
Their notes don't mention Wm. P. Harpole's Oregon Donation Land Claim number,
but I see you have that. </SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial color=black
size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
<DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face=Arial color=black
size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
<DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face=Arial color=black
size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">I've
driven by Three Mile Island many times, where there was a Harpole wagon
train Indian attack. I assume that's what you mean by Massacre
Rock? </SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
<DIV>
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size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
<DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face=Arial color=black
size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The
Marion County Historical Society, in 1975-1976, reprinted the<STRONG><B><FONT
face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">
ILLUSTRATED</SPAN></FONT></B></STRONG> <STRONG><B><FONT face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">HISTORICAL ATLAS MAP of MARION and LINN
COUNTIES OREGON</SPAN></FONT></B></STRONG>, by Edgar Williams & Co.,
originally published in 1878. This book lends a lot of light to our
Oregon pioneers, including the Harpoles, and our Hagey family as well.
This book shows town plats with owners' names clearly
shown.</SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
<DIV>
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size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
<DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face=Arial color=black
size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">I
respect Stephanie Flora's website, as she is a very <U>good
</U>researcher. However, you'd be much safer referring to
primary and/or secondary printed sources rather than individual
people, like me. I will gather more sources for you about the Harpole
family and get back to you. I am willing to correspond with other
Harpole/Harpool researchers.</SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial color=black
size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face=Arial color=black
size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Respectfully,
Gerrie Stults</SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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