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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Dale<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>This
is what I know. Along about 1860 or so, (maybe earlier) the mines opened up in
eastern Oregon and Idaho. Many men took to transporting goods to the mines,
others went to work in the mines.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Originally,
from the Willamette, they took goods up to the Columbia, then up the Columbia
to the Snake, and northeast from there. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Later,
the “road” through the Cascades cut off quite a lot of the journey – the
McKenzie route.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><img
width=245 height=264 id="Picture_x0020_1"
src="cid:image002.jpg@01C9D939.9612D670" alt="Parks to the Mines.jpg"></span><span
style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I
don’t know if the article I attached will come through. It says:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>“Pack
trains are now passing through, or leaving here, almost every day for the
mines. Mr. George Parks, of Douglas county, left here on Monday, with several
animals, for the upper country, where he has a train that he used between
Lewiston and Bannock last summer. Others have passed through during the week.
>From present appearances it will be but a very short time till the McKenzie
route will be open to travel. Persons passing through will then fit out here,
instead of at the Dalles, and save two hundred miles travel, and much
unnecessary expense.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>The
above was in the Oregon State Journal, in 1864. George was my 3ggrandfather.
His wife, Cynthia was sister to the Andrew Jackson Richardson we’ve been talking
about here.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>In
their case, the story is that GBW (George) saw the base of Steptoe Canyon, on
the Snake (it wasn’t called that at the time, of course) during one of these
journeys, and decided it would be a great place for an orchard. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>In
all, three siblings joined, plus spouses of children and their siblings….and it
goes on.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I
have noted quite a number of names from the early Linn County families in
Whitman, Asotin, Walla, Walla, Nez Perce and the other counties along the
Snake. It would be interesting to do a “socio-gram” on the group.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Pat<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>In
Tucson<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> or-roots-bounces@listsmart.osl.state.or.us
[mailto:or-roots-bounces@listsmart.osl.state.or.us] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Harguess,
Dale<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, May 20, 2009 10:08 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> or-roots mail list<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [or-roots] Whitman County, Washington<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>I wonder if anyone has looked into the history of Whitman County
to try to figure out what the attraction was. Was there gold there?
Or some other industry to cause people to move up there. I too had a
great grandfather that went there from Umatilla County, Oregon.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>
or-roots-bounces@listsmart.osl.state.or.us [mailto:or-roots-bounces@listsmart.osl.state.or.us]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Barbara Herring<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, May 19, 2009 8:34 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Denise Sproed; or-roots mail list<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [or-roots] Whitman County, Washington<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'>Like Denise, I have had Oregon
families go to Whitman Co., WA, but I also have some that were there a little
earlier than that. Some stayed; some came on to Oregon. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'>If you are doing Whitman
Co., WA research, be sure that you take a look at the Washington Digital
Archives: <a href="http://www.digitalarchives.wa.gov/Default.aspx">http://www.digitalarchives.wa.gov/Default.aspx</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'>Barbara Herring<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'><br>
----- Original Message -----<br>
From: "Denise Sproed" <denisesproed@onlinenw.com><br>
To: "or-roots mail list" <or-roots@listsmart.osl.state.or.us><br>
Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2009 8:13:59 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific<br>
Subject: [or-roots] Whitman County, Washington<br>
<br>
I have noticed that quite a number of my "Oregon" families migrated
up into <br>
Whitman County (1880's-1900's). It is interesting to see the migration <br>
patterns for time periods.<br>
<br>
Denise<br>
<br>
----- Original Message ----- <br>
From: "Kith-n-Kin" <Kith-n-Kin@cox.net><br>
To: "'Denise Sproed'" <denisesproed@onlinenw.com>;
"'or-roots mail list'" <br>
<or-roots@listsmart.osl.state.or.us><br>
Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2009 9:33 AM<br>
Subject: RE: [or-roots] Claypool Cemetery, Linn County<br>
<br>
<br>
> Denise<br>
><br>
> You are absolutely right, which is part of the problem.<br>
><br>
> It's pretty clear by now that the siblings lived close to each other, and<br>
> communicated regularly. So, they probably all went to Whitman
County,<br>
> Washington about the same time (1880) and the widow and children may have<br>
> simply been missed. I think I'll know more when I see the 1899
probate --<br>
> 19 years after he died, but only one year after his wife died.<br>
><br>
> What fun!<br>
><br>
> Pat<br>
><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 Denise<br>
> Sproed<br>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2009 5:49 AM<br>
> To: or-roots mail list<br>
> Subject: Re: [or-roots] Claypool Cemetery, Linn County<br>
><br>
> Sometimes folks did travel to a cemetery where "other family"
were buried <br>
> so<br>
><br>
> it isn't necessarily a confirmation that folks lived in an area because<br>
> someone is buried there. There are also unmarked graves.<br>
><br>
> Unfortunately we do not have "good" death record coverage before
the early<br>
> 1900's and even then it can be rather spotty. I have one relative
alive <br>
> in<br>
> 1930 in Roseburg (having lived there most of his lifetime) and I have not<br>
> found him on any death records. I'm fairly certain that he has died <br>
> (Isaac<br>
> Matthews b 15 Jul 1853 OR) but no idea where or when.<br>
><br>
> Denise<br>
><br>
> ----- Original Message ----- <br>
> From: "Kith-n-Kin" <Kith-n-Kin@cox.net><br>
> To: "'or-roots mail list'"
<or-roots@listsmart.osl.state.or.us><br>
> Sent: Monday, May 18, 2009 1:25 PM<br>
> Subject: Re: [or-roots] Claypool Cemetery, Linn County<br>
><br>
><br>
>> Sue<br>
>><br>
>> Thank you so much. I don't know what was wrong with my Googling -- it<br>
>> seems<br>
>> so obvious now <G><br>
>><br>
>> So, only the one child buried there. Which tells me that they left
after<br>
>> 1878.<br>
>><br>
>> It doesn't tell me how they missed the census taker <G> for two
decades.<br>
>> Hmmm. If they were in Linn for the 1860, and daughter died in
1878, they<br>
>> should have been there for the 1870.<br>
>><br>
>> And, even if he died in Umatilla or Union in 1880, they should have
been<br>
>> there. By then, I'm finding some of the kids -- spottedly. (is that a<br>
>> word?<br>
>> Hmm)<br>
>><br>
>> I'm not, however, finding him in any of the listed cemeteries in
Umatilla<br>
>> or<br>
>> Union counties. Dang.<br>
>><br>
>> I think I'll skip the cemetery and focus my efforts on the courthouse.<br>
>> You<br>
>> never know.<br>
>><br>
>> Pat<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>><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 Sue<br>
>> Steward<br>
>> Sent: Sunday, May 17, 2009 8:56 PM<br>
>> To: or-roots mail list<br>
>> Subject: Re: [or-roots] Claypool Cemetery, Linn County<br>
>><br>
>> http://www.usgennet.org/usa/or/town/lebanon/cems/claypool.html<br>
>><br>
>> Here is a transcription, don't know if it is complete. Has
Andrew<br>
>> Richardson's daughter there.<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> ----- Original Message ----- <br>
>> From: "Kith-n-Kin" <Kith-n-Kin@cox.net><br>
>> To: <or-roots@listsmart.osl.state.or.us><br>
>> Sent: Sunday, May 17, 2009 12:59 PM<br>
>> Subject: [or-roots] Claypool Cemetery, Linn County<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> On the 1878 Atlas of Marion and Linn Counties, map 7, page 81, upper <br>
>> right<br>
>> corner, in "Center" there is a cemetery marked on the
property of Andrew<br>
>> Richardson, including part of the original DLC of Aaron Claypool. I <br>
>> looked<br>
>> this up on the GNIS and apparently it's called the
"Claypool" cemetery,<br>
>> and<br>
>> according to Findagrave it includes some Parrish's, Washburns,
Jacksons,<br>
>> etc.<br>
>><br>
>> Does anyone have a complete census of this cemetery? Or know anything<br>
>> about<br>
>> it?<br>
>><br>
>> I'm trying to find out what happened to Andrew Jackson Richardson who<br>
>> married Mary Jane Gallaher. They disappear from the censuses after
1860,<br>
>> though there is evidence of children born after 1870. I
eventually find<br>
>> her, and some of the children, in Washington. She and a daughter are<br>
>> buried<br>
>> in the same cemetery as Andrew Jackson's sister, Cynthia (Richardson)<br>
>> Parks,<br>
>> in Colton, Whitman County, Washington.<br>
>><br>
>> One descendant indicates that he may have died in Umatilla County
about<br>
>> 1880, but why no census? What's going on here?<br>
>><br>
>> Since I'm going to be going to Portland in a couple of weeks, and plan
to<br>
>> visit Linn county, the courthouse, the cemetery, etc, anything I can
find<br>
>> out now will help.<br>
>><br>
>> Pat<br>
>> in Tucson<br>
>><br>
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