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<P>All I can say is that some wonderful people on this list helped me find my husband's "long lost" great grandmother, Melissa Adelia Drake Reed, who died in Tacoma, WA in 1911. We went up to Tacoma recently to see her niche in an old columbarium at Oakwood Hill Cemetery. We also saw the graves of some of the Halstead Family he is related to via his great grandmother's mother. This great great grandmother, Phoebe Halstead Drake, was a younger sister of the Jacob Halstead who can be found in the new Early Oregonians database from our Archives. </P>
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<P>Jacob Halstead came west in a wagon train with A. (Andrew) H. Dray in 1852. Jacob married his first wife Britania Malone in Oregon in Dec. of 1852. She died in 1860 and is buried in the Malone Cemetery which was on the Malone Homestead - now McMinnville. You can see the Halsteads and Malones in the database as well as on Stephanie Flora's fine website on the Oregon Trail. Jacob's second wife was Jane Constable Halstead. Jacob, Jane, and other Halstead family members are buried in Oakwood Hill cemetery in Tacoma. Jacob and Phoebe's mother Lois Winters Halstead is buried right near them, too (but Phoebe died and is buried in Chicago).</P>
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<P>Mr. Bill Habermann up there at Piper/Morley/Mellinger Funeral Homes was also a wonderful help, as was Christopher Engh at Tacoma Cemetery where we were able to see the grave of Phoebe Halstead and Moses F. Drake's youngest daughter Lois B. Drake, who died in that awful street car wreck July 4, 1900 in South Tacoma.</P>
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<P>Nice and helpful people on this list!</P>
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<P>Paulette<BR><BR><BR></P>
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