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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>The new Ferry is called the Daniel Matheny V it is named after my gt.gt.gt. grandfather who was one of the first owners of the Ferry.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Dan you misspelled my last name again, being Welsh you have to add the "E".</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Walt </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>PS I still copies of the book "Into the Eye of the Setting Sun" that I send online. </FONT> </DIV>
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<DIV>In a message dated 02/21/10 14:10:27 Pacific Standard Time, ssteward@ccountry.net writes:</DIV>
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http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~jtenlen/ORBios/mcmatheny.txt <BR><BR>We've used the Wheatland Ferry several times, I think it was previously <BR>called Matheny Ferry. <BR><BR>Sue <BR><BR>----- Original Message ----- <BR>From: "Dan M" <mygenrw2@gmail.com> <BR>To: "or-roots mail list" <or-roots@listsmart.osl.state.or.us> <BR>Sent: Sunday, February 21, 2010 11:50 AM <BR>Subject: Re: [or-roots] Matheny's Everywhere -- (and Simkins) <BR><BR><BR>Matneny has a list on some server, I used to be on it, I used to be the <BR>admin for the one on rootsweb, Dianna started some one line group for them. <BR>I know they are always showing up around Matney also, I think the name is <BR>French and we found Matney there as DeMatenyee <sp> close to that off hand. <BR> I see Matheny properties close to Matney properties and some travels in <BR>same areas, how ever there are more of the pioneer type people in those old <BR>days the Matheny seemed to be to
more famously known over the Matney in most <BR>places eg Champoeg. <BR> Matney like any other names has a lot of milestones but I noticed the <BR>Matheny seem to be more well known over all eg Walt Davis's Aunts book into <BR>the setting sun. SO far we have not found any one who has recorded any <BR>Matney/Mattingly pioneer mentions too much. There is a great deal of history <BR>for folks in the era and each name I read about seems to have its own <BR>history, very much fun reading about all names of the times, I always wonder <BR>how it really was all these people on the wagon train 1843 so to speak. <BR>Dan M <BR>----- Original Message ----- <BR>From: "Chris & Bill Strickland" <lechevrier@earthlink.net> <BR>To: "or-roots mail list" <or-roots@listsmart.osl.state.or.us> <BR>Sent: Sunday, February 21, 2010 11:11 AM <BR>Subject: [or-roots] Matheny's Everywhere -- (and Simkins) <BR><BR><BR>In this Hiram Simkins business, I find two in Oregon before 1900 -
- one <BR>in the Wheatland area of Yanhill & Polk Counties, with connections to <BR>numerous of the well-known Champoeg area pioneers, and his uncle, Hiram <BR>Simpkins, found in the 1880 census in "Jump off Joe" in Josephine <BR>County, the census taker writing something that could be transcribed as <BR>"Irian". <BR><BR>Anyway, of the former, less related one, I found the Matheny name <BR>popping up again, which, since it has been a topic on this list, I <BR>thought might be of interest to some: <BR><BR><BR>_______________________________________________ <BR>or-roots mailing list <BR>or-roots@listsmart.osl.state.or.us <BR>http://listsmart.osl.state.or.us/mailman/listinfo/or-roots <BR><BR>_______________________________________________ <BR>or-roots mailing list <BR>or-roots@listsmart.osl.state.or.us <BR>http://listsmart.osl.state.or.us/mailman/listinfo/or-roots <BR></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
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