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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>YES .YES</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>It was call Mathena's or Matheny's Ferry before the town of Wheatland existed. Daniel Matheny my 3 gt. grandfather started the town of Wheatland he owned the Ferry many years before buying it from the Methodist Missionaries in 1844.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Walt Davies</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>In a message dated 02/25/10 16:14:23 Pacific Standard Time, pmml@meritel.net writes:</DIV>
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nO nO nO nO nO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO <BR>----- Original Message ----- <BR>From: "Sue Steward" <ssteward@ccountry.net> <BR>To: "or-roots mail list" <or-roots@listsmart.osl.state.or.us> <BR>Sent: Sunday, February 21, 2010 2:11 PM <BR>Subject: Re: [or-roots] Matheny's Everywhere -- (and Simkins) <BR><BR><BR>> 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 root
sweb, Dianna started some one line group for <BR>> 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 <BR>> 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 <BR>> old <BR>> days the Matheny seemed to be to more famously known over the Matney in <BR>> 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 <BR>> 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 <BR>> history <BR>> for folks in the era and each name I read about seems to have its own <BR>&g
t; history, very much fun reading about all names of the times, I always <BR>> 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><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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