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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>also this.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Even some of our own people pretended to misunderstand him, but they were probably of a later emigration. My Father admired, respected and was deeply grateful to him.The Methodist Mission at Wheatland was in charge of Jason Lee. When we came the original Mission at Wheatland had been abandoned and the new Mission was established at Salem.We owned and lived in the house that was built for Dr. David Leslie, but most of the houses were across the river. Jason Lee's young wife was buried there.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Walt</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>In a message dated 02/25/10 20:35:49 Pacific Standard Time, barbhg1221@comcast.net writes:</DIV>
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<P>From the Oregon Historical Quarterly, Vol. 48, p. 345 [1947 - I believe]:</P>
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<P>"A new six car electrically-propelled ferry boat, Daniel Matheny III, went into service at the Wheatland ferry crossing of the Willamette River, on June 11. Daniel Matheny, pioneer of 1843, purchased James O'Neal's (sic) land claim in 1844, and soon thereafter established regular ferry service. Lindsay Applegate assisted him in constructing the first ferry boat, using 'bushel or two of literature he found in the old house' recently abandoned by the Jason Lee missionary workers at Mission Bottom.</P>
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<P>On Jan. 1853, the territorial legislature authorized a public road from Salem to Dayton, crossing the river at Matheny's ferry. For more than ninety years the service was privately owned and operated and became a public ferry less than ten years ago."</P>
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<P>Note: James O'Neil is my children's 4th great-grandfather.</P>
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<P>Barbara Herring</P>
<P><BR>----- Original Message -----<BR>From: "daviesw739" <daviesw739@aol.com><BR>To: "or-roots mail list" <or-roots@listsmart.osl.state.or.us><BR>Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2010 5:48:22 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific<BR>Subject: Re: [or-roots] Matheny's Everywhere -- (and Simkins)<BR><BR></P>
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<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>
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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>&
amp;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 relat
ed 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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