<html><body><div style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000"><div aria-label="Compose body">Denise,</div><div aria-label="Compose body">Michael Troutman Simmons' in-laws, Talitha (Ramey) and David Kindred, are my kid's 6G grandparents.  I believe that they are also mentioned in the Parrish diary as are Sarah (Kindred) and William Bowman, my kid's 5G grandparents.  </div><div aria-label="Compose body">Barbara Herring</div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr"><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;" data-mce-style="color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Denise Sproed" <DeniseSproed@onlinenw.com><br><b>To: </b>"or-roots mail list" <or-roots@listsmart.osl.state.or.us><br><b>Sent: </b>Sunday, February 23, 2014 8:46:22 AM<br><b>Subject: </b>[or-roots] 1844 Wagon Train Diary<br><div><br></div><style><!--

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--></style><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: #1f497d;">Dan,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: #1f497d;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: #1f497d;">I’m related to quite a number of folks in the Rev Parrish 1844 Diary.  Cornelius Gilliam is my direct ancestor, leader of the wagon train.  Many of his siblings & extended family [William & Sarah Shaw, Nelson, Nichols, Belieu, Brown, Crawford, Eads, Gage, Grant, etc] are on that same wagon train.  There are a couple other publications that help sort out families who traveled that year.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: #1f497d;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: #1f497d;">1844 is a year of especial interest to me.  Michael Troutman Simmons is also a relative of mine, tho not thru Gilliam, who was on that same wagon train.  Always enjoy collaborating with other relatives.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: #1f497d;">Denise Sproed</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D" data-mce-style="font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #1f497d;">A member of the Association of Professional Genealogists</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D" data-mce-style="font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: #1f497d;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D" data-mce-style="font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: #1f497d;"> </span><span style="font-size:6.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D" data-mce-style="font-size: 6.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: #1f497d;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D" data-mce-style="font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #1f497d;">The web page I made for my parents is at:  </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"><a href="http://freepages.family.rootsweb.com/~merritt/" target="_blank" data-mce-href="http://freepages.family.rootsweb.com/~merritt/"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue" data-mce-style="font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: blue;">http://freepages.family.rootsweb.com/~merritt/</span></a></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D" data-mce-style="font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: #1f497d;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D" data-mce-style="font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: #1f497d;"> </span><span style="font-size:6.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D" data-mce-style="font-size: 6.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: #1f497d;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D" data-mce-style="font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #1f497d;">My genealogy recorded in </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"><a href="http://www.whollygenes.com/" target="_blank" data-mce-href="http://www.whollygenes.com/"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue" data-mce-style="font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: blue;">The Master Genealogist</span></a></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D" data-mce-style="font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #1f497d;"> with the webpage created using John Cardinal's </span><span style="font-size:11.0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