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<DIV>My great uncle, George Trosper, married into the Parrish family. My family
ranched in the Dayville area.</DIV>
<DIV>I would like to share the following with you all. Theodora Valade
Richardson</DIV>
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<DIV>Edward Evans Parrish was born November 28, 1836 to Edward Evans Parrish and
Rebecca Maple from Virginia and Ohio.<BR>Mary Elizabeth Smith Parrish was born
in Clay County, Indiana January 28, 1836. They were married July 31,
1857.<BR>They crossed the plains by covered wagon, making their home in
Jefferson, Oregon. They moved to Waterman, then part of Grant County, in 1878.
They lived there for a short time on the Smith Ranch, then to Spanish Gulch to
be near a school.<BR>In 1878, the Parrish family and many others forted up at
Spanish Gulch because of the Indian uprising. The family then returned to the
Willamette Valley for a year. <BR>They moved back to Antone and lived on the
Trosper place of Rock Creek.<BR>The family went to the Military Road to see
General Howard’s detachment move past with 300 Indians. The General camped that
night at the Shoots Ranch, later know as the Cowen Ranch, Truchot now part of
Harrison Antone Ranch. This is near Camp Watson.<BR>The family then moved to
Shoo Fly, Richmond area, where their fifth child, May, was born. In this area,
Edward Evans Parrish was killed in a logging accident. <BR>Mary Elizabeth
Parrish moved to Mitchell where she lived for thirty-one years. She had escaped
drowning in the flood there June of 1884. Her father was drowned in that
flood.<BR>She was Wheeler County Pioneer Queen when she was 94 years old. The
oldest living woman at the time in the county.<BR>Their children were: Rowena
Erickson Trosper, Nan Whalen Waterman ( Mrs. Ezekiel Waterman), Pearl Whitney,
May Barry and Edward.</DIV>
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<DIV>Author Unknown<BR>Printed in the History Of Grant Count,
Oregon<BR>Copyright 1983</DIV>
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