Do you know how they traveled to Oregon from Iowa? I wonder if they used a covered wagon or horseback only or foot and horseback and whether they came along the Oregon Trail or some other way and what kind of group they traveled in, whether it was a family group or neighbors or religious group or group of land seekers or health oasis seekers and what part of Oregon they first arrived in and whether they settled there or moved on and settled elsewhere, or continued to move place to place until they could no longer move westward because of the land's end. It seems remarkable that people in my family were still traveling with covered wagon in the 1900s. One of my relatives migrated westward in 1910 with a covered wagon (not a Calistoga) with her mother, her aunt and her siblings. (No men!) My Gardners appear to have moved toward the outward fringes of "civilization," basically westward, from the time they left England until they arrived at Land's End on the west coast of America. It seems that that tendency is still "in the blood" of the local Gardners, and that when they find themselves in an undesirable social situation, they tend to "move on" Muriah _____ westlund wrote: > Jay Wallace Gardner b. Weston, Oregon 1884 was the son of Eugene F. Gardner b. 1845 in Maine. > Eugene F. Gardner born in Maine, was raised in Walworth Co., Wisc. He enlisted in 1862 as a private in Co. D 20th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, before his 17th birthday. He fought at Prairie Grove, Vicksburg, Atchafalaya River, Fort Morgan, Spanish Fort, VanBuren, Yazoo City and Meadowville. He was discharged at Galveston, Texas in July 1865. > After the war he returned home and married Lucy Jane Wheeler. They spent some time in Wisconsin, Minnesota and Iowa before moving to Oregon in 1873. > [email protected] > > ============================== > Create a FREE family website at MyFamily.com! > http://www.myfamily.com/banner.asp?ID=RWLIST2

Maybe they did what so many members of my church, Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints, did when they pulled and pushed handcarts across the plains after they were driven from Illinois. Marilynn ----- Original Message ----- From: "muriah" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, June 15, 2001 9:14 AM Subject: Westward Migration to Land's End (trait) Re: [GARDNER] Muriah > Do you know how they traveled to Oregon from Iowa? > I wonder if they used a covered wagon or horseback only or foot and horseback and whether they came along the Oregon Trail or some other way and what kind of group they traveled in, whether it was a family group or neighbors or religious group or group of land seekers or health oasis seekers and what part of Oregon they first arrived in and whether > they settled there or moved on and settled elsewhere, or continued to move place to place until they could no longer move westward because of the land's end. > It seems remarkable that people in my family were still traveling with covered wagon in the 1900s. One of my relatives migrated westward in 1910 with a covered wagon (not a Calistoga) with her mother, her aunt and her siblings. (No men!) > My Gardners appear to have moved toward the outward fringes of "civilization," basically westward, from the time they left England until they arrived at Land's End on the west coast of America. > It seems that that tendency is still "in the blood" of the local Gardners, and that when they find themselves in an undesirable social situation, they tend to "move on" > Muriah > _____ > > westlund wrote: > > > Jay Wallace Gardner b. Weston, Oregon 1884 was the son of Eugene F. Gardner b. 1845 in Maine. > > Eugene F. Gardner born in Maine, was raised in Walworth Co., Wisc. He enlisted in 1862 as a private in Co. D 20th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, before his 17th birthday. He fought at Prairie Grove, Vicksburg, Atchafalaya River, Fort Morgan, Spanish Fort, VanBuren, Yazoo City and Meadowville. He was discharged at Galveston, Texas in July 1865. > > After the war he returned home and married Lucy Jane Wheeler. They spent some time in Wisconsin, Minnesota and Iowa before moving to Oregon in 1873. > > [email protected] > > > > ============================== > > Create a FREE family website at MyFamily.com! > > http://www.myfamily.com/banner.asp?ID=RWLIST2 > > > ============================== > Shop Ancestry - Everything you need to Discover, Preserve & Celebrate > your heritage! > http://shop.myfamily.com/ancestrycatalog >