Since there are several Hutchinson researchers on this list I thought I should forward this incase you aren't on the IL-Western list. Anyone find anything on James RUble and Sarah Hutchison please contact me. Pat R. > Laura from Seattle writes: > << Does anyone have people who came west?? >> > Robert Milligan Hutchinson and Benjamin Hutchinson to Oregon in 1850. > Record of Robert purchasing land there in Nov 1850. They returned to IL in > 1851. Robert with his wife and children joined The Longmire Wagon Train > party of 1853 returning to Oregon. I have in my files information about the > legends of Robert and his older children. Robert died in Whitney Baker, OR > after many years of adventures to CA, WA, and Canada. He and his sons made > trail drives to move cattle to OR, IL, WA and Canada. > Thomas Hanna Hutchinson, younger brother of Robert and Benjamin, and his > wife, Elizabeth Butler, traveled in a wagon trail with Peter Butler, > Elizabeth's father, and her sibs and their spouses to OR arriving in Polk > Co., OR in 1853. Thomas surveyed and platted Monmouth, Oregon in 1855, > responsible for naming early streets. The extended Butler family purchased > land as a group and established a Christian college in OR. This is now > Western Oregon University. (Western Oregon University has a web site > containing the personal letters exchanged between the family members in OR > and the family members in IL. An interesting site if someone is interesting > in knowing the experience of these early settlers.) Thomas and Elizabeth are > buried in The Butler Cemetery in Monmouth, OR. > Their youngest brother, James C. Hutchinson, was living with Robert in > OR in 1860 and he is buried in Masonic Cemetery, north of Oakland, OR. > My records contain information about the descends of these families in > Seattle, WA > > Bettye Hutchinson Short, Austin, TX > > > ==== IL-WESTERN Mailing List ==== > Difference between IL-WESTERN-L and IL-WESTERN-D: > IL-WESTERN-L every message is sent to you in a seperate email. > IL-WESTERN-D several messages are sent to you in one email. >