Hello Cady 978 and all, I must have a connection to your pioneers. My Beckwith Cook and Harriet S. Olds had a daughter Sophia Almira Cook. She married Henry Bishop Smith and lived on what is now the Crow/Vaughn Road (also called Noti valley in 1850's) in Lane County. Henry's older brother, James Alexander Smith, M.D., traveled by horse from Iowa to see Henry and Sophia and their children, after his own wife died in childbirth. He was my 2nd great grandfather. But, he died only a few miles from his destination. See the news transcription below from an old scrapbook which also shows a kind of connection to the Parrott family, who by the way, had a farm near the Smiths in IA. James' father and mother, Freeman and Margaret(Hildebrand) Smith, cared for the orphaned children, Margaret Elizabeth (my great grandmother) and James Frank Smith. The extended Smith family left Cedar Rapids IA in 1865, when the children were 8 and 5 years old, to travel by steamship. They crossed the Isthmus of Panama by canoe,! by foot and by donkey, meeting a steamer on the other side to take them to Oregon. They eventually found their way to Buena Vista and began the Oregon Pottery Co. From a newspaper article dated Oct. 7, 1861: A stranger giving his name as Jas A. Smith of Cedar Rapids, Iowa died at Mrs. Jos Parrott's, six miles south of Oregon City on Monday, Oct 7th, about 33 years. He had a diploma as an MD from a medical college in Cincinatti [sic]. He had with him his marriage certificate also dated Cincinatti [sic]. He was in search of a brother supposed to live on Long Tom. His effects were examined and a memorandizing made of them by A. Coolidge, F. McLane and N.D. Symonds of Silverton, Marion County. Any further information can be had by writing to Rev. K. Hines, Oregon City. I am looking for information about the medical school that James Alexander attended. Perhaps Parrott family history has a clue? Of course I will relish any information at all. Freeman Smith had been a builder of steamboats. When he was a boy he was on the old steamboat Claremont, the first steamboat ever built. He constructed some of the first steamboats that ran on the Monongahela river. He built the Black Hawk in IA, which later was sold to the Government and taken South, and used as a Government supply boat during the civil war, on the Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers. In Oregon, steamboats used to take the pottery jars to the various markets in the Pacific Northwest in the days before trains and Tupperware. Its no wonder that little grandson James Frank Smith became a steamboat captain when he was older - known as Sunny Jim. In his later years he kept a steamboat museum at Champoeg. My great grandmother Margaret, married one of the potters in the works in Buena Vista. He was also from a pioneer family. He was James Stephen Church. His uncle was Stephen Tripp Church who was secretary and a founder of the People's Transportation Company with Davi! d and Asa McCully. (More steamboat men!) In 1857 in Lane County, Stephen married Elizabeth Lister, the daughter of pioneers, Dr. William and Catherine (Murray) Lister. Henry B. Smith died near Noti in 1865. After Henry died his wife Sophia, sold the farm and moved the family to Buena Vista where her father and other family lived. Sophia Cook Smith married twice more. James M. Allen Mar 6, 1875. 3. Jesse Clark Orchard, June 1888. Sophia passed away after 1902 and is buried at Dufur, OR. I look forward to hearing about any family history connections! Judy Church Jones ACORN, ANDERSON, BAIRENS, CHURCH, FLINN, HUCKINS, KENT, LISTER, MCGUIRE, MITCHELL, SKIPTON, SMITH, TRIPP, WAGGENER, WATKINS, VAN ANTWERP, ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 6:38 PM Subject: [OREGON] OT Pioneers: COOK, RICE, GILLIAM, HAGEY, GOLDEN, PARROTT >I read Anne's ancestor list of early Oregon pioneers and thought, "What a > good idea!" Here is mine. Are there any connections out there? > > Mitchell Porter GILLIAM, to Oregon 1844, settled Wasco Co, OR, Klickitat Co., > WA > Andrew and Catherine Grimes HAGEY, to Oregon 1848, settled Marion Co., OR > Lewis and Amy Long PARROTT, to Oregon 1847, to Klickitat Co., WA, 1859 > John GOLDEN, to Klickitat Co., WA 1859 > Beckwith and Mary Pettingell Rice COOK to OR 1851, Lane Co. > Seley and Nancy Rice COOK to OR 1851, Lane Co. > > Also, how early must a a person have arrived to qualify as a "pioneer"? That > might be the start of another list! >

For those who don't know. See this site for Newspaper abstracts http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=638 Dan M

Hi saw your posting I have a Robert E. Anderson who married a Price from Dufur area. Ella Candas Leabo and Guy a Price. ----- Original Message ----- From: "The William C. Jones Family" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 7:36 AM Subject: [OREGON] ACORN, ANDERSON, BAIRENS, CHURCH, FLINN, HUCKINS, KENT, LISTER, MCGUIRE, MITCHELL, SKIPTON, SMITH, TRIPP, WAGGENER, WATKINS, VAN ANTWERP, etc. > Hello Cady 978 and all, > > I must have a connection to your pioneers. My Beckwith Cook and Harriet S. > Olds had a daughter Sophia Almira Cook. She married Henry Bishop Smith and > lived on what is now the Crow/Vaughn Road (also called Noti valley in > 1850's) in Lane County. Henry's older brother, James Alexander Smith, > M.D., traveled by horse from Iowa to see Henry and Sophia and their > children, after his own wife died in childbirth. He was my 2nd great > grandfather. But, he died only a few miles from his destination. See the > news transcription below from an old scrapbook which also shows a kind of > connection to the Parrott family, who by the way, had a farm near the > Smiths in IA. James' father and mother, Freeman and Margaret(Hildebrand) > Smith, cared for the orphaned children, Margaret Elizabeth (my great > grandmother) and James Frank Smith. The extended Smith family left Cedar > Rapids IA in 1865, when the children were 8 and 5 years old, to travel by > steamship. They crossed the Isthmus of Panama by canoe,! > by foot and by donkey, meeting a steamer on the other side to take them to > Oregon. They eventually found their way to Buena Vista and began the > Oregon Pottery Co. > >>From a newspaper article dated Oct. 7, 1861: > A stranger giving his name as Jas A. Smith of Cedar Rapids, Iowa died at > Mrs. Jos Parrott's, six miles south of Oregon City on Monday, Oct 7th, > about 33 years. He had a diploma as an MD from a medical college in > Cincinatti [sic]. He had with him his marriage certificate also dated > Cincinatti [sic]. He was in search of a brother supposed to live on Long > Tom. His effects were examined and a memorandizing made of them by A. > Coolidge, F. McLane and N.D. Symonds of Silverton, Marion County. Any > further information can be had by writing to Rev. K. Hines, Oregon City. > > I am looking for information about the medical school that James Alexander > attended. Perhaps Parrott family history has a clue? Of course I will > relish any information at all. > > Freeman Smith had been a builder of steamboats. When he was a boy he was > on the old steamboat Claremont, the first steamboat ever built. He > constructed some of the first steamboats that ran on the Monongahela > river. He built the Black Hawk in IA, which later was sold to the > Government and taken South, and used as a Government supply boat during > the civil war, on the Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers. In Oregon, > steamboats used to take the pottery jars to the various markets in the > Pacific Northwest in the days before trains and Tupperware. Its no wonder > that little grandson James Frank Smith became a steamboat captain when he > was older - known as Sunny Jim. In his later years he kept a steamboat > museum at Champoeg. My great grandmother Margaret, married one of the > potters in the works in Buena Vista. He was also from a pioneer family. He > was James Stephen Church. His uncle was Stephen Tripp Church who was > secretary and a founder of the People's Transportation Company with Davi! > d and Asa McCully. (More steamboat men!) In 1857 in Lane County, Stephen > married Elizabeth Lister, the daughter of pioneers, Dr. William and > Catherine (Murray) Lister. > > Henry B. Smith died near Noti in 1865. After Henry died his wife Sophia, > sold the farm and moved the family to Buena Vista where her father and > other family lived. Sophia Cook Smith married twice more. James M. Allen > Mar 6, 1875. 3. Jesse Clark Orchard, June 1888. Sophia passed away after > 1902 and is buried at Dufur, OR. > > I look forward to hearing about any family history connections! > > Judy Church Jones > ACORN, ANDERSON, BAIRENS, CHURCH, FLINN, HUCKINS, KENT, LISTER, MCGUIRE, > MITCHELL, SKIPTON, SMITH, TRIPP, WAGGENER, WATKINS, VAN ANTWERP, > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 6:38 PM > Subject: [OREGON] OT Pioneers: COOK, RICE, GILLIAM, HAGEY, GOLDEN, PARROTT > > >>I read Anne's ancestor list of early Oregon pioneers and thought, "What a >> good idea!" Here is mine. 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