----- Original Message ----- From: <OREGON-TRAIL-D-request@rootsweb.com> To: <OREGON-TRAIL-D@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 3:12 AM Subject: OREGON-TRAIL-D Digest V02 #11

In a message dated 1/27/02 1:19:25 PM Pacific Standard Time, tompkins@bctonline.com writes: > Lewis A McArthur, Oregon Geographic Names says Thurston, Lane Co, > Oregon was named for George H. Thurston, the son of Delegate to > Congress Samuel R. Thurston, for whom Thurston Co, Washington is > named. George emigrated to Oregon in 1847 at age 1, born in > Burlington, Iowa. Thurston PO was established March 16, 1877 and > operated until July 1, 1973. An earlier Thurston PO was established > December 31, 1853 in Harrisburg, Linn Co, Oregon, but the name was > changed in 1856. > > jim > Thank you! Andrea

Hi All, Does anyone know anything about the Wingate Wagon Train - 1862? Thanks Linda

>Wondering if anyone knows when the Thurston Post Office and General Store was >established? This is in Lane County, not Linn County. >Here is what I have: >"Article Register Guard, September 25,2000: >When Thurston was settled about five miles east of Springfield in 1851, it >was a separate farming village that soon had its own schools and commercial >district. The Thurston Post Office was established in 1877 by Dr. >B.F.Russell, whose home later became the county poor farm." >Now my problems lies in BF Russell being on the WI 1880 census. he doesn't >show up until 1890 veterans schedule in Lane County. I know the Benjamin F. >Russell in 1880 census and the Benjamin F. Russell in 1900 census for >Thurston, Lane County are the same as the names and bds all match. Is it >possible article should have read 1887 and not 1877? >Thanks for your help. >Andrea Healy Lewis A McArthur, Oregon Geographic Names says Thurston, Lane Co, Oregon was named for George H. Thurston, the son of Delegate to Congress Samuel R. Thurston, for whom Thurston Co, Washington is named. George emigrated to Oregon in 1847 at age 1, born in Burlington, Iowa. Thurston PO was established March 16, 1877 and operated until July 1, 1973. An earlier Thurston PO was established December 31, 1853 in Harrisburg, Linn Co, Oregon, but the name was changed in 1856. jim

Wondering if anyone knows when the Thurston Post Office and General Store was established? This is in Lane County, not Linn County. Here is what I have: "Article Register Guard, September 25,2000: When Thurston was settled about five miles east of Springfield in 1851, it was a separate farming village that soon had its own schools and commercial district. The Thurston Post Office was established in 1877 by Dr. B.F.Russell, whose home later became the county poor farm." Now my problems lies in BF Russell being on the WI 1880 census. he doesn't show up until 1890 veterans schedule in Lane County. I know the Benjamin F. Russell in 1880 census and the Benjamin F. Russell in 1900 census for Thurston, Lane County are the same as the names and bds all match. Is it possible article should have read 1887 and not 1877? Thanks for your help. Andrea Healy

Bonjour, Is there a web site or publication where one can view pictures of , or at least the wording on, all of the Trail Markers that have been placed along the Trail? Albert Albert Edward Belanger 128 Middle Road Brentwood, NH 03833 (Researching 1851 Oregon Trail Migration & BLANCHARD, NOLAN(D), BOWMAN, LINK, SLOW, KE(M)PLER & HALL of that year.)

Hi everyone I am compiling information on a part of my family that emigrated from Northumberland, England in about 1890 and ended up in Portland. I still live in Northumberland, so am not familiar with your area at all. The family “branch” is William Osborne was born 24 Feb 1859 in Shilbottle, Northumberland, England married March 1880 to Catherine Jobling born 5 June 1854 Scotland. As you can see by the birth places of the children my family left England sometime after the baptism of John in April 1888, but by October 1892 they were in Spokane, Washington, then by May 1895 they were in Portland, Oregon. I have no knowledge of the travels of the family, and would love to find out more about their journey. Their children are Eleanor Jobling Osborne b. 1 Aug 1880 Wark, Northumberland d. 12 Oct 1967 m. Paul Sievers Jane Margaret Osborne b. 27 May 1882 Northumberland d. 8 Feb 1963 m Chester Stone William Thompson Osborne b. 7 Feb 1885 Northumberland d. 14 Mar 1918 Rachel Isabella Osborne b. 16 Feb 1886 Northumberland d. 26 Dec 1962 John Ephraim Osborne b. 23 Feb 1888 Northumberland d. 29 Dec 1934 m. Grace Unknown Catherine Anna Osborne b. 23 Oct 1892 Spokane, Washington, USA d. 29 Apr 1982 m. Harry Hendrix d. 25 Mar 1956 Mary Esther Osborne b. 23 May 1895 Portland, Oregon, USA d. 12 Apr 1983 Emma Thomasine Osborne b. 21 Aug 1896 Portland, Oregon, USA d. 8 May 1980 Portland, Oregon, USA m. 31 Oct 1914 Raymond Rogers b. 24 Jan 1893 d. Jun 1969 Any information welcome. Regards Jane Burn Jane.Burn@ncl.ac.uk

From the GenGuide's Family Tree Update - January 19, 2002 Newsletter: The Oregon Trail <http://www.isu.edu/~trinmich/Oregontrail.html> Before the railroad crossed America, hundreds of thousands of people poured west along the Oregon Trail. Your ancestor may have been among them. Although known as the Oregon Trail, many westward-bound settlers traveled much of the same trail. In fact, certain sections of it may be called the California Trail or the Mormon Trail. However, most certainly, the basic route from "back East" to Fort Laramie was the same. Interestingly,traveling the Oregon Trail was NOT a solitary feat. In fact one woman noted in her journal that she could see wagons in front of and behind her for as far as she could see. The sad truth was too many traveled the trail at the same time, depleting food for oxen, fresh water and firewood. In the glory days of the Oregon Trail, thousands of settler got no further than what is today's Nebraska or Wyoming. Cholera killed so many travelers, that one Oregon-bound settler said there were so many graves along the way that you could walk to Fort Laramie without ever stepping on the ground. The Oregon Trail Web site tells all of the fascinating facts about the Trail, the settlers who traveled it, the journey, and the hardships. If your ancestor traveled the Trail, you do not want to miss all this site offers. Stop at the Historic Site along the trail, read the wild and wacky "Trail Facts", and don't miss the full-text journals and diaries kept by travelers. If you want to know what it was like to walk alongside your Oregon Trail ancestor, this site will make it possible. _________________________________________________________ ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ -- oooO Oooo || || +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+ { Current publications available at: } http://cgi3.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewListedItems&userid=rosess { http://stores.half.com/rosesss } { Rose Terry @>,--'--- _ RMTerry@prodigy.net } +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~000~~~~~( )~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+ ( @ @ ) || \ / || ||| || 0ooo Give your children these two things - One is roots, the other, wings.

Bonjour, For those who are new to this list, I am researching the 1851 Oregon Trail migration. If you had an ancestor on the Oregon/California Trail that year, I would like to here from you. To those who are aware of my project over the past five years, I have copies of 110 O.T. documents for my INDEX OF 1851 O..T. JOURNALS and over 3,500 names in my MASTER LIST OF 1851 O. T. PIONEERS. This vast collection is due only to the VERY generous contribution of time and effort and private family documents from the hoard of friends I have made via the internet. So, it is time to put the final touches of the project for the editor. The ultimate form the product will take is not yet been finalized, but under possible consideration are any or all of the following: web site, hard copy, compact disc. In addition, I'll probably be looking for a repository to house my collection of copied documents. I'll send out another notice to the lists when appropriate. Albert Edward Belanger 128 Middle Road Brentwood, NH 03833 (Researching 1851 Oregon Trail Migration and BLANCHARD, NOLAN, SLOW, KE(M)PLER, BOWMAN, LINK, & HALL of that year.)

URGENT REQUEST!: Now that we are over the holidays, This years is our 350th Anniversary of the landing of the Swartwout family in North America. The name has many variations such as Swarthout, Swartout, Swartwood, Swathwood, Swarthwood etc. We need help in gather lines, pictures, articles, wills, what ever you have stashed in your attic. We would really appreciated it if you shared with us what you had, there a literally thousands of us here looking for our roots, looking for connections. For our 350th Anniversary we need to updated our list of folks out there that are descendants somewhere along the line of any of those variations. We also have a family newsletter that cost only $5.00 per year, a real bargain. Just send it your mailing address. Every day I get e-mail asking me for help. Up here in Canada, there were two brothers that had huge families, all the remains of their descendants are the female sides. All the male went back to the States. I'm am the maintainer of "The Updated Swartwout Chronicles" People submit their lines-ged-coms etc. and I just drop them into the data base. It is everyone's database. Each person is responsible for their own submissions. It is not copyrighted. Kathy kathyhoeldke@sympatico.ca ldyk@hotmail.ca

Hello All, As so many of you have kindly notified me, THIS IS A HOAX! Please disregard and IF you have forwarded it, please let the recipients know it is a hoax! Sorry! Jay In a message dated 1/9/02 2:52:20 PM, GFJay writes: << THIS should not pass! Jay Subject: Fw: Fw: Bill 602P (please read) Federal Bill 602p Guess the warnings were true. Federal Bill 602P 5-cents per E-mail sent. It figures! No more free E-mail! We knew this was coming!!

CLARK--At his home on the Alameda, November 16, 1889, WILLIAM SQUIRE CLARK, aged 82 years, 1 month and 18 days. Funeral services at the residence on Monday afternoon at 2:30 oclock. Interment private. ----- ----- Death of a Wealthy Pioneer of the State HIS REMARKABLE CAREER A Wonderful Business Acumen--The Funeral Services and Interment--The Family W. S. CLARK died yesterday morning at 11 oclock at his residence on the Alameda, after a lingering illness of over five years. Mr. CLARK was one of the most remarkable men who aided in making California what she is today. His success in amassing his large fortune laid in the fact that he had abounding faith in the prosperity of the state. Not a dime of his wealth was made in speculation, but it all was the result of remarkable forethought and business acumen. WILLIAM SQUIRES CLARK was born in Maryland in 1807, making him at the time of his death 82 years of age. His grandfather, ABRAHAM CLARK, was a signer of the Declaration of Independence and with his son, W. S. CLARK's father, was a firm and unswerving supporter of the cause of the colonies. While a child Mr. CLARK's parents moved West, settling in Ohio, and he received his education in a town near Cincinnati. He first heard of California in 1845 or 1846, and he made every effort to learn as much as he could concerning the country. Before he left the East he pinned his faith on the prosperity of a city which would rise on the Bay of San Francisco, although at that time Monterey was the chief city in the state. He joined one of the first parties that crossed the plains, during which time he had to encounter untold difficulties in some form or another, but in 1847 he reached Sutter's fort. While here he had his cart confiscated by the troops under the command of the stripling officer who finally became General William T. Sherman. Nothing daunted he reached Yerba Buena, now San Francisco, on a barge. Here he acted upon the conclusion he arrived at before he left home. He squatted on a large piece of land, known to all as CLARK'S point. He acquired other property in San Francisco and its value has been increasing all along. Mr. CLARK was one of the organizers and trustees of Calvary Presbyterian church, San Francisco, and was also a supporter of the First Presbyterian church of this city. The funeral services will be celebrated at his late residence on the Alameda, at 2:30 o'clock Monday, and on Tuesday morning the remains will be taken to San Francisco for interment. -----

The Boone Society, Inc. Reunion July 31-August 4, 2002 Wilsonville, Oregon (near Portland) Plans (now only seven months ahead) are as follows: WEDNESDAY, JULY 31__Registration and check in. Evening barbecue and entertainment at Boone’s Ferry Park THURSDAY, AUGUST 1__ Dr. Jim Tompkins, Oregon History Instructor at Clackamas Community College, will be our tour guide for a bus trip on the Columbia River Gorge portion of the Oregon Trail. We will stop at Multnomah Falls, around Mt. Hood, and will have lunch at Timberline Lodge at the base of the mountain. We will then travel west down Laurel Hill where wagons, oxen, horses and emigrants were lowered by rope. Prior to 1846, travel to the Willamette Valley was by the Columbia River, a treacherous and dangerous route. Some of Jim Tompkins’ ancestors came this way. _After dinner, there will be an evening program at which we will be honored by the presence of William Cannon, the only Revolutionary War soldier buried in Oregon. William is portrayed by Tom Laidlaw (actor, writer, historian and master storyteller) who holds a BS Degree in Theater Arts from Portland State University. Tom has been a volunteer blacksmith and interpreter at Ft. Vancouver, WA for five years. FRIDAY, AUGUST 2 __A day trip to the Oregon Coast (Boone Island and Boone Point, etc.) where Daniel's great grandson, George Luther Boone (the great grandfather of two of the Reunion Committee members), settled on Yaquina Bay after coming to Oregon in 1848. The return route will be via one of the Boone Homesteads, Salem (the state capitol) and several Boone Historical markers. _After dinner, Rochelle Cochran will present a program for historian Ken Kamper detailing his work with the Daniel Boone and Frontier Families Association, the many Boone sites in Missouri and efforts to protect and preserve Boone history and locations. SATURDAY, AUGUST 3__A Morning tour of the Oregon Trail Interpretive Center in Oregon City. __The Boone Society Annual Meeting will be held after lunch. __The Reunion Banquet and special entertainment will be In the evening. SUNDAY, AUGUST 4__Farewell Champagne Brunch. It is not too early to reserve your lodging, so feel free to register now by dialing 1-800-HOLIDAY Lodging Information: HOLIDAY INN SELECT, 25425 Southwest 95th. Avenue (bordered by Boones Ferry Road) Wilsonville (formerly Boonesville/Boones Landing), Oregon 97070 Phone: 503-570-8500 (Wilsonville Holiday Inn Select) Web Site: holidayinnselect.pdx.citysearch.com To register: www.hiselect.com\wilsonvilleor or call 1-800-HOLIDAY Room rates: $59/day - includes tax, single or double occupancy/children 12 yrs. or younger FREE (best rates ever - actually a 38% discount from their regular rate!) Meal Information: All meals (11 total) will be included in the reunion registration fee Registration Fee: Explorer & Life Members $179 per person Individual & Family Members $199 per person Nonmembers $219 per person It is not too early to reserve your lodging, so feel free to register now by dialing 1-800-HOLIDAY **************** ANNOUNCING "THE BOONE BOX"*************** The BOONE Voice Mail Line 1-503-682-5599 has been established to answer questions about the fourth Boone Society, Inc. Reunion. Please leave an explanation of the information you are requesting and your name, e-mail address and/or "real" address, so we can contact you. THIS IS FOR REUNION INFORMATION ONLY!! Information presented by The Oregon Boone Society Reunion Committee ****VISIT THE BOONE SOCIETY, INC. WEB SITE NOW UP AND RUNNING!***** http://www.boonesociety.org/

Obit: The Free Lance, Hollister, CA; Dec 17, 1897, p. 4: HODGES -- In Hollister, Dec. 15, 1897, James I. HODGES, a native of Tennessee, aged 67 years, 2 months, and 15 days. (Deceased was one of the best-known pioneers of this section of California, having settled in this county in 1868. He was a native of Tennessee, and at an early age left home and started out in life for himself. In 1846 he enlisted in the army for the war between the United States and Mexico but was rejected on account of his age. He then went to Arkansas and worked for a man by the name of WOOD, with whom he remained until May, 1849. During that time he was employed on a pony express route from Rockwood to Morrow, Louisiana, a distance of 150 miles. It was the intention of deceased to make the journey to California via water that spring, but circumstances prevented him from doing so. Still, however, determined to come to this Coast, in the spring of 1852 he left Clarksville, Arkansas, with Capt. JAMISON’s Company, April 14th being the day on which they started. Their company consisted of about 380 persons. They crossed the plains with ox teams, and their experiences were similar to those of many other emigrants. When they reached the North Platte Mr. HODGES was taken down with mountain fever, and remained sick for some 2 weeks. After he had sufficiently recovered to take charge of his team he had a runaway and was thrown into a creek. Getting wet caused a relapse of his illness which came near being fatal. Sept. 18, 1852, was the date of their arrival in Stockton, California. Mr. HODGES turned his team out, took his pack, and left for Sonora, Tuolumne county, where he engaged in chopping down timber for building purposes. He remained at this place one month, receiving $4.00 a day and board, after which he returned to Stockton. He then began hauling goods from Stockton to the mines, and the last load he took stuck fast in the mud. He sold flour at $1.00 a pound. In 1853 he and 5 others took up a claim. After they had opened it up and began to work it, a man came along and wanted to buy out Mr. HODGE’s interest. He sold to the stranger for $500. He was next engaged in hauling lumber from the mines to Stockton for about 3 months. After that he went back to the mines and was engaged in mining until 1865, when he sold out for the sum of $70,000. Returning again to Stockton he remained there until 1866, thence to Santa Rosa, and from there, in 1867, to Watsonville. In the fall of 1868 he went to Soquel, and the following fall located at Hollister. On November 28, 1860, deceased was united in marriage with Miss Mary J. SHIRLEY, by whom he had 7 children, 5 sons and 2 daughters. 1 daughter is deceased. The funeral will take place this (Friday) afternoon from his late residence on Fourth street, at 2 o’clock. The obsequies will be under the auspices of the local Masonic and Workman lodges. Friends and acquaintances are respectfully invited to attend.)

In the past several months, I have added several more wagon train lists to my Overland Trail web section. They are all accessed through: http://www.netcom.com/~symbios/geneal.html Scroll down the page and you'll find the Overland Trail section. Sandy Wilbur ------ Pre-owned History, Genealogy and Natural History Books: http://www.netcom.com/~symbios/genbooks.html Was your family on the Oregon Trail? Maybe they were on "The McCully Train": http://www.netcom.com/~symbios/wagntrn.html

Bonjour, I would like to hear from anyone who has access to any these books below to check something for me: WOMEN IN WAITING IN THE WESTERN MOVEMENT by Linda Peavy and Ursula Smith WOMEN OF THE WEST by Dorothy Gray WOMEN'S VOICES FROM THE OREGON TRAIL, by Susan Butrille WOMEN'S VOICES FROM THE WESTERN FRONTIER, by Susan Butrille Thanks in advance, Albert Albert Edward Belanger 128 Middle Road Brentwood, NH 03833 skipb@nh.ultranet.com [Researching: SEAL & SMITH of VA; 1851 Oregon Trail: BLANCHARD, BOWMAN, HALL, LINK, NOLAN(D)]

This is a TEST Message from your List Mom, so that I will receive all rejected email addresses concerning trecent @home.com problems. Just ignore and delete this message if you are not involved with @home.com Anyone receiving this message who is or was involved with @home.com, please write me right away for an corretions you may need to your subscriptions to either BILYEU, WORKMAN or OREGON TRAIL Mail Lists. I will be unsubscribing all that are rejected with @home.com extensions TODAY to clean things up a bit for the year end. Happy Holidays! Rose Terry @>,--'--- BILYEU, WORKMAN & OREGON TRAIL Listmom -- \\\|/// \\ ~ ~ // Give your children these two things - One is roots, ( @ @ ) the other, wings. -oOOo-(_)-oOOo- Rose CAUDLE TERRY, Washington state @>,--'--- BILYEU, WORKMAN & OREGON TRAIL Listmom (genealogical) Proud RootsWeb Sponsor RMTerry@prodigy.net http://www.genealogy.bilyeu.com/ Current publications available at: http://cgi3.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewListedItems&userid=rosess Use Paypal for your Auction purchases (credit card), sign up and get $5 in your account! Check it out and see for yourself: https://secure.paypal.com/refer/pal=RMTerry%40prodigy.net

Listers: Our @home.com e-mail came back to life this morning after being dead for about 48 hours (Sat-Mon). No e-mail was lost; just delayed. I see that BLM is still down, and WorldConnect and Ancestry.com GEDCOMS have joined them. :-) Cecil -- Cecil Houk, ET1 USN Ret., AG6I PO Box 530833 San Diego CA 92153 res San Diego CA 92154-3654 mailto:cchouk@home.com ANDERSON-BLAKELY-EGGERS-FORD-HOUK-KIMSEY-MONTGOMERY-RULAFORD-SIMPSON Searchable GEDCOM: http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/~cchouk See also: http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/~donhouk My Web pages menu: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~cchouk/rulaford/menu.htm

Hi Trail Fans The December Spotlight is "American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library." http://rs6.loc.gov/ This Library of Congress site is a gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States, offering more than 7 million digital items from more than 100 historical collections! It has an easy to use search feature which will bring up historic photos, WPA life histories which include many "remembrances" along the trails west, diaries, manuscripts, rare books, maps, recorded sound, moving pictures, journal articles, field notes, and Congressional Records. The History of the American West section of this page: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/codhtml/hawphome.html is a collection of over 30,000 photographs. The Nineteenth Century in Print from this website: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpcoop/moahtml/snctitles.html is a collection of articles from 23 popular literary and political magazines. The Learning Page contains stories, activities, lesson plans, and other resources for teachers. Also included is The Library of Congress Searchable Online Catalog which contains over 12 million bibliographic records. This is a site that you'll want to bookmark, as it has so much good information--too much to look at in one sitting. Hope you enjoy it! And don't forget to visit the previous Spotlights, as they are always updating their information. www.over-land.com/spotlite.html Thanks Elizabeth

Listers: I'm not sure what has hppened, but it seems that Cox Communications has pulled enough strings to keep Cox@Home alive through Exite until they get their own system up and running. Other @home services provided by Excite have been cut! I don't know what took place. There was a ONE TIME news item on the radio today (12-4-01). But we still have backup e-mail standing by. Cecil By the way... Have you posted your GEDCOM on WorldConct Project? Here's the URL to do it: http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igmuser.cgi I've been getting lots of e-mail from "cousins" since I put mine there. -- Cecil Houk, ET1 USN Ret., AG6I PO Box 530833 San Diego CA 92153 res San Diego CA 92154-3654 mailto:cchouk@home.com ANDERSON-BLAKELY-EGGERS-FORD-HOUK-KIMSEY-MONTGOMERY-RULAFORD-SIMPSON Searchable GEDCOM: http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/~cchouk See also: http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/~donhouk My Web pages menu: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~cchouk/rulaford/menu.htm