Listers I found a few settlers from Heppner, Oregon, Morrow County and Butter Creek area where my Galloway and Hales family settled before going to Waitsburg, WA. Laura Still searching the great LINN CO site with lots of new Oregon Trail Lists with great incidents recorded...thanks to all. Joseph MATLOCK was major of Eugene, Oregon. Edward was sheriff in Umatilla County, Or. Any links out there??? http://www.rootsweb.com/~orlinn/1853/1853pg11.html http://www.rootsweb.com/~orlinn MATLOCK, FRYE, BURNETT, RUTLEDGE, COOPER, BENNETT, LARKIN, SWAGGERT, GREENWOOD, CLARK, MATLOCK, Edward Lane - b. 18 April 1817, Humphreys Co., Tenn.; DLC No. 1690, Lane Co., Ore.; wagonmaster Rogue River Indian War 1855-56; d. 1 July 1863 of pneumonia at Boise mines, Idaho Territory. MATLOCK, Mary Susan or Sarah (Frye) - (DLC says Susan Catherine Frye); b. 3 Dec. 1815, N.C.; m. Edward, 23 June 1836, Benton Co., Tenn.; d. I May 1896, Heppner, Ore. Children: Caswell John - b. 1837, Tenn.; m. Mary Ann Burnett; lived in Umatilla Co., Ore.; d. 2 April 1917, Pendleton, Ore. Joseph Dewitt - b. 8 March 1839, Benton Co., Tenn.; m. (1) Elizabeth Rutledge, 26 Oct. 1862 (she b. 9 Nov. 1844, Ind.; d. 22 Aug. 1864, Lane Co., Ore.); m. (2) her sister, Louis Rutledge (b. 1852; d. 17 July 1891), 1867, Lane Co., Ore.; m. (3) Mrs. Sarah Durant, widow of Wm. Durant (d. 1887); Joseph was mayor of Eugene, had store Eugene and Dawson, Alaska; served State Legislature and as school supt., Lane Co., Ore., 1866; d. 23 May 1921, Lane Co., Ore. James W. - b. 20 June 1842, Dade Co., Mo.; m. Anna Isabella Cooper (b. abt. 1846, Mo.), 21 Feb. 1863, Lane Co., Ore.; served as sheriff of Marion Co., Ore., then move to Heppner, Ore.; d. in Heppner flood, 14 June 1903. Edward Lane - b. 25 Aug. 1844, Dade Co., Mo.; m. Eliza Jane Bennett (b. 9 Sept. 1846, Ill.; d. 10 Oct. 1892, Heppner, Ore.), 1 Jan. 1866, Lane Co., Ore.; in 1878 had a store in Goshen, Lane Co.; moved to Heppner, 1880, where he was sheriff in Umatilla Co.; d. 21 June 1897, Heppner, Ore. William Francis - b. 20 April 1847, Dade Co., Mo.; m. Nancy Ann Swaggert, 7 March 1866/67, Butter Creek, Umatilla Co., Ore.; mayor of Pendleton; state senator, Major-General Oregon National Guard; d. 3 Aug. 1914. Thomas J. - b. 4 March 1849, Dade Co., Mo.; m. Mary E. Keeney Larkin, widow, 8 Feb. 1871, Lane Co., Ore. (She drowned 14 June 1903, Heppner flood.) Thomas d. 3 May 1923, Heppner, Ore. Benjamin Franklin - b. abt,. 1850, Mo.; m. Mary Swaggert, 21 June 1871, Lane Co.; moved to Morrow Co., Ore.; d. 25 Oct. 1876; buried at Heppner, Ore. Sarah Mary - b. abt. 1853, Mo.; m. Lee Greenwood, Eugene or Wm. G. Clark, 24 Oct. 1868, Lane Co., Ore.; d. Dec, 1899, Eugene, Ore.