Doneva Shepard, My grandfather was Roswell Shaw CLARK b 18 July 1859 in Marion county, Oregon. His sister was Martha E. CLARK born c1853 in Marion county, Oregon. She married John L. HALLETT, b 1836 in New York, in December 1870 in Salem, Marion County, Oregon. The following is from "The Oregonian", Portland, Oregon 1 January 1895. John HALLETT "...came to Oregon in April, 1870, and immediately began work on the construction of the Oregon & California railroad, continuing until the road was completed to Roseburg. He completed the West Side road from Cornelius to St. Joe; then bought a large farm in Washington county and engaged for a time in farming and raising blooded stock, when again he became engaged in building the Northern Pacific road from this city to the Sound; also the road from Tacoma to the Carbondale coal fields. His next work was with the Oregon Railway & Navigation. He was appointed superintendent of construction by Chief Engineer H. Thielsen, and began work at Celilo and continued up the Columbia to Wallula Junction. The same fall he moved his forces to Walla Walla and built the road from there to Texas Ferry, on the Snake River, disadvantages during the winter, such as snow, with the thermometer far below zero and the rivers blocked with ice. Early the next spring he moved the forces down to The Dalles and began work on 50 miles of the roughest and most expensive piece of work ever done on the Pacific Coast. At the same time a force was placed on the Umatilla & Pendleton branch, with J.E. Thielsen as assistant superintendent. Late in the fall the forces were moved to the lower cascades and finished to Portland. About this time Mr. Villard came into control of the Northern Pacific, and Mr. Hallett was again sent to the front as chief of construction, J.E. Thielsen remaining behind to complete the work to Portland. Mr. Hallett began at Cocolalla lake 10 miles west of Pend O'reille, and finished his part of the work at the third crossing of the Clark's fork river, the Flathead reservation, in Montana." The railroad work ruined his health and he died 30 December 1894. He had worked from Montana to Puget Sound building railroads. Parents of above was Daniel CLARK, b 1824 in Ireland, came on Oregon trail in 1844 and Berthia HERREN, b 1827 in Indiana, came on Oregon trail in 1845. Stanley Clark

Information has been passed down about the Albert & Nettie (READ) BROWNELL family's move to Oregon in 1884 by train from their home in Caldwell County, Missouri. They came to Oregon with a box car full of all their household goods. We still have the table & chairs that made that trip. They took the Union Pacific standard gauge RR to Green River, Wyoming where they had to switch trains to the Oregon Shortline which was a narrow gauge railroad. This went through Idaho into eastern Oregon. We think that they changed trains again (back to standard gauge) to the Oregon Railway & Navigation company at Baker, Oregon. Now the entire line is standard gauge and is the Union Pacific. They went down the Columbia Gorge to Portland. [Chris' great aunt actually told him that they changed trains the first time in Ogdon, UT but he doesn't think that's right.] The BROWNELL family eventually settled in Albany, Oregon. Jackie & Chris Marshall Amherst, NH