Thomas COX. A Pioneer of 1847 - Merchant, Manufacturer and Farmer. Author: Joseph Henry Brown, grandson of Thomas Cox first merchant of Salem. Joseph Henry crossed the plains to Oregon with Thomas Cox in 1847 when a boy of nine years. THOMAS COX was born in the State of Virginia, October 22, 1790. More at; http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/or/history/wpa78.txt -- oooO Oooo || || +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+ { Current publications available at: } http://cgi3.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewListedItems&userid=rosess { http://stores.half.com/rosess } { Rose Terry @>,--'--- _ RMTerry@prodigy.net } +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~000~~~~~( )~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+ ( @ @ ) || \ / || ||| || 0ooo Give your children these two things - One is roots, the other, wings.

In an attempt to document the first settlers of Multnomah county for the Troutdale Historical Society, I found some of our folks listed in the 1850 census, Oregon Territory under Milwaukie, Clackamas county. Anthony and Isabella WHITAKER who had a large Donation land claim from the Columbia River south...were on the same page with the CULLEY family. Thomas Culley and his wife had a 1/2 indian boy living with them...last name Culley, age 11. They had children together and after this 1/2 Indian boy...does that mean Ms Culley was kidnapped by the Indians who fathered her child then she was returned somehow to her husband? Does anybody have the story on that? And, next page there was a SWITZLER family and they had a SWITZLER school. The census enumerator penned in small script: "35 children enrolled in the SWITZLER school." Can someone tell me where the SWITZLER school was in 1850? I found it interesting that David Powell was spelled "Powel" (no wonder his name didn't come up in a search)...and on the index it comes up as 'Trowel'...on the 1860 census, Powell Valley is "Trowels Valley"...those poor people in the East trying to research their ancestors must really get confused. AND, our beloved town of Troutdale was "Sandy town" back then...at the end of "Sandy road". Doneva Shepard in Gresham my entire genealogy database, 45,000+ names http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=donevanell (be sure entire URL fits in your Address bar) --------------------------------- Do You Yahoo!? LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music Experience