Below is and article by R. J. Hendricks, called "Bits for Breakfast" published in the Oregon Statesman, on February 18, 1936. Unfortunately, I only have a 2 parts of a continuing article. I am posting the second article here. Hope it will be of interest to the list. In the hope that someone might find an ancestor here, I have taken the liberty of capitalizing all surnames. ++++++++++QUOTE+++++++++++ BITS FOR BREAKFAST By R. J. Hendricks (continuing from Sunday) The date of the marriage of Adaline BROWN to Medorem CRAWFORD was April 12, 1843. Reverend Gustavus HINES of the Bee Mission performing the ceremony. The witnesses were: Jason LEE, Hamilton CAMPBELL, and S. W. MOSS. Every reader knows who Jason LEE was. CAMPBELL was a member of his mission; carpenter-preacher; bought most of the cattle of the mission when it was being dissolved, and was thereafter dubbed "COW-CAMPBELL." MOSS wrote, or finished, at what was then the Oregon Institute building and is now the Bush place on Wallace Prairie, the first book written in the Oregon country, "The Prairie Flower". Medorem CRAWFORD was at the time teaching in the Indian manual labor school of the mission, on the site of Salem: in the building that became the home of the Oregon Institute, that by change of the name became Willamette university. CRAWFORD and Miss BROWN came together in the '42 immigration; their romance began on the plains. CRAWFORD was from 1842 one of the most prominent of all early day Oregonians. Was in public office and in private life a leader, legislator, soldier, statesman. In 1861-3 he was captain of the company of U.S. soldiers who made safe the old Oregon trail from Indian attack, after it had been unsafe and scarcely at all used from 1854 on. He became U. S. internal revenue collector and appraiser at Portland. Only nine of the men of the '42 immigration brought their families. They had some wagons as far as Fort Hall, and from that point came with pack animals on horseback and on foot. They started and made the first Oregon town boom. They found Oregon City a village with four houses on their arrival in the fall of '42; and the next spring it had 30 houses. Marriageable white women were scarce in Oregon that winter; only those in the nine newly arrive families and a few (or their daughters) who had come theretofore, since 1837, as missionaries. The "Belles of Oregon" were the four or more BROWN girls, notably, according to tradition, Adaline, whom Medorem CRAWFORD married, and Cynthia Ann, who became the wife of Allen J. DAVEY. They were said to be fair haired if not endowed with titian tresses. Is it any wonder that they were passionately courted, in al almost Eveless Eden, excepting the Indian women in the earlier comers of tracking days took because others were not available. And a wife of any color was worth 320 acres of good land; half of the donation claim of a married couple. Cynthia BROWN made her 'given' name popular in early Oregon. An aunt of the writer was at her birth in those days given that high name, meaning, of Mt. Cynthus. Her married to Allen J. DAVEY took place at Champoeg in 1844; the ceremony performed by Rev. David LESLIE. Their donation land claim was east of the site of Aumsville, coming near to the present direct road to Stayton. DAVEY was long the justice of the peace for that district. He was at the famous Champoeg meeting of May 2, 1843, voting with the Americans. He was born in Alabama February 28, 1816; died October 4, 1874; buried in Aumsville cemetery. By the way, another '42 immigrant was Rueben LEWIS. He was the hunter on the plains journey for the Gabriel BROWN family; his donation land claim was between Turner and Aumsville, and his grave is in Twin Oaks Cemetery, Turner. He, also, attended and voted American at the '43 Champoeg meeting. It must be the BROWN family ran out of girls, else LEWIS would have had one of them. Allen J. DAVEY was on of the four captains of citizen soldiers organized to protect settlers of this section of the Willamette valled during the Cayuse war, 1848. He participated in the "Battle of Abiqua", in which renegade Mollala and Klamath Indians were punished, and the Klamaths given such a lesson as caused them thereafter to stay on their side of the Cascades. They came and went by the old trail that approximated the Minto trail, over a part of which the Santiam highway crosses those mountains. In that battle was William HENDRICKS, no doubt a member of one of the two families of that name having donation land claims in the Stayton-Sublimity section. Also in that battle was James BROWN, likely a son of Gabriel BROWN, along with nearly every other man of the district able to carry arms and mount a horse. Allen J. DAVEY was one of the original trustees of the United Brethren college, the Sublimity Institute, at Sublimity, organized Jan. 9, 1858, and he was secretary of the board. (concluded tomorrow) ++++++++++END QUOTE+++++++++++ Unfortunately, I do not have the next installment in this series by R. J. Hendricks. ....Katy