I wrote earlier about my 4x great grandparents, George Jacob Wills and his wife Sarah Jane Moore Wills. I now have additional info to add. George Wills was a minister and the wagon master of the Oskaloosa Company that left Mahaska County, Iowa on April 4, 1847 over the Oregon Trail. They were in Oregon by 1848. George and Sarah Wills were from KY, had lived in Clay County, Indiana and had then moved to Mahaska County to make preparation for their migration to Oregon. George and his son, Jacob, took a large sash saw and iron planer with them and established a sawmill on the banks of Johnson Creek in Multnomah County in 1850. This mill turned out the first dressed lumber in the Pacific Northwest.They had no difficulties disposing of all the lumber they could make for about $100. per thousand feet at the mill. Most of the lumber was sent by schooner to the San Francisco, then up the Sacramento River and then out by ox teams to the little town of Coloma (when the Gold Rush began). Later they added a circular saw. According to an article in the Wilwaukie Review of Thursday, May 21, 1953: George and Sarah Wills brought Jacob (m. Lorana Bozarth), Elizabeth (m. David Price), George Washington (m. Mary Ann Lambert), Martha (m. Edward Long), David (m. Mary Henderson), Reuben and Jonathan with them to Oregon. George Wills built the Hard Shell Baptist Church and served as the preacher there for several years. It is said that George did not allow his businesses of farming and runing the sawmill to interfere with his soul-saving activities. In 1876, a school house was built on land donated by Mrs. Jacob Wills (daughter-in-law of George). This building was used continually for school purposes during the week and for Sunday school and church on Sundays until 1902. It was built from lumber cut by the Wills sawmill. In 1889, a brick yard was started by Jacob Wills and he operated it for about 2 years before turning it over to his sons, Alfred and Seth Wills. The first year they were operation, four million bricks were put out. These were used in many of the first brick homes in Portland. All the facing used on the Oregonian Building were made here. The brick yard was in business about 9 years. About all that remains of Willsburg (which was named for George and Sarah Wills) is the train depot and the cemetery where they are buried. Willsburg was incorporated into the town of Milwaukie in the early 1900's. The actual site of Willsburg would be about where Eastmoreland is not situated. If anyone is connected to any of these families or can point me in the right direction to make a connection, I sure would appreciate hearing from you. Lois in CA