From: History of Benton County, Oregon, Including Geology, Topography and Soil Prod., Multnomah County Library. Call # O979.5, F. 15., ca 1900. Page 524: McCauley Porter This pioneer of Benton Ciunty, was born in Todd County, Kentucky, November 29, 1829, but when six years of age, he was taken by his parents to live in Montgomery County, Illinois, and remained there for eleven years being brought up a farmer. In 1846, they removed to Linn County, Missouri where in the spring of 1848, in company of his brothers, Wm. G. and John E., and their families, they started to cross the plains with ox teams to Oregon, our subject engaged in route in driving sheep. At the end of five months, he reached Foster's ranch, hired out for a short time and then followed his brothers to Benton County. In the spring of 1849 he proceeded to California gold mines where he remained three years; returning to Oregon in the fall of 1852 and the following spring, took up his present farm as a Donation Land Claim; to which he has since added until he owbs 1500 acres. Engaged in farming and stock raising. He married in Benton County, April 7, 1853, Miss Martha Winkle a native of Alabama who crossed the plains in 1848 in the same train as her future husband. By this union they have Samuel H., John F., Jessie, Isaac and Mark M.P. From Willamette Valley, Portrait and Biographical Record. published ca. 1900. Page 1274-1275: Wiley Winkel Mr. Winkel was twenty years of age when he crossed the plains in 1848, having been born in Madison County, Alabama. July 6, 1828. His father, Isaac, was born in Kentucky ** in 1802, and was of German descent. At a very early day he removed to Alabama, and there married Martha Bragg, a native of Alabama, with whom he removed shortly afterward to Missouri. In 1848 he outfitted with ox-teams and wagons and crossed the plains in the train of Captain Miller, and on the way encountered no serious opposition from Indians, nor was there serious illness among the homeseekers. Mr. Winkel came direct to Benton County, where he took up a claim of six hundred and forty acres ten miles south of Corvallis, on the old territorial road, which is now occupied by his son, but upon which himself lived for about a year. Next he located on a farm one mile north of Corvallis, which he improved and lived upon until his death in 1874, having been preceeded by his wife un 1865. Seven children were born to this couple , of whom the following are living: Wiley; Gillian A., wife of G. Fisher, of Lane County; Martha, the widow of Mack Porter, of Benton County;* and Missouri, the widow of John Baker, of Junction City. * MacCauley and Martha were divorced after 50 yrs of marriage, because of his cantankerous disposition. Martha was a "grass widow" old term for a divorced woman. The book didn't want to make reference to that, so she became a widow, McCauley lived until 1923. ** Isaac Winkle was born in Bledsoe County, TN. Meredith DeBuse descendant of both these families. Woodland, WA