7 Sept 2000 St. Cloud Dear Andrea and Jane, Thank you for posting this information, especially the obituary. Emeline Barr Moss's mother was Anna Kirk, sister of Madison Kirk. Anna was first cousin to the Alexander Kirk who settled Brownsville. I know a Barr/Moss descendant in Dallas, OR who would be glad to have this info. Bluford Moss, known as "Blufe," lived in the 1870s and 1880s on Fern Ridge between Holley and Sweet Home. He was assessor for the eastern part of Linn County and was well known in the area as a story teller. My grandfather Hermon Robe remembers the following story he told, that became a part of the neighborhood lore: A party of men was hunting in the foothills of the Cascades. They used muzzle loaders and had to put their own powder in the guns. They had hunted for some time without much success until their supply of powder was practically exhausted. One man had gone easy on his hunting and still had some left. As they were walking through the woods near the bank of a stream this man dropped his powder horn. Another member of the party seized it and ran off with it. The rest hunted for him a long time and finally found this fellow submerged in a deep hole in the creek transferring the powder from the other horn into his own. "Z.B. Moss was a tanner and an early Linn County assessor. He was the son of McKagy Moss, a native of Kentucky who arrived in Oregon in 1852. Z.B. Moss owned what was possibly the first store in Sweet Home, the Buck Head beside Ames Creek." (Albany Democrat-Herald, Sat., Aug. 15, 1959, p. 8). Yours faithfully, Margaret Robe Summitt Everett, WA