Hi Lois, I know that there is a Joseph Crabtree and wife Lucy buried at Brownsville, along with a couple of other names that could be their infant or young children (just guessing). But I don't know how to tie these Crabtrees in to the larger Linn County Crabtree family. My gr-great grandfather was Dela Fletcher Crabtree and the little town of Crabtree is pretty well where his Donation Land Claim was. You say that Joseph may have been his nephew. Well, there certainly are plenty of loose ends in the family tree for that to be true so I wouldn't discount that bit of family lore. Another brother, John J. Crabtree also lived in the immediate vicinity and also descendents of Job B. and of Isaac Crabtree, two more of the brothers who came to Oregon. These four were all sons of Job and Rebecca (Smyth) Crabtree of Lee County, VA. Please write to me directly if you would like to share more detail. Anne mailto:[email protected] >From: [email protected] >Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 22:46:19 EDT >Subject: Crabtree, Joseph >To: [email protected] > > I am a new subscriber to the ORLINN mailing list. > I am looking for any living relatives or information about one JOSEPH >CRABTREE from (I believe) the Brownsville area. Information that I have is: >Birth, March 18, 1848, in Missouri. >Moved to Oregon as a young man. >Married Lucy Edwards on April 30, 1893, at Scio. >Died May 18, 1951; buried at Brownsville. >They had 6 daughters and 3 sons. > My connection is that his brother, James Crabtree, was my grandfather. >James lived his entire adult life in (ironically) Linn County, Kansas. >Another brother, Robert, lived and died in Oklahoma. The parents of these >brothers seem to have dropped from the face of the earth. That happens >sometimes in genealogy, but we never stop trying to find them, do we? > I know there are many Crabtrees in Linn Co., OR and even a town by that >name. In my information I even have a sentence that reads, "One of his >Uncles settled the town of Crabtree on Crabtree Creek." That may or may not >be so. My hope is that someone out there knows of this particular family. >Thank you!! >Lois Crabtree Green from Missouri. **************************************** ********* mailto:[email protected] *********