The help of several wonderful people on this list led me to information about my great-grandmother, Charity Noble Marks. I just found a photo on the web of her grave site, which has been preserved and cared for in the Willamette National Forest! She died in childbirth on the Santiam Wagon Road in 1875. If anyone else is interested, here is the site: http://www.sweet-home.or.us/forest/gravesite/index.html I am still looking for the birthplace and birth date of my grandfather (her son), George Alfred Marks, born 1874 or 1875 in the Willamette Valley. Thanks again, Marilyn S. Chelan, WA