This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Crawford, Keeney, Large, Simmons, Cary Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.oregon.counties.linn/207.173.3/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I did some searching on the Crawford members you are seeking and found that some moved eastward from Oregon to the bordering area of what became Idaho. Jasper Vincent Crawford is shown by his initials, Henry Paschal Crawford is also shown with a middle name spelling of Pascal, I believe. You may wish to search for traveling preacher and or minister records in your searching(s), and note that J V Crawford was a preacher, and farmer. As shown on the information provided by another writer, those names from wagon train travel including Keeney came west and settled, supporting one another to varying degrees. Some of the old land records make reference to those parcels owned by Crawford, Keeney, and the others showing on these maps. Donation land claims were made by these settlers, 320 acres for a single man, but 640 acres if he were married. One local resident of Crawfordsville was Ebenezer P Large who came from Indiana and helped built some of the earliest commercial structures, and a couple of schools. It is very likely that he built at least two to three school houses in the area, he is credited with doing so in at least two instances. It is very likely that he had a part in the construction of sawmills in the area as he was related to a millwright. In the nearby start up village of Boston, flour miller William Simmons, Jr. had been milling flour for some time when he recruited his parents and brothers and a sister to come to Oregon in 1868. William Simmons brother, Edwin James Simmons, married Cornelia Ann Cary, daughter of the then-deceased William Henry Cary, and was given in marriage by her step father, Ebenezer P Large. Cornelia Ann Cary had been born in the vicinity of those close village settlements that became Crawfordsville and Holley in Oregon Territory 1857.