24 March 1999 Hello Linn Countyites, Researching KIRK, MICHAEL, and ROBE families in Linn Co. I'm looking for the parents of Anna (Kirk) Barr, who was b. in Tennessee (ca. 1820?), m. Jesse BARR in TN (he was born 18 Oct 1818, near Nashville), moved to Iowa, and came to Oregon from Iowa in 1853. They lived for a few years in the hills above Crawfordsville while Jesse worked for Richard Chism FINLEY at the mill. They bought the squatter rights of a man named DARBY in 1855 and moved onto his donation land claim. They had 10 children, who lived in the Sweet Home area. (this info. from vol. 1, p. 19, Pioneer Stories of Linn County, Oregon, collected by Leslie Haskin). Anna Kirk Barr is supposed to be a double cousin of Polly Ann Kirk Finley, wife of Richard Chism Finley. (Sweet Home in the Oregon Cascades, by Margaret Standish Carey and Patricia Hoy Hainline p. 90). I'd like to hear from any Kirk family researchers. Margaret Robe Summitt