If anyone is interested, this low-volume list may soon be up for adoption. We currently have 77 subscribers and the amount of work involved is minimal, but after about 15 years of it, I'm seriously thinking it's time to let someone else handle that responsibility. If you think you might be interested and want to know more about what is involved in the job, please send an email directly to me (cheri_dohnal at yahoo.com, that is my name with an underscore between first and last name, and use the @ symbol as usual between my name and the yahoo.com part... I'm trying to avoid spam bots by posting this way) -- NOT to the list, please. Thanks!   -- Cheri

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: brightorangerain Surnames: Tillitson Classification: lookup Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.oregon.counties.wasco/314.2/mb.ashx Message Board Post: My mother's biological father's name was Albert Tillitson, and I am trying to find any information I can about him or his family. Whether he had kids after my mom and my uncle, and to confirm which Albert Tillitson he is...I've been coming across a few, all the possible ones seem to be deceased. If anyone has ANY info about him or his family in the areas of Oregon or California, please email me at brightorangerain@hotmail.com Thanks! -Kayla Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board. <br>

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: barbdale_1 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.oregon.counties.wasco/793.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: It looks like you have some information on Whitcomb. Here is his death record http://www.digitalarchives.wa.gov/Record/View/80A33AEF2D4C76ACE1AD00C6A07DFA00 Even though his last name is Bragg, it is spelled correctly in the cemetery index at the same site. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: jaydallen Surnames: Briggs Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.oregon.counties.wasco/793/mb.ashx Message Board Post: John W. Briggs - died about 1 May 1857 in or near Fort Dalles. According to Marion County Probate 1857 - case number 152, he was a widower with two young children Martha Briggs and Whitcomb Briggs. His estate included "war scrip" which was presumably chits given to him in exchange for supplies or services building up Fort Dalles as part of the regional Indian wars. I'm looking for information about John Briggs or the surviving children. Documents and Time Line: ------------------------ *John Briggs dies - about May 1, 1857 Bill of Springe McConnell @ Dalles, May 29, 1857 Bond Filed (revoked), June 5, 1857 Petition of George Wagnon, June 5, 1857 *Notice published on Statesman Journal, June 5, 1857 Evidence of Notice, June 26, 1857 Petition, July 13, 1857 Bond (J.W. Hile and John Durbin), July 13, 1857 Inventory of Property, July 18, 1857 Petition to sell cows (by Heil), July 18, 1857 Bill of Sale (J. Durbin @ Salem), July 25, 1857 Annual Report, May 22, 1858 Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: Loreen_Wells Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.oregon.counties.wasco/792.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Wasco Co used to have many active and helpful researchers. Don't know if that's still true but you could look for their historical/genealogy society should this other reference not yield what you want. The Columbia Gorge Discovery Center in The Dalles Oregon. http://www.gorgediscovery.org/ They are a good place to get research assistance should you need more from that area. They were most helpful to me when I was researching there, sent me a ton of records. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: ebrown1983 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.oregon.counties.wasco/792.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Thanks, Chester! I will give that a try. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: ChesterStevenson Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.oregon.counties.wasco/792.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: This looks to be the relevant contact information: Sun Rise Cemetery / Wasco Cemetery Association Martin Richelderfer 541-442-5878 Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: ebrown1983 Surnames: Jones Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.oregon.counties.wasco/792/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Does anyone know who I can contact to get burial location and possibly a cemetery map for my ancestor (William "Bill" Cecil Jones)? I live out of state and am planning a trip to Wasco. Thanks in advance, Emily Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: davaltar3 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.oregon.counties.wasco/734.3.1.2/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Thank you. I have this info.... still struggling to find his parents. Have found Nannie's parents..... the Woodard line is causing me a headache!! Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: davaltar3 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.oregon.counties.wasco/734.3.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: If you look at the second picture at the findagrave reference above, you will see a second headstone that has Nannie and Wm H Woodard buried side by side. Wm H died November 1857 in Missouri. I haven't found the exact date yet. Lillie Woodard is not their daughter. Lillie Pearl Woodard became Lillie Pearl Erwin who moved to Kansas and died in 1946 The headstone you found is Lillie Woodard, wife of Leroy Virgil Woodard, oldest son of Wm H and Nannie T Woodard Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: barbdale_1 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.oregon.counties.wasco/734.3.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Here is the grave of Nannie Hopkins Woodard, it says she died in 1904 http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=woodard&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=26&GScnty=1456&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=89387616&df=all& I don't find William in the Missouri death index, so it is possible he died in another state. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: barbdale_1 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.oregon.counties.wasco/734.3.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I am not related, but found some information Here is W.H. and Nannie's marriage. It doesn't list parents, so I don't know if the original did either. https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/V285-CN8 Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: davaltar3 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.oregon.counties.wasco/734.3/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I am the granddaughter of Jennings Isham Woodard. I thought I had W H Woodard's parents but am doubting this information and am still researching. Have you had any luck? (I am new on Ancestry which is why this is coming to you more than 5 years after your original request.) Tari Woodard Davis Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: sherryk180 Surnames: Keeney, Pierce, Drake Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.oregon.counties.wasco/768.4/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Ten Mile Cemetery, Wasco County, OR - Compiled by Anita Drake, published in Sherman County: For the Record, includes Frances Keeney: "Frances Keeney. Daughter of Eli and Elizabeth G. (Pierce) Keeney who were married 27 February 1848 in Holt County, Missouri and came to Oregon with the Keeney train in 1851; her grave, once covered with large stones and marked with an oak slab, was uncovered when the road up Fifteen Mile Creek was being improved in 1933. [Wagon Ruts West, John Keeney, Jr. by Ralph R. Keeney, 1984, pp. 88-89." Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: sherryk180 Surnames: Drake, Keeney, MacPherson, Golden, Relling, Black, Miller, Kandle, Fulton, Fish, Cornwall, McKay, Denton, Jackson, Douglas Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.oregon.counties.wasco/768.3/mb.ashx Message Board Post: An account of Ten Mile Cemetery, Wasco County, Oregon compiled by Anita Drake was published in Sherman County: For the Record, vol. 16, no. 2 fall of 1998. "This burying ground was used by the pioneers coming west for many years before Colonel James Fulton donated the land for a graveyard. It is located adjacent to the Ten Mile Crossing, now known as lower Fifteen Mile Creek, a natural campsite where the pioneers camped before reaching Fort Dalles. Located in T2N, R15E, NE 1/2 of Section 31, there are no tombstones or markers of any kind except for the large natural stone marker across the road which has a bronze plaque inscribed: Here lie many pathfinders to the Oregon Country. Erected by the Wasco County Pioneer Association 1935." To locate this stone marker, go out the old Dufur highway to the entrance to the new Petersburg school, and follow the Fifteen Mile Creek Road 6.6 miles. At one time there was a square white post on the right-hand side of the road that had Oregon! Trail stenciled on it. Across the road atop the bank is the stone marker erected by the Old Wasco County Pioneer Association." Drake listed known burials there with sources - surnames Keeney, MacPherson, Golden nee Relling, Black, Miller, Kandle, Fulton, Fulton, Fish, Cornwall, and possibly McKay, Denton, Jackson and Douglas. This publication may be purchased at Sherman County Historical Museum in Moro, OR www.shermanmuseum.org 541-565-3232. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: bgraham_gs Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.oregon.counties.wasco/768.2/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Did you find the info you needed? If not, I can point you to it. Though everything I heard about it was that it was 2 or 3 graves. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: dummerhill Surnames: Bradford Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.oregon.counties.wasco/789/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Have you ever run across mention of a Baptist minister at The Dalles late 1870s? I'm trying to locate a William Harrison Bradford, a Baptist minister born in Newark, New Jersey about 1817. I can follow him until he enlisted in the Union Army in Wisconsin in 1861 and was discharged in 1862, then don't have any definite records of him until 1887 when he entered into and lived out his life (to 1912) in various "old soldiers' homes." However, his Army pension papers say he spent "about 10 years" in Oregon some time between, say, 1870 and 1885. Federal censuses, State Archives, etc., don't seem to mention him. I found three "Oregonian" news items in the proper time period, at least two of which might be about him (copies attached): Saturday 10 Oct 1874 - a Rev. Bradford upset some Eastern Oregon folks with what were apparently disparaging comments about them. [I think this probably relates to about Bradford - an A. Bradford who was apparently popular in Portland at the time.] Thursday 22 March 1877 - Rev. Bradford at The Dalles baptized some folks. [This sounds most hopeful.] Friday 28 August 1885 - Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Bradford of Hood River were staying at the Quimby Hotel in Portland. [About the end of the time period when "my" W. H. Bradford was supposedly around] There are quite a few Bradford references in The Dalles - Hood River area. Putnam and Daniel Bradford were well-known Columbia Gorge folks during that time period, working on their own and also with Ainsworth and the Oregon Steam Navigation Company. They are unrelated to the William Bradford I am seeking. Any info, advice or suggestions will be much appreciated. Sanford "Sandy" Wilbur Gresham, OR books@condortales.com Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: c_a_saunders88 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.oregon.counties.wasco/248.3/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hi my name is Christopher. My mothers name is Leona Daughter of Leola who was the daughter of Lonnie and Lula. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: c_a_saunders88 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.oregon.counties.wasco/248.2/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hi my name is Christopher. My mothers name is Leona Daughter of Leola who was the daughter of Lonnie and Lula. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

The person who is pushing for it. Permission is granted to circulate to as many as you can, get the people to contact their state representatives to vote down the bill. The Governor HIMSELF! Here is the statement at the beginning of the bill http://landru.leg.state.or.us/13reg/measures/hb2000.dir/hb2093.intro.html "Introduced and printed pursuant to House Rule 12.00. Presession filed (at the request of Governor John A. Kitzhaber, M.D., for Oregon Health Authority)"