This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Armsworthy, Dunlap, Tozier, Mitchel, Chapman, Harvey, Jones, McPherson, Biggs Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/2ZB.2ACE/337.1 Message Board Post: Information from my personal collection. Not my line. Levi Armsworthy appears in the Methodist Circuit records in present day Sherman County at Wasco with Amanda Armsworthy and Miss Sarah Armsworthy, Levi received into the circuit in 1889 (Sherman was formed from Wasco in 1889), Amanda in 1887 and Miss Sarah in 1889. Levi Armsworthy and family were counted in the Klickitat County WA censuses of 1860, 1870, 1871, 1880 and 1883, but not in 1885 and 1887. Levi and Ellen Dunlap were married in Washington Co OR in 1855 and were in present day Sherman County by 1887 when he built the Oskaloosa Hotel, still standing in Wasco. Their children included William D. who married a Tozier in 1887; Richard H. who m Amanda Mitchel 1880 in Klickitat County, WA; Mary E. who m George W. Chapman in Klickitat County 1878; Minerva A. born ca. 1863 in Klickitat County; Sarah Jane; Willis Grant who m Lela E. Harvey (both buried near Wasco); and maybe J.W. Armsworthy. William D. Armsworthy's children included Ella who m Lawrence Jones in Sherman County, OR 1905 and had Charles and Louise; Olive A. who m a Van Houton?; Belle A. who m Howard Van Horn/Van Dorn 1914 and had Bob and Marjory; and maybe William E who d age 4 m and is buried at Wasco. Willis G. Armsworthy's children included Norma and Florence. The City of Wasco was platted on portions of the Clark Dunlap, McPherson, Levi Armsworthy and William H. Biggs claims. Clark Dunlap's parents were natives of Massachusetts, and parents of William, Ellen who m Levi Armsworthy and Clark who m Nancy Jane Chapman in 1874 in Wheeler County, OR. The Clark Dunlap family is found in the 1870 and 1880 Wasco County, OR census. Clark took up land N of Wasco in 1882 at the head of Spanish Hollow. He and Nancy are buried at Wasco. Their children included: Mary/Mollie Virginia or Virgilia Dunlap b 1875 at Twickenham on the John Day River (present day Wheeler County), attended Willamette University and taught school, m Edward D. McKee in 1901, a Wasco druggist, and had ch: Marion and Margaret who m Hal Shelton; V'Leda Dunlap b 1876 in OR m George Van Gaasbeck, lived at Blalock, OR in 1905 and later in Hood River, had son Clark Van Gaasbeck with descendants in N Central Oregon; Clifton L. Dunlap b 1886 m Bernadine Mable Ellis 1913 Sherman County, OR by A. Bronsgeest and lived in the Bend/Tumalo area; Clara Veva Dunlap b 1893 m Roy Marshall, lived in Portlan! d in 1942 when their mother Nancy Jane Chapman Dunlap died at a hospital in The Dalles; and maybe a son James Dunlap. Clark J. Dunlap (1844-1920) was the son of Smith and Madeline Dunlap. Smith was killed in 1847 on the way to Oregon and Madeline d 18 months after reaching OR. Clark was reportedly reared by the F.R. Smith family of Salem. Nancy Chapman (1853-1942) went to Wheeler County as a girl, daughter of Joseph R. Chapman.