Ancestors of Sarah Plunkett

Sarah married Johann Albin Bottger,² ¹⁶ son of Karl Gottfried Bottger ¹⁹ and Amelia Harnish Hautsch,²⁰ on 14 Jan 1899 in , Benton County, Oregon, United States.¹⁷ ¹⁸ Johann was born on 9 Apr 1865 in Burgstadt, Saxony, Germany,^{¹⁴ ¹⁵ ²⁰} died on 24 Jul 1949 in Philomath, Benton, Oregon, United States^{²⁰ ²¹} at age 84, and was buried on 26 Jul 1949 in Corvallis, Benton, Oregon, United States.^²⁰ Other names for Johann were J. A. Bottger and²² John A. Bottger.³ ¹⁵

Marriage Notes:
Oregon State Archives:
Case# 7-103a Name: Plunkett, Sarah & Bottger, J A. Date: 1899 Record Type: Marriage County: Benton

Benton County, Oregon Marriage Index:
Spouse: Sarah PLUNKETT
Date: 14 Jan 1899
B/G: Groom
Source: Book:7 Page:103a
County and State: Benton Co. OR

Collection: Oregon Marriages, 1853-1935
Groom's Name: J. A. Bottger
Groom's Birth Date:
Groom's Birthplace:
Groom's Age:
Bride's Name: Sarah Plunkett
Bride's Birth Date:
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Bride's Age:
Marriage Date: 14 Jan 1899
Marriage Place: , Benton, Oregon
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Groom's Race:
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Indexing Project (Batch) Number: M59384-1
System Origin: Oregon-VR
Source Film Number: 908958
Reference Number: 2:1JDHWXV

• Property: their home with a value of $1,200, Apr 1940, Summit, Benton, Oregon, United States.

Birth Notes: Frances Louise Bottger's growing up book shows birth: 9 Apr 1865, Burkersdorf, Germany

Death Notes:
Oregon Vital Records, Death Index
Name: Bottger, John ASpouse Name: Sarah
Death Date: 24 Jul 1949County: BentonBirth Date: Age:
Certificate No.: 7133Comments: -

Newspapers.com Obits:
Name:John Albiri Bottger
Gender:Male
Birth Place:Burhersdorf, Germany
Marriage Date:1899
Marriage Place:Cor vallis
Residence Place:Benton county
Death Date:Abt 1949
Death Place:Philomath
Obituary Date:25 Jul 1949
Obituary Place:Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America
Spouse:Sarah Piunkett
Child:Alice Albertsen
Annie Phelps
W na Daniels
Thelma Towb
Frank Bottger

Burial Notes:
Oaklawn Cemetery, Corvallis, Benton Co., Oregon:
Buried 26 Jul 1949, b. 1865, d. 1949, block 4, section 74, lot 4.

Newspaper Obituary:
Came to USA at age 17 to Missouri for a short time. Moved to Portland, Oregon then Benton Co., Oregon where he homesteaded near Summit, Benton Co. Warner-McHenry Funeral Home, Corvallis, Benton County, Oregon.

• Occupation: barkeeper, 1878-1881, Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, United States.

• Occupation: Salmon Fisherman with Jack Thompson on the Columbia River, 1899, Airlie, Polk, Oregon, United States.

i. Alice Amelia Bottger ²⁵ was born on 22 Jul 1900 in Hoskins, Benton, Oregon, United States,^²⁵ died on 29 Apr 1984 in Bend, Deschutes, Oregon, United States^{²⁵ ²⁶} at age 83, and was cremated in 1984 in Powell Butte, Crook, Oregon, United States.^²⁵ Alice married Charles Raymond Bayless, Sr.,²⁷ ²⁸ son of William David Bayless ²⁸ ³⁰ ³¹ ³² and Netta Ernestine Baker,²⁸ ³⁰ ³¹ ³² ³³ ³⁴ on 13 Oct 1921 in , Benton County, Oregon, United States.¹⁵ ²⁹ Charles was born on 14 Nov 1899 in Lincoln, Lincoln, Tennessee, United States,^{²⁸ ³⁵} died on 10 Dec 1945 in Prineville, Crook, Oregon, United States^²⁸ at age 46, and was buried on 16 Dec 1945 in Corvallis, Benton, Oregon, United States.^²⁸ Another name for Charles was Ray. Alice next married Albert Edward Albertsen, son of Hans P. Albrechtsen Albertsen and Margaretta Morford, on 10 Jan 1938 in Eugene, Lane, Oregon, United States.³⁶ Albert was born on 16 Jan 1906 in Vermilion, , Alberta, Canada,^³⁷ died on 14 Jul 1999 in Redmond, Deschutes, Oregon, United States^³⁷ at age 93, and was buried in Jul 1999 in Redmond, Deschutes, Oregon, United States. Other names for Albert were A. E. Albertsen and Ed Albertsen.

ii. Mary Bottger ³⁸ was born on 31 Aug 1901 in Kings Valley, Benton, Oregon, United States,^{¹⁹ ³⁸} died on 31 Jan 1906 in Summit, Benton, Oregon, United States^{²¹ ³⁸} at age 4, and was buried in 1906 in Kings Valley, Benton, Oregon, United States.

iii. Frank Albin Bottger ¹⁶ was born on 24 Jan 1903 in Summit, Benton, Oregon, United States,^¹⁶ died on 20 Feb 1961 in Philomath, Benton, Oregon, United States^{¹⁶ ²¹} at age 58, and was buried on 24 Feb 1961 in Corvallis, Benton, Oregon, United States.^¹⁶ Frank married Lola Pearl Ball,¹⁶ ³⁹ daughter of Leslie Pearl Ball ¹⁵ ⁴¹ ⁴² and Cora Elizabeth Miller,⁴¹ on 7 Apr 1923 in Summit, Benton, Oregon, United States.⁴⁰ Lola was born on 24 Oct 1906 in Independence, Polk, Oregon, United States,^⁴³ died on 24 Feb 1966 in Philomath, Benton, Oregon, United States^⁴⁴ at age 59, and was buried on 28 Feb 1966 in Corvallis, Benton, Oregon, United States.

iv. Annie Ashna Bottger ² was born on 4 Jan 1906 in Summit, Benton, Oregon, United States,^{² ⁴⁵ ⁴⁶} died on 17 Apr 1997 in , Benton County, Oregon, United States^¹⁹ at age 91, and was buried in Apr 1997 in Powell Butte, Crook, Oregon, United States. Annie married Kenneth Milledge Phelps,⁴⁷ son of Rev. Rolla Jonathan Phelps ¹⁹ ⁴⁷ ⁴⁹ ⁵⁰ ⁵¹ ⁵² ⁵³ and Stella Gertrude Milledge,¹⁹ ⁴⁷ ⁴⁹ ⁵⁰ ⁵² on 25 Apr 1925 in Summit, Benton, Oregon, United States.²¹ ⁴⁸ Kenneth was born on 18 Apr 1904 in Reed, Lane, Oregon, United States,^{¹⁹ ⁴⁷ ⁴⁸ ⁵⁴} died on 19 Jun 1974 in , Crook County, Oregon, United States^²¹ at age 70, and was buried on 22 Jun 1974 in Powell Butte, Crook, Oregon, United States.^¹⁹

v. Edna May Bottger was born on 9 Nov 1908 in Summit, Benton, Oregon, United States,^³⁷ died on 16 May 1997 in Corvallis, Benton, Oregon, United States^²¹ at age 88, and was buried in May 1997 in Corvallis, Benton, Oregon, United States. Edna married Linley Reed Daniels, son of William Melvin Daniels ⁵⁵ and Eulalia Jane Dibble, on 4 Sep 1926 in Summit, Benton, Oregon, United States.⁴⁰ Linley was born on 4 Jul 1902 in Sleepy Eye, Brown, Minnesota, United States,^⁴⁸ died on 13 Apr 1966 in , Benton County, Oregon, United States^²¹ at age 63, and was buried on 15 Apr 1966 in Corvallis, Benton, Oregon, United States. Other names for Linley were Lin and Lynn Daniels.

vi. Velma Irene Bottger ²² was born on 10 May 1916 in Summit, Benton, Oregon, United States,^{¹⁹ ⁵⁶} died on 21 Feb 1917 in Summit, Benton, Oregon, United States,^{²¹ ²²} and was buried on 22 Feb 1917 in Kings Valley, Benton, Oregon, United States.^²²

vii. Thelma Ina Bottger was born on 10 May 1916 in Summit, Benton, Oregon, United States,^¹⁹ died on 14 Feb 1999 in Albany, Linn, Oregon, United States at age 82, and was buried on 17 Feb 1999 in Corvallis, Benton, Oregon, United States. Thelma married Robert Albert Morgan ⁵⁷ on 5 Oct 1940 in Vancouver, Clark, Washington, United States.⁵⁸ Robert was born on 17 Feb 1909 in Nara Visa, Quay, New Mexico, United States^⁵⁷ and died on 23 Jan 1982 in Monroe, Benton, Oregon, United States at age 72. Thelma next married Lorenz Heinrich Otto Schmidt,⁵⁹ son of Paul Anton Christoph Schmidt, Sr. ⁶⁰ and Anna Hein,⁵⁹ on 29 Dec 1934 in Corvallis, Benton, Oregon, United States.⁴⁰ Lorenz was born on 3 Jan 1904 in Winston, Broadwater, Montana, United States, died on 13 Feb 1985 in Monroe, Benton, Oregon, United States at age 81, and was buried in 1985 in Corvallis, Benton, Oregon, United States. Other names for Lorenz were Lorenze, Otto, and Smitty. Thelma next married Albert Lawrence Townsend, son of David S. Townsend and Mary L., on 23 Apr 1945 in Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, United States. Albert was born on 28 Jun 1921 in Conconully, Okanogan, Washington, United States and died on 10 Jun 2006 in Corvallis, Benton, Oregon, United States at age 84. Another name for Albert was Lee.

Second Generation

General Notes:
Was a bass drummer in the drum corps at Ft Hoskins, Oregon under General Phil Sheridan.
Company D, 4th Regiment, California volunteers, Discharged in January 1866 and lived with his family in Kings Valley until his death in 1911 at the age of 79.

Henry County, Iowa 1850 Federal Census
This Census was transcribed by Mary Thompson and
proofread by Randy Cooley for the USGenWeb Archives
Census Project, http://www.usgenweb.org/census.
CENSUS YR: 1850 STATE or TERRITORY: Iowa COUNTY: Henry DIVISION: Trenton Twsp REEL NO: M432-184 PAGE NO: 198a
LN HN FN LAST NAME FIRST NAME AGE SEX RACE OCCUP. VAL. BIRTHPLACE
39 536 536 Plunkett James L 14 M Iowa

Oregon Census, 1841-90
James Plunkett listed for 1870,1880,1890-Benton County

BLM Land Records, Oregon:
Names
Patentee: JAMES PLUNKETT
Survey
State: OREGON
Acres: 160
Metes/Bounds: No
Title Transfer
Issue Date: 4/15/1884
Land Office: OREGON CITY
Cancelled: No
U.S. Reservations: No
Mineral Reservations: No
Authority: May 20, 1862: HOMESTEAD ENTRY-ORIGINAL (12 Stat. 392)
Document Numbers
Document Nr.: 1738
Accession/Serial Nr.: OROCAA 022707
BLM Serial Nr.: OROCAA 022707

Names
Patentee: JAMES PLUNKETT
Survey
State: OREGON
Acres: 87.15
Metes/Bounds: No
Title Transfer
Issue Date: 5/2/1870
Land Office: OREGON CITY
Cancelled: No
U.S. Reservations: No
Mineral Reservations: No
Authority: April 24, 1820: SALE-CASH ENTRY (3 Stat. 566)
Document Numbers
Document Nr.: 604
Accession/Serial Nr.: OROCAA 019261
BLM Serial Nr.: OROCAA 019261

1900 Oregon Census, Benton County Kings Valley shows James & Ashnah with sons Garfield and Henry

1930 Federal Census for daughter Sarah shows her father born in Indiana?

Ancestry.com posting:
This story describes more of my long genealogical search for information on the background and childhood family of my great-grandfather James Plunkett (1836-1911). The Oregon Plunkett family will be forever indebted to a stranger who volunteered at the National Archives Branch in San Bruno, California. Thank you, Bill Wiengartner, for turning up the first real clue by finding the Plunkett family in Van Buren County, Iowa in the 1850 census. I also wish to thank two ladies in Utah who were early researchers on the Plunkett family. They spent twenty years trying to find out "what happened to James Plunkett," whom they thought was lost from their part of the family. Challas Adams Snarr is a descendant of James Plunkett's sister Mary Melinda Plunkett Adams, and Alice Adams is not related to the Plunketts, yet she devoted many hours to helping with the search. (Meanwhile, here in Oregon I was searching for James Plunkett's family and background.) The efforts of these people made it eventually possible to reunite the Utah and Oregon branches of this family. It is my pleasure to share this story with those who may find it of interest. This is the story of the Oregon Plunkett Family's connection with the Mormons. It tells the little-known story of James Plunkett's (1836 - 1911) childhood and family of origin. The story is based on notes I made from reading many different historical sources. As far as we know, James Plunkett left his connection to the Mormons behind him when he joined the Army in California and was sent up to Ft. Hoskins, Oregon during the Civil War. This is just another part of our family's rich heritage. Patricia Plunkett (Bearden) Holler Posted by King Folk.

JAMES PLUNKETT
1836-1911
Nauvoo, Illinois
My paternal great-grandfather, James Plunkett, was born 11 February 1836 near Brockville, Leeds, Upper Canada (now the province of Ontario.) He was the third child of seven born to Robert Plunkett and his wife Sarah. We do not know what Sarah's family name was--some say Kennedy, some say Canada, Kanada or perhaps Cade.
Both parents were from Ireland, immigrants to Canada about 1830. They were Protestants from near Newtownards, County Down, in what is now British-ruled Northern Ireland. People of Presbyterian persuasion dominated both County Down and the part of Leeds County, Ontario, where they settled, so perhaps they also attended that church.
As far as we know, the Plunketts did not own land in Ontario. There they became friends with Arza Adams, a baptized early member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints or the Mormons. Adams converted the Plunkett family, and baptized James' father at Brockville on 23 March 1840. This was only ten years after Joseph Smith established the LDS Church in 1830.
In the spring of 1842 the Plunketts and other Mormon families left Canada for Nauvoo, now part of Hancock County, Illinois. LDS Church records show members of the family who arrived there were parents Robert and Sarah, with children under eight years old: James, Eleanor, Isaac and Robert Jr. The oldest son, William, was baptized into the LDS church at Nauvoo in May 1842. Daughters Mary Melinda and Ellen were also with the family.
Thousands of other Mormon converts poured into the city from the east and from Canada and the British Isles.
Nauvoo was on the Mississippi River, across from Keokuk in the southeast corner of Iowa. The river bank rises gently there to a point high up on the slope. One standing up on that hill can see the river cutting a great silver semicircle below.
In 1839, the Mormons purchased a 20,000-acre tract for $2.00 per acre, to be repaid in 20 equal installments with no interest. It lay between the Mississippi and DesMoines Rivers in the state of Illinois. Woods covered the higher parts of the land, with swamps in the lowlands.
Joseph Smith named his city Nauvoo, which in Hebrew means "a beautiful plantation." Nauvoo was headquarters of the LDS church from 1840 until 1846, when Brigham Young led the Mormons west to the Salt Lake valley in Utah.
The winter of 1839-40 brought an epidemic of "ague"--perhaps either typhoid or malaria. There were many deaths.
The Mormons drained the river swamps for the site of their city, and laid the city out in neat squares, with great planning and forethought. Streets ran directly north and south, east and west. Certain sections of the city were for public buildings and others for residential areas. Homes were a uniform distance from the street, and they planted the lots with lawns and shrubs. This was the beginning of city planning and "zoning." Neatly fenced farms spread out from the city in three directions.
Joseph Smith drew up an unusual city charter, creating a near city-state, independent of all other governmental agencies in Illinois. The only thing that could limit the powers of this city was for the state legislature to repeal the charter. No other city in America ever had such complete control of its own affairs. The legislature approved the charter in December 1840. The Mormons invited people of all religious denominations to live in Nauvoo.
The Charter gave the City Council power to "make, ordain, establish and execute all such ordinances not repugnant to the Constitution of the United States of or this State." This was an ingenious wording which Smith later interpreted in the widest possible sense. They rushed the Charter through the Illinois legislature. It passed without ever being read except by title, in exchange for promises of Mormon favor to the leaders of both the Democratic and Whig political parties. Previously, Smith made it clear that his people would join neither party, but would hold themselves free to vote according to services rendered.
Smith thought the ideal government was a theocracy, a government by a prophet specially chosen to administer the laws of God.
Smith's charter provided for a university and called for the organization of militia called the Nauvoo Legion.
A Nauvoo city ordinance forbid anyone to set up a business without a license from the City Council, which Joseph Smith dominated. But this law caused so much resentment that they repealed it in 1842.
There were no saloons in Nauvoo. If a man wanted to drink, he had to buy his whiskey from a shop specially licensed by the Mayor, and take it home with him. Later Smith allowed construction of a brewery and allowed it to advertise in the Nauvoo Neighbor newspaper. But Smith controlled the dispensing of liquor and preached against grog shops.
For a while, the city did have a brothel, just one square away from the temple. It used a grocery store as a front. In 1842 the City Council termed it a nuisance and some soldiers from the Legion tipped it over backwards into a gully, where it crashed to the bottom By 1840, Nauvoo had 250 homes, with many more under construction. The average price of a city lot in Nauvoo was $500. Smith set aside the square at the very summit of the city for a temple. The Mormons cut the timber, drained the swamps, and then laid the cornerstone for the immense temple.
The site of the great Temple of God became the real center of the city. Temple construction began in 1841, on the highest land in the city. Even its unfinished walls were visible from the flat surrounding countryside. Work on the temple continued every day except Sundays and holidays, although at times construction stopped temporarily for lack of funds.
Laborers and skilled craftsmen who lacked employment worked on the temple. Although their pay was uncertain and consisted of donated food and clothing, work on the huge structure was always a labor of love. All Nauvoo men were expected to spend each tenth day working there, or else to give the equivalent in goods or money. My great-great grandfather was a stone mason, and he helped to build the temple. My great-grandfather and his brothers were too young to be much help in construction work, but oral family history says that they carried water for the laborers and did other chores.
The citizens of Nauvoo built for Smith and made unbelievable sacrifices to carry out his orders. They did this not only because they were convinced he was God's prophet, but also because they loved Joseph Smith as a man.
Smith aimed to educate all of his people, young and old, so Nauvoo had an educational system that included all ages from elementary to university classes. Smith made learning a Mormon ideal.
Nauvoo bordered the river and had farmlands on three sides. The farmers used the most advanced agricultural knowledge of the day. But the farms were unusual, for no one lived on the farmland. Everyone lived in the city, commuting to the rural areas to work during the day. Farmers who had no money to buy land could raise crops on a huge community farm just outside the city.
Nauvoo was above some river rapids that prevented the largest steamboats from going that far north. Smith planned to remedy this problem by building a wing dam in the Mississippi River. That would make an ideal harbor and also furnish water power for Nauvoo's industry. Until the dam could be constructed, Smith decided to have a Mormon port in Warren, Illinois, which he connected to Nauvoo by rail.
Smith continually urged his city toward industrialization. By 1842, Nauvoo had two big steam sawmills, a steam flour mill, a tool factory, and a foundry. The Mormons had plans for a chinaware factory, to be manned by English converts from the Staffordshire potteries.
As early as May 1842, the New York Herald reported the rumor that men in Nauvoo had a "community of wives," as the practice of polygamy or plural marriage became more common among the Mormons. My Mormon cousins say that the Plunketts did not practice polygamy, and did not believe in it. The bulk of the Mormon colony knew little or nothing about polygamy. The majority accepted the word of church leaders that the system had disappeared.
At its peak the city's population rivaled that of the young city of Chicago. In 1842 the New York Herald reported that the city had a population of 10,000, and 30,000 beyond the city limits. Also, the Legion had "2000 pretty well disciplined" troops.
Then, Nauvoo had an unmistakably military atmosphere. The Legion drilled regularly, with smartly-uniformed officers. Every able-bodied male between 18 and 45 was compelled to join, and heavy fines were imposed for failure to appear at parade. The Legion was organized as a corps of riflemen, while other units in other cities in Illinois were armed mostly with swords and muskets.
Joseph Smith wore a grand uniform: a blue coat with lots of gold braid, buff trousers, high military boots, and a hat with ostrich feathers. He asked the governor for, and received, the commission of Lt. General. Smith came to prefer the title "General" even over that of "President." He carried a sword on his hip, and two big horse-pistols. He loved parades and pomp and splendor, so he called out the Legion on every possible occasion, marching at its head on his magnificent black stallion named Charlie.
In 1840 Joseph Smith feared extradition to Missouri, where he was a fugitive from justice for earlier troubles. He appointed a bodyguard of 12 men, his toughest fighters and most devoted friends. The bodyguards dressed in white uniforms, and made a pretty sight marching and wheeling about the uniformed figure of their chief in Legion parades.
Mary Melinda Plunkett, my great-grandfather's older sister, told her children that she was well acquainted with the Prophet Joseph Smith and his wife Emma. The Smiths always rode by horseback to church on Sundays. Mary remembered waiting with other older children outside the meeting house to watch them come riding up on their beautiful horses.
Military spirit infected all the young boys in Nauvoo, and Smith organized them into a military corps of their own. Between 400 and 600 boys, probably including the Plunkett boys, paraded and drilled with as much zest as their fathers.
Once the boys' army decided to invade Nauvoo. The Legion, prepared to give the boys a good scare, lined up to meet them. But the men didn't know that the boys had raided their mothers' kitchens for pots and pans. When the boys charged out of the woods, beating on kettles and shouting, the Legion's horses panicked and refused to charge. Finally, Smith spurred Charlie forward, squarely into the group of oncoming boys. They scattered, and the Prophet became the hero of the day for repelling the "invasion."
Life in Nauvoo had its fun times as well. Tent theaters visited the city, and there were band concerts and lectures. Only mesmerists and magicians were denied an audience. Joseph Smith held elegant cotillion parties in his big home, called the Mansion House. It was a large home, transformed into a hotel. The Smith family lived in spacious quarters upstairs, while the huge living room below became a lobby and public dining hall.
Hundreds of tourists came to Nauvoo. Steamboats regularly stopped to discharge visitors, who were ceremoniously conducted on a tour of the city. The visitors were shown several mummies kept on display there in the Nauvoo museum, and the new temple.
Nauvoo became a great social center for communities up and down that part of the Mississippi River. Citizens held great celebrations on Independence Day and other holidays, and excursion boats came from as far away as St. Louis to bring people to the festivities. The city was beautiful, and known for the hospitality of its people.
In 1844, at Nauvoo, the last Plunkett child was born. They named the baby Joseph, after church leader Joseph Smith. He lived less than a year, dying at Nauvoo in late June 1845 from inflammation of the brain.
The Mormons believed in cooperation instead of competition. The success of their settlement drew the attention of surrounding areas, and brought fears that the Mormons would soon overtake the state of Illinois. Land speculators were common at the time, but they could not get a toe-hold in Nauvoo, because the church bought large tracts of land and then resold it to the people at non-profit prices.
Nauvoo was an interesting place for the Plunkett children to live. From the historical accounts of the city, it sounds like there was always something going on.
This pleasant life came to a halt in June 1844, when Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum were killed by gunfire while lodged in the county jail at nearby Carthage, Illinois. Later, in early 1846 some 30,000 Mormons fled the city under leadership of Brigham Young, eventually making their well-known exodus to Utah. Young requested the Plunketts to stay for a time in Van Buren County, Iowa, to help grow crops to feed the thousands of refugees. The Plunkett family were among the last to arrive in Utah, remaining in Iowa until 1852.
There are only a few homes left today in Nauvoo. The Mormons never completed their Nauvoo temple, and later its unfinished walls were destroyed by fire.
The Mormons now operate Nauvoo as a National Historic Landmark.
I visited Nauvoo twice during the 1970's, arriving via the steamboat
Delta Queen. I was only there because the boat stopped there, and it was only of mild historical interest to me, as then I knew nothing about the Plunkett connection to the Mormons. I didn't dream that my own ancestors lived there during the height of the city's glory. It wasn't until the late 1980's that I discovered this part of my heritage. Since then I have read many books about the subject. Now, a visit to Nauvoo would be a fascinating experience.
My father remembered James Plunkett saying that he did not want his family to know anything about the background that he left behind him when he joined the Army in California and was sent to Oregon during the Civil War. And for many more years, we didn't know. Now, we have identified this part of our heritage. And, as far as we know, James Plunkett left any connection with the Mormons behind when the U. S. Army sent him to Oregon.
Patricia Plunkett Bearden

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Ancestry.com posting:
H. B. M. Jolley Organized Overland Company
The Plunkett family came to Utah with the Henry B. M. Jolley Overland Company. They left Kanesville, Iowa in June 1852 with a total of 340 souls. They arrived in Salt Lake, Utah September 15, 1852. Source: L. D. S. Church Emigration records, published in unnamed book, page 339. From the files of Challas Snarr.

• Alt. Birth: 17 Feb 1836, Decorah, Winneshiek, Iowa, United States. ⁴ ⁶¹

• Census: Oct 1850, Washington Township, Van Buren County, Iowa, United States. ⁶⁷

• Property: Real Estate $1,000 and Personal Property $1,055, 20 Jun 1870, Falls City, Polk, Oregon, United States.

James married Ashnah Norton ⁶ ⁷ ⁹ ¹⁰ on 28 Jun 1864 in Kings Valley, Benton, Oregon, United States.⁴⁰ ⁶⁹ ⁷⁰ Ashnah was born on 8 Feb 1847 in Kings Valley, Benton, Oregon Territory, United States,^{⁷¹ ⁷² ⁷³} died on 14 Apr 1933 in Blodgett, Benton, Oregon, United States^{²¹ ⁷²} at age 86, and was buried on 16 Apr 1933 in Kings Valley, Benton, Oregon, United States.^{⁶⁵ ⁷² ⁷³} Other names for Ashnah were Ashna P. Norton and⁵ ⁸ ⁷² ⁷⁴ Ashney Plunkett.⁷⁴

Marriage Notes: Benton County Court House, Corvallis, Benton County, Oregon:
Marriages:
James Plunkett and Ashnah Norton, Book B, Page 75b
28 Jun 1864

Obituary: on April 15 shows married on June 28, 1963.

Oregon, County Marriages, 1851-1975:
Name: Ashnah
[Ashnah Norton] Gender: Female Age: 15 Birth Date: abt 1849 Marriage Date: Jun 1864 Marriage Place: Benton, Oregon, USA Father: Hopestill Norton Spouse: James Plankett Film Number: 004393882

i. Lucius Plunkett ⁷⁶ ⁷⁷ ⁷⁸ ⁷⁹ ⁸⁰ ⁸¹ was born on 26 Jun 1865 in Kings Valley, Benton, Oregon, United States, died on 12 Feb 1926 in Chehalis, Lewis, Washington, United States at age 60, and was buried on 15 Feb 1926 in Kings Valley, Benton, Oregon, United States. Other names for Lucius were Loosh and⁸² L. Plunkett.⁸³ Lucius married Adeline Zumwalt,⁷⁷ ⁷⁸ ⁷⁹ ⁸⁰ ⁸¹ ⁸⁴ ⁸⁵ daughter of Andrew Jackson Zumwalt ⁴⁰ ⁸⁶ and Almeda Jane VanBibber,⁸⁵ ⁸⁷ on 4 Dec 1890 in Kings Valley, Benton, Oregon, United States.⁴⁰ Adeline was born on 17 Jan 1874 in Kings Valley, Benton, Oregon, United States,^{⁸⁵ ⁸⁶ ⁸⁸} died on 6 Dec 1954 in Albany, Linn, Oregon, United States^{⁸⁵ ⁸⁶} at age 80, and was buried on 8 Dec 1954 in Scio, Linn, Oregon, United States.^{⁸⁵ ⁸⁶} Other names for Adeline were Adaline,⁸⁹ Addie, and⁸³ Adelin TUMALT.⁷⁶

ii. Wiley M. Plunkett ⁵ was born on 17 Feb 1867 in Kings Valley, Benton, Oregon, United States,^{⁵ ²¹} died on 5 Jul 1934 in Corvallis, Benton, Oregon, United States^{⁵ ⁹⁰} at age 67, and was buried on 6 Jul 1934 in Kings Valley, Benton, Oregon, United States.^⁵ Wiley married Rosella Mae Allen,⁵⁰ daughter of William Reed Allen and Martha Louise York, on 25 Sep 1892 in Washougal, Clark, Washington, United States. Rosella was born on 16 Sep 1877 in , Jewell County, Kansas, United States, died on 4 Oct 1963 in Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, United States^²¹ at age 86, and was buried on 7 Oct 1963 in Corvallis, Benton, Oregon, United States.^⁵⁰ Other names for Rosella were Rosie and Rose Plunkett.

iii. Frank A. Plunkett ⁶ ⁹¹ was born on 5 May 1869 in Blodgett, Benton, Oregon, United States,^⁶ died on 7 Mar 1946 in Kings Valley, Benton, Oregon, United States^{⁶ ²¹} at age 76, and was buried on 9 Mar 1946 in Kings Valley, Benton, Oregon, United States. Frank married Ida Mae Chandler,⁶ daughter of Ellen Storr, on 21 Dec 1932 in Vancouver, Clark, Washington, United States. Ida was born about 1892 in Marsland, Dawes, Nebraska, United States.^⁹² Another name for Ida was Ida Mae Chandler. Frank next married Nellie Ann Tatom,⁹¹ ⁹³ ⁹⁴ daughter of Solomon Tatom ⁷¹ ⁹⁴ ⁹⁵ and Cyrena Wood,⁹⁴ ⁹⁶ ⁹⁷ on 8 Oct 1893 in Kings Valley, Benton, Oregon, United States.⁴⁰ Nellie was born on 3 Mar 1872 in Platte City, Platte, Missouri, United States,^{⁹³ ⁹⁴} died on 9 Oct 1917 in Philomath, Benton, Oregon, United States^{²⁶ ⁹³ ⁹⁴ ⁹⁸} at age 45, and was buried on 11 Oct 1917 in Kings Valley, Benton, Oregon, United States.^{⁶⁵ ⁹³ ⁹⁴} Frank next married Aldora Lewis Conrow,⁹⁹ ¹⁰⁰ daughter of Ephriam C. Conrow ¹⁰⁰ ¹⁰² ¹⁰³ ¹⁰⁴ ¹⁰⁵ and Julia Anne Cramer,¹⁰⁴ on 24 May 1919 in Dayton, Yamhill, Oregon, United States.¹⁰¹ Aldora was born on 2 Apr 1869 in , Plymouth County, California, United States,^¹⁰⁰ died on 22 Feb 1931 in Corvallis, Benton, Oregon, United States^{¹⁰⁰ ¹⁰⁶} at age 61, and was buried on 25 Feb 1931 in Kings Valley, Benton, Oregon, United States.^¹⁰⁰ Other names for Aldora were Dorie and Eldora Conrow Lewis.⁹⁹

iv. Barton Plunkett was born on 30 Aug 1871 in Kings Valley, Benton, Oregon, United States, died on 26 Sep 1875 in Kings Valley, Benton, Oregon, United States^⁷⁰ at age 4, and was buried in Sep 1875 in Kings Valley, Benton, Oregon, United States.

v. Edgar Plunkett ¹⁴ ³⁵ ¹⁰⁷ ¹⁰⁸ was born on 19 Jun 1873 in Kings Valley, Benton, Oregon, United States,^{³⁵ ⁶⁵ ¹⁰⁷} died on 30 May 1935 in Corvallis, Benton, Oregon, United States^{¹⁰⁷ ¹⁰⁹} at age 61, and was buried on 1 Jun 1935 in Kings Valley, Benton, Oregon, United States. Another name for Edgar was Ed Plunkett.⁷⁰ Edgar married Dora Cinn Read,¹⁰⁸ daughter of Thomas George Read and Delilah Lynch, on 5 Sep 1897 in Dayton, Yamhill, Oregon, United States.¹¹⁰ ¹¹¹ Dora was born on 14 Feb 1874 in Falls City, Polk, Oregon, United States,^⁶⁵ died on 12 Jan 1907 in Kings Valley, Benton, Oregon, United States at age 32, and was buried in Jan 1907 in Kings Valley, Benton, Oregon, United States.^⁶⁵ Other names for Dora were Dora Plunkett, Dora A. Read, and¹¹² Dora Reed. Edgar next married Susan Blodgett,¹¹³ daughter of Rufus Barr Blodgett ¹¹⁵ ¹¹⁶ and Anna Eudorah Derrick,¹¹⁷ ¹¹⁸ on 18 Jan 1913 in Corvallis, Benton, Oregon, United States.⁴⁰ ¹¹⁴ Susan was born on 12 Mar 1886 in Blodgett, Benton, Oregon, United States,^{¹⁴ ¹¹³} died on 6 Mar 1941 in Blodgett, Benton, Oregon, United States^{²¹ ¹¹³ ¹¹⁹} at age 54, and was buried on 11 Mar 1941 in Blodgett, Benton, Oregon, United States. Another name for Susan was Sue Blodgett.³⁵

vi. Bertha Plunkett ⁷ ⁷¹ ¹²⁰ was born on 1 Mar 1876 in Kings Valley, Benton, Oregon, United States,^{⁷ ²⁴ ⁷⁰} died on 8 Feb 1957 in Corvallis, Benton, Oregon, United States^{⁷ ²¹ ²⁴} at age 80, and was buried on 11 Feb 1957 in Corvallis, Benton, Oregon, United States.^{⁷ ²⁴} Bertha married John Albert Thompson,¹²⁰ ¹²¹ ¹²² ¹²³ son of George Washington Thompson ¹²² ¹²⁶ ¹²⁷ ¹²⁸ and Mary Olmsted,¹²² ¹²⁵ on 26 Jun 1899 in Astoria, Clatsop, Oregon, United States.²⁴ ¹²⁴ ¹²⁵ John was born on 20 Apr 1874 in Emporia, Lyon, Kansas, United States,^{⁷⁵ ¹²¹ ¹²² ¹²⁶ ¹²⁷ ¹²⁹ ¹³⁰ ¹³¹} died on 16 Aug 1949 in Corvallis, Benton, Oregon, United States^{¹²² ¹²⁶} at age 75, and was buried on 19 Aug 1949 in Corvallis, Benton, Oregon, United States.^{¹²² ¹²⁵} Other names for John were J. A. Thompson and Jack Thompson.¹²⁷

1 vii. Sarah C. Plunkett ² ¹⁶ (born on 10 Jul 1878 in Kings Valley, Benton, Oregon, United States - died on 16 Apr 1965 in Corvallis, Benton, Oregon, United States). Sarah married Johann Albin Bottger,² ¹⁶ son of Karl Gottfried Bottger ¹⁹ and Amelia Harnish Hautsch,²⁰ on 14 Jan 1899 in , Benton County, Oregon, United States.¹⁷ ¹⁸ Johann was born on 9 Apr 1865 in Burgstadt, Saxony, Germany,^{¹⁴ ¹⁵ ²⁰} died on 24 Jul 1949 in Philomath, Benton, Oregon, United States^{²⁰ ²¹} at age 84, and was buried on 26 Jul 1949 in Corvallis, Benton, Oregon, United States.^²⁰ Other names for Johann were J. A. Bottger and²² John A. Bottger.³ ¹⁵

viii. Garfield Plunkett ³ ⁸ ¹⁴ ¹³² was born on 17 Apr 1881 in Kings Valley, Benton, Oregon, United States,^{³ ⁸ ³⁵ ¹³³} died on 14 Mar 1942 in Sweet Home, Linn, Oregon, United States^{⁸ ²¹} at age 60, and was buried on 16 Mar 1942 in Kings Valley, Benton, Oregon, United States.^{⁸ ⁶⁵} Another name for Garfield was Gary.⁸² Garfield married Minnie Pauline Girrard,³⁵ ¹³² ¹³⁴ daughter of John Lindsay Girrard ¹³⁴ and Ione Jane Ornsby,¹³⁴ ¹³⁶ on 23 Dec 1903 in Wren, Benton, Oregon, United States.¹³⁵ Minnie was born on 27 Aug 1887 in Jennings, Decatur, Kansas, United States,^{¹³⁴ ¹³⁷} died on 1 Apr 1952 in Kings Valley, Benton, Oregon, United States^¹³⁴ at age 64, and was buried on 4 Apr 1952 in Kings Valley, Benton, Oregon, United States.^{⁶⁵ ¹³⁴}

ix. Henry Plunkett ³ ⁹ ¹⁴ ¹³⁸ ¹³⁹ ¹⁴⁰ was born on 25 Jun 1883 in Kings Valley, Benton, Oregon, United States,^{³ ⁹ ¹³⁸} died on 11 Oct 1960 in Corvallis, Benton, Oregon, United States^{⁹ ²¹} at age 77, and was buried on 13 Oct 1960 in Kings Valley, Benton, Oregon, United States.^⁹ Henry married Ada Jenny Bertha Whiting,¹³⁹ ¹⁴⁰ daughter of Gardner Ambrose Whiting and Purette Gabrilla Rice,¹⁴² ¹⁴³ on 19 Apr 1903 in Dayton, Yamhill, Oregon, United States.¹⁴¹ Ada was born on 17 Apr 1887 in Le Mars, Plymouth, Iowa, United States,^¹⁵ died on 8 Feb 1963 in Albany, Linn, Oregon, United States^²¹ at age 75, and was buried on 11 Feb 1963 in Kings Valley, Benton, Oregon, United States.^²⁴ Another name for Ada was Ada J. Plunkett.³⁵

General Notes:
May have been the first or one of the first white child born in Kings Valley, Benton County, Oregon

Early Oregonians Index, 1800-1860:
Name: Ashna J Norton
[Ashnah Norton] Birth Date: 8 Feb 1847 Birth Place: Benton, Oregon Territory, USA Death Date: 14 Apr 1933 Death Place: Benton, Oregon, USA Cemetery: Kings Valley Cemetery

US Civil War Pension Index, 1861-1934:
Name:Ashnah Plunkett
Gender:Female
Place Filed:Oregon, USA
Relation to Head:Widow
Spouse:James Plunkett

Ashnah married James A. Plunkett ³ ⁴ ⁵ ⁶ ⁷ ⁸ ⁹ ¹⁰ on 28 Jun 1864 in Kings Valley, Benton, Oregon, United States.⁴⁰ ⁶⁹ ⁷⁰ James was born on 17 Feb 1836 in Brockville, Leeds, Ontario, Canada, died on 12 Jun 1911 in Dayton, Yamhill, Oregon, United States^⁶⁴ at age 75, and was buried on 14 Jun 1911 in Kings Valley, Benton, Oregon, United States.^{⁴ ⁶⁵}

Third Generation

4. William Robert Plunkett,⁴ ⁶¹ son of William Plunkett ¹⁴⁸ and Mary, was born on 22 Dec 1806 in Cunningburne, Newtown Ards, Parish, County Down, Ireland, died in Dec 1869 in Drytown, Amador, California, United States at age 63, and was buried in Dec 1869 in Drytown, Amador, California, United States. Another name for William was Robert Plunkett Sr..⁶³

General Notes: Membership of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints:
Name: Robert Plunkett Gender: Male Relationship to Primary Person: Self (Head) Father: William Plunkett Mother: Mary Birth Date: 23 Dec 1806 Alternate Birth Dates: Dec 22, 1806 Birth Place: Plunkett, Down, Ireland LDS Church Ordinance Data: Patriarchal Blessing Date: March 21, 1843 Nauvoo, Hancock, IL, USA Officiator: Hyrum Smith Ordained Seventy LDS Temple Ordinance Data: Endowment Date: January 30, 1846 Temple: Nauvoo, Hancock, IL, USA Comments: Robert was mentioned among the Nauvoo List of Members.

Seventy Quorum Membership:
Name: Robert William ? Plunkett
[Robert Plunkett]
[Robert William ? Plunket] Birth Date: 1806 Birth Place: Ireland Father: William Plunkett Mother: Mary (Eleanor) Wives: Kennedy, Sarah? Quorum: Q7 Nauvoo Data: Endowed Nauvoo Temple 1/30/46 (Seventy); Nauvoo Sources: M35:131; N479; Q7+

• Blessing: Patriarchal, 21 Mar 1843, Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States.

• Travel: Utah, U.S., Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel Records, 1847-1868, 1852.

• Naturalization: 19 Apr 1854, Salt Lake City, Great Salt Lake, Utah, United States.

William married Sarah Cade Canada Kennedy ⁴ ⁶² ⁶³ about 1831 in Maple Creek, , Saskatchewan, Canada. Sarah was born on 1 Jan 1791 in , , , Ireland, died on 26 Aug 1891 in Kanab, Kane, Utah, United States^¹⁵⁰ at age 100, and was buried in 1891 in Kanab, Kane, Utah, United States. Other names for Sarah were Sarah Canada and Sarah Kenedy.

• Census: Oct 1850, Washington Township, Van Buren County, Iowa, United States. ⁶⁷

i. Mary Melinda Plunkett ⁶³ was born on 1 May 1834 in Brockville, Leeds, Ontario, Canada,^{⁶¹ ⁶³} died on 13 Nov 1924 in Kanab, Kane, Utah, United States^⁶³ at age 90, and was buried on 15 Nov 1924 in Kanab, Kane, Utah, United States.^¹⁵¹ Another name for Mary was Mary Malinda. Mary married Nathan William Adams,⁶³ son of Arza Matson Adams and Sabina Clarke, on 15 Feb 1855 in American Fork, Utah, Utah, United States. Nathan was born on 2 Feb 1831 in Bathurst, Carlton, Ontario, Canada, died on 26 Dec 1916 in Kanab, Kane, Utah, United States at age 85, and was buried on 28 Dec 1916 in Kanab, Kane, Utah, United States.

iii. William Plunkett, Sr. was born in 1838 in Dundas, , Ontario, Canada, died on 21 Jul 1908 in Drytown, Amador, California, United States at age 70, and was buried on 22 Jul 1908 in Drytown, Amador, California, United States. William married Hannah Ellen Kelsey on 19 May 1852 in , Van Buren County, Iowa, United States. Hannah was born on 19 May 1836 in , Van Buren County, Iowa, United States, died on 13 Nov 1911 in Plymouth, Amador, California, United States at age 75, and was buried on 15 Nov 1911 in Drytown, Amador, California, United States. Other names for Hannah were Anna Plunkett and Annie E. Plunkett.

iv. Ellen Plunkett was born about 1840 in Brockville, Leeds, Ontario, Canada,^{⁶¹ ¹⁵²} died on 21 Mar 1886 in Plymouth, Amador, California, United States about age 46, and was buried in 1886 in Plymouth, , Michigan, United States. Another name for Ellen was Elenor Plunkett. Ellen married Andrew Patten Wood on 3 Nov 1857 in Drytown, Amador, California, United States. Andrew was born in Oct 1830 in Eudora, Polk, Missouri, United States^¹⁵³ and died on 2 Feb 1906 in Plymouth, Amador, California, United States^¹⁵³ at age 75. Another name for Andrew was A. P. Wood.¹⁵²

v. Issac Plunkett was born on 9 Oct 1840 in Brockville, Leeds, Ontario, Canada, died on 19 Oct 1871 in American Fork, Utah, Utah, United States^⁶¹ at age 31, and was buried in Oct 1871 in American Fork, Utah, Utah, United States. Issac married Nancy Mercer, daughter of John Mercer and Nancy Wilson, on 15 Dec 1868 in Salt Lake City, Great Salt Lake, Utah, United States. Nancy was born on 17 May 1853 in American Fork, Utah, Utah, United States and died on 13 Jan 1933 at age 79.

vi. Robert Plunkett was born about 1842 in Lowell, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.

vii. Joseph H. Plunkett was born on 23 Jul 1844 in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States, died on 30 Jun 1845 in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States, and was buried in 1845 in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States.

5. Sarah Cade Canada Kennedy,⁴ ⁶² ⁶³ daughter of Patrick Kennedy Canaday and Mary Simpson, was born on 1 Jan 1791 in , , , Ireland, died on 26 Aug 1891 in Kanab, Kane, Utah, United States^¹⁵⁰ at age 100, and was buried in 1891 in Kanab, Kane, Utah, United States. Other names for Sarah were Sarah Canada and Sarah Kenedy.

General Notes:
Name may be Sarah Canada/Kenedy LDS Files:2KJ7-KR

Ancestry.com World Family Tree shows spelling- Canidy

Ancestry.com posting:
This note is from the files of Challas Adams Snarr, dated 7 February 1978, shared with Pat Bearden during 1980s:
"Sarah Kenedy b.10 Mar. 1800 d. 26 Aug. 1894 (this date is proven to be 1791). She is my 2nd Great Grandmother. My grandmother Emma Elizabeth McAllister Adams told me she can remember her and that 'her name was Canada. The name Kennedy was put on her tombstone. Granma says she was born in Ireland. She had a sister who died when she was abt. 103 yrs. old. Robert Plunket came from Scotland.' "
"Sarah Canada was on the train that came in from the West Coast when they drove the Golden Spike at Ogen, Utah. (This would have to be May 1869. My grandfather John Quincy Adams remembered going with his father Nathan Adams to Ogden to pick her up. Her obituary says she lived her last 20 years with Nathan and Mary Malinda P. Adams. We found Robert in the Great Register of Amador Co. 1867 but could not find him in the 1870 Census. I am assuming that he died and that is why Sarah Kenedy Plunket came to Utah at that time.)"
"Sarah's name is spelled Kenedy in the card index of Nauvoo. She was raised in Scotland and immigrated to Canada about 1830."
"From Alice Adams 18 Nov. 1976: Robert Plunkett - Hawaii, Son of Robert came back and had sealing in Salt Lake Temple (that would have had to be after 1893.) Aunt Zoe says my Granma Adams was always talking about their Plunkets in Hawaii."

• Travel: Utah, U.S., Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel Records, 1847-1868, 1852.

Sarah married William Robert Plunkett ⁴ ⁶¹ about 1831 in Maple Creek, , Saskatchewan, Canada. William was born on 22 Dec 1806 in Cunningburne, Newtown Ards, Parish, County Down, Ireland, died in Dec 1869 in Drytown, Amador, California, United States at age 63, and was buried in Dec 1869 in Drytown, Amador, California, United States. Another name for William was Robert Plunkett Sr..⁶³

General Notes: Oregon Territorial Census, 1841-90
Lucius Norton listed for 1845,1850,1853-Benton County Census

BLM Land Records, Oregon:
Names
Patentees: HOOPESTILL NORTON,
LUCIUS C NORTON
Survey
State: OREGON
Acres: 640.66
Metes/Bounds: No
Title Transfer
Issue Date: 12/29/1866
Land Office: OREGON CITY
Cancelled: No
U.S. Reservations: No
Mineral Reservations: No
Authority: September 27, 1850: OREGON-DONATION ACT (GRANT) (99 Stat. 496)
Document Numbers
Document Nr.: 2765
Accession/Serial Nr.: OROCAA 018959
BLM Serial Nr.: OROCAA 018959

Oregon Secretary of State Archived Records:
Case# 0559
Name Norton, Lucius C.
Date 12-31-1859
Record Type Estate
County Benton
Source Genealogical
Case# 4776
Name Norton, Lucius
Date
Record Type Tax roll
County Benton
Source Provisonal and Territorial
Remarks List of taxpayers north of Marys River

Lucius and Hopestill Norton and children were part of the 1845 Missouri-Oregon Wagon Train and recorded in the book: Terrible Trail: The Meek Cutoff 1845"

Note: I've not been able to verify/confirm Cerilda Jane Norton b. Jul 1856 is a sibling that belongs to this family. The Kings Valley, Oregon Cemetery does have a Cerilda Norton born abit 1856, however, she died on May 5, 1858.

• Alt. Marriage: 9 Oct 1839, Worthington, Franklin, Ohio, United States. ¹⁶⁴

• Census: 7 Oct 1850, , Benton County, Oregon Territory, United States. ¹⁴⁴

i. Isaac Norton ¹⁴⁷ ¹⁶⁵ ¹⁶⁶ ¹⁶⁷ was born on 22 Feb 1842 in Wilson, Adair, Missouri, United States,^{⁴⁰ ¹⁴⁷ ¹⁶⁶ ¹⁶⁸} died on 25 Nov 1922 in Eugene, Lane, Oregon, United States^{¹⁴⁷ ¹⁶⁶} at age 80, and was buried in Nov 1922 in Kings Valley, Benton, Oregon, United States.^{⁶⁵ ¹⁴⁷ ¹⁶⁶} Isaac married Olive A. Harris, daughter of George Harris ¹⁶⁹ and Nancy Fuller,¹⁷⁰ on 20 Feb 1867 in Kings Valley, Benton, Oregon, United States.⁴⁰ ¹⁵⁹ Olive was born in 1842 in Orange, Delaware, Ohio, United States, died on 26 Jun 1897 in Blodgett, Benton, Oregon, United States at age 55, and was buried on 27 Jun 1897 in Kings Valley, Benton, Oregon, United States.^⁶⁵ Isaac next married Elizabeth Buffum, daughter of Sarah Abbott, on 20 Jan 1899 in Kings Valley, Benton, Oregon, United States.⁴⁰ Elizabeth was born on 31 Mar 1866 in Airlie, Polk, Oregon, United States,^¹⁶⁷ died on 16 Apr 1916 in Philomath, Benton, Oregon, United States^¹⁶⁷ at age 50, and was buried on 17 Apr 1916 in Philomath, Benton, Oregon, United States. Another name for Elizabeth was Lizzie.¹⁶⁷

ii. Wiley Norton ¹⁷¹ ¹⁷² ¹⁷³ ¹⁷⁴ ¹⁷⁵ was born on 27 Mar 1844 in Big Bend, Carrol, Missouri, United States,^{³ ⁴⁰ ¹⁶⁸} died on 9 Jan 1933 in Turner, Marion, Oregon, United States^¹⁷⁶ at age 88, and was buried in Jan 1933 in Kings Valley, Benton, Oregon, United States.^⁶⁵ Another name for Wiley was Wylie Norton.⁷⁰ Wiley married Nancy Ann Zumwalt,¹⁷¹ ¹⁷² ¹⁷⁴ ¹⁷⁵ ¹⁷⁷ daughter of Isaac Newton Zumwalt ¹⁷⁷ and Sarah W. Crow,¹⁷⁷ on 18 May 1865 in , Polk County, Oregon, United States.⁴⁰ ¹⁵⁹ Nancy was born on 25 May 1847 in Tualatin Plains, Tuaility, Oregon, United States,^{³ ¹⁶⁴ ¹⁷⁷ ¹⁷⁸} died on 22 Jul 1930 in Lewisville, Polk, Oregon, United States^{²¹ ¹⁷⁶} at age 83, and was buried on 24 Jul 1930 in Kings Valley, Benton, Oregon, United States.^⁶⁵

iv. Cynthia Norton was born on 9 May 1850 in Kings Valley, Benton, Oregon Territory, United States,^¹⁷⁹ died on 14 May 1850 in Kings Valley, Benton, Oregon Territory, United States, and was buried in May 1850 in Kings Valley, Benton, Oregon, United States.^⁶⁵

v. Sarepta Norton ⁷¹ ¹⁸⁰ ¹⁸¹ was born on 9 May 1850 in Kings Valley, Benton, Oregon Territory, United States,^¹⁷⁹ died on 2 Mar 1909 in Kings Valley, Benton, Oregon, United States at age 58, and was buried in Mar 1909 in Kings Valley, Benton, Oregon, United States.^⁶⁵ Another name for Sarepta was Sis. Sarepta married Willard Lane Price,¹⁸⁰ ¹⁸¹ ¹⁸² ¹⁸³ son of Larkin Price and Harriet Simpson,¹⁸² on 4 Dec 1870 in Dayton, Yamhill, Oregon, United States.⁴⁰ ⁷⁴ ¹⁵⁹ Willard was born on 21 Apr 1850 in , Marion County, Oregon Territory, United States,^¹⁸² died on 18 Feb 1911 in Kings Valley, Benton, Oregon, United States^{¹⁸² ¹⁸⁴} at age 60, and was buried on 20 Feb 1911 in Kings Valley, Benton, Oregon, United States.^{⁶⁵ ¹⁸²} Another name for Willard was W. L. Price.

vi. Nahum Norton ¹⁴⁵ was born on 9 May 1850 in Kings Valley, Benton, Oregon Territory, United States,^¹⁷⁹ died on 6 Oct 1922 in Monmouth, Polk, Oregon, United States^{⁴⁰ ¹⁴⁵} at age 72, and was buried on 8 Oct 1922 in Kings Valley, Benton, Oregon, United States.^{⁶⁵ ¹⁴⁵} Another name for Nahum was Bub. Nahum married Margaret Jane Murphy,¹⁸⁵ ¹⁸⁶ daughter of James Murphy ¹⁸⁶ and Sarah Gibson,¹⁸⁶ ¹⁸⁷ on 20 Mar 1873 in Dayton, Yamhill, Oregon, United States.¹¹² ¹⁵⁹ ¹⁸⁵ Margaret was born on 19 Feb 1858 in Carrollton, Greene, Illinois, United States,^¹⁸⁶ died on 6 Apr 1923 in Monmouth, Polk, Oregon, United States^¹⁸⁶ at age 65, and was buried on 8 Apr 1923 in Corvallis, Benton, Oregon, United States.^¹⁸⁶ Another name for Margaret was Margaret Jane Mulkey.¹⁴⁶

vii. Malinda Norton ⁷¹ ¹⁸⁸ was born on 8 Aug 1852 in Kings Valley, Benton, Oregon, United States,^{¹⁵⁹ ¹⁷⁹} died on 9 Nov 1882 in Jacksonville, Jackson, Oregon, United States at age 30, and was buried in Nov 1882 in Jacksonville, Jackson, Oregon, United States. Other names for Malinda were Linnie, Lennie Norton, and¹⁶⁸ Lynnie Norton.¹⁸⁹ Malinda married Anson Dillard Price,¹⁹⁰ son of Larkin Price and Harriet Simpson,¹⁸² on 3 Mar 1872 in Kings Valley, Benton, Oregon, United States.⁴⁰ ¹⁵⁹ Anson was born on 11 Jan 1852 in Salem, Marion, Oregon, United States,^¹⁷⁹ died on 20 Jul 1909 in Sodaville, Linn, Oregon, United States^{²¹ ¹⁹¹} at age 57, and was buried on 21 Jul 1909 in Lebanon, Linn, Oregon, United States.^¹⁹⁰ Other names for Anson were A. D. Price and¹⁹¹ Dillard Anson Price.¹⁸⁸ ¹⁸⁹

viii. Serena Norton was born on 26 Jun 1854 in Kings Valley, Benton, Oregon, United States,^{⁴⁰ ¹⁵⁹} died on 9 Jun 1873 in Kings Valley, Benton, Oregon, United States^¹⁵⁹ at age 18, and was buried in Jun 1873 in Kings Valley, Benton, Oregon, United States. Other names for Serena were Cerena and Teen.

ix. Cerilda Jane Norton was born on 7 Jul 1856 in Kings Valley, Benton, Oregon, United States,^¹⁵⁹ died on 5 May 1858 in Kings Valley, Benton, Oregon, United States^¹⁵⁹ at age 1, and was buried in May 1858 in Dayton, Yamhill, Oregon, United States. Another name for Cerilda was Nell.

x. Lucius Carolus Norton, Jr. ¹⁹² was born on 15 Jul 1858 in Kings Valley, Benton, Oregon, United States,^{¹⁵⁹ ¹⁷⁹ ¹⁹²} died on 9 Jul 1928 in Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, United States^{²¹ ¹⁹²} at age 69, and was buried on 10 Jul 1928 in Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, United States.^¹⁹² Lucius married Mary Ellen Patterson, daughter of John Huston Patterson ¹⁹³ ¹⁹⁴ ¹⁹⁵ ¹⁹⁶ and Nancy L. Curfman,¹⁹³ on 29 Dec 1883 in Monroe, Benton, Oregon, United States.⁴⁰ ¹⁵⁹ Mary was born on 9 Apr 1862 in Carrollton, Greene, Illinois, United States,^{¹⁷⁹ ¹⁹⁵} died on 3 Feb 1944 in Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, United States^¹⁹⁵ at age 81, and was buried on 7 Feb 1944 in Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, United States.^¹⁹⁵ Another name for Mary was Ella.

General Notes:
Oregon Census, 1841-90
Hopestill listed for the Benton County, 1860,1870 Census

Book, "Terrible Trail: The Meek Cutoff, 1845" by Keith Clark and Lowell Tiller Copyright 1966-Page 225: After the death of her husband Lucius, Hopestill ran a stagecoach way station in the Coast Range, west of Corvallis, Benton County, Oregon
Not confirmed same person, however, believe this is Hopestill King Norton:

Newspaper story shows spelling of Hope Steel King! 20 Jun 1925

• Property: Real Estate Value $5,000 and Personal Property $4,485, 11 Jul 1860, Kings Valley, Benton, Oregon, United States. ¹⁶⁵

• Property: Real Estate $8,000 and Personal Property $2,125, 16 Jun 1870, Falls City, Polk, Oregon, United States.

Fourth Generation

8. William Plunkett ¹⁴⁸ was born about 1780 in Newtonards Parish, Dowin County, Ireland.

William married Mary. Mary was born about 1784 in Newtonards Parish, Dowin County, Ireland.

Marriage Notes: Ancestry.com posting: Millennium File:
Name: William Plunkitt Gender: Male Birth Date: 1776 Spouse: Mary Children: Robert Plunkit

4 i. William Robert Plunkett ⁴ ⁶¹ (born on 22 Dec 1806 in Cunningburne, Newtown Ards, Parish, County Down, Ireland - died in Dec 1869 in Drytown, Amador, California, United States). William married Sarah Cade Canada Kennedy,⁴ ⁶² ⁶³ daughter of Patrick Kennedy Canaday and Mary Simpson, about 1831 in Maple Creek, , Saskatchewan, Canada. Sarah was born on 1 Jan 1791 in , , , Ireland, died on 26 Aug 1891 in Kanab, Kane, Utah, United States^¹⁵⁰ at age 100, and was buried in 1891 in Kanab, Kane, Utah, United States. Other names for Sarah were Sarah Canada and Sarah Kenedy.

Mary married William Plunkett.¹⁴⁸ William was born about 1780 in Newtonards Parish, Dowin County, Ireland.

10. Patrick Kennedy Canaday was born in 1765 in Ash, Brunswick, North Carolina, United States.

5 i. Sarah Cade Canada Kennedy ⁴ ⁶² ⁶³ (born on 1 Jan 1791 in , , , Ireland - died on 26 Aug 1891 in Kanab, Kane, Utah, United States). Sarah married William Robert Plunkett,⁴ ⁶¹ son of William Plunkett ¹⁴⁸ and Mary, about 1831 in Maple Creek, , Saskatchewan, Canada. William was born on 22 Dec 1806 in Cunningburne, Newtown Ards, Parish, County Down, Ireland, died in Dec 1869 in Drytown, Amador, California, United States at age 63, and was buried in Dec 1869 in Drytown, Amador, California, United States. Another name for William was Robert Plunkett Sr..⁶³

Mary married Patrick Kennedy Canaday. Patrick was born in 1765 in Ash, Brunswick, North Carolina, United States.

12. Solomon Norton,¹⁵⁴ son of James Alexander Norton and Dulaney Howe,¹⁹⁹ was born in 1794 in Essex, Essex, New York, United States and died on 19 Oct 1845 in Carrollton, Greene, Illinois, United States^{¹⁵⁴ ¹⁵⁵ ¹⁵⁷ ²⁰⁰} at age 51.

Solomon married Cynthia A. Knapp ¹⁵⁵ on 21 May 1816 in , Madison County, Ohio, United States.¹⁵⁵ ²⁰² ²⁰³ Cynthia was born about 1792 in Springfield, Clark, Ohio, United States^¹⁵⁵ and died in 1839 in Hardin, Shelby, Ohio, United States about age 47.

Marriage Notes: Ohio, County Marriages, 1774-1993:
Name: Cyntha Knap Gender: Female Marriage Date: 21 May 1816 Marriage Place: Madison, Ohio, USA Spouse: Solomon Norton Film Number: 000545132

• Residence: Between 1840 and 1849, , Logan County, Illinois, United States. ¹⁵⁶

ii. Chloe May Norton was born on 16 Dec 1822 in Orange, Delaware, Ohio, United States, died on 16 Jun 1908 in Auburn, King, Washington, United States at age 85, and was buried in 1908 in Enumclaw, King, Washington, United States. Another name for Chloe was Chloe Norton. Chloe married Washington Patterson, son of Moses Patterson and Jane Humphries, on 3 Jul 1840 in Mount Pulaski, Logan, Illinois, United States.²⁰⁰ Washington was born in 1819 in Orange, Delaware, Ohio, United States and died in Jul 1884 in Colfax, Whitman, Washington, United States at age 65.

iii. Harriet Norton was born about 1824 in Orange, Delaware, Ohio, United States^¹⁵⁶ and died about 1845 in , , Oregon Territory, United States^²⁰⁰ about age 21.

iv. Dulany Norton was born about 1828 in Orange, Delaware, Ohio, United States^¹⁵⁶ and died about 1845 about age 17.

v. Phoebe Norton ²⁰⁴ was born on 3 May 1831 in Springfield, Clark, Ohio, United States,^{¹⁵⁶ ²⁰⁴ ²⁰⁵} died on 27 Aug 1909 in , Saline County, Kansas, United States^²⁰⁴ at age 78, and was buried in 1909 in Salina, Saline, Kansas, United States.^²⁰⁴ Phoebe married Samuel Hoffman on 30 Apr 1849 in , Logan County, Illinois, United States.²⁰⁰ Samuel was born in 1826 in Pottstown, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, United States,^²⁰⁶ died on 13 Apr 1854 in Dayton, Yamhill, Oregon, United States at age 28, and was buried in 1854 in Kings Valley, Benton, Oregon, United States.^²⁰⁶ Another name for Samuel was Samuel Huffman. Phoebe next married Charles C. Davis,²⁰⁴ son of Amos Davis and Eliza,²⁰⁷ on 23 Aug 1854 in Dayton, Yamhill, Oregon, United States. Charles was born in Aug 1831 in , , Vermont, United States,^{²⁰⁴ ²⁰⁵} died in 1905^²⁰⁴ at age 74, and was buried in 1905 in Salina, Saline, Kansas, United States.^²⁰⁴ Another name for Charles was C. C.

Solomon next married Laurinda Woodward ²⁰³ on 5 May 1840 in , Logan County, Illinois, United States.¹⁵⁶ Laurinda was born in 1810 in Opequon, Frederick, Virginia, United States,^¹⁵⁶ died on 31 Aug 1881 in Springfield, Sangamon, Illinois, United States^²⁰⁸ at age 71, and was buried in 1881 in , Logan County, Illinois, United States.

i. John Quincy Norton ²⁰⁰ was born in 1841 in La Salle, La Salle, Illinois, United States, died on 26 Jul 1864 in Rolla, Phelps, Missouri, United States at age 23, and was buried in 1864 in , Logan County, Illinois, United States.

ii. Eliza Norton ²⁰⁰ was born about 1843 in La Salle, La Salle, Illinois, United States.^²⁰⁰

13. Cynthia A. Knapp,¹⁵⁵ daughter of Elihu Ketchum Knapp ²⁰⁹ and Ame Anders,²⁰⁹ was born about 1792 in Springfield, Clark, Ohio, United States^¹⁵⁵ and died in 1839 in Hardin, Shelby, Ohio, United States about age 47.

• Alt. Death: 1836, Carrollton, Greene, Illinois, United States. ¹⁵⁵ ¹⁵⁶

14. Nahum Amos King,¹⁹⁷ ¹⁹⁸ son of Amos Nahum King ¹⁹⁷ and Hopestill Bradley Haskins, was born on 25 Jul 1783 in New Salem, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States,^{¹⁹⁷ ²¹⁰} died on 28 May 1856 in Wren, Benton, Oregon, United States^{²¹⁰ ²¹¹} at age 72, and was buried in 1856 in Kings Valley, Benton, Oregon, United States.^⁶⁵ Another name for Nahum was Naham Amos King.

General Notes: Note: Luther was the only surviving child of John King & Susan who drowned on the Columbia River.
See Notes for John & Susan King.
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The Kings of Kings Valley
By Kenneth Munford
Part of a continuing series on the history of Benton County.
Part 1
Kings Valley in northwest Benton County, Kings Boulevard in Corvallis, and Kings Heights in Portland take their names form members of the King family who came to Oregon by covered wagon in 1845. There were 26 of them when they left St. Joseph
Missouri on May 2: 7 men, 7 women, 6 boys and 6 girls. One man two women and a baby boy and a young girl died on the way west.

The others spent their first winter in Oregon on Gales Creek, near present day

Forest Grove. During the winter the men folk and older boys went hunting- not only for game but also for land. They felt sure that the U.S. Congress would grant them free land when the Willamette Valley became part of the United States. Eventually their faith proved well founded. The provisional claims they staked out that winter and spring became donation land claims under the law of 1850.

We do not have a record of the rout the Kings took on their land-hunting trip. If they followed the old Hudsons Bay Company pack trail that skirted the western foothills of the valley, they would have found settelers on the Yamhill River who would soon found the towns of Lafayette and Dayton. The three Applegate brothers had settled two years before along Salt Creek. Nathaniel Ford and his relatives had settled Ricreal the year before.

After crossing the Little Luchiamute, the hunters may have followed an alternate pack trail south up the Lukiamute. After passing present Pedee, they came up over a rise and looked down into a pleasant little valley where no one had settled or claimed land.

Nahum King, patriarch of the King clan, like other leaders in other times and places, may have declared something like, "Boys, this is the place!"

Open grassland surrounded by dense forest along the meandering river looked good to them. It had adequate water and fuel, rich soil and abundant building materials. It was well draned so they would not suffer the floods they had experiences in Ohio and Missouri.

From the Benton Bulletin July 23, 1980 pg.4

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The Kings of King's Valley
Part 2

Nahum and Serepta Norton King

Nahum King, patriarch of the King family who first settled Kings Valley in northwest Benton County, was born in New Salem, Massachusetts in 1783. His parents, Amos and Hopestill Haskins King, whose ancestors had come to the Massachusetts Colony before 1638, moved as far west as Albany, New York, when Nahum was a boy.

Grown to manhood, Nahum married a local belle, Serepta Norton, daughter of

James and Dulany Howe Norton. Nahum was 24: Serepta was midway between

Her 15th and 16th birthdays when they married May 9, 1807 in Columbus County

New York.
The family Bible show that their first child, Saretta, arrived in March 1808 and a second daughter, Lucretia, in July 1809. Both girls later became wives and mothers. Lucretia and her family came to Oregon eight years after the rest of the family.

In all, Serepta and Nahum had 16 children. Three of them died while still children. Eleven, most of them born in Ohio, continued the westward trek with their parents.

In Ohio, they lived in Madison County for more than 20 years. Nahum served briefly in the army in the War of 1812. High water flood periods may have been a factor in their decision to move on to Missouri. They settled in Carroll County on the Big Bend of the Missouri in the central part of the state about 1841.

The flood of 1844 destroyed their farm and the spring of 1845 finds them getting ready to move on to Oregon, where they hope to find well drained free land where floods would never bother them again.

Other families, including the Arnold Fullers who had lived near them I Ohio, joined them near St. Joseph with covered wagons, oxen, horses, cattle and food and equipment for the long trip across the plains and mountains. By this time two sons and two daughters had married and the King clan included seven grandchildren. There were ten members in the Fuller family.

The Kings' son-in-law Rowland Chambers protested that he could not afford the take his wife Sarah and their two children to Oregon. Father Nahum insisted, however and provided funds for the purpose of equipment and supplies. He wanted to keep the family together.

From-Benton Bulletin July 30 1980 pg. 4

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The Kings of King's Valley

By-Kenneth Munford

Part 3

The Nahum King and Arnold Fuller families joined other emigrants looking forward to starting new lives in Oregon, gathered in the vicinity of St. Joseph, Missouri in the spring of 1845. For mutual assistance and protection they organized themselves into a large wagon train.

In what became known as the T'Vault Train, there were 78 men over 16, 57 woman over 14, 78 boys and 60 girls. They assembled 66 wagons, 453 oxen, 649 loose cattle, 172 horses and mules and 184 guns. Of this total the King family had five wagons to carry equipment for their 26 members. The Fuller family included three men, three women and four children.

The emigrants adopted Laws and Bylaws and elected officers. William G. T'Vault, 39 became the commandant Captain. Nahum King, 62 and Arnold Duller were members of the Committee of Safety. Amos King, 23, supervised the driving of the cattle and Rowland Chambers, 32, was elected sheriff.

Captain T'Vault became well known later in Oregon Country as the first editor of the first newspaper in the far west, the 'Oregon Spectator.' He was also the first postmaster general for Oregon and land agent, lawyer and politician. But he did not last long as the Commandant Captain of the wagon train. Within two weeks dissent arose over his inability to enforce regulations and he resigned. He and his wife and their three children continued as members of the migration.

With 66 wagons the train was too cumbersome to travel as a single unit. It split into three groups, the Kings and Fullers continuing in a group of 30 wagons under the leadership of James McNary.

They originally planned to leaver from their camp on the west bank of the Missouri in Kansas Territory by the first of May, but Sarah Fuller, Arnold's wife, who had been ill for some time took a turn for the worse and died on April 28. Waiting for the funeral delayed the train a bit, but at 9 o'clock on the morning of May 2, 1845, drivers whips cracked and the caravan was on its way.

From-Benton Bulletin Aug. 6, 1980

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The Kings of King's Valley

By- Kenneth Munford

Part 4

The Nahum Kings, the Arnold Fullers and other families who left St. Joseph, Missouri on May 2, 1845 followed the Oregon Trail across what are now Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming and Idaho. At Fort Boise they made a decision they later regretted.

Up to that point, as one of them later wrote, "We had beautiful weather all the way, no rain of any account. We got along fine. The Indians did not disturb us any, except stealing our horses." But at Fort Boise, Stephen Meek, a trapper-guide, persuaded the Kings and drivers of about 200 other wagons to follow him across central Oregon. No wagons had gone that way before. There were no roads. Grass for stock was scarce and water holes hard to find. But Meek promised the cut-off would save them 1590 miles.

Sickness also plagued the company. Of the 25 in the King party, all except
Anna Maria Allen King (Stepehn King's wife) and young Solomon had been ill t one time or another. IN the Malheur Mountains, Sarah King Chambers, wife of
Rowland Chambers died of what was called 'camp fever'. A stone marker with
"S. Chambers, sept. 3, 1845" scratched on it was placed over her grave. Located in recent years near the village of Beulah, the marker has now been put on a concrete foundation.

Sarah had four younger, unmarried sisters in the company to look after the two small children she left. The eldest of the four Lovisa later married the widower.

A member of one of the parties on this so-called 'terrible trail' found a yellow stone and brought it to camp in a blue bucket. No one seemed to know what is was, even after it had been beaten flat on a wagon wheel. But after the discovery of gold in California three years later, the incident was recalled, and legends developed in regard to the lode this gold nugget must have come from. Thousands of people-up to present day- have spent countless hours searching for the 'Blue Bucket Mint.'

Hundreds f people following Meek's 'trapper trail' ran out of food, not only for their stock but also for themselves. The Kings fared reasonably well; old father Nahum had seen to it that they had brought along an adequate supply of flour and bacon to carry them through.

The wagons finally straggled into The Dalles, the end of the Oregon Trail for wagon travel. The so-called cut-off had taken about a month of valuable time and the immigrants still had to cross the worst barrier of all-the Cascade Mountains.

From-Benton Bulletin August 13, 1980

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Shooting the Columbia Rapids

By- Kenneth Munford

Part 5

Getting over or through the Cascade Range was the hardest part of the 2000-mile cross-country journey for the covered wagon immigrants.

When the King family arrived at The Dalles of the Columbia River early in October 1845, another party led by Samuel Barlow and Joel Palmer had just left to blaze a wagon road over the mountain range south of Mt. Hood. Having Suffered on Stephen Meek's trappers' trail through central Oregon, the Kings wanted no part of another so-called 'short-cut'.

Like many other immigrants of 1845, they built rafts, took their wagons apart and loaded wagon box, wheels and equipment on the rafts in hopes of getting through the rapids on that way. It was a life and death struggle. In a wagon box on one raft on October 22, Malinda Crabtree (later Linn County resident) gave birth to twins sons. Four days later the eldest Kong son, John, his wife Susan, their 3-year-old Electra and an 8-month-old son were thrown into the water and drowned. Their 5-year-old Luther survived.

We do not have a record of how the Kings completed the journey. They may have stopped at Fort Vancouver, as many immigrants did, to enjoy the hot food and medical attention Dr. Mc Loughlin had prepared for them. They finally reached Linnton, a town Peter Burnett had founded two years before on the Willamette River below Portland. There we assume they gathered their horses and stock, which had been driven on a rough trail along the south bank of the Columbia.

From Linnton they climbed up over the Tualatin Mountains and made their way across the Tualatin Plains to their western edge. On Gales Creek they found a measure of hospitality form notable Joseph Gale, an adventurous trapper, ship builder and sea captain, who had helped form the Provisional Government two years before. Now he was building a gristmill on the beautiful clear stream at the foot of Gales Peak.

Here the remaining 20 of 25 members of the King family who had left Missouri in May spent their first winter in Oregon.

From-Benton Bulletin August 20, 1980

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Home sites on Free Land

By Kenneth Munford

Part 6

From their winter camp on Gales Creek near Forest Grove, the men went out hunting for home sites.

At that time, 1845-56, the boundary between Canada and the American part of the Oregon Country had not yet been drawn, but the pioneers of the early 1840's felt sure the Willamette Valley would some day be U. S. Territory. One of their motivations in coming west was to 'save Oregon from the British'. Ad they waited for Congress to act, they set up the Provisional Government with a land office where Provisional claims to square mile (640 acres) of free land could be recorded.

If the King land hunters rode southward on the old Hudson's Bay Company pack trail along the western margin of the Willamette Valley, they would have found settles in the Chehalem, Yamhill, Salt Creek and La Creole ( Rickreall) valleys. From the ford on the La Creole at present Dallas the old trail crossed the Lukiamute and wound around the edge of the foothills passing present Adair Village, Lewisburg, and Corvallis to ford the Marys; River at present Philomath.

Other 1845' ers were coming this way. Arnold Fuller and his son Price-who soon married Abigail King-staked claims northwest of Lewisburg. Thomas and Nancy Read settled south of Adair-and soon started a house that still stands. J. C. Avery and his wife's brother, Edmund Marsh, came to the mouth of the Marys. Along this pack trail later in 1846, the Applegate brothers and others scouted out a wagon road that became known as the Applegate Trail.

An alternate route on the old pack trail between fords on the La Creole and the Marys lay farther west through a cleft in the foothills along the Luckiamute. We can imagine the excitement of the King land-hunters following that trail when they came up over the rise south of present Peedee and gazed down into the beautiful green valley on the banks of the meandering Luckiamute. It had an abundance of what they sought: rich well drained grass lands easy to clear for cultivation, forests to supply fuel and building materials, streams to supply water. And, best of all not a single settler.

From-Benton Bulletin August 27, 1980 pg. 4

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The Kings of King's Valley

By Kenneth Munford

Part 7

Serepta and Nahum King had sixteen children between 1808 and 1835. There of them, Dulany, Hannah, and James Russell died before they reached their teens. The rest, except the two eldest daughters, Saretta, 37, and Lucretia, 36, came to Oregon with their parents by covered wagon in the summer of 1845. The clan, with the approximate ages at the time included:

Nahum King 62

Serepta Norton King 54

John King 32 and his wife Susan

Children

Luther 5

Electa 3

Baby boy 9 months old

Hopestill King Norton 30 her husband Lucius Carolus Norton 27

Children (later had 8 more children)

Isaac 3

Wiley 1

Stephen King 27 and wife Anna Maria Allen King

Isaac King 26 married after arriving in Oregon to

Almeda Van Bebber daughter of Lazarus Van Bedder settled in Kings Valley 1847

Amos Nahum King 23 married Malinda Fuller 19 in 1846. The Fuller family came west

On the same wagon train as the Kings

Sarah "Sally" King 22 and husband Rowland Chambers 32

Children

Margaret 3

James 1

Lovisa King 17 married widowed Rowland Chambers in WA County Feb 1846 before moving

To Kings Valley. She eventually had 14 children.

Abigail King 16 married Price Fuller 20

Lydia "Lydie" King 14 later married Jonathan Lafayette Williams also a member of the 1845

Immigration

Solomon King 12 later married Stephen King's widow Anna Maria Allen King in 1853

Rhoda Ann 10 later married twice. First to John Phillips then to Eli Summers.

From-Benton Bulletin 1980 pg 4

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Roots of the King Family

By-Charlotte Price Wirfs

Part 8

We have a new author this week in the history of Benton County column. Charlotte Price Wirfs is a descendant of two branches of the Kings of King's Valley. Her ancestors include Isaac and Almeda Van Bebber King and Rowland and Lovisa King Chambers.

Charlotte was born in Salem, attended schools in Lane and Tillamook counties and graduated from Oregon College of Education at Monmouth. After teaching fifth and sixth grades in Lebanon for three years she settled down as a wife and homemaker for Walter Wirfs, superintendent of the Willamette Industries mill in Dallas. They have two children, Carolyn 6 and Matthew 4.

Charlotte edited the recently published Volume IV of the Polk County Historical Society series 'Historically Speaking'. We welcome her as one of the contributors to our Kings of King's Valley series.

Nahum King's American ancestry dates back to 1635 when his great-great-great grandparents, William and Dorothy Hayne 'Kinge', and their five children arrived on the sip 'Abigail' out of Weymouth in Dorsetshire, England. They settles in Salem, Massachusetts. Some of the family moved west to New Salem in central Massachusetts. There Nahum was born on July 25, 1783. His parents, Amos and Hopestill Haskins King, moved on to New Your State, settling south of Alban I New Lebanon, Columbia County. Siblings of Nahum were Luther, Hiram, Isaac, Louisa (married a Sherman), Betsy (married a Warne), Hopestill (married a Johnson, William O. and Lydia (married a Sherman).

In Columbia County, Nahum 24 and Serepta Norton 15, were wed on May 9, 1807. She had been born on Nov. 12 1791 the fourth child of James and Dulany Norton. Her brothers and sisters were Solomon, John, Cloe (married a Howe), Abigail (married a Dominic), Keziah (married a Knapp). Many of these given names appear throughout later generations of Kings.

Serepta and Nahum's first three children were daughters, none of whom traveled to Oregon with the family in 1845. Sareta, born in New York on March 18, 1808 later married Moses Moore and lived in Madison County, Ohio and in Illinois, were Moses died. In a letter from Oregon I n1846, Anna Maria Allen King wrote that Moses Moore was expected in Kings Valley but never arrived. Younger generations of Kings referred to Saretta and 'Aunt Saret' so she remained in contact with the family. She had one son, who died in the Civil War and three daughters.

Lucretia King the second daughter was born July 5, 1809, in New York and later married Heman S. Hallock in 1827 in Madison County Ohio. Heman Hallock had been born in Vermont in 1803. The Hallocks apparently remained in Ohio when the rest of the family moved to Missouri. They too were expected in Kings Valley in 1846 but did not arrive

Until 1853.

They

Settled

on a land clim just south of Kings Valley on March 15, 1854. 'Aunt Crish', as she was known dies May 14, 1869 and is buried in the Kings Valley Cemetery. The probate record of Nahum King lists her heirs as Sally Hallock Edleman, Hope Hallock Mason, Rhoda Hallock Pitman, Amos Hallock, Seretpa Hallock Rexford and Margaret Hallock Irwin.

Dalany King, the third daughter, named for Serepta;s mother Dulany Howe Norton, was born April 12, 1811, probably in Ohio an diedat the age of 12 on October 1, 1823

From-Benton Bulletin September 10, 1980

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John King's Family
By-Charlotte L. Wirfs

Part 9

John King, the first son of Nahum and Serepta, was born in Madison County, Ohio

March 23, 1813. He and his wife, Susan Cooper King, and their three children were in the party of Kings leaving Missouri in May 1845. Four members of this family lost their lives on the same day in an accident on the Columbia River near Cascade Locks. The drowning occurred October 26, 1845. It must have been a defeating blow to the exhausted and trail-weary travelers who were so close to their destination.

One child, Luther, 4 survived the accident. His sister, Electra, 3, and his infant brother were drowned with their parents. Later, as an adult, Luther had a second brush with death, which earned him the name 'Rattlesnake King', after barely surviving a deadly snakebite.

Nahum and Serepta took their orphaned grandson into their household as they still had four children under the age of 17 living with them. The 1850 census for Benton County shows Luther, age 10, living in the Nahum King household. Nahum died in 1856 and teenaged Luther, 'Little Lute', went to live with his Uncle Amos and Aunt Malinda in Portland. Amos N. King was officially appointed guardian of Luther in March of 1857 by Multnomah County Judge of Probate, Anthony L. Davis.

In the 1870 Census Luther King, 30, and his wife, Caroline Ladd King, 17, are living in Benton County. He began application for a Donation Land Claim on Blakesly Creek east of Wren on August 9, 1867, but Eli Summers, Luther's uncle, proved up on the claim after Luther's application was cancelled, October 21, 1887.

At age 32 Luther was sentenced to one year in the Oregon State Penitentiary, beginning April 22, 1873. At that time he was listed as being a farmer from Benton County. He served a little less than a year for the crime of 'Abduction'. Prison records provide one of the few physical descriptions of any member of the King family. He was 5' 3 ½" tall, fair complected with brown hair and hazel eyes.

Luther's second was wife Annie Laurie Bayes. They had a son, Luttie Russel King, born in Gardiner, Oregon, on April 9, 1886. Other children of Luther King were: Charlie, Dellie, Electra and Ettie.

From-Benton Bulletin

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September 17, 1980

By-Charlotte Wirfs

Part 10

Hopestill King and Lucius Norton

Before leaving Missouri, the Kings agreed that Hopestill's younger brother would relieve her at driving the wagon. Her husband, Lucius Carolus Norton, was not well and spent much of the journey bedded down.

Hopestill and Lucius were first cousins. Both had been born in Madison County, Ohio. 'Hope' on February 7, 1815, and Lucius, son of Solomon Norton and Cynthia Knapp,
On December 26,1818. They were married in Ohio in October 1839 and had two sons, Isaac, 3, and Wiley, 1, when they came west.

The Nortons staked their donation land claim in the center of Kings Valley between Price and Maxfield Creeks and extending onto the west bank of the Luckiamute. The two-story house they build in the 1850's housed several generations of Nortons before it burned in 1927. Eight of their then children were born there.

Ashnah Norton, their first daughter, was the first white child born in Kings Valley (February 8, 1847). She was a teenage when the California Volunteers replaced the regular army troops at Fort Hoskins and was undoubtedly amoung the 'Webfoots' entertained by the soldiers on special occasions. She was about 17 when she married Private James Plunkett, 26, a gunner and part time drummer at Fort Hoskins. (the bass drum he used is in the Horner Museum in Corvallis). Ashnah and Him built a house and settled down on Plunkett Creek.

Hopestill's next children were triplets, Nahum, Serepta, and Cynthia. Cynthia lived only a few days. The others grew to maturity. Nahum 'Bub' married and lived near Blodgett. Serepta 'Sis' married Willard Price, long time storekeeper in Kings Valley.

Amoung the later children

Melinda 'Linn' married Dillard Price, brother of Willard, and son of Larkin Price, a 1846 pioneer. Sarena was nearly 19 when she died and Cerilda dies at 1 ½. Youngest son Lucius C. Price married Mary Ellen Patterson, a pioneer from Illinois, and lived for 30 years near Norton Station.

Father Lucius died in 1859. Hopestill and the children still at home moved into the upper Yaquina Valley. When the Oregon Pacific Railroad built through the area in the 1880's the station there was named Norton Station. Norton's post office opened in 1895. It was in the vicinity of that Hopestill died on November 16, 1892 aged 77. Many of her descendants still live in western Oregon.

From-Benton Bulletin

September 24, 1980

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By-Charlotte L. Wirfs

Part 11

Hannah and Stephen King's Family

Hannah King was born in Madison County, Ohio, November 30, 1816 and died there August 28, 1825 at the age of ten. Two worn stones mark the graves of Hannah and her sister Dalany, in the Plain City, Ohio cemetery.

Stephen and his wife, Anna Maria Allen, had no children when they left Missouri in 1845. Like Lucius Norton, Stephen was ill during most of the journey and relied on help from his younger brothers and sisters.

Stephen King, born July 13, 1818, in Madison County, Ohio, was the second son of Nahum and Serepta King. Anna Maria Allen King, daughter of John and Anna Bangs Allen, was born March 26, 1823. They were married in Madison County on Christmas Day in 1843.

On April 1, 1846, after they settled in Kings Valley, Anna Maria wrote a letter to her mother and family and reported that she feared Stephen's illness to be 'consumption' but that he seemed to have recovered. The letter encouraged the Allen family to come to Oregon and described the land:

"…You perhaps wish to know how I like the country. I like it well. It is an easy place to make a living. You can raise as many cattle as you please and not cost you a cent, for the grass is green the whole winter and cattle are as fat as they had been stall fed the whole year round. Wheat is raised without trouble and will fetch anything, the same as cash…"

the letter then described what supplies were needed to make the journey. The main supply was flour, at least 175 or 200 pounds, supplemented with 75 pounds of bacon per person. Bedding was to be only the essentials and clothing was to last a year after arrival. She advised to start with four to five yoke of young cattle per wagon and to bring coffee, sugar, and other supplies needed in case of illness.

This descriptive letter was published in eastern papers and was one of the more accurate reports which encouraged other settlers to endure the Oregon Trail.

Stephen and Anna Marie settled on their claim on November 1, 1851 between Wren and Blodgett. At the age of 34 Stephen died on November 28, 1852, leaving a three-year-old son, Charles, who later inherited his father's claim. Anna Maria didn't remain a widow for long, for in 1853 she married Stephen's younger brother, Solomon, who was then 20 years of age.

From-Benton Bulletin

October 1, 1980

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By-Charlotte L. Wirfs

Part 12
Isaac King's Family

For Isaac King, 25, and his younger brothers, Amos and Solomon, the trip to Oregon must have been one of adventure. Hunting game along the trial was one from of recreation for these young men and although the emigrants did not rely on the meat, which these jaunts provided, it was nice to have an occasional rabbit stew if time could be found to cook it properly.

Isaac was born November 23, 1819, in Madison County, Ohio. He was married by Isaac Wesley Staats of Benton County, to Almeda Jane Van Bebber on March 22, 1847 and they settled on a claim in August of that year. Located in Kings Valley, their clima bordered that of Almeda's parents, Lazarus and Martha Van Bebber. The Van Bebbers were born in Tennessee and traveled from Illinois, where Almeda was born about 1832, to Oregon in 1846.

Nothing remains of the Isaac King Donation Land Claim except an old orchard and a few footings where the barn once stood. A small graveyard located on an oak knoll overlooks the farmstead and Isaac rests there with his 2-½ year old daughter, Ellen, and an infant named Lillie Zumwalt.

The death of Isaac still remains a mystery. The Daily Herald, of Portland, reported that Isaac became '…tired of life and blew his brains out with a pistol…' The Corvallis Gazette December 8, 1866, disclaimed the report and stated the neighbors and friends believed Isaac "…came to his death by an accidental discharge of a pistol in his own hands…' Another report survives today in oral history from Kings Valley. Residents there give varying accounts of the murder of Isaac, plotted by members of his immediate family.

Through it all these facts remain. Following a hunting trip with his sons, Isaac was found shot to death in his barn by his wife. The ball had entered under the chin and came out at the top of his head, leaving his thick beard without a powder burn. Three loads remained in his pistol but all the caps had been snapped. He died on his 47th birthday leaving a wife and eight children: Alfred, Samuel, Stephen, Elenor (married a Zumwalt), Olive (married a Reed), Hollis, U.S. Grant, and Melvina S. (Married a Ramsdell).

Almeda married Andrew Jackson Zumwalt in Corvallis on April 30, 1868 and had four more children: Sarah Jane (married a Dickins), Lilly May, George Henry, and Addie (Married a Plunkett). She dies about April 1890 and is buried in Kings Valley Cemetery. A metal marker is her only memorial.

From-Benton Bulletin

October 8, 1980 PG 4

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By Kenneth Munford

Part 13

Kings and Fullers Unit

On starlit nights around campfires on the Oregon Trail, romances blossomed. Marriages resulted. The Arnold Fuller and Nahum King families, who had traveled west together, were linked by two weddings in 1846. Melinda Fuller 19 married Amos Nahum King, 24. Abigail King, 17 married Price Fuller, 20.

Each couple had concerns other than themselves. Price Fuller's father, Arnold had lost his wife and a daughter Tabitha on the way west. Abigail and Price Fuller staked their donation land claim alongside Arnold's just north and west of present Lewisburg. Both could claim 640 acres; Price by virtue of his marriage to Abigail and Arnold though a second to Mary Ann Lewis in 1848.

Amos and Melinda King first staked a claim on the Willamette north of Corvallis but soon sold their rights to it. Believing that the village of Portland offered better opportunities, they moved there in 1849, taking his parents with them. The parents, Serepta and Nahum King, did not stay long. They were back on Benton County in time to be counted in the 1850 Census, with son Solomon and grandson Luther in their household.

In Portland, Amos worked in a tannery-the only one in the Pacific Northwest at that time-and eventually owned it. It was on the site of the Portland Civic Stadium. He and Melinda bought squatters' rights to a 535-acre tract of untellable hill land nearby. It encompassed the area west of what is now 18th Avenue from Canyon Road to Lovejoy Street. They eventually received title to it as a donation land claim. They built a fine home on the property and raised six children.

As Portland expanded, they opened their land for suburban housing. In Kings Heights they named streets for the family. King Avenue, Kings Court, Kingston and Melinda have survived. Nartilla, named for a daughter Nautilla, has become SW 19th. Lucretia, named for Amos' elder sister, is now NW 22nd Place. Ella, named for a granddaughter, is now NW 20th Place.
They sold 40 acres-a t$800 an acre-to Portland for the first City Park. It is the nucleus of present Washington Park, the northeastern segment where stands the statue of Sacajawea, a memorial to Lewis and Clark.

One of their sons, Nahum Amos King, remembered his mother as the strongest woman he had ever seen. She weighed 336 pounds, he said, and she could lift a 50-pound sack of flour by the ears and hold it at arms length.

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October 22, 1980
By-Charlotte L. Wirfs
Part 14

Rowland Chambers Families

Family history relates that Rowland Chambers arrived in Oregon with tem cents in his pocket. Twenty years later he had become the patriarch of the King family and had amassed a small fortune which he kept locked in a safe in his bedroom.

Approximately 450 people living today are direct descendants of Rowland Chambers, son-in-law of Nahum and Serepta King. He was born March 12, 1813, the son of Joseph and Susan Van Gundy Chambers. On August 15, 1841, he married Sarah King in Franklin County, Ohio. Sarah, born July 25, 1823, had two children, James and Margaret, when the Chambers family left Missouri in the spring of 1845.

Five months later, 'Sally' died of 'camp fever' on September 3, 1845, and was buried on the Oregon desert French trappers named Malheur, 'Evil Hour'/ Her grave was one of the few marked graves of the 1845 emigration fro most graves were deliberately camouflaged to discourage Indian grave robbers.

Care for Sally's two babies undoubtedly fell into the hands of her 17-year-old sister, Lovisa. In Washington County, Oregon, on February 22, 1846 Lovisa King became the bride of Rowland Chambers. That same spring land claims of approximately 640 acres each were laid out in Kings Valley. Members of the King family drew lots from a hat. Rowland promised to build a gristmill for the community if he could have first pick of locations. That was agreed to and in 1852 Rowland Chambers and Mr. Reynolds, with the help of Stephen King, raised a two-story mill on the banks of the Lukiamute where a natural out-cropping of rock provided a four-foot waterfall. For 50 years the mill ground flour on the stone burrs, which had been shipped around the 'Horn' from France before modern machinery was installed. The mill survived until 1963 when the ruin was burned.

The first home of Rowland and Lovisa was a log cabin. Later a large house was constructed with numerous high-ceilinged bedrooms, large hall, a parlor, dining room, kitchen, cheese room, and pie room where unbaked mincemeat pies were set on shelves to freeze in winter. This house was nearly destroyed by fire and was replace with a house which still can be seen alongside the road in Kings Valley. A memorial plaque is posted on front.

Before his death in September in Kings Valley, Rowland was able to return for a visit with family he had left in Ohio. Lovisa died December 18989 at her home in Kings Valley. They are buried in Kings Valley Cemetery.

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October 29, 1980

Pg 4

By Charlotte L. Wirfs

Part 15

Heirs and Memories of the Rowland Chambers.

Rowland Chambers, with the help of the Kings, started a miniature population explosion in Northwestern Benton County. Lovisa King Chambers raised 16 children including her sister's two, James and Margaret.

James married Clarinda Kizer and later became president of Philomath College. Margaret Married Mr. Bagley. Sarah, the first of Lovisa' s children, married William Watson of the Kings Valley and had a family of eight children. William (Bill) married Minnie Fairchild. Jackson (Jack) had two children. John lived in Kings Valley and had three sons. Franklin (Jake) married Emma Maxfield and lived in Kings Valley. Henry and his wife Barbara had one son and resided in Whitcom County, Washington, before moving to Portland. Oredelia (Delia) married Henry David Randall and raised 11 children in Olex, Washington. Samual raised two sons and lived in Newport. Lydia and Tip Maxfield had several children. Rebecca married Asa B. Alexander and raised three daughters in Benton County. Julia became the bride of Larkin G. Price and lived in Benton County with her five children. Lincoln (link) and Corra had three children. Anna and Alice died in 1879 in a diphtheria epidemic.

Like most Oregon Pioneers the Chambers valued education. Because of difficult road conditions and short school terms Rowland hired a teacher to tutor his children. Daughter Julia remembered attending school in Kings Valley and later going to the Little Red Schoolhouse, which stood about two miles south of the present Kings Valley store. One of Julia's teachers was her brother, James, and another was Henry Randall, who later became her brother-in-law. Classes included the three 'R's" and geography and algebra for the older boys. Julia states that her older brothers and sisters attended Willamette University in Salem. Her half-brother James held an A. B. (probably from Willamette University) when he was president of Philomath College in 1869.

Dancing was disapproved of but the young people organized parties where they played Weevily Wheat and other dancing games. For the annual May Day celebrations every little girl got a new dress for the occasion. The two girls who died in the 1879 diphtheria epidemic were buried in their May Day Dresses.

Everyday dresses were made from homespun wool. Rebecca Alexander remembers her mother Lovisa spinning wool from Rowland's sheep and her older sisters weaving it. Lovisa dyed the wool with peach leaves and different kinds of bark. Later, when carding mills were set up, rolls of pre-carded wool could be purchased.

A granddaughter, Mae Watson Landess, described the Chambers' homes and recalled that Lovisa was probably the first homemaker in Kings Valley to have a kitchen stove.

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November 5, 1980 PG 8

By-Kenneth Munford

Part 16

Anna Marie and Solomon King

Solomon, who became the best known of the King family in Benton County, was an energetic lad of 12 when he came to Oregon in 1845. His sister-in-law

Anna Marie Bangs King wrote home that only she and Sol escaped the "slow lingering fever that prevailed" amoung the two dozen people in the wagon train.

Sol staying with his parents, Nahum and Serepta King, after the other brothers and sisters had left home. After a brief stay in Portland with brother Amos, they returned to Benton County. By that time the best land in Kings Valley had been claimed. Nahum went a few miles south and staked out his donation land claim next to George Wrenn's. Nahum's claim of 640 acres lay north and west of present village of Wrenn. He built a house on the pleasant slope in the southwestern part of the claim-south of present highway US 20 and Gellaty Creek, which runs through the property.

In 1852 brother Stephen dies, leaving Anna Maria a widow with a 3-year-old son Charles. A year later Sol and Anna Maria were married. To them were born Anna, Lucy, Eli, William, Abe or Abraham and Scott.

In June 1852, Sol bought the home place from his parents. His father died the next year. His mother, after a time, went to live wither daughter Lovisa Chambers.

Sol began to acquire additional property, buying part of the Wrenn and Byrd claims, and in partnership with another man, a sawmill on the Sour claim.

In 1872 the Sol Kings moved into Corvallis, having purchased the Corvallis Livery, Feed and Sale Stable on 2nd Street between Madison and Monroe. They operated this business for 14 years, but gave it up after the barn burned.

In 1876 Sol ran for county sheriff. The Gazetter praised him for his struggle 'to manhood thro' the pioneer difficulties' and said, 'For his opportunities, no man, for generosity and whole-souled help, to those in need, has more to rise up and call him blessed than Sol King.' He won election that year and four more times in two-year intervals, serving as sheriff from 1867 to 1886.

With Wallis Nash, T. Egenton Hogg, and others, in 1880 Sol became on of the incorporators of the Oregon Pacific Railroad, which built what are now the Southern Pacific branches through Philomath and Wren. To the coast and through Corvallis and Albany and up the North Santiam Canyon.

In 1891 Sol and Anna Marie moved to a farm north of Corvallis, between Dixon Creek and present Walnut Boulevard. The way to their place became known as Kings Road-now Kings Boulevard.

Through the years they made money buying and selling property, the livery stable, in shorthorned cattle, in a dairy, and in general farming. One biographical sketch says they 'prospered exceedingly.'

Anna Maria was 83 when she died in 1905. Sol had just passed his 80th birthday when he died in 1913.

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November 1980

By- Charlotte L. Wirfs

Part 17 (Possibly 18, missing either 17 or 18)

Abigail, Lydia and Rhode King

Nahum King's three youngest daughters were Abigail, Lydia and Roda Ann. Like most of the to his children they were born in Madison County, Ohio and were ages 16, 14, and 10 when they arrived in Oregon.

The trip to Oregon culminated in marriage for Abigail when she married Price Fuller, son of Arnold, on August 23, 1846 in Benton County. Price was born in Franklin County, Ohio I 1826. is younger sister, Melinda, had married Abigail's brother, Amos King, in the spring of that year. By 1850 Abigail and Price had three children named Albert, Sarah A., and Serepta J. and they lived on their Donation Land Claim in Benton County. IN May of 1856 Abigail died in Benton County and Price married

Mrs. Martha Jane Mc Mann (McMahan).

Lydia became the bride of another 1845 immigrant Jonathan L. Williams in Benton country two days before Christmas in 1847. "Jont" was born in Grainger County, Tennessee, in 1826 and arrived in Oregon with his parents, James Edward and Martha Williams, in 1846. They settled near Airlie in Polk County. That is also where 'Jont' and Lydia settled their Donation Land Claim in May of 1854. Their know children were Lafayette (Lafe), Lena, Emmet, and a daughter who died in infancy. 'Jont' died in Polk County January 24, 1907 and is buried in the Odd Fellow Cemetery in Salem. Minnie Price, 92, of Portland remembers hearing her mother, Serepta Norton Price, speak of 'Aunt Lyd', who lived in Portland and was almost blind.

Minnie also remembers hearing about 'Aunt Rhoda', that would be the youngest child of Nahum and Serepta, Roda Ann, who was born April 17, 1835. Rhoda Ann lived briefly in Portland with her parents and brother, Solomon. Perhaps that is where she met and married John Phillips. They were married February 19, 1850 in Clackamas County. Phillips was a native of White County, Illinois and was born in 1830. He arrived in Oregon in 1846.

Rhoda Ann and John lived for a while with Nahum and Serepta on their claim near Wren before settling on their own Donation Land Claim next door in November of 1850. John must not have lived long after settling his claim for Rhoda married her neighbor, Eli summers, about 1856 or 1857. Summers was born in Mahoning County, Ohio and arrived in Oregon in July of 1853. He proved up on the claim that had been obtained for Luther, the orphan. It was east of Wren on Blakesly Creek. Summers settled there in September 1853. John Phillips, Solomon King, James Edleman, and Heman S. Hallock signed the affidavit for Eli's claim. Rhoda Ann died near Heppner, Oregon after 1905.

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November 26, 1980

By Dorothy A. Brown

Rt. 1 Philomath Oregon

Part 19
Charles King's Family

Charles King was the only son of Stephen and Anna Maria Allen King and the grandson of Nahum and Serepta King, whose family settled in Kings Valley. Stephen's donation land claim, which Charles eventually inherited, was on the Marys River and half mile west of the covered bridge at Harris. This area, which at one time had a store and a one-room school, had two names: Harris for the railroad station; Elam for the post office.

Charles was born in 1848 and was three when his father died. His mother married Soloman King, Stephen's younger brother, and lived for a time on Nahum and Serepta's claim near Wren.

About 1869 Charles and Susan Robinetter were married and presumably lived on his father's claim, raising three children: Anna Maria, Edward and Adella. They later separated and Charles married Margaret Barnes. He died in 1915 and is buried in the Odd Fellow Cemetery on Witham Hill in Corvallis.

Charles and Susan's eldest daughter, Anna Maria, never married. She spent many years in The Dalles because of asthma.

Edward, born in 1871, grew up in Elam-Harris area. One of his favorite stories was about taking a local girl to a dance at Summit. In those days of horse-and-buggy and railroad travel going to a square dance sometimes took all night going, dancing, and coming home. On this occasion they went to Summit on an old two-man railroad handcar that had to be pumped up and own like a teeter-totter to make it go, with one person pumping on each end. They had plenty of exercise before arriving at the dance. All went well until coming home down the long grade, the girl's end of the pumper got tangled in her dress and ripped off her skirt. Explanations were in order when they arrived home!

Edward married Minnie Harrison in 1896 at Harris and they raised their family there. He worked in the store and the Elam post office. Their children were: Glen (1898-19640, Gladys (1901-1964), and Helen (1901-?). Glen and his wife Eunice had a son Neil who died and a daughter Gleneva who lives with her family in Bend. Helen married Henry Schweitz. Their son Jack and his family live in Bend. Helen, now Mrs. Rundle, resides in Corvallis. One time when Glen was logging with horses above Harris he lost a team when a load of logs rolled over a bluff into the Marys River.

Edward died in 1949 and is buried at Wren with Glen, Gladys and father Charles.

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January 21 1981

By-Albert Warren King

Fruitland Idaho
Part 20

Abe King Family

Sol King, the youngest son of Nahum and Serepta King, whose family settled in Kings Valley, and his wife Anna Maria had two daughters and four sons. The third son may have been named Abraham, but he was always called Abe. He was my father.

Abe was born in September 1860, while his parents still lived on the Nahum King donation land claim near Wren. He attended School in Wren and later in Corvallis, where he became a god mathematician. In his youth, Abe worked for his father in the livery stable in Corvallis. One time when Abe was driving a hearse for a funeral he let the hoses run away. Sol was not happy about this, but he could not help laughing. He told Abe he had better give up hearse driving and go live with his older sister Lucy.

She was married to William Bailey 'Doc' Kiger, and had moved to Grant County. They needed help on their ranch. Abe files and lived on his own homestead, and also worked for Pete French and for Miller and Lux, the big landowner from California.

In German in the late 1860's, Albert Busse, tiring of the military discipline and stern religious life in that county, decided to come to America. His wife, Bertha Pribenow Busse, whose people were Huguenots, was also ready to get away from religious persecution and start a new life overseas if they could get out of the county. By rather devious means Albert successfully reached the United States. Bertha and their tiny daughter Clara came later. Clara born February 15, 1868, took her first steps on the ship crossing the Atlantic. After several moves the Busses finally settled in Grant County, Oregon, and homesteaded on the Blitzen River.

While livin with the Kigers, Abe met Clara Busse, who like himself was fond of horses. Their friendship led to marriage in January 1888. She was 20, he was 28. Their first child, Bertha was born February 20, 1889 in Grant County. They moved to eastern Washington, where little Ester was born and died. Other disasters befell them there. Abe brought the family back to Benton County, where he leased one of the Lewis places north of Corvallis for a time, then moved closer to town.

Altogether Abe and Clara had eleven children, all but Esther living to maturity. I was the youngest of the brood. The fusion of the King and Busse blood seemed to enhance the pioneer spirit that ran in the veins of their fore bearers. Both of my grandfathers, Sol King and Albert Busse, were enterprising and innovative. Albert dammed the Blitzen and successfully raised irrigated vegetables in the high desert county. Sol dammed Dixon Creek, north of Corvallis, for irrigation and stock water. Both encouraged their children to get good educations and to accomplish something in life.

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By-Kenneth Munford

Part 21

Kings Valley Legends

Old legends never die-they just grow and grow.

Take for example some of the tales about General Philip H. Sheridan.
One story has him a great friend of Jim Plunkett and a rival for the hand of Ashnah Norton, the first while child born in Kings Valley. The talk has a romantic end with drummer boy Plunkett beating out the famous General.

A Gazette-Times reporter recently declared that Sheridan was the 'founder' of Fort Hoskins in Kings Valley.

People in Yamhill County like to think of Sheridan as the builder of the Fort Yamhill blockhouse that is now at Dayton and of the road to the coast from the town of Sheridan over the Salmon River Trail.

Twenty years ago, Gunter Barth in 'All Quiet in Yamhill' tried to slay some of these wild stories, but they have continued to flourish.

It is true, Barth says, that P.H. Sheridan, later one of the most famous generals in the Union Army in the Civil War, as a 25-year-old lieutenant three years out of West Point, was stationed at Fort Yamhill and Fort Hoskins between 1856 and 1861. At Fort Hoskins in the fall and winter of 1856-576, as the junior officer present, he was given the dirty, rain-drenches task of supervising the construction of a pack trail over the coast range. It ran through fire-blackened snags and downed timber from Hoskins over Bonner Mountain, up the wet fork of the Marys River, and down Little Rock and Rock Creeks to Siletz. It did not lead from Fort Yamhill to the coast, as some legends would lead us to believe.

Twice, for brief periods, Sheridan happened to be the senior officer on duty at Fort Yamhill, for five weeks in 1856 and for two months in 1861, and was therefore in command of the post, but that was only during the absence of the senior officers. He was called east for more active duty in the Civil War, leaving on September 1, 1861.

A short time later, James Plunkett, Royal Bensell and other young men of California, eager to get into the War Between the States, volunteered for duty in Eldorado County. Instead of being sent of to the battlefields of Manassas and Bull Run, however, they were sent to relieve the troops at Fort Hoskins and Fort Yamhill. They arrived in the Willamette Valley in November; two months after Sheridan had left. It is difficult to see how Lt. Sheridan and Pvt. Plunkett could have been friends.

Ashnah Norton (born 1847) would have been nine years old when Sheridan was stationed at Fort Hoskins. She was a teenager by the time the California volunteers arrived. She subsequently met and married Pvt. Plunkett.

There are enough romances and adventure in true stories in the valley of the Kings without clouding them with unfounded myths and legends.

This is the last of the series of the Kings of Kings Valley.

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January 28, 1981
PG 4
By-Warren King
Fruitland Idaho

(No Part Number)

More on Abe King's Family
My Mother, Clara Busse King has strong hands. She could drive a spirited horse to town and never break an egg. Dressing chickens for our table or for market, she made the feathers fly. She was a master at whipping up baking powder or sourdough biscuits, and popping them into the hot oven of our wood stove. And were the results ever good! Those strong hands of hers also had a way of prodding, poking, pointing the way for her ten children of make something of themselves.

Bertha Anna the eldest, born February 29, 1889, graduated from Oregon Agricultural College in 1908 and became a schoolteacher. Between assignments, she helped raise her younger brothers and sisters. She was the family nurse. She used to take me, her youngest brother (twenty years her junior) along o prune, apple, and berry picking jaunts, where I was often mistaken for her son rather than her brother.

Lucy Adelia, born September 1, 1890, married Adolph Fromherz and raised nine children. One of them, Mary Married Leo C. Gerding and is one of the few King descendents who still lives in Corvallis.
Clara Winifred, born November 14, 1894, attended OAC and became a teacher, a nurse and an administrator at Eureka, California.

James Allen, born September 26, 1896, joined the Navy. After his hitch, which was mostly spent in the Philippines, he lived in and around Manila for 13 years. He homesteaded some timberland, but because of malaria had to leave this venture.

Florence Kathleen, born March 15, 1899, attended OAC and became a Presbyterian missionary to China, where her five boys were born. Her husband was Albert Van Etten. Four of their sons graduated from Oregon State.

Ines Elizabeth, born September 4, 1901, attended the University of Oregon, worked in the journalism department there and afterwards pioneered back to North Dakota. She married William Herring.

Dorothy, born January 25, 1904, after high school and three months at Oregon Normal School in Monmouth, taught school in Kings Valley for a year. Then she went to Humboldt State, in California, to finish her education and continue a successful career as a teacher. She also became an authority on wild flowers.

Arthur Solomon, born September 13, 1906, got those two names because his grandfather promised the new boy two acres of land if he was named Solomon, and a cousin Arthur Hope said he would guy the boy his first suit if he was named Art. Both lived up to their agreements. Art King became the best known of Sol's grandsons in Benton County and throughout the state. He graduated from Oregon State and became an OSC Extension Specialist in irrigation, where he was recongized authority on the use of commercial fertilizer.

Charles William, born January 1, 1909, sometimes called "C.W." graduated from OSC and then went to the University of Pennsylvania for advanced study in law. He was admitted to the Oregon Bar in 1935, and is still practicing law in Lincoln City, Oregon.

Warren, the youngest, born May 27, 1912, turned his hand to farming and logging. He became interested in the combination of irrigation and commercial fertilizers. Limited success came to him after a move to eastern Idaho many years ago.

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February 4, 1981
PG 4
By-Charlotte L. Wirfs

Dallas Oregon

(No Part Number)

Larkin Price

Price Creek and the big J.V. Price sign on the general store in Kings Valley are reminders of the legacy of Larkin Price. He was an 1846 pioneer to Oregon who live din the Pedee-Lewisvill-Kings Valley area from 1870 to 1910. His family intermarried with the Kings of Kings Valley and related families.

Larkin was born in the turbulent years preceding the Civil War. His parents were plantation owner and slaveholders in Patrick and Henry Counties, Virginia. As he was growing up he witnessed family discord over slavery. Arguments eventually scatter individuals into Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri and finally to Oregon. In 1846 with his new bride, the former Harriet Simpson, Larkin left Missouri and headed west. Her brother, Ben Simpson, who later became one of the agents to the Grande Ronde Indian Reservation, captained their wagon train.

Larkin and Harriet took up a 640-acre donation land claim in the Waldo Hills east of Salem near Sublimity. Most of their children were born in that area. Larkin raised horses, farmed, and served as clerk of the Rock Point School District in 1858 and in 1870. Harriet died about 1867.

The only other member of Larkin's immediate family to come to Oregon was a brother Fantly R. Price. He and his wife, nee Gilla Simpson, arrived in Oregon in 1851. They settled on a donation land claim near Ballston in Polk County. Many of their children also lived in the Kings Valley area. Some of them are buried in the cemetery there.

A severe winter in the Waldo Hills killed many livestock. Widower, Larkin moved his family to Polk County in 1870. He married Sarah Gilliam in August 24, 1872. In his later years he moved to Kings Valley. He was in his eighties when he died in 1910. He is buried in Kings Valley Cemetery. Most of his nine children settled in the area surrounding Kings Valley. As a result the Price name can be found in both Benton and Polk Counties.

Larkin's son, Willard Lane Price, married Serepta Norton, daughter of Lucius and Hopestill King Norton. They started the Kings Valley Store. The original building burned down in 1919. The rebuilt store has always been owned and managed by Price descendants, including the present owners, Norman and Terri Arnold.

Mary Elizabeth married her first cousin, James Price, son of Larkin's brother Fantly Price. Son, A. Dillard, married Melinda Norton, daughter of Lucius and Hopestill King Norton. Dillard's second wife was Rosetta Porter. Larkin's daughter Frances E., married John Gage of Polk County and later moved to Mitchell, Oregon. Larkin G. married Julia Chambers, daughter of Rowland and Lovisia King Chambers; they remained in Benton County. Nancy "Ann" married James G. Cherry of Dallas. Phoebe M. married Charles Mc Timmonds of Polk County and later lived in Salem.

Grandchildren of Larkin Price still living include Minnie Price of Portland, daughter of Willard L. and Serepta Price, and Willie "Bill" Price of Philomath, son of Larkin G. and Julia Price.

In this way the legacy of Larkin and Fantly Price has spread through the social fabric of the Willamette Valley.

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Charles King's Second Family

By-David Morgan

(No Part Number)

Charles King married his second wife, Margaret E. Barnes, on December 28, 1897. He lived at Elam on the Marys River west of Wren and farmed and worked in that area. His only child in his second marriage was Ethel Jane, born September 19, 1899.

Charles served on the school board and ran the store and post office at Elam. When the Corvallis-to-Yaquina railroad was being constructed he added to his house and he and Margaret furnished room and board for sawmill workers. Later it was a rooming and boarding house for sawmill workers and loggers. Charles King died in 1915 leaving the farm to his widow and daughter. Margaret and daughter Ethel carried on the post office and boarding house. (The writer does not know when the post office was closed).

Sometime later a young man homesteading in the Summit area needed funds to finish building his cabin so he went to Harris to work in the woods. There was a large sawmill at Harris (Elam) at that time. He took board and room at the King's place. On May 13, 1919, this homesteader from Summit, Victor S. Morgan, married Ethel Jane King. They lived on her mother's place after the marriage. Margaret King lived with them until her death May 13, 1927.

Victor and Ethel raised three children on the home place. Ray King Morgan was born May 14, 1920, now of Englewood, Colorado. Thelma Marie (now Dickey) born May 16, 1926, now of St. George, Utah and David Dale Morgan born April 18, 1929, now living at Corvallis.

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Adella King-My Grandmother

By-Dorothy A. Brown

(No date and I am not sure it is part of the same series)

Adella King, daughter of Charles and Susan King, was born in 1875, and grew up in Wren-Harris area with her brother Edward and sister Anna. Her father and mother separated and re-married several years later. Charles married Margaret Barnes and Susan married Tom Casey) in later years, Adella and her husband bought property from Casey which was west of Wren, across Coast highway 20).

Adella married Samuel Creed Turner around the year 1895 at The Dalles, Oregon. Originally from Kentucky, Turner was a railroad engineer for Western Pacific Railroad. They lived for a while in Oakland, California, and Reno, Nevada. After moving to Oregon they bought the George P. Wrenn Donation Land Claim at Wren and built the big family house where four generations of Kings have lived.

Their four children were Larraine and Cleo, who both died young, Edward Charles, and Dorothy Mae who was born in Oakland, California in 1914. Dorothy Mae had early schooling in Benton County, but spent her married years in California, where she died in 1979. She had no children. Adella died in 1954 and is buried in the Wren Cemetery.

Edward was born in 1907 at The Dalles, Oregon. He attended the original old one-room grade school at Wren and Corvallis High School. Ad a high school student held the Willamette Valley wrestling championship. He also attended Oregon Agricultural College, now Oregon State University for two years.
He and Verna Schmidt were married at Dallas, Oregon, in 1929, and settled on the ranch at Wren, where their two children, Dorothy Ann, born 1929, and Lawrence Allen, born 1933, were reared. Edward farmed mostly, logged around the county, and loaded lumber into boxcars at the Wren sawmill.

Edward had a natural ear for music, and played for many dances over the years. He also taught his children piano and accordion. In the 1930's he belonged to the Oregon Loggers, a musical groups that played for a time on radio and around the state. He served on the Consumers Power Board of Directors for several years, and was also a member of the Corvallis Senior Citizens recycling Band until his death in 1977. He is buried in Oaklawn Cemetery in Corvallis.

Lawrence and Dorothy Ann attended the newer old Wren Grade School and Corvallis High School. They have many memories of harvesting heavy stands of grand on the Wren Ranch and shocking grain in the moonlight, sewing sacks at the old threshing machines, and the huge threshing dinners cooked on grandmother Adella's wood cook stove.

Lawrence married Juanita Smith of Corvallis in 1954, and had three children, Carey, Tina, and a son Robin. Dorothy married W.P. (Pat) Brown in 1949 and they settled on the north part of the ranch at Wren where they still reside. Their three children are Cheryl, born 1950, Michael, born 1953 and Susan, born 1954.
Many descendants of the King family gather each year in Kings Valley, Oregon, for the annual King-Chambers family reunion.

From-Benton County Bulletin

February 18, 1981

Pg. 4

By-Charlotte l. Wirfs

Dallas, Oregon
(No Part Number)

A.H. Reynolds, Millwright

The gristmill in Kings Valley cost Rowland Chambers at least $7520.13 to build according to the account book kept by A. H. Reynolds, a New York born millwright. Reynolds was 46 years old in 1854 when he erected the Chambers' gristmill. He arrived in California from Iowa in 1850 and had planned to go to Chile because of failing health. A friend persuaded him to go to Trinidad instead. From there he drifted up the coast coming through Yreka to Oregon where he regained his health to the point of building mills. Besides the Chambers mill he also built the Elias Buell mill on Mill Creek in Polk County and did extensive work on the first woolen mill in Salem. His duties included ordering and erecting the machinery and in some cases purchasing and delivering it.

While Reynolds was working on the mill in Kings Valley, Rowland and Lovisa King Chambers had a daughter. Reynolds asked Lovisa for the privilege of naming the new baby and he chose Oredelia, perhaps his mother's name. Oredelia married H.D. Randall in 1872 and they resided in Washington Territory near Olex. There they raised sheep, served as postmasters and managed a stage station where the John Day-Pendleton stage changed horses. Later they put up horses for the Dalles-Pendleton stage line.

Chambers obtained an unlimited water right for his gristmill in 1852. It was built on Chambers donation land claim where the Luckiamute River took a natural fall of about four feet. In 1936, Willard L. Price, a Kings Valley resident, stated 'For more than 50 years the mill ground flour on the stone burrs shipped from France around the Horn. Finally more modern machinery was installed. The river bottoms here supplied hard wheat and the higher ground grew a fine grade of hard wheat. This made it possible for the Kings Valley mill to manufacture the finest grade of flour. In recent years the supply of local wheat has become insufficient and the quality of flour failed until it could not compete successfully. The mill is now used to grind feed for the surrounding farms.'

By 1859 A.H. Reynolds had passed from Oregon to Walla Walla, Washington where he continued building four and woolen mills receiving one-third interest in the mills he constructed. In 1861 he married Oregon pioneer, Mrs. Lettice J. Clark, widow of Ransom Clark who first crossed the plains with Fremont in 1843. At the time of their marriage she lived in Walla Walla, Washington. Two sons, Harry A. and Allen H. Reynolds were born to them.

Reynolds' period of mill building ended in the early 1860's and in 1872 he established a bank in Walla Walla known as Reynold's and Day's. By 1882 he had become a prominent stockholder of First National Bank of Pendelton, Oregon and Dayton, Washington Territory.

• Military: US War 1812 Service Records, Captain Strong's Co, Ohio Militia, 1812-1815, Springfield, Clark, Ohio, United States.

Nahum married Sarepta Norton ¹⁹⁸ on 9 May 1807 in Albany, Albany, New York, United States.¹⁵⁴ ²¹⁰ ²¹² Sarepta was born on 12 Nov 1791 in Lyndon, Ontario, New York, United States,^{¹⁵⁵ ¹⁹⁷ ²¹⁰ ²¹²} died on 14 Jul 1864 in Kings Valley, Benton, Oregon, United States at age 72, and was buried in Jul 1869 in Wren, Benton, Oregon, United States. Another name for Sarepta was Sarepta Norton.²¹⁰

Marriage Notes: Obituary of Nahum King
by David Trask, April 2011
" ...Also of note, extensive time, money and effort was spent to see if any obituary could be found for Nahum King and Sarepta Norton King, in various newspapers around the State of Oregon, in print at the time they died. Nothing could be located. Unfortunately, there were no known surviving copies of numerous dates of some of these newspapers that may have carried an obituary for one or another of them. Also, no obituary could be found for children Cynthia and Cerelda Norton, children of Hopestill King and Lucius Norton, nor for Luella Norton, daughter of Isaac and Olive Norton. They are buried in the Kings Valley Cemetery..."
taken from Message from David Trask--King family Historian, King Folk Newsletter #30, King Family Association, April 2011, p. 15

Ancestry.com posting:
Bertha Anna King Research on Nahum King, June 28, 1962
Posted 23 Feb 2022 by charwirfs
Bertha Anna King (1889-1987) was an early "King Family of Oregon" researcher. She was the great granddaughter of Nahum King (1783-1856) and Sarepta Norton King (1791-1864). She was the daughter of Abraham "Abe" Lincoln King (1860-1924) and Clara Elizabeth Busse King (1868-1948) who resided for many years in Corvallis, Oregon. Her grandparents were Solomon King (1833-1913) and Anna Maria Allen King (1823-1905). Bertha was born in Harney County, Oregon but lived most of her life in Corvallis, Oregon. She worked as a teacher in several different parts of Oregon and later as a practical nurse in Corvallis. Bertha never married. She lived at 728 N. 12th ST, Corvallis, Benton County, Oregon when she submitted her family research to the Genealogical Forum of Portland Oregon on June 28, 1962. At that time she was age 73. Bertha died at Lincoln City, Lincoln County, Oregon at age of 97.
Along with the Nahum King family group sheet she also submitted an ancestor chart and photo copies of family record pages from Nahum and Sarepta King's family Bible, published in 1819. She didn't have the Bible with her that June day of 1962 as she stated that it was on loan to The Horner Museum located on the campus of Oregon State University in Corvallis. Also submitted that day were copies of two letters. One was written to Nahum King living in New Canaan, Ohio from F. Johnson of Hastings, New York dated 1836. The second letter was written to Sol King of Corvallis, Oregon from Sol's cousin , John King of Hillsdale, Michigan, date 190?.
She listed the birth places of Nahum and Sarepta, their marriage dates and where they were married, death dates and places of burial. Sixteen children of Nahum and Sarepta King are named on the family group sheet with birth dates and places, spouses names, death dates and places and notes about many of the children. Bertha did not know the name of Nahum's parents except that Nahum's father was living in New York in 1836 with an unnamed son-in-law. She didn't know Nahum's and Sarepta's church affiliation, but listed the places they had lived as New York; Madison and Franklin Counties in Ohio; Missouri; Portland, Oregon; Kings Valley and Wren of Benton County, Oregon. His occupation was listed as farming and raising livestock. She stated that he had served in The War of 1812 as a volunteer, 3rd Sargeant on or about August 31st to December 1st of 1812 from Ohio.
Nahum King was born July 25, 1783 in the western part of New York. He married Sarepta Norton May 9, 1807 in New York. He died May 28, 1856 on his farm near Wren, Benton County, Oregon. Sarepta was born Nov. 12, 1791 in New York. Anna had no record of Sarepta's parents. Sarepta died July 14, 1864 on the farm near Wren, Benton County, Oregon. Both of them were buried on their farm.

i. Saretta King was born on 18 Mar 1808 in Albany, Albany, New York, United States,^{²¹⁵ ²¹⁶ ²¹⁷} died on 20 Mar 1877 in Mount Pulaski, Logan, Illinois, United States^²¹⁵ at age 69, and was buried in Mar 1877 in Mount Pulaski, Logan, Illinois, United States. Other names for Saretta were Aunt Saret, Saretta, and Seretta.²¹² ²¹⁶ Saretta married Moses Moore, son of William James Moore and Elizabeth Betsey Patterson,²¹⁸ on 6 Oct 1825 in , Madison County, Ohio, United States. Moses was born about 1790 in Opequon, Frederick, Virginia, United States, died on 15 Sep 1849 in , Logan County, Illinois, United States about age 59, and was buried in Sep 1849 in Mount Pulaski, Logan, Illinois, United States.

ii. Lucretia King ²¹⁹ ²²⁰ ²²¹ ²²² was born on 5 Jul 1809 in Albany, Albany, New York, United States,^²²¹ died on 24 May 1862 in Kings Valley, Benton, Oregon, United States^⁶⁵ at age 52, and was buried in 1862 in Kings Valley, Benton, Oregon, United States.^²¹⁹ Other names for Lucretia were Aunt Crish, Lucretia King, and²¹⁹ Lucy King. Lucretia married Heman S. Hallock,²¹⁹ ²²² son of Stephen Hallock and Lucy Law, on 16 Oct 1827 in , Madison County, Ohio, United States.²²¹ ²²³ Heman was born on 12 Jun 1803 in , , Vermont, United States,^²¹⁹ died on 27 Oct 1877 in Airlie, Polk, Oregon, United States^²¹⁹ at age 74, and was buried in Nov 1877 in Scio, Linn, Oregon, United States. Other names for Heman were Heman Halleck, H. S. HALLICK, and Hirman Hallock.

iii. Dulany King ²¹² ²²⁴ was born on 12 Apr 1811 in Little Darby Creek, Phelps Township, Madison County, United States,^{²²⁴ ²²⁵} died on 1 Oct 1823 in Little Darby Creek, Phelps Township, Madison County, United States^²²⁴ at age 12, and was buried in Oct 1823 in Plain City, Madison, Ohio, United States.^²²⁴ Other names for Dulany were Dallanny King, Dulaney King, and Dulanna King.

iv. John King ²²⁶ ²²⁷ was born on 23 Mar 1813 in , Madison County, Ohio, United States,^{²²⁵ ²²⁷} died on 26 Oct 1845 in , , Oregon Territory, United States^{²²⁶ ²²⁷} at age 32, and was buried in The Dalles, Wasco, Oregon, United States. John married Electa Barlow,²²⁸ daughter of Edmund Ward Barlow ²²⁹ and Polly Clark Lawrence,²³⁰ in , Madison County, Ohio, United States. Electa was born on 8 Jan 1816^²²⁸ and died on 19 Feb 1836^²²⁸ at age 20. John next married Susan Cooper ²²⁶ ²²⁷ on 7 Jan 1840 in , Licking County, Ohio, United States.²¹⁵ Susan was born about 1815 and died on 26 Oct 1845 in , , Oregon Territory, United States^{²²⁶ ²²⁷} about age 30.

vi. Hannah King ²³¹ was born on 30 Nov 1816 in Little Darby Creek, Phelps Township, Madison County, Ohio, United States, died on 28 Aug 1825 in Little Darby Creek, Phelps Township, Madison County, United States^¹⁹⁷ at age 8, and was buried in Aug 1825 in Plain City, Madison, Ohio, United States.

vii. Stephen King ²²¹ ²³² ²³³ was born on 13 Jul 1818 in Little Darby Creek, Phelps Township, Madison County, United States,^{²²¹ ²²⁵ ²³²} died on 28 Nov 1852 in Wren, Benton, Oregon, United States^²²¹ at age 34, and was buried in 1852 in Dayton, Yamhill, Oregon, United States. Stephen married Anna Maria Allen,²²¹ ²³³ ²³⁴ ²³⁵ ²³⁶ daughter of John Allen, Jr. ²³² ²³⁷ and Anna Bangs,²³² on 25 Dec 1842 in Big Bend, Carroll, Ohio, United States. Anna was born in Apr 1822 in Hardin, Shelby, Ohio, United States, died on 30 Sep 1905 in Corvallis, Benton, Oregon, United States^{²¹ ²³² ²³⁴} at age 83, and was buried in Oct 1905 in Corvallis, Benton, Oregon, United States. Other names for Anna were Miss Annie and Annie Maria Allen.²³² ²³⁸

viii. Isaac King ⁸⁷ ²¹⁰ was born on 23 Nov 1819 in Little Darby Creek, Phelps Township, Madison County, United States,^{²¹⁰ ²²⁵ ²³²} died on 22 Nov 1866 in Kings Valley, Benton, Oregon, United States^²¹⁰ at age 46, and was buried in Nov 1866 in Kings Valley, Benton, Oregon, United States. Isaac married Almeda Jane VanBibber,⁸⁵ ⁸⁷ daughter of Lazarus VanBibber ⁸⁶ and Martha,⁸⁶ on 22 Mar 1847 in Dayton, Yamhill, Oregon, United States.⁸⁸ ²¹⁰ Almeda was born about 1832 in Carrollton, Greene, Illinois, United States, died on 21 Apr 1890 in Wren, Benton, Oregon, United States^{⁸⁶ ⁸⁸} about age 58, and was buried in Apr 1890 in Kings Valley, Benton, Oregon, United States.^⁸⁶ Another name for Almeda was Almeda Jane Van Bebber.

ix. Amos Nahum King ²¹⁰ ²³² ²³⁹ ²⁴⁰ ²⁴¹ was born on 29 Apr 1822 in Little Darby Creek, Phelps Township, Madison County, United States,^{¹⁶⁴ ²¹⁰ ²³² ²³⁹} died on 11 Nov 1901 in Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, United States^²³⁹ at age 79, and was buried on 13 Nov 1901 in Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, United States. Another name for Amos was A. N. King.²³⁹ Amos married Melinda Fuller,¹⁶⁴ ¹⁷⁰ ²⁴⁰ ²⁴¹ daughter of Arnold Wesley Fuller and Sarah Green,¹⁷⁰ on 8 Mar 1846 in Harlan, Lincoln, Oregon, United States.¹⁶⁴ ²¹⁰ ²³⁹ Melinda was born on 4 Nov 1827 in , Madison County, Ohio, United States, died on 30 Jan 1887 in Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, United States^{¹⁶⁴ ¹⁷⁰} at age 59, and was buried on 2 Feb 1887 in Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, United States. Other names for Melinda were Lucy, Malinda, and Matilda Fuller.²³⁹ Amos next married Frances Gertrude Roberts ²¹⁵ ²³⁹ on 16 Mar 1892 in Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, United States.²³⁹ Frances was born in Apr 1845 in , , Maine, United States and died on 5 Feb 1919 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States at age 73. Other names for Frances were Fannie and Fanny.²³⁹

x. Sarah King ²¹⁰ ²³² ²⁴² ²⁴³ was born on 25 Jul 1823 in Little Darby Creek, Phelps Township, Madison County, United States,^{²²⁵ ²³² ²⁴⁴} died on 3 Sep 1845 in , , Oregon Territory, United States^{¹⁶⁴ ²⁴³} at age 22, and was buried in 1845 in , , Oregon Territory, United States.^¹⁶⁸ Another name for Sarah was Sally. Sarah married Rowland Chambers,²⁴³ ²⁴⁵ ²⁴⁶ ²⁴⁷ son of Joseph Chambers ²⁴⁹ and Susannah Van Gundy, on 17 Aug 1841 in Worthington, Franklin, Ohio, United States.²⁴³ ²⁴⁸ Rowland was born on 12 Mar 1813 in Columbus, Hamilton County, Ohio, United States,^²⁴⁸ died on 6 Jan 1870 in Kings Valley, Benton, Oregon, United States^{⁶⁵ ²⁴³} at age 56, and was buried in Jan 1870 in Kings Valley, Benton, Oregon, United States.^⁶⁵ Another name for Rowland was Roland.

xi. James Russel King was born on 22 Jun 1826 in Little Darby Creek, Phelps Township, Madison County, Ohio, United States,^{²²⁵ ²³²} died on 17 Jul 1829 in Little Darby Creek, Phelps Township, Madison County, Ohio, United States^²²⁵ at age 3, and was buried in 1829 in Plain City, Madison, Ohio, United States.

xii. Lovisa King ²¹⁰ ²⁴⁵ ²⁴⁶ was born on 2 Mar 1828 in Little Darby Creek, Phelps Township, Madison County, Ohio, United States,^{²¹⁰ ²²⁵ ²³² ²⁴⁸} died on 3 Dec 1889 in Kings Valley, Benton, Oregon, United States^²¹⁰ at age 61, and was buried in Dec 1889 in Kings Valley, Benton, Oregon, United States. Other names for Lovisa were Louvisa and Louisa Chambers.²³² Lovisa married Rowland Chambers,²⁴³ ²⁴⁵ ²⁴⁶ ²⁴⁷ son of Joseph Chambers ²⁴⁹ and Susannah Van Gundy, on 22 Feb 1846 in , Washington County, Oregon Territory, United States.²¹⁰ ²⁴³ ²⁴⁸ Rowland was born on 12 Mar 1813 in Columbus, Hamilton County, Ohio, United States,^²⁴⁸ died on 6 Jan 1870 in Kings Valley, Benton, Oregon, United States^{⁶⁵ ²⁴³} at age 56, and was buried in Jan 1870 in Kings Valley, Benton, Oregon, United States.^⁶⁵ Another name for Rowland was Roland.

xiii. Abigail Mollie King ²¹⁰ ²³² ²⁵⁰ ²⁵¹ was born on 22 Jun 1829 in Little Darby Creek, Phelps Township, Madison County, Ohio, United States,^{²¹⁰ ²²⁵ ²³² ²⁵⁰} died on 28 May 1857 in Kings Valley, Benton, Oregon, United States^{²¹⁰ ²²⁵ ²⁵⁰} at age 27, and was buried in 1857 in Kings Valley, Benton, Oregon, United States. Abigail married Price Fuller,²⁵⁰ ²⁵¹ son of Arnold Wesley Fuller and Sarah Green,¹⁷⁰ on 22 Aug 1846 in , Benton County, Oregon Territory, United States.¹⁶⁴ Price was born on 13 Aug 1824 in Worthington, Franklin, Ohio, United States,^{¹⁷⁰ ²⁵⁰} died on 24 Feb 1894 in , Latah County, Idaho, United States^{²⁵⁰ ²⁵² ²⁵³} at age 69, and was buried in Feb 1894 in Juliaetta, Latah, Idaho, United States.^{²⁵⁰ ²⁵³}

xiv. Lydia King ¹⁹⁸ ²¹⁰ ²³² was born on 19 Feb 1831 in Little Darby Creek, New Canaan Township, Madison County, Ohio, United States,^{¹⁹⁸ ²¹⁰ ²²⁵ ²⁵⁴} died on 13 Oct 1921 in Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, United States^{¹⁹⁸ ²¹⁵} at age 90, and was buried on 14 Oct 1921 in Salem, Marion, Oregon, United States.^¹⁹⁸ Lydia married Jonathan Lafayette Williams,²⁵⁵ son of James Edward Williams ¹⁶⁴ ²⁵⁵ and Martha Witcher,¹⁶⁴ ²⁵⁵ on 23 Dec 1847 in Kings Valley, Benton, Oregon, United States.¹⁶⁴ ²⁵⁶ Jonathan was born on 7 Mar 1826 in , Grainger County, Tennessee, United States,^{¹⁶⁴ ²⁵⁵} died on 24 Jan 1907 in Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, United States^²⁵⁵ at age 80, and was buried on 26 Jan 1907 in Salem, Marion, Oregon, United States.^²⁵⁵ Other names for Jonathan were J. L. Williams,²⁵⁷ John L. Williams, and²⁵⁴ Jont Williams.⁷⁰

xv. Solomon King ²²¹ ²³² ²³⁵ ²³⁶ ²³⁸ ²⁵⁸ was born on 26 Feb 1833 in Little Darby Creek, New Canaan Township, Madison County, Ohio, United States,^{²²¹ ²²⁵ ²³² ²³⁸ ²⁵⁸ ²⁵⁹} died on 13 Mar 1913 in Corvallis, Benton, Oregon, United States^{¹⁹⁷ ²²¹ ²⁵⁹} at age 80, and was buried on 15 Mar 1913 in Corvallis, Benton, Oregon, United States.^²⁵⁹ Another name for Solomon was Sol King.²⁵⁹ Solomon married Anna Maria Allen,²²¹ ²³³ ²³⁴ ²³⁵ ²³⁶ daughter of John Allen, Jr. ²³² ²³⁷ and Anna Bangs,²³² on 20 Nov 1853 in , Benton County, Oregon, United States.⁴⁰ ⁷⁰ ²²¹ Anna was born in Apr 1822 in Hardin, Shelby, Ohio, United States, died on 30 Sep 1905 in Corvallis, Benton, Oregon, United States^{²¹ ²³² ²³⁴} at age 83, and was buried in Oct 1905 in Corvallis, Benton, Oregon, United States. Other names for Anna were Miss Annie and Annie Maria Allen.²³² ²³⁸

xvi. Rhoda Ann King ²²¹ ²³² ²⁶⁰ was born on 17 Apr 1835 in Little Darby Creek, New Canaan Township, Madison County, Ohio, United States,^{⁷¹ ²²¹ ²³²} died on 16 Jan 1912 in Lexington, Morrow, Oregon, United States^²⁶¹ at age 76, and was buried on 17 Jan 1912 in Lexington, Morrow, Oregon, United States. Another name for Rhoda was Rosa. Rhoda married John Phillips ¹⁶⁴ on 19 Feb 1850 in , Clackamas County, Oregon, United States.²²¹ John was born on 1 Jan 1831 in , White County, Illinois, United States and died on 31 Jan 1877 in Goldendale, Klickitat, Washington, United States at age 46. Rhoda next married Eli Summer,¹⁶⁴ ²⁶² ²⁶³ son of Daniel Summer ²⁶³ ²⁶⁴ and Catherine Neiswanger, on 19 Nov 1857 in Kings Valley, Benton, Oregon, United States. Eli was born on 6 Sep 1820 in , Mahoning County, Ohio, United States,^²⁶³ died on 7 Jan 1911 in Lexington, Morrow, Oregon, United States^²⁶³ at age 90, and was buried in Jan 1911 in Lexington, Morrow, Oregon, United States.^²⁶³ Another name for Eli was Ely Summer.²⁶⁰

15. Sarepta Norton,¹⁹⁸ daughter of James Alexander Norton and Dulaney Howe,¹⁹⁹ was born on 12 Nov 1791 in Lyndon, Ontario, New York, United States,^{¹⁵⁵ ¹⁹⁷ ²¹⁰ ²¹²} died on 14 Jul 1864 in Kings Valley, Benton, Oregon, United States at age 72, and was buried in Jul 1869 in Wren, Benton, Oregon, United States. Another name for Sarepta was Sarepta Norton.²¹⁰

• Alt. Death: 14 Jul 1869, Kings Valley, Benton, Oregon, United States. ²¹⁰ ²⁶⁵

Sarepta married Nahum Amos King ¹⁹⁷ ¹⁹⁸ on 9 May 1807 in Albany, Albany, New York, United States.¹⁵⁴ ²¹⁰ ²¹² Nahum was born on 25 Jul 1783 in New Salem, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States,^{¹⁹⁷ ²¹⁰} died on 28 May 1856 in Wren, Benton, Oregon, United States^{²¹⁰ ²¹¹} at age 72, and was buried in 1856 in Kings Valley, Benton, Oregon, United States.^⁶⁵ Another name for Nahum was Naham Amos King.

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78. Birth Certificate, Oregon State Board of Health, Division of Vital Statistics, Delayed Certificate of Birth, No. DF441, Herman Binger Plunkett, Filed 30 Jul 1954.

79. Birth Certificate, Delayed Certificate of Birth, State of Oregon, State Board of Health, Vital Statistics Section, No. DF16989, Carl Plunkett, filed 11 Oct 1961.

80. Birth Certificate, Certificate of Birth, No. 1155/1156, Plunkett, Filed 1909.

81. Birth Certificate, Oregon State Board of Health, Division of Vital Statistics, Delayed Certificate of Birth, No. df25794, Curtis Plunkett, Filed 3 Apr 1973.

83. Death Certificate, Oregon State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Standard Certificate of Death, No 234, Charles Plunkett.

84. Patricia Plunkett Bearden supplied by Bearden; File copy with David Trask-King Family Group; Andrew and Almeda Zumwalt Family Tree Notebook-created and held by David Trask-KingFolk Group.

85. Death Certificate, Oregon State Health Division, Vital Statistics, File No. 13755, Adeline Hussey.

86. Patricia Plunkett Bearden supplied by Bearden; File copy with David Trask-King Family Group.

87. death certificate 15 (1937), Melvina S. Ramsdell; digital image, "ancestry.com posting,"(accessed 1 Mar 2022).

88. Isaac and Almeda Jane VanBibber King, ( n.p., n.d.), privately held by King Family Reunion Group, Benton County, Oregon, 2016.

89. Death Certificate, Certificate of Death, Oregon, File No. 708 and 709, Clyde and Gertrude Plunkett 1909.

91. death certificate 7570 (1955), Edith Serena Conrow; digital image, "ancestry.com posting Oregon,"(accessed 31 Oct 2022).

92. 1940 U.S. census, Oregon, population schedule, West Philomath, Benton County, Enumerated April 1940, enumeration district (ED) 2-28, sheet 2A, Frank A. Plunkett; digital images (accessed 5 Apr 2012); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm T627.

93. Death Certificate, Oregon State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Certificate of Death, Registered No. 79, Nellie Ann Plunkett, Philomath, Oregon.

94. Death Certificate, Oregon State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Certificate of Death No. 79, Benton County, Philomath, Nellie Ann Plunkett.

95. 1850 U.S. census, Missouri, population schedule, Distict 17, Cedar County, enumerated on September 26th, p. 160A, dwelling 472, family 472, Richard and Levina Tatom Family; digital images, Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com : accessed Oct 25, 2010); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm M432, roll M432_395.

97. Death Certificate, Certificate of Death, Registered No. 1351, Minnie May Price, Benton County, Oregon.

100. Death Certificate, Certificate of Death, Oregon State Board of Health, State Registered No. 24, Aldora Plunkett, Philomath, Oregon.

102. Death Certificate, Standard Certificate of Death, State of Oregon, Board of Health-Portland, Federal Security Agencyk, US Public Health Service, State File No. 11999, Lillie Erminda Lillard.

103. Birth Certificate, Circuit Court of the State of Oregon, Polk County, Decree for Registration of Birth, No. 875, William Rodell Conrow filed 10 Aug 1955.

104. death certificate 170 (1944), Marth Rachel Branson; digital image, "ancestry.com posting State of Oregon,"(accessed 16 Apr 2022).

105. death certificate 74-0941 (1974), Clara Rose-Ann Arthur; digital image, "ancestry.com posting State of Montana,"(accessed 16 Apr 2022).

107. Death Certificate, Certificate of Death, Oregon State Board of Health, State Registered No. 78, Edgar Plunkett, Summit, Oregon.

108. death certificate 15600 (1961), Victor Earl Plunkett; digital image, "ancestry.com posting,"(accessed 13 Mar 2022).

113. Death Certificate, Standard Certificate of Death, State of Oregon, Oregon State Board of Health, Division of Vital Statistics, State File No. 37, Susan Blodgett Plunkett, Blodgett, Oregon.

116. death certificate 1826 (1960), Harry Blodgett; digital image, "ancestry.com posting,"(accessed 5 Aug 2013).

118. Death Certificate, Oregon State Board of Health, Standard Certificate of Death, Nov 1912, Aline Post.

120. Birth Certificate, Oregon, Certificate of Birth, No. 1477, Empire, Coose County, Anna Bertha Thompson, filed 1904.

121. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, WWI Draft Registration Card, Issued: Sep 12, 1918-Corvallis, Benton County, Oregon.

122. Death Certificate, Standard Certificate of Death, State of Oregon, Board of Health, Portland, Public Health Service, State File No. 8287, John Albert Thompson, Corvallis, Oregon.

123. Death Certificate, Certificate of Death, Oregon State Board of Health, State Registered No. 2581, Edward Harmsen, Blodgett, Oregon.

124. WPA Historical Records Survey - Interviews, Bertha Plunkett Thompson dated June 1938.

125. Obituary Posting, J.A. Thompson, Gazette Times, Corvallis, Oregon Aug 17, 1949.

128. "Find A Grave.com," database(www.findagrave.com : accessed 3 Apr 2019), George W. Thompson; Memorial # 27539776.

130. 1870 U.S. census, California, population schedule; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm M593.

131. 1880 U.S. census, Kansas, population schedule, Toledo, Chase County, enumerated on June 9th, enumeration district (ED) 146, p. 256D, dwelling 71, family 72, George W. and mary Thompson; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed Oct 22, 2010); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm T9, roll 375.

132. Death Certificate, Oregon State Board of Health, Division of Vital Statistics, Certificate of Birth, State Index No. 2, file #144, Iona A. Plunkett.

133. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, WWI Draft Registration Card, Issued: Corvallis, Benton County Oregon, Sep 12, 1918.

134. Death Certificate, Standard Certificate of Death, State of Oregon, Board of Health-Portland, Federal Security Agency-US Public Health Service, State File No. 4149, Minnie Pauline Plunkett, Sweet Home, Oregon.

136. "Find A Grave.com," database(www.findagrave.com : accessed 19 Jun 2011), Ione Jane Ormsby Stroud Family.

137. 1900 U.S. census, Oregon, population schedule, Wren, Benton County, enumerated June 5th, enumeration district (ED) 6, p. 1B, dwelling 20, family 20, Isaac and Ione Stroud; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm T623, roll T623_1345.

138. WWII Enlistment Records (Ancestry.com. U.S. World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2007. Original data: United States, Selective Service System. Selective Service Registration Cards, World War II: Fourth Registration. National Archives and Records Administration Branch locations: National Archives and Records Administration Region Branches.

Description:
This database is an indexed collection of World War II U.S. draft cards from the Fourth Registration, the only registration currently available to the public (the other registrations are not available due to privacy laws). The Fourth Registration, often referred to as the "old man's registration", was conducted on 27 April 1942 and registered men who born on or between 28 April 1877 and 16 February 1897 - men who were between 45 and 64 years old - and who were not already in the military.), Name: Henry Plunkett Birth Date: 25 Jun 1883 Birth Place: Kings Valley, Oregon Residence: Kings Valley, Oregon Race: White.

139. Birth Certificate, Ancestry.com posting, Circuit Court of the State of Oregon, Linn County, Decree for Registration of Birth, No. 4277, 4 Feb 1958, Eethel May Plunkett.

140. Birth Certificate, State of Oregon, State Board of Health, Vital Statistics Section, Delayed Certificate of Birth, No. DF24668, Bernice Henry Plunkett, Filed 2 Oct 1970.

143. death certificate 123 (1932), Retta Gabrilla Whiting; digital image, "findagrave.com posting,"(accessed 24 Apr 2020).

144. 1850 U.S. census, Oregon, population schedule; digital images, Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm M432.

145. Death Certificate, Oregon State Board of Health, Certificate of Death, State Registered No. 118, Nahum Norton, Monmouth, Oregon.

146. 1870 U.S. census, Oregon, population schedule; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm M593.

147. Death Certificate, Oregon State Board of Health, Certificate of Death, Local Registered No. 217, Isaac Norton, Lane County, Oregon.

149. 1860 U.S. census, California, population schedule, Township 5, Amador County, enumerated on June 25th, p. 330, dwelling 814, family 748, Robert and Sarah Planket (Plunkett); digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed Oct 22, 2010); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm M653, roll M653_55.

152. 1870 U.S. census, California, population schedule, Township 6, Post Office Fiddletown, Amador County, enumerated on August 16th, p. 432, dwelling 134, family 134, A. P. and Ellen Wood; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm M593, roll M593_69.

153. Ancestry.com database and images, Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com : accessed 9 Oct 2012); Andrew Patton Wood; PlunkettBeardoenHoller Tree.

154. Carole Norton Putman, Naughton/Norton Family of Bristol, CT and Canaan, NY and their Descendants (Portland, Oregon: King Folk Productions, 1998), Page 21.

155. Ancestry.com database and images, Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com : accessed December 30, 2009); Solomon Nortn Family; American Family - Kenn Tree.

156. Carole Norton Putman, A Norton Family Branch, James Norton and Descendants, Revisions and Corrections 2007 (West Linn, Oregon: Carole Norton Putman, 2007), Page 8.

158. "Died," (Corvallis) The Oregon Weekly Union, May 6, 1859, p. 3, col. 3.

159. Carole Norton Putman, A Norton Family Branch, James Norton and Descendants, Revisions and Corrections 2007 (West Linn, Oregon: Carole Norton Putman, 2007), Page 17.

160. Carole Norton Putman, A Norton Family Branch, James Norton and Descendants, Revisions and Corrections 2007 (West Linn, Oregon: Carole Norton Putman, 2007), Page 12.

161. Lucious Norton Hopestill King Bible; digital images, Rootsweb, Benton County, Oregon Family Bible Index (http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~orbenton/FamilyBibles.htm : accessed 5 Aug 2010).

163. Keith Clark and Lowell Tiller, Terrible Trail: The Meek Cutoff 1845 (Bend, Oregon, Maverick Publications, Inc., 1966). 277 Pages-Indexe, photos and maps.
A collection of family reports and history on traveling the Oregon Trail.
Many references to family surnames and their accounts of the daily travels to Oregon.

164. Keith Clark and Lowell Tiller, Terrible Trail: The Meek Cutoff 1845 (Bend, Oregon, Maverick Publications, Inc., 1966).

165. 1860 U.S. census, Oregon, population schedule; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm M653.

167. Death Certificate, Oregon State Board of Health, Certificate of Death, State Index No. 50, Lizzie Norton, Philomath, Benton County, Oregon.

168. Carole Norton Putman, A Norton Family Branch, James Norton and Descendants, Revisions and Corrections 2007 (West Linn, Oregon: Carole Norton Putman, 2007), Page 14.

169. Grayson T. Alexander, Grayson T. Alexander (22 Dec 2007, Grayson T. Alexander, E-Mail grayglo@hotmail.com). Reliable and researched with source information posted.

170. Grayson T. Alexander, Grayson T. Alexander (22 Dec 2007, Grayson T. Alexander, E-Mail grayglo@hotmail.com), E-Mail: grayglo@hotmail.com January 2008.

171. Death Certificate, Certificate of Death, State of Oregon, Board of Health, Portland, State file no. 11273, Arthur Norton.

172. Death Certificate, Standard Certificate of Death, State of Oregon, Board of Health, Portland, State file no. 3065, Leroy Norton.

173. Death Certificate, Standard Certificate of Death, State of Oregon, Board of Health, Portland, Serena Norton, State File No. 12189.

174. Death Certificate, Standard Certificate of Death, State of Oregon, Oregon State Board of Health, Division of Vital Statistics, Walter Nolrton, Hoskins, Oregon.

175. Birth Certificate, Oregon State Board of Health, Div. of Vital Statistics, Certificate of Birth, State Registered No. DF162, Serena Norton.

176. Carole Norton Putman, A Norton Family Branch, James Norton and Descendants, Revisions and Corrections 2007 (West Linn, Oregon: Carole Norton Putman, 2007), Page 28.

177. Death Certificate, Oregon State Board of Health, Certificate of Death, State Registered No. 84, Nancy Ann Norton, Lewisville, Oregon.

178. Carole Norton Putman, A Norton Family Branch, James Norton and Descendants, Revisions and Corrections 2007 (West Linn, Oregon: Carole Norton Putman, 2007), Page 22.

180. Death Certificate, Standard Certificate of Death, State of Oregon, Board of Health-Portland, Federal Security Agency-US Public Health Service, State File No. 7131, John W. Price, Philomath, Oregon.

181. Death Certificate, Census Office, Standard Certificate of Death, Portland, Oregon, Registered No. 40, Dora Allen, Portland, Oregon.

182. Death Certificate, Oregon State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Certificate of Death, Registered No. 659, Willard Lane Price, Benton County, Oregon.

183. Death Certificate, Standard Crtificate of Death, State of Oregon, Board of Health-Portland, Federal Security Agency-US Public Health Service, State File No. 2290.

184. Benton County Court Marriage Records (Benton County Court, 120 NW 4th St., Corvallis, Oregon 97330 Phone 541-766-6705), Death Records.

186. Death Certificate, Oregon State Board of Health, Certificate of Death, State Registered No. 47, Margaret Jane Pence, Monmouth, Oregon.

187. Death Certificate, Oregon State Board of Health, Certificate of Death, State Registered No. 11, Sarah Gibson Mulkey near Philomath, Oregon.

188. Death Certificate, State of Oregon, Standard Certificate of Death, File #4189, George E. Price, 1957.

189. Death Certificate, Certificate of Death, Registered No. 44, Fred L. Price, Corvallis, Oregon.

190. "Find A Grave.com," database(www.findagrave.com : accessed January 23, 2010), A Dillard Price.

191. Death Certificate, Certificate of Death, Registered No. 1992, A. D. Price, Lebanon, Linn County, Oregon.

192. Death Certificate, Oregon State Board of Health, Certificate of Death, State Registered No. 1965, Lucius C. Norton, Portland, Oregon.

193. 1880 U.S. census, population schedule, Kings Valley, Benton County, enumerated June 4th, enumeration district (ED) 6, p. 82A, dwelling 44, family 46, John and Nancy Patterson; digital images (accessed 3 Aug 2011); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm T9, roll 1080.

194. "Find A Grave.com," database(www.findagrave.com : accessed 3 Aug 2011), John and Nancy Patterson.

195. Death Certificate, Standard Certificate of Death, State of Oregon, Oregon State Board of Health, Division of Vital Statistics, State File No. 530, Local Registrar's No. 531, Mary Ellen Norton, Portland, Oregon.

196. "Find A Grave.com," database(www.findagrave.com : accessed 4 Apr 2020), John Huston Patterson; Memorial 54959118.

198. death certificate 2314 (1921), Lydia King Williams; digital image, "ancestry.com posting,"(accessed 24 Feb 2022).

199. Carole Norton Putman, Naughton/Norton Family of Bristol, CT and Canaan, NY and their Descendants (Portland, Oregon: King Folk Productions, 1998), Linnage Chart by CArole Putman.

200. Carole Norton Putman, A Norton Family Branch, James Norton and Descendants, Revisions and Corrections 2007 (West Linn, Oregon: Carole Norton Putman, 2007), Page 9.

201. Carole Norton Putman, A Norton Family Branch, James Norton and Descendants, Revisions and Corrections 2007 (West Linn, Oregon: Carole Norton Putman, 2007), Page 7.

203. Carole Norton Putman, A Norton Family Branch, James Norton and Descendants, Revisions and Corrections 2007 (West Linn, Oregon: Carole Norton Putman, 2007), Page 4.

204. "Find A Grave.com," database(www.findagrave.com : accessed Apr 8, 2010), Phoebe Davis.

205. 1900 U.S. census, Kansas, population schedule, Smoky Hill, Saline County, enumerated June 19th, enumeration district (ED) 124, p. 11A, dwelling 182, family 182, Charles and Phoebe Davis; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed Apr 8, 2010); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm T623, roll T623_498.

206. "Find A Grave.com," database(www.findagrave.com : accessed Apr 8, 2010), Samuel Huffman.

207. 1880 U.S. census, Kansas, population schedule, Smoky Hill, Saline County, enumerated June 3rd, enumeration district (ED) 295, p. 125.1000, dwelling 29, family 29, C. C. and Phoebe Davis; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm T9, roll T9_396.

208. Carole Norton Putman, A Norton Family Branch, James Norton and Descendants, Revisions and Corrections 2007 (West Linn, Oregon: Carole Norton Putman, 2007), Page 10 and 11.

210. Keith Clark and Lowell Tiller, Terrible Trail: The Meek Cutoff 1845 (Bend, Oregon, Maverick Publications, Inc., 1966), Page 199.

211. Benton County Court Marriage Records (Benton County Court, 120 NW 4th St., Corvallis, Oregon 97330 Phone 541-766-6705).

212. Carole Norton Putman, A Norton Family Branch, James Norton and Descendants, Revisions and Corrections 2007 (West Linn, Oregon: Carole Norton Putman, 2007), Page 2.

213. 1830 U.S. census, Canaan, Madison County, p. 124, Nahum King; digital images (accessed 7 Oct 2012); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm M19, roll 135.

214. Carole Norton Putman, A Norton Family Branch, James Norton and Descendants, Revisions and Corrections 2007 (West Linn, Oregon: Carole Norton Putman, 2007), Page 6.

216. 1850 U.S. census, Illinois, population schedule, Logan County, Enumerated September, p. 200, family 460, Saretta Moore and family; digital images, Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com : accessed October 10, 2009); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm M432, roll M432_116.

217. 1870 U.S. census, Illinois, population schedule, Laenna, Logan County, enumerated July 7th, p. 75A, dwelling 9, family 9, Saretta More; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed Dec 16, 2010); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm M593, roll M593_248.

218. Ancestry.com database and images, Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com : accessed Dec 17, 2010); King/Moore Family Ohio; Stilwell Family Tree.

219. GEDCOM file submitted by Gray Alexander June 2006, grayglo@hotmail.com. Created on 4 JUN 2006. Imported on 4 Jun 2006.

220. database(http://www.genealogybank.com : accessed 5 Apr 2015), Robert and Jane King.

221. Keith Clark and Lowell Tiller, Terrible Trail: The Meek Cutoff 1845 (Bend, Oregon, Maverick Publications, Inc., 1966), Page 200.

222. death certificate 121 (1920), Amos W. Halleck; digital image, "ancestry.com posting,"(accessed 20 Mar 2022).

224. "Find A Grave.com," database(www.findagrave.com : accessed 18 Feb 2019), Dulaney King; Memorial # 96485064.

225. Benton County, Oregon, , Back When in Benton County, Part II, Hannah King & Stephen King's Family, by Charlotte L. Wirfs.

226. Keith Clark and Lowell Tiller, Terrible Trail: The Meek Cutoff 1845 (Bend, Oregon, Maverick Publications, Inc., 1966), Page 98.

227. Keith Clark and Lowell Tiller, Terrible Trail: The Meek Cutoff 1845 (Bend, Oregon, Maverick Publications, Inc., 1966), Page 198.

228. Ancestry.com database and images, Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com : accessed February 4, 2010); Edmund/Edward and Polly Clark Lawrence Barlow Family; Gaymon Wright Family Tree.

229. Ancestry.com database and images, Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com : accessed February 4, 2010); Edmond and Polly Lawrence Barlow Family; Gaymon Wright Family Tree.

230. "Find A Grave.com," database(www.findagrave.com : accessed February 4, 2010), Edmund and Polly Lawrence Barlow Family.

231. "Find A Grave.com," database(www.findagrave.com : accessed 18 Feb 2019), Hannah King; Memorial # 19095367.

232. family pages only; photocopy held by King Family Reunion Group, Kings Valley, Oregon, n.d; (accessed August 5, 2009), King Family Reunion CD June 2009.

233. Death Certificate, Oregon State Board of Health, Certificate of Death, No.1235, Corvallis, Benton County, Charles Allen King.

234. Death Certificate, Oregon State Board of Health, Certificate of Death, No.73, Anna Mariah King, Corvallis, Benton County.

235. death certificate 592 (1926), Eli Summer King; digital image, "ancestry.com posting,"(accessed 21 Jan 2022).

236. death certificate 1658 (1941), William Y. King; digital image, "ancestry.com posting,"(accessed 1 Feb 2022).

238. Death Certificate, Oregon State Board of Health, Certificate of Death, #67, Lucy Kiger.

239. "Death of A. N. King," 12 Nov 1901, online archives (http://www.genealogybank.com/gbnk/newspapers/doc/v2:11A73E5827618330@GBNEWS-1234EC88C98DD4D0@2415701-1231FE39F9E03920@0-11.

240. death certificate 46 (1936), Edward Albert King; digital image, "ancestry.com posting,"(accessed 26 Feb 2022).

241. death certificate 6 (1912), Lucy A. Lumsden; digital image, "ancestry.com posting Oregon,"(accessed 8 Nov 2022).

242. Chamber Family Tree Headstones, June 2009; King Family Reunion, June 2009, CD with photos

243. Keith Clark and Lowell Tiller, Terrible Trail: The Meek Cutoff 1845 (Bend, Oregon, Maverick Publications, Inc., 1966), Page 174.

245. death certificate 74917 (1931), Sarah Watson; digital image, "ancestry.com posting,"(accessed 25 Feb 2022).

246. death certificate 80 (1918), Franklin Jacob Chambers; digital image, "ancestry.com posting,"(accessed 25 Feb 2022).

247. death certificate 77 (1925), Jackson Chambers; digital image, "ancestry.com posting,"(accessed 25 Feb 2022).

249. Ancestry.com database and images, Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com : accessed Dec 6, 2010); Rowland Chambers Ancestors and Descendants; Price-Matlock Family Tree by Char Wirfs.

250. Grayson T. Alexander, Grayson T. Alexander (22 Dec 2007, Grayson T. Alexander, E-Mail grayglo@hotmail.com).

251. death certificate 89 (1923), Vashti Abagail Parish; digital image, "ancestry.com posting,"(accessed 2 Feb 2022).

254. 1900 U.S. census, Oregon, population schedule, Portland, Ward 2, Multnomah County, enumerated June 1, enumeration district (ED) 43, p. 4A, dwelling 75, family 76, John L. Williams; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed October 10, 2009); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm T623, roll T623_1348.

255. death certificate 150 (1907), Jonathan L. Williams; digital image, "ancestry.com posting,"(accessed 24 Feb 2022).

256. Keith Clark and Lowell Tiller, Terrible Trail: The Meek Cutoff 1845 (Bend, Oregon, Maverick Publications, Inc., 1966), Page 199/200.

257. 1880 U.S. census, population schedule, Portland, Multnomah County, enumerated June 7th, enumeration district (ED) 139, p. 426.1000, dwelling 101, family 108, J. L. and Lydia Williams; digital images (accessed October 10, 2009); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm T9, roll T9_1083.

258. 1900 U.S. census, Wisconsin, population schedule, Milwaukee City, Milwaukee County, enumerated June 6th, enumeration district (ED) 168, p. 12B, dwelling 176, family 239, Albert and Bertha Preuss; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed Apr 13, 2010); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm T623, roll T623_1805.

259. Death Certificate, Oregon State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Certificate of Death, No. 709, Sol King.

260. death certificate 19 (1943), Daniel Denis Summer; digital image, "ancestry.com posting,"(accessed 29 Jan 2022).

262. "Find A Grave.com," database(www.findagrave.com : accessed January 20, 2010), Eli Summer.

263. death certificate 629 (1911), Eli Summer; digital image, "ancestry.com posting,"(accessed 29 Jan 2022).

264. "Find A Grave.com," database(www.findagrave.com : accessed 18 Feb 2019), Daniel Summer; Memorial # 87807049.

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