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FAMILY HISTORY QUERIES This page is dedicated to those who are seeking their family history in Douglas County. If you would like to add your family queries to this page, please email the query to the web mistress at pegrowe62@gmail.com
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BADCOCK - See WINDERS BOOTH - I am just beginning to collect
material on my family. I am a descendent of Robert Booth. I know that he
lived in Douglas County for much of his life. Any information you could send me
would be much appreciated. BUSENBARK - Looking for historical information about my maternal grandparents. My grandfather was David Naylor Busenbark, who was Douglas County judge in the 1940's. My grandmother was Mabel DUNCAN Busenbark. Great-grandparents were John and Carrie Busenbark. The sons (Royce, Tence, and David) lived with their families and their parents on a farm at Melrose from about 1910 until their deaths in the 1960-'70s. Any information you can send me will be
appreciated. Thank you. C CLINTON -
1910 Circus: I am looking for
information about a traveling circus that was in Roseburg, Douglas Co., Oregon?
My grandfather, John Clinton, is with this circus. I have looked through
the Indiana Circus, and only the famous acts, performers are listed. He
was born in Terre Haute and ran away from home to join a traveling circus about
age 10 in 1898. I had thought they were just stories until I found him
with many companions in this census.
FINE - See ODEN
GRAHAM, JAMES and his wife Catherine
MCCARTHY also came to Gardiner from Brooklyn, NY by boat with John and Maggie
GRILLS. Catherine was a sister to Maggie. James was born in Hanover, Germany
and Catherine was also Irish. James and Catherine's son, James Graham his
wife Minnie SODERBERG were river pilots for many years on the Umpqua River.
I'm willing to share information, photos and memories.
Contact: Mary Ystad Curran
myc51640@comcast.net
GRILLS, JOHN Looking for connection to John GRILLS and his wife Maggie May MCCARTHY who traveled by boat from Brooklyn, NY to Gardiner in 1869 to Gardiner, OR. They crossed the Isthmus of Panama rather than sailing around the Horn. John was a veteran in Antwerp, Belgium and was a veteran of the Civil War Navy. Maggie was Irish and came to Brooklyn in the 1850's. Besides Gardiner, John and Maggie lived in Roseburg, Oakland, Marshfield, Salem and Portland. John is buried in Salem and Maggie is buried in Roseburg. I'm willing to share information, photos and memories.
Contact: Mary Ystad Curran
myc51640@comcast.net
H Mc McKinney - See Caldwell
MADANTZ - I hope you can
help. I am looking for historical record of Frederick Madantz in Douglas
County. This gentleman would be my great grandmother's brother. Her name was
Augusta and she was married to John Stevens. If there is a written
history of any of these individual? How would I go about getting a copy of it?
MURPHY, MICHAEL was a Doctor born in
Ireland. He came to Oregon by 1880 and practiced in Coos and Douglas
Counties. He is buried in Coos Bay, OR. I'm willing to share information,
photos and memories.
Contact: Mary Ystad Curran
myc51640@comcast.net
N ODEN - I am seeking
information about Jacob Norris ODEN and Sarah FINE ODEN who
lived in Douglas County in 1880's. ROWE: Looking for information on the ROWE Family of Douglas & Lane Counties. Ernest E. ROWE (1870 - 1948), wife Esther Decena NELSON, spent time in Gardiner, Roseburg, and Winston. They spent some time on the Umpqua River as documented by a daughter in the History of Douglas County printed by this historical society. Ernest's brother, Alfred B. ROWE (1872-1937) had a hard rock (Placer?) Gold Mine on North Myrtle (Myrtle Creek, Oregon) just prior to his death. He worked this mine for at least 10 years. I am looking for any information, photos, family memories, etc. Contact: SCOTT - We are interested in the life of Levi SCOTT, founder of Scottsburg, Oregon. Please send any information you have. Thank you for any help you can give us in our quest. Sincerely, Linda Smith Contact: Linda Smith
tobeboy@aol.com SODERBERG - See GRAHAM STEVENS - See MANDTZ TRIPP-
Looking for the family of
HARVEY DONALD TRIPP died July 15, 2004 in Clackamas, Oregon. Harvey and
his brother Charlie Tripp worked and lived in Roseburg, Oregon at one time. I
have in my possession family photos of this TRIPP family going back to the
1800's. I want to get them back to a family member.
oakridgefarm@townsqr.com
WILLIS-Any
information about a "William Walter WILLIS", born in Iowa
around 1886, lived in California in 1920 (based on the 1920 census), then
moved to a "log cabin" sometime around the mid 1920's to an area near the
settlement of Peck, located along Cow Creek, west of Riddle. My former
mother-in-law visited this uncle, William Willis, sometime around the late
1920's, at his log cabin. She, her mother and several aunts, drove in a Model
T from So. CA. to Grants Pass, OR. then got on the train and headed north " a
short distance." She said her uncle had to "wave down the train' for it to
stop, they got off and walked to his cabin....she remembered a "river" that
they swam and bathed in (Cow Creek I guess) and that the cabin was up above
the river, and the train track.
Would there be any way to find out where
that cabin might have been...my husband and I just took a drive today along
the scenic Cow Creek, and it seems that most of the area along Cow Creek has
fairly steep canyon walls - not much flat land.... Any information or leads would be
appreciated! Thank you!
Linda Colton, 107 Eden Dr., Grants Pass,
OR 97526, 541-474-6391, email:
redhawk905@msn.com
WELLS - Looking for information on Henry Wells. Tim Wells Tim.Wells@avistacorp.com WINDERS
- I’m looking for information on John Winders born 1834 in Iowa Married
Lovina Badcock about 1870 moved to California and then to Canyonville,
Oregon where Katharine Winders was born 1875. I need the place in Iowa
that he was born in and his fathers name. The webmaster of the site, Peggy Rowe-Snyder is willing to do look ups from the following book: Methodist Spirit Lives 150 Year History of the Methodist Churches of Douglas County. Author: Ray O. Sims Copyright 2002 Ram Offset Lithographers, White City, Oregon Email Peggy for a look up. |
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