[or-roots] Ancestry.com immigration and newspaper

[Nancy Lee Adams]

Carla,

Is this your Emmor Stephens? This is only part of the page, but he and his
son James B. Stephens & wife Elizabeth are my brother-in-law's (Melvin
Woolford) family. James B. Stephens owned & operated the Stark Street Ferry
crossing the Willamette River. They lived on the East side, where the Lone
Fir Cemetery is located. Emmor was the first one to be buried on the land.

 
                                A self guided tour of Portland's historic
Lone Fir Cemetery:

When Emmor Stephens died in 1846, he was buried at the farm or his son, J.B.
Stephens, which was located a few miles east of the small town of Portland.
When the younger Mr. Stephens sold the land to Colburn Barrell in 1854, it
was with the agreement that Barrell maintain the gravesite. On April 8, 1854
 the boiler of the steamship Gazelle exploded killing several people
including Barrell's business partner, Crawford Dobbins. Barrell buried the
victims near Emmor Stephens and set aside ten acres of his land as a
cemetery. Today, Lone Fir Cemetery is a wooded, landscaped arboretum in the
heart of Oregon's largest city, Portland. Stroll through this peaceful place
and visit the graves of the rich and poor, famous and infamous, and the
young 
and old. 

Nancy

PS... ancestry.com just recently changed the lay out or what ever you call
it, of there site, 
I don't care for it now as much, I like the other way better. I guess I will
get used to it though, 
because I have found lots of good information on it.. 
 
-------Original Message-------
 
From: or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us
Date: 12/13/04 15:48:08
To: or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us
Subject: Re: [or-roots] Ancestry.com immigration and newspaper
 
In a message dated 12/13/04 7:03:44 AM Alaskan Standard Time,
whizinc at comcast.net writes:
I have Ancestry's immigration and newspaper portion.  I'd be happy to do
look ups.  Please email me off list. 
Ronda
Have you ever found a NAME in the Ancestry newspaper search?  I was very
excited when upgraded my subscription to add the Newspaper and Periodical
search and my  first search result showed two entries for my 4th-great
grandfather, Emmor Jefferson Stephens.  When I viewed the actual image
however, I found that "Emmor" was actually "Summer", and "Jefferson" was in
an article about our founding father,  while "Stephens" appeared in an
article about a "lady of the evening"!  I stopped using this particular
function of the Ancestry search because it seems to be an exercise in
futility.  I'd be interested to know if anyone else is using this with
success...
 
Carla
 
 
STEPHENS, WHEALDON, HAWLEY, SHIELDS in Oregon and Washington
 
 
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