[or-roots] Carla's Hawley and Shields connections

[Cassie in Portland, OR]

Thanks for the information, Carla.  Unfoprtunately, my
Shields and Hawley's don't match yours.  

My Shields are in the Lane County, OR area and the
Hawleys were Benton and Lane County.

Good luck on your serch!

Cassie

--- CKlooster at aol.com wrote:

> I am descended from Cyrus Benjamin Hawley and his
> wife, Elizabeth (Eliza)  
> Smith.  He was born ca. 1812 in New York and later
> lived in London,  Ontario, 
> Canada; Michigan, and Iowa before traveling to
> Oregon with the Gilliam  wagon 
> train.  He had a donation land claim near
> McMinville.  His  daughter, Ann 
> Elizabeth, married John Wright Stephens and they had
> four  sons.  She died when the 
> boys were young and he remarried and moved to 
> Washington.  Their son, Irvin 
> Hawley Stephens married Anna Mary  Shields, the
> daughter of Henry Shields and 
> Tabitha Whealdon.  Joseph  Whealdon and his wife
> were Quakers who settled near 
> Centralia, Washington.   Later their married
> daughter, Tabitha, moved the area 
> with her husband and  family from Illinois.  Henry
> Shields was one of the 
> first Sheriffs of  Centralia. Irvin Hawley Stephens
> and Anna Mary Shields raised 
> a large family in  Raymond, Pacific County,
> Washington.  Their daughter, 
> Constance Tabitha  Stephens was my paternal
> grandmother.
>  
> A detailed history of the Stephens family in Oregon,
> "Some Descendents of  
> Emmor Jefferson Stephens", was written and published
> privately by Edmund Fisher  
> of Portland and Gresham.  This is an extremely
> well-researched work and  also 
> includes information about the family of Emmor
> Stephens' brother, Isaac  
> Stephens.
>  
> Carla
>