[or-roots] emigrant diaries

[Chris]

I am fortunate in that my husbands family has the words from his
g-g-g-grandmother Charlotte Pengra (Mrs. Bynon J. Pengra) and her sister
Velina Williams of their travels in 1853.  They started the trip together,
but somewhere in the beginning one party went ahead and the parties crossed
separately.

Velina's work was printed in the Forty-seventh Annual Reunion of the Oregon
Pioneer Association on pages 175 -240, but her words are quoted in many
compilations of women's dairies  some of them can be found below:

http://www.muskingum.edu/~rmunkres/life/Wonder.html
http://www.muskingum.edu/~rmunkres/life/Animals.html
http://www.muskingum.edu/~rmunkres/life/Daily/04.html
http://www.muskingum.edu/~rmunkres/life/Daily/05.html
http://www.muskingum.edu/~rmunkres/life/Daily/07.html
http://www.muskingum.edu/~rmunkres/life/Daily/08.html
http://www.muskingum.edu/~rmunkres/life/Sunbonnets.html
http://www.muskingum.edu/~rmunkres/life/Daily/End.html
http://home.netcom.com/~symbios/ohs53.html

 
Charlotte Emily Stearns Pengra's Diary was reproduced by The Lane County
Pioneer-Historical.  My copy was the Second Printing in 1966.  On the web
some of her words can be found here:
http://egov.oregon.gov/ODOT/CS/SSB/Oregon_Trail.shtml
http://www.nps.gov/whmi/educate/ortrtg/ortrtg4.htm
http://tomlaidlaw.com/otkiosks/otcc/snake.html

A good book of compilations of the trip is:
Women’s Diaries of the Westward Journey by Lillian Schlissel

I got my copy a couple of years ago, used from one of the major book
re-sellers

Hope this helps you some,
Chris


At 08:47 AM 8/8/2005 -0700, you wrote: 
>>>>
Darlene,
  
I wished I knew, because my (ggg-grandfather) Hanson Stevens family left
Keokuck, Iowa & arrived Howell Prairie/Silverton, Marion Co., Oregon abt.
Oct. 9, 1852.
Same goes for my McCubbins Clan arrived Howell Prairie/Silverton, Marion
Co., Oregon abt. Oct. 9, 1852 from Franklin Co., Missouri.
  
In fact my (ggg-grandfather) James McCubbins's son--Samuel McCubbins
married a daughter of Hanson Stevens--Sarah Ellen Stevens, both pioneer
families of 1852. 
  
Please let me know if you find or
anyone else knows of a "travel diary" 
Thanks!  Nancy 
  
-------Original Message-------
  
From: <mailto:darlene at thecasteels.net>Darlene Casteel
Date: 08/08/05 07:50:38
To: <mailto:or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us>Oregon Roots web site
Subject: [or-roots] emigrant diaries
  
James and Eliza Jane Hamlin left Iowa in April and arrived in Oregon in
October of 1852.  Does anyone know of a "travel diary" kept by a fellow
traveler on this trek to the "promised land"?
  
Darlene Casteel
  
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