[or-roots] Stage coach stop in Monroe, OR

[Anne Comer]

On Tuesday, February 8, 2005, at 02:35  PM, E V Barnes wrote:
Has any one checked at the Lincoln Co. Court house and their 
grantor-grantee indices or their
other marriage and divorce records.  We hit a pandora's box on our 
families.

Chuckle, chuckle, chuckle. . .     You sure that was Pandora's Box?  
Here is just a short paragraph on the Pandora story, taken from a great 
web page.

> Now, Jupiter had malignantly crammed into this box all the diseases, 
> sorrows, vices, and crimes that afflict poor humanity; and the box was 
> no sooner opened, than all these ills flew out, in the guise of horrid 
> little brown-winged creatures, closely resembling moths. These little 
> insects fluttered about, alighting, some upon Epimetheus, who had just 
> entered, and some upon Pandora, pricking and stinging them most 
> unmercifully. They then flew out through the open door and windows, and 
> fastened upon the merrymakers without, whose shouts of joy were soon 
> changed into wails of pain and anguish.

See more at:
The Legend of Prometheus and Pandora's  Box 
http://www.physics.hku.hk/~tboyce/ss/topics/prometheus.html

Seriously, I would love to spend some time going through whatever 
records are housed there.  You can check the inventories of Oregon 
Counties at the following:
http://arcweb.sos.state.or.us/county/cpquick.html

Anne

My ancestor lines:  CRABTREE,   POWELL,   PRINE,   PEEK,   
HUDELSON/HUDDLESTON,   RUTLEDGE,   HAMILTON,   DICKERSON,   KITCHEL,   
EMPSON,   FLANARY,   BOGGS,   BEELER,   PETRE,   STALCOP,   MUSGRAVE,   
McDONALD/MacDONNELL and others too numerous to mention.

My husband's ancestor lines: COMER,   BARNUM,   ROBINSON,   HOLMES,   
SHUGART,   BOATRIGHT,   ENSIGN
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