[or-roots] Tracking Thomas Clark

[Carylon Viuhkola]

1870 Census Yamhill Co
By Ruth Stoller
Yamhill County Historical Soc
page 80
846. Clark, Thomas     34     MW     Farmer     591    OH
Angeline     26     FW      Keeping House     KY
Laura           1     FW      At Home     OR

Dayton Prec
Aug 25 1870
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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Suz_ES 
  To: or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us 
  Sent: Sunday, October 09, 2005 12:36 PM
  Subject: RE: [or-roots] Tracking Thomas Clark


  Carla
  I appreciate your insight, but all of his family (father, mother, older sibs, young sibs) all stayed in Nebraska.  So, I don't think there was a problem.  I am trying to link him to the Lamberts and Forrests who were already in Yamhill county.  I guess I need a trip to the Yamhill county museum to read some local histories.

  suzanne
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    From: or-roots-admin at sosinet.sos.state.or.us [mailto:or-roots-admin at sosinet.sos.state.or.us]On Behalf Of cklooster at aol.com
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     Sometimes the answer lies not in the destination, but in the economy of the home place.  Think, for example, of the number of people from Oklahoma and nearby states that came to Oregon during the dust bowl; they were escaping in desperation.  There was also a similar influx to the Pacific Northwest when the shipyards and airplane plants were looking for workers at the begining of WWII.  I did a quick Google of the midwest in 1870 and found that in Iowa they were trying to attract immigrants and had opened land for homesteading. 

    Possibly looking at local histories of the community that he came from in Nebraska would have some answers.  There was a bit of gold mining going on in Southern Oregon and Northern California in the 1870's...or maybe it was just the lure of adventure.  At that time most sixteen-year-olds were considered adults.  And besides, who wouldn't want to leave Nebraska!

    Carla
     
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    From: Suz_ES <Suz_ES at verizon.net>
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    Subject: [or-roots] Tracking Thomas Clark


I've been doing to more research on Thomas Benton Clark to see how/why he
came out west when the rest of his family did not.  This is what I know:
1870 census for Grant, Washington, Nebraska as 16 yr old son of Amos and
Elizabeth Clark,
1876 marries Matilda Forrest in Dayton, Yamhill, Oregon.
1880 census for Dayton, Yamhill, Oregon with Matilda and 1 son, living next
door to John Lambert family which were the guardians of Matilda.

So, I have from 1870 thru 1876 that I am trying to trace him.  Does anyone
know if there were indian wars or gold rushes or anything like that that
would have attracted him to Oregon?  or to the Willamette valley?

Suzanne in Newberg
suz_es at verizon.net
Clark/Sims/Henry/Lambert/Forrest (Yamhill Cty)
Averill/Robison/Orr/Kingery (Benton, Coos, Linn Cty)

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