[or-roots] Kenyon - Cross etc

[glenkc7mbm at comcast.net]

Hello Les & Denise
Seen your post to Denise on the Book about Rhode Island Families, going to have to check it out about the the Cross Family.
We have a book at the Clark County Genealogical Society, Genealogy's of Rhode Island Families, I know it has your whipple family, I will check for Denise on Kenyon's, I work the library again the 2nd of Feb.
Glen Portland

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Glen A. Jones

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From: "Leslie Chapman" <reedsportchapmans at verizon.net> 

> Denise; 
> 
> I thought I knew Harry but couldn't find anything online like what I "knew." 
> 
> Did find some interesting Kenyon stuff, don't know if it's your line; 
> 
> from; http://www.hal-pc.org/~wmewrght/index.html#genes 
> 
> This fellow has a book that includes some fairly exhaustive Kenyon research 
> apparently; 
> 
> My book, Ancestors and Descendants of William Browning Greene and Mary 
> Hoxsie Lewis with Allied Families, includes 42 chapters. Each chapter is 
> devoted to an immigrant and some of his descendants. The families all lived 
> in Rhode Island and inter-married at one time or another. Rhode Island was 
> also the home of General Nathanael Greene and Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry. 
> The book contains an extensive genealogy of the PERRYs and a large number of 
> descendants of the CROSS, GREENE, KENYON, LEWIS, and SEGAR families. Other 
> families in the book include BABCOCK, BROWNING, HAZARD, HOXSIE, and RATHBUN. 
> There is even a chapter devoted to the family of Matthew BOOMER. 
> 
> http://www.hal-pc.org/~wmewrght/kenyon.html is a link to a piece of his 
> Kenyon work that is online. 
> 
> IF you want to go to a library to read this book he has a list of places 
> that have it here; 
> http://www.hal-pc.org/~wmewrght/library.html 
> 
> Salem State and Oregon Gen in Springfield only two in Oregon. 
> 
> Very interesting individual, he is also a Model Railroading fan which got my 
> attention, also has a 250 page commentary on King James Bible available for 
> free {genealogy book available on CD for $19.50} 
> 
> Oh and the reason Cross is in the subject line is there are some folks with 
> considerable connection to that surname and while "Boomer" Bill has 228 
> families of Kenyons in his work, he has 467 families of Crosses. 
> 
> Okay, I finally found the people I was thinking of, no Harold, it was 
> Orvall, ah well. 
> 
> Les C. 
> 
> 
> 
> Subject: [or-roots] Oregon Periodical Index Online? 
> 
> 
> Years back I believe there was an online Periodical index to the Oregon 
> Newspapers. I can not locate where that is now online. Does anyone else 
> know? I'm wanting to learn if there were descendants of the following 
> couple who I've learned died in Portland and I wanted to see if their 
> obituaries were online since I live in Idaho. 
> 
> Harry R. Kenyon, b. 17 Dec 1901 at NY, d. 20 Jan 1979 at Portland, Multnomah 
> County, OR 
> +Averil M. Cast, b. 1902 at MO, d. 22 Apr 1966 at Portland, Multnomah 
> County, OR 
> 
> Averil is a third cousin I'm trying to learn more about. 
> 
> 
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