[or-roots] Burns

[glenkc7mbm at comcast.net]

Hi Andi
As far as I know their are no Robie's living in the Harney County area now, do have some in Lenore Idaho, a cousin.
Glen

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Glen A. Jones

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From: "HARMON Andi * DAS IRMD GGDC" <Andi.Harmon at state.or.us> 

> Have you met Sandra Crittenden at the Burns Library, she is a Oregon 
> Historian, have been working with her for a couple of years trying to 
> find info on my Great Grandfather, for whose Cattle Brand the Diamond 
> area is named, his name was Albert H. Robie and his partner was Mace 
> McCoy they had 43,600 acres of the Malhuer before Pete French, my Great 
> grandfather was selling out to him when he died. 
> 
> 
> 
> >> No, I haven't met her; I'm a "transplant" here, been here only 7 
> years now. My grandma moved over here in 1964 and moved in with a 
> gentleman way down south Harney County in Catlow Valley that I 
> considered my grandpa. He was a transplant too; only here since just 
> before WWII and then after the war. He was quite a character, life long 
> bachelor, parents from Prussia, he was born in MA and was quite the 
> buckaroo around here. Worked for the P Ranch before the war. 
> 
> The Diamond area is beautiful -- wish I could live there! They are in 
> kind of a banana belt compared to where we are! The name Robie sounds 
> familiar -- are there still some Robie's around here? 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> I am over that way to see Sandra at times and also Hunting. 
> 
> 
> 
> >> Ah yes, hunting! Deer, elk, antelope or ? We do all of the above 
> and then some. Nice to be able to drive 10 minutes to our hunting area 
> now ... 
> 
> 
> ... while I'm here (on digest), might as well reply to this one too! 
> 
> 
> Did you know the Eddy family, Eunice and Roy? Eunice was my father's = 
> sister. 
> 
> 
> 
> No, I don't know the Eddy family. I don't see them in the Burns phone 
> book but there are several Eddy families in the John Day area. 
> 
> Andi 
> Burns, Oregon 
> Last Chance Ranch 
> http://equine.wisecomp.com/ 
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