[or-roots] Roll call

[maryeatwell at charter.net]

---- CARROLLOUC at aol.com wrote: 
> Was this Fred Merrick the man who owned the Merrick Ballroom in Medford, OR? 
> As I recall, it was a popular place when I first moved to Medford from 
> Portland in 1949.
> 
> Carroll Cooper Summers
> I am ready and willing to throw the following names in the hat:
> Michael Travers and wife Ann, called Nan, McCardle Travers both born Ireland 
> and in Portland in time for the 1860 census with an otherwise unidentified 
> woman named Bridget McCardle who appears only the once. 
> 
> Albert H. Gaylord came to Oregon from California about 1888-89 to work as a 
> telegrapher on the railroad.  He married Rosa Travers and they lived all over 
> Oregon and Washington
> 
> Fred E. Merrick came to Portland later, probably 1904, then moved to Medford 
> about 1905.  This was a New York family who lived 1 generation in North Dakota.
> 
> My brick walls are Michael and Ann Travers before they appear in Portland.  
> Michael died in December 1882 in Portland while Ann died in 1896 and they were 
> both buried in the Catholic cemetery in The Dalles.  The Oregonian commenting 
> on Michael's death noted that "he was a pioneer of the Cascades area".
> Phyl Purdum
Hello Phyllis, I live in The Dalles and could go to the cemetary and take photos of the headstones if you wish. Mary