[or-roots] MilaMelvin/Mrs Barnes

[Leslie Chapman]

Midge;

That is part of the problem; we don't know when they came out. Now that I
review the facts it gets murkier, I remembered it as the whole family coming
out together, but apparently Milan Morell Melvin came out by himself or with
Joel Wheaton, who is married to a first cousin on the father's side. His
mother and Step-father are still in the midwest in the 1860 census as I
believe his sister also is. Milan is in Oregon by 1860 but marries in
Crescent City in 1858 to Mary Elizabeth Tack. I know that the Tack's
furniture came around the Horn, but whether they came with their furniture
or overland I also don't know, but I suspect they came around as they were
coming from Philadelphia. I don't have the Census pages for 1850 that I
thought I had, but I am pretty sure the Melvins are all together in the
Midwest in 1850, and split up as I describe above in 1860.

The sad thing is that somebody in the family probably has a lot of the info
I need, but they are unwilling to admit it for fear of someone suggesting
they aren't entitled to be in posession of it. So it goes.

Leslie Chapman


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Hi Les,

Do you know what year it was that your ggfather came out, and where in
relation the gold fields Del Norte CO is?   I doubt very much that I can
help, but my gggrandmother's name was Susannah Glenn (Mrs.) Barnes and she
came out in 1950 (I think) to the fields in Northern CA.  She was a midwife
and nurse of sorts later on in Prineville OR.  In her obituary it said that
she had delivered almost everyone in town that was born after she got there.
I haven't looked to see what train she was on - guess I should do that.
Good luck - Midge