[or-roots] Cattle Brands

[Cuprum4445 at aol.com]

You're welcome Les.  I'm glad I could give you some information.   "bar C" 
sounds like a good reading for that brand.  It's cool to have the  branding iron 
yet.  We have my father-in-law's too.  Young folks like  to decorate with 
them actually.  You said you sent the information to "the  rest of the genealogy 
nuts in my Grandfather's line."  I thought you might  have said the "old 
goats" in that line, considering they raised goats - tee  hee.  Please don't be 
offended though.  I just had to give say  that.  You seem to have a good sense of 
humor from your other  messages.  
Happy hunting - Gerrie
 
 
In a message dated 8/22/2008 9:53:11 P.M. Mountain Daylight Time,  
reedsportchapmans at verizon.net writes:

Thank  you Gerrie;

I have forwarded that to the rest of the genealogy nuts in  my Grandfather's
line, I was pretty sure we were registered whether we were  in that book or
not. I know the branding iron is still around somewhere. I  checked dad's
"book of rememberance" hoping there was something in there, I  also have a
book full of notes he made in the last months of his life for  posterity's
sake that might have an explanation of the brand, I am sure I  have heard
what it meant, maybe F - C or some such?? Seems like it would  read "bar C"
something but what I don't know, maybe one of my older sibs  will remember.

Les C


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Subject: Re: [or-roots] Cattle  Brands


YUP Les!
Oregon Brands Recorded January 2, 1941 to April,  1942, Page 218:
Space # 15  (HELP!  I don't know how to read this  brand, but it looks like a
large backwards letter "C" with a horizontal  line through it, so that it
looks almost like an "E".
F. W. & C. D.  Chapman; Cottage Grove, Lane Co.   (Right) R. face  Sheep  &
goats
There is a vertical notch in the left ear & 2 "V"  notches at the top of the
right ear.

You know, that backwards "C"  makes sense for a Chapman name.  I don't know
how to "read" brands  though.  I'm not in law enforcement, but I don't know
why your ear  marks wasn't proof those were your goats!  It should have  been.

Hey!  My late father-in-law would be proud of me for helping  you folks!  He
really enjoyed his job and visiting with folks and he  loved livestock!  He
didn't like the book work though.  I enjoy  looking at the little red book
because I recognize lots of names from  different places we have lived in
Oregon.  Who would have thought this  book would have come in handy to help
people with genealogy?  I copied  pages from the brand registration book in
La Grande for our family members,  and this made a fun, attractive page for
our books.  You might try  checking to see if the Lane County courthouse has
such a book  too.
Gerrie

In a message dated 8/22/2008 7:36:51 P.M. Mountain  Daylight Time,
reedsportchapmans at verizon.net writes:
Gerrie;

I  haven't been paying a lot of attention to the cattle brand thread because
I  didn't think it would be of more than passing interest to me, but it  just
occurred to me that you might have a brand registered for either or  both
Francis Marion Chapman or Clare Decker Chapman in Lane county  sometime
between 1914 or so and when the book was published, though I can't  swear we
had a brand, I know when the goats were being rustled we had no  "proof" of
ownership, even when we caught the rustlers red handed with a  truck load of
our goats the fact they had our ear marks wasn't  "proof."

Leslie  Chapman

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