[or-roots] HARPOLE in 1851

Tue Sep 16 20:10:31 PDT 2008

Dear Albert,

I'll start communicating with you off the list, as others may not be  
interested in what I have to say about the 1851 Harpoles.  But if anyone is  
interested, please contact me.  We visited the charming little Pioneer  Memorial 
Cemetery in Brooks, Marion County, Oregon and were pleased to get the  feel of the 
land where our Oregon Pioneers settled.  I will share  information I've 
gathered, with the sources.  I'm interested in getting  your book when it's ready.

Respectfully,      

Gerrie Stults

In a message dated 9/16/2008 8:25:34 A.M. Mountain Daylight Time,  
skipb at rcn.com writes:

Bonjour, Gerrie, 
I’ll be happy to include your  info in my files, and  thanks for the 
corrections which I will make in the Master  List.  
As for my book  which is in the end stages of   production ….it is a 
Composite Journal that is a collection of excerpts  from the 122 journals and 
recollections I have collected of 1851 O.T. pioneers, arranged in geographic order so 
as to take  the reader along the trek in the words of many who made the 
journey that  year.  I have not included any  other information about the  pioneers 
in this book. However, I do plan to eventually  make available at some time in 
the future all of the one million words  of documents and background and 
biographical  information related  to the 1851 migration. The bio section includes 
mainly emails that I have  received from descendants similar to what you have 
sent and extracts from some  bios I have collected. I’ll add your notes to 
this  section and I’ll be happy to add what you send about the Harpoles as it 
relates to the  Oregon  Trail trip …. Send me your mailing address, if  you want 
me to add that detail.   
Your, &c.,  &c., 
Albert 

Albert  Edward Belanger 
128  Middle Road 
Brentwood,  NH 03833 
Researching  the 1851 Oregon Trail Migration
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Subject: Re: [or-roots] HARPOLE in  1851 

Dear  Albert,

Thank  you for sending what you have on the Oregon Harpole's.  I see you have 
 our family's bare bones data.  However, it was James Walker Harpole's  wife 
who died on the Oregon Trail near Baker City, Oregon, and he returned  east to 
marry her cousin, who helped raise his younger children and they had  more 
kids.  William Pope Harpole did not return east to  remarry.  

There's  much more about the Harpoles, along with various spellings, in the  
HARPOLE COUSINS  book.  I've found excerpts of this HARPOLE  COUSINS book 
online and people can order an updated CD of the book, which I  plan to do.  
Here's the address for this source:   _http://mysite.verizon.net/res736wu/_ 
(http://mysite.verizon.net/res736wu/)    This book tells which of  our Harpole family 
came in the 1851 Harpole Wagon Train.  It also tells  that all of Wm. P. & 
Nancy M. Harpole's children were born in Pike County,  Illinois and they did 
come west with their parents.  Our Nancy E.  Harpool/Harpole was only three years 
old that year, so of course she was with  her parents.  Susan was eight and 
Paul was eleven when they came to the  Oregon Territory with their parents.

Our  line comes from Nancy Eveline Harpool/Harpole, daughter of Nancy Mary  
McMullen & William Pope Harpole, and who married John Milton  Hagey.  They and 
their children lived mostly  in Union County,  Oregon.  I'll gather the rest 
of my sources to share with you and  Stephanie Flora, but it may take a while.  
When is your deadline to complete  your book?  I'd like to get our  
information to you before it's too late.  We don't have any 1851 Trail  Journals, but 
the HARPOLE COUSINS book does have stories about the  journey.  

The  PIONEER MEMORIAL  CEMETERY website has obituaries and much other  
information on all the Harpole family buried there.  The website  is:  

_http://www.marioncountycemetery.com/brooks/groups/record_group.php?start=H&en
d=I_ 
(http://www.marioncountycemetery.com/brooks/groups/record_group.php?start=H&end=I)     I just noticed the cemetery's notes  for William P. Harpole 
doesn't mention that their is a large family plot  marker that says HARPOLE 
behind the families individual stones.  That  large marker is nearly covered with a 
shrub surrounding it however.   Their notes don't mention Wm. P. Harpole's 
Oregon Donation Land Claim number,  but I see you have that.  

I've  driven by Three Mile Island many times, where there was a Harpole wagon 
 train Indian attack.  I assume that's what you mean by Massacre  Rock?  

The  Marion County Historical Society, in 1975-1976, reprinted the  
ILLUSTRATED HISTORICAL ATLAS MAP of MARION and LINN  COUNTIES OREGON, by Edgar Williams 
& Co.,  originally published in 1878.  This book lends a lot of light to our  
Oregon pioneers, including the Harpoles, and our Hagey family as well.   This 
book shows town plats with owners' names clearly  shown.

I  respect Stephanie Flora's website, as she is a very good  researcher.  
However, you'd be much safer referring to  primary and/or secondary printed 
sources rather than individual  people, like me.  I will gather more sources for 
you about the Harpole  family and get back to you.  I am willing to correspond 
with other  Harpole/Harpool researchers.

Respectfully,         Gerrie Stults

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