[or-roots] Naches Pass website

[Paulette]

Thanks for your kind response. I appreciate your help. I'll have to investigate further, too. I have a Minerva McClintock in my McClintock surname files, but she married someone else as far as I know. My Sumners and McClintocks do come from Clark County, Indiana and there may yet be a connection...

Paulette


-----Original Message-----
>From: W David Samuelsen <dsam52 at sampubco.com>
>Sent: Nov 1, 2010 12:52 AM
>To: Paulette <pswitzertatum at peoplepc.com>, or-roots mail list <or-roots at listsmart.osl.state.or.us>
>Subject: Re: [or-roots] Naches Pass website
>
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naches_Pass is in state of Washington, just 
>north of Mount Rainier.
>
>Worldconnect showed unknown parents for Minerva Jane McClintock. Married 
>4 September 1842 in Clark co., Indiana (or is it Pike Co., Illinois 
>according to another source) to John M. Cooper.
>
>Looks like Donation Land Claims need to be investigated for any clues to 
>her parents.
>
>David
>
>On 10/31/2010 11:59 PM, Paulette wrote:
>> Thanks for this information and website link - very interesting.
>>
>> I have been reading "Into the Eye of the Setting Sun: A Story of the West When
>> it Was New" (2nd ed. 1991) by Charlotte Matheny Kirkwood. Someone on this list
>> had mentioned it and Cedar Mill Library has a copy. I wonder if anyone can
>> answer a question for me?
>>
>> Charlotte remembers a Capt. Gantt as the leader of her 1843 wagon train from
>> Missouri. As I understand it she was in one of the first if not the first wagon
>> train to Oregon. But I saw the tombstone of Capt. David Lenox at the West Union
>> Cemetery and it states that he was the Capt. of the first wagon train to Oregon
>> in 1843. Charlotte does mention David Lenox's name, but not as a leader. Can
>> anyone clear that up for me?
>>
>> She also mentions an Aunt Jane Cooper (Mrs. John M.) who was Minerva Jane
>> McClintock. Does anyone know who Minerva Jane McClintock's parents were?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Paulette
>>
>>
>>      -----Original Message-----
>>      From: Steve&  Ronda Howard
>>      Sent: Oct 31, 2010 9:51 PM
>>      To: 'or-roots mail list'
>>      Subject: [or-roots] Naches Pass website
>>
>>      Hi everyone,
>>
>>      In 1853 the Longmire-Biles wagon train went through the Naches Pass to
>>      Western Washington. There is a website: http://www.nachestrail.org/
>>
>>      The Naches Trail crosses the Cascade Range through Naches Pass, roughly from
>>      today's Bonney Lake in the west to Yakima in the east. Later the name was
>>      applied to the route from Walla Walla to Steilacoom, as an extension of the
>>      Oregon Trail.
>>
>>      This route was used by Native American peoples to travel from one side of
>>      the mountains to the other, for food and trade purposes. One of the earliest
>>      written accounts of the use of this trail tells of the travel of a Lt.
>>      Johnson of the United States Exploring Expedition (Wilkes Expedition),
>>      crossing on horseback, as the Expedition explored the Pacific Northwest in 1841.
>>
>>      Ronda
>>
>>
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