Note: members of the second, third and fourth groups are noted with the group number preceding their names. All other names are believed to be members of the main emigrating party to Oregon.

*1) Oregon Bound party piloted by John Gantt consisted of about 700 men, women and children and approximately 110 wagons; the party separated into two units consisting of those with larger herds of cattle and those without.  Those separated into numerous smaller units before the journey was over

*2) Joseph B. Chiles was returning to California after recruiting new settlers in the east; he was originally an emigrant of 1841.  The party was led by mountain man, Joseph Reddeford Walker.  "On or about September 20, 1843, a California-bound emigrant party consisting of twenty-five people and six wagons approached the Oregon Trail crossing of the Raft River.  Before they reached the river, however, they turned south and established what became the main route of the California Trail to the Humboldt River, via the Raft River Valley and Goose Creek.  They were led by mountain man Joseph Reddeford Walker, who had taken the route in reverse when he returned from California in 1834......." (Sign dedicating location was placed in 1992 by the Oregon-California Trails Association)

*3) Sir William Drummond Stewart's "party of pleasure" to explore the Rocky Mountains was guided by William Sublette; the party was made up of approximately 70 men consisting of twenty gentlemen of St. Louis that included socialites, army officers on leave and several scientists; there were were thirty hunters, muledrivers and camp servants; later joining the group was a missionary party guided by Solomon Sublette

 

*4) John Charles Fremont Expedition of 1843-44 consisted of 39 men, principally Creole, French Canadian and American as well as a father and son pair from the Delaware tribe; their company consisted of 12 carts drawn by two mules each and one wagon specially designed to carry the scientific instruments that would be used along the way; the expedition had a two fold purpose--to gather as much scientific information about the unexplored areas as could be obtained, and the other, more secretive plan, was to see if a good route to the Oregon country could be found; (Many members of the legislature at that time were of English descent and still maintained close ties with England. They did not wish to force a confrontation over the Oregon country by settling the area. Others wished to keep the land a possession of their new country. Fremont had been engaged by members of the later group to keep his eyes open for any route that could easily handle wagon traffic.) [Notations on particiapants taken from "Memoirs of My Life, John Charles Fremont, First Edition,  Cooper Square Press, 2001]

Early in the spring of 1843 the emigrants bound for Oregon began to pour into Westport and Independence. After the majority were gathered together and just prior to beginning the journey, a meeting was called to form a set of "traveling" rules and to elect a council of nine to mediate any disputes that might erupt. It was decided that it would be best to elect officers when the train reached the Kansas River.

On May 22, 1843 the Oregon Emigrating Company departed with John Gantt as guide. Gantt had attained the rank of Captain in the US Army and had made his living in the fur trade and was more than willing to guide the train to Fort Hall for $1 per person. At Fort Hall it was hoped that assistance could be obtained from Dr. Marcus Whitman and party as they returned to the Oregon country from the states.

On June 1, after completing the crossing of the Kansas River, elections were held to determine who the officers were to be. Each nominee moved out with his back to the company. Backers of an individual then lined up behind their favorite candidate creating several lines of men stretching out across the prairie. The leaders, in jest, then proceeded to run across the prairie with their lines of supporters following like a long tail. The strange sight was captured in print by a writer passing by with the Sir William Drummond hunting expedition who remarked that, "Running for office is certainly performed in more literal fashion on the prairie ....." After the merriment, the end result was that Peter Burnett became Captain and James Nesmith was elected Orderly Sergeant.

As was true of each emigration, the exact numbers varied from person to person. According to an interview with Ninevah Ford in 1878, "We rendezvoused at West Port west of Independence, Jackson County, Missouri. We started from there in April. There were between 500 and 700 souls in the party and 113 wagons.......". Edward Lenox in his recollections claimed that less than 500 reached Oregon and set the figures at "295 men, 58 women and a possible 102 children...."; Mathew Field, a reporter accompanying the Sir William Drummond Stewart excursion, reported in his recollections "At Kansas Ferry observed gathering of 800 people for Oregon, having their election of officers...." Meanwhile, John Arthur in 1887 at an address of the Oregon Pioneer Association, stated that "the emigrating body numbered over one thousand souls, with one hundred and twenty wagons drawn by ox teams and over three thousand head of loose cattle and horses."

The company was soon to be involved in several severe storms that left them waterlogged and axle deep in muddy quagmires. Adding to the complaints, was the dissatisfaction created between those who had cattle and those who did not. After much dissension, Peter Burnett resigned. William Martin assumed command of the company without loose cattle. Jesse Applegate was elected leader of the "Cow Column", which consisted of approximately 60 wagons and a couple of thousand head of cattle.

Following behind, was Joseph B. Chiles, a pioneer of 1841, who was returning to California leading a small group of family and friends.

As with emigrations to follow, these rugged pioneers dealt daily with adverse weather conditions, lack of provisions, conflict of personalities and illness. To add to their afflictions, they did not have a wagon trail to follow. For a more comprehensive study of the emigration of 1843 I recommend reading "Blazing A Wagon Trail To Oregon, A Weekly Chronicle of the Great Migration of 1843" by Lloyd W. Coffman [see information on this publication at the end of this page].  I have included here my own compilation of events on this emigration in Emigration To Oregon in 1843

Following is a preliminary list for the emigration of 1843. All additions and corrections would be appreciated.
NOTE: all female members of the emigration are listed by MAIDEN name [if known] even if they were married at the time of the emigration.

Agatha ADAMS was born Oct 1814 in North Carolina to George Adams and his third wife, Lydia Parker.  On September 10, 1841 while residing in Buchanan Co, MO she met and married widower, Bartholomew HALLEY.  The following year, their first son, George B. was born.  With a family consisting of several step-children (Mary Frances, John E. and Henry) and a new born son, the preparations began to head west.
  Following their overland journey the family settled in Clackamas County where James Clark (1845- ), Sarah Angeline (1846-), Lydia A. (1848- ) and Elizabeth Ruth (1849- ) were born.  By 1860 she is living with her husband and their children in Salem, Marion County, OR.   Agatha and Bartholomew remained in the Salem area until their deaths, Bartholomew passing in 1883 and Agatha on June 4, 1888 at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. A. Kelly.  Both are buried in Lee Mission Cemetery at Salem.

Henry Spencer AIKEN was born April 5,1818 at St. James Street, Liverpool, England.  He was the son of Joshua Aiken and Jane Pinkerton and although his parents were residents of New Hampshire, they were visiting in England at the time of his birth. 
   His early years were spent in New Hampshire.  Later, as a young man, he first settled in Illinois before joining the migration west.  After his arrival in the Oregon country in 1843 he moved to Clatsop County where he is found residing in Astoria in the early census records.  In 1854 Henry married Maria, a young native woman who resided in the area.  The only known children for them were Jennie (1856-1878), Charlotte (1859-1881) and William (1870-).  Charlotte was listed as “deaf and dumb” on at least one census and in Henry’s obituary it is stated that she “is a promising student in the Mute school at Salem”.
   While residing at Astoria, Henry appears to have been a successful lumberman. He bought interest in a steam saw mill at Tongue Point (Marlin's mill) from Henry Marlin, March 13, 1851.  
   He also filled the position of Clatsop county clerk and was founder of Temple Lodge No 7, A.F.&A.M where he held numerous responsible positions.  At the time of his death he was one of the executors of the last will of Cyrus Olney, deceased.
   Maria died July 4, 1870 at Astoria and Henry died five years later on April 19, 1875.  Probate records indicate that Hiram Brown was appointed administrator of his estate.  Jennie, the oldest daughter, died at Good Samaritan hospital, Portland, in January 1878.  Charlotte died at the same location in 1881.  The family is buried at Hillside Cemetery, Clatsop County, OR

Mr. ALEXANDER: note--several members of the 1843 emigration traveled together to the CA gold mines. There is mention of an Alexander who was massacred in 1848 with other members of that party. This may be that individual

APPLEGATE FAMILY RESEARCHER:
Albert APPLEGATE was actually born in the Oregon Territory December 6, 1843 at the abandoned Willamette Mission where his parents, Charles Applegate and Melinda Miller, wintered.  While not enumerated as an emigrant of that year he can certainly be considered a pioneer of that time period.  Albert married January 17, 1869 at Drain, Douglas County, Oregon to Nancy Johnson.  His adult years were spent in the Douglas Co area.  It was here that he raised his family: Mercy D. (1870), Nellie M. (1871), Jesse Grant (1873), Fred (1875) and Lulu (1878).  Albert died March 18, 1888.  After his death his wife, Nancy Johnson Applegate married James Shelley and was residing at Eugene, Lane County, Oregon in the 1900 census.

Alexander McClelland APPLEGATE was born Mar 11, 1838 in St. Clair County, Missouri, the son of Jesse Applegate and Cynthia Parker.  He was five years old at the time the Applegates crossed the plains to Oregon in 1843. With his family he settled in Polk County in 1844 and in 1850 was living in Benton County.  By 1860 the family had moved to Yoncalla, Douglas County, OR.  Shortly after arriving, Alex went to the Idaho gold fields with Henry Lane, son of the famous Joseph Lane, who lived in nearby Roseburg.  He and Henry and Alex's cousin John Applegate enjoyed playing the fiddle together. They often played at dances as "The Fiddlers Three." Henry Lane had been a suitor of Alex’s cousin, Harriet.  When the young men received the news in Idaho of the death of Harriet Applegate, Alex wrote home:  "Your dream that some of us who parted last spring would no longer meet again in this life has been fulfilled….You were right in supposing that we had heard of Harriet's death and there were but few dry eyes in the camp…Poor Henry Lane seemed to take Harriet's passing harder than any of the rest of us.  After we had all calmed down enough to go to sleep, we awoke far into the night only to see him sitting by the fire with his face in his hands."  In 1863 Alex married Isabel Estes.  They remained in Douglas County where they became the parents of  two sons: Henry (1865) and Winfield (1866).  Alex died Feb 1, 1902 in Douglas County, Oregon.

Charles APPLEGATE  was a native of Kentucky, having been born there January 24, 1806 to Daniel Applegate and Rachel Lindsay.  He was the eldest of the three Applegate brothers who brought their families to Oregon in 1843.   He had married July 30, 1829 in Cole county, Missouri to Malinda Miller.  They remained in Missouri, farming and establishing a family.  By the time they made the journey west the family included eight children with another one on the way: Lucy (1830), Susan (1831), Ellen (1832), James (1834), Mary (1836), Lisbon (1837), Irene (1839), and John (1842).   Albert was born soon after arrival in December 1843.  
   The family left Missouri with their most prized possessions, two wagons (each drawn by four oxen) along with ten cows and one horse.  Upon arrival in the valley Charles worked the first winter for the Willamette Mission blacksmith, Alanson Beer.   The next spring  he moved his family to Polk county and settled on a donation land claim.  In 1850 he is found residing in Benton county but by 1860 he had moved to Douglas county.   By this time, more children had joined the family: Harriet (1845), Thomas (1847), Jane (1848), Fanny (1850), George "Buck" Applegate (1852) and Milton (1854).  Including the infant who had died in 1841, Charles and Malinda were the parents of sixteen children.  
   In 1851 Charles and his brothers built a schoolhouse in Douglas county, installing James Applegate as teacher.  At a cost of $1000 they purchased from Harper’s Publishing Company of New York, a library, which was shipped around Cape Horn.
   Charles also gained some notoriety when he built a home that was divided in half.  One side was for the men and the other for the women.  There were no connecting doors.  Afterwards Charles further flouted his wife by carrying on a long-term love affair with a neighbor woman.  It was this more than anything else that split the Applegate families.  Lindsay moved his family away from Yoncalla, and the families of Jesse and Charles became distant. Drinking heavily, he died August 9, 1879 at the age of seventy-three and was buried at the Yoncalla Cemetery.  Melinda survived him by nine years.

Edward Bates APPLEGATE was born Nov 1833 in Missouri to Jesse Applegate and Cynthia Parker.  He was nine years old at the time of the crossing of the plains.  During the trip down the rapids of the Columbia River, the boat carrying Edward capsized.  He was drowned along with two others of the Applegate party, Edward's cousin, Warren Applegate and the close family friend, Alexander McClellan.  Their bodies were not found.  He had been the oldest son of the family.

Elisha “Lish” Lindsay APPLEGATE was born April 8, 1832 in St. Clair County, Missouri.  He was the eldest son of Lindsay Applegate and Elizabeth "Betsy" Miller.  In Missouri his mother had scolded him for sneaking off to swim.  She thought it dangerous, but it was his ability to swim that saved Elisha when the boat he was riding in was overturned in the Columbia River drowning his brother Warren, cousin Edward, and family friend, Alexander McClellan.  Elisha’s body had been beaten upon the rocks and many bones had been broken.   Some mended improperly and caused him great discomfort in later years. 
   The winter of 1843-44 was spent with his family in the abandoned Methodist Mission near Wheatland.  In 1844 he moved with them to Salt Creek in Polk County.  He was eighteen when the family moved to Yoncalla.  On August 1, 1861 he married Marie Isabel Marshall at Salem, Marion County, OR.
   In the census records Elisha is listed as a carpenter and a surveyor but it appears he had many talents.  He was a staunch Republican and gained some renown as a writer for the People’s Press.  He was well known as a speaker and a simple story would never do if there was a way to embellish it.  However, the stories told about him would probably have stood up against any he told on his own.
“Lish Applegate had a yearling calf which he wanted to break.  One day Applegate took the yearling out into a lane.  Not having a gentle ox with which to yoke up the calf, Applegate put the yoke on the calf’s neck and then the other end over his own neck.  The queer-looking couple started down the lane, at first slowly, and finally the calf broke into a run, dragging the old pioneer along at a rapid rate.  Meeting some men, Applegate called out: “We’re runnin’ off, goll-darn our fool souls.  Stop us! Stop us!”  But as nobody stopped the “fools,” they plunged into the Yoncalla River, where Applegate just escaped drowning.” 
  Another story revolves around how “Lish” Applegate saved the University of Oregon.  In 1872 when the question of a state university was raised, various towns felt they had the right to it.  A battle was waged.  The Legislature favored Eugene and stated that the college would be located there provided, by a certain date, the sum of $50,000 was “subscribed”.  In those days that was a vast sum of money for a little country village.  The committee having the matter in charge succeeded in getting about $35,000 subscribed in labor, board for workmen, lumber, nails, bricks, glass, lime etc.  But comb the entire county as they would, taking from the farmers garden truck, colts, mules, cows, poultry, butter and eggs—still less than two-thirds of the needed sum was in evidence on the subscription papers and the workers were in despair.
   They reckoned, however, without Lish Applegate.  Lish was one of those handy men who are never stumped.  For when the committee made known their troubles Lish said, “Gimme that paper.”  And seating himself on a store box he wrote in a bold hand, “Lish Applegate, $15,000.”  The day was saved.  Lish didn’t have a red cent but subscription was all that was asked for.  Of course, Lish never paid it, never paid a cent, but the alleged subscription tided them over, the Legislature was appraised that the amount was legally subscribed.  By the time the money was needed the committee was able to finish raising it and the university was located at Eugene.
  Lish Applegate was the father of Florence (1862), Francis (1864), Cynthia (1870).  He died December 1, 1896, another pioneer passing into history.

Gertrude APPLEGATE was born in 1841 in St. Clair County, Missouri, the daughter of Jesse Applegate and Cynthia Parker.  She was the second daughter and seventh child of the couple and was two years old in the '43 migration.  The family settled in Polk County, Oregon, on Salt Creek in 1844.  When Gertrude was nine, the family moved to what is now Yoncalla, Douglas County, Oregon.  It was there that Gertrude grew to young womanhood during a time when the heated sectional controversy alienated neighbor from neighbor.  Her father was a staunch Unionist.  Their neighbors, the Drain family, were Southern sympathizers.  It was at the Drain home where Gertrude would meet James D. Fay, a charming young man whom she had met while away at school.  Fay became the city attorney for Corvallis, a hotbed of secessionist sentiment in 1860, and Fay became outspoken for the cause.  He then moved to Jacksonville, which was even more secessionist than Corvallis.  He regularly would take trips by stage from Jacksonville to Corvallis, stopping at the Spotted Horse Inn station, where a buckboard would be waiting to take Fay to the Drain home for his secret rendezvous with Gertrude. To Jesse Applegate, Fay was the spokesman for the cause of evil.  In October of 1864 Gertrude took passage on a southbound stage where she married James Fay in Jacksonville.  Gertrude wrote regularly to her family but no answers came, not even when she announced the birth of her son James Fay, Jr.  Jesse forbade anyone to mention her name in his home. In 1865 Gertrude was discovered to have the consumption, and as she deteriorated, she requested to go home to be with those she loved before she wasted away.  Her mother pleaded with Jesse, but to no avail.  It was 1867 before Jesse at last relented enough to allow his daughter and her baby to come for Cynthia to care for, but Fay was not to set foot in the Applegate home.  Gertrude's brothers rushed to help Fay lift Gertrude down from their carriage when they arrived at Yoncalla.  Cynthia rushed to the door saying, "All of you please come in! And take my girl upstairs to her old room.  Inside the door was Jesse Applegate.  Gertrude said to him, "Papa, I have come home to die."  Jesse sternly answered, "You have only come home to be nursed back to health by your good mother.  That is all you have come for."  He did not visit with her in her sickbed that day and stayed away entirely.  When the end was near, Gertrude requested to see her husband.  Apparently Jesse relented and Fay was permitted to visit his dying wife.  The next morning Gertrude asked to see her father, and they found him hoeing weeds in his orchard.  After some reluctance, he went into the house and up to Gertrude's room. No one ever knew what words transpired between father and daughter. Afterwards Jesse returned to his orchard alone and continued to hoe the weeds.  Gertrude was twenty-six years old when she died."  

Irene APPLEGATE was born March 20, 1839 in St. Clair County, Missouri, the seventh child of Charles Applegate and Melinda Miller.  She remained with her family through their various moves and, like her sister Lucy, she did not marry.  She remained in the old Applegate home in her later years, being cared for by her brother, George and his wife.  She died July 26, 1919 and was buried at the Yoncalla Cemetery

Ivan Decatur APPLEGATE was born June 25, 1840, in St. Clair County, Missouri, the son of Lindsay Applegate and Elizabeth "Betsy" Miller. He was three years old when his parents brought the family to Oregon.  He moved with his family to what later became Douglas County in the early 1850s.  He was in a party that rescued a wagon train from the Modoc Indians at Bloody Point in 1861. In 1862 he moved into the town of Ashland, where he helped operate the toll road over the Siskiyou Mountains that his father operated. The following year he enlisted as a captain of the State Militia at Ashland. In 1868 he was appointed to take charge of the commissary in the Oregon Indian Department.  In this capacity he served as an interpreter for the Snake Indians while living on the Klamath Indian Reservation.   In 1870 he retired from public life but was called back into service the following year as a special representative to the Modoc Indian camp on Lost River.  While in that position he participated in the first battle of the Lava Beds and later was one of six men who risked their life to retrieve the bodies of citizen who had been slain by the Indians
.  On July 14, 1871 he married Margaret Hutchinson in Jackson County.  She was twenty two years old; Ivan was thirty-one at the time.  Ivan and Margaret were the parents of five children: Alice (1872), Ada Florence (1874)., Moray Lindsay (1877),  Lena L. (1880) and Jessie.  Ivan died at the age of seventy-eight on December 28, 1918.  Margaret died eight years later on November 22, 1926. Both are buried at the Klamath Falls Cemetery, as are Ivan's brothers, Oliver and Lucien.  

James APPLEGATE was born Aug 5, 1834, the son of Charles Applegate and Melinda Miller.  On January 25, 1859 he married Caroline Coffee Johnson at Bethel in Polk County. The couple moved to Douglas County where James farmed.  It was here that their children were born:  Josephine (1860), Mary (1862), Nancy (1864), Lulu (1866), Mabel (1867), Grace (1869) and Vincent W. (1874). By 1880 the family had moved to California and was residing at Goose Lake in Modoc County.  James died at Los Angeles, California Aug 31, 1896.  He was described as having a medium build with brown hair and sandy whiskers; witty and quick in conversation

Jesse APPLEGATE was born July 5, 1811 in Kentucky, the son of Daniel Applegate and Rachel Lindsay. On Mar 13, 1831 in Cole county, Missouri he wed Cynthia Ann Parker.  The family continued to live in Missouri where Jesse worked for the Surveyor General’s office.  By the early 1840s the prosperous farm that he owned was beginning to fail due to the poor American economy.    Hearing of the opportunities in the northwest, the Jesse Applegate family along with the families of Charles and Lindsay Applegate, joined the emigration of 1843. Jesse was elected leader of the "Cow Column," the division of the immigration with larger herds of stock.  He wrote a reminiscence of that time called “A Day With The Cow Column” that is still available today.
  The brothers spent the winter of 1843-44 in the abandoned buildings of Willamette Mission twelve miles north of Salem.  The following year they moved to sites on Salt Creek in western Polk County. They were there for six years before moving to what is now Yoncalla, in Douglas County 
   Jesse was certainly the most prominent of the three Applegate brothers, but he was a complex man.  Along with Levi Scott and others, the Southern Route, also referred to as the Applegate Trail was established in 1846.  The emigrants of the first crossing faced many hardships and many placed the blame on Jesse Applegate for failing to ensure that it was accessible.  One of his most outspoken, critics was the attorney Jesse Quinn Thornton.  Yet Jesse Applegate was revered as the "Sage of Yoncalla."  He was a prolific writer and hardly an edition of any of the papers were published without containing a comment either regarding him or penned by him. 
   When his daughter ran off to marry a staunch Southern sympathizer, he refused to speak to her ever again.  It wasn’t until she called to him from her death bed that he relented and even then it was unknown what transpired between them because he never spoke of it. 
.  Jesse eventually lost his Donation Land Claim due to signing as a surety in an affair that failed.  Later he even lost his sanity.  He spent time in the Oregon Insane Asylum in Salem, where he met his staunch supporter and fellow 1843 pioneer, James Nesmith.
   Jesse moved to California in 1872 and made enough money to return to Yoncalla, where he spent the rest of his life raising grapes.  His wife Cynthia died in 1881. After the death of his wife he went to live with his daughter, Sarah Applegate Long.  She reported that her father suffered from visions at night of all the relatives that had died before.  He would walk the floors late at night and slept little.  Jesse died in Yoncalla in Douglas county April 22, 1888 at the age of seventy-seven. 
   Jesse and Cynthia were the parents of  twelve children: Rozelle (1832),  Milton (d. MO), Alexander McClellan (1838), Robert Shortess (1839), William Henry Harrison (1841), Gertrude Applegate (1842), Edward Bates (1843), Daniel Webster (1845), Sarah “Sallie” (1848), Peter Skeen Ogden (1851), Ellen (1854) and Flora (1857).

Jesse Applegate APPLEGATE  was born November 1836 in Missouri to Lindsay Applegate and Virginia Watson.  Named in honor of his uncle Jesse Applegate, he was seen in most census records as Jesse A. Applegate.    Many years later, Jesse would write a memoir of the trip across the plains entitled, "Recollections of My Boyhood."  Jesse witnessed--with his one good eye-- the drowning of his brother Warren, his cousin Edward, and old Alexander McClellan, called "Uncle Mac" by the family, and the near drowning of William Doak and Jesse's uncle, William Parker.  Jesse spent the winter with his family in the abandoned buildings of the Willamette  Mission north of Salem.  In 1844 the family settled on Salt Creek in western Polk County.  They were there six years before the family moved to Yoncalla in Douglas county.  Jesse studied law with the firm of Wilson & Harding in Marion Co and was admitted to the bar in 1864.  He was superintendent of schools in Polk Co 1863-64 and a member of the Legislature in 1865-66.
    Jesse and his wife Virginia had at least six children; the 1880 U. S. Census showed Jesse as age 43 living with his wife Virginia, 39, and three sons and three daughters between the ages of four and nineteen.  Jesse's last years were spent at the Soldiers' Home in Roseburg, Oregon, where he was completely blind.  He died in 1918 at the age of eighty-three, the same year as his younger brother Ivan. 

John APPLEGATE was born March 12,1842 in St. Clair County, Missouri, the son of Charles Applegate and Melinda Miller.  He was a year old when he joined the emigration of 1843 with his parents.  He enlisted in the Union Army in 1865 as a private in Company K, First Oregon Mounted Volunteer Infantry and served one year on the frontier.  Was well known at a fine “fiddler” and along with Alexander Applegate and Henry Lane, entertained at many a local function.  In 1874 in Douglas county he married Laura V. Bridges, the daughter of Rev. Daniel W. Bridges.  The couple resided at Yoncalla, Douglas county, Oregon until their death.  They were the parents of seven children: Annie Lola (1876), Bertha A. (1882),Emma Mary (1886), Charles D. (1884), Susie (1890), Gertrude and John Lindsay (1889)  .  John died January 2, 1912 and his wife died Feb 21, 1937.  

Lindsay APPLEGATE was born Sep 18, 1808 in Henry County, KY, the son of Daniel Applegate and Rachel Lindsay.  He was named Anthony Lindsay Applegate after his mother’s father but in the records he always appears as Lindsay Applegate.  As a young man he moved to St. Louis and in 1823 joined Ashby’s trapping expedition.  He served in the Black Hawk War as a volunteer under General Whitesides. 
  On January 13, 1831 in Cole County, Missouri Lindsay married Elizabeth Basham Miller.  She was the sister of Charles Applegate’s wife, Malinda.  The family resided in Missouri, raising their family.  In 1839, Robert Shortess, who had worked for Lindsay Applegate and Daniel Waldo at their mill on the Monagaw River in 1836-37, immigrated to the Oregon Territory.  The letters he sent back about the new land encouraged the Applegates and Waldos to join him.  Armed with his guidebook, the families joined the emigration of 1843. 
   Upon arrival they spent the first winter in the abandoned buildings of the Willamette Mission north of Salem.  The following spring they moved into what is now Polk County.  In 1846, Lindsay and his brother, Jesse, joined 13 other men to find a Southern Route into the Oregon Territory.  In 1850 Lindsay joined General Lane to pursue deserters from Fort Vancouver; served as special Indian agent under General Palmer and in 1853 commanded a company of volunteers during the Rogue River Indian War.
    In 1859 Lindsay purchased the toll road leading from Northern California to Southern California and went to reside in Siskiyou Mountains.  In 1861 he was the captain of a volunteer company to protect incoming emigrants and in 1862, a member of the Legislature representing Jackson county.  In 1864 Lindsay was an interpreter for the Klamath-Modoc Indian Treaty and served as a sub-agent until the military took over in 1869. He resided in Jackson county until his death on November 28, 1892.  He is buried in the Ashland Cemetery, Ashland, Jackson county, Oregon.
   Lindsay and Elizabeth were the parents of : Elisha Lindsay (1832), Warren (1834), Jesse Applegate (1835), Theresa Rose (1838), Ivan Decatur (1840), Lucien B. (1842), Oliver Cromwell Applegate (1845-1938); Annie Applegate (1847-1870); Frank Applegate (1850-1872); Alice Applegate (1852-1934); Jerome Applegate (1855-1856); and Rachel Lindsay Applegate (1857-1940)

Lisbon APPLEGATE was born Dec 29, 1837 in St. Clair County, Missouri, the son of Charles Applegate and Melinda Miller.  He was five years old during the crossing of 1843.  While crossing the plains, the boy, perhaps tired of walking on such a hot day, hid out in the wagon drive by George Beale, from whom the Applegate children had been told to stay away.  Beale would later commit murder, but even in 1843, it could be seen that he was an unsavory character.  Beale was driving the wagon up a steep hill, applying the whip heavily to the oxen.  At last they just stopped and the wagon began rolling down the hill backward.  Beale jumped out and the wagon crashed, dumping food everywhere.  Lisbon was crying and covered in flour, but no one then realized how seriously he was injured.    After his accidents, Lisbon began to periodically have seizures.  Then the seizures became a daily occurrence and before long he was confined to a wheel chair.  Finally, the boy that had so much promise became totally bed ridden and incapacitated.   Despite the loving care that was showered upon him, his ability to speak deteriorated and his attic room became his prison from which there was no escape.  On the 1870 census, beside his statistics was the notation “idiotic”. He died November 22, 1896 at the home of his deceased parents that he shared with siblings.  He was buried in the cemetery at Yoncalla.

Lucien B. APPLEGATE was born April 24, 1842 in St. Clair County, Missouri, the son of Lindsay Applegate and Elizabeth "Betsy" Miller. He was one year old when the family started for Oregon.  After settling in Polk County for a brief period of time, the family moved to Douglas County where they resided until shortly after the 1860 census was taken.  It was then that the family moved to the Ashland area in Jackson County, where his father operated the toll booth on the road over Siskiyou Summit. The family established a close relationship with the Indians both in Yoncalla and in the Ashland area. Lucien helped his father to establish the Klamath Indian Agency and Lucien himself became the superintendent of farming there for the Indians.  During the Civil War, Lucien was commissioned a major in the Oregon Volunteer Militia.
  On June 9, 1866, at Ashland, he married Margaret E. Grubb, who crossed the plains in 1852. In 1869 he moved his family to Swan Lake Valley in Klamath County where he worked 5,000 acres of hay and grain and raised livestock.  He prospered and in 1916 Margaret and Lucien celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary with family and friends on the Brookside Ranch where they had lived 46 of their 50 years together. They were the parents of six children: Elmer I. (1867), Minnie A. (1868), Fred L. (1871), Evelyn R. (1876), Bessie B. (1879) and Elsie T (1881). Margaret died in 1925 and Lucien died January 4, 1926.  They are buried in the Klamath Falls Cemetery, as are his brothers Ivan and Oliver."

Lucy APPLEGATE was born May 7, 1830 the daughter of Charles Applegate and Melinda Miller.  Lucy was the eldest daughter of the family and was well liked by all.  As a young woman, Lucy injured an eye, blinding herself in that eye.  After that her popularity with young men ceased, and Lucy never married.  
   Lucy was a hard worker and an avid gardener and could be found tending her vegetables and roses when she wasn’t tending the needs of the Applegate family.  She inherited the old Charles Applegate home upon her mother's death in 1888 and continued to live there until her death July 3, 1910 at the age of eighty.  Her obituary stated “Miss Lucy Applegate, an early Oregon pioneer who recently died at her home in Yoncalla…. All who looked upon her face after death said within their hearts `Dear Aunt Lucy,' for she was loved by all who knew her and many who did not know her heard much of her life work in caring for others and held her in high esteem.” 

Mary A. APPLEGATE was born January 6, 1834, the daughter of Charles Applegate and Melinda Miller.  February 18, 1857, at the age of 23, she married John Webster Perit HUNTINGTON.  In 1852 he went to the Yoncalla country where he took a land claim in the Hayhurst Valley near the Applegate family. Brilliant, versatile and well-educated, he taught school, practiced law, and in 1860 was a state legislator. In 1863 president Lincoln appointed him Supt. of Indian Affairs for Oregon, 1864-69. Selling his farm, he moved to Salem where he died June 3, 1869, less than two weeks after the death of his young son. After the death of her first husband Mary married John E. Wilson.  Mary died December 23, 1878.  Mary was the mother of two sons by her first husband: Benjamin (1859) and John Webster Perit Huntington Jr. (1861-1869)

Robert “Bob” Shortess APPLEGATE was born December 29, 1839, the son of Jesse Applegate and Cynthia Parker.  He was named in honor of Robert Shortess, a family friend who had emigrated to the Oregon Territory in 1839.  Robert married January 5, 1858 in Douglas County to Malinda A. Miller.  He died October 17, 1893 at Yoncalla.
Robert and Malinda were the parents of Aaron Purcill (1859), William (1861), Oscar (1863), Annie L. (1865), Catherine (1867), Edna (1870), Jessie (1873) and Ira (1875)

Rozelle APPLEGATE was born July 7, 1832 in St. Louis, Missouri, the oldest daughter of Jesse Applegate and Cynthia Parker.  After moving with her family to Polk County in the spring of 1844 she met Charles Putnam, a young printer from Lexington, Kentucky who had arrived with the emigration of 1847.  They were married shortly thereafter on December 12, 1847.  When the Applegate family moved to Douglas County the Putnams went with them.  They settled on a land claim and started a family that eventually reached eight in number: Charles (1848), Lucinda (1851), Horace (1852), Edward (1854), Gertrude (1856), Susan and Joseph (1858) and Ada (1860).
   Rozelle Putnam was the first woman to set type in the Oregon territory.  Charles printed a small paper called The Oregon American and Evangelical Unionist.  Rozelle, like her sister Harriet, died of consumption.  Her husband sent her to her parents' home so her mother could nurse her.  She died at the age of twenty-nine.   Jesse and Cynthia reared the motherless children after their mother's death.  Charles spent much of his time at the Applegate home thereafter.  In 1862 he went to the Idaho gold fields with his Applegate brothers-in-law and cousins, also taking his eldest son, Charles Putnam Jr.

Susan APPLEGATE was born May 25, 1831 in Missouri, the daughter of Charles Applegate and Melinda Miller.  March 11, 1851 she married Robert C.H. SMITH, who was also an emigrant of 1843.  They settled in Douglas County where they farmed and raised their seven children: Richard (1852), Frances (1854), Robert Frank (1856), Jerome (1859), Ellen (1861), Albert (1864) and Elmer (1868).  Robert Smith died in 1888 and Susan died nine years later on December 30, 1907.

Theresa Rose APPLEGATE was born Feb 24, 1838 in St. Clair County, Missouri, the daughter of Lindsay Applegate and Elizabeth Miller.  April 20, 1868 she married Gen. John Marshall MCCALL.  They were the parents of Lindsay (1869), Lydia T. (1871), Elsie May (1873) and John O. (1875).  Theresa died Feb 9, 1875 in Jackson County, Oregon.  By the 1880 Jackson County census Gen. McCall had remarried Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Anderson.

Warren APPLEGATE was born c1834 in St. Clair County, Missouri, the son of Lindsay Applegate and Elizabeth Miller.  His family left the other immigrants at Fort Walla Walla, purchasing boats to navigate down the Columbia to Fort Vancouver.  The boat in which Warren was a passenger capsized, and he, his cousin Edward, and old family friend Alexander McClellan perished.  It was truly a tragic end to a gargantuan effort for the boy, who, like the others, walked most of the way to Oregon.  He died just before entering the promised land of the Willamette Valley.  For the Applegate family, half-starved, facing the rains of winter, it must have indeed been gloomy.  Warren's body and those of the others were never found

William “Henry” APPLEGATE was born Feb 1844, some two months after arrival in Oregon, the son of  Jesse Applegate and Cynthia Parker.  While not enumerated as an emigrant of 1843 he certainly qualifies as an early pioneer of that time period.   He was living with his parents in Douglas County until 1871 when he married Nancy Elizabeth Grubb.  William is shown in most census records as Henry Applegate until 1900 and 1910 when he is listed as William Henry Applegate.  The 1910 census lists his occupation as dairy farmer.  Henry and Nancy were the parents of seven children:  Ernest (1875), Herbert (1876), Zoe (1878), Clarence (1880), Walter T. (1882), Chester A. (1883), and Roscoe (1888).  Henry died January 3, 1913 in Jackson county, OR.

ARTHUR FAMILY RESEARCHER:
Brazilla (Priscilla) ARTHUR was born April 7, 1822 in Washington County, Kentucky, the daughter of  William Arthur and Millie Malone. She is seen in documents interchangeably as Priscilla and Brazilla.  On December 1, 1836 she married Edward Constable in Jackson County, Missouri.  In 1843 they joined family and friends to make the journey to the west.  They settled in Washington County where they farmed and raised their family.  Their children include: Mahala (1844), William (1845), Elizabeth (1846), Amanda Jane (1850), Richard (1852), Martha (1854), Mary (1856), Druscilla (1858), Melissa (1860) and Minerva Ann (1863).  Priscilla died at Hillsboro October 11, 1893.

John David ARTHUR was born March 5, 1820 in Washington County, Kentucky, the son of  William Arthur and Millie Malone.  When John was five years old the family moved to Jackson County, Missouri.   John later married Eleanor Malone on September 19, 1839 in Cass County.  Further mention of Eleanor has not been found so it is assumed she died young.  A little over three years later the family joined the emigration to the Oregon Territory.  In an article written and published in 1887, John states, “about the middle of May, in company with my parents, brothers and sisters, and with our wagons heavy laden with household goods, bidding a sorrowful and heart-felt adieu to kindred and friends, we set out upon the lengthy and fatiguing journey across the plains...."
   In the early days, wild animals in the area were taking a toll on the domestic stock of the pioneers.  John obtained, at great expense, a female hound from the most celebrated kennel in England and a male Cuban bloodhound.  These animals were in great demand for tracking bear, panther, wolf, wildcat and fox which were killing domestic stock. 
    In 1846, John married Mary Jane Malone, possibly the sister of his first wife.  The family is enumerated in the 1850 Clackamas County census but by 1860 they are living in Yamhill County.   Six years later Mary Jane filed for divorce against John and by 1870 he is living in Umatilla County with his brother, Robert.  Mary Jane and the children are living at Forest Grove next door to her brother, Richard.  In the 1880 census John has moved back to Yamhill County and is living in the household of Madison Malone.  In December of 1880 Madison Malone died and John moved once again; this time back to Clackamas County where he reportedly remained until his death.  It does not appear that he married again.
   John and Mary Jane were the parents of Rosetta E. (1849), Samantha (1852), Sophronia Gertrude (1854), Abbie E. (1857), Arcelia Alice (1861), and Eugene L. (1863)

Mahala ARTHUR was born February 4, 1829 in Jackson County, Missouri, the daughter of William Arthur and Millie Malone.  Mahala emigrated west with her parents and siblings in 1843.  Also involved in this adventure was one Samuel Cozine, a blacksmith who was seven years her senior.  They were married in Clackamas County on March 29, 1845.  The new family moved to Yamhill County where they raised their family.  They lived in the McMinnville area their whole married life.  Samuel died March 20, 1897 and Mahala died April 20, 1908.  Both are buried in the Masonic Cemetery at McMinnville.

Mary "Polly" ARTHUR was born 1834 in Missouri, the daughter of William Arthur and Millie Malone.  Little is known of Mary.  In May 1843 the ship, Fama, arrived bringing Nathan P. Mack.  Nathan, aged 33, married the sixteen year old Mary in Clackamas County c1849.  They remained there through the 1860 census and then it is reported that the family moved to California where Mary died.

Melissa ARTHUR was born 1832 in Missouri, the daughter of William Arthur and Millie Malone.  Although Melissa is listed as an emigrant of 1843, no information has been found on her.  It is possible she was married shortly after arrival.

Richard Washington ARTHUR was born June 7, 1824 in Washington County, Kentucky, the son of William Arthur and Millie Malone.  A year after his arrival he married Laura Jane Mills on May 23, 1844 in Washington County.  The family settled in Washington County where they farmed and raised their family: Emily (1845), William Henry (1846), Robert B. (1847), John Wesley (1848), Julia Ann (1850), Margaret Jane (1851), Samuel Thurston (1853), Minerva (1855), Brittania Elizabeth (1857), Rachel Angliana (1859), Ida Mae (1863) and Richard Clay (1865).  Richard was a well known farmer in the area and received numerous awards for his livestock and crops.  He was active in the politics of the area and was on the board of the Washington County Agricultural Society.  He died July 22, 1869 at Hillsboro.

Robert ARTHUR was born in September 1826 in Missouri, the son of William Arthur and Millie Malone. Robert was sixteen when the family started for Oregon.  He resided with the family until Jul 27, 1847 when he married Catherine Maria.  They settled in Clackamas County where Robert was a farmer.  She died four years later in November 1851. They were the parents of  Eliza J. (1848),  Lucinda F. (1849) and John F. (1851).  Oct 28, 1852 Robert married Malinda Kelbourn in Clackamas County.   Malinda died c1863.   Robert and Malinda were the parents of William P. (1853), James R. (1855) and Lydia (1859). In the 1870 Umatilla County census Robert is enumerated with wife, Fidelia.  By the 1900 census they had been married 36 years.  At that time Fidelia was shown as the mother of six children but it appears they may have been from a prior marriage. Robert died January 8, 1903 at the Oregon State Hospital in Salem; Fidelia died three years later in Yamhill County.

William ARTHUR (1796-1866): m'd 1818 Emily "Millie" MALONE; settled Clackamas Co, wife died 1861 and he m2. 1862 Hicks (FOSTER), Catherine A.; emigrated with wife and 8 children; was guardian for Richard D. Malone, son of his sister, Matilda (Arthur) Malone; brought Richard with the family when they emigrated to Oregon; settled in Hardens, Clackamas Co, OR where he farmed and was active in local affairs; William died in Clackamas County Aug 14, 1866

William ARTHUR (1830-1907): m'd 1856 Martha Ellen COFFEE; s/o William and Mollie (Malone) Arthur; William settled at Hardens, Clackamas County, OR where he farmed until the death of his wife in the early 1860s; in 1870 and 1880 he is shown as a boarder in Yamhill county where he is a carpenter

James M. ATHEY (1816 - ): 1840 Nancy P. [maiden name unknown]; settled in Washington Co where he is shown in the 1850 census; by 1860 he is living and working as a carpenter and cabinet maker in Oregon City, Clackamas County; he remains there through the 1870 and 1880 census

William ATHEY (1818-1897): m1.; m2. Rachel (COOPER) Cave; went to CA after arrival in OR; returned to OR 1851; settled Yamhill Co;
""Bill" Athey was born in 1818, so he was twenty-five while crossing the plains to Oregon.  He was a furniture-maker and a farmer.  His Donation Land Claim was on Grand Island, an island in the Willamette River between Dayton and Salem.  His second wife was the widow Rachel [Cooper] Cave, a niece of Mary [Cooper] Matheny and Rachel [Cooper] Matheny of the 1843 immigation, who cross the plains in 1846.  The Atheys were flooded badly in the great flood of December 1861.  Grand Island was completely innundated and the nearby towns of Wheatland and Champoeg were destroyed.  The family then moved to Rachel's property in Polk County astraddle the Yamhill County line south of present-day Hopewell.  Rachel died in 1894 and Bill in 1897.  He was seventy-nine years old.  Both are buried in the Hopewell Cemetery." [information provided by Don Rivara. In addition to the present website his Sources included: [1] Into the Eye of the Setting Sun, the memoirs of Charlotte Matheny Kirkwood, an 1843 immigrant, cousin to Rachel Cooper Cave Athey.; [2] The William Athey file of the Hewitt-Matheny-Cooper Family Association at the Yamhill County Historical Society Museum in Lafayette.; [3] Overland to Oregon, pp. 48, 52,  by Edward Lenox, 1904, republished by Ye Galleon Press, Fairfield, Washington]

John ATKINSON : cutoff from Fort Hall for California with the Joseph Childs company; name also seen as J. Atcheson

J.C. AVERY: this may be Joseph Conant Avery who emigrated to OR in 1845. It is unknown at this time if he came first in 1843 but it is noteworthy that he settled in Benton Co along with many members of the 1843 emigration and there were several young men in the 1843 emigration who returned east to bring back family

*4) Alexis AYOT: member of Fremont's second expedition; also accompanied Fremont on his first expedition; engaged at St. Louis, MO

John M. BACON (1822-1891): m'd 1851 Rachel W. NEWMAN; member of the 1845 emigration; it is unknown at this time if he emigrated first in 1843;  there were several young men in the 1843 emigration who returned east to bring back family

*4) Francois BADEAU ( -1844): member of Fremont's second expedition; also accompanied Fremont on his first expedition; engaged at St. Louis, MO;  when party split he stayed with Fremont; on the return trip while camped on the Sevier River --"May 23, 1844 We had here the misfortune to lose one of our people.  Francois Badeau, who had been with me in both expeditions; during which he had always been one of my most faithful and efficient men.  He was killed in drawing toward him a gun by the muzzle; the hammer, being caught, discharged the gun, driving the ball through his head.  We buried him on the banks of the river."

Andrew Jackson BAKER (1822 - ): m'd 1857 Mary LAKE; 1832 to TN; 1835 to MO; settled in Yamhill Co; 1846 went to CA to fight in confrontation between the Americans and the Mexicans; settled in Yamhill Co; farmer

Henry C. BAKER (1840- ): s/o John and Catherine (Blevins) Baker; shown in the 1850, 1860 and 1870 census living in his father's household at McMinnville, Yamhill Co

James D. BAKER (1842- ): s/o John and Catherine (Blevins) Baker; shown in the 1850 and 1860 census living in his father's household at McMinnville, Yamhill Co

John Gordon BAKER (1818 - ): m'd 1839 Catherine BLEVINS; settled Yamhill Co; sheriff of Yamhill Co under Provisional Government and additional two years after Territorial Government organized; John is enumerated with his wife and children in the 1850, 1860, 1870 and 1880 McMinnville Pct of Yamhill County; by 1900 his wife is enumberated as a widow and head of household; John was the father of 7 children but by 1900 only 3 of them were still living

Nancy BAKER (1840- ): m'd Mathias GOULET

William BALDRIDGE : member of John C. Fremont party

Rachel BALES (1793- ): m'd 1811 Isaac MILLS; name also seen as BEALS; was born in Jefferson Co, TN where she later married Isaac Mills;  mother of 13 children

Louis BARGERIN : see Louis BERGEVIN

William BARKER: settled originally at Linnton

BEAGLE FAMILY RESEARCHER:
Cynthia Ann BEAGLE (1843-1923): m'd c 1870 James H. TURNER; teacher in Polk Co in 1870; by 1880 was in Umatilla Co living with parents and working as a dressmaker; she was born just prior to emigration on 10 Jan 1843; buried in Holland, Illinois Valley, Josephine Co next to husbands family; husband was buried in Olney Cemetery, Pendleton, OR next to their infant son

George BEAGLE: see George BEALE

James H. BEAGLE (1840-1906): Never Married; s/o William and Lucinda (Thompson) Beagle; went to CA in 1854; returned to OR in 1862; worked in mines; mule packer; buried in Olney Cemetery, Pendleton, OR

John T. BEAGLE (1838-1905): m'd c1875 Nancy RIST (?); s/o William and Lucinda (Thompson) Beagle; mule packer in Umatilla Co until c 1875 when he moved to Loveland, CO; buried in Olney Cemetery, Pendleton, OR

Nancy Jane BEAGLE (1836-1914): m1. 1851 Mancil Roundtree CRISP; m2. 1891 Wayman Clark HEMBREE; d/o William and Lucinda (Thompson) Beagle; buried in McMinnville Masonic Cemetery, Yamhill Co, OR with second husband;
"Nancy Beagle was born in 1836, the daughter of William and Lucinda [Thompson] Beagle. She was seven years old at the time of the 1843 crossing of the plains.  The Beagles left their St. Clair County, Missouri, home with the Applegates for the rendezvous at Westport. There she and Charlotte "Lottie" Matheny [Kirkwood] and began a life-long friendship. In 1851 at the age of fifteen, Nancy  married Mancil Roundtree Crisp, who died in the 1880's.  In 1891 she married Waymon Clark Hembree, who had crossed the plains in 1843 with his family.  They lived in Lafayette, Yamhill County, Oregon. Nancy died in 1914 at the age of seventy-eight and was buried with the Hembrees in the Masonic Cemetery in McMinnville, Oregon. Waymon died in 1920."  [information provided by Don Rivara. In addition to the present website his Sources included: [1] Into the Eye of the Setting Sun, by Charlotte Matheny Kirkwood, published by the Hewitt-Matheny-Cooper Family Association, pp. 7, 32, 141; [2] Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, on-line Family Search]

Oliver Hazzard Perry "Perry" BEAGLE (1833-1927): m'd 1852 Mary Melvina CRISP; m2. 1891 Mrs. R. E. CURTIS; s/o William and Lucinda (Thompson) Beagle; fought in Rogue Indian War and was a miner throughout CA and ID; periodically resided in OR as farmer and rancher; died while residing in State Veterans Home at Roseburg and is buried there.;
"Perry" was born in Kentucky on July 6, 1832, the son of William Beagle and Lucinda [Thompson] Beagle.  In 1843 the Beagles joined with the Applegates in St. Clair County, Missouri, and headed for the rendezvous to organize an emigrant party at Westport, Missoui. The family first settled in the Tualatin Valley upon arrival in Oregon.  While there, Perry attended the school at Forest Grove run by Tabitha Brown.  After the Whitman Massacre, the Whitmans' adopted dauhter, Matilda Sager, attended the school with him, as did the children of Squire Ebbert, Joe Meek, and David Lennox.  On April 27, 1852, Perry, age nineteen, married Mary Melvina Crisp, daughter of a Major Crisp, who had served in the War of 1812.  In 1855, during the Rogue River Indian War, Perry enlisted in the company of Capt. Joseph Bailey. In the fall of 1856, he and his family left their home six miles from Eugene and moved to Jacksonville, in Southern Oregon, where gold had been discovered. From there he moved to  Suisun City in Solano County, California, but lost his land there to the railroad. He then settled on the Russian River near Santa Rosa, California. From there he moved to Humboldt County, California, where he ran cattle. He and his brothers John and Jim participated in the Idaho gold rush in 1862, selling out his land in Humboldt County and moving his family to Yamhill County, Oregon. After awhile in the gold fields, Perry moved his family to La Grande, Oregon, where he earned a livelihood packing supplies by mule train to the mining camps.  He then sold out his mule train to his brothers and moved back to the Willamette Valley near McMinnville. In 1876 he moved to Paradise Valley near Moscow, Idaho. There, for fifteen years, he freighted goods from the railroad line to Moscow. After his wife died, he joined with his brothers Frank and Ben prospecting and running a mule train.  Later he and they bought a ranch together and raised cattle and horses for eleven years until they sold out and moved to Pendleton, Oregon. From there, he and a sister and two brothers moved to Virginia, but they were not happy there.  They returned to Oregon, where Perry settled in the Umpqua Valley. He married Mrs. R. E. Curtis in 1891 and outlived her as well.  He was ninety-five and living in at the Soldiers" Home in Roseburg, Oregon, in 1927 when Fred Lockley of the Oregon Journal interviewed him. He died that year and was buried in the cemetery there." [information provided by Don Rivara. In addition to the present website his Sources included: [1] Conversations With Pioneer Men, by Fred Lockley of the Oregon Journal, compiled by Mike Helm, 1996]

William M. BEAGLE (1808-1887): m'd 1831 Lucinda THOMPSON; s/o Thomas and Cecelia (Wine) Beagle; Beagle family settled originally at Linnton; later moved to Umatilla Co; buried Olney Cemetery, Pendleton, Umatilla Co, OR; William and Lucinda had four more children after arrival--Francis Marian, William M., Benjamin Edward and Mancil Alexander;
"Born in 1808, the son of Thomas and Cecilia [Wine] Beagle William was living in St. Clair County, Missouri, when he joined with the Applegates to head to the rendezvous at Westport for the 1843 emigration.  He had married his wife, Lucinda [Thompson] Beagle in 1831. Edward Lenox mentions that Beagle "sat up all night with Father [David Lenox] and doctored him." In Oregon the family first settled at Linnton, where West Linn now sits.  Later the family moved to Umatilla County, Oregon. There he was on the first town council of Pendleton, Oregon.  He is buried at the Olney Cemetery at Pendleton."  [information provided by Don Rivara. In addition to the present website his Sources included: [1] Conversations With Pioneer Men, by Fred Lockley of the Oregon Journal, compiled by Mike Helm, 1996, Rainy Day Press, pp.45, 48; [2] Overland to Oregon,by Edward Lenox, pp. 36, 60, Ye Galleon Press, Fairfield, Washington. [Originally written in 1904]]

BEALE FAMILY RESEARCHER:
George Polk BEALE (1824-1865): s/o Charles and Anna (Kyle) Beale; returned east and emigrated again in 1852; became the first man hung in Salem when he was convicted of murdering Daniel Delaney Sr. for his money
The Hanging of Uncle George by Sarah Jane Bennett Mertz
The Murder Trial by Sarah Jane Bennett Mertz
"George Beale was a dark-skinned, black-eyed young man, the son of a slave-owner in St. Clair County, Missouri. He had been born in 1824 in Boutetourt County, Virginia, in 1824; so he was nineteen in 1843. In Missouri he taught school near the Applegates. Jesse A. Applegate had been hit with a switch by him while his student. In 1843 Beale was hired by the Applegates as a teamster to drive a wagon containing mainly flour and bacon. There was something not right about the man even in 1843.  The Applegate children were told never to ride in the wagon  he drove.  But Jesse A. disobeyed his parents and sat up next to Beale.  Beale became drowsy and Jesse took hold of the ox whip and was enjoying himself cracking the whip over the oxen when he slipped off the leather trunk he was sitting on and fell under the wagon and was run over.  Another time Lisbon Applegate sneaked into the wagon Beale drove and hid among the barrels.  They were going up a steep hill and Beale whipped the oxen to a fast speed.  Suddenly the wagon stopped and began to roll backwards.  Beale jumped off the wagon and the wagon rolled down the hill and crashed.  Lisbon was covered with flour and crying but no one realized then that the accident had ruined Lisbon's life.  
        Beale returned to St. Clair County, Missouri, after a few years in Oregon.  There he met his first wife, Sarah. They married March 12, 1848.  In 1852 Beale again crossed the plains and settled in Salem, Oregon.  His wife died in 1855.  He later married Mariah S. Taylor, who had crossed the plains in 1852 in the same wagon train as Beale.   In 1865 Beale was running a saloon in Salem.  He became obsessed with the money that Daniel Delaney, Sr. of the '43 migration had hidden somewhere.  He was determined to have it and manipulated a man named George Baker into helping him steal the money and killing Delaney.  They  were caught and hung in Salem.  People came from miles around to watch the hanging.  Beale, who professed to  have discovered Christ while in jail, read a Bible passage to the crowd before being hung then dramatically threw the Bible into the crowd saying he wouldn't need the book anymore.  After the hanging, the Salem Methodist establishement would not permit Beale to be interred in their cemetery, so Daniel Waldo also of the '43 migration, incensed by their refusal, told them,  "Well, I don't profess to be a good Christian like all of you.  I'll bury him at my place."  Beale's body was loaded onto Waldo's farm wagon and taken to  what is now called Waldo Hills east of Salem and buried on the Waldo land claim, where a white rose blooms every year to show where Beale lies.  Beale was forty-one at the time of his death, May 17, 1865.  Jesse A. Applegate, then an attorney in Salem, was fond of saying, "The only teacher who ever hit me got hanged."  One day his small daughter told her father after been struck by her teacher with a ruler, "My teacher hit me.  Why don't they hang her?' [information provided by Don Rivara. In addition to the present website his Sources included: [1] "'Recollections of My Childhood," by Jesse A. Applegate; [2] Skookum-An Oregon Pioneer Family's History and Lore, by Shannon Applegate, Beech Tree Books, William Morrow, New York, 1988]

William Kyle BEALE (1814-1869): s/o Charles and Anna (Kyle) Beale; was indicted on assault after attacking Dr. William Bailey; Bailey and Beale had spent the night drinking wine when an argument ensued; Beale left house but when Bailey went outside to investigate a noise he was hit on the head and stabbed in the shoulder; Beale was acquitted for lack of evidence; there is no indication that he ever returned east; served under Capt. Nesmith in a company sent to Southern Oregon to protect the settlers during the Indian uprisings.

*4) Oliver BEAULIEU : member of Fremont's party

Rachel BELDEN (c1833- ): m'd 1863 Nathan BROOKS; black girl who accompanied Mrs. Daniel Delaney as a companion; later married and raised a family in Salem; well respected

William BENNETT: to OR in 1843, wintered over and left for CA 1844

Louis BERGEVIN (1812-1876): m'd Magdeleine SERVANT; came from Canada in 1843 and settled near present day St. Paul, OR.; described as a prosperous man, generous with his neighbors and kindly disposed

*4) Jean Baptiste BERNIER : creole French; member of Fremont's second expedition; also accompanied Fremont on his first expedition; engaged at St. Louis, MO;  when party later split into two parties for exploration he stayed with Fremont

Nicholas BIDDLE : "Nicholas turned south at the Platte River to go to Taos, then a town of the Mexican province of New Mexico.  [information provided by Don Rivara. In addition to the present website his Sources included:[1] A Day With the Cow Column,  by Jesse Applegate, Ye Galleon Press, Fairfield, Washington, in the Appendix, a list of the heads of the families and men old enough to bear arms, prepared by James W. Nesmith, Orderly Sergeant]

David T. BIRD : wintered in OR and left for CA in 1844

George BLACK (1814- ):

J. P. BLACK .:

Mr. BLASER : this may be Joseph Blaser

BLEVINS FAMILY RESEARCHER:
Alexander BLEVINS (1809-1896): m1. 1833 Emeline ZUMWALT ; m2. 1839 Levina VANDERPOOL; s/o Greenberry and Mary (Riley) Levins; settled originally in what later became Washington Co; by 1850 Alexander is shown in Polk county but by 1860 he is enumerated in the Contra Costa County, CA census; Alexander resided in California until his death in San Joaquin County Dec 24, 1896 Blevins Interview 1879

Catherine BLEVINS (1823- ): m'd 1839 John Gordon BAKER; Catherine was born in MO June 1823; her parents are unknown at this time; Catherine settled with her husband in Yamhill county and is found in the McMinnville Pct through 1850, 1860, 1870 and 1880;  by 1900 she is still in the same area as head of household so it appears John had died by this time; Catherine was the mother of 7 children but by 1900 only 3 of them were still living

Eli BLEVINS (1833- ): m'd 1858 Mary Jane GORDON; s/o Alexander and Emeline (Zumwalt) Blevins; 1850 Eli is living with father in Polk Co; 1860 he is living in Lane Co with his wife and son in the household of his father-in-law; by 1870 Mary Jane has remarried and no records on Eli can be found so it is assumed he has died by that time

Nancy BLEVINS (1840-1863): m'd 1858 William GARRETT; d/o Alexander and Levina (Vanderpool) Blevins; Nancy is living with her parents in Polk County in the 1850 census but by 1860 she is found living in Contra Costa, CA with her husband; she reportedly died in 1863

William Riley BLEVINS (1842-1937): m1. 1868 Louisa POTEET; m2. 1892 Lavina WHITE;  s/o Alexander and Levina (Vanderpool) Blevins; is found living with parents in Polk County in 1850; by 1860 living in Contra Costa County, CA;  in 1880 he is living in Douglas County and appears to have returned to California at some point as he died there Aug 28, 1937 in Placer County, CA; it is believed he was divorced from his first wife; buried in Old Auburn Cemetery, Auburn, Placer Co, CA

John BOARDMAN : traveled with a pack company led by Joseph B. Chiles that turned off at Fort Hall for California; at Fort Boise, a group of horsemen from the party turned southward via the Malheur River to explore a way into northern California; at this point Boardman, Johnson and Winter continued on to Oregon by the established route; Utah Historical Society Quarterly Vol II p.99-121 "Journal of John Boardman"

N. BOGGART:

Henry BOGGUS : (name seen spelled as Baggas, Boygus, etc.; believed to have emigrated again in 1845 via the Meek Cutoff; was one of 15 men to explore the possibility of a Southern Route

Jean Baptiste Zacharie BOLDUC ( -1848): left Canada for the west via Cape Horn in 1842, arriving the next year; after mission to Puget Sound he took charge of the newly established Boys' School at St. Paul, Marion Co; the school closed during the gold rush and never reopened; died in Marion County in 1848

Ruby Crawford BOND (1808-1900): m'd 1827 Jesse LOONEY; d/o Jesse and Susannah (Crain) Bond; gave birth to stillborn twins on the trail; settled with husband and children near Jefferson, Marion Co, OR; was of a wealthy Revolutionary War family and a direct descendant of George Walton, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence; member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church;  described as a "woman of much strength of character and one possessing strong mental qualities....was very entertaining and witty.  She was blessed with a remarkable memory and upon her 91st birthday she declared she was the youngest one there"

Pierre BONNIN (c1816 - ): m'd 1846 Louisa RONDEAU; m2. 1855 Rose WAGNER; m3. 1865 Salome RAYMOND; emigrated from Montreal, CN; settled at St. Paul, Marion Co where he raised his family until 1880 when he moved to Lewis Co, WA

Almeda BOYD (1820-1872): m'd 1840 John MANNING;  Alamed married John Manning after the death of his first wife (Lovisa Collier). She went to CA in 1849 with her husband and several of their children.  The family is listed in the 1850 and 1860 Sonoma Co census records.  Almeda died in Sonoma Co in 1872 and John in 1873

L. T. BOYD (1832 - ):

Levi BOYD :

Thomas BOYER (1834- ):

James BRAIDY : (also seen as James BRADY); reportedly deceased by 1853

George BROCK (1812- ): m'd c1836 Martha [maiden name unknown]; enumerated in 1850 Washington Co, OR census records as George Brock; name also listed as George Brooke and George Brooks in some sources

John Privity BROOKS (1821-1865): m1. 1849 Mary Ann THOMAS; m2. 1856 Isabelle MCKAY; s/o Dickerson and Hannah (Kemp) Brooks; John P. Brooks was b. 19 Oct 1821 in Worcester Co, Mass; became one of the first public school teachers; participated in the first newspaper; his petition for divorce from Mary Thomas Brooks states that his said wife at this time is "labouring under a secondary symptom of the veneral disease"... and it is "impossible for said petitioner to bear longer with his said wife".. (note: the doctors wife, Mrs. Bailey, voiced her own opinion as to how said wife got the disease); however, his marital entanglement was solved by an unusual night meeting of the legislature that voted him a divorce; his business association with the firm of Brooks and Barlow was discontinued when the business was destroyed during the great flood; he moved to Washington Co where he died Dec 1865

Martin T. BROWN (1822-1851): m'd 1850 Lucy B. RICHARDSON; enumerated in 1850 Benton County, OR census living next door to Benjamin Richardson; died in August 1, 1851

Orus BROWN (1800-1874): m1. 1825 Theresa DAVIS; m2. 1833 Lavina WADDELL; s/o Rev. Clark and Tabitha (Moffatt) Brown; returned to MO in 1845 and brought family to Oregon in 1846; resided in Washington Co for 20 years; moved to Marion Co and resided there until his death; (also see 1846)

Thomas A. BROWN:

Anna May BURNETT : m'd Frank MARTIN

Armistead L. BURNETT (1839-1862): m'd 1860 Flora M. JOHNSON; s/o Peter and Harriet (Rogers) Burnett; removed to CA in 1848

Dwight Jay BURNETT (1829- ): m'd 1849 Mary Susan WILCOX; s/o Peter and Harriet (Rogers) Burnett; removed to CA in 1848

John May BURNETT (1837-1916): m'd 1863 Ellen Theresa CASEY; s/o Peter and Harriet (Rogers) Burnett; removed to CA in 1848

Martha Letitia BURNETT (1834-1908): m'd 1851 Caius Tacitus RYLAND; d/o Peter and Harriet (Rogers) Burnett; removed to CA in 1848

Peter Hardman BURNETT (1807-1895): m'd 1828 Harriet B. ROGERS; s/o George and Dorothy (Hardeman) Burnett; prior to his emigration in 1843, Burnett was a store-keeper whose business depended on the farm trade, business was poor and his wife was suffering from ill health; decided to travel to Oregon country; traveled with wife, six children and three wagons; elected captain at Kansas River crossing; after one week was succeeded by William Martin; settled in Clackamas Co; laid out town of Linnton in winter of 1843-44 with M.M. McCarver; in 1848 organized a "California Party" at Oregon City which included 150 men and 50 women; first American governor of California; recollections published in "Recollections of An Old Pioneer"

Romietta Jewett BURNETT (1835-1910): m'd 1853 William Thompson WALLACE; d/o Peter and Harriet (Rogers) Burnett; removed to CA in 1848

Sallie Constantia BURNETT (1841-1861): m'd 1860 Francis POE; d/o Peter and Harriet (Rogers) Burnett; removed to CA in 1848

Amon BUTLER : not found in the 1850 census; was listed in some sources as Amos Butler

Joseph Willard BUZZELL : m'd 1844 Frances Margaret KELSEY; m2. 1859 Mary MOORE; Joseph went to CA and settled near Stockton where he built Buzzell's Tavern, one of the first stopping places in the area. He reportedly died May 1864, at sea off the coast of San Mateo, CA

*4) John A. CAMPBELL : member of Fremont's party; turned back for home on September 22; note, there appears to have been two John Campbells

*4) John G. CAMPBELL : m'd 1846 Rothilda E. BUCK; member of Fremont's party;  became a partner with Ransom Clark in his first farming venture in Yamhill Co; moved to Portland, Multnomah County where he was partners with Smith in a store;  it was above his store that the first Mason's Lodge was chartered in Nov 1850; appointed by Dr. Robert Newell to be Indian Agent for the Nez Perce Indians at Lapwai Agency

*[4] Christopher "Kit" CARSON : joined the Fremont Exedition at a little Mexican pueblo on the Arkansas River;  when party later split into two partys for exploration he stayed with Fremont

Catherine CARY (1840-1843): d/o Miles and Cyrene (Taylor) Cary; died Aug 15th at Fort Bridger after a short illness

Miles CARY (1811-1858): m'd 1831 Cyrene B. TAYLOR; settled at Lafayette in Yamhill Co; reportedly brought a black slave girl with them but she is not enumerated in the household by the 1850 Census

Miles R. CARY (1843-1872): s/o Miles and Cyrene B. (Taylor) Cary; Miles was born Jan 2, 1843 and was just a baby during the emigration;  he is shown at home and unmarried in the 1850, 1860 and 1870 Yamhill Co census; Miles died Feb 22, 1872 and is buried in the Masonic Cemetery, Lafayette, Yamhill Co, OR

William H. CARY (1840- ): s/o Miles and Cyrene B. (Taylor) Carey

Adoniram "Ad" Judson CASON (1829-1892): m'd Eliza J. GLOVER; s/o Fendall and Rebecca (Holladay) Cason; settled at Oregon City, Clackamas Co; farmer ; " Ad was Clackamas Co bridge superintentdent" [information provided by John Ridgeway]
"Adoniram crossed the plains in 1843 with his parents.  They settled on land that is now part of the city of Gladstone in Clackamas County, Oregon.  Adoniram inherited the portion of the land with his parents'  home on it when his father died in 1860.  "Ad" built a new home there in 1861-62, using some of the lumber from his parents' old home.  This house still stands.  He was a gunsmith and had a shop at the north end of the old toll bridge where the present 82nd Street Bridge now stands.  He had bought the bridge from Charles T. Kellogg.  Ad and his wife had five children:  Homer Cason, Charles Cason, George Cason, Katherine Cason, and Addie Cason.  Ad wanted to insure his children's education, so he built a small school on his property in 1869.  This portion of the Cason land is now Chataqua Park in Gladstone."  [information provided by Don Rivara. In addition to the present website his Sources included: