Hall, on Snake river, in the month of August, and reached our home on the 13th of September. The lady, Mrs. Ellen Wright, had performed the same feat while her husband and herself, seating the little boy on a pillow in front of them, had by turns carried him all that long distance. It was of such stuff that the early pioneer was made. When we left Missouri the year before, my father s mother was living, and his brother and sister were domiciled in good homes, with not a suggestion that any of them contemplated any change, much less that which involved the long journey to Oregon. But before they had heard from my father s experiment they had all been seized with a desire to go west, and all followed by the next year s train.
Open cattle gate and continue to the cemetery.
My father s mother had died a few months after our departure the year before. It is characteristic of all the old frontier people that what they did they did promptly, and so without warning or suspicion of their coming, they had arrived in our midst. Available in the McMinnville, Oregon Library. The grandson just quoted matured to become a U. S. Representative from Oregon. The elder sister referred to later became the wife of Sebastian Adams, the founder of McMinnville College.