The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1884-03-28

DIED.
Salem, Marion coun. !
,ty, Oregon, Saturday morning, March %, |
1854, Martin Woodcock, agei 80 years, |
mnllth and 2 days

ty, Oregon; Saturday morning, March %,
i, 1854, Martin Woodcock, agei so years,
mnlith and 2 days.
The subject of this SIX eteh, Martin Wood
cock, whose death occurred at 5 o'clock and
ten minutes on the morning of March 22nd,
1854, was born on the Doth Of July 1924, in
Schohaire county, State of New York:
The deceased was the son of
William and Catharine Woodcock. The
ancestry of the father William
Woodcock so far as known at the present
time came from Holland to England and
from thence came three brothers to New
York State from one of which sprang the
father of the deceased.
On the mothers side the first ancestry so
far as is now known, was Peter Cooper,
Martin Cooper. Catherine Ham and Regina
Krum all of whom were born in the town
of Westerwalt, Prussia, came to America
and settlel in Livingstone Manor now
Duchess Co., New York, in the year 1861.
From the marriage of Peter Cooper to Cath
arine Ham there sprang two children, one
of whom was Peter c. Cooper, born July 9th
ITS. From the marriage of Martin Cooper
and Regina Krum there sprang seven chill
dren one of whom was Regina Cooper.
In 1876 Peter G.. Cooper son of Peter
Cooper and Regina Cooper, daughter of
Martin Cooper, were married and unto them
were born nine children, one of whom,
Catharine, was married August 18th, 1921
to William Woodcock father of the subject
of this history. The father and mother
accompanied by six children of which the
deceased was one of them, fourteen years
of age, left New York in the year 1888 and
settled in what was then wilderness of
woodland in Wisconsin, about eight miles
from where now stands the city of Mil
waukie, when the father with the assistance
of the deceased and his brother Horace two
years his senior hewed home out of the
heretofore unbroken forest; earning the
means to pay for the homestead by cutting
cDrl wood. Thereafter the deceased worked
and assisted ON the farm and grew to man.
hood until at the age Of twenty years on
the 2Sth day of August 1913 was married to
Amanda j. White, who survives him. From
this union came one son and two daughters.
The son M. S. Woodcocl1 was born May 9th
lS49, and now resides at Corvallis, Oregon. |
One daughter Mrs. Eva L. Stannus, born
Feb 7th 1855, now resides at Lewiston, |
Idaho Ter; the other daughter Carrie L.
Woodcock born July End 1865, is still at
home.
: News of the discovery OF gold in California
avfng. reached the deceased and his
friends in- Wisconsin and being at
tracted by the many advantages then
attributed to the farNof Oregon, the
deceased with his wife and son, and accom-
panied by his elder brother Herace and
wife, and younger brother w. G. Wood
cock, his sister Rena A. Dayton and herf
husband and l.. c. Dayton, ON the Oath day
Of Feb. 1858, in nidwinter with OK teams
laden with their all, turned their faces to
ward the setting sun in search of the land
of promise the then but littleknown Oregon.
When they arrived after the long and toll
some journey across the plains on the oath
day of September of the same year, and
after looking over various parts of the
Willamette valley for lands subject to loca-
ton under the. donation act, the deceased
on adjoining places about fourteen miles
west of Eugene City, Lane county, on
wild lands where they remained about four
years, in which time they toiled and
years were spent in learning the wagon
makers trade of neighbor, Jacob H.
We.lsher, who was also blacksmith, and i'll
t le fall of 1859 deceased, his brother Horace
a I'd Mr.. Welsher formed partnership for
the purpose of engaging in the manufactory
of wagons and carriages, and all moved to
Monroe, in Benton county, where they con-
tinued in that business until the winter of
1868, during which time they built up a
large trade, their wagons being justly ap-
preciated for thei1-neatness, durability, light
draft and the evident care with which they !
were constructed found ready purchasers,
place of manufacture. The deceased about
the time of movingf,to to Monroe also entered
in partnership with his brother w. C.
Woodcock for the purpose of conducting a
general merchandise business at that place, |
which business was continued until the |
winter of 1869. In the spring of 1874 the
deceased with his wife and daughters moved
to East Portland, and in sthe fall following |
they purchased a port of the William
Heron farm near Salem and there resided |
and built another home, until the spring of
1882 when he sold the farm and during the !
following summer accompanied by wife !
and youngest daughter he visited the old
home in Wisconsin where his aged mother
then IS years old still resided on the land
he had helped to clear for her and his father
in his early boyhood days. Returning to