.Oregon 1852.

 

* Bagley, Sarah wife of Reuben Riggs

* Brown Catherine, mother of , Marena Smith buried near Halsey Oregon

* Harper, John Married Mary Michael of Brownsville

* Pearl, James W James Pearl b 17 April 1807 in Ohio perhaps Knox County, died 1Dec 1897 Halsey, Linn Co. Oregon, to Oregon in 1852, apparently the son of Alexander Pearl. This may be the Alexander Perril who married Grace Beaumont at the German Reformed Church in Frederick, Frederick County Maryland, 29 May 1791.
Married 1st 25 Dec 1827 Knox Co. Ohio Elizabeth Berry b 28 Oct 1808 died 25 Sept 1845 Missouri, had at least 8 children.
Married 2nd 6 July 1847 Missouri, Elizabeth WISEMAN b 31 Aug 1827 IN, died 31 July 1890 Halsey, OR, 12 children known. They had a donation land claim south of Brownsville, Linn County, Oregon.

* MEEKER, Ezra, Oregon Historian

* RIGGS, Garrett, DLC #1209, Lane Co., born 1829, Monroe Co., Missouri.
* RIGGS, Nancy, marr. Garrett, Appanoose Co., Iowa.
* RIGGS, John L., b. 1843, Ill., died 17 Feb 1925, Salem.
* RIGGS, Jonathan, DLC #1801, Lane Co., born 1803, Ky.
* RIGGS, Polly, marr. Jonathan, 12 May 1825, Monroe Co., Missouri.
* RIGGS Sarah (Bagley), wife of Reuben
* RIGGS, Wm., DLC #356, Douglas Co., born 1823, Marshall Co., Va.
* RIGGS, Lydia Ann, marr. William 5 Mar 1845
* RIGGS, Reuben ,, (1804-1881) and wife Sarah Bagley and 5 children,, settled on 317 acre Donation Land Claim in March of 1853 next to Gibbons , Washougal Washington {Fort Riggs Washougal}

* Scott, Abigail ,,(1834-1915}-Woman Rights Sufferaget and Publisher, her mother died on the trail in June 1852 and her brother Willie in August same year .. Married Ben Charles Duniway settled at Lafayette Oregon moved to Portland 1871 .. .. American editor and advocate of women's rights, born. near Groveland, Ill. She went to Oregon with her family in 1852 and the next year married Benjamin Charles Duniway. For many years she edited the New Northwest in Portland and through her writings and lectures became recognized as the leader of the woman's movement in the Northwest. For her account of her part in the movement, see Path Breaking (1914).

Journal of a Trip to Oregon
Abigail Jane Scott
1852

June 29 - We came twenty miles. We struck the Sweet water about two o'clock and about three came to Independence rock; The Sweet water is about one hundred feet in width; The water is clear and palatable but is warmer during the day than water of the Platte. Independence rock is an immense mass covering an area of, I think about ten acres, and is about three hundred feet high; My sisters and I went to the base of the rock with the intention of climbing it but a we had only ascended about thirty feet when a heavy hail and wind storm arose obliging us to desist; We then started on after the wagons and before we reached them they had all crossed the river except the last to overtake. They had intended to let us wade it (it was waist deep) to learn us not to get so far behind the team; I would have liked the fun of wading well enough but did not like to get joked about being left. Immediately after leaving Independence rock we came in sight of the well known Devil's Gate five miles ahead of us and when we came near enough we turned off the road about one mile and halted for the night opposite to it in a bend of the river

We in company with many others paid this gate a visit; It is indeed a sight worth seeing; The Sweet water passes through it, and it really seems left by providence for the river to pass through as we can see no other place where it can find its way through the rocks; The cliffs of rock on either side are at least four hundred feet in hight and on the South side almost perfectly perpendicular; The rocks are in many places covered with names of visitors to this place a few of which were of as early date as '38 a great many were dated '50 and '51 but the majority were '52. We passed seven graves

 

* Scott, Harvey W. ,,editor of the Oregonian ,,brother of Abigail

* Smith, Marena ,, and her Mother brother and sister,, her father died at Platte River,, married E G Michael in October 1853...Great grandmother of Ted L Durgan.

* Smith, Ann sister of Marena Married William Payne1853

* Waggener, Bird .. Grandpa Waggener was born near Franport, Kentucky in 1810. He was one year younger than Abraham Lincoln and they were born in the same neighborhood. My grandfather with his wife and five children crossed the plains in 1852.

He had 8 oxen, 2 horses and 2 cows when he started out. His wife took sick with cholera and died (along the Powder River) and was buried on the trail a few miles from Baker, Ore.

History of Grandfather (Bird) Waggener as told by George Roush Dec. 3rd, 1953 in Goldendale, Wash. (Edith Clark Sorensen's mother Roena Waggener Clark's father)

 

* Wiseman, Elizabeth wife of James Pearl born 31 Aug 1827 Indiana, died 31 July 1890 Halsey, Ore, 12 children known. They had a donation land claim south of Brownsville, Linn County, Oregon.

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