394 THE IMMIGRATION OF 1843.
Looney, and Daniel Matheney, swelled the army to nearly a thousand persons, although the 'fighting
who requested the survivors present to answer to their names ' as present for duty,' when 13 only responded.
Ihe Oregon Pioneer Association has been of much benefit to the author ot this history. For a number of years a desire had existed for such an associa- tion in the Willamette Valley, and some preliminary movement had been made toward collecting reminiscences of the early history of the country. The first meeting was held on the call of a few persons, at Butteville in Marion County, on the 18th of October, 1873, when a constitution was adopted, and the following board of executive officers elected: F. X. Matthieu presi- dent; J. W. Grim, vice-president; W. H. Rees, secretary; and Eli C Cooley, treasurer. The second meeting was held at Aurora, not far from Butteville— both towns being on the old French Prairie, where the events recorded m the previous chapter had taken place-on the 16th of June, 18/4, when 4o names were enrolled. The association has now upon its roll hundreds ot names, and its Transactions, published annually, furnish much interesting matter. In using these pioneer reminiscences, however, it is necessary where the matter is of any historic importance, to verify it by collateral evidence of an earlier date, for experience proves that no memory is infallible, and that most incidents intrusted to memory, of which no record has been preserved by the individual, are unreliable in detail, even when the general facts are correct. The names on the sergeant's roll constituting the ; immigration of 1843 vvere. Jesse Applegate, Charles Applegate, Lindsey Applegate James Athey, V\ U- irarAthe P y,John Atkinson, 1 William Arthur, Robert Arthur, David Arthur, Anion Butler, George Brooke, Peter H. Burnett, David Byrd^ Thomas A. B"own, Alexander Blevins, John P. Brooks, Martin Brown Orris Brown, George Black, J. P. Black, Samuel Black, Layton Bane, Andrew J- Baker, John G Baker William Beagle, Levi F. Boyd, William Baker, Nicholas B IdleTGeo^ge P. Beale, James^raidy, George Beadle, Thomas Bayer, Board- man, Louis Tjargerin, William Baldridge, Feudal C. Cason James Caaon, William Chapman, John Cox, Jacob Champ, LC Cooper James Cone Moses Childers, Miles Carey, Thomas Cochran, L. Clymour, John Copen haver, J. H. Caton, Alfred Chappel, Daniel Cronm Samuel Cozrne, Bene bet Costable, Joseph B. Chiles, Ransom Clark John G. Campbell, Chap- man, James Chase, Solomon Dodd, Wil ham C. Dement W .P. Doug erty William Day, James Duncan, Jacob Dorm Thoma > Davis^ Daniel Delaney, Daniel Delaney, Jr, William Delaney, William Doke J. H. Davg, Burrell Davis, George Dailey, John Doherty, V W. .^wson Charles^. Eaton, Nathan Eaton, James Etchell, Solomon Emerick, John JJ . *a£er, E. G. Edson, Miles Eyres, John W. East, Nmiwon Everman, N™™*^ Ephraim Ford, Nimrod Ford, John Ford Alexander Francis Abner Yraziev William Frazier, William Fowler, Wm J Fowler^ Henry Fowler, Wephen Fairly, Charles E. Fendall, John Gantt, Chiley B. Gray Enoch Gai rison, J. M. Garrison, W. J. Garrison, W^iam Gardner GoodelSaniuelGai. ner, S. M. Gilmore, Richard Goodman Major William ^ ^S^on Haggard, H. H. Hide, William Holmes, Riley A. Holmes, Richard Hobso , John" Hobson, William Hobson, J. J. Hembre James Hembre ^ • G. Hem bre Andrew Hembre, A. J. Hembre, Samuel B. Hall James Hol * ck ' ™- */ Hughes, Abijah Hendrick, James Hays, Thomas J. Hensley R HoUey, Senry H. Hunt, S. M. Holderness, I. C. Hutchms, A Hus eel Joseph He,, Jacob Haun, Jacob Howell, William Howell Wesley Howell G. \\ . Howell, Thomas E. Howell, Henry Hill, William Hill, Almoran Hill, Absa lorn * Hedges, Henry Hewett, William Hargrove, A. Hoyt, ^}*f™^ D ™£ S. Holman, B. Harrigas, Calvin James, John B. Jackson, John J™ es £^ e r ton Johnson, Thoma! Kaiser, J. B Kaiser, Pleasant ^f'^ e ^^^; Solomon King, W. H King, A L. Lo ve joy Edward ^^AJ^^ Aaron Layson, Jesse Looney, John E. Long, H A. G Lee t ! . -bugu r > Linenbarger, John Linenbarger, Isaac Laswell, J. Loughborough, Milton