752 THE CAYUSE WAR.
Thomas Wvatt Elias D. Wilcox, Nathaniel Wilcox, Leonard Williams Willis S TSTc wSkle, Samuel Welch, W. B. Walker, W. M. V. alker, A. o "\Vjij-4- T 1 V) Winchester
Ahio's.'Watt was born in Knox Co., Ohio Jan 15 1824; went to Mo in 1838, ami to Oregon in 1848. He was married m ISoO to Mary E. Elder, and settled in Yamhill Co. He was a member of the senate in IS/ 8; has been cleik of the court, surveyor, and farmer, and a useful and honorable citizen.
EL Mussey, well known in Oregon, at the breakmg-out of the mining excitement of 1861 removed to Walla Walla, where he was justice of the peace In 867 while travelling in Idaho he had his feet frozen, from the effects of which he died in August of that year. Walla Walla Statesman, Aug. 30 186,. Burrel B. Griffin settled in Linn Co., where he discovered in ISol a mountain of bluish gray marl near the junction of Crabtree and Thomas ™L of the Santiam. The stone was easily worked, and hardened on exposure to the air, and came to be much used in place of brick for hearth- stones and chimney-pieces. In 1852 Mr Griffin removed to the Rogue -River Valley, where he discovered in 1875 valuable ores of cinnabar and antimony near Jacksonville. Oregonian, Sept. 25, lS/o.
George A. Barnes, a native of Lockport, Monroe Co., *ew York, first emigrated to Fort Wayne, Indiana, and from there to Oregon m 1848. He went to "the gold mines in California, after which he settled on Puget Sound, with the history of which he has since been identified. +T . avP n Pr i
David Stone, who was captain of the company with which Barnes travelled, settled in the Cowlitz Valley, a few miles north of the Columbia
' Thomas W. Avery emigrated to Oregon with his parents at the age ot Id, and hi 1849 went to 7 the gold mines in California, from which he returned in 857, when he settled in Douglas Co. Working as a carpenter and teaching in a country school, he continued to reside in the Umpqua \ alley until 1862 when he went to Salem to study law in the office of Bonham and Curl He was elected to the Democratic state convention in ^^™^ *£ practice of law in Umatilla County and was m the legislature m 18 6\ ^
^SSSfSl ^|!W 14, 1839, married ^A ndrew* *ur |?
187 Mrs Jacob Conser, born in Richmond Co. Ohio July 31, 1822 removed with her parents to 111., where she was married Feb. 28 ,1839 and emigrated fa Or nS her husband in 1848. She died at Walla ^ alia ffab « I visit to a sister residing there, April 18, 18,9. San Jose Pioneer, May 10,
^Nathaniel Hamlin, an immigrant of 1848, died in June 1866. Seattle
W ^ cCtonkld'ywasborninPulaskiCo.Ky., June 15 1808. Hejoined the Methodist churclfat the age of 19, and devoted his life « pr-chmg^ Before he was 20 he married Mary Baston, who died m 183/, leaving ; him o dnkbren He married in the following year Jane Burns, who _also died, leaving one child. He then married Maria Crane, by whom he had 9 children. BeTn^tpposed to the institution of slavery, he determined to emigrate to a coun?ry P where his numerous family could be educated to become - eful co- zens, and chose Oregon for his home, where he was ™ d %* n ™ n ™ ™Z£. TCpIIpv ' nnd as a never-tiring advocate of temperance. He died at nib res>i Kelley, and as a ™ X £™[ 1 \ 19 1875 leaving an honorable memory, dence near Last Portland, June u, ioio, x & Pnrfland Tern-
Oregonian, June 26, 1875; Or. City Enter V nse, June 25, 1875, PoHland veranceStar, June 25, 1875; Salem Statesman, June 26 18 75.
W W Bristow, son of Elijah Bristow, who emigrated in 18tt with M brother B L Sow, and other members of the family, followed his father in 1848,' and all settled in Lane County, then the southern part of Lmn. Mr