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Simpson Wilson, born in Yamhill co. in 1849, is a son of Thomas A. Wilson, who migrated to Oregon in 1847. Father and son removed to Langell Valley, in what is now Klamath co., in 1870, to engage in stock-raising. Simpson Wilson married, on the 16th of July, 1871, at Linkville, Nancy Ellen Hall, who came across the plains with her parents from Iowa, in 1858. This was the first celebrated to Klamath co. They have 2 sons and 3 daughters. John T. Fulkerson was born in Williams co., Ohio, in 1840, his parents having migrated from N.Y. in their youth. In 1860 John T. joined a train of Arkansas emigrants under Captain Joseph Lane, migrating to Cal. and setttling in the San Joaquin Valley, where he remained until 1865, when he removed to Jackson co., Oregon, and in 1867 to Langell Valley, being one of the earliest settlers of this region, then still a part of Jackson co. He married, in 1866, Ellen E. Hyatt, formerly of Iowa, who in crossing the plains a few years previous lost her mother and grandmother. They have 4 sons and 3 daughters. Jonathan Howell, born in Guilford co., N.C., in 1828, and brought up in Ill. He came to Cal. in 1850, overland, and located in Mariposa co., residing there and in Merced and Tulare 9 years, after which he returned to the east and remained until 1876, living in several states during that time. When he returned to the Pacific coast it was to Rogue River Valley that he came, removing soon after to the Klamath basin, and settling near the town of Bonanza. He married, in 1860, Susanna Statsman, born in Schuyler c., Ill. They have living, 2 sons and 1 daughter. Thomas Jefferson Goodwyn, born in Suffolk co., England, in 1846, went to Australia in 1864, and from there migrated to Oregon ten years later, settling at Bonanza. He married Genevieve Roberts of Jackson co., in 1881, and has 2 sons and 2 daughters. John McCurdy, born in Pugh co., Va., in 1836, and reared in Ill.; migrated to Portland, Oregon, in 1864, where he chiefly resided until 1880, when he settled in Alkali Valley, Klamath co. He married Frances M. Thomas of McDonough co., Ill., in 1857. They had 2 sons and I daughter, when immigrating his wife died, and was buried in the Bitter Root Mountains. McCurdy has a brother, Martin V., in Lassen co., Cal., and another brother, Joseph, in Nevada. |