March
18th is another day when two ancestors had birthdays, so I am
choosing to do the oldest one today and tomorrow I will do the second
one.
There
is quite a bit of information about John and his family on my
genealogy website.
His
person page is here http://www.joanneskelton.com/p16.htm#i387
From
the main page the menu item for maps shows the general locations of
the family Donation Land Claims. The menu item for charts includes a
listing of two generations of his descendants.
But
as also seems to happen, when I review the information posted there,
I discover that I need to add more. For instance, his father's
recorded will from 1850 has been digitized and placed online and John
is named in that. It makes me wonder if John used some of the
proceeds from that inheritance to help pay for their trip to Oregon
in 1853.
Another
item I haven't entered into the database is the listing from the
Umatilla Agency in northeastern Oregon in 1853 of the travelers on
the Oregon Trail. Among those listed on August 28 was Bond, J. , w.
This would be John and his wife Sarah (Chastain) Bond.
I
think it is fun to know that my 3rd great-grandfather came to Oregon
so I have 5 generations of ancestors who lived here, making me a 6th
generation Oregonian.
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