Evina Nuttall Helliwell was born in Yorkshire, England. She was the daughter of John and Nancy (Greenwood) Nuttall. She came to Minnesota, USA around 1869, with three of her brothers: Greenwood, Charles and John Nuttal. She married their traveling companion, William Helliwell, the following year, July 25, 1870 in Winstead, McLeod County, Minnesota.
They had the following eight children: Frank, Ernest, Clara (Daughterty), Barton, Sidney, Albert, Ruth and Lena (Hartley).
William worked in railroad construction for about four years in Minnesota. With this money he purchased 80 acres of land in McLeod County, MN, one mile from Winstead, population 400. They raised hogs, timbered, tapped for maple sugar, harvested wild cranberries, hayed marsh grass, raised corn and wheat, and hunted mink, muskrat and raccoons; cut grass on marshes for hay.They used sleds in the winter and the kids ice skated to school on the adjoining lake.
In March 1893, then they moved the family, by train (Great Northern in 4 days with basket lunches on Emmigrant Car), to Yoncalla, Oregon, purchasing property (40 acres of hillsideland for prune orchard) and living the rest of their lives in that area. They moved to Oregon because Evina had rheumatism.
She was an elder and life long member in the Presbyterian church. She died in her home at Boswell Springs near Yoncalla, OR.
Source: The Centennial History of Oregon, 1811-1912, V. 4 by Joseph Gaston and George H. Himes; Pat Glenn Hagood; obituary; notes from Helen Glenn.
They had the following eight children: Frank, Ernest, Clara (Daughterty), Barton, Sidney, Albert, Ruth and Lena (Hartley).
William worked in railroad construction for about four years in Minnesota. With this money he purchased 80 acres of land in McLeod County, MN, one mile from Winstead, population 400. They raised hogs, timbered, tapped for maple sugar, harvested wild cranberries, hayed marsh grass, raised corn and wheat, and hunted mink, muskrat and raccoons; cut grass on marshes for hay.They used sleds in the winter and the kids ice skated to school on the adjoining lake.
In March 1893, then they moved the family, by train (Great Northern in 4 days with basket lunches on Emmigrant Car), to Yoncalla, Oregon, purchasing property (40 acres of hillsideland for prune orchard) and living the rest of their lives in that area. They moved to Oregon because Evina had rheumatism.
She was an elder and life long member in the Presbyterian church. She died in her home at Boswell Springs near Yoncalla, OR.
Source: The Centennial History of Oregon, 1811-1912, V. 4 by Joseph Gaston and George H. Himes; Pat Glenn Hagood; obituary; notes from Helen Glenn.
Evina Nuttall Helliwell was born in Yorkshire, England. She was the daughter of John and Nancy (Greenwood) Nuttall. She came to Minnesota, USA around 1869, with three of her brothers: Greenwood, Charles and John Nuttal. She married their traveling companion, William Helliwell, the following year, July 25, 1870 in Winstead, McLeod County, Minnesota.
They had the following eight children: Frank, Ernest, Clara (Daughterty), Barton, Sidney, Albert, Ruth and Lena (Hartley).
William worked in railroad construction for about four years in Minnesota. With this money he purchased 80 acres of land in McLeod County, MN, one mile from Winstead, population 400. They raised hogs, timbered, tapped for maple sugar, harvested wild cranberries, hayed marsh grass, raised corn and wheat, and hunted mink, muskrat and raccoons; cut grass on marshes for hay.They used sleds in the winter and the kids ice skated to school on the adjoining lake.
In March 1893, then they moved the family, by train (Great Northern in 4 days with basket lunches on Emmigrant Car), to Yoncalla, Oregon, purchasing property (40 acres of hillsideland for prune orchard) and living the rest of their lives in that area. They moved to Oregon because Evina had rheumatism.
She was an elder and life long member in the Presbyterian church. She died in her home at Boswell Springs near Yoncalla, OR.
Source: The Centennial History of Oregon, 1811-1912, V. 4 by Joseph Gaston and George H. Himes; Pat Glenn Hagood; obituary; notes from Helen Glenn.
They had the following eight children: Frank, Ernest, Clara (Daughterty), Barton, Sidney, Albert, Ruth and Lena (Hartley).
William worked in railroad construction for about four years in Minnesota. With this money he purchased 80 acres of land in McLeod County, MN, one mile from Winstead, population 400. They raised hogs, timbered, tapped for maple sugar, harvested wild cranberries, hayed marsh grass, raised corn and wheat, and hunted mink, muskrat and raccoons; cut grass on marshes for hay.They used sleds in the winter and the kids ice skated to school on the adjoining lake.
In March 1893, then they moved the family, by train (Great Northern in 4 days with basket lunches on Emmigrant Car), to Yoncalla, Oregon, purchasing property (40 acres of hillsideland for prune orchard) and living the rest of their lives in that area. They moved to Oregon because Evina had rheumatism.
She was an elder and life long member in the Presbyterian church. She died in her home at Boswell Springs near Yoncalla, OR.
Source: The Centennial History of Oregon, 1811-1912, V. 4 by Joseph Gaston and George H. Himes; Pat Glenn Hagood; obituary; notes from Helen Glenn.
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