Colfax, Whitman County, Washington about 1885
Adam Matheny and his children: Josephine 'Josie", age 20; Adam, age 64; Delia, age 6; Minnie Maud, age 18; Grant, age 17; and William "Willie", age 15. The family lived near Wawawai in Whitman County near the Snake River.
His daughter Cordelia is buried in the Salkum Cemetery, but according to: http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mransom/AdamMatheny.html Adam Matheny was buried in 'a small cemetery now located within the Queets Corridor of Olympic National Park' which would explain why his gravesite has not been able to be located in Salkum.
Adam Matheny obituary:
Adam Matheny, who died near Salem [sic] November 7, was nearly 75 years old. He was born in Owen County, Ind., December 20, 1820. His parents moved to Illinois when he was quite young, where they lived until the summer of 1837, when they went to Missouri. Here, in April of 1843, he was married to Sarah J. Louson [sic], and started for Oregon with his bride, in company with his parents and others, numbering in all about 1000 souls. Thus he became a part of the immigration of 1843. He first settled on the Tualatin plains, near where Hillsboro now stands, his nearest neighbors being Joseph Meek and Squire Ebberts. Finding this place too isolated, he located near his father, who had purchased the old Leslie farm. on the west side of the Willamette, just below and across the river from the first site of the Methodist mission. Here, in January, 1847, his young wife died, leaving him with a little son of two summers and an infant daughter. He was one of the oldest pioneers of Free Masonry on the coast, having passed beyond the Royal Arch degree, and stood high in that order. He was an old soldier, having served under Colonel Neal Zilliom [Gilliam] in the Cayuse War of 1847 and 1848. When the rebellion broke out he enlisted under George B. Curry, at The Dalles, and though retained upon this coast, became a factor in that great struggle, receiving from the government in the last years of his life a disability pension of $12, which was his sole support.
He left his eldest son, D.L. Matheny, of Salem, and Mrs. Sara J. Thornton, of Tacoma, the children of his first marriage. Of his second family, there are four daughters and four sons--living in Eastern Oregon, Washington, and California--besides an aged wife.
Perhaps Adam traveled to Tacoma for the marriage of his granddaughter, Mary Alma "Allie" Thornton, on 28 February 1893 to Ernest Lister. There Allie received a congratulatory telegram from Governor West of Oregon, an old friend from her school days. If Adam did meet his new grandson, he did not know that he was looking at the future eighth governor of the State of Washington, for that would be in 1912. (research and bio by Audrey DeCamp Hoffman (#46783896)
Adam Matheny and his children: Josephine 'Josie", age 20; Adam, age 64; Delia, age 6; Minnie Maud, age 18; Grant, age 17; and William "Willie", age 15. The family lived near Wawawai in Whitman County near the Snake River.
His daughter Cordelia is buried in the Salkum Cemetery, but according to: http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mransom/AdamMatheny.html Adam Matheny was buried in 'a small cemetery now located within the Queets Corridor of Olympic National Park' which would explain why his gravesite has not been able to be located in Salkum.
Adam Matheny obituary:
Adam Matheny, who died near Salem [sic] November 7, was nearly 75 years old. He was born in Owen County, Ind., December 20, 1820. His parents moved to Illinois when he was quite young, where they lived until the summer of 1837, when they went to Missouri. Here, in April of 1843, he was married to Sarah J. Louson [sic], and started for Oregon with his bride, in company with his parents and others, numbering in all about 1000 souls. Thus he became a part of the immigration of 1843. He first settled on the Tualatin plains, near where Hillsboro now stands, his nearest neighbors being Joseph Meek and Squire Ebberts. Finding this place too isolated, he located near his father, who had purchased the old Leslie farm. on the west side of the Willamette, just below and across the river from the first site of the Methodist mission. Here, in January, 1847, his young wife died, leaving him with a little son of two summers and an infant daughter. He was one of the oldest pioneers of Free Masonry on the coast, having passed beyond the Royal Arch degree, and stood high in that order. He was an old soldier, having served under Colonel Neal Zilliom [Gilliam] in the Cayuse War of 1847 and 1848. When the rebellion broke out he enlisted under George B. Curry, at The Dalles, and though retained upon this coast, became a factor in that great struggle, receiving from the government in the last years of his life a disability pension of $12, which was his sole support.
He left his eldest son, D.L. Matheny, of Salem, and Mrs. Sara J. Thornton, of Tacoma, the children of his first marriage. Of his second family, there are four daughters and four sons--living in Eastern Oregon, Washington, and California--besides an aged wife.
Perhaps Adam traveled to Tacoma for the marriage of his granddaughter, Mary Alma "Allie" Thornton, on 28 February 1893 to Ernest Lister. There Allie received a congratulatory telegram from Governor West of Oregon, an old friend from her school days. If Adam did meet his new grandson, he did not know that he was looking at the future eighth governor of the State of Washington, for that would be in 1912. (research and bio by Audrey DeCamp Hoffman (#46783896)
Colfax, Whitman County, Washington about 1885
Adam Matheny and his children: Josephine 'Josie", age 20; Adam, age 64; Delia, age 6; Minnie Maud, age 18; Grant, age 17; and William "Willie", age 15. The family lived near Wawawai in Whitman County near the Snake River.
His daughter Cordelia is buried in the Salkum Cemetery, but according to: http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mransom/AdamMatheny.html Adam Matheny was buried in 'a small cemetery now located within the Queets Corridor of Olympic National Park' which would explain why his gravesite has not been able to be located in Salkum.
Adam Matheny obituary:
Adam Matheny, who died near Salem [sic] November 7, was nearly 75 years old. He was born in Owen County, Ind., December 20, 1820. His parents moved to Illinois when he was quite young, where they lived until the summer of 1837, when they went to Missouri. Here, in April of 1843, he was married to Sarah J. Louson [sic], and started for Oregon with his bride, in company with his parents and others, numbering in all about 1000 souls. Thus he became a part of the immigration of 1843. He first settled on the Tualatin plains, near where Hillsboro now stands, his nearest neighbors being Joseph Meek and Squire Ebberts. Finding this place too isolated, he located near his father, who had purchased the old Leslie farm. on the west side of the Willamette, just below and across the river from the first site of the Methodist mission. Here, in January, 1847, his young wife died, leaving him with a little son of two summers and an infant daughter. He was one of the oldest pioneers of Free Masonry on the coast, having passed beyond the Royal Arch degree, and stood high in that order. He was an old soldier, having served under Colonel Neal Zilliom [Gilliam] in the Cayuse War of 1847 and 1848. When the rebellion broke out he enlisted under George B. Curry, at The Dalles, and though retained upon this coast, became a factor in that great struggle, receiving from the government in the last years of his life a disability pension of $12, which was his sole support.
He left his eldest son, D.L. Matheny, of Salem, and Mrs. Sara J. Thornton, of Tacoma, the children of his first marriage. Of his second family, there are four daughters and four sons--living in Eastern Oregon, Washington, and California--besides an aged wife.
Perhaps Adam traveled to Tacoma for the marriage of his granddaughter, Mary Alma "Allie" Thornton, on 28 February 1893 to Ernest Lister. There Allie received a congratulatory telegram from Governor West of Oregon, an old friend from her school days. If Adam did meet his new grandson, he did not know that he was looking at the future eighth governor of the State of Washington, for that would be in 1912. (research and bio by Audrey DeCamp Hoffman (#46783896)
Adam Matheny and his children: Josephine 'Josie", age 20; Adam, age 64; Delia, age 6; Minnie Maud, age 18; Grant, age 17; and William "Willie", age 15. The family lived near Wawawai in Whitman County near the Snake River.
His daughter Cordelia is buried in the Salkum Cemetery, but according to: http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mransom/AdamMatheny.html Adam Matheny was buried in 'a small cemetery now located within the Queets Corridor of Olympic National Park' which would explain why his gravesite has not been able to be located in Salkum.
Adam Matheny obituary:
Adam Matheny, who died near Salem [sic] November 7, was nearly 75 years old. He was born in Owen County, Ind., December 20, 1820. His parents moved to Illinois when he was quite young, where they lived until the summer of 1837, when they went to Missouri. Here, in April of 1843, he was married to Sarah J. Louson [sic], and started for Oregon with his bride, in company with his parents and others, numbering in all about 1000 souls. Thus he became a part of the immigration of 1843. He first settled on the Tualatin plains, near where Hillsboro now stands, his nearest neighbors being Joseph Meek and Squire Ebberts. Finding this place too isolated, he located near his father, who had purchased the old Leslie farm. on the west side of the Willamette, just below and across the river from the first site of the Methodist mission. Here, in January, 1847, his young wife died, leaving him with a little son of two summers and an infant daughter. He was one of the oldest pioneers of Free Masonry on the coast, having passed beyond the Royal Arch degree, and stood high in that order. He was an old soldier, having served under Colonel Neal Zilliom [Gilliam] in the Cayuse War of 1847 and 1848. When the rebellion broke out he enlisted under George B. Curry, at The Dalles, and though retained upon this coast, became a factor in that great struggle, receiving from the government in the last years of his life a disability pension of $12, which was his sole support.
He left his eldest son, D.L. Matheny, of Salem, and Mrs. Sara J. Thornton, of Tacoma, the children of his first marriage. Of his second family, there are four daughters and four sons--living in Eastern Oregon, Washington, and California--besides an aged wife.
Perhaps Adam traveled to Tacoma for the marriage of his granddaughter, Mary Alma "Allie" Thornton, on 28 February 1893 to Ernest Lister. There Allie received a congratulatory telegram from Governor West of Oregon, an old friend from her school days. If Adam did meet his new grandson, he did not know that he was looking at the future eighth governor of the State of Washington, for that would be in 1912. (research and bio by Audrey DeCamp Hoffman (#46783896)
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