Chloe Cook Harry Laird is an approved Mayflower Descendant to John Billington who was one of the original signers of the Compact who arrived at Plymouth MA 1620. Credit to Marty Flanagan.
Father according to death certificate is Horace Cook. Informant is W. M. Laird of Coquille, Oregon.
John A. Harry made his land claim, #300, Coos Co. OR. He arrived in Oregon 15 Oct 1851; Settled Claim on 4 April 1855 on the Coquille River, at Kitchen Prairie, up the river from the present Myrtle Point. John A. Harry became the first assessor of Coos County, when the courthouse was located at Empire. He led the party that discovered Brewster Valley. The family settled at what became known as the Half Way House, on the Coos Bay Wagon Road.
John Alva Harry and his wife Chloe (Cook) Harry set up a roadhouse that they called Sitkum—later known as the Halfway House—where travelers could eat and spend the night. The Sitkum post office opened in 1873, and the community built a grade school in the early 1870s. In 1915, the mail stages switched to a less steep road along the Middle Fork of the Coquille River. This route was favored by more and more traffic, and eventually there was little need for travelers' accommodations in Sitkum
In June 1874, John A. Harry, while on one of his trips to Empire (Coos Bay) for supplies, he became ill and died of pneumonia. He is buried at the old Empire cemetery. After his death, his widow, Chloe Cook Harry married James Laird of Coos Co. in 1875 and they had four sons; Walter M. Laird, Joseph L. Laird, John. H. Laird and Carl E. Laird.
James and Chloe Laird, and their descendants. James Laird, settled in Sitkum in 1874,according to A Century of Coos and Curry by Emil R. Peterson and Alfred Powers. He married Chloe (Cook) Harry, widow of John Alva Harry and the mother of five children.
Father according to death certificate is Horace Cook. Informant is W. M. Laird of Coquille, Oregon.
John A. Harry made his land claim, #300, Coos Co. OR. He arrived in Oregon 15 Oct 1851; Settled Claim on 4 April 1855 on the Coquille River, at Kitchen Prairie, up the river from the present Myrtle Point. John A. Harry became the first assessor of Coos County, when the courthouse was located at Empire. He led the party that discovered Brewster Valley. The family settled at what became known as the Half Way House, on the Coos Bay Wagon Road.
John Alva Harry and his wife Chloe (Cook) Harry set up a roadhouse that they called Sitkum—later known as the Halfway House—where travelers could eat and spend the night. The Sitkum post office opened in 1873, and the community built a grade school in the early 1870s. In 1915, the mail stages switched to a less steep road along the Middle Fork of the Coquille River. This route was favored by more and more traffic, and eventually there was little need for travelers' accommodations in Sitkum
In June 1874, John A. Harry, while on one of his trips to Empire (Coos Bay) for supplies, he became ill and died of pneumonia. He is buried at the old Empire cemetery. After his death, his widow, Chloe Cook Harry married James Laird of Coos Co. in 1875 and they had four sons; Walter M. Laird, Joseph L. Laird, John. H. Laird and Carl E. Laird.
James and Chloe Laird, and their descendants. James Laird, settled in Sitkum in 1874,according to A Century of Coos and Curry by Emil R. Peterson and Alfred Powers. He married Chloe (Cook) Harry, widow of John Alva Harry and the mother of five children.
Chloe Cook Harry Laird is an approved Mayflower Descendant to John Billington who was one of the original signers of the Compact who arrived at Plymouth MA 1620. Credit to Marty Flanagan.
Father according to death certificate is Horace Cook. Informant is W. M. Laird of Coquille, Oregon.
John A. Harry made his land claim, #300, Coos Co. OR. He arrived in Oregon 15 Oct 1851; Settled Claim on 4 April 1855 on the Coquille River, at Kitchen Prairie, up the river from the present Myrtle Point. John A. Harry became the first assessor of Coos County, when the courthouse was located at Empire. He led the party that discovered Brewster Valley. The family settled at what became known as the Half Way House, on the Coos Bay Wagon Road.
John Alva Harry and his wife Chloe (Cook) Harry set up a roadhouse that they called Sitkum—later known as the Halfway House—where travelers could eat and spend the night. The Sitkum post office opened in 1873, and the community built a grade school in the early 1870s. In 1915, the mail stages switched to a less steep road along the Middle Fork of the Coquille River. This route was favored by more and more traffic, and eventually there was little need for travelers' accommodations in Sitkum
In June 1874, John A. Harry, while on one of his trips to Empire (Coos Bay) for supplies, he became ill and died of pneumonia. He is buried at the old Empire cemetery. After his death, his widow, Chloe Cook Harry married James Laird of Coos Co. in 1875 and they had four sons; Walter M. Laird, Joseph L. Laird, John. H. Laird and Carl E. Laird.
James and Chloe Laird, and their descendants. James Laird, settled in Sitkum in 1874,according to A Century of Coos and Curry by Emil R. Peterson and Alfred Powers. He married Chloe (Cook) Harry, widow of John Alva Harry and the mother of five children.
Father according to death certificate is Horace Cook. Informant is W. M. Laird of Coquille, Oregon.
John A. Harry made his land claim, #300, Coos Co. OR. He arrived in Oregon 15 Oct 1851; Settled Claim on 4 April 1855 on the Coquille River, at Kitchen Prairie, up the river from the present Myrtle Point. John A. Harry became the first assessor of Coos County, when the courthouse was located at Empire. He led the party that discovered Brewster Valley. The family settled at what became known as the Half Way House, on the Coos Bay Wagon Road.
John Alva Harry and his wife Chloe (Cook) Harry set up a roadhouse that they called Sitkum—later known as the Halfway House—where travelers could eat and spend the night. The Sitkum post office opened in 1873, and the community built a grade school in the early 1870s. In 1915, the mail stages switched to a less steep road along the Middle Fork of the Coquille River. This route was favored by more and more traffic, and eventually there was little need for travelers' accommodations in Sitkum
In June 1874, John A. Harry, while on one of his trips to Empire (Coos Bay) for supplies, he became ill and died of pneumonia. He is buried at the old Empire cemetery. After his death, his widow, Chloe Cook Harry married James Laird of Coos Co. in 1875 and they had four sons; Walter M. Laird, Joseph L. Laird, John. H. Laird and Carl E. Laird.
James and Chloe Laird, and their descendants. James Laird, settled in Sitkum in 1874,according to A Century of Coos and Curry by Emil R. Peterson and Alfred Powers. He married Chloe (Cook) Harry, widow of John Alva Harry and the mother of five children.
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