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John Jay Crabtree

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John Jay Crabtree

Birth
Lee County, Virginia, USA
Death
28 Mar 1892 (aged 91)
Scio, Linn County, Oregon, USA
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Scio, Linn County, Oregon, USA Add to Map
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John Crabtree had on his mind a move to Oregon. He'd been in Missouri long enough. The farming was slow and his health wasn't to good he thought. John Jay Crabtree was almost forty-five years old. He'd seen a lot of life already but he was a 'hankerin' to move on. Born in Lee County, Virginia on Friday Jun 20, 1800, he had moved from that state when he was thirty-three. At age twenty-five he had married Malinda Yeary, eights years younger than he was. She had been born in Kentucky but of good Virginia stock. She was born on Monday March 7, 1808.

John Jay, back in the warm Missouri house ,glanced at the clock on the table, The Seth Thomas he'd bought in 1825. The clock had been telling him the time for twenty years. Now it was telling him it was time to pack up and go to Oregon.
Crabtree had made all the arrangements for the family's passage to the west on the wagon train. April 8,1845, was the Tuesday they would leave old Missouri for the "New" Oregon.

Source - 'Scio in the Forks of the Santiam' book by Carol Bates.
John Crabtree had on his mind a move to Oregon. He'd been in Missouri long enough. The farming was slow and his health wasn't to good he thought. John Jay Crabtree was almost forty-five years old. He'd seen a lot of life already but he was a 'hankerin' to move on. Born in Lee County, Virginia on Friday Jun 20, 1800, he had moved from that state when he was thirty-three. At age twenty-five he had married Malinda Yeary, eights years younger than he was. She had been born in Kentucky but of good Virginia stock. She was born on Monday March 7, 1808.

John Jay, back in the warm Missouri house ,glanced at the clock on the table, The Seth Thomas he'd bought in 1825. The clock had been telling him the time for twenty years. Now it was telling him it was time to pack up and go to Oregon.
Crabtree had made all the arrangements for the family's passage to the west on the wagon train. April 8,1845, was the Tuesday they would leave old Missouri for the "New" Oregon.

Source - 'Scio in the Forks of the Santiam' book by Carol Bates.

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