Re: CROWLEY Family - Oregon Pioneers
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Re: CROWLEY Family - Oregon Pioneers
4/25/99
This is why I can't get enough of this Crowley line even though they're not related to me by "blood".They have so much history associated with them.I love the stories.
Here is what I have on Thomas:
Here is what I have on Thomas:From: The Oregon Journal, issue not stated.., but copied and published in Hamot's The Trail Blazers, page 351.
From: The Oregon Journal, issue not stated.., but copied and published in Hamot's The Trail Blazers, page 351."That at Fort Hall we were met by Jesse Applegate, Moses Harris, David Goff and John Owens who told us of an easier road to the Willamette Valley than the one by way of The Dalles.It was called the Southern Route and had been laid out by a party of settlers from Polk County, Levi Scott, Benjamin Burch, the Applegates, and some others.The Donner Party traveled with the party in which J. Quinn Thornton (the Crowleys and Turnidges) were in.They at this time (after the party had divided) had 72 wagons; formerly they had 100.It was at Fort Bridges that Hastings persuaded about 80 of them to go by way of California by way of Webber Canyon to the Humbolt Valley.The others kept on to Fort Hall.The Donners were delayed in the Sierras and were snowed in and finally ran out of food and resorted to cannibalism; few of them living to go to Sutters Fort.Nearly 100 wagons followed Jesse Applegate and his party through the Southern Cut Off.------------
The Applegate story is just as interesting and tragic.He thought he had a shortcut and instead it was a long, long way and some of the Crowley family died.My records show that Thomas died in Polk Co.I'll have to get my map out...I've never heard of those mountains.
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Re: CROWLEY Family - Oregon Pioneers
Michael Crowley 2/13/02
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Re: CROWLEY Family - Oregon Pioneers
Michael Crowley 2/13/02