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Lane County Historian The Wilhelmina, steam lumber schooner, made Florence a port of call.She was wrecked August 22, 1912, near the mouth of the Siuslaw River. (Mrs. Margie Y. Knowles collection) LANE COUNTY PIONEER - HISTORICAL SOCIETY Vol. Xl - No. 2 Eugene, Oregon Summer 1966 PRICE 50 CENTS PER COPY LANE COUNTY PIONEER- HISTORICAL SOCIETY Alfred L. Lomax, Editor 740 West 13th Avenue, Eugene, Oregon97402 Dr. E. E. Gray, Membership Secretory 1937 Orchard St., Eugene, Oregon 97403 CONTENTS SOME FACTS ABOUT MY GREAT-UNCLE, JONATHAN LIMERICK MOORE 19 JONATHAN L. MOORE DIARY 23 THIS WAS NEWS THEN 34 EARLY PORT DEVELOPMENT ON THE LOWER SIUSLAW RIVER 35 ILLUSTRATIONS FRONT COVERTHE WILHELMINA STEAM LUMBER SCHOONER 17 JONATHAN LIMERICK MOORE 20 THE HUGH HOGAN, LUMBER SCHOONER 22 18 S0m]ac1i fl1,(rcat V/nc/c, 69onaihan c,,Limcric4 'l4'7loore anti Jami4 By Foy Hampton Robertson "Do they miss me at home? 1799 Armstrong Co. Pa. Arriv. It would be an assurance most Oreg. on or before Sept. 1853. M. dear Eleanor 9 Apr. 1822 Brown Co. To know that they miss me at Ohio. Had 2 sons Jonathan L. and homeetc." John W. and 2 dau. Sarah Ann and Mary Ellen in 1853. Aff. Milton L. The above words of a poem or Riggs, Jonathan L. Moore, Alexan- song came from the lips of a tired, der Patterson" homesick twenty-two year old herd John D o u g 1 a s Hampton, my driver crossing the plains from In- grandfather, who had come to Ore- diana to Oregon in 1852. He kept gon with his parents on the now a small diary while traveling the famous"Lost Wagon Trainof rough wearisome miles. Being the 1845," had filed on a D.L.C. in No- herd driver and responsible for the vember 1845 south of and adjoin- stock, he was mostly concerned ing the Moore claim, and he mar- about the three "W's" namely WA- ried Mary Ellen Moore in 1854. TER, WOOD (or other fuel) and Both claims are situated near Go- the WEATHER. The diary is brief shen. The claim filed on by William and terse, noting the country trav- Mooreliesabout one-halfmile ersed each day, conditions of the northwest of Goshen.It borders trail, distance traveled, etc. The lit- Interstate Highway 5 on its east tle diary, poorly written, with crude side, and 30th Avenue is its north- phonetic spelling is now in the pos- ern boundary. The land is now session of the University of Oregon owned by Mr. Wm. Gonyea, who Special Collections Library. It was recently gave 100 acres of it as a givento me by Mrs. Maud A. site for Lane Community College. Schroeder of Baker, Oregon, whose It seems most fitting that part of mother was the wife of Jonathan the old Moore land claim should Limerick Moore. have been donated for educational purposes, for the elder daughter, Jonathan came across the plains Sarah Ann, taught the first school a year before his parents, William in what is now Eugene. It was a and Eleanor Limerick Moore, a small one room log building with a brother, John Winter Moore, and puncheon floor, one window and two sisters, Sarah Ann and Mary one door on its east side. Near the Ellen Moore. He came ahead of doorway was a crude bench which them to look over the situation in held a water bucket and dipper. The the Willamette Valley and to spot little school house was situated on land for claims. He found land to the point of the hills just south of his liking, and the family followed 30th street and between Harris and him to Oregon in 1853. Kincaid streets.It was heated by The record of the D.L.C. (dona- a rock fireplace. tion land claim) #2616 reads as fol- Sarah Ann had her schooling in lows: "Wm. Moore, Lane Co. b. Ohio and Indiana, and when she 19 came to Oregon in 1853 she brought Hampton, was their third child. her own textbooks, and these were Her brother, John Winter Moore, passed among her pupils. Much of became a well-known cattle man. the teaching was by rote and the He died from tuberculosis at her "sing-song" method. home Sept. 24, 1887. He was 49 Among the pupils of this little years of age and had never mar- school were Joe Lucky, J. D. Mat- ried. He is buried in the Masonic lock, Celia Christian, who later Cemetery in Eugene, and his grave married F. B. Dunn, Nancy Cox is beside those of his father and Cluer, John S. Kincaid, and many mother. others who later became prominent My great-grandparents, William citizens.Sarah Ann taught this Moore and Eleanor Limerick, were school in 1853-54. She usually rode married in Ohio April 9, 1822. Wil- a pony and tethered it near the liam was born in Pennsylvania school, but in good weather she of- April 23, 1799, and his wife was ten walked the four miles gathering born in Limerick, Ireland, April 14, wild flowers and berries in season. 1799. She migrated to the United In 1959 a monument was erected on States at an early age with her the north end of the Masonic Cem- parents. The family left Ireland on etery to honor the little school and account of the political strife and the work of the young teacher. the "Potato Famine." My great Sarah Ann Moore married Jo- grandmother Moore never quite seph Garrison Gray in 1855. They lost her Irish brogue and inflections moved to his D.L.C. near Albany. in her manner of speech. Both died Later this home site was sold, and near Goshen at the home of their they moved to Maiheur County on daughter, Mary Ellen Hampton. Willow Creek. Life on this isolated William Moore died May 10, 1872, Eastern Oregon ranch was hard age 73 years, and Eleanor died May and laborious, but my great aunt, 20, 1876, age 77 years. Both are Sarah Ann, always found time and buried in the Masonic Cemetery and strength to be nurse or mid-wife markers are on their graves. to the scattered settlers. She passed Now a little history about the away January 20,1885, having author of the diary, Jonathan Lim- been stricken with pneumonia dur- erick Moore. He was born in Brown ing one of the coldest and hardest County, Ohio, October 3, 1830. He winters in thirty years. She was married Nancy Orilda Wilson near one of the army of gallant pioneer Harrisburg, Oregon, January 13, women of Oregon who by sheer 1859. He was drowned by what the force of character helped build the early timerscalled a"freshet" state. She was only 56 when she (high water) in Bear Creek east of died, and her life of toil, patience, Creswell and west of Cloverdale on sacrifice and courage should make February 25, 1862. He was at- us all very grateful and humble. tempting to ford some cattle over One of her five children is still liv- the swollen stream when his horse ing. She is Mrs. Zetta Gray Bowers floundered and threw him.The of Battle Ground, Wn. Mrs. Bowers Mrs. Wilson whose illness and bur- was 99 years of age on Nov. 5, 1965. ial he mentions on pages 6-7 of his Mary Ellen Moore married John diary was the mother of Orilda Douglas Hampton near Goshen Oct. whom he married. Orilda was 14 26, 1854, and eleven children were years of age at the time of her born to them. My father, Horace mother's death, and she took over 20 the dutiesofcooking, washing, m o d e r n mortuary there. Maud nursing and tending her younger Caidwell Schroeder gave me the brothers and sisters. Upon reach- diary of Jonathan Limerick Moore, ing Oregon in 1852, her father set- who was the first husband of her tled on a D.L.C. near Harrisburg mother. and became a prominent rancher of While visiting Maud in 1964, I that area.When Jonathan was discovered this interesting article: drowned, Orilda was left with two "Thirty-One Y e a r sin B a k e r small children. Susan Winter Moore County," written by Isaac Hiatt was born near Goshen October 25, and published by Abbott-Foster, 1859. She graduated from the Uni- 1893. On page 150, quote: "June 1, versity of Oregon in 1884 and 1870, taken from the Bedrock Dem- taught school for many years, first ocrat, the first newspaper published in Eastern Oregon and later for in Baker Countytherein it makes many years in the Portland schools. mention of S. A. Caldwell & Co. at She died in Portland in 1938, aged Gimletville taking out a gold nug- 79 years. She is buried in the Ma- get weight, 247 oz. 18 pnts., 8 grs. sonic cemetery in Eugene beside Value $3,966.64. And on the 29th of the grave of her father. The second May 1870 a snow storm fell all over child was Frank Limerick Moore, the valley." born near Goshen in 1861. He died in San Francisco February 8, 1905, where he had gone to seek medical help. For many years he was a prominent attorney of Baker, Ore- gon. He married Amanda Christ- man of Lakeview in 1890. Frank and wife are buried in Baker. After the tragic death of her hus- band, Orilda married a widower, Stanley Alexander Caldwell.Mr. Caidwell was born in New Hamp- shire in 1824. He caught the "gold fever" and came around the Horn with a party of thirty in 1849.