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February 2024

Finding Mabel
Finding Mabel

History Tidbits, People

Finding Mabel

Heritage Center2024-03-25T19:44:23-07:00February 29th, 2024|Categories: History Tidbits, People|Tags: California, Carrie Skiff, Delilah Shelton, George E. Chamberlain, Lee Sammons, Mabel Skiff, Napa, Oregon, Robert Eakin, Thomas Morgan, Union|

Childhood portrait of Mabel Skiff, Willamette Heritage Center collections, 2019.013.0081 This story begins with an estrangement between sisters, Carrie and [...]

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September 2018

Belle Passi
Belle Passi

Community Memories, History Tidbits, Marion County Communities, People

Belle Passi

Heritage Center2024-03-22T12:23:41-07:00September 17th, 2018|Categories: Community Memories, History Tidbits, Marion County Communities, People|Tags: Barlow Road, Belle Passi, Belpassi, Carrie Young, Civil War, Confederate, Cumberland Presbyterian preacher, DAR, Daughters of the American Revolution, E.P. Henderson, French Prairie, Governor Addison C. Gibbs, Joel Palmer, John Lawrence Johnson, Laurel Hill, Mr. Craft, Neill Johnson, Oregon Pioneer, Pacific Christian Advocate, Philip Foster Farm, Robert Hanna, Thirteenth Amendment, Thomas B. Allen, Union, Washington Literary Society, William A. Jack, William Eaton, Woodburn, Zig Zag River|

Neill and Esther Johnson, Belpassi pioneers. Used with permission MGB Family Tree, Ancestry.com It was late August 1851, a miserably wet and [...]

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