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Mulkey, Charles J.
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| LAST: Mulkey
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FIRST: Charles
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MID: J.
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| GENDER: M
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| BORN: 10 Jun 1832
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DIED: 22 Apr 1899
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| OCCUPATION: Farmer
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| BIRTH PLACE: Jackson Co., Missouri
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| DEATH PLACE: Oregon
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NOTES:
1850 OR TERR CENSUS - Charles Mulkey, age 19, b. Missouri, is enumerated with father James L., age 56, b. North Carolina, John D., age 26, b. Alabama, James L., age 24, b. Alabama, David B., age 22, b. Missouri, Mary, age 17, b. Missouri, Malinda, age 14, b. Missouri, and Albert, age 11, b. Missouri.
MARRIAGE - "Charles Mulkey & Tersey Kingkade [sic], m 24 Aug 1856; William Simpson, M. G., Wit : James Pitman & James Chamberlin #253, pg 70".
1860 OR CENSUS - Chas. Mulkey, age 28, farmer, b. Missouri, is enumerated with T., age 23, b. Missouri, A. M., male, age 2, b. Oregon, and M. A., female, age 1, b. Oregon.
1880 OR CENSUS - Charles J. Mulkey, age 47, widowed, occupation farmer, b. Missouri, is enumerated with Albert, age 22, occupation farm hand, b. Missouri, and George B., age 14, b. Oregon.
BIOGRAPHICAL (From History of Benton County, Oregon, pgs 324-325):
"Among those who came....was the late James L. Mulkey. This worthy man was a native of Virginia, where he was born in the year 1797. After residing several years in Missouri, where his wife died in 1843, in the spring of 1844, he crossed the plains, meeting with all the difficulties and eduring all the hardships that attended that perilous journey in those days. The winter of 1844-5 he passed at Umatilla, and as early as possible, in the following season pushed on into the Willamette valley, and halted in Yamhill county. He now commenced to make search for a place on which to permanently locate, and procedding southward selected the open prairie land bounded on the eastern hand by the Willamette river and overlooked by the rounded crest of Mary's Peak, and the wooded slopes of the lesser foothills. One mile and a half to the northwest of where he since has arisen, first the town of Marysville, and subsequently Corvallis, Mr. Mulkey chose his claim in the winter of 1845; losing no time he erected a log cabin and early in the spring of 1846 brought his nine motherless children - the eldest eighteen, and the youngest six year of age - to make their home. The names of these youthfull pioneers are John D., James L., David B., Mary E. (now Mrs. Liggett), Charles J., Margaret L. (now Mrs. Sears), Malinda P., and Albert G. Through life Mr. Mulkey proved himself to be a man of strict integrity; he served a term in the first Territorial Legislature, representing Benton county, and after years full of usefulness died at his home in 1855."
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INSCRIPTION:
Charles J.
Mulkey
Born In
Jackson Co., Mo.,
June 10, 1832
Died April 22, 1899
Aged 66 Years
Farwell, Dear Father
Sweet Thy Rest
Weary With Years And
Worn With Pain, Farelwell, Till In Some Happy
Place
We Shall Behold Thy Face Again
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SOURCES:
Saucy Survey & Photographs
Marion Co., Oregon Marriage Records, Vol I, 1849-1871, pg 15
1850 OR TERR CENSUS (Benton Co., FA #124)
1860 OR CENSUS (Marion Co., Silverton, FA #2698)
1880 OR CENSUS (Marion Co., Silver Creek, ED 85, pg 119A)
Fagan, David. History of Benton County, Oregon, A. G. Walling, 1885, Portland.
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