Re: looking for descendants 1845 Meek Cutoff of Oregon Trail
One map showed a path going northward between the future town of Madras and the Crooked River. I have a place up at 3-rivers, and was looking for see if I could find any trace.
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Re: looking for descendants 1845 Meek Cutoff of Oregon Trail
I would suggest the new book "The Meek Cutoff: Tracing the Oregon Trail's Lost Wagon Train of 1845" by Brooks Geer Ragen. He has been over all of the routes & has included lots of detailed maps in his book. You can buy it on Amazon for 20 something.
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Re: looking for descendants 1845 Meek Cutoff of Oregon Trail
Thanks, found it's at the local library, will pick it up.
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Re: looking for descendants 1845 Meek Cutoff of Oregon Trail
Jonathan Liggett and his wife Elizabeth Fanning had three generations of their family and in-laws accompanying them. I am descended from his grandson John Wesley Liggett. My grandmother Elsie Liggett was his granddaughter. Most of what I know has been through studying and printed sources, as John died young, and his widow lost everything (ranch/farm) but a wagon, two horses, household goods and their two children, which she drove to Camas Valley.
It is amazing.
Gale
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Re: looking for descendants 1845 Meek Cutoff of Oregon Trail
HI there,
My family crossed the OR trail in 1845 and took the Meeks cutoff. I have some written/oral history that has been handed down about their ordeal.
My ggg grandfather was Anderson Cox, and I believe his wife gave birth just prior to taking the cutoff in S. Idaho.
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