Lucretia Perkins

Lucretia Perkins

Female 1848 - 1937  (88 years)

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  • Name Lucretia Perkins 
    Born 08 Sep 1848  Donation Land Claim, Yamhill County, Oregon Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Died 07 Feb 1937  Newberg Community Hospital, Yamhill, Yamhill County, Oregon Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Buried 11 Feb 1937  North Yamhill Cemetery, North Yamhill, Yamhill County, Oregon Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Notes 
    • (from the file of Marlin Beulow)
      "So, you're Fred Lockley. I was just reading your article in The Journal, said Lucretia Walker when I dropped in to see her at her home in Yamhill recently. It's about time you came to see me. I've been expecting you for the past 15 years. Yes, I am a pioneer and also an Oregon native daughter. I was born September 8, 1848. My father, John Perkins, started for the California gold diggings the day before I was born, so for a good many months he didn't know whether I was a boy or a girl. My father, John Perkins, was born in New York state, August 21, 1811. When he was 21 years old he went to Tippecanoe County, Indiana. My father and mother were married there in 1836. Mother's maiden name was Sarah Felix. She was born in Pennsylvania. My father and mother with their children started across the plains for Oregon in the spring of 1844. The immigrants formed in military fashion. They elected Cornelius Gilliam as general, Michael T. Simmons as colonel, and under these were four captains, R.W. Morrison, Richard Woodcock, Elijah Bunton and William Shaw. They also elected a judge and two associate judges. My folks were in the detachment commanded by William Shaw.
      Among the members of the detachment commanded by William Shaw were Mr. and Mrs. Henry Sager with a large family of children. After leaving Fort Laramie, Mr. Sager and two of the Sager boys took sick with a fever. A German doctor, who went by the name of Dr. Dagon, volunteered to drive the wagon. Mr. Sager was getting better and by the time the wagon train had come to the Sweetwater, Mr. Sager thought he was strong enough to go out and hunt buffalo. Dr. Dagon and Mrs. Sager urged him not to go, but he went anyway, and when he came back he took to his bed and a few days later, when they were camped just opposite the mouth of the Big Sandy, where it flows into Green River, Dr. Dagon stayed up all night with Mr. Sager and with Catherine, who had fallen in front of the wagon and had her leg broken. Mr. Sager, knowing he was about to die, got Captain Shaw to promise he would see the family through to the Willamette Valley. Mr. Sager died on the morning of August 27. They cut down a tree, split the trunk and made a coffin for him. Mrs. Sager herself was not strong. She had given birth to a baby on the Little Blue River in Kansas on May 31. I have often heard Mother speak of this baby, for it was passed around to the different women in the wagon train after Mrs. Sager died. Those who had babies nursed the little Sager baby. My sister Lizzie was born on Snake River, so my mother nursed Lizzie and also the Sager baby.
      Mrs. Sager, just before she died, while they were camped near where the town of Twin Falls in now located, called Dr. Dagon to her side and told him to take care of the children, which he promised to do, and which he faithfully performed. Mrs. Sager died and was buried at what was then known as Pilgrim Springs. Dr. Dagon with the seven orphaned Sager children arrived at the Whitman Mission October 18, where he left the children with Dr. and Mrs. Whitman while he went on to the Willamette Valley, settling on Rogue River.
      Dr. Whitman, when he learned that my father was a miller, asked him to stay there that winter to help grind grain for the immigrants. My parents with their children stayed with the Whitman's from late fall of 1844 till the following fall. My father and mother both liked Dr. Whitman very much. He was a very friendly man and didn't think himself any better than anyone else. Mother said Mrs. Whitman was very capable but quite severe, and not friendly, like the doctor.
      I told you that my sister Lizzie was born on the plains, but I didn't tell you that mother rode on horseback all day and that that night Lizzie was born. The next morning mother and her new baby went on with the wagon train, but mother and the baby rode in the wagon instead of on horseback.
      Father came on down to the valley in 1845, and he and mother took up a donation land claim of 640 acres three miles northwest of Yamhill. Jim Burton was their nearest neighbor. When father and mother started across the plains to Oregon they had four children, but as Lizzie was born on the plains they have five when they reached Dr. Whitman's mission at Walilatpu. The children who crossed the plains with them were Sarah, Eli, Joe and Elvira. My sister Elvira, now Mrs. Russell, is 87 years old and lives here in Yamhill. of the nine children in our family only three are living--Elvira, my brother Norris, who will be 79 on October 27, and myself.
      After attending school in our district I went to Portland and boarded at the home of Vincent Cook while attending St. Helens Hall. Vin Cook came to Oregon in 1854 and was one of the pioneers in the salmon canning industry. George and Horatio Cook came to Portland in 1852. Vin was one of the early-day furniture men of Portland. When I stayed at their home Mr. Cook was a member of the firm of Clark, Henderson & Cook. Their store was located at the corner of First and Washington Streets. Later Vincent Cook, with Captain A.P. and Henry F. Ankeny, bought the Sterling Mine, near Jacksonville. Mr. Cook was president of the company and Henry E. Ankeny vice president. Mr. Cook married Orenoco Ankeny, the daughter of Captain A.P. Ankeny.
      I attended St. Helens Hall from the fall of 1869 till the spring of 1871. On September 8, 1873, I married William Walker. My husband died in February 1904. Our daughter, Jenny, married William Hawley. Our son, Guy L. Walker is in road construction work in Utah. William, our next boy, is also building roads at Klamath Falls. Fred is working at road construction with Guy in Utah. John lives in McMinnville."
      (Impressions and Observations of the Journal Man-by Fred Lockley-17 October 1930)
    • (from the file of Marlin Beulow)
      ".....Recently I visited Mrs. Lucretia Walker, a daughter of John Perkins. She was born on her father's donation land claim near Yamhill, September 8, 1848, the day after her father started for the mines. In telling me of her father's trip to the mines, she said: 'Father wanted to wait till my arrival, to see if I was going to be a boy or a girl, but the wagon train was ready, and as my father's mother volunteered to stay with my mother, father decided to go. My father's father, Eli Perkins, as well as Cy Nelson, Ruel Olds, Ben and Jim Johnson and quite a number of our neighbors, joined the wagon train. Father had good luck on the Yuba and also on the American river. He brought back enough gold dust to put up a grist mill and sawmill on the Yamhill river. He built his mill about six miles northwest of North Yamhill. This was the first grist mill and sawmill put up in the county.
      I was married September 8, 1873, to William W. Walker. My husband was born in Maine, April 14, 1836, so he was 12 years older than myself. His father was born in Oldtown, Penobscot County, Maine. His mother, Ellen O'Neill Walker, was born in County Cork, Ireland. My husband shipped in his late teens in the coast trade. He became a mate when he was 21, Later he became captain of a brig called the May Hand. It was while he was captain of this brig that he went to Africa; in fact, he went pretty well all over the world. He went to California and lived for a while in San Francisco. In 1858 he left San Francisco and went up to the Fraser River gold diggings in British Columbia. Later he was engaged in steam boating on Puget Sound. In 1860 he came to Portland and put in the next year on the Columbia. In 1861 he went up to the Idaho mines, where he prospected and mined for the next nine years. From 1870 to 1872 he did carpenter work in Portland. In 1872 he went to work for R. R. Thompson, working on a farm in Yamhill county. My husband could turn his hand to almost anything. For a year or two in the late 60's he ran a blacksmith shop at Boise.'"
      (From Fred Lockley's "The Journal Man" column, Oregonian, Sunday, 19 October 1930).
    Person ID I197523  Strausstown Roots | Berger.G
    Last Modified 9 Nov 2012 

    Father John B Perkins,   b. 21 Aug 1811, Warsaw, Genesee County, New York Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 26 Mar 1886, North Yamhill, Yamhill County, Oregon Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 74 years) 
    Mother Sarah Felix,   b. 06 Dec 1815, Union County, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 28 Jul 1904, Yamhill, Yamhill County, Oregon Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 88 years) 
    Married 29 Mar 1836  Huntersville, Tippecanoe County, Indiana Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F28319  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 William A Muncy,   b. about 1848 
    Married 02 Feb 1867 
    Divorced before 1873 
    Last Modified 9 Nov 2012 
    Family ID F64203  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 William W Walker,   b. 14 Feb 1836, Old Town, Penobscot County, Maine Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 19 Feb 1904, Yamhill, Yamhill County, Oregon Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 68 years) 
    Married 08 Sep 1873  Yamhill County, Oregon Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Jennie May Walker,   b. 23 May 1874, North Yamhill, Yamhill County, Oregon Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 08 Jul 1933, Yamhill County, Oregon Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 59 years)
    +2. Guy Lawrence Walker,   b. 14 Dec 1875, North Yamhill, Yamhill County, Oregon Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 25 Jan 1953, Yamhill County, Oregon Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 77 years)
    +3. William Otto Walker,   b. 05 Sep 1877, North Yamhill, Yamhill County, Oregon Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 08 May 1937, Yamhill, Yamhill County, Oregon Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 59 years)
     4. Fred Neal Walker,   b. 21 Sep 1879, West Chehalem Valley, Yamhill County, Oregon Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 20 Jan 1959, Yamhill County, Oregon Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 79 years)
     5. John Paul Walker,   b. 04 Dec 1881, West Chehalem Valley, Yamhill County, Oregon Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 24 Mar 1964, Yamhill County, Oregon Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 82 years)
    Last Modified 9 Nov 2012 
    Family ID F64205  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart


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