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Peter Livingston

• Birth*: Peter Livingston was born on 15 June 1755 at Louisa County, Virginia.
• Marriage*: He married Elizabeth Head in 1781.
• Death*: Peter Livingston died in Scott County, Virginia, on 1 February 1815, at the age of 59.

• Residence*: He lived in 1794 at Virginia.

Parents:

Vicki Lynn Rowlett

• Birth*: Vicki Lynn Rowlett was born on 23 December 1951 at Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon.
• Death*: She died in Marion County, Oregon, on 24 March 1993, at the age of 41.

• Note*: She Husband - Steve PFAFF.

Parents:

Sarah Brandon

• Marriage*: Sarah Brandon married John Smith, son of John Smith and Rebeckah Anderson.

• Married Name: Her married name was Smith.

Eleanor Smith

• Birth*: Eleanor Smith was born in 1763.
• Death*: She died in 1836.

Parents:

Andree Manerud

• Birth*: Andree Manerud was born on 7 September 1925.
• Death*: She died on 10 March 1975, at the age of 49.

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Felix Alver Collard

• Birth*: Felix Alver Collard was born on 20 July 1810 at Hopkinsville, Christian County, Kentucky.
• Marriage*: He married Martha Damaris Lewis on 25 March 1832 at Bay Creek, Pike County, Illinois.
• Death*: Felix Alver Collard died in Oregon City, Clackamas County, Oregon, on 7 August 1864, at the age of 54.

• (Witness) Biography: He was included in the biography of John Collard.
• Biography: Felix Alver Collard Chapter 165
  Collard-Lewis Wedding Held in 1832; Pleasant Hill's First Teachers
  FELIX ALVER COLLARD played a conspicuous part in early Fairfield and Bay Creek township history. Fairfield, log hamlet that had its origin during the Illinois town-lot boom of 1836, was the predecessor of present Pleasant Hill. The present township of Pleasant Hill was designated in early times as Bay Creek township. Justice Joseph Hubbard, addressing a communication to William Ross, judge of probate, at Atlas, in December, 1832 (setting forth the relinquishment of Mary Lewis of her right to administer the estate of her late husband, Samuel H. Lewis), dated the letter from "Bay Creek Township," on December 22, 1832. There was then no settlement where now is Pleasant Hill.
  
  Felix Alver was the oldest child of John and Lydia (Cannon) Collard. He was a great uncle of Alvin T. Brant of Pittsfield and Mrs. Jennie C. Yokem of Pleasant Hill, who descended directly from Felix's brother, John J. First mention of Felix in the official records of Pike county is found in the Marriage License Register. The marriage license return by Charles Hubbard, the officiating justice, is also among the early archives in the Pike county court house.
  
  Felix A. Collard and Damaris Lewis were married in Bay Creek township March 25, 1832. The record is so certified by Justice Hubbard, who was one of the early comers to that region from Lincoln county, Missouri, and who some four years later joined with three others in founding the town of Fairfield. If Lewis family traditions of the early settlement are correct, Damaris Lewis was married in Pike county a little over a month before her parents, Samuel H. and Mary (Barnett) Lewis, settled in Bay Creek township.
  
  Family traditions fix the Lewis-Barnett-Galloway settlement as of April 28, 1832. James Galloway and his family arrived from Lincoln county on that date. It is possible that family traditions are in error as to the Lewis settlement. The Lewis family may have arrived some time prior to the Galloway settlement. There is in fact some inferential evidence tending to place the Lewis settlement (or possibly their second Pike county settlement) in the 1820s. A biographical sketch of William H. Lewis, published in 1906, dates the Pike county residence of his father, John W. Lewis, from the early 1820s.
  
  John Lewis, son of Samuel H., was born in Missouri Territory in 1813, at the height of the Indian troubles. There is also record of Samuel H. Lewis having sold out in Missouri in the year 1826. On February 6, 1826, Samuel H. Lewis conveyed title (general warranty deed) to Cary Oakley of a part of the northwest quarter of Section 12, township 50, range 1 west, Lincoln county, Missouri.
  
  Felix Collard had a home established on the northeast 40 of Section 7, less than a mile northwest of Stockland, to which he took his bride after the wedding in March, 1832. We may well believe that they occupied a plain log house, as did their neighbors of that day. The young bride, Damaris, not quite 17 when she married Felix, is reputed to have been born near Fairfield, or in what is now Pleasant Hill township, April 2, 1815, indicating that the Lewis family had sojourned in that region, perhaps briefly, before Illinois became a state.
  
  Collard did not formally enter his wild 40 near Stockland until 1833. In that year he entered the 40 from the government, paying $1.25 an acre therefor. In 1834 he sold the 40 to Solomon Yokem and it later passed to the possession of Maxson and Mary E. Lewis.
  
  After selling his 40 near Stockland, Collard entered 80 acres in Section 13, near the Pleasant Hill-Spring Creek line. This 80, the east half of the northwest quarter of Section 13, was entered from the government by Collard in 1834. The grantee's name appears in the record as Phelix A. Collard. On the 80 directly west of Collard lived Harris Speares, who married Eliza Buckaloo, daughter of Eliab. On the 80 directly south of the Collards dwelt Eliza's brother, John Buckaloo, whose first wife was Margaret Collard, who died on this place soon after their settlement there. On the 80 directly east of Collard's, a little later, in 1836, Joseph Barnett established his home. Collard sold his 80 in the east part of the township in 1838, having moved prior to that time into the new town of Fairfield, where he and his brother, John J. Collard, engaged in business on the southwest corner of Block 6, at the corner of Liberty and Washington Streets, in the original eight-block town, up on the bluff. A block south of the Collard corner, at the corner of Bluff and Washington, dwelt Robert Stubblefield and his wife, Rachel, a sister of Felix and John J. Collard.
  
  Felix Collard is identified with the very beginning of what is now Pleasant Hill. It was before him that the founding fathers of Fairfield appeared in June, 1836, and certified the plat of the town for the uses and purposes set forth therein. The founding fathers were Eli and Charles Hubbard, Ezra Dodge and John McMullin. They acknowledged the plat, previously filed by Joseph Hardin Goodin, then county surveyor, and made affidavit as required by law, subscribing same before Felix A. Collard, acting justice of the peace in and for Bay Creek township, appointed to said office by Governor Joseph Duncan, Kentuckian and fifth Illinois governor.
  
  Felix and his brother, John J. Collard, were among the earliest merchants in the town of Fairfield. Records show that they carried a great merchandise line. Among the faded papers pertaining to the estate of John Buckaloo, who died at Fairfield June 7, 1838, is a bill entitled "John Buckaloo, in account with J. J. and F. A. Collard," covering the period from December 25, 1837 to June 4, 1838. Among the items in this bill are the following: "One smoothing iron, 38c; darning and sewing needles, 6c; 1 bonnett, $2; 2 yds. ribband at 12 1/2c; 1 tea pot, 50c; 6yds. calico at 31 1/4c, $1.87; 2 crocks at 12 1/2c; 25c; 2 lbs. sugar at 12 1/2c, 25c." The bill was receipted by the Collard brothers at Fairfield, November 12, 1839.
  
  Felix A. Collard appears to have been a useful and influential member of the early Bay Creek settlement. His name appears in numerous public records of the pioneer period. He was a smithy, an expert mechanic and a worker in wood. Many of his descendants in the old northwest territories became expert mechanics. "This, too," says Victor W. Jones of Seattle, Washington, one of Felix's great grandsons, "points in the direction of his Huguenot ancestry, as the Huguenots were of the artisan class in France, most of them coming from such cities as Rochelle, etc."
  
  In early days on Bay Creek, blacksmithing was much in demand. There were horses and oxen to be shod, wagons to be made and repaired, plows (then spelled ploughs) to be pointed. The village blacksmith was then an important personage, looked up to as a leader.
  
  Felix is said to have learned his trade as a smithy at the forge of his father-in-law, Samuel H. Lewis. He later pursued this vocation in Oregon Territory, to which he removed in 1847. He was also an early coffin-maker in the Bay Creek country. Out of felled sycamores along Bay Creek he made the unembellished caskets that received the bodies of the Bay Creek pioneers.
  
  Coffins were cheap in the days of which we write. Felix Collard charged the estate of Eliab Buckaloo, who died in his hewn log home southeast of Pleasant Hill, near where Bay Creek breaks through the bluffs, February 26, 1844, the sum of $4 for "making a coffin for Eli Buckaloo," a grandson of Eliab and for whom Eliab had been guardian. Collard's bill is among the papers of the estate.
  
  John McMullin, one of the founders and original proprietors of the town of Fairfield, was another of the early coffin makers. His price for adult-sized coffins also appears among the records of the Eliab Buckaloo estate. He made the coffins for Eliab and his wife. His bill reads: "John McMullin, to making coffin (and lumber) for old man $5. Same for old lady $5. By lumber for one coffin $2. Total $8." Indicating that the charge for a coffin was $5, including lumber and making, less $2 if the lumber was furnished by the family.
  
  The Buckaloos, intermarried with the Collards, were prominent in the early settlement. The name is no longer known in this region. The family came to these parts in 1810, along with the early McCoys, McCunes and Harpoles, and made their first settlement on Ramsey Creek, in Missouri, whence they came to the Bay Creek region in Pike county, Illinois, in the 1820s and 1830s. John Buckaloo, son of pioneer Eliab, married Margaret Collard, daughter of Missouri Charles. Margaret died, and John later married Lucinda Elizabeth Firman, and they had a son, Eli Buckaloo. John Buckaloo died in 1838 and on his death bed requested that his father, Eliab, look after the boy and see to his property. Eliab was therefore appointed by the court as Eli's guardian. Eli's mother, widow of John Buckaloo, afterward married Thomas Harlow, and Eli was taken by the Harlows, who attempted to have Eliab Buckaloo removed as guardian, leading in 1839 to one of the exciting lawsuits of early days, wherein Belus Jones, Charles Hubbard, Robert Stubblefield (husband of Rachel Collard), Jesse Zumwalt, Kirgus (Lycurgus) Lewis (brother of Damaris Lewis Collard) and Martha Firman are named in records of the case as witnesses for Buckaloo. Eli, minor child over whom the controversy raged, died in the early 1840s while the case was still in court, preceding his grandfather, Eliab, who died in 1844.
  
  John J. Collard was administrator of the estate of old Eliab Buckaloo, Kentucky pioneer who was one of the original settlers on Ramsey Creek in what is now Pike county, Missouri. The name in old Missouri and Illinois records often appears as "Buckalew" and sometimes as "Burkalew." A number of early Pleasant Hill families intermarried with the family of Eliab. Jonathan C. Turnbaugh, brother of Jacob who married Abigail Collard, married Eliab's daughter, Celia A., whose name appears in the old records as Selah A. Buckaloo. Garrett Buckaloo, son of Eliab, married Julia McCoy, the daughter of Joseph, who with his family settled on Ramsey Creek in Missouri in 1810, along with the Buckaloos. Eliza, daughter of Eliab, married Harris Speares, one of the early free-school trustees in Bay Creek township. John Buckaloo, as already noted, married, first, Margaret Collard, and second, Lucinda Elizabeth Firman. One Buckaloo daughter married William P. Pruett and another married Henry Young. Joseph Buckaloo was another son. Lydia Buckaloo, daughter of Eliab, was the first wife of Samuel P. Zumwalt, Pleasant Hill pioneer and direct descendant of old Jacob Zumwalt of the Fort Zumwalt pioneers on the Missouri border. Samuel P. was a son of pioneer Andrew and Susannah Zumwalt and a brother of David, Jacob, Isaac, Levi, Nathan Heald and Jackson Zumwalt, and of Christina Crow, Cynthia Ann Harpole, Edna Buthram and Sally Brummell and a half brother of William Zumwalt and Elizabeth Zumwalt Null.
  
  The first settlers in Bay Creek township early realized the need of educational facilities for their children. Some time in the summer of 1837 the first steps were taken by a small group of family heads to establish free schools in the township. Pursuant to this idea, the heads of five of these pioneer families, all of them immigrants from Lincoln county, Missouri, were chosen as school trustees, including David Hubbard, Felix A. Collard, James Liles, James Liles, James Galloway and William Steele.
  
  The records of the proceedings of this board of trustees are found in a minute book covering the period from August 4, 1837 to September 3, 1859. It is probably the oldest minute record of the free school system now extant in Pike county. The minutes were doubtless indited with a quill pen and are still legible in their entirety. The book was found by D. E. Bower many years ago when a wooden structure was being removed from the Swainson corner in the town of Pleasant Hill.
  
  The first minutes recorded in this earliest record of free schools in Pike county are here set forth:
  
  "At a meeting of the Trustees of schools in Township 7 S., R. 4 West of the 4th. Principal Meridian, held in the town of Fairfield in the county of Pike, State of Illinois on the 4th day of August in the year of our Lord 1837; present David Hubbard, Felix A. Collard, James Liles, James Galloway and William Steele.
  
  "On motion the Trustees proceeded to the election of a President of the board whereupon David Hubbard was duly elected. On motion the Trustees proceeded to the election of a Treasurer of the School funds for two years from and after the first Monday in July last when Richard Kerr was declared duly elected.
  
  "The Trustees then proceeded to fix the rate of compensation to be allowed to teachers of schools at the sum of two dollars twenty-five cents per quarter of thirteen weeks for each scholar.
  
  "On examination of his qualifications Richard Kerr was employed as teacher of School No. 1 for 1 quarter or thirteen weeks to commence on the 7th day of August instant.
  
  "On examination of his qualifications David Hubbard was employed as teacher of School No. 2 for one quarter or thirteen weeks to commence on the 7th day of August instant.
  
  "On motion the board adjourned until the first Monday in November next. Richard Kerr, Sec. David Hubbard, President."
  
  Richard Kerr, the first free school teacher employed in the township, headed a prominent family at early Stockland. Mr. Kerr and his wife Ruth and their children, coming from Missouri in 1835, located along the bluff road just west of Six Mile on what was later the Perry Wells farm and which is more recently a part of the Max Wells lands. He was a man of great ability. Back in Missouri he was twice elected to the Missouri lower house of the legislature, in 1822 and in 1828. After coming to Illinois he was elected to the legislature of this state in the election of August 6, 1838, his seat being contested later. With him in the House sat Abraham Lincoln, elected from Sangamon county that year. Lincoln and Kerr were Whigs. While on a trip to the state of Texas in 1852, Kerr was seized of yellow fever and died on December 7, that year. Because of the nature of the disease, it was necessary for him to be buried where he died. A monument, however, was erected to his memory in the Wells cemetery at Pleasant Hill.
  
  In his will, of which Perry and Richard Wells were the executors, he bequeathed to the "Methodist Episcopal church at Stockland and to the inhabitants of school district No. 3 (Stockland) two acres of land to include the Stockland school and well and to be so laid off as to have a front on the State Road of at least ten poles." Richard Kerr's children included Zerilda (wife of Richard Wells), Margaret (wife of Bluford Cannon), Mary (wife of William Steele of the above board of school trustees), Elizabeth Jane (first wife of Perry Wells, cousin of Richard), Carolyn (wife of John Duncan), and Patience W. (wife, first, of James Wells, second of Job Smith, third of Aquilla B. McElfresh, her last husband being a Methodist preacher).
  
  David Hubbard, the other teacher employed at this first meeting of the school trustees, was an early Baptist preacher at Martinsburg and Pleasant Hill, continuing to minister to the churches there until 1853 when he went overland with others of the settlement to Oregon Territory. He married as his second wife, August 3, 1840, in Lincoln county, Missouri, Mary (Polly) Little Thurman, a daughter of Lydia Cannon Collard by her second husband, Isaac L. Thurman. They had ten children. The Reverend Mr. Hubbard died at the Dalles, Oregon, in 1868; his wife in 1881.
  
  These were not the first schoolmasters in Pleasant Hill township but were the first under the free school act. Master William Howell taught a subscription term IN A SETTLER'S ABANDONED LOG HOUSE AT THE FOOT OF Bay Creek bluff in the southwest corner of Section 25 as early as the spring of 1828. He charged the parents $2 per scholar per term or quarter. He had 21 scholars from four pioneer families. Master Joe Bailey, Joe Lindley, Dan Malloy, Duke Morris and Joe Hubbard were other early masters preceding the era of free schools. Joseph Hubbard taught in the first schoolhouse erected in the township in 1832. This log school stood near the James Galloway place, south of the breaks of Dry Fork, which empties into Six Mile Creek.
  
  Felix Collard was school trustee until July 1, 1839, when the second election was held and the first board was succeeded by William P. (Paul) Harpole, William Jamison, Thomas Barton (later the father-in-law of John J. Collard), Harris Speares and Henry Ferguson. Felix at some of the trustee meetings served as secretary in the absence of Richard Kerr (absent at the state capital where he was then sitting as member of the lower house from Pike), and on such occasions the minutes are in Collard's hand.
  
  William H. Johnson was the next free school teacher employed, after Richard Kerr and David Hubbard. He was employed November 6, 1837, for School No. 3. Collins B. Daniels succeeded Johnson. On January 7, 1839 the board employed F. A. Collard as teacher of School No. 2 for one quarter. At the meeting on July 1, 1839 Collard's schedule was examined and the Treasurer was thereupon directed to pay him the sum of $24.35. James Galloway served as president pro tem at this meeting. Jacob Capps was employed to teach in the spring of 1840, and on July 6, 1840 we find record of the employment of the first teacher in the township, Mrs. Arretta Berry, wife of Willis F. Berry. The Berrys had come over earlier in the year from Pike county, Missouri, having come originally from Kentucky. Mrs. Berry taught several terms at Stockland. She was the mother of Mrs. Sarah Guiley, Mrs. Lucy Roberts, Mrs. Katherine Dunning, Mrs. Emma Blake, James, Benjamin and John F. Berry.
  
  John J. Collard, younger brother of Felix, was employed as teacher in School No. 2 at the same time Mrs. Berry was employed in No. 1.
  
  On August 2, 1841 the trustees organized by electing David Wilson (husband of Isaphena Collard) president and David Hubbard treasurer. Other newly-elected trustees were James Liles, John Averette, Joseph Hubbard and W. F. Berry.
  
  At this meeting, the board "in accordance with a resolution passed by the citizens of the Township proceeded to appoint Perry Wells, F. A. Collard and James H. Ferguson as examiners of teachers for the Township, any two of whom giving a certificate of his or her qualifications as a teacher shall be entitled to their distributive share of the school fund."
  
  At a meeting of the trustees on the first Saturday in October, 1841, J. J. Collard was elected to "take census of the children on the south side of the line between Section 16 and 21 and F. A. Collard was elected to take census of children in the following described bounds: all east of the State road that runs from Fairfield to Pittsfield, and Joseph Hubbard to take the census of the children of the balance of the Township."
  
  Collard later was again elected school trustee and was president of the trustee board just before he left for Oregon Territory in 1847.
  
  In these brief glimpses into the early record book we learn something of the beginning of free schools in this region. We find, too, that the characters of our history were among the founders and promoters of free schools.
  
  Felix A. Collard was prominent in pioneer politics, as was his brother, John J. He was a Democrat and had more than one political skirmish with the Ross Whigs of his day. He was an early justice of the peace in his township, the office of justice in those days being of far greater importance than it is today. In the exciting election of August 1, 1842, when Thomas Ford, Democrat, beat Joseph Duncan, Whig candidate for governor, by only 12 votes in Pike county, Felix A. Collard was one of the three Democratic candidates for the lower house of the General Assembly. The vote for representatives was: William Blair, Democrat, 1187; Alexander Starne, Democrat, 1085; Felix A. Collard, Democrat, 855; Benjamin D. Brown, Whig, 1148; Benjamin B. Metz, Whig, 1056; John Troutner, Whig, 835, Blair, Starne and Brown were elected.
  http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~glendasubyak/ch165.html.
• Biography*: He Collard, Capps, Hubbard Families Join 1847 Trek Westward by Wagon Train
  
  STOCKLAND GROVE, up the old Fort Edwards road from Pleasant Hill, was one of the Pike county muster points for the great Oregon Trail. From this beautiful grove on Six Mile, numerous pioneer families started for Oregon Territory in the twenty-year period of 1847 - 1867. Here the prairie schooners with their canvas tops and boat- shaped bodies, drawn by teams of sturdy oxen, mules or horses, assembled in small caravans, later to join themselves with larger caravans at rendezvous points out on the Missouri river. Here men of the early settlement planned their excursions into the northwest and followed them to success.
  
  "Westward Ho!" was the cry as ox whips cracked and the creaking covered wagons, stoutly built, designed to hold a prodigious amount of baggage and paraphernalia, began to roll. Up the bluff road they moved, then out across the great bottoms to the ferry at Louisiana, thence on across Missouri to Independence on the Missouri river.
  
  Independence was one of the five main assembly points on the Missouri, each of which was known in trail days as a rendezvous. The French term was used correctly, indicating places where lesser groups met and combined into caravans for the long trek across the plains. Other rendezvous points on the Missouri were Westport, Fort Leavenworth, Weston and St. Joseph. A map published in 1852 shows that the famous trail started at these five points on the Missouri.
  
  At Independence, the emigrants made final additions to their stores, made a last cautious check of their equipment, and then, joined with wagon train groups from other settlements, proceeded to the promised land. From some of the written records of those days it is possible to recapture some of the color and glamor of those adventurous journeyings.
  
  Years earlier, as early as 1813, in the time of the Indian troubles on the Missouri border, it had become known that men could cross the great plains in stoutly built wagons. In the files of the historical society at St. Louis is a communication prepared in that year, in which a returning party of fur men known as the Astorians, under the patronage of the first Astor and the captaincy of Wilson P. Hunt of St. Louis, said that wagons could be used to cross the range. They had made the round trip and they knew. These men had their headquarters and warehouses in St. Louis.
  
  On April 10, 1830, the Smith, Jackson and Sublette expedition started for the northwest with heavy wagons and Dearborn buggies. In an official statement to the War Department, the party reported it consisted of ten wagons drawn by five mules each, and two Dearborns drawn by one mule each, and 81 men, all mounted on mules. These adventurers were residents of the town of St. Louis.
  
  It was in the 1840s that the western fever began to beat in the pulses of our Pleasant Hill pioneers. By the fall of 1846, some had decided upon the great adventure. Around the fireplaces in the winter of 1846-47, plans were made, trail maps studied. Letters written back to Illinois by those who had gone before were eagerly read. Some of these letters contained suggestions as to what they would need for the journey, warnings of dangers against which they must guard.
  
  The ill-fated Donner expedition, which was to end so disastrously at beautiful Donner Lake, had gone on before, in 1846. Letters, after months of devious transit, appeared in the pioneer press of the state, copies of which found their way into Zachariah N. Garbutt's little print shop in Pittsfield. These letters were copied from the Illinois State Journal and appeared in Garbutt's Whig Free Press, a predecessor of the present Pike County Republican, which descends from Garbutt's paper in direct line. These letters were eagerly read by those who contemplated taking the long western trail. In Garbutt's paper, in the fall of 1846, was comment, in connection with publication of these letters, to the effect that they should be interesting to those who planned to go to Oregon and California in the spring.
  
  There was notice also that as many as eight young men of good character who could drive an ox team would be accommodated by gentlemen who would leave Illinois about the first of April. This was in 1846.
  
  Mrs. George Donner's letter, written from the Platte, June 16, 1846, and reaching here in the fall of that year, contained suggestions for other emigrants who might follow after them. She said:
  
  "Our wagons have not needed much repair but I cannot tell yet in what respect they could be improved. Certain it is that they cannot be too strong. Our preparations for the journey in some respects might have been bettered.
  
  "Bread has been the principal article of food in our camp. We laid in 150 pounds of flour and 75 pounds of meal for each individual, and I fear bread will be scarce. Meat is abundant. Rice and beans are good articles on the road. Cornmeal, too, is acceptable.
  
  "Linsey dresses are the most suitable for children. Indeed, if I had one it would be comfortable. There is so cool a breeze at times on the prairie that the sun does not feel as hot as one would suppose."
  
  Wagon train life was also described by James F. Reed, who wrote to the Illinois State Journal from Fort Bridger, one hundred miles from Great Salt Lake, on July 31, 1846. The letter reached the state capital at Springfield in time for its publication as "spot news" in the Journal's issue of November 5, 1846.
  
  "We have arrived here safe," said Mr. Reed, "with the loss of two yoke of my best oxen. They were poisoned by drinking water in a little creek called Dry Sandy, situated between the Great Spring in the pass of the Mountains and Little Sandy. The water was standing in puddles.
  
  "Jacob Donner also lost two yoke, and George Donner a yoke and a half, all supposed from the same cause. I have replenished my stock by purchasing from Messrs. Vasques and Bridger, two very excellent and accommodating gentlemen, who were proprietors of the trading post."
  
  The call of free land proved irresistible for some of our south Pike pioneers and in the spring of 1847 we find the first covered wagon caravan moving out from Stockland Grove on Six Mile, bound for Independence, Missouri, where final decision was to be reached by some as between the new state of Texas and the Territory of Oregon. These men of the first rendezvous were of western pioneering stock, all of them born or raised on the wild Missouri border, all of them descended from sturdy settlers who had followed Daniel Boone into the wild Kentucky land. In them was a mighty courage, born of the old wilderness with which their Virginia and Kentucky ancestors had wrestled.
  
  Moving out on the trail in this first Oregon bound expedition from Pike county, we find, among other emigrants, the family of Felix Alver and Damaris Lewis Collard, each bidding farewell to a mother they were never to see again in life. As a letter of the time relates: "There was a feeling that those who were going away would never return."
  
  Just what families comprised this first South Pike contribution to the Oregon Trail is uncertain. It has been stated that at least five ox-drawn covered wagons started at this time, which were joined by others from the pioneer community across the river in Missouri. In the Collard outfit were Felix and his wife and their five children, the oldest a girl of 13, all born in Pleasant Hill township.
  
  With Felix and Damaris and their children went also the outfit of Charles Hubbard, Jr., whose wife was Margaret Cannon, an aunt of Felix. Charles was a brother of Eli, Joseph and the Reverend David, they being sons of Charles Hubbard, Sr. and his wife, who was Jemima Lewis, kinswoman of the Boones and bearing the name of Daniel Boone's daughter, Jemima Boone Callaway.
  
  Joseph Hubbard, youngest son of Charles and Jemima Hubbard, married, in Missouri, Lucinda Lewis, a daughter of Samuel H. and Mary (Barnett) Lewis. Joseph and Lucinda came to Bay Creek (Pleasant Hill) township in a very early day and located in the northern part of the township, in Section 4, as did also the father, Charles Hubbard, Sr. Charles Hubbard, Sr. died there January 3, 1836. In his will, witnessed by Joseph Barnett and James Galloway, he left most of his estate, farm utensils, livestock, etc., to Joseph, who was his youngest son, stipulating that Joseph should take good care of his mother, Jemima Hubbard, as long as she should live. He named his son David (the Reverend David of beloved Baptist memory) as sole executor of his will.
  
  Joseph Hubbard and Lucinda Lewis were married in Lincoln county, Missouri, by the Reverend Samuel Phar, Christmas Day, 1827. They had the following issue: John B., Francis E., Laura E., A. Caroline, Joseph S. and Charles G. Hubbard. Joseph died on the home place north of Pleasant Hill, May 11, 1849, proof of death being made by John W. Lewis. The widow, Lucinda Hubbard, administered the estate, her bondsmen being Richard Kerr and John W. Lewis. That Lucinda was a daughter of Samuel H. and Mary Barnett Lewis is learned from a document signed at Pittsfield on April 7, 1840, wherein Joseph Hubbard acknowledged receipt in full from Ephraim Cannon, administrator of the estate of Joseph Barnett (who administered the estate of Samuel H. Lewis), of a legacy due his wife from the estate of her father, Samuel H. Lewis. Joseph Barnett, administrator of the estate of Samuel Lewis, had died in 1838. He was a brother of Mary Barnett Lewis and a brother-in-law of Eli and Charles Hubbard, Jr., all three having married daughters of James and Rachel Stark Cannon, who were also the parents of Felix Collard's mother, Lydia Cannon Collard.
  
  Charles and Margaret Cannon Hubbard, who joined with Felix and Damaris Collard in the great adventure on the Oregon Trail, carried six children with them across the plains. They were Charles Lewis, Thomas Cannon, Jemima, and three others who are listed by Victor Wayne Jones of Seattle, Washington, as Mrs. Arista Neudal, Mrs. N. R. Cooley of Woodburn, Oregon, and William Hubbard of Salem, Oregon. All are dead.
  
  Charles Hubbard, Jr. and Margaret Cannon were married in Lincoln county, Missouri, December 20, 1829. The quaint record of their wedding, dug out of the archives at Troy, county seat of Lincoln, reads:
  
  "State of Missouri, County of Lincoln: Be it remembered that on the twentieth day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine was joined together in the holy state of matrimony by the undersigned, one of the justices in and for the county of Lincoln, Charles Hubbard and Margaret Cannon. Given under my hand this 15th day of March, 1830. Brice W. Hammack, Justice of the Peace. Recorded March 20, 1830."
  
  The groom was 29, being born in Kentucky, February 14, 1800. The bride was 18. She was born on the Missouri border April 19, 1811, and was rocked in a hollowed sycamore crib in Wood's Fort (where now is Troy), at the commencement of Indian outbreaks later in that year. Soon after their marriage they moved to St. Louis, and a little later they came from St. Louis to Bay Creek township in Pike county, where their kindred were beginning to settle the wild land.
  
  Another family that moved out on the trail with the Felix Collards was that of Isaac Capps, whose wife was Jemima, daughter of Charles and Jemima Hubbard and sister of Charles Hubbard, Jr. Isaac Capps had married Jemima Hubbard (in the marriage record at Troy, Missouri, the name is spelled "Gemima"), February 9, 1832, the ceremony being performed in Lincoln county, Missouri. Victor Wayne Jones records that Isaac Capps' brother, Stanford Capps, was captain of the mess in which Felix A. Collard belonged when crossing the plains in 1847 and that Stanford Capps was also in the Council of Idaho in 1863. Other brothers of Isaac were Daniel Capps, who married Permelia Ann Armstrong March 8, 1832; David Capps, who married Sarah Goodwin February 13, 1836; and Benjamin Capps, who married Nancy Ligon (spelled "Liggon" in the Missouri record) on September 30, 1836. All were married in Lincoln county, Missouri. The various families (Capps, Armstrong, Goodwin and Ligon) were later identified with Pike county, Illinois.
  
  Victor W. Jones also lists the following as children of Isaac Capps and Jemima Hubbard: Hubbard Capps, Fred (who married Alice Bennet), Frank, Dr. William, George (who married Mary Ellen Bennet and had a daughter Delphia, who married James Wells and lives in Kalama, Washington) and Bertha.
  
  One (possibly two) of the early Sitton families (Winston Sitton and possibly his brother Brice) also went to Oregon at or about this same time (1847) and may have been in this first wagon train. The younger Joseph Barnett, who had married Mary Fry, also left for Oregon Territory in this year. One account lists George Washington and Ephraim Jackson Thurman as members of this 1847 emigrant train. They were half brothers of Felix Collard but it is doubtful if any of the Thurmans made the Oregon trip at this time. It is known that Ephraim Jackson Thurman took the Oregon Trail with his family in 1853 and it is likely that George W. and Granville Thurman, his brothers, went at the same time.
  
  One account also includes Douglas Jones as among the Oregon Territory emigrants from Pleasant Hill in 1847, which is an error. Earl Douglas Jones, who was Victor Wayne Jones' grandfather, joined the emigrant train at Independence, Missouri, arriving there from Ohio, and there at Independence, on the Missouri, young Douglas Jones (kinsman of Stephen A. Douglas, the statesman) met Mary Jane Collard (oldest of Felix and Damaris's children), and there another romance of the trail had its beginning, that was later to culminate in a wedding in Oregon, where the young couple became pioneers in the great Northwest Territory.
  
  http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~glendasubyak/ch166.html.
• Biography: He Chapter 175
  William Franklin Collard Took Second Priscilla Evaline Rogers as Wife
  
  HUNDREDS OF PERSONS in the Pacific Northwest, as has been observed in the preceding chapters, are descended from the pioneers of the ox-wagon trains from the Pleasant Hill country in the 1840s and 1850s. Among the early Pike county families who contributed to the northwestern settlement were the Lewises, Collards, Hubbards, Barnetts, Sittons, Cappses, Thurmans, Cannons, Zumwalts, Koontzes, Harlows, Wellses, Galloways, Philipses, McNarys and many others.
  
  Over the great Oregon Trail traveled the Pike county pioneers to implant in the northwestern territories family names that still persist in the states of Oregon and Washington, even as they do in Pike county, Illinois, their point of origin.
  
  The story of Felix Alver Collard and Danaris Lewis, descendants of heroic lines of the Revolutionary period, has been told, together with the stories of seven of their nine children, six of whom were of Pike county birth and one of whom occupies a Pike county grave.
  
  Eighth of Felix Collard's children, and the next after Isaac Newton Collard whose family history has just been related, was Martha Ann Collard, born three years after the family's arrival in Oregon Territory. She was born October 7, 1850, in Oregon City, Oregon. On March 22, 1866, when she was only 15 years of age, she married James T. Mael. She and her husband were probably parties in a double wedding, as the records show that her brother, Elihu Benton Collard, one of the Pleasant Hill emigrants to Oregon Territory in 1847, was married the same day. Martha Ann did not long survive her marriage, her death occurring two months later, on May 9, 1866. She is buried in Oregon.
  
  Last of the children of Felix Alver Collard and Martha Damaris Lewis was William Franklin Collard, born in Oregon City January 1, 1853. He was educated and grew up in Oregon City. In November, 1877, he married Priscilla Evaline Rogers, sister of Jane Ann Rogers, who was the wife of his brother, Isaac Newton Collard. The story of Priscilla Evaline's family has been related in connection with that of her sister, Jane Ann, this family being connected with the Rogers family which has played such a conspicuous part in the history of Pike county, Illinois.
  
  Four children were born to William Franklin and Priscilla Evaline (Rogers) Collard: Frederick William, Lewis Langdon, Grace Damaris and Bessie Frances.
  
  Frederick William, born in 1882, is a machinist in a paper mill at Camas, Washington, where he resides. He has been twice married, both marriages to widows with children. He married, first, Mrs. Edith Wurtzburger, who had two children, and second, Mrs. Dorothy (Daly) Allen, who had three children. The second marriage was in 1931. Fred has raised the five stepchildren in his home but has had no children of his own.
  
  Lewis Langdon Collard, born 1884, married Althea Scotten and they had two children, Mary Evelyn and William Franklin Collard. Mary Evelyn, who is about 19, is married to George Mathies. William Franklin is about 16, born 1923 or 1924. Lewis Langdon resides at Camas, Washington.
  
  Grace Damaris Collard, born in March, 1888, married William Carl Scotten (brother of Althea Scotten who married Lewis Langdon) and they reside near Vancouver, Washington. They have one son, William Noreen, born 1923 or 1924.
  
  Bessie Frances Collard, born December 2, 1891, married A. L. Karnath and they have three sons, Langdon Lewis, Lyle and Norris. Langdon, aged about 24, married Billie Marchbank and they have an infant son, about six months of age, named Langdon. The Karmaths reside at Fisher's near Vancouver, Washington.
  
  William Frankin Collard, the youngest son of Felix Alver, early in life learned the paper makers' trade. He was among the first paper makers on the Pacific coast. He began working for William Lewthwaite in the paper mill at Clackamas, Oregon, and continued in the paper making business for over fifty years. He later settled at La Camas or Camas, Washington.
  
  In his old age, William Franklin Collard, writing under date of November 11, 1919, from Camas, Washington, to his niece, Mrs. Laura Adelaide (Jones) Benjamine (now Crawford), then residing at Estacada, Oregon, enclosed the following article concerning the old days in the paper making industry, taken from "Makin' Paper," a paper published by the paper making trade:
  
  "Here is a record that is hard to beat, 46 year since W. F. Collard first started in the paper making game - most of which time has been spent with our company, and he is neither a bolsheviki or a downtrodden slave - something wrong, either with him or with the arguments of the radicals, for W. F. has all the looks of contentment and good health and is going strong. If you could see him at his home on the banks of the Columbia or see him driving his ‘Hup,' you would never believe he had served 46 years at continuous toil, but would be more apt to think that he had that many years before him.
  
  "Mr. Collard first started in the old mill on the Clackamas River under William Lewthwaite, father of our present Resident Manager. At that time ‘News' was made from rag stock and all the paper was supplied for the Portland Oregonian, the Seattle P. I., the Oregon City paper and a number of other papers. In addition to the ‘News,' considerable quantity of Butcher and Manila was manufactured.
  
  "Mr. Collard says that the old machine of that day would just about make a good sized watch charm of today and could probably supply enough paper for one day's issue of the Oregonian if they were to run a month without accident but at that they made some fine paper.
  
  "The finished product was freighted by wagon from the mill to what is now Parkplace, Oregon, which was then the southern terminal of the old Ben Holloday Land Grant Railway, which, by the way, was the first 15 miles of railway to be built in Oregon.
  
  "The old force at the Clackamas mill consisted of William Lewthwaite, superintendent, Cap and Gus Smith, beater engineers; H. P. Nary machine tender; James Root, bleach room; William Campbell and William Faubin, firemen; H. L. Pittock, owner and paymaster.
  
  "Mr. Collard has worked under the following Crown Williamette superintendents: Mr. Teurck, C. S. West, Noble Heath, Joe Kaster, William Shehan, Mr. Fuller, P. J. Lamerough and Al Witherbee. At the present time he is working for Superintendent Jim Duvall at the Camas Bag Factory."
  
  The foregoing again stresses the significance of the pioneer Pike county influence in the development of the northwest territories, and of the part which descendants of the Pike county pioneers have continued to play in the history of the Pacific coast settlements.
  
  William Franklin Collard lives to the age of 71. In politics, he was a staunch Democrat. He was a musician and a maker of musical instruments. He and his two sons, Fred and Lewis Collard, in the old days had an orchestra and played for many of the old-time dances in Camas, Washington, and Bridal Veil, Oregon. He was a skilled cabinet maker and the making of guitars, banjos, mandolins and violins was a hobby with him. A violin of his making is still a prized possession of his niece, Mrs. Evelyn Collard Fidelle of Portland, Oregon, whose father, Isaac Newton Collard, treasured it in his lifetime. (The making of this violin was mistakenly attributed in a preceding article to another Frank Collard, son of William Franklin's elder brother, Elihu Benton Collard.)
  
  William Franklin Collard was another of the family who did much collecting and writing of Collard family history. He was authority for considerable family history that was accumulated by his nephew, Frank, son of Elihu Benton Collard.
  
  William Franklin Collard and his elder brother, Isaac Newton, were the latest survivors of Felix Alver Collard's children. William Franklin died at Camas, Washington, February 22, 1924, preceding the brother, Isaac Newton, noted survey scout, who died at McMinnville, Oregon, August 30, 1929, following seven years of total blindness. William Franklin's wife (the former Priscilla Evaline Rogers) died prior to 1919.
  
  William Franklin, in November, 1919, wrote his niece, Mrs. Addie (Jones) Benjamine: "We will soon all be gone. Ike (Isaac Newton) and I are all that is left of us. We can only hope for a reunion ‘over there.' I am very lonesome, all alone now."
  
  Felix Alver Collard and Martha Damaris Lewis, pioneers in the wild Bay Creek country of more than a hundred years ago, sleep side by side in the cemetery at Oregon City, at the far end of the famous Oregon Trail, over which we have followed them in this history as they wended their slow way westward from Pleasant Hill behind an ox- team, in the year 1847.
  
  Felix, in Oregon Territory, became identified with the early political history of that region. He became the personal friend of John McLaughlin, known as "The Father of Oregon," whose home was at Oregon City after he ceased working for the Hudson's Bay Company at Vancouver. A Democrat in his political allegiance, Felix served in the Oregon legislature from Clackamas county. In July, 1848, Felix and his wife helped build and organize the first Baptist church in Oregon. In the early days all of the Pacific country as far north as Alaska was Oregon Territory.
  
  Death came to Felix Alver suddenly. He was out in his yard at his home in Oregon City on Sunday, August 7, 1864. He stooped to pick up a stone or some missile and started to throw it at some chickens. Life snapped; the pioneer of Kentucky, Missouri, Illinois and Oregon stepped across another frontier.
  
  Felix Alver was described as a tall man, at least six feet in height, red-haired and light complected.
  
  Felix's wife, Damaris Lewis, descendant of that noted Lewis who slew his Irish landlord and fled to the wilds of North America, where he later founded the first white settlement in what is now Augusta county, Virginia, survived until March 11, 1867. She and her husband are buried in Oregon City, where they arrived as pioneers in the late fall of 1847.
  
  All of Felix Collard's children are dead. His oldest grandchildren are in their eighties. His youngest grandchild, Thomas H. Collard, younger brother of Evelyn Collard Fidelle, born February 4, 1900, is 39. One daughter-in-law of Felix Alver is still living. She is Mrs. Isaphena (Waldren) Collard, widow of Elihu Benton and mother of his eleven children. She resides at 7326 N. E. 6th Avenue, Portland, Oregon. She was 90 years old, February 12, 1939.
  
  Felix and Damaris Collard, as we have seen in former chapters, have many descendants in the Pacific Northwest. Over 200 of them met in a reunion on the third Sunday in June, 1936.
  
  Evelyn Collard Fidelle of Portland sends the following additional information concerning the children of Isaac Newton Collard:
  
  Lillie Collard was born at Portland, October 25, 1878. Nellie Ellen Collard was born at Hillsboro, Oregon, on Felix Collard's birthday, July 20, 1879. She married, first, James W. Turner, who died in 1934; her present husband, whom she married in 1935, is George Washington Hamblin. They live at McMinnville, Oregon. There are no children.
  
  Princilla Evelyn Collard was born at Hillsboro, Oregon, November 13, 1881. In 1905 she married Arthur H. Thomas who died in 1928 at Forest Grove, Oregon. They had a daughter, Dorothy Evelyn Thomas, born January 15, 1909, on her grandfather Collard's birthday, and on his wedding anniversary, she being his only granddaughter. She married Warren Edward Peas, January 15, 1929, and they have two children, Dorothy Ellen, born November 26, 1927, and Ruby Eloise, born July 7, 1929. Evelyn Collard married, second, James William Fidelle, March 29, 1930. They live at 4630 S. E. 46th Avenue, Portland. Mr. Fidelle is a native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He has been checker on the loading dock of Swift & Company, North Portland. He has been in ill health for some time.
  
  Fourth child of Isaac Collard was a son, born at Hillsboro, Oregon, in 1883 or 1884. He died when a week old and was never named.
  
  William Rogers Collard was born December 7, 1887, at McMinnville, Oregon. He is a master mechanic in the mills at Camas, Washington, where Fred and Lewis Collard, sons of William Franklin Collard, are employed. Lewis Collard is also a master mechanic. William Rogers married Ency Brown, December 31, 1912, she a daughter of Curtis Brown. They have a son, Loren Rogers Collard, born July 23, 1925. Two other children, a boy and a girl, died at birth.
  
  Oda Frances Collard, born December 2, 1893, at McMinnville, died in August, 1895.
  
  Thomas H. Collard, youngest grandson of Felix Collard and Damaris Lewis, is unmarried. Formerly located at Philadelphia, he is now in San Francisco. He is art director for the largest advertising firm in the world, N. W. Ayer Company.
  
  Also we have this late information concerning the Agnes Collard Savage family, supplied by Elihu Benton Collard's eldest daughter, Agnes Collard Savage:
  
  Elihu Benton was born at Fairfield (now Pleasant Hill), March 23, 1838. He died at Newberg, Oregon, July 12, 1917. He married Isaphena Waldron in Oregon March 22, 1866. She was born February 12, 1849. She celebrated her 90th birthday in Portland, February 12, 1939. She weighs 90 pounds, in mentally alert, and as active as her daughters.
  
  Agnes Collards, born November 6, 1869, married William Henry Savage (born February 6, 1861) on May 1, 1887. He died July 7, 1936. The children: Carl Benton, born December 13, 1889, died May 3, 1890; Roy Arden, born April 27, 1891, died July 7, 1903; Roy William, born December 2, 1893, married Elva E. Jacobson and has a son, Roy Wayne Savage, born February 14, 1938; Irma Agnes, born February 20, 1895, married William S. Thomas and has Jean Agnes, born August 28, 1915, Robert Benton, born May 16, 1917, Bruce Arden, born February 7, 1920, and Mark Norman Thomas, born April 27, 1922.
  
  Jean Agnes Thomas married Elden E. Hepburn, January 25, 1935, and has one daughter, Carol Agnes Hepburn, born April 11, 1936, who is a granddaughter of Irma (Savage) Thomas, a great granddaughter of Agnes (Collard) Savage, and a great great granddaughter of Isaphena (Waldron) Collard.
  
  Agnes Collard Savage also supplies further records of Elihu Benton Collard's descendants, with birth dates and data not included in the record heretofore quoted:
  
  Benton's son, Frank Alver, was born May 4, 1868, died September 26, 1935. He never married.
  
  Anna Agnes Collard, second child, record above. Lyman Douglas Collard, born August 28, 1872, died January 27, 1915. Never married.
  
  Roy Lynn Collard, born October 16, 1875, living, unmarried.
  
  Ella Maude Collard, born March 1, 1878, married Dennis Ryan (about 1901), had Marjory, Kenneth and Leah Mary (born September, 1906); Marjory married B. J. Lekas and had Daphne and Janet Gary; William Kenneth married and had Patrick and Damaris; Leah Mary married Leslie Haffey and had Dennis and Joan Clancy (born December 4, 1936). Ella Maude married, second, Harry Saunders, and had Damaris.
  
  Mabel Isaphena Collard, born March 2, 1880, married J. H. Davis and had Ray, Lawrence and Elizabeth (now Mrs. Rex Jones).
  
  Samuel Benton Collard, born March 30, 1882, married Marie Cook and had Helen (born about 1929).
  
  Charles Cleveland Collard, born April 9, 1884, unmarried.
  
  Harry Glenn Collard, born March 22, 1887, unmarried.
  
  Helen Gertrude Collard, born February 18, 1890, married Fred M. Stevenson, September 16, 1911. No children.
  
  Jessie Lorena Collard, born December 2, 1892, married Henry Spady, September 20, 1914. No children.
  http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~glendasubyak/ch175.html.
• Biography: He Mr. Colllard was the son of Felix Alver Collard who was the last of the Indian Scouts and Interpreter; was a surveyor and helped to establish the boundary lines of Ore., Wash. and Idaho.
• Biography: He Chapter 167
  Felix Collard Planned for Texas but Followed Barlow Trail to Oregon
  
  SPRING was on the Pike county Mississippi bottom prairies when the Collard-Hubbard covered wagon train started rolling in the second week in April 1847, but, early as was their start, the great North American winter was closing in around them as they descended the western slopes of the Cascade Mountains, on the famous Barlow Trail into Oregon Territory. Wolves, a ravenous pack, hung upon flanks and rear, waiting for the spent oxen to drop. The loads were lightened. Discarded baggage strewed the way. It became a race for life.
  
  Stories handed down in the Gresham family, two of whose members married daughters of Joseph Barnett and Rebecca Cannon, tell of some of the bitter hardships of the last weeks of the long journey, of how the wolves howled and the chill winds of late autumn wailed in the mountains, and of how, among other things, even some of the precious plows that were being carried into the new territory, lashed to the wagons, were dropped beside the trail to spare the wearied oxen. Joseph Barnett, Jr. probably had an outfit in this train and the stories doubtless trace back to letters from the Barnetts and Cannons upon their arrival in the promised land of Oregon.
  
  Felix Collard and his wife left a new-made grave behind them when they started westward. Marianne, their baby daughter, not quite two years old, born at Fairfield (Pleasant Hill) April 21, 1845, died in the midst of the family preparations for departure. She was the sixth in a family of nine children, six of whom were born in Pleasant Hill township. She is the only one of the family buried there.
  
  A jury summons for Charles Hubbard, dated April 15, 1847, was returned by the service officers with the notation "not found in county." Marianne, child of the Collards, died in Fairfield April 7, 1847 and was buried there. These dates tend to fix the time of departure of this first Pike county wagon train to Oregon Territory as some time in the second week of April, 1847.
  
  Records disclose that Felix Collard and Charles Hubbard had been busy putting their affairs in shape at Pleasant Hill, during the early spring preceding their departure, Felix Collard conveying some of his interests to his younger brother, John J. Collard. Other interests which the two brothers held in common were conveyed jointly a few days before Felix's departure. The last such transaction in the records is a deed, dated March 31, 1847, whereby John J. Collard and his wife, Mary E. Collard, and Felix A. Collard and his wife, Damaris Collard, for the sum of $40 conveyed to Alanson Mosher, early Pleasant Hill doctor, Lot 1 in Block 6 in the Town of Pleasant Hill (formerly Fairfield). The name of the town had been changed from Fairfield to Pleasant Hill in 1846. This transfer was attested by L. C. (Lycurgus) Lewis, a brother of Damaris Collard. Felix and Damaris appeared before Henry Ferguson, a justice of the peace, on April 1, 1847, and acknowledged their signatures to the deed. John J. and his wife acknowledged their signatures in September, 1847.
  
  Alan Mosher became proprietor of a goodly portion of the original town of Pleasant Hill (the eight blocks constituting early Fairfield) when the Hubbards and Collards departed for Oregon. On April 5, 1847, Charles and Margaret Hubbard, for the sum of $20 in hand, transferred to Dr. Mosher all of their interest in Blocks 5, 7 and 8 in the original town of Pleasant Hill (formerly Fairfield). Charles Hubbard's brother Eli also had an interest in some of his property, which he also transferred to Mosher in 1849. In the same year, the Charles Hubbards, then in Oregon Territory, by Joseph Hubbard, Jr., their attorney-in-fact, transferred to Mosher Lot 3 in Block 3, Lots 2, 3, 6 and 8 in Block 6 and Lot 4 in Block 8, all in old Fairfield.
  
  On April 5, 1847, just before leaving for Oregon, Charles and Margaret Hubbard constituted their oldest son, Joseph, Jr., their attorney-in-fact, with full power to act for them in all matters, to transfer property, to execute titles, etc., this commitment being of record in the deed records of Pike county. Joseph Hubbard, Jr., did not accompany his parents to Oregon Territory. On December 22, 1842, he had married Sarah E. Venable, with the groom's uncle, the Reverend David Hubbard, performing the ceremony. Sarah Venable belonged to a pioneer Pike county family which came from Missouri and located in Pleasant Hill township in very early times.
  
  One of the most prized possessions of Felix Collard and his wife was an 8-day brass clock which Felix had bought at the public sale held in course of settlement of the Joseph Barnett estate in 1838. This clock had been brought by the Barnetts to the wild Missouri border near the close of the 18th century and was one of the wonders of the border settlement. Felix Collard paid $25 for the clock at the sale of Joseph Barnett's property, as shown by the attested sale bill which is of record in the Pike county archives and which is more than a century old. The clock brought more than any horse, cow or other offering at the sale, for times were hard in 1838 and there was little money in the land. Whether the clock reached Oregon Territory and is still possessed by some Collard descendant is unknown.
  
  Felix Collard and Damaris Lewis were married on March 25, 1832. They settled a little less than a mile north and a little west of present Stockland. There, in a log cabin on a partially cleared 40, their first child. Mary Jane Collard, was born August 27, 1833, the year that Pittsfield was surveyed and the county seat moved from Atlas to the new town. Mary Jane, not yet 14 when the start was made for Oregon, later, in 1850, in Oregon Territory, was to marry Earl Douglas Jones who joined the Charles Collard outfit at Independence, Missouri, becoming a member of the first Pleasant Hill wagon train across the plains. Mary Jane has occupied a grave on the banks of Birch Creek near Pendleton, Oregon, since the closing year of the Civil War.
  
  Second of Felix and Damaris Collard's children was John Jasper Collard, born in Section 13 in Bay Creek (Pleasant Hill) township, July 13, 1835. He was named (probably) for his father's brother, John J. Collard,
  
  Note: John J. Collard always signed himself as John J., never employing the middle name. This middle name was assumed to be "Jasper" because of a deposition of record in the Pike county court, dated in 1853, which begins "I, John Jasper Collard, being first duly sworn, etc." The deposition is signed "John J. Collard." Mrs. Jennie C. Yokem of Pleasant Hill, a granddaughter of John J. Collard, is quite sure her grandfather's middle name was James. John J. Collard had an uncle in Missouri named James Collard and his grandfather Cannon (his mother's father) also bore the name of James. Mrs. Yokem thinks also that one of her older brothers, Leonard James Brant, must have been named for her grandfather.
  
  John Jasper, Felix's second child and first son, was to marry Martha Frances Henderson, the Missouri-born daughter of Jesse Cloid Henderson, a Tennessean and an Oregon pioneer. John Jasper's wife's sister, Mary Ellen Henderson, became the mother of two girls who were to marry John Jasper's two brothers, Isaac Newton and William Franklin Collard, who were born after the Felix Collards settled in Oregon Territory. John Jasper settled near McMinnville, Oregon, where he died in 1906. He served in the Indian war from Yamhill county, Oregon. John Jasper was 11 years old when the Oregon journey began at Pleasant Hill.
  
  Third of Felix's children was Elihu Benton Collard, born in Fairfield (now the town of Pleasant Hill) March 23, 1838. He was nine years old when the family pulled up stakes at Pleasant Hill. Later, in Oregon, he was twice elected sheriff of Yamhill county. During the Civil War he was in the gold mines in Idaho, where, with his partner, he once took 44 ounces of gold from a pocket within a few hours. He died on a near Lafayette, Oregon, in 1917.
  
  Fourth of the Pleasant Hill-born children of Felix and Damaris Collard was Lydia Ursula Collard, born in the early town of Fairfield, November 7, 1840. She was six when the family started for the northwest. She was twice married in Oregon and died there in 1894.
  
  Fifth of the children was Isaphena, born in Fairfield January 25, 1843. She was four when she crossed the plains in a covered wagon. Her sister, Mary Jane, and her brother, John Jasper, both had birthdays far out on the Oregon Trail. Isaphena (or Isaphene as the name appears in Victor Wayne Jones's records) in Oregon married Clark N. Greenman and had issue, but none of her descendants is living today. Isaphena died in Oregon City in 1917.
  
  The sixth child, as already noted, died just before the start for Oregon. The five named above accompanied the parents across the plains. Their stories will be told in detail in connection with the family's Oregon history.
  
  It seems probable that the Collards and Hubbards were undecided as to their destination when they left Pleasant Hill. Felix Collard seems to have looked with favor upon the new state of Texas, where his uncle, Elijah Collard, and family had located in 1834. Elijah and his sons had prospered in Texas. Elijah had married Mary Stark, sister of Rachel Stark, who married James Cannon and was Felix's maternal grandmother. Elijah at this time was in the last year of his life. His Headright League was on the San Jacinto river below Willis, Texas, although he never lived on it. He made his first settlement on Ware League about old Woodson place, moving later to Gourd Creek, where he died in March, 1848. Elijah had settled early on the banks of the Cuivre river in Lincoln county, Missouri. He was a justice of the peace in Lincoln county, until his departure for Texas in 1834.
  
  Felix Collard doubtless had learned of the prosperity being enjoyed by his uncle Elijah, and by his cousins, Jonathan Stark, Lemuel and James Harrison Collard in Texas. The rich cotton lands of the Lone Star were being taken up, making a good real estate business, in which some of Elijah's sons were engaged. Fortunes were being made in cotton planting. Felix Collard, therefore, had seriously considered settling in Texas, and probably would have done so had it not been for a chance meeting with General Joe Palmer at the Missouri river rendezvous point for Texas and Oregon emigration.
  
  Says Victor Wayne Jones of Seattle, Washington, a great grandson of Felix Collard:
  
  "In the spring of 1847 he (Felix Alver Collard) set out, together with his immediate family, his aunt, Margaret Cannon, who was the wife of Charles Hubbard, ans possibly some of his half brothers and sisters Thurmon, for Texas. But rumblings of the coming Mexican War (war had actually begun a year before, April 26, 1846, and culminated in the victory of the Americans at the storming of Mexico City in September, 1847) halted him, and we find him at Independence, Missouri, where most of the emigrants for western trails rendezvoused.
  
  "To this place Gen. Joe Palmer had just arrived from Oregon Territory, in quest of settlers to take back to Oregon. Gen. Palmer told the emigrants the advantages of the Pacific Northwest country, its wonderful climate, rich soil, natural resources and the fact that slavery would never be profitable there. This latter fact appealed to Felix despite the fact that he had planned to go to slave-holding Texas, and he set out for Oregon with his family, traveling in an ox-drawn wagon, called a ‘prairie schooner,' so called because the wagon box was built like a boat and to be used in fording streams. Contrary to present popular fancy about driving wagons into the streams, they were dismantled and the contents ferried over in the wagon box, except where the stream was extremely shallow."
  
  At Independence, Missouri, near Kansas City, our Pleasant Hill emigrants were joined, as we have seen in a preceding chapter, by an adventuring youth from Ohio, Earl Douglas Jones, who later was to marry Felix Collard's oldest daughter, Mary Jane. Earl Douglas was a son of Samuel Jones, a native of Ireland, who came to America some time prior to the second war with England. The first record of him is in Upper Sandusky, Ohio, in 1821. His third child was the first white boy born in the new settlement. Later he moved to Big Island township in Marion county, Ohio.
  
  Prior to 1815, Samuel married Lydia, daughter of Deacon Israel Douglas, kinsman of the line from which came Stephen Arnold Douglas, and his son, Stephen Arnold Douglas, the statesman who became so well known in the political history of Illinois and the nation. Deacon Douglas, born in Colchester, Connecticut, December 9, 1742, married Abigail Hull of Clinton, Connecticut, descendant of George Hull who came to Connecticut in 1635 from England and was the first man to be granted fur trading rights (exclusive) upon the reaches of the Connecticut river, and who was, so far as known, the first Englishman to be granted fur trading rights in North America. His brother, the Reverend Joseph Hull, founded Barnstable, Massachusetts.
  
  Samuel Jones and Lydia Douglas, parents of Earl Douglas Jones, were probably married in Leyden, New York, as her parents moved to that place in 1806 and remained there until their deaths. Lydia's father was a soldier in the Revolution.
  
  Little is known of Samuel Jones. He followed the carpenter's trade and was a large and powerful man. His grandson, William Walter, is quoted as saying there were only three things definitely known about him, viz: That he came from Ireland; that he was a large man, weighing about 210 pounds; and that he was able to pick up a whisky barrel containing 32 gallons and drink from the bunghole.
  
  Earl Douglas Jones was born March 10, 1825, in Marion, Ohio. He was therefore 22 years old when he joined the Pleasant Hill wagon train at Independence, on the Missouri river, in the spring of 1847. Mary Jane Collard, a member of the same wagon train and the girl he was to marry, reached her 14th birthday while crossing the plains. At Independence young Earl Douglas joined Charles Hubbard's outfit. In exchange for his passage across the plains he agreed to help drive the ox team and make himself generally useful.
  
  Mrs. N. R. Cooley of Woodburn, Oregon, a daughter of Charles Hubbard and Margaret Cannon, writing to Victor W. Jones February 1, 1921, says in part:
  
  "I am a cousin of M. I. Collard (probably Isaac Newton Collard) and one of the family of Charles Hubbard that Douglas Jones helped across the plains in 1847. I was only 4 yrs. Old in May on the Plains so my memory is not very brilliant, but would say we all thought as much of Douglas as was possible. He was an all around good fellow as one would wish for. My people are all dead except my oldest brother William of Salem, Oregon. He is 84 years old. I was 77 last May." Both the writer of the letter and the brother are now dead.
  
  Through the spring and summer of 1847 our Oregon emigrants journeyed on into the northwest. Fall came and still journey's end lay far ahead. Says the Collard great grandson, Victor Jones:
  
  "After a weary journey of many months across the dusty plains and rugged mountains they arrived in Oregon City (end of the Oregon Trail) in the late fall of 1847. As they were coming down the western slopes of the Cascades, winter was overtaking them, their oxen were giving out, and much equipage had to be discarded by the wayside. This route over the Cascade Mountains from The Dalles of the Columbia was the famous Barlow Trail."
  http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~glendasubyak/ch167.html.
• Note*: He Pike County History-John Collard's three children were raised by his brother, Charles for some time in Missouri (Felix, Isaphena & Rachel b. 1815 KY married Robert Stubblefield 15 Sep 1831 Lincoln Co. MO). (Pike Co. IL.)
• Emigration*: He emigrated in 1847.
• LAND*: He DLC No. 1262 COLLARD, Felix A., Washington Co; b 1810 Christian Co. Ky; SC 23 Sep 1850; m Damaris 23 Mar 1832, Pike Co, Ill. Aff: Gabriel Walling, Jesse Bullock (MA), Granville Thurman. on 23 September 1850.
• Census*: He appeared on the census of 5 December 1850 at Washington County, Oregon.
• (Witness) LAND: He witnessed the of Earl Douglas Jones on 1 March 1851.
• Census: Felix Alver Collard appeared on the census of 6 June 1860 at Oregon City, Clackamas County, Oregon.
• Note: He Telegraph Difficulty at Oregon City - We have received a letter from Hon. F.A Collard of Oregon City, containing his explanation of his refusal to allow telegraph poles to be placed on his land, and the trouble thence arising. The letter is too long to publish now, but in justice to Mr. Collard, we will state that he conceived that his rights were infringed, and supposed that the Telegraph Company might be equally accommodated by placing the pole where he requested and where it would not damage him. The agent he says, refused to do this, and hence the difficulty. We suppose the matter will in due time be properly investigated and we doubt not that Mr. Collard will cheerfully abide by the decision which the courts may make. As to the amount of bonds required by the Justice, our suggestion was a ?hasty? one, based upon the report which was furnished to us. There is no question of the ability of Mr. C. to give security to any amount, and we'd not believe that he or the Agent of the Company will be disposed to act unreasonably or unjustly in the matter towards each other.
  
  Morning Oregonian, Portland, Oregon
  Monday, May 11, 1863 col. 1 on 11 May 1863.
• Note: He searched Oregon Statesman (Salem) for obit notice and found nothing thru September 11, 1864 after 7 August 1864.

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Isaphena Collard

• Birth*: Isaphena Collard was born on 18 June 1813 at Hopkinsville, Christian County, Kentucky.
• Marriage*: She married David Wilson on 3 December 1834 at Lincoln County, Missouri.
• Death*: Isaphena Collard died in Pleasant Hill, Pike County, Illinois, on 24 January 1874, at the age of 60.

• (Witness) Biography: She was included in the biography of John Collard.
• (Witness) Biography: Isaphena Collard was included in the biography of Felix Alver Collard.
• Note*: Isaphena Collard Pike County History-John COLLARD's three children were raised by his brother, Charles for some time in Missouri (Felix, Isaphena & Rachel b. 1815 KY married Robert Stubblefield 15 Sep 1831 Lincoln Co. MO). (Pike Co. IL.)
• Married Name: As of 3 December 1834,her married name was Wilson.
• (Witness) Census: She appeared on the census of 19 August 1860 in the household of David Wilson at Pleasant Hill, Pike County, Illinois.
• (Witness) Census: Isaphena Collard appeared on the census of 10 August 1870 in the household of David Wilson at Pleasant Hill, Pike County, Illinois.

Parents:

Rachel Collard

• Birth*: Rachel Collard was born circa 1815 at Kentucky.
• Marriage*: She married Robert Stubblefield on 15 September 1831 at Lincoln County, Missouri.
• Death*: Rachel Collard died before 27 January 1840.

• (Witness) Biography: She was included in the biography of John Collard.
• (Witness) Biography: Rachel Collard was included in the biography of Felix Alver Collard.
• Note*: Rachel Collard Pike County History-John COLLARD's three children were raised by his brother, Charles for some time in Missouri (Felix, Isaphena & Rachel b. 1815 KY married Robert Stubblefield 15 Sep 1831 Lincoln Co. MO). (Pike Co. IL.)
• Married Name: As of 15 September 1831,her married name was Stubblefield.

Parents:

Robert Stubblefield

• Marriage*: Robert Stubblefield married Rachel Collard, daughter of John Collard and Lydia Cannon, on 15 September 1831 at Lincoln County, Missouri.

John Buckaloo

• Marriage*: John Buckaloo married Margaret Collard, daughter of Charles Collard and Nancy Carnahan, on 26 October 1834 at Pike County, Illinois.
• Death*: John Buckaloo died in 1838.

• Note*: He Pike County History p. 469. States John Buckaloo (Son of Eliab) married Margaret Collard 26 Oct 1834 Pike Co.IL. Settled in Pleasant Hill Township. After she died John married Lucinda Elizabeth Firman, and had a son, Eli Buckaloo. John Buckaloo died in 1838.

Freeland W. Rose

• Birth*: Freeland W. Rose was born in 1805 at Tennessee.
• Marriage*: He married Mary Collard, daughter of Charles Collard and Nancy Carnahan, on 14 July 1831 at Lincoln County, Missouri.

• Census*: Freeland W. Rose appeared on the census of 1870 at Monroe, Lincoln County, Missouri.

Nancy Francis "Nannie" Nichols

• Birth*: Nancy Francis "Nannie" Nichols was born in February 1896 at Missouri.
• Marriage*: She married (?) Pilcher.

Parents:

James Anthony Nichols

• Birth*: James Anthony Nichols was born in December 1898 at Missouri.

Parents:

Mattie Eli Nichols

• Marriage*: Mattie Eli Nichols married W. S. Lynes.
• Birth*: Mattie Eli Nichols was born in 1901 at Missouri.

• Married Name: Her married name was Lynes.

Parents:

Hilda Ellen Nichols

• Marriage*: Hilda Ellen Nichols married (?) Hughes.
• Birth*: Hilda Ellen Nichols was born in 1905 at Missouri.

• Married Name: Her married name was Hughes.

Parents:

Susie Belle "Sue" Nichols

• Marriage*: Susie Belle "Sue" Nichols married David Stapleton.
• Birth*: Susie Belle "Sue" Nichols was born in 1908 at Cass County, Missouri.

• Married Name: Her married name was Stapleton.

Parents:

Mary Grace Nichols

• Birth*: Mary Grace Nichols was born in March 1909 at Cass County, Missouri.
• Marriage*: She married Marion Briscoe in 1932.
• Death*: Mary Grace Nichols died on 22 December 1979, at the age of 70.

• Married Name: As of 1932,her married name was Briscoe.

Parents:

Charlie Barton Nichols

• Birth*: Charlie Barton Nichols was born on 14 July 1911 at Hadsell, Cass County, Missouri.
• Death*: He died in Cass County, Missouri, on 14 February 1978, at the age of 66.
• Burial*: He was buried in Rose Hill Cemetery at Missouri.

Parents:

Ann Alice Nichols

• Birth*: Ann Alice Nichols was born on 31 December 1913 at Hadsell, Cass County, Missouri.
• Death*: She died in Holden, Johnson County, Missouri, on 2 December 2000, at the age of 86.
• Burial*: She was buried in Hornsby Cemetery at Kingsville, Johnson County, Missouri.

• Married Name: As of 28 November 1952,her married name was Shaw.

Parents:

David Thomas "Cotton" Nichols

• Marriage*: David Thomas "Cotton" Nichols married Norma F. (?)
• Birth*: David Thomas "Cotton" Nichols was born in 1919 at Cass County, Missouri.
• Death*: He died in Harrisonville, Cass County, Missouri, on 27 March 1987.
• Burial*: He was buried in Hornsby Cemetery at Kingsville, Johnson County, Missouri.

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