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TWO MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Monday, September 10, 1956 Native Daughter Recalls Olden Days in Rogue Valley A visitor in the vailey last week was Mrs. Elva Person, Bur bank. Calif., oldest member of the pioneer Taylor family of south ern Oregon. Mrs. Person, who is 33 years old. came north for the annual reunion, held September 2 at TouVelle park. About 75 at tended the event. Mrs. Person, born May 12, 1868 in Grants Pas, recalled her girlhood days during an inter view last week. Her parents were Mr. and Mrs. John Whee ler and her mother was the for- handwoven material, the sam pler has the traditional letters ; and numbers on the top, but the ! bottom of the design was never completed. mer Rachel Taylor, daughter of j wlllcd jt to voun. irl amon the pioneer couple, Steven and : tne Tav,or descendants and Abicail Taylor, who came to Oregon in the early 1850 s and took up a donation land claim on the slopes of Roxy Aim in Jackson county. Recalls Toll Bridge The visitor remembered that a highlight of her girlhood days were the visits of her grand mother, who lived with a son alter the death of her husband, but who frequently stayed with the Wheelers in Grants Pass. The Wheelers, would drive by farm wagon to the Rock Point toll bridge near the '"lime works' at what is now Gold Hill, and there would meet rela tives who would drive from their home farther up the river. ''We always crossed the bridge by foot." she said, "because we couldn't aftord the 50 cents toll which Mr. Cavanaugh, the bridge owner, charged for wag ons. The family members would enjoy a picnic meal to gether before each wagon load started on their return trip in opposite directions. Mrs. Person, who was a guest of Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Clifford, 1211 West Main street, dis played a number of family treasures. Some of these have been placed together under glass in a large frame in order to preserve them. The articles Include a picture of the school house in Colerain, Mass., where Abigail Taylor went to school as a small child and which, ac cording to the inscription, shows the first raising of an American flag over a Massachusetts schoolhouse. Also displayed is a scrap of a dress made for Grandmother Abigail with the notation that the seamstress "cut and basted the dress for the sum of 25 cents." Another scrap of mate rial is from a counterpane spun and woven by Abigail Clark Taylor in Shelbourne, Mass., be fore her marriage to Steven Taylor, the counterpane having been part of her "setting out." Mrs. Person explained that the articles collected by early-day brides - to - be in Massachusetts were referred to as her "wed ding setting out." much as later day girls referred to their "hope chests." Another memento is a scrap of "linsey woolsey" material from a dress worn by Hannah Clark McKowen, w ho was killed by Indians in Massachusetts in 1759. Hie thrifty pioneer wom en made the dress into a quilt, with a homespun lining, and it was given to Abigail, who used It to iiang in a doorway of her pioneer cabin on Roxy Ann. Picture by Brilt Another article in the frame was a picture of Hobart Taylor one of Steven and Abigail's sons, and which was taken by Peter Britt. pioneer Jackson ville photographer. Mrs. Person recalled that Hobart had joined the United States Army as a young man and had been train ed at the old Camp Baker, (for which the Jackson county road is named). The young man join ed the Army with the promise that he would be sent east, she said, because he wished to re turn east and meet again "the girl he left behind.'' His com pany was sent to Oregon City on the first lap of the journey east, and there misfortune befell the young man. He first learned that "the girl'' had married someone else, and the troops were ordered into eastern Wash ington to quell an Indian upris ing Hobart Taylor spent the re mainder of his Army service fighting Indians and guarding immigrant trains, and never was sent cast, she recalled. Another of Mrs. Person's treasures is a sampler made by her grandmother, Abigail Tay lor, when she was four and five years of age. Embroidered on hopes that it will some day be completed. Favorite Story Mrs. Person related what she said was her grandmother's fa vorite story about the crossing of the plains to Oregon. When the immigrant train reached a point in Nevada where the trail branched, one road going to California and the other into Oregon, two men appeared on the trail, each carrying a small girl on the horse with him. They asked the women of the train to take charge of the two young sters, saying the mother had hired them to take the three to Portland where she would seek medical aid, but that she had died shortly thereafter. One girl was two small to talk, the other spoke but with a speech impedi ment which made it difficult to understand what she said. The women accepted the re sponsibility of the children, and the two men hurried off down the trail which led to Califor nia. A day or so later one of the men in the train was idly tossing a S10 gold piece up and down when the older girl asked to see it and then said "Mama had a big box filled with these." Only then did the adults In the train begin to wonder what became of the dead woman's possessions, and to conjecture that possibly she had not died of natural causes. One family in the immigrant train later took the two girls to Portland, and thereafter Abigail Taylor heard nothing more of them. "All grandmother's life she won dered and fretted about the girls," Mrs. Person said, and added that she herself had made an effort to trace the family through the name "Wyeth" which was what the older girl had called herself, although some thought the name could have been "White" or "Wyatt." Visits Chum Mrs. Person, who Is a "cousin once removed" of Mrs. Clifford, said she planned to visit in Grants Pass before she left since three of her girlhood friends still live there. She was a member of the first class ever to graduate in that town. Mrs. Person was mildly annoyed with the son with whom she makes her home because he has forbidden her to ride on buses. "Last year when I was here 1 went everywhere on the bus and got along fine." she said. The 88-year-old woman is busy, cheerful, and industrious. Her visit to Medford did not mean that she would remain idle, for she brought along her sewing equipment and her quilt material. When this reporter ar rived at the Clifford home, Mrs. Person was busy tying a small quilt which she was making for a friend, and also had some Red Cross work with her. Mrs. Person believes In help ing others she has been a Red Cross volunteer worker for no less than 39 years. O S. Townsend Club Plans Picnic for Wednesday Medford Townsend club has planned another picnic meeting for Wednesday, September 12. in Hawthorne park. A potluck luncheon will be served at 12:30 p.m. The secretary asks members having birthdays in September to attend, and it is stated also that urgent business is on the agenda. At last week's meeting 23 members and guests were pres ent. A short business session closed with a program of vari out readings. The club and auxiliary alter nate, meeting every Wednesday. Visitors are welcome. Wants farm price supports cnt - Society Auxiliary Members Resume Program Women of the auxiliary to Crater Lake post. Veterans of Foreign Wars, have already started the fall program of ac tivities. Members are at this time as sisting Girl Scout Troop 158, which the auxiliary sponsors, in the collection of old newspapers which the troop delivers to fruit packing plants. Funds from the project will be used for a future trip to Yellowstone National park which is being planed. Mrs. Maurice Ritchie and Mrs. E. Warren are troop leaders. At the last meeting of the auxiliary it was announced that the sewing club will hold the first fall meeting at the home of Mrs. Ivan Lusk. on Manzanita street in Central Point Septem ber 19. Dessert will be served. Plans for a District 7 meeting of VFW and auxiliary to be held at Shady Cove September 16 were discussed. Many mem bers plan to attend. Mrs. Ben Allison reported on the Field day held September 3 at Camp White, saying that it was well attended and that many veterans participated. At tending from Crater Lake post and auxiliary were Mr. and Mrs. Lusk, Mrs. Amy Randle, Mrs. Ralph Pittock, the auxil iary president, Mrs. Allison and Mrs. Fred Lawrence. Guests at the meeting were Mr. and Mrs. Dan Krotz, Shady Cove, Bert Swigh and Henry Albrecht, Grants Pass. Vicki Lee Milnes Gives Swim Party Miss Vicki Lee Milnes enter tained her kindergarten class mates last Thursday with a swimming party, held at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Victor Milnes, 15 North Groveland avenue. A "back to school motif was used in the playroom where the children gathered at refreshment time. The centerpiece decora tion depicted a typical school room scene. Primary pencils with the names of guests en graved were used as place cards. The children attending were all graduates of the East Side Kindergarten and all will at tend Roosevelt grade school this fall. Special honored guests were the kindergarten teachers, Mrs. Jack Walker and Mrs. Norman Hillyer. 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