Settling the Rogue Valley, The Tough Times - The Forgotten People
by Barbara Hegne
chapters: Free land, free gold; the Matthis Wagon Train, "The Devil Made Us Do It' (Henry M. Meyers, Jeremiah Shock, Elijah Williams, Isaac Cowan (Big Ike), more gold discoveries, Tough Men and Tough Times (rampant crime in Jacksonville) Lily Sherwood / Lizzie Steward / Mrs. Celia Rutherford / C. Decker, Jonnie Donegan, Robert Henderson / William Caldwell / John Lathrop / William Casterlin / Samuel Mooney / Dr. George Elliott, Miram Abbott, William Casterlin / John Boyce "Whiskey Sam" / William Riley stabbed Alfred C. Humphrey / a fellow named Emigrant / Dick Collins / Maranda (Johnson) and Lewis Geary / James and America (Matthis) Spears / Goerge and Margaret Long / John O'Brian w/Chinaman helper Wa Ling / Beorge Bauer / Fred Zimmerman robbed by Charles Walofski / Charles {Ben} "Buckskin" Williams / Mainer nicknamed "Kentuck" was robbed and murdered / Annie Brown and William Earnshaw / Henry Shock / John Wattez (hanged himself) / "Spanish John" threw himself in the Rogue River-suicide / Dennis Crawley (hopelessly insane) / Henry Belcher aka Dutch Henry-shot Louis Reese / George Holmes / Rev. Moses Williams / Charles Hoxie / John Kessler / Charley Grover / Charles R. Mulford / William Krause / Babbin / Captain Sprague / Uriah Knight / Louis Horne / Alfred Law/ S. B. Starr / Silas Draper / John A. Cook / R.A. Cook / Emil Buchler / Herman Kearmsay / Peter Otterspach / "Old Bill" William Williams / Charles Brown / Arhtur Berryman / Thomas and George Briner / David Griffith married "squaw" Sally / John & Mary Kewins, James & Bessie (Bodey) Alapoi, John and Maria Tomiah / John and Julia (a Kanaka) Kehi / George and Susan Maio / Payton & Sallie Cercy / C.A. and Sallie Lane / Frank and Nancy Silva / Ed and Betsy Langley / George and Cecelia Marshall / George and Evaline Mayo / Thomas and Sarah Kane Brown / Kitty Ward / Anni and Big Annie / Gn Jenny / Muldeha / Bill Butler / Mary Decker / Eskalone / Frank and Molly Keptner / Frank Keptner / Mill and Mary Butler + children Emily and Tyra / General John K. Lamerick / Indian Jenny