Talk:Blakeley, Oregon

Refs for expansion
"July 3rd 1878 we organized Company B, 2nd regiment Oregon state militia and we called it The Wild Horse Rangers with Robert E. Eastland as captain we were armed with state guns and our own horses and rations. We had no time for red tape at this time of the organization for our families and our sweethearts our deserted cabins and our prospects for a happy home were all at stake." (Bannock War)
 * The Bannock War of 1878
 * Civil War pensioners: Eastland
 * Bannock War doc mentions Lieutenant "William M. Blakely" and Sergeant R. Eastman
 * Blakely more than wheat grower, also sheriff, state legislator and "Indian fighter", pioneer of 1846:
 * William M. BLAKELY (1840- ): m'd 1864 Margaret BAIRD; s/o James and Sarah (Dick) Blakely; winter of 1860 stayed with H.H. Spaulding; moved to Umatilla County where he was a wheat grower, Indian fighter, legislator 1893-1895 and sheriff in Pendleton 1898
 * 3. WILLIAM M2 BLAKELY (JAMES1) was born Abt. 1840 in Missouri, and died 12 Jul 1931 in Umatilla, Oregon16. He married MARGARET BEARD Abt. 1864 in Linn, OR17. She was born 01 May 1849 in Lafayette, Tippecanoe Co, Indiana, and died 18 Nov 1944 in Umatilla, Oregon18.

Notes for WILLIAM M BLAKELY:

Members of the legislature of Oregon, 1843-1967, Oregon State Archives, Bulletin No. 2 rev., Pub. No. 30, 1968

Blakley, W. M. (House, Umatilla, 1903, 1903 ss., 1905)


 * http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~jtenlen/ORBios/carey-history-index.html
 * http://books.google.com/books?id=YmUUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA524#v=onepage&q=&f=false
 * Sherrif William Minnis Blakley
 * http://records.sos.state.or.us/ORSOSWebDrawer/Recordpdf/6785282 1905 Leg. "W.M. Blakeley"
 * http://records.sos.state.or.us/ORSOSWebDrawer/Recordpdf/6785281 1903 Spec. "W.M. Blakley"
 * http://records.sos.state.or.us/ORSOSWebDrawer/Recordpdf/6785281 1903 Leg. "W.M. Blakley"
 * The Pacific Reporter
 * Oregon Teachers' Monthly
 * Quarterly of the Oregon Historical Society
 * Report By Oregon. Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction
 * Annual Reunion of Oregon Pioneers
 * Annual report of the State Banking Department of the State of Oregon

Katr67 (talk) 19:57, 21 December 2009 (UTC)