The Oregon Jounal

By Therese Lorentzen

  • Her brother is born - Henry

    He was frail and sickly as child - never strong

  • Born

    Born in Kentucky
    Mother´s name - Sara Smeed Chapman
    Father´s name - Samuel Chapman
    The parents are from England
    Her name is Wittwia St. Clair Chapman

  • Moved to burlington, Iowa

    Not the true date
    She saw some indians for the first time

  • She saw Prairie Schooners going west

    Not the right date
    They had mottoes written on their Canvas tops - California or Bust, and for Oregon

  • Moved back to Kentucky

    In th early fiftees

  • Henry and Daniel travel to Oregon

    They are traveling across the plains
    Because Henry needs a different environment
    Clair is 12 years old

  • Moved mack to Iowa

    Just before the Civil War

  • Fort Sunter was fired on

    Civil war

  • Works as a nurse and

    The amputated a lot even though it wasn´t nessessary

  • In the seventees her and her brother visit Colorado

    They are traveling the middle west
    she works at a Hotel and gets a lot of money

  • Came to Southern Oregon with Henry

  • Marries Michael Mickelson

    She is 49 years old
    Marries him, because he is sick and needs help

  • Michael dies

  • built her home in Ashland

  • Henry dies

    at the age of 72

  • She is now 82 years old