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Salem Pioneer Cemetery ~ John McBee
~ part of the Marion County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
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John McBee
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| LAST NAME: McBee
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FIRST NAME: John
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GENDER: M
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MILITARY: Captain of Militia in Missouri
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| BORN: Abt 1820
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DIED: 28 Jul 1865
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OCCUPATION: Farmer
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| BIRTH PLACE: Ohio
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| DEATH PLACE: Salem, Marion Co., Oregon
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1850 MO CENSUS - John McBee, age 31, occupation farmer, b. Ohio, is enumerated with Sarah McBee, age 25, b. Kentucky, along with George W., age 3, b. Missouri, Frances, age 2, b. Missouri, and John, age 6 months, b. Missouri.
DLC #1224 Married Sarah Matheny, 7/13/1845, Ray Co., Missouri; "Captain of Militia in pioneer Missouri during the Mormon troubles. He left Missouri on accounty of slavery."
Mar. Co. Adm. Notice of estate 19 Feb to 5 Mar 66, F. M. Rice, admin. "Four McBee brothers started from Missouri to Oregon with the 1852 covered wagon immigration; two, Levi and Thomas, died on the plains, and John became a prominent pioneer here. The other brother, William, spent the first winter in Marion county and settled in Benton county, seven miles south of Corvallis. John McBee started across the plains, he put $5,000 into his outfit; had 16 yoke of oxen and four wagons. So many men of John McBee's company started across the plains poorly equipped, or suffered losses on the way that, out of the 16 yoke of good oxen and four large, fine wagons with which he started, when he arrived at The Dalles he had two wagons and only two yoke of oxen. He did not have the heart to refuse aid to unfortunate fellow travelers on the way, even though impoverishing himself. At The Dalles, he traded a yoke of oxen and $10 in money for a sack of flour. The whole company unloaded the heavier freight and took it down the Columbia on a raft. The raft struck a rock in the stream and the jar threw out part of the freight. In this way, the McBees lost a chest that contained the family records. The rest of the company came by way of the Barlow road over the Cascades and into the Willamette valley. The McBee family settled near Halls Ferry and after a year moved to the hills south of Salem, near Liberty.
Lockley, 21 June 1922, Hendricks, 16, 17 Jan. 1935
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On the 28th day of July, 1865, in Salem, Oregon, John McBee. Disease unknown.
Weekly Oregon Statesman 7 August 1865 2:7
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1850 MO CENSUS (Ray Co., Dist. #75, FA #577)
OS 7 Aug 1865 2:7
Lockley, OJ 21 June 1922
Hendricks, OS 16, 17 January 1935
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