We left home and made a break for the West the 3rd day of May, 1853 so you see I was in my 11th year when I came to Oregon. I rode from Missouri to Oregon and drove cattle as there were a few over five hundred in the herd. The Smith boys were the owners of the outfit that I came in.
Our train consisted of twelve oxteams and one four mule team which belonged to the owners of the stock. Their Father (Richard Smith), Mother (Martha Ann "Patsey" Pitzer Smith) and three sisters rode in it as they were quite old. Their Mother was my Father's own cousin. Their two sons Pitzer (Bernard Pitzer Smith) and William (Smith) came to Oregon in 1850 and made quite a stake and went back for their Father and Mother. One brother (Robert Smith, who married Susan Applegate) stayed in Oregon, he came to Oregon in 1843 with the Waldo and Applegate outfit. I had two Uncles that came that same year and in the same train, William K. Beale never left this coast but George Polk Beale went back to Missouri then back to Oregon in 1852.
We left home and made a break for the West the 3rd day of May, 1853 so you see I was in my 11th year when I came to Oregon. I rode from Missouri to Oregon and drove cattle as there were a few over five hundred in the herd. The Smith boys were the owners of the outfit that I came in.
Our train consisted of twelve oxteams and one four mule team which belonged to the owners of the stock. Their Father (Richard Smith), Mother (Martha Ann "Patsey" Pitzer Smith) and three sisters rode in it as they were quite old. Their Mother was my Father's own cousin. Their two sons Pitzer (Bernard Pitzer Smith) and William (Smith) came to Oregon in 1850 and made quite a stake and went back for their Father and Mother. One brother (Robert Smith, who married Susan Applegate) stayed in Oregon, he came to Oregon in 1843 with the Waldo and Applegate outfit. I had two Uncles that came that same year and in the same train, William K. Beale never left this coast but George Polk Beale went back to Missouri then back to Oregon in 1852.
Family Members
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Madison Pitzer
1799–1861
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Joseph Kyle Pitzer
1803–1871
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Elizabeth Pitzer Terrill
1805–1858
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Duigiud Kyle Pitzer
1807–1864
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Bernard Pitzer
1809–1895
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John Lewis Pitzer
1811–1880
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Robert Carey Pitzer
1812–1889
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Jeremiah Kyle Pitzer
1814–1895
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Rufus Pitzer
1816–1876
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Mary Jane Pitzer Wise
1817–1903
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Frances Pitzer Payne
1819–1894
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1SGT Albert Baker Pitzer
1821–1891
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