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   Mary Elizabeth Munkers<br>Birth names: Mary Elizabeth MunkresMary Elizabeth Munkers<br>Gender: Female<br>Birth: Apr 8 1836 - Liberty, Clay, Missouri, United States<br>Marriage: Nov 6 1851 - Marion, OR<br>Marriage: Dec 4 1858 - Marion, Oregon, United States<br>Residence: 1870 - Salem, Marion, Oregon, United States&lt;br>Residence: 1880 - Salem, Marion, Oregon, United States<br>Death: Aug 12 1926 - Multnomah, Oregon, United States<br>Burial: 1926 - City View Cemetery, Salem, Marion, Oregon, United States<br>Parents: Benjamin Franklin Munkers, Mary Elizabeth "Polly" Munkers (born Crowley)<br>Spouses: Albert Franklin Davidson, John S. Estes<br>Children: Mary Amelia Davidson, Thomas Clinton Davidson, Thomas Estes, Alice Davidson, Alice Estes, John O. Estes, Benjamin L Estes<br>Siblings: ;James Preston Munkers, Riley William Munkers, Rebecca Jane McDonald (born Munkers), John Crowley Munkers, Frances Marion Munkers, Benjamin Franklin Munkers Jr, Thomas McClain Munkers, Frances Isabella Boon (born Munkers), James Madison Munkers<br>This person appears to have duplicated relatives. View it on FamilySearch to see the full information.<br>  Additional information: LifeSketch:"CROSSING THE PLAINS IN 1846"milies prepared to make the journey to the far away Oregon Territory, which then included what is now the states of Oregon, Washington, Idaho and part of Nevada. My father, Benjamin Munkers, was among them. His family was composed of an invalid wife, three married sons and one married daughter, besides five younger children, the youngest a boy of five years. I was then ten years old and still have quite a clear memory of the journey and of conditions of the early days spent in Oregon.de the entire ride on a bed. It was my work to help brother's wife, who managed the cooking for our camp.thirty head of oxen, fifty head of roan Durham cows and five saddle horses. These made up our herd. Most all the company drove through some stock but I think no other family had so many as we. left Missouri, there was a train of about one hundred wagons but that was found to be too large a party to travel together as the teams must be kept up by grazing by the way. So they scattered out under leaders or train captains, as we called them. When we started, a man by the name of Martin was our Captain. Later when our train was much smaller, Ben Simpson, father of Sam L. Simpson, was our head man. The future Poet of Oregon was then Baby Sam of the camp. Many a time I cared for him while his mother was doing the family wash.e Forts Laramie, Bridges and Hall. As this was but the second year of "Crossing the Plains", the way before us was much of it through a wilderness and over a trackless plain. There were no bridges, no ferries and a stream too large to be forded was crossed by means of rafts, if there could be found timber along its banks to make rafts. If not, our wagon beds were used for flat boats.had no trouble with the Indians but we did have one awful scare. It was when we were in Utah. All at once our train seemed to be surrounded on all sides by mounted Indians! It was a war party going out to fight another tribe. I do believe there were ten thousand of them and we thought it was the last of us, but when they had seen us all they wanted to, they gave a whoop and a yell and away they clattered!s in camp where we found plenty of water and good grazing and while the teams rested and fed up, the men fixed up the wagons and helped the women wash and prepare food for the next drive ahead. Then there were days we toiled over the arid plains till far into the night to reach the life-giving water that was a necessity to us and to our trains. The children of the company walked many many miles....sometimes I think I walked half of the way to Oregon! Some days it was very hard to find fuel enough for our camp fires. Many a time our simple meals were cooked over a fire of buffalo chips and sage brush. The weather did not cause as much trouble. I recall but one real storm. It was on the Platte River in Nebraska. We were in camp on the bank of the river when it came on. The wind blew a hurricane! Thunder roared and lightening flashed! It was a dark as Egypt. The rain poured like it was being emptied from buckets. I will never forget that night! Every tent was blown down. No one was seriously hurt, though a babe was narrowly missed by a falling tent pole. The men chained the wagons together to hold them from being blown into the river. Our camp belongings were blown helter skelter over the country around about and our stock was stampeded 'till it took all the next day to get them rounded up.e years, you know, there was Cholera that wiped out entire families and trains that were raided by Indians and too, there were times when the oxen were diseased and died leaving families stranded on the plains. Yes, we were very lucky! place is now. Father was anxious to secure a place where he could have shelter for the invalid mother and when he found a chance to buy out a homesteader (a man by the name of Anderson) he was glad to pay him his price ($1000) and take possession at once. The place was on Mill Creek, four miles East of Salem. There was a comfortable log house of two rooms, a log barn and ten of the 640 acres was farmed. Thus, before the winter rains came on we were snugly settled. Father brought in what supplies he could for the house and for our stock, but most of the cattle were turned on the range.st winter's work was making rails with which to fence the farm. Then followed sod breaking and seeding, thus adding some acres each year to our fields. Father set out an orchard of apple and peach trees in the spring of 1850, I think it was. I don't remember where he got the nursery stock.in the autumn of 1855 that father had 100 bushels of apples to sell. Fourteen dollars was the price he got per bushel. I do not often hear it spoken of now, but there was a time in the settlement where we lived when peas and wheat were currency. I cannot now say what the face value was, but I think one bushel either represented $1.00 in debit or credit. Peas were much used for coffee and often the only sweetening to be had was molasses.ell, underneath her bed was a box of bedding and in that box, the money was cached. Yes, we soon had pretty good homes started but the stampede to the gold mines in California in 1849-50 was a bad thing for our families. Four of my brothers went (Thomas, 14 years old / Ben, 16 years old / Riley, 19 years old and Marion). Marion later died there. They would all have gotten ahead faster had they stayed home.children awhile. I went. That was about all the schooling I had after I came to Oregon. Yes, I've been here a long time. Seventy years! I've seen Oregon grow up!ssed the plains in our train? Well, the Crowleys settled in Polk County and the Fullerson's also as well as Glenn Burnett, our train preacher. The Browns, the Blakelys the Finleys and the Kirks settled in Linn County. Ben Simpson and family lived in Salem. Yes, I know most all the old timers. L.F. Grover, afterward Governor of Oregon and US Senator, was a guest at my wedding. Reverend Roberts, one of the early pioneers of Methodism performed the ceremony.years I've lived here. Much of Salem was under water. The Court House was full of people who had been driven from their homes. Near the old Bennett house, the water was swimming to a horse. The Willamette was a mighty river...miles in width, sweeping houses, barns, bridges and everything in its course. No, of course the river hadn't been bridged then, but then all the small streams were adding wreckage to the Willamette. The flood was in December '61. In January came the deep snow which lasted for six weeks and pretty nearly finished what the flood had left."

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   Mary Elizabeth Estes (born Munkers)<br>Gender: Female<br>Alias name: Mary Elizabeth Davidson<br>Birth: Apr 8 1836<br>Marriage: Spouse: John Estes - Dec 4 1857<br>Death: Circa Aug 12 1926<br>Father: Benjamin Franklin Munkers<br>Mother: Mary Elizabeth Munkers (born Crowley)</a><br>Husband: John Estes<br>Ex-husband: Albert Davidson<br>Children: Thomas Davidson, ;Mary Davidson, Benjamin Estes, John Estes, Alice Estes<br>Siblings: Rebecca Jane McDonald (born Munkers), Thomas McLain Munkers, Benjamin Franklin Munkers, Jr., James Preston Munkers, Preston Munkers, John Crowley Munkers, William Riley Munkers, Francis Marion Munkers, Isabelle Boon (born Munkers), James Madison Munkers

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• Geboortedag 8 april 1836

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