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From: "Doug & Patti Ensor" <>
Subject: [ORWASCO] Stanbro - Olmstead house sale
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 07:44:34 -0700
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Thanks Martha for responding!

Wasco County was the parent/grandparent county for most of eastern OR and
actually included parts of ID, MT, and a piece of WY (per the info on line)!
So I am 99.9% sure I am in the correct county. (But I have had the same
situation as you describe in OH)

I don't know how you would buy the house without buying the property. And
it might have been "buying" in words only since the house was being lived in
by his father-in-law, DeForrest "Forrest" Stanbro. Does anyone have any
wild guesses, or knowledge, about this?

I don't know if Stanbro ever started the paperwork for a claim, but no one
owned the property prior to Olmstead filing for it or there would not be a
BLM file for it. If anyone knows where to look for such paperwork (starting
a claim but not finishing it), I would appreciate hearing from you.

Olmstead's file at the National Archives shows that he originally hoped to
purchase 160 acres, but couldn't get enough money to do so; he "abandoned"
his application for 80 acres and paid for 80.

I haven't heard of houses being moved from one property to another in the
1870's and 1880's, but I suppose anything is potentially possible. I'll
keep that possibility in mind.




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Subject: ORWASCO Digest, Vol 2, Issue 64


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> 1. Re: Request for Property sale lookup (martha w. jackson)
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> Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 06:58:07 -0600
> From: "martha w. jackson" <>
> Subject: Re: [ORWASCO] Request for Property sale lookup
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> I have had a problem with this area and these dates in the Crook county
> area also. Wasco was the parent county. You may hAve to c heck several
> counties to locate whomever.
> My GGGF, Peter ZELL, Buried Juniper Haven, Prineville, died Feb 1882.
> He is nowhere to be found in the previous census, but said to have been
> living with his son, Abraham. Must have been asleep in the back bedroom.
>
> Too, Do you think the house would not have been sold WITH the property?
> WOULD THEY HaVE MOVED IT?
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Doug & Patti Ensor" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 4:29 PM
> Subject: [ORWASCO] Request for Property sale lookup
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>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm hoping someone might be able to check to see if there might be land
>> record data for the sale of a home, rather than a property.
>>
>> On his homestead application, William W. Olmstead claims to have
>> purchased
>> the house (not the property) of "D. F. Stanbro" which would be his
>> father-in-law DeForrest "Forrest" Stanbro. The homestead site was along
>> Ramsey Creek. Olmstead's homestead application indicates he & his family
>> arrived March 1, 1878.
>>
>> The 80 acres is in Sec.2, Twp. 2S, R12E. The application requirements
>> were completed June 30, 1882. The Dalles directory of 1883 lists
>> thesettlers of Dufur and vicinity including: ... W. W. Olmstead... (no
>> Stanbro)".
>>
>> By June 1885, the Olmsteads had moved back to the mid-west (Overton, NE).
>>
>> I've looked online and cannot find any property sale lists for Wasco
>> County. I am hoping to find a volunteerwho lives in the area to look at
>> The Dalles Public Library or the County Courthouse for a sale of the
>> above
>> property between June 1882 and June 1885.
>>
>> I am also hoping someone can tell me if the sale of the house might have
>> been recorded somewhere (and if so, where?) since Omstead's cash entry
>> file indicates he purchased the house from his father-in-law. If I can
>> find that record, it might indicate how long Stanbro had lived in that
>> specific location.
>>
>> The father-in-law, Stanbro, is first recorded in the 15 Mile Precinct in
>> the 1860 census. It is possible that Stanbro lived in the Ramsey Creek
>> area for at least two decades, but never filed a homestead application; I
>> don't think he could ever put together enough money to pay for the land.
>> It is also possible that he moved around within the same area, renting
>> rather than buying.
>>
>> (Note: Olmstead has sometimes been recorded as 'Olmsted' and also as
>> 'Olinstead'. Stanbro has been recorded as Stanbro, Stanbrow, Stanbrough,
>> Stanborough, Stansbro, Stamsbro, etc., sometimes multiple spellings
>> within
>> the same document!)
>>
>> Hoping to hear from a kind volunteer!
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Patti
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