Hugh Watom Shelley

Roswell married Mary L. Tatum in 1878 in Oregon, USA. Mary (daughter of James Tatum and Nancy Berry) was born on 26 Oct 1854 in Oregon, USA; died on 26 Aug 1891 in Polk County, Oregon, USA; was buried in Hilltop Cemetery, Polk County, Oregon, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• SON: 8 May 1879, Independence, Polk County, Oregon, USA;

  name: Ralph Dale Shelley gender: Male birth date: 08 May 1879 birthplace: Independence, Polk, Oregon father's name: Roswell Shelley father's birthplace: father's age: mother's name: Mary Tatom mother's birthplace: mother's age: indexing project (batch) number: I09277-8 system origin: Oregon-EASy source film number: 2229218 reference number: DF366

• Census: 10 Jun 1880, Independence, Polk County, Oregon, USA
• SON: 1 Apr 1883, Oregon, USA;

  name: Hugh Watom Shelley gender: Male birth date: 01 Apr 1883 birthplace: Oregon father's name: Roswell Shelley father's birthplace: father's age: mother's name: Mary Tatom mother's birthplace: mother's age: indexing project (batch) number: I09278-5 system origin: Oregon-EASy source film number: 2229224 reference number: 13506

• Biography: 1885, Polk County, Oregon, USA

Notes:

Census:

1. Shelley, Roswold [Roswell], white, male, 33, married, clerk in store, Iowa, [blank], [blank]
2. _____, Mary, white, female, 25, wife, married, Oregon, Illinois, Kentucky
3. _____, Ralph, white, male, 1, son, Oregon, Iowa, Oregon

Biography:

Biography of Roswell Shelley
Mr. Shelley was bon in Iowa in the year 1846, and came with his parents to Oregon in 1848. His first home in Oregon was in Lane County, where he lived until 1857 when he moved to Polk County, and that has continued to be his home with the exception of a few years spent in Wasco County. Dealt in merchandise for several years. In 1882 was elected county clerk, and was placed in nomination again in 1884 for the second term but was defeated. Owns city property in Dalls. Married Miss Mary L. Tatom in 1878, and has two children--Ralph D., and Hugh T.

Died:

Place of death unknown but likely to be Polk County where she was enumerated in 1880 and buried in 1891.

Children: Ralph Dale Shelley was born on 8 May 1879 in Independence, Polk County, Oregon, USA. 1. Hugh Watom Shelley was born on 1 Apr 1883 in Oregon, USA.

Other Events:

• Emigration: 1853, Salem, Oregon Territory, USA
• Emigration: 18 Apr 1853, Oregon, USA;

  A biography in a volume of history of Idaho for the Hon. John Hailey states that he left Dade County, Missouri, on 18 April 1853 "at which time he started across the plains for the territory of Oregon, driving a five-yoke ox team for James Tatom. After a long and tedious trip across the stretches of hot sand and through the mountain passes they arrived at Salem, Oregon, on the 18th of October, having been exactly six months upon the way."

• Census: 27 Jul 1860, Butte Creek Precinct, Jackson County, Oregon, USA
• NEWS: 10 Nov 1873, Portland, Oregon, USA;

  Newspaper item:

  "On Tuesday, Oct. 14th, Deputy James Tatom organized a grange at Bethel, Polk county, called Garretson Grange, George Eilars, Master, and H. Alexander, Secretary."

• NEWS: 21 Dec 1878, Portland, Oregon, USA;

  "Articles Filed The following articles of incorporation have just been filed in the office of Secretary of State: Mutual Loan Association of Portland, with capital stock of $200,000. Incorporators H. A. Hogue, L. Therkelsen, D. Mackay, S. P. Lee, A. G. Walling, Chas. Hodge, B. P. Cardwell, H. H. Northup. Oregon Mutual Insurance Company: head office at Portland, capital stock [$1000?]. Incorporators Arthur Warner, D. H. Hendee, Daniel Clark, James Tatom, E. D. Smith, E. D. Shattuck and S. W. Brown."

• Census: 1 Jun 1880, Morrison Precinct E. of 5th St. (15 Morrison), Multnomah County, Oregon, USA
• NEWS: 28 Aug 1888, Portland, Oregon, USA;

  James Tatom listed as a Polk County Pioneer, giving his arrival year as 1852.

• DAUGHTER: 31 Dec 1940, Oregon, USA;

  name: Ellen Lanktree gender: Female burial date: burial place: death date: 31 Dec 1940 death place: age: 68 birth date: 1872 birthplace: marital status: Married spouse's name: Chas. Edwin Lanktree father's name: James Tatom father's birthplace: mother's name: Nancy Berry mother's birthplace: indexing project (batch) number: I01232-1 system origin: Oregon-EASy source film number: 2110202 reference number: 137

Notes:

Birth:

James's Oregon Donation Lands file offers year of birth 1827 and place "Dixon" County, Tennessee.

Emigration:

From an address by the Hon. John Hailey, librarian for the State Historical Society of Idaho, at the 1906 reunion of the Oregon Pioneer Association:

"I came across the plains from Dade County, Missouri, to Oregon in 1853 in James Tatom's company. He and his father had four ox teams and about one hundred head of loose cattle. We arrived and stopped at Salem, Oregon, on the evening of October 18, 1853. Salem was a nice little village at that time, consisting of perhaps three hundred people. The country looked nice, but there did not seem to be much doing, and the show for poor emigrant boys to get work was slim. There were seven of us youngsters who had worked our passage across the plains, helping Mr. Tatom, some driving loose cattle, others driving the ox teams. As I had had some experience driven ox teams in Missouri, it fell to my lot to drive what was called the big team of five yoke of oxen to a large wagon. The other teams consisted of only two yoke each.

"We all remained at Salem the next day after our arrival, looking around for work, but failed to find any. When we passed Oregon City a few days before, we heard that some company was working quite a number of men there on a kind of breakwater or dam across the Willamette River, so three of us, John S. McBride, James Wilson and myself, concluded to go back to Oregon City and try and get work there. But before we started, Mr. Tatom said that he wanted me to stay with him a few days and help him get his stock located on good range. So it was agreed that McBride and Wilson should go on to Oregon City and try and get work, and as soon as Mr. Tatom's stock was properly located on the range, I would come. Those two boys left for Oregon City and the other four struck for different parts. Tatom and I went out to what was called the Waldo Hills, about eight miles from Salem. Here we found splendid range for stock. The grass was fine and no stock there. We returned to camp and next day, with the assistance of Mr. Tatom's younger brother Isaac, we moved the cattle and the big wagon out there, with a supply of provisions. They returned to Salem to get the family located in a house, and left me alone to look after the cattle. The cattle were well contented and I had an easy, lonesome time for ten days before he returned to relieve me."

Census:

1. Tatom, James, 33, male, farmer, real estate value $1200, personal $7600, Tennessee
2. _____, Nancy J., 26, female, Kentucky
3. _____, Jas. W., 9, male, Missouri
4. _____, Mary L., 5, female, Oregon
5. _____, Alice, 2, female, Oregon
6. _____, Isaac, 21, male, farm laborer, [no real estate value], $1570 personal, Missouri
7. Smith, Perry, 18, male, farm laborer, [no real estate value], $250 personal, Missouri
8. [Hasken], A. M., 31, male, com laborer, Illinois

Census:

1. Risley, Orvill, white, male, 41, boarder, widowed, New York, [New Hampshire], New York
2. Tatom, Jas, white, male, 53, boarder, widowed, farmer, Tennessee, North Carolina, Tennessee
3. Parker, Wm B., white, male, 30, boarder, widowed, mall agent, Indiana, Tennessee, Pennsylvania
4. Meyer, Christian W., white, male, married, farmer, Bremen, Bremen, Bremen
5. _____, Henrietta, white, female, 40, married, wife, Bremen, Bremen, Bremen
6. _____, Henrietta, white, female, 13 boarder, Oregon, Bremen, Bremen
7. _____, Annie, white, female, 11, boarder, Oregon, Bremen, Bremen
8. _____, William, white, male, 8, boarder, Oregon, Bremen, Bremen
9. _____, Agusta [Augusta], white, female, 6, boarder, Oregon, Bremen, Bremen

James married Nancy Berry on 3 Jul 1851 in Missouri. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Biography:

  WPA Interview of Solomon's Son, H. Clay Tatom

  "Mr. TATOM was interviewed at his farm home about one half mile north of Philomath. Mr. TATOM's father, who came to Oregon in the early days as a boy of seven, lived until a few years ago. However, neither Mr. TATOM nor his father made any written records, and he was able to tell me little of importance. Mrs. TATOM is also of pioneer stock but was absent from home and the interview with her was postponed until a later date. Mr. TATOM said: My Grandfather, Richard TATOM, came with his wife, Lavina, from Missouri to Oregon in 1854. Grandfather was captain of the team and they came without any special difficulty, so far as I know. The first winter they spent at Halls Ferry of the Willamette River and in the spring of 1855 they located at Kings Valley. Grandfather's donation land claim was on the hill just west of CHAMBERS and other first settlers. Grandfather seems to have been skilled at many trades, but he worked at blacksmithing more than any other except farming. Grandfather's children were James, Rebecca, William, Mary, Lavina, Isaac, Caroline, George, and Solomon. Solomon was my father. He was born in Missouri in 1847. My mother was Cyrena WOOD, who was born in Benton County in 1854. Her father's donation land claim was a little north east of Blodgett, near the head of Gellatly canyon on the Newport Highway. My parents were married in 1871. They had three children. My sisters, who are dead, were Nellie (Mrs. Frank PLUNKETT), and Minnie (Mrs. Jonnie PRICE). Father spent his boyhood and attended school in Kings Valley. I have often heard him talk of Fort Hoskins and the men who were there but I made no record and cannot give exact information. I know Phil SHERIDAN was one of the officers he talked of seeing. Father was nine when the fort was built and nineteen when it was abandoned. In 1901 I married Elsie MATHANY whose folks were also pioneers. Her mother was a cousin of Louis Albert BANKS who won as much fame as a evangelist and preacher. Our children are Mable (Mrs. Glenn BRADY), Minnie (Mrs. James McMURTRY), Calvin, Marian and Dean."

• Note: 7 Apr 1823, Dickson County, Tennessee, USA;

  A William Tatom was appointed to oversee road in place of Jacob Walker at April Term 1823. The next road overseer appointed after him was George H. Walker. Could this be Richard's father or brother?

• Land: 3 Jun 1835, Lot 23, Greenville, Bond County, Illinois, USA;

  Richard purchased from the County Commissioners, in the "new town of Greenville," Lot 23, for $25.

• Note: 4 Jul 1835, Greenville, Bond County, Illinois, USA
• Deed: 24 Feb 1836, [Tatom to Hartley Jr], Bond County, Illinois, USA;

  On this date Richard Tatum sold 47 1/2 acres for $200 to his brother-in-law, James Hartley, Jr. Acknowledged/proved and filed on the same date.

• Land: 12 Jan 1837, Lot 23, Greenville, Bond County, Illinois, USA;

  Richard sold lot 23, town of Greenville, to James Bradford for $300. Acknowledgment and dower relinquishment, 12 January 1837. No filing date.

• Land: 10 Sep 1844, Sec. 2, Twp. 34N, Rg. 26W, Cedar County, Missouri, USA;

  Richard Tatom, along with partner Oliver Hubbard were granted by land patent 160 acres in Section 2 of Township 34N, Range 26W in Cedar County. Oliver Hubbard is unknown at this point.

• Land: 1 Nov 1848, Sec 10, Twp 33N, Rg 2W, Cedar County, Missouri, USA;

  Richard patented forty acres in his name alone in Section 10 of Township 33N, Range 25W.

• Residence: 1 Sep 1854, Benton County, Oregon, USA;

  Oregon Land Donation file indicates that he settled on the property for which he later filed on this date.

• Land: 16 Nov 1854, Benton County, Oregon, USA;

  Richard Tatom filed for Oregon Donation Lands on this date. The 322.63 acres was located in T10S, R6W, Sections 8 and 17, "the North half to the said Richard Tatom, and the South half to his wife, the said Levina Tatom."

• Tax Record: 1855, Benton County, Oregon, USA
• Tax Record: 1856, Benton County, Oregon, USA
• Probate Settlement: 1869, Polk County, Oregon, USA

Notes:

Note:

From Perrin's History of Bond and Montgomery Counties, Illinois

"The second jail was built by Richard Tatom on the public square for $321.74, payment made for same July 4, 1935, that probably being the date of receiving the building."

Deed:

". . . in the county of Bond . . . and described as a part of the north west quarter of Section No. twenty two Township six north in Range three west and bounded as follows [:] Beginning at the north west corner of said Section and Runing 'six] East 80 pees Thence south 80 poles Thence west 80 poles to the section line Thence west 24 poles to a small creek Thence up the meanders of said creek upwards of 80 poles to a willow tree thence East to poles the Beginning containing forty seven acres & a half."

Land:

Citation: Richard Tatom (Benton County), donation lands, final certificate no. 4667, Oregon City, Oregon, Land Office; Oregon and Washington Donation Land Files, 1851-1903, Records of the Bureau of Land Management, Record Group 49, NARA, Wash., D.C., microfilm publication M815, roll 51.

Died:

Probably died in Benton or Polk County.

Richard married Levina Hartley on 26 Mar 1826 in Dickson County, Tennessee, USA. Levina (daughter of James Hartley and Elizabeth Walker) was born on 24 Jan 1811 in Dickson County, Tennessee, USA; died on 7 Nov 1870 in Benton County, Oregon, USA; was buried in Dallas Cemetery, Polk County, Oregon, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Census: 1820, Dickson County, Tennessee, USA;

  James Hartley 2 males under 10 [Willis abt 2, James abt 6] 1 male 26 to 45 [James Hartley abt 41] 2 females under 10 [Mary abt 7, Luvina abt 9] 1 female 26 to 45 [Elizabeth Walker abt 30] 1 female 45 and up 0 slaves

• Census: 1830, Bond County, Illinois, USA;

  Richard Tatom household 1 male under 5 [James Tatom abt 3] 1 male 20 to 30 [Richard Tatom abt 25] 1 female under 5 [?] 1 female 15 to 20 [Luvina Hartley abt 19]

• Residence: 1831-1837, Bond County, Illinois, USA;

  The James Hartley family moved from Dickson County, Tennessee, to Bond County, Illinois, about 1831. In 1837, following the death of Elizabeth Hartley in 1835, James moved with his children to Polk County, Missouri.

• Census: 1840, Polk County, Missouri, USA;

  Richard Tatum 1 male under 5 [Isaac abt 3] 1 male 5 to 10 [William abt 9] 1 male 10 to 15 [James abt 13] 1 male 30 to 40 [Richard Tatum abt 35] 2 females 5 to 10 [Elizabeth abt 7, Luvina abt 5] 1 female 10 to 15 [?] 1 female 20 to 30 [Luvina Walker Tatum abt 29]

• Census: 24 Sep 1850, District 17, Cedar County, Missouri, USA;

  1. Tatum, Richard, 45, male, farmer, real estate $75, North Carolina 2. _____, Luvina, 39, female, Tennessee, cannot read or write 3. _____, James, 23, m,ale, labor, Tennessee 4. _____, Wm, 19, male, labor, Illinois, attended school within the year 5. _____, Elizabeth, 17, female, Illinois, attended school within the year 6. _____, Luvina, 14, female, Illinois, attended school within the year 7. _____, Isaac, 11, male, Missouri 8. _____, Carolina, 9, female, Missouri, attended school within the year 9. _____, George, 6, male, Missouri 10. _____, Solomon, 2, male, Missouri

• Emigration: 18 Oct 1853, Salem, Oregon Territory, USA
• Migration: 26 Oct 1854, Kings Valley, Benton County, Oregon, USA;

  Arrive in Oregon on this date.

• Land: 16 Nov 1854, Benton County, Oregon, USA;

  Richard Tatom filed for Oregon Donation Lands on this date. The 322.63 acres was located in T10S, R6W, Sections 8 and 17, "the North half to the said Richard Tatom, and the South half to his wife, the said Levina Tatom."

• Census: 11 Jul 1860, Kings Valley, Benton County, Oregon, USA;

  1. Tatom, Richard, 55, male, farmer, real estate value $1,500, personal $1280, North Carolina 2. _____, Lavina, 50, female, Tennessee 3. _____, George, 16, male, Missouri, attending school 4. _____, Solomon, 12, male, Missouri, attending school 5. Wood, Irena, 1, female, Oregon

• Death: 23 Jul 1869, Benton County, Oregon, USA;

  Death of husband, Richard Tatum.

• Census: 9 Jun 1870, Benton County, Oregon, USA;

  1. Clark, Wm E., 36, male, white, farmer, Missouri 2. _____, Lavina, 35, female, white, keeping house, Illinois 3. _____, Louisa, 13, female, white, Oregon 4. _____, Clark, 12, male, white, Oregon 5. _____, Sarah, 11, female, white, Oregon 6. _____, Hester, 8, female, white, Oregon 7. _____, Willie, 6, male, white, Oregon 8. _____, Amanda, 4, female, white, Oregon 9. _____, Jesse, 1, male, white, Oregon 10. _____, Georgia, one month, female, white, Oregon, born in May 11. _____, Lavina, 59, female, white, Tennessee 12. Wood, Irene, 11, female, white, Oregon

Notes:

Name:

Also seen as Luvina, Lavinia, etc. Her cemetery marker and Oregon Donation Lands file name her, however, as "Levina."

Emigration:

From an address by the Hon. John Hailey, librarian for the State Historical Society of Idaho, at the 1906 reunion of the Oregon Pioneer Association:

"I came across the plains from Dade County, Missouri, to Oregon in 1853 in James Tatom's company. He and his father had four ox teams and about one hundred head of loose cattle. We arrived and stopped at Salem, Oregon, on the evening of October 18, 1853. Salem was a nice little village at that time, consisting of perhaps three hundred people. The country looked nice, but there did not seem to be much doing, and the show for poor emigrant boys to get work was slim. There were seven of us youngsters who had worked our passage across the plains, helping Mr. Tatom, some driving loose cattle, others driving the ox teams. As I had had some experience driven ox teams in Missouri, it fell to my lot to drive what was called the big team of five yoke of oxen to a large wagon. The other teams consisted of only two yoke each.

"We all remained at Salem the next day after our arrival, looking around for work, but failed to find any. When we passed Oregon City a few days before, we heard that some company was working quite a number of men there on a kind of breakwater or dam across the Willamette River, so three of us, John S. McBride, James Wilson and myself, concluded to go back to Oregon City and try and get work there. But before we started, Mr. Tatom said that he wanted me to stay with him a few days and help him get his stock located on good range. So it was agreed that McBride and Wilson should go on to Oregon City and try and get work, and as soon as Mr. Tatom's stock was properly located on the range, I would come. Those two boys left for Oregon City and the other four struck for different parts. Tatom and I went out to what was called the Waldo Hills, about eight miles from Salem. Here we found splendid range for stock. The grass was fine and no stock there. We returned to camp and next day, with the assistance of Mr. Tatom's younger brother Isaac, we moved the cattle and the big wagon out there, with a supply of provisions. They returned to Salem to get the family located in a house, and left me alone to look after the cattle. The cattle were well contented and I had an easy, lonesome time for ten days before he returned to relieve me."

Notes:

Married:
Richard's Oregon Donation Lands file states that he and his wife Levina were married in "Dixon" County, Tennessee, on this date. Many of the early Dickson County marriage records are missing, due to a tornado that destroyed the courthouse in 1830, explaining why no record has been located.

Children: 6. James Tatum was born in 1827 in Dickson County, Tennessee, USA; died after 1880. William Tatum was born about 1831 in Illinois, USA; died in 1888 in Polk County, Oregon, USA; was buried in Dallas Cemetery, Polk County, Oregon, USA. Elizabeth Tatum was born about 1833 in Illinois, USA; died in 1859 in Oregon, USA. Levina Tatum was born about 1836 in Illinois, USA; died on 11 Sep 1913 in Polk County, Oregon, USA; was buried in Dallas Cemetery, Polk County, Oregon, USA. Isaac Tatom was born about 1837 in Missouri, USA; died on 7 Nov 1872 in Oregon, USA; was buried in Dallas Cemetery, Polk County, Oregon, USA. Caroline Tatom was born on 28 May 1841 in Missouri, USA; died on 11 Mar 1926 in Independence, Polk County, Oregon, USA; was buried in Hilltop Cemetery, Polk County, Oregon, USA. George Tatom was born about 1844 in Missouri, USA; died after 1910. Solomon Tatom was born about 1848 in Missouri, USA; died on 2 Nov 1928 in Benton County, Oregon, USA.