James Tatum b. 1827 Dickson County, Tennessee, USA d. After 1880: Our Family History

1827 - 1880 (54 years)

Personal Information | Sources | All | PDF

Name	James Tatum [1]
Born	1827	Dickson County, Tennessee, USA [1, 2]
	James's Oregon Donation Lands file offers year of birth 1827 and place "Dixon" County, Tennessee.
Gender	Male
Emigration	1853	Salem, Oregon Territory, USA [3]
	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."
Emigration	18 Apr 1853	Oregon, USA [4]
	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 [5]
	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
NEWS	10 Nov 1873	Portland, Oregon, USA [6]
	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 [7]
	"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 [8]
	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
Died	After 1880 [9]
NEWS	28 Aug 1888	Portland, Oregon, USA [10]
	James Tatom listed as a Polk County Pioneer, giving his arrival year as 1852.
DAUGHTER	31 Dec 1940	Oregon, USA [9]
	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
Person ID	I2718	Full \| ProgenitorWalker
Last Modified	6 Jan 2013

Father	Richard Tatom, b. 12 May 1805, Orange County, North Carolina, USA , d. 23 Jul 1869, Oregon, USA (Age 64 years)
Mother	Levina Hartley, b. 24 Jan 1811, Dickson County, Tennessee, USA , d. 7 Nov 1870, Benton County, Oregon, USA (Age 59 years)
Married	26 Mar 1826	Dickson County, Tennessee, USA [11]
	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.
Family ID	F460	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family Nancy Berry

Married 3 Jul 1851 Missouri [2]

Children

	1. James W. Tatum, b. 1851, Missouri, USA
+	2. Mary L. Tatum, b. 26 Oct 1854, Oregon, USA , d. 26 Aug 1891, Polk County, Oregon, USA (Age 36 years)
	3. Alice Tatum, b. Abt 1858, Oregon, USA
	4. Ellen Tatum, b. Abt 1872, d. 31 Dec 1940, Oregon, USA (Age ~ 68 years)

Last Modified 29 Dec 2012

Family ID F1806 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Sources

[S590] Missouri, Cedar - 1850 U.S. Census, Missouri, Cedar County, District 17, Cedar County, Missouri, Page 319 (penned), Page 160 (stamped), Dwelling 472, Family 472, Richard Tatum household, jpeg image (Reliability: 3).
[S2971] Oregon and Washington Donation Land Files, 1851-1903, microfilm publication M815 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives, roll 74, "Winchester-Roseburg Land Office, Donation Certificates 852-913," James Tatom file (Jackson County), certificate no. 862, issued June 1865.
[S2986] Hon. John Hailey, "My First Experience in Oregon in 1853," Transactions of the Thirty-Fourth Annual Reunion of the Oregon Pioneer Association (Portland, Or.: Peasies Bros. and Chause Printers, 1907), 180-185, particularly 180-181. The author Mr. Hailey was librarian for the State Historical Society of Idaho, in Boise.
[S2985] History of Idaho: The Gem of the Mountains (Chicago: S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1920), vol. 2, 112, James Tatom reference in biography of the Hon. John Hailey.
[S2961] 1860 U.S. census, Jackson County, Oregon, population schedule, Butte Creek Precinct, [no penned p. no.], p. 167b-168a (stamped), dwelling 626, family 15, James Tatom household; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 27 December 2012); citing NARA microfilm publication M653, roll 1055.
[S2979] "Oregon," The (Portland) Oregonian, 10 November 1873, p. 3, col. 4, news item regarding Deputy James Tatom of Polk County; digital image, GenealogyBank.com (http://www.genealogybank.com : accessed 29 December 2012).
[S2980] "Articles Filed," The (Portland) Oregonian, 21 December 1878, p. 5, col. 2, news item regarding James Tatom, co-incorporator of the Mutual Loan Association of Portland; digital images, GenealogyBank.com (http://www.genealogybank.com : accessed 29 December 2012).
[S3026] 1880 U. S. census, Multnomah County, Oregon, population schedule, Morrison Precinct East of 5 St., enumeration district (ED) 95, p. 2 (penned), p. 248 (stamped, verso), dwelling 14, family 19, Orvill Risley household for Jas. [James] Tatom; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 2 January 2013); citing NARA microfilm publication T9, roll 1083.
[S2978] "Oregon Deaths and Burials, 1903-1947," FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org : accessed 29 December 2012), James Tatom in entry for Ellen Lanktree, 31 December 1940; "not necessarily intended to index any specific set of records" and "not complete for any particular place or region.".
[S2981] "Polk County Pioneers," The (Portland) Oregonian, 28 August 1888, p. 6, col. 2; digital image, GenealogyBank.com (http://www.genealogybank.com : accessed 29 December 2012).
[S2957] Richard Tatom (Benton County), donation lands, final certificate no. 4667, Oregon City, Oregon, Land Office; Oregon and Washington Donation Land Files, 1851.