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Hebbard, King Henry
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| LAST: Hebbard
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FIRST: King
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MID: Henry
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| GENDER: M
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| BORN: 31 Jan 1806
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DIED: 30 Jun 1860
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OCCUPATION: Farmer
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| BIRTH PLACE: Buffalo, New York
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| DEATH PLACE: Marion Co., Oregon
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NOTES:
DISCREPANCY: Name spelled Hebbard & Hibbard.
MARRIAGE - King Hibbard, m Nancy Brisburn [Brisbin] 27 Mar 1835 in Tazewell Co., Illinois;
1850 OR TERRITORY CENSUS - King Hibbard, age 45, farmer, b. New York, is enumerated with Nancy Hibbard, age 37, b. Pennsylvania, along with Clinton, age 14, b. Illinois, King, age 13, b. Illinois, Alvira, age 7, b. Illinois, Philena, age 4, b. Illinois, George, age 1, b. Oregon Territory. Also enumerated with the family is William Bisbin, age 35, farmer, b. Pennsylvania;
BIOGRAPHICAL:
The originator of the Hibbard family in America was Robert Hibbard, who came from Salisbury, England in 1635 and settled in Salem, Mass. He was a farmer and many of his descendants have followed in his footsteps, though many other professions have been chosen by members of his family and patriotism has been shown in the number of soldiers among them.
The father of King Hibbard, the pioneer of 1847, was Samuel Porter Hibbard, who was born in Canterbury, Connecticut, in 1770, and married Hannah Root. They moved to St. Armand, Canada, soon after and lived there some time, but returned to live in the States.
King H., the subject of this sketch, was born in 1806 and was married to Nancy Craig Brisbane. They settled near Pekin, Illinois, and it was from that place they started for Oregon in April 1847. At that time, their family numbered four children. After they arrived in Oregon three other children came in turn.
At the Mississippi River they fell in with the Geer train, but started on ahead with a smaller train of twenty-two wagons in all, not waiting for the larger train that moved more slowly.
They had no Indian trouble except from an old Indian buck and his squaw, who came to the train and tried to buy the Hibbard baby, Caroline, who afterward became Mrs. M. Fitzgerald, of Silverton, Oregon. The buck offered several ponies for the baby and of course was refused. They followed the train all one day, making additional offers of more ponies for this white child, with the same result.
This train came into the Willamette Valley over the newly constructed Barlow Road and arrived in good shape.
Mr. Hibbard took up a donation land claim adjoining that of the Rice Dunbars and when the survey was made his patent was Number 1.
The following spring, after the Hibbards made settlement, the Geer family came into the neighborhood and took up an adjoining claim, and then the little Hibbard lads, Trenton and King L., recognized in Calvin Geer the little boy they had played with on the banks of the Mississippi the year before, and those lads were very happy to renew this friendship that lasted throughout the years.
King H. Hibbard was among the volunteers of Ralph Geer’s company to fight the Indians and was in the “Battle of the Abiqua,” 1847-48. He was one of Oregon’s best citizens and left a worthy family to enrich the citizenship of the new country…
Book of Remembrance by Sarah Hunt Steeves, pp 152-153.
BIOGRAPHICAL (From A History of the Silverton Country, pg 42):
A notable body of men were those pioneers of 1847 who settled in the Silverton and Waldo Hills. Ralph C. Geer has already been named. A brother, Heman J. Geer, was the father of Theodore Thurston Geer, governor of Oregon. His mother was Cynthia Ann, the daughter of John Leonard Eoff, who settled near English's mill on Howell's Prairie. Abner S. Willard was a relative and near neighbor of the Geer's. George P. S. Riches, an Englishman, took a claim which had been first settled by William Rankin McCord, who relinquished to him. King Hibbard and John S. Hunt would be outstanding men in any community. When they are added to the already noteworthy group which has began in the Waldo Hills settlement of Daniel Waldo, it begins to be apparent why this section in an early day was able to contribute so much to the history of the state."
BIOGRAPHICAL (Hibbard Reunion, Oregon Statesman 23 Jul 1935 3:1):
HIBBARD CLAN IS ORGANIZED; Incident of Plains Crossing Told at First Annual Gathering
WALDO HILLS, July 22.—The descendants of King and Nancy Brisbane Hibbard gathered Sunday at the J. C. Currie home in the Waldo Hills for their first reunion.
Mr. Hibbard [King H.] was born in Canada while Mrs. Hibbard [Nancy] was born in Kentucky. Later both moved to Illinois where they met and were married near Pekin. In 1847 they and their children, Trenton, King, Jr., Elvira (Mrs. Knowles), Carrie (Mrs. Fitzgerell) joined a train with their cousins, the Bennetts, and started west.
One incident will always remain in the minds of those people. A band of Indians visited the camp and were much taken with the baby, Carrie. They asked if they might not buy her, and unthinking, one of the men said they might have her. The next day she was missing. A search revealed her in the Indian camp. It took many trinkets and a great deal of talking to get her back.
Arriving in the valley, the Hibbard family went at once to the Dunbar home, now the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jay Thompson. Here they stayed until Mr. Hibbard took his land claim, patent number 1. Children born after their arrival were Rosa (Mrs. Tom Riches), Dr. Charles and George. Mrs. Lena Hibbard, widow of Dr. Charles, was present today from Pasadena, Calif. She is the only surviving member of that generation.
A grandson of the Hibbards who gave his life in the Spanish-American was was Hal Hibbard, for whom the post in Salem is named. Dr. L. E. Hibbard of Burns was until a short time ago, a member of the state game commission. Mrs. Helen Hibbard [Paget], a granddaughter, has for many years been a prominent school teacher in Marion county.
After enjoying a wonderful picnic dinner, a program was given. “America” was sung with Mrs. J. C. Currie leading; vocal solos, Mrs. Merl Coe, accompanied by Mrs. Bert Vincent; tap dances by seven-year-old Judy Anne Alm of Portland, accompanied by Mrs. Edson Comstock; song by five-year-old Betty Belle Hibbard of Molalla, accompanied by her mother, Mrs. George Hibbard; piano solos, Arlouine Bennett of McMinnville; talk by Dr. L. E. Hibbard of Burns.
Present from Portland were: Winifred Hibbard, Celia Hibbard, Weldon Hibbard, Claude, Beatrice Lea, Claudia, Marg Hibbard, Charles and Grace Murphy, Gertrude and Melvin Carner, Vesta Hardy, Phyllis Hall, Anne Riches Carner, Andrew Carner, Dr. John Currie, Frank, Helen and Judy Anne Alm, Judy Currie, Mr. and Mrs. George Hall. From San Francisco came Belle Hester. From Pasadena came Mrs. Lena Hibbard, her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Beverly Stephens. From Burns, D. L. E. Hibbard, Mr. and Mrs. Coe and small son, Hal Hibbard Coe, Mr. and Mrs. Vincent and George Hibbard. Mr. and Mrs. Fenton Starr of Waldport, Mrs. Essie Hardy, Arlouine Bennett, Lillian Murphy, Rosamond Bennett, Grover Hardy, C. Bennett, all of McMinnville, Leon Murphy of The Dallas, Roswell Bennett of Newberg, Helen Bennett of Newberg, George and Temperance Riches, Max Carmen, all of Salem. Harry Hibbard, Mr. and Mrs. George Hibbard of Molalla, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Fitzgterell, Helen Paget, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Currie of Silverton".
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OBITUARY:
Died – In Marion County, June 30, King Hebbard, aged 54 years.
Weekly Oregon Statesman 14 Aug 1860 3:1.
King H. Hibbard died Sat. the 30th of June, 1860, at the age of 54. King H. Hibbard was born in Buffalo, N.Y., January 31, 1806, the son of Samuel P. and Hannah Hibbard. On the 7th of April, 1847, King Hibbard left his home in Pekin, Illinois and started for the northwest, crossing the Missouri River at St. Joseph on May 3. He then proceeded by the way of the Platte River and the Oregon route to the northwest. He saw thousands of buffalo upon the plains and the Indians were almost as numerous. There were no bridges across the streams and neither had ferry boats been put into operation. On one occasion Indians stole the horses of the party, but they managed to recover them. They crossed the Cascades the 17th of September.
The Hibbard family located in the Waldo Hills and took a donation land claim of 640 acres, which he entered on September 25. He was a typical pioneer settler, brave, self-reliant, and determined, willing to cope with hardships and difficulties of life on the frontier in order to establish a home for his family.
His wife, who bore the maiden name of Nancy C. Brisbin, was born in Center County, Pa. Her death occurred in the Waldo Hills, in January 1864. In the Hibbard family there were 8 [7] children, four sons and four [3] daughters: Trenton R., King L., Elvira Jane, wife of John Knowles; Philena Carolyn, wife of M. Fitzgerald; George D., Charles W., and Rosamond, wife of T. W. Riches.
(uncited - from Silverton Library scrapbooks)
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INSCRIPTION:
King Hebbard
Died
June 30, 1860
Aged
54 Y's 4 M's 29 D's
[shares marker with Nancy]
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SOURCES:
Hellie, Mader & Rickey
Saucy
Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, 1763-1900, Vol. A, pg 19;
1850 OR TERRITORY CENSUS (Marion Co., FA #252)
Steeves, pp 152-153
Down, Robert Horace, A History of the Silverton Country, pg 42
WOS 14 Aug 1860 3:1
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