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Mt. Hope Pioneer Cemetery ~ Corrilla Amon
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Amon, Corrilla
LAST: Amon FIRST: Corrilla MID: 
GENDER: F MAIDEN NAME: Welch TITLE: Mrs.
BORN: 1813 DIED: 27 Feb 1866 BURIED: 
OCCUPATION:  
BIRTH PLACE:  Maryland
DEATH PLACE: Oregon
NOTES: 
1850 MO CENSUS - Corilla Amen [sic], age 35, b. Maryland, is enumerated with Ralph Amen [sic], age 35, farmer, b. Ohio, along with Anna, age 16, b. Ohio, Middelson, age 14, b. Ohio, Sylvester, age 12, b. Iowa, Mary E., age 10, b. Missouri, Mathias, age 7, b. Missouri, and Resin, age 3, b. Missouri;
2nd MARRIAGE - Married – On February 27 by Rev. Theophilus Powell, Mr. E.T. Perkins of Dallas, Polk Co., and Mrs. Corilla Amon, of Marion Co.
Weekly Oregon Statesman 6 Mar 1860 2:7.
1860 OR CENSUS - Curilla [sic] Perkins, age 44, b. Maryland, is enumerated with E. F. Perkins, age 51, occupation farmer, b. Kentucky, along with C. T. Perkins, male, age 13, b. Missouri, A. W. Perkins, male, age 11, b. Missouri, S. A. Perkins, female, age 8, b. Missouri, W. R. [or M. R.] Amen, male, age 14, b. Missouri, R. Amen, male, age 9, b. Missouri, and M. J. Amen, female, age 6, b. Missouri.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH (From: Steeves) - "Mrs. Cordelia Amon was one of the many widows to undertake the long trek to the Oregon country without a husband to depend upon or protect her on the way. Reason Amon, her husband, as well as Mrs. Amon, were born in the state of Maryland and they were married there.
The name Amon, Ammon or Amen, is supposed to be of Hebrew extraction and one of the sons said, in after years, that some of thier near ancestors were Jewish. As the writer remembers several members of this family, it is easy to believe this, for they were good looking, dark eyed men and women, showing decided Jewish features. This family, however, were strongly Gentile as to their faith. One son was a Christian minister, while many of them were devout members of the different churches of the west.
After Reason Amon and is wife Cordelia were married and had quite a family of children, they moved from Maryland to Missouri, and after residing there for several years they decided to cross the plains to Oregon. When this decision was made in 1852, Mr. Amon went to St. Louis, Missouri, for wagons and the necessary outfit for this long journey. This was the last that was ever heard of him as far as we know. The family always thought that he had been murdered for his money, as he was known to have had quite a sum with him at the time.
The family waited one year and as the two eldest sons were almost grown by this time and had been thinking so much of the far-away western country, they gave up all hope of the father coming home, so fitted up as best they could and started on the way.
Somewhere on the journey they joined the caravan of Captain Warden (or Worden), who was at the head of a train made up for the most part of young women school teachers, going west to teach in the pioneer schools of Oregon.
The Indians were very troublesome that year. They seemed especially bent on murder and during an engagement in battle with them, young Sylvester Amon, one of the eldest sons, was killed. He said to a young man by the name of Neely, who stood near him, "Here, boys, take my gun; I am shot." Those were his last words. This was a very hard fought battle and at this date nothing has been learned by the writer as to the outcome or who, besides those mentioned, were in that train. What a pity someone did not write an account of this fearsome and unlucky journey.
After their arrival in the Willamette Valley, via the Barlow road, they settled near Silverton, Oregon, to the southwest of this town about six miles. The first year, however, they lived in the Allen neighborhood, near Silverton.
Of the children of this intrepid woman were:
Annie, the eldest, who married a Mr. Sappington, who became a merchant of Sacramento, California.
Middleton, unmarried, studied medicine and practiced this profession for forty years at Ellensburg, Washington.
Sylvester, who was killed by the Indians on the plains.
Mathias, who died at The Dalles, Oregon, 1860, age 19.
Mary Ellen, who was married to John A. Hunt in 1858 and died August 15, 1926, aged 85 years.
W. Reason, who was first married to Eunice Downing, of the Waldo hills, Oregon. He was married four times but the names of only the first wife, Eunice, and the fourth wife, who was Mrs. Clara Sheenen, are known to the writer.
Rev. Ralph Amon lives in southern California at this date of 1926. His wife's name is not known. He has one daughter, Mrs. Matilda Olson.
Matilda Jane, who married James T. Hunt. She died a few years after her marriage, leaving two sons, Quinton and Thomas.
Mrs. Cordelia Amon died in 1866 and with two of her daughters, Mary Ellen Hunt and Matilda Jane Hunt, lies buried in Mt. Hope cemetery, then known as the Hunt Family burying ground."
OBITUARY: 
INSCRIPTION: 
Our Mother
Corrilla Amon
Died
Feb. 27, 1866
Aged
53 Years
SOURCES: 
Hellie, Mader & Rickey
Saucy
1850 MO CENSUS (Atchison Co., ED 3, pg 144)
1860 OR CENSUS (Polk Co., Dallas, FA #29)
WOS 6 Mar 1860 2:7
Steeves, pp 259-60
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