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  • ID: I8172
  • Name: John W. AMBROSE
  • Sex: M
  • Note: John followed his brother Jacob to Oregon in about 1888. They went by covered wagon and were stranded for a time in the desert when they ran out of water. John struck out on his own, found water, and came back for his family. They settled in the John Day valley where he became a sheep rancher. He was elected sheriff of Grant County Oregon and served two terms in the 1890's. A shackling device called the "Oregon Boot" was used by him, and is now in the museum in Canyon City.
  • Birth: JUL 1849 in Morgan County, Virginia 1 2
  • Death: 3 NOV 1917 in Portland County, Oregon
  • Note: There are conflicting stories as to his death. He has been reported as dying in 1889; or during WW I (1918) in Portland, Oregon, after being hit by a train on a RR bridge, while working as a civilian guard. 3 4
  • Census: 1900 Grant County, Oregon
  • Note:
    Warm Springs Precinct, Enumerated 2 Jun 1900, 24/24
    Ambrose, John W. Head W M Jul 1849 51 M30 VA VA VA Farmer
    Serelda J. Wife W F Jun 1849 51 M30 2/2 IL NC NC
    William H. Son W M Apr 1872 28 S IL VA IL
    Seago, William Father W M Apr 1819 81 Wd NC NC NC
    2



    Father: William Henry AMBROSE b: 26 JAN 1814 in Berkeley Springs, Berkeley County, Virginia
    Mother: Anna Eliza Virginia SNOWDEAL b: 1 MAY 1821 in Morgan County, Virginia

    Marriage 1 Serelda Jane SEAGO b: JUN 1849 in Illinois
    • Married: 12 NOV 1868 in Jersey County, Illinois 5
    Children
    1. Has No Children Matilda Ann AMBROSE b: in Illinois
    2. Has Children William H. AMBROSE b: APR 1872 in Illinois

    Sources:
    1. Title: 1850 Federal Census
      Page: Morgan Co., WV
    2. Title: U.S. Federal Census (Provo, UT: Ancestry.com [images online],)
      Page: 1900ORT623_1347-0170S1B
    3. Title: Roxanne Cummings, Personal Knowledge/Research
      Note:
      Baadcop@MSN.com
    4. Title: State of Oregon, compiler, Oregon Death Index, 1903-1998 [database online] (Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2000)
      Page: Cert. 90
    5. Title: Illinois Marriage Index 1763-1900 (http://www.sos.state.il.us/departments/archives/marriage.html)
      Page: Vol A, p27
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