General Notes

James Merville Arrington traveled with his wife, and the first 3 of his 9 children, in 1851 from either DeKalb County or Benton Co, Missouri. They came with a 6 year old, 4 year old and 3 year old. By the time their 4th child was born, they were in the current Portland area. They arrived in Happy Valley, Douglas County in 1853, where the rest of the children were born. There are several references to James in those early years in books about the history of Douglas County. He married Kittyann Caroline Halpain in Missouri before they left, and her brother Samuel Halpain with his wife Polly, and children, all traveled on the same wagon train.
Their 3rd child was Frances Arrington, who married Aaron Rose, the founder of Roseburg, OR. The rest of the Arrington family lived south of Roseburg in the Happy Valley area, and their farm was close to the current area where the Wildlife Safari Park is in Winston, OR.

— from a 2002 email by Evelyn Brown

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