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<-- BACK FORWARD -->ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The quest of our family history has not been an easy task but it has been a rewarding one. Of course, we could never have done it without a lot of help from others who compiled records, data or other historical reports during previous years. Some of these helpers were census takers, courthouse clerks, writers, researchers, and historians. They recorded the facts in early times so that we could gather these up for today.
Dr. John Horner, Professor of History at Oregon Agricultural College, now Oregon State University, left some splendid written articles about the Town of Tampico, Oregon and some of its inhabitants - we were greatly aided by his writings.
We gained noteworthy assistance from some of today's local historians. Alva and Maud Turnbow, Harley and Helen Haskin, Lorna Grabe and the writer, Jo Sommers are included in this group. A researcher and writer, Mrs. Frances Milne of Pullman, Washington, gave us a good tip by calling our attention to a certain Manuscript #1508 of the Oregon Historical Society which we believe is concerned with other folk that traveled with our Davises on the first leg of their journey. We also gained valuable information from interested staff people that we met at the Horner Museum at Oregon State University.
We were aided by certain writers unknown aided us who wrote for early newspapers and left information behind to tell of the frontier settlements. We were aided by certain travelers with wagon trains that left some diary accounts to tell of their adventures along the trail to Oregon - the greatest of these was Lester Hulin who left us a day by day report of progress of the Davis' wagon train as it made its way along the Applegate Trail and into Oregon and the Willamette Valley.
Our thanks go out to many people whom we met that were working in various courthouses, historical museums or libraries as we traveled to their locations in the towns of Salem, Dallas, Corvallis, Eugene, Cottage Grove, The Dalles and Prineville. A very special thanks we give to President Don Kabler of the Benton County Historical Society - he gave us a very generous amount of his time, freely and willingly and even ran some special errands for us, making every effort to put us in touch with history and the people who made it.
The greatest help and encouragement came from Fred Elvin Inlow, a Davis Family relative living in Medford, Oregon. Cousin Fred has spent more than eighteen years working with genealogical research of our family and it was from his early findings that we gained some needed clues which enabled us to get under way.
Our thanks go to a number of Davis relatives that have contributed infor-mation and pictures that have added appreciable material to our story. We are grateful to Mrs. Isaphene Davis, widow of Chester 0. Davis of Banks, Oregon and daughter-in-law of Elmer and Alice Davis. Isaphene was able to tell us a great deal about Thomas W. Davis and his life in Prineville that had been told to her by Alice.
We are grateful to the Pendells - Roger of Springfield, Oregon and son Herschel living near Corvallis, Oregon. From them we learned quite a bit about their branch of the family related through Hannah Ann Davis Hendricks.
In a like manner, we appreciate the notable contributions of some other people living around Medford, Oregon namely: Lola Davis, Margaret Davis, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Leo Martin, Mr. and Mrs. James Loring Martin, Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Ray Martin and, of course, Mr. and Mrs. Fred E. Inlow.
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