The Royal Way West

Download or read book The Royal Way West written by Violet Coe Mumford and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Royal (1796-1870) was a son of Thomas Royal (1752-1834) and Hannah Cooper, the first wife of Thomas. William married Barbara Ebey in 1818 in the Columbus/Dublin area of Ohio, moved to Sangamon County, Illinois in 1827, and later moved to Athens, Illinois. By 1830, William had become a Methodist minister, and between 1830 and 1850 he was assigned to various circuits in Illinois. His brother Charles crossed the plains to oregon in 1852, and in 1853 William and his family followed. Vol. 2 of this trilogy contains the diaries of the Royal families on their way west in 1853, supplemented by the diaries of families traveling with them: the Burt families, the Taylor families, and the Hoffman family. William Royal and his family settled first in Wilbur, Douglas County, Oregon, moving to Portland by 1857, and to Salem, Oregon in 1868.