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Surnames: Matlock, Splawn, Riggs, Brassfield, Cary
Classification: marriage
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Regarding the info you provided on Cary and the connection to Splawn is appreciated and
you have most of that as accurate, apparently.
However, from the Marriage records 1820-1850 and will records 1824-1849 of Ray County, Mo
the records show that:
Moses Splawn married Ann Riggs 14 April 1825 OS page: 166
Nancy Riggs married Mayberry Splawn, Jr. 8 May 1831 OS page: 156
Minter Brassfield married Jane Splawn 24 feb 1834 OS page 191 I note that I believe he did
not come to Oregon but settled and died in Iowa. I have dob of 25 April 1811 Claiborne Co.
Tenn and dod of 1 Feb 1896.
Berthena McHenry married Mayberry Splawn 20 Oct 1825 OS page 168
It seems clear that some, if not all, are related to those Oregon pioneer families I am
related to and for which is the subject of my research.
A Splawn family researcher reports a dod for Moses Splawn as 28 June 1850 near Ft Laramie,
Wyo of cholera and this consistent with the story he died enroute to Oregon from my
records.
A son of Moses was, or may have been named John. That son, or else another of the same
name, John Splawn, reportedly also died of cholera in year 1850 on the Oregon trail as
well, and state that the person who died was from Ray County Missouri and born 1830 at
that location.
Records from a Splawn researcher remind me specifically that there is an opportunity for
confusion and mistakes when researching Splawn. I hope someone has more bible records to
share.
Moses and Ann Splawn, above, had nine children and number nine was Greenberry Splawn b abt
1847 in Holt Co Missouri d 4 May 1931 Salem and buried Union Cem, Linn Co, Ore. His wife
was Amanda Matlock b 1853 O.T. d 1919 and bur Union Cem. in Linn Co. Oregon.
The Matlock family in Linn County vicinity is shown in census and DLC records as is the
Splawn family.
In the Federal census of 1850 Grundy, Missouri I point out that household 248 is surname
Neely, household 249 is surname Minters, as is also # 252. In this same 1850 census I find
Household # 255 to be Mayberry Splawn with wife number two who is Frances Brassfield.
Mayberry Splawn was born 1814 in Tennessee. He married first 8 May 1831 Ray County,
Missouri to Nancy Riggs and secondly to Frances Brassfield on 20 Dec 1838 also in Ray Co
Missouri. Frances Brassfield was born 1824 in Missouri.
Rueben Brassfield with a large family in the same census is household # 257.
Neely, Matlock, Splawn, Riggs, and Brassfield are surnames of early pioneers to Linn and
Lane County Oregon and connected to Missouri as evidenced by the above.