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Chapter 17


Virginia Linebarger, Her Ancestors and Siblings

L1K. Virginia Linebarger was born on 29 April 1845, in Washington County, Oregon, a couple of years after her parents, [L1] Lewis Linebarger and [H8] Jane Henderson, [see below] left Illinois and made the trip across the plains in covered wagons to Oregon.

At the time of the 1850 U.S. Census, Virginia Linebarger resided with her siblings in the home of her parents, Lewis and Jane Linebarger in Washington County, Oregon. In the 1860 U.S. Census, she and her siblings were listed in the home of her parents in Albany, Linn County, Oregon. On 26 October 1862, Virginia married John Thomas Gilmour, as discussed in the previous chapter, in Albany Linn County, Oregon and they became the parents of twelve children. At the time of the 1870 U. S. Census, Virginia and her husband John Wilson Gilmour were listed in the Sand Ridge Precinct of Linn County, Oregon. The 1880 U.S. Census, taken on 2 and 3 June of that year, indicates that the family lived in Silverton, Marion County, Oregon.

Virginia and her husband John Thomas Gilmour relocated their family to Ellensburg, Kittitas County, Washington in October 1880, and they were listed as residents there in the 1887 Kittitas County Census. In the 1900 U.S. Census report, Virginia, her husband John Thomas and children, Maud, John Lewis, Ona and Grace Gilmour were listed residing together in South Ellensburg, Ward 2, Kittitas County, Washington.

Following the death of John Thomas Gilmour in 1905, Virginia lived with her son, John Lewis Gilmour. In the 1910 U.S. Census she was listed in his home in Ellensburg, Kittitas County, Washington where he was cited as "head of household." Other members of that household were her daughter, Maud Gilmour and Virginia’s sister Delilah [Linebarger] Adams. Virginia died in Ellensburg on 9 August 1914. She was buried with her husband, John Thomas Gilmour, daughter Grace Gilmour, and two grandchildren in the IOOF Cemetery in Ellensburg, Washington in Space B-116-01. Her obituary was published in Ellensburg on 10 August, 1914 and is as follows:

MRS. JOHN GILMOUR DIES AT AGE OF 69--Had lived in Ellensburg for 34 Years.

Mrs. John Gilmour died at the home of her son J. L. Gilmour, 603 East Third Street at 2 o’clock yesterday afternoon after an illness of several months. Mrs. Gilmour was born in Washington County, Oregon, April 29, 1845, and was married to John Thomas Gilmour October 26, 1862, at Albany, Oregon, where they resided 16 years. She came to Ellensburg October 13, 1880, and made her home here since that time. She leaves six children to mourn her loss: Mrs. F.I. Lothrop, Mrs. Ona Wright, Fred, Maud and John Gilmour, and Mrs. Lena Vocke, who resides in Los Angeles. A brother, James Linebarger is at Hot Lake Oregon and a sister, Mrs. Delilah Adams, made her home with her. She also leaves 14 grand children. The funeral will be from the family residence at 2 o’clock Tuesday afternoon and internment will be in the Odd Fellows cemetery beside her husband, John Thomas Gilmour, who died in 1905. Mrs. Gilmour was the center of a large circle of friends and was known to be the first to give assistance to those in trouble or sickness.


L1. Lewis Linebarger was born on 8 October 1800, in Lincoln County, North Carolina and died on 29 May 1883, in Tangent, Linn County, Oregon. He was buried in the Sand Ridge Cemetery near Lebanon in Linn County, Oregon. He was the first of ten children born and raised by John Linebarger and Anna Maria or Mary Hoot [Hoote]. His father, John Linebarger was born in about 1774, in Belmont, Lincoln County, North Carolina and died on 6 May 1847, in West Union, Parke County, Indiana. His mother, Anna Maria Hoot was born on 17 September 1774, in North Hampton County, Pennsylvania and died on 14 December 1857, in Parke County, Indiana.

According to cousin, Jacqueline McLaughlin, who has done extensive research on our Linebarger family, John Linebarger’s parents were Johannes Linebarger and Elizabeth Heffelfinger. Johannes Linebarger was born before 1757, in Pennsylvania and died in 1824, in Batty’s Ford, Lincoln County, North Carolina. His father Johannes Leyenberger, reportedly sailed to Philadelphia in the year 1751, from Rotterdam, Holland. The family was originally from Wittelsheim, Alsace, a canton of Bern in Switzerland where the name was originally spelled Leuenberger. More detail can be found about the Linebargers on the website "Linebargers.Com" and in the book "A Family of Five Republics" by Paul Myron Wentworth Linebarger and W.B. Conkey, published in Hammond Indiana in 1905.

Lewis Linebarger, in 1820, migrated with his parents from North Carolina to Indiana. They settled first in Bartholomew County and then, by 1822, relocated to Parke County, Indiana. On 7 February 1822, according to a hand written marriage bond, which I have in my possession, Lewis married Jane Henderson in Jackson County, Indiana.

H7. Jane Henderson was born on 5 August 1802, in Montgomery County, Virginia and died on 23 December 1875, in Tangent, Linn County, Oregon. She was buried next to her husband, Lewis Linebarger, in the Sand Ridge Cemetery near Lebanon, Linn County, Oregon. Her parents were Joseph Henderson and Jane McGee and she was their seventh or eighth child.

Joseph Henderson was the son of John Henderson and Mary "Polly" Downard, and he was born in the year 1770, in Montgomery County, Virginia and died in Lawrence County, Indiana on 30 July 1816. He was married to Jane McGee on 4 March 1794, in Montgomery County, Virginia and they became the parents of twelve children. Joseph was one of the first settlers on the North Fork of the Roanoke River in Montgomery County and, according to Jacqueline McLaughlin, "in 1799 was deeded 257 acres on Ingles Mill Creek." His father John Henderson, born in 1740 in Montgomery County, was a farmer, a Justice of the Peace in Augusta County, Virginia and a captain in the Revolutionary War. He died in December 1812, and was buried in the Henderson Cemetery located 5 miles east of Blacksburg, located in Montgomery County, Virginia on the Catalpa Road near the Roanoke Presbyterian Church.

Jane Henderson’s mother, Jane McGee was born in Ireland in the year 1760 and died in Brown County, Indiana in 1835. Her parents were Robert McGee, born in about 1740 in Ulster, Ireland and who died in Russell County, Kentucky in 1815, and Mary Ann "Mollie" McCoun who was born on 13 August 1750 in Bedford County, Virginia.

In 1830, Lewis and Jane Linebarger moved from Indiana to Florence Township, Will County, Illinois. This was explained In the book, "Will County, Illinois History, Past and Present, Vol I, Historical Frankfort Village, published in 1907", on page 81:

The first actual settler in the town of Florence was Lewis Linebarger who came from Indiana in the Spring of 1831. He went first to Jackson’s Grove but after prospecting for a few days around the country he concluded that Starr’s grove was the best place and so he them. He built a log cabin for himself and family and was soon occupying it as the pioneer settler of the township. He did not remain there long, but soon removed to Reed’s Grove and from there a few years later removed to Oregon.


In 1843, Lewis and Jane Linebarger and their children departed Illinois and crossed the plains by covered wagon to Oregon where they arrived in the fall of that year. According to Jacqueline McLaughlin, "they first settled on the Tualatin Plain [now Hillsboro] in Washington County and then took up a donation claim near Tangent in Linn County." She also states that "he was a teamster who raised horses which included some rare breeds. Lewis Linebarger died on 29 May 1883, in Tangent, Linn County, Oregon. Jane followed him in death there on 23 December 1885, and they were both buried in the Sand Ridge Cemetery near Lebanon, Linn County, Oregon.

Lewis and Jane Linebarger were the parents of 11 children:

L1A. Harriet Linebarger was born in about 1824, near Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, Indiana. Nothing more is known about her.
L1B. Elizabeth Ann Linebarger was born in 1825, in Parke County, Indiana and died on 20 July 1916, in Ventura County, California. She married Lewis Cooper, On 23 December 1842, in Jasper County, Missouri, she married Lewis C. Cooper, born in 1799 in Adairsville, Cass County, Georgia. They traveled across the plains by covered wagon to Oregon in 1843, with Elizabeth’s parents, Lewis and Jane Linebarger and settled in Washington County, Oregon. Lewis and Elizabeth Cooper became the parents of eight or nine children:
1. Sarah Cooper was born in 1844, in Washington County, Oregon. She was listed in the home of her parents who resided in Washington County, Oregon at the time of the 1850 U.S. Census. Nothing more is known about her.
2. Susan Cooper was born in 1847, in Washington County, Oregon. She lived with her parents in Washington County at the time of the 1850 U.S. Census and in Fresno County California at the time of the 1860 U.S. Census report. Nothing more is known about her.
3. Mary Jane Cooper was born on 1 May 1850, in Washington County, Oregon and died on 2 August 1904, in Los Angeles, California. She married, on 19 March 1866, in Tulare County, California, John Samuel Totty and they became the parents of eight children.
4. Andrew Cooper was born in 1854, in Washington County, Oregon. He was listed in the household of his parents in Fresno County, California at the time of the 1860 U.S. Census. Nothing more is known about him.
5. Franklin Cooper was born in about 1855, probably in Washington County, Oregon. Nothing more is known about him.
6. Elizabeth Gertrude Cooper was born on 25 December 1858, in Visalia, Tulare County, California and died on 30 April 1897, in Santa Paula, Ventura County, California. On 19 April 1874, she married Harmon Drew Stramler in Tulare County, California and they became the parents of five children before they divorced sometime after 1888.
7. Lulu Cooper was born in about 1858 in Visalia, Tulare County, California and she married William Gilmore or Gilmour. Nothing more is known about her.
8. Bogardis Cooper was born about 1862 in Visalia, Tulare County, California and married William Hickerson. Nothing more is known about her.
9. Virginia Cooper was born in about 1865 in Santa Barbara County, California and was listed as such in the home of her mother and step-father in the 1880 U.S. Census in Kernville, Kern County, California. Nothing more is known about her.
In the 1850 U.S. Census, Lewis and Elizabeth Ann Cooper were listed in Washington County, Oregon with their children: Sarah and Susan Cooper. In the 1860 U.S. Census, Lewis Cooper and his wife Elizabeth were listed with their children, Susan, Mary J., and Andrew residing in Township 3, Fresno County, California. His occupation was cited as "Blacksmith". Lewis Cooper died in about 1864, probably in Visalia, Tulare County, California.

In about 1865, Elizabeth remarried James B. Naylor who was born in Penn Township, Morgan County, Ohio. Some Linebarger researchers have thought the daughter Virginia, mentioned above, was his child, but according to the 1880 Census listing her last name was Cooper.

In the 1870 U.S. Census James B. Naylor, his spouse, Elizabeth Naylor and children , son, Franklin [from James’s first marriage], daughter, Bogardis [from Elizabeth’s first marriage] and daughter Virginia were listed residing in Township One, Santa Barbara County, California. They lived next to Elizabeth’s brother Lewis Linebarger and his wife Melinda and their family. The Post Office for their household was cited as San Buenaventura which is now the city of Ventura in Ventura County.

In the 1880 U.S. Census, there was a listing for a "W. Nailor", born in about 1827 in Ohio, in Kernville, Kern County, California. Listed with him was his wife, Elizabeth, born in 1825 in Indiana, son, T.K. Nailor age 25, born in Ohio, and Virginia Cooper, age 14, born in California. The "W" was probably the initial for William [or Bill] and that may have been his middle name. This was most certainly the same James B. Naylor who was discussed in the preceding paragraph because the report also states that Virginia’s last name was Cooper. Nothing more is known about them.

L1C. John Henderson Linebarger was born on 14 March 1827, in Parke County, Indiana and accompanied his parents on the covered wagon journey across the plains to Oregon in 1843. He died on 10 August 1886, in Ophir, Smokey Valley, Nye County, Nevada where he had been working on a friend’s ranch.. According to Jacqueline McLaughlin, "he was on his way to join his son Edwin in Wyoming when he was killed by a drunken Indian". He was married, on 10 September 1850, in San Francisco County, California, to Barbara Maria [Mariah] Brown, born in Niles, Michigan and who died on 8 August 1922 in Oceanside, San Diego County, California. John Henderson and Barbara Maria Linebarger became the parents of nine children:
L1C1. Gertrude Clarence Linebarger was born on 30 July 1851, in Linn County, Oregon and died on 28 November 1953, in San Bernardino County, California. She was married, on 7 October 1868, to William Harding Logsdon, born in 1842, in Illinois and who died in San Bernardino County, California on 30 April 1913. They were the parents of six children.
L1C2. Lewis Edwin Linebarger was born on 12 August 1853, in Tangent, Linn County, Oregon and died on 12 January 1936, in Montebello, Los Angeles County, California He was married, in Casper, Carbon County, Wyoming, on 1 January 1882, to Minerva Bailey, born on 13 March 1859, in Covington, Fountain County, Indiana and who died on 11 December 1929, in Montebello, Los Angeles County, California. They were the parents of three children. Both Lewis Edwin and Minerva Linebarger were buried in Rose Hills Cemetery in Whittier, Los Angeles County, California.
L1C3. John Byron Linebarger was born on 12 January 1855, in Tangent, Linn County, Oregon and died on 26 February 1879, in Farmersville, Tulare County, California. He was buried in the Deep Creek Cemetery in Visalia, Tulare County, California.
L1C4. William Thurston Linebarger was born on 4 April 1857, in San Leandro, Alameda County, California, died in about 1871, in Tulare County, California, and was buried in the Deep Creek Cemetery in Visalia, Tulare County, California.
L1C5. Alice Linebarger was born on 19 April 1859, in San Leandro, Alameda County, California and died in about 1960 in Orange County, California. She married twice. Her first marriage was to Arthur Norten on 13 January 1889. It's not known whether there were any children. Her second marriage was to Thomas Freeman in 1930. He was born on 20 July 1865, in Texas and died on 10 May 1958, in Riverside County, California.
L1C6. Allen Douglas Linebarger was born on 22 October 1862, in San Leandro, Alameda County, California and died in about 1930, in Oceanside, San Diego County, California. Nothing more is known about him.
L1C7. Nellie May Linebarger was born on 1 January 1864, in Visalia, Tulare County, California and died in November 1996. She was married to S. P. Johansen on 18 July 1883. Nothing more is known about them.
L1C8. Sherman Linebarger was born on 7 January 1866, in Visalia,Tulare County, California and died on 23 September 1877, in Visalia, Tulare County, California. He was buried in the Deep Creek Cemetery there.
L1C9. Nettie Linebarger was born on 24 January 1871, in Visalia, Tulare County, California, died there on 15 December 1877, and was buried in the Deep Creek Cemetery.
In the 1870 U.S. Census, John Henderson Linebarger age 32, his wife, Maria Linebarger age 30 and their children, Mary age 13, Gertrude age 9, Edwin age 6, Byron age 3, William age 3 and Alice age 1 were listed in Visalia, Tulare County, California. In the 1880 U.S. Census, John and Maria were listed with children Alice, Douglas and Nelle May in Kaweah and Mineral King, Tulare County, California
L1D. Andrew Jackson Linebarger was born in 1829, in Covington, Fountain County, Indiana and died before 10 June 1861, in Forest Grove, Washington County, Oregon. He married, on 22 January 1852, in Linn County, Oregon, [A2C2], Lucy Eleanor Gilmour, born in La Harpe, Hancock County, Illinois in 1835, [discussed in chapter 14 of this volume] and who died shortly after the birth of their daughter:

L1D1. Elizabeth [Betty] Jane Linebarger was born on 14 December 1852, in Linn County, Oregon and died in Ellensburg, Kittitas County, Washington on 13 November 1895. She was married, on 14 September 1868, in Linn County, Oregon, to David A. Wheaton, born in November 1843, in Indiana and who died on 28 March 1914 in Ellensburg, Kittitas County, Washington. They were the parents of five children.

According to Elizabeth's grandson, Roy Wheaton, after her mother, Lucy Eleanor, died in 1852 Elizabeth "was reared by her mother's parents" John Wilson and Jane Alexander Gilmour in Linn County, Oregon.
Andrew Jackson Linebarger was remarried on 31 December 1857, in Benton County, Oregon, to Elizabeth McBee. They were the parents of two daughters:

L1D2. Nancy Virginia Linebarger was born in 1859, in Benton County, Oregon and died on 22 December 1935, in Benton County, Oregon. She was married, on 13 Dec 1886, in Benton County, Oregon, to Charles W. Dennick, Nothing more is known about them.
L1D3. Mary Josephine Linebarger was born in 1860, in Benton County, Oregon and died on 19 April 1960, in Willamette, Benton County, Oregon. She was married, on 16 December 1886, in Benton County, Oregon, to George W. Davis, born in 1862, in Iowa and who died in Willamette, Benton County, Oregon on 30 July 1944. They were the parents of two children.
L1E. William Linebarger was born on 19 September 1831, in Parke County, Indiana and traveled across the plains to Oregon with his parents in 1843. He died on 28 September 1906, in Fillmore, Ventura County, California. In 1849, William departed Oregon for California, but stayed there only a few months and then returned to Oregon where he lived until at least 1852, when he married Catharine Miller in Linn County. In the 1860 U.S. Census they were listed in Albany Linn County, Oregon. They became the parents of two children:

L1E1. Dallison Smith Linebarger was born on 1 August 1862, in Albany, Linn County, Oregon and died on 12 January 1937, in Fullerton, Orange County, California. On 1 November 1881, in Santa Paula, Ventura County, California, he was married to Ellen [Eleanor] E. Stone, born on 23 April 1864, in San Luis Obispo County, California and who died on 17 March 1942, in Fullerton, Orange County, California. They became the parents of six children. Dallison was elected to the Orange County California Board of Supervisors and served multiple terms. Both Dallison and his wife Ellen were buried in Anaheim Cemetery in Lot 31 Grave 7.
L1E2. Mary D. Linebarger was born in 1863, in Linn County, Oregon and died on 31 January 1935, in Ventura County, California. Nothing more is known about her.
Catharine died in about 1864 in Jackson County, Oregon, and William moved to Southern California with his two children. He remarried, on 31 August 1869, in Castaic, Los Angeles County, California, a widow, Celia Ann Cole Baker and they were listed in the 1870 U.S. Census living in the Los Nietos Township, Los Angeles County, California.

Celia Ann Cole was born on 21 April 1836, in Putnam County, Illinois. She moved with her parents to Texas when she was about age 10 and married, on 12 June 1855, in Burleson County, William Baker, who was born about in 1833, in Illinois. They became the parents of six children. William Baker was seriously wounded while fighting during the Civil War and was an invalid until he died. After the war, he and his family moved to Southern California to improve his health and resided for a short time with Celia Ann’s brother in Rosemead [east of Los Angeles] where William died shortly after their arrival.

It is not known how they met, but William Linebarger and Celia Ann Cole Baker were married on 31 August 1869, in Castaic, Los Angeles County, California. In the 1870 U.S. Census, they were listed in the Los Nietos Township, located near Rosemead. William and Celia Ann were and Celia Ann Linebarger became the parents of three children:
L1E3. Olive J. Linebarger was born on 12 March 1872, in Santa Paula, Ventura County, California and died there on 24 September 1956. She was married, on 7 November 1891, in Santa Paula, to Frank E. Good, born in 1864 in the state of Pennsylvania and who died before 1930 in Santa Paula. They were the parents of one daughter.
L1E4. California Dora Linebarger was born on 13 October 1873, in Santa Paula, Ventura County, California and died on 10 December 1950, in Upper Lake, Lake County, California. She was married three times. Her first marriage was to Henson McCoy Pyle in about 1888, in Santa Paula, Ventura County and they were the parents of four children. She married her second husband, Marston Bush on 28 September 1898, in Los Angeles County, California and they were the parents of two children. Her third marriage was to a man whose last name was Scranton.
L1E5. John George Linebarger was born on 25 May 1873, in Wheeler Canyon, Ventura County, California and died on 28 1962, in Santa Paula, Ventura County, California. He married, on 14 March 1897, in Santa Paula, Ventura County, California, Minnie Mabel Atmore, born on 23 September 1874, in Shelby County, Missouri and who died on 29 March 1935, in Santa Paula, Ventura County, California. They were the parents of two children.
At the time of the 1880 U. S. Census, William Linebarger, his wife Celia Ann and their children resided in Saticoy, Ventura County, California. In the 1900 U. S. Census, they were listed in Santa Paula, Ventura County, California. Celia Ann died on 28 June 1906 in Santa Paula, Ventura County and William died shortly afterward in Fillmore, Los Angeles County, California.
L1F. Mary Grace Linebarger was on born 13 September 1833, in Macoupin County, Indiana and accompanied her parents in the covered wagon journey across the plains to Oregon in 1843. She died on 27 June 1909, in Baird, Douglas County, Washington. She was married, on 25 March 1852, in Albany, Linn County, Oregon, to Lovell Knighten, born on 23 January 1814 in Logan County, Kentucky and who died on 11 June 1905 in Crawfordsville, Linn County, Oregon. They were the parents of eleven children:
1. Minerva Jane Knighten was born on 7 May 1853, in Forest Grove, Washington County, Oregon and died on 15 June 1900, in Baird, Washington. She married, on 10 October 1877, in Salem, Marion County, Oregon, Samuel Ammon Thurston Walker, born 2 January 1853 in Roy, Washington County, Oregon and who died on 8 January 1944, in Forest Grove, Washington County, Oregon. They were the parents of three children.
2. Ellenor Gertrude Knighten was born 5 April 1855, in Tangent, Linn County, Oregon and died on 2 April 1888, in Lane County, Oregon. She married, on 9 June 1888, in Linn County, Oregon, Benjamin F. Wilkes, born on 27 December 1849, in Lawrence County, Ohio. They were the parents of five children, including Georgia Florence Wilkes who married [A2C6B]James Ernest Gilmour [see chapter 26 of this volume].
3. William C. Knighten was born on 13 Jul 1857, in Tangent, Linn County, Oregon and died on 15 June 1862, in Linn County, Oregon. Nothing more is known about him.
4. Isaac Thurston Knighten was born on 3 October 1859, in Tangent, Linn County, Oregon and died on 15 July 1937, in Modesto, Stanislaus County, California. He married, on 22 October 1893, in Linn County, Oregon, Ida Lavon Langford, born in about 1873. They were the parents of seven children.
5. Lewis Dalazon Knighten was born on 3 January 1862, in Tangent, Linn County, Oregon and died on 27 December 1908, in Peoria, Linn County, Oregon. He married, on 19 December 1888, in Peoria, Linn County, Oregon, Emma Catherine Johnson, born on 26 September 1866, in Browning, Sullivan County, Missouri, and they were the parents of four children.
6. Aramatita M. Knighten was born on 1 November 1864, in Tangent, Linn County, Oregon and died on 8 July 1866 in Linn County, Oregon.
7. Commodore D. Knighten was born on 3 January 1865, in Tangent, Linn County, Oregon and died on 16 July 1948, in Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon. He married, on 15 April 1895, in Forest Grove, Washington County, Oregon, Estella L. Foudray, born in Missouri after 1870, and who died on 5 March 1966, in Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon. There were the parents of one son.
8. Olive Anna Maude Knighten was born on 3 January 1865, in Tangent, Linn County, Oregon and died on 19 June 1936, in Waterville, Douglass County, Washington. She married, on 16 September 1888, in Albany, Linn County, Oregon, George William Swank, born on 24 April 1864, in Tangent, Linn County, Oregon and who died on 4 July 1953, in Wenatchee, Chelan County, Washington. They were the parents of five children.
9. Oliver A. Knighten was born on 20 January 1869, in Tangent, Linn County, Oregon and died on 4 March 1949, in Coulee City, Grant County, Washington. He married Sussie A. Thompson and they were the parents of two children.
10. Ada M. Knighten was born on 24 March 1871, in Tangent, Linn County, Oregon and died on 22 November 1897, in Spokane, Spokane County, Washington. She was married, on 28 February 1897, in Moscow, Lincoln County, Washington, to Alford Washington Long born on 25 August 1856, in Anderson County, Tennessee and who died on 17 February 1926, in Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon.
11. Harry Clarence Knighten was born on 17 November 1873, in Tangent, Linn County, Oregon and died on 31 March 1947 in Myrtle Point, Coos County, Oregon. Nothing more is known about him. In the 1860 U.S. Census, Lovell and Mary Grace Knighten were listed with their children, Minerva, Ellenor, William and Isaac in Albany, Linn County, Oregon. At the time of the 1870 U.S. Census, the family was still living in Albany, Linn County, Oregon. In the 1880 U.S. Census, they were listed in West Albany, Linn County, Oregon. At the time of the 1900 U.S. Census, they were in Tangent, Linn County, Oregon. Lovell Knighten died on 11 June 1905, in Crawfordsville, Linn County, Oregon and after his death, Mary Grace moved to Baird, Douglas County, Washington to live with her son Oliver and she lived there until she died in 1909.
L1G. Lewis M. [Luke] Linebarger was born on 6 January 1836, in Macoupin County, Indiana and accompanied his parents on the covered wagon journey to Oregon in 1843. He died on 2 April 1910, in the city of Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California. He was married on 16 February 1857, in Albany, Linn County, Oregon to Melinda Blevins and they were the parents of three children:
L1G1. Mary J. Linebarger was born in 1860, in Contra Costa County, California and died in Santa Paula, Ventura County, California. Not much is known about her other than that she married James Allen Baker on 4 June 1879, in Santa Paula, Ventura County, California. He was born about 1857, in Texas, and died in Santa Paula, Ventura County.
L1G2. Nancy Lucinda Linebarger was born in July 1862, in San Joaquin County, California and died before 1940, in Los Angeles County, California. She was married, on 9 January 1888, in Santa Paula, Ventura County, California to Francis Marion Edgar, born about 1852 in Wyoming and who died on 11 March 1911 in Ventura County. They were the parents of one child. Nancy Lucinda remarried, sometime between 1920 and 1930, a David S. Miller, who was born in about 1857, in Louisiana and who died on 4 March 1930, in Los Angeles County, California.
L1G3. Charles L. Linebarger was born in July 1865, in Linn County, Oregon and died in 1949, in Ashland, Jackson County, Oregon. Not very much is known about him other than that he was married, in Santa Paula, Ventura County, California on 5 September 1888, to Ethel I. Smith who was born in Michigan in 1867.
U.S. Census reports show that in 1860, Lewis and Melinda Linebarger resided in Contra Costa County, California. In 1870, they lived in San Buenaventura, Santa Barbara County, California next to his sister Elizabeth Naylor and her second husband James B. Naylor. In 1880, they lived in Saticoy, Ventura County, California. In 1900, they lived in Santa Paula, Ventura County, California. In 1920, following Lewis’s [Luke’s] death, Melinda lived with her daughter, Nancy Lucinda and her husband David S. Miller in the city of Los Angeles, California.
L1H. Joseph Linebarger was born on 12 December 1839, probably in Montgomery County, Missouri. He came to Oregon in 1843, with his parents and died in Ladd Canyon, Union County, Oregon on 21 November 1918. He was married in Oregon, shortly after 1880, to Caroline Strang, who was born on 1 January 1857, in Minnesota and died on 2 April 1927, in Ladd Canyon, Union County, Oregon. Both Joseph and Caroline Linebarger were buried in the Grandview Cemetery in Union County, Oregon. They were the parents of six children:
L1H1. Minerva Linebarger was born in January 1884, in Idaho and died in 1924, in Myrtle Point, Coos County, Oregon. She married Alvin S. Loman and they had at least one child.
L1H2. Oscar Linebarger was born in December 1886, in Washington state and died on 16 July 1909, in Marion County, Oregon. He was buried in Grandview Cemetery in Union County, Oregon.
L1H3. Harry Linebarger was born on 17 March 1889, in Ladd Canyon, Union County, Oregon and died there on 24 March 1908. He was buried in Grandview Cemetery in Union County, Oregon.
L1H4. Raleigh LeRoy Linebarger was born in May 1891 in Union County, Oregon and died on 29 April 1983, in Spokane, Spokane County, Washington. He married Myrtle Rebecca Vinecore and they were the parents of five children.
L1H5. Helen Linebarger was born in July 1893, in Union County, Oregon. She was listed in the home of her parents in Ladd Canyon, Union County, Oregon in both the 1900 and 1910 U.S. Census reports.
L1H6. Christina W. Linebarger was born on 17 September 1895, in Ladd Canyon, Union County, Oregon and died on 16 April 1879, in La Grande, Union County, Oregon. She married Carl G. Johanson on 29 May 1920, in Union County, Oregon.
In the 1900 U.S. Census, Joseph Linebarger, his spouse Caroline and their children Minerva, Oscar, Harry, Raleigh, Helen and Christina were listed in La Grande, Union County, Oregon. In the 1910 U.S. Census, Joseph and Caroline Linebarger and children Raleigh, Helen and Christina were listed again in La Grande, Union County, Oregon. Joseph was probably the brother "James" of Virginia Linebarger who was referred to in her obituary on this web page who lived at Hot Lake, Oregon at the time of her death.
L1I. Delilah Linebarger was born in 1840, in Missouri and died on 24 April 1924 in Stanislaus County, California. She accompanied her parents in the covered wagon journey across the plains to Oregon in 1843, and lived with them in Washington County, Oregon at the time of the 1850 U.S. Census. In the 1860 U.S. Census, she was listed with her parents in Albany, Linn County, Oregon. On 26 January 1865, she married John Quincy Adams in Linn County, Oregon. It isn’t known if they had children. In the 1870 U.S. Census, they were listed in the Milwaukie Precinct, Clackamas County, Oregon. In the 1910 U.S. Census, she was listed as a "widow" and lived with her sister, Virginia [Linebarger] Gilmour in the home of her nephew, John Lewis Gilmour, in Ellensburg, Kittitas County, Washington. It isn’t clear why she was in Stanislaus County, California at the time of her death
L1J. Francis Marion Linebarger was born on born 29 April 1845, in Washington County, Oregon and died before 1904, in Ventura County, California. In the 1850 U.S. Census he was listed with his parents in Washington County, Oregon. In the 1860 U.S. Census, he was listed in Albany, Linn County, Oregon with them and his siblings. Prior to 1870, he moved to Southern California and in the Census report for that year was listed in the home of his brother, Lewis Linebarger and his family, in Santa Barbara County. In the 1880 U.S. Census, he was listed living near two of his brothers, William and Lewis Linebarger in Saticoy, Ventura County, California. In 1884, he was married, in Anaheim, Orange County, California, to Marinda Eastland, born on 22 December 1864, in Pope Valley, California. They were the parents of five children:
L1J1. Chester George Linebarger was born on 18 March 1885, in Santa Paula, Ventura County, California and died on 27 September 1949, in Santa Clara County, California. He was married, on 15 October 1913, in Ft. Bragg, Mendocino County, California, to Elsie Caroline Zumwalt, who was born about 1896 in Tehama County, California. The were the parents of six children before they divorced in 1930.
L1J2. Bessie Linebarger was born in September 1886, in Ventura County, California. Nothing more is known about her.
L1J3. Daniel Linebarger was born on 20 March 1887, in Santa Paula, Ventura County, California and died on 18 February 1947, in Los Angeles County, California. Nothing more is known about him.
L1J4. Goldie Linebarger was born in August 1890. in Ventura County, California. Nothing more is known about her.
L1J5. Robert S. Linebarger was born on 13 November 1898, in Ventura County, California and died on 14 August 1964, in Santa Clara County, California. Nothing more is known about him.
In the 1900 U.S. Census, Francis Marion and Marinda Linebarger were listed residing in Santa Paula, Ventura County, California. After Francis Marion Linebarger died in 1904, Marinda remarried and in the 1910 U.S. Census is listed in the Mendocino Township, Sonoma County with her second husband, Caswell Brannum, and her son Chester A. Linebarger. She died before 1930.
L1K. Virginia Linebarger was born on 29 April 1845, in Washington County, Oregon and died in Ellensburg, Kittitas County, Washington on 9 August 1914. She married John Thomas Gilmour and they are discussed in chapter 16 of this volume and at the beginning of this chapter.



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