FAMILY HISTORIES Boone County Arkansas Genealogy Trails DESHIELDS FAMILY Contributed by Reta DeShields Parton William Jasper DeShields
and wife, Martha Elizabeth McBride DeShields traveled the
Oregon Trail in 1855. They started the trip in 1839 with
thirteen to fourteen wagons leaving the area of Beech
Grove (McBrides Creek/Duck River), Tennessee for Oregon.
Probably left in the spring of 1839. They had to stop for
one of the wives to have a child in the fertile valleys
of Northern Arkansas, close to Yellville, Arkansas and
what is now Bull Shoals. That stop lasted until the
Spring of 1855 when they left for Oregon. They arrived in
September 1855 at Oregon City, Oregon. They settled in
Clackamus County and raised their Arkansas born children.
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