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Note: ple for permission to use their land when settling his claim. He lived in a cabin near the Molalla River on the present site of Liberal, and operated a ferry. His children played with native Molala children and learned some words from their language. When Wright died of smallpox, he was hastily buried on his farmland in an isolated grave. William Larkin also died early of illness and was buried on his claim near Bear Creek, by present-day Ona Way. Many early settlers were buried in small family cemeteries on a distant corner of their claim. Some of these cemeteries remain around the Molalla area. Wright Harrison 45 Farmer b Missouri Wright Larina 32 b. Indiana Wright Joseph A. 13 b. or Wright Silas 9 b. or Wright Orentine 7 b. or Wright Elgerino 4 b. or Wright Ruben 3 b. or Son Clarence was the only surviving child. He and his brothers caught some kind of sickness. His two brothers died and his father told the doctor to cure him or kill him (the dr doubled the dosage of medicine, and Clarence lived)--Clarence Marquam Jackson
Note: Another early Molalla-area settler was Harrison Wright. He traded horses to native Molala peo
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