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| Name |
Emma Hald |
| Born |
11 Jan 1855 |
Oregon Territory  [1] |
| Gender |
Female |
| Person ID |
I81 |
Paul's Tree |
| Last Modified |
2 Jul 2018 |
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| Notes |
- Note from Margaret Sargent Kane:
We had been lead to believe that the birth of my grandfather, Bert Malcolm
Sargent, was either illigitiment or that the marriage of his parents was a
"shotgun" arrangement. This was until we found the marriage license of his
parents, C. C. Sargent (AKA Charles C and Chester C.) and Emma Hald,
showing their marriage by the Justice of the Peace on February 12, 1871 at
the home of her father H. C. Hald (the Logcabin Ranch, Wasco Co, near
Mitchell, Or.) Bert's death Certificate lists his date of birth as February
14, 1874 in Nevada, three years after the marriage.
We've searched in Nevada, Idaho, and Oregon for Bert's place of birth or a
divorce record of Chester and Emma to no avail.
Emma, born Jan. 11, 1855, Oregon Territory, and Chester apparently had just
the one child. Emma later married James Cate of Baker, OR. (date unknown).
They had four children; May Emma Cate, married Edward Strum, Anna Clara
Cate, unmarried, school teacher, Roy E. Cate, a dentists, married Hazel
McClellend, and James, Cate, Jr. All of the Cates apparently lived in or
around Baker, OR.
Chester was a freighter, restaurant proprietor and store clerk in The
Dalles, OR.
Chester's father, Isaac, was quite a successful person. He arrived in
Oregon in 1862 where he homesteaded and founded the town of Mitchell, Or.
(now almost a goust town) where he operated a store. He freighted to the
mines in Canyon City, OR and was a merchant and a leading civic leader in
The Dalles, and a successful farmer in Wasco, Co. OR. just outside The
Dalles. (Which is now an important fruit growing area.)
From the HISTORY OF CENTRAL OREGON, Frederick A. Sargent remained on the 5
Mile farm in Wasco Co., Frank was a miner in Baker, OR. Frances died in
The Dalles, and Harriet lived in Portland.
While the families of Isaac and Chester prospered, Bert Sargent was always a
poor outcast of the Sargents of The Dalles. He was a shepherd, minor, and
town marshal, around Baker, OR. and a janitor and security guard for a
department store in Portland, OR.
Bert married Margaret Forhan of Emmett, ID on Dec. 7, 1898 in Caldwell, ID.
They had two sons, William Bert, my father, and Melvin, who died at age 4.
While The Dalles Sargents are buried in an elaborate mausoleum in the Odd
Fellows Cemetery in The Dalles, Melvin is buried in a barely marked, paupers
grave several hundred feet away in the same
cemetery.
Bert died Sep. 17, 1933 in Portland, OR.
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| Sources |
- [S156] info from Margaret Sargent Kane, Olympia WA, 4/26/1998.
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