The Oregon Bibliographical, and Other Index Card File, 1700’s to 1900’s held at the Oregon Historical Society in Portland, Oregon might be the second most informing document on Eph. It lists his birth was March 14, 1822, in Barboursville, Knox County, KY and came overland from Missouri in 1852. In the remarks Ephraim states that he was in the Rogue River Indian War 1855/56; that he with five others, packed out Nauve Rice (who later would sign as witness on Eph’s pension application) who he said was shot in the thigh and was a very heavy man. The snow was knee deep and there was nothing to eat. They packed the litter bearing Nauve for 2 1/2 days. The author established the pair shared a close friendship until they died of old age.

Through Ancestry.com, I was able to contact a relative of Nauve’s to let them know who one of the men was that packed their granddad out when he was wounded in the Rogue River Indian War. Since this information was recorded by Ephraim in his Oregon Biographical Index, there would have been little chance the family would have ever found that information. It feels so good to find these things and share them!!