Hiram Niday (abt. 1823 - 1855)

Born about 1823 in Virginia

Ancestors

Husband of Caroline (Stumbo) Sexton — married 5 Mar 1846 in Mahaska County, Iowa

Descendants

Died 16 Mar 1855 at about age 32 in Jackson County, Oregon

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Biography

S/O John & Sarah Harless,NIDAY. H/O Caroline Stumbo,Niday. Married: 05 Mar 1846 in Mahaska, Iowa.Children: Nellie, Hiram Frances and Mary Niday. *** An early 1852 pioneer, Hiram Niday applied for a donation land claim in the Hugo area in the spring of 1853. He and his wife, Caroline (Stumbo) Niday had crossed the plains and arrived in the Oregon Territory by covered wagon via the northern Oregon Trail to the Willamette Valley on September 15, 1852.

Caroline Stumbo was born May 1, 1826 in Lwrne, Ohio. Hiram was born in 1822 in Lawrence County, Ohio. Caroline married Hiram in Mahaska, Iowa on March 4, 1847. The Niday's located a farm in Josephine County, Oregon near Jumpoff Joe Creek where they settled down and began raising their family of three children, Nellie, Hiram Frances and Mary Niday. Hiram bought some mules and began packing supplies to the gold mines in the area.

The Niday donation land claim Notification #692, Certification #1479 of 321 acres is located mostly in Section 35 of Township 34 South Range 6 West of the Willamette Meridian. A small amount of the claim overflowed into sections 26 and 27 on the north and section 34 on the west. By today's road structure, this property roughly borders the following roads: Western border is just west of Oxyoke Road. Southern border is Monument Drive. Eastern border is almost to Interstate 5. Northern border is Hugo Road. Their land was ideally situated 6 miles south of the settlement of Leland. It had Bannister Creek running through it and Jumpoff Joe Creek nearby, foothills for good hunting, lumber and firewood, and was at the junction of the 1850's road from Willamette Valley to Jacksonville and the road to the Vannoy Creek-Rogue River crossing.

During the next few years, the early pioneers and the Takelma Indians were at great odds resulting in much bloodshed on both sides. The bloody Rogue River Wars of the 1850's reduced these people from 9,500 to 2,000 in six years before they were removed from their homeland to the reservations in the north in 1857.

On several occasions, Mr. Niday had to escape with his family to the protection and security of several forts in the area. In October 1853, they rushed to Fort Vannoy and later Fort Halstead for safety. These were dangerous times indeed. In the spring of 1855, Hiram Niday died. Caroline was left to run the farm, carry-on the mule packing business and raise her young family of three.Caroline remarried to David H. Sexton.

Name

Name: Hiram /Niday/^[1][2]

Marriage

Husband: Hiram Niday

Wife: Caroline Stumbo

Child: Daughter-3 Niday

Child: Daughter-4 Niday

Child: Elizabeth Jane Niday

Child: Nellie Niday

Child: Mary Niday

Child: Hiram Francis Niday

Marriage:

Date: 5 MAR 1846

Place: Mahaska County, Iowa^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ Source: #S001071
2. ↑ Source: #S023048
3. ↑ Source: #S001071

• Source: S001071 Title: Gunness, Dorothy Wortman. Family Group Page for Hiram Niday. Personal communication 6/97. Repository: Call Number: Media: Book
• Source: S023048 Title: Sidenstricker, Marie; Pedigree Chart
• Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 17 October 2018), memorial page for Hiram Niday (1823–16 Mar 1855), Find A Grave Memorial no. 63256086, ; Maintained by Jackie L. Wolfe (contributor 46789610) Unknown.

Acknowledgments

Thank you to Don Stumbo for creating WikiTree profile Niday-39 through the import of William Cantwell Stumbo.GED on Jul 18, 2013.