In 1852 Julia was sent from Marietta, OH by the Boston-based American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (the A.B.C.F.M.) as an unmarried teacher to the Cherokee Indian Territory, now northeast Oklahoma. She was assigned to Lee's Creek Mission, a satellite of the parent Dwight Mission to the Cherokee north of present-day Sallisaw, Oklahoma. Lee's Creek Mission was located west of the present Arkansas-Oklahoma state line east of Sallisaw in the eastern part of the Sequoyah District of the Cherokee Nation, now Sequoyah County, Oklahoma.
On July 16, 1854 at Lee's Creek Mission, in Cherokee Indian Territory, Julia m. as his 2nd wife, James Orr, b. May 19, 1792 at Hancock, NH, prob. the s. of Hugh Orr and Sarah Reed. From 1821-1850 James Orr was in charge of Secular Affairs at Dwight Mission, whose 1st wife Minera Washburn d. in 1852. He d. Mar. 19, 1865 at Franklin Mills, Portage County, OH. Julia and James had one known child who is outlined in her father's memorial.
Julia's mother was a paternal descendant of George Soule, a passenger of the 1620 Mayflower passage to Plymouth, Mass., and George's subsequent wife Mary Beckett. George and Mary's grandaughter Mary Soule was the wife of Capt. Joseph Devol, Julia's lineal ancestor through Joseph and Mary's son Jonathan Devol. Jonathan Devol's older brother Joseph Jr. and wife Margaret Potter are the memoralist's ancestors.
In 1852 Julia was sent from Marietta, OH by the Boston-based American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (the A.B.C.F.M.) as an unmarried teacher to the Cherokee Indian Territory, now northeast Oklahoma. She was assigned to Lee's Creek Mission, a satellite of the parent Dwight Mission to the Cherokee north of present-day Sallisaw, Oklahoma. Lee's Creek Mission was located west of the present Arkansas-Oklahoma state line east of Sallisaw in the eastern part of the Sequoyah District of the Cherokee Nation, now Sequoyah County, Oklahoma.
On July 16, 1854 at Lee's Creek Mission, in Cherokee Indian Territory, Julia m. as his 2nd wife, James Orr, b. May 19, 1792 at Hancock, NH, prob. the s. of Hugh Orr and Sarah Reed. From 1821-1850 James Orr was in charge of Secular Affairs at Dwight Mission, whose 1st wife Minera Washburn d. in 1852. He d. Mar. 19, 1865 at Franklin Mills, Portage County, OH. Julia and James had one known child who is outlined in her father's memorial.
Julia's mother was a paternal descendant of George Soule, a passenger of the 1620 Mayflower passage to Plymouth, Mass., and George's subsequent wife Mary Beckett. George and Mary's grandaughter Mary Soule was the wife of Capt. Joseph Devol, Julia's lineal ancestor through Joseph and Mary's son Jonathan Devol. Jonathan Devol's older brother Joseph Jr. and wife Margaret Potter are the memoralist's ancestors.
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Julia F. S. Orr
1816 - 1909
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