Sturgill, Francis Harvey
| Birth Name | Francis Harvey Sturgill |
| Gender | male |
Events
| Birth | Jan 13, 1816; Ashe County, NC |
| Death | Aug 1, 1877 |
Parents
| Father | Joel Sturgill | b. Mar 20, 1786 | d. 1878 |
| Mother | Rachel Waters | b. 1790 | d. 1864 |
| Siblings | Lydia Sturgill | b. 1808 | |
| Catherine Ann Sturgill | b. May 5, 1813 | d. Dec 19, 1890 | |
| William M Sturgill | b. Feb 16, 1813 | d. Aug 13, 1883 | |
| Daughter Sturgill | b. 1815 | d. 1815 | |
| Rebecca Sturgill | b. 1818 | d. 1878 | |
| Mary Ann Sturgill | b. May 26, 1819 | d. Dec 27, 1888 | |
| Ester Caroline Sturgill | b. 1821 | ||
| John Carter Sturgill | b. 1823 | d. Jun 13, 1856 | |
| Lewis James Sturgill | b. 1826 | d. | |
| James George Sturgill | b. May 23, 1828 | d. Nov 29, 1909 | |
| Jacob Peck Sturgill | b. 1830 | ||
| Solomon Waters Sturgill | b. 1831 | ||
Families
| Wife | Jemima Caroline Richmond | b. 1819 | d. Aug 28, 1865 |
| Marriage | about 1840 | ||
| Children | George Benton Sturgill | b. Dec 8, 1841 | d. Jun 28, 1900 |
| William Richmond Sturgill | b. May 31, 1843 | d. Nov 19, 1904 | |
| Benjamin Franklin Sturgill | b. May 12, 1845 | d. Jul 7, 1919 | |
| Joel Madison Sturgill | b. Dec 13, 1846 | d. Oct 10, 1922 | |
| Lewis Cass Sturgill | b. Sep 25, 1848 | d. Feb 15, 1920 | |
| Ester Caroline Sturgill | b. Mar 20, 1851 | d. Mar 27, 1925 | |
| John Isaac Sturgill | b. Mar 20, 1851 | d. Apr 11, 1931 | |
| Lydia Sturgill | b. 1853 | ||
| Mary Elizabeth Sturgill | b. 1858 | d. 1933 | |
| Stephan Douglas Sturgill | b. Sep 1, 1860 | d. May 9, 1933 | |
| Henry Sturgill | b. 1861 | ||
| Robert B. Sturgill | b. 1862 | ||
Narrative
FRANCIS HARVEY STURGILL moved from Ashe Co. NC to Scott Co. VA with his father's family in 1830. In Scott Co. he met and married Jemima Caroline Richmond in 1840. When his father and other brothers and sisters decided to move to Sullivan Co. MO in 1840 Francis and Jemima went with them. All of their children were born in Missouri.
In 1863 two of Francis's sons, George and William, joined the gold rush to Virginia City Montana. After one winter George returned to Missouri and told the family what he had heard about Oregon Territory. During the winter of 1864-65 the Sturgill family and several other related families made preparations for another migration, this time to Oregon.
In the spring of 1865 the wagon train, with George acting as Wagonmaster, began the long trek to Oregon. Some wagons were drawn by horses, some by mules and some by oxen. The Sturgills took along milk cows, chickens, turkeys, geese and a few head of blooded horses for breeding stock. Francis's wife,Jemima, became ill while on the trail and died in Idaho while the train had stopped to search for a place to cross the Snake River, she was buried there. This crossing, known as Sturgill's Bar was covered by the Hells Canyon dam.
Winter was approaching when the wagon train finally stopped in the Grand Ronde valley in present Baker Co. OR. everyone, including women and children, had to work frantically to prepare their permanent home in the Powder River valley near Baker, OR. In the summer of 1877 Francis received a severe cut in the arm while mowing hay and died from loss of blood. He was buried in the Masonic cemetery at Baker Oregon. -pg 91
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