References;
(1) From Whence We Came, Burdick, page 68.
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John Teel was an army physician when he met Elvira Willson in Fort Scott Kansas. He trained at Jefferson Medical College, He also inherited a plantation in Shreveport, Louisiana, with 13 slaves from and uncle but he did not believe in slavery and wanted to follow his profession (EO 1938 article) so he turned it over to the slaves and they took the Teel last name. He joined a company of soldiers as their doctor and was wounded in a Indian battle soon after, "which caused him considerable discomfort for many years after". A letter reporting on the conditions of the Indians at the reservation is in the National Archives. The actual letter is believed to have been printed by Elvira, but the medical terms indicate John would have dictated it. Since his father was an agent at Carrie Mission, I wonder if he developed his appreciation and rapport for Indians there. See Bennie Tolars book on Echo for text of letter. According to his biography an uncle provided for his education and he could speak three languages; He learned the Umatilla Language from Donald McKay while serving as tribal doctor.Elvira and John set off for Oregon via covered wagon shortly after Twig was born. She wanted to go to California, but he won and they went on to Oregon. They went to Lebanon first, but then came to Umatilla Co. They settled on the Umatilla Meadows at Echo and he served as the first Indian Doctor for the reservation in Pendleton and became a good friend of Howlish Wampo and Umatilla Chief.
He later acted as a circuit doctor travelling as far as John Day. He was 6'4" w/long white hair and was known for his huge appetite. He was a well-loved visitor to farms in area as he brought not only medicines, but news to distant farms. He discovered Lehman hot springs and it was orginally known as Teel Springs until Elvira sold it to Lehman after John's death. They were among the first farmers to irrigate the Meadows. The Flow Brothers were miners in the summer and worked as laborers to dig the ditches during the winter. The Teel/Spike ranch remains (2001) in the family.
From Fort Henrietta Newsletter/reminiscence of Oregon Pioneers: "As a small boy I often saw Dr. Teel pass our ranch just west of the pioneer town of Pendleton. The Dr. would stop and see if my mother wanted anything in his line, as he usually carried small articles in the medical line for sale." JL Sharon; "It is a far cry from the modern practice of medicine to the days of 1861 when Dr. John Teel, then the only physician in eastern Oregon, gave liberal doses of calomel to patients in the territory which included the Dalles, east to Walla Walla and south to John Day. But he served mankind faithfully and well first going by horseback and later by gig, and his tall figure was a welcome sight to the early settler in a country so sparsely settled that even Pendleton had not yet been founded."
Dr. Teel was also known for his huge appetite. He reportedly was known to have eaten a whole suckling pig at one sitting. "When people saw him coming, they got busy cooking. It was not unusual for the Teels to wake up and find the whole first story of the house full of Indians waiting to be fed. The Indians were very fond of the Teel family and warned them of an expected uprising (probably 1878 Bannick War)" from interview with Nancy Spike in EO.
Elvira was a tiny little woman with a fierce determination and ambition. She actually ran the ranch most of the time while Dr. Teel was travelling across the country as a country doctor. She was a school teacher. Her father disinherited her for marrying Dr. Teel, but she kept in touch with the Canadian Cousins and returned to Canada to visit her mom after her father died. The Willsons were loyalist who left the US for Ontario Canada after the Rev. War.
The family owned not only a great deal of acreage around Echo, but lots and property in Echo and Pendleton. The block where First interstate is located belonged to the family, but it reportedly was sold to bail out Od
Grandma Berry said that Elvira went to Fort Scott to visit with her brothers who were living there. She did so against her father's wishes as is was not proper for a young lady to travel unchaperoned that far. At least one of the brothers travelled west with Elvira and John. He was an engineer and he and John were pioneers in developing irrigation on the Meadows. The Allen Ditch headgates is where they first took water out of the river and it now runs in to the Westland Ditch which runs northwest of Echo for miles. Bob Spike provided information on the irrigation, which he has researched for the irrigation rights on the ranch. The ranch is operated by he and his son Jeff, my second cousin and it is a century farm. The part of the farm located on the east side of the river was inherited by my grandmother as a life estate by her mother Pamela, and then went to my father, his brother Lawrence and his younger brother Elmers children on grandma's death. Although this has been in the family since about 1870, it did not qualify as a century farm, as it was leased out to Crip Correa and an old log cutter named Smith who was murdered by a vigilante group when he was falsely accused of stealing water. The Wilson ditch (is it named for Elvira's brothers?} runs through here and is one of the oldest water rights in the Umatilla Basin. This was in the 1920s through late 1930s.
Grandma said that before this the family had an orchard along the river. When I was a child a plum and pear tree from the orchard were still growing there. Most of the orchard was probably wiped out by early floods. Grandma said her mother said she would ride across the river to pick fruit and would often scare up small groups of Indian women who were picking fruit and berries. She said she didn't know who was more scared. There was an old house just south of the barn and north of the slough. But grandma said her mother said there was an even older log house near the slough. This may be a remnant of Green Arnold's place or the cabin mentioned in the lynching of the cattle rustler at a site south of but in view of where Echo is today. The one of the first efforts at agriculture in the county may have been on Grandma's place by the Switzlers. The 1859 survey by Chapman notes their fields along the section line which divides Grandma's place and the "Crip Correa" Place (now my cousin Jeff owns it). Also the lower field was a huge grove of cottonwood and alder trees know as Spike's Grove. It was where the first church services were held and community gatherings such as Memorial Day picnics. They would erect a platform and have speeches by dignataries, once even the governor. The slough was also a gathering place. In the 1920s thru 50s , according to my grandparents and parents, it would freeze over and the kids would gather to ice skate on it. Now it is nearly dried up.
My cousin (Elmer's Daughter) Teresa and her husband Jake Greer now own the property.
Marriage Notes for John Adam, Sr. Teel Dr. and Elvira WILLSON-195213
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Od was supposed to have been a brilliant engineer, but poor businessman. he was the designer for the noted Teel irrigation project.
OF MENDELSHAM, SUFFOLK
References:
(1) Royal Ancestors of Some American Families, compiled by Michel L. Call.
(2) The Plantagenet Ancestry of King Edward III and Queen Philippa, George
Andrews Moriarty.(3) Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists, Frederick Lewis Weis.
(4) Stammtafeln Zur Geschichte Der Europaischen Staaten, Wilhelm Karl, Prinz
Von Isenburg.(5) Complete Peerage, G. E. Cokayne.
(6) The Lineage and Ancestry of H.R.H. Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, Gerald
Paget.(7) The American Genealogist.
(8) The Genealogist.
(9) The New England Historical and Genealogical Register.(10) The Ancestry of Richard Plantagenet and Cecily Neville, Ernst Friedrick
Kraentzler.(11) The Plantagenet Ancestry, W. H. Turton.
(12) Tableaux Genealogiques des Souverains de la France et de seu Grands
Feudataires, Paris, 1863.(13) The House of Adam, Georgia B. Schwartz, 4 volumes.
(14) Archive Records, The Genealogical Society, Salt Lake City, Utah.
References:
(1) Royal Ancestors of Some American Families, compiled by Michel L. Call.
(2) The Plantagenet Ancestry of King Edward III and Queen Philippa, George
Andrews Moriarty.(3) Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists, Frederick Lewis Weis.
(4) Stammtafeln Zur Geschichte Der Europaischen Staaten, Wilhelm Karl, Prinz
Von Isenburg.(5) Complete Peerage, G. E. Cokayne.
(6) The Lineage and Ancestry of H.R.H. Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, Gerald
Paget.(7) The American Genealogist.
(8) The Genealogist.
(9) The New England Historical and Genealogical Register.(10) The Ancestry of Richard Plantagenet and Cecily Neville, Ernst Friedrick
Kraentzler.(11) The Plantagenet Ancestry, W. H. Turton.
(12) Tableaux Genealogiques des Souverains de la France et de seu Grands
Feudataires, Paris, 1863.(13) The House of Adam, Georgia B. Schwartz, 4 volumes.
(14) Archive Records, The Genealogical Society, Salt Lake City, Utah.
References:
(1) Royal Ancestors of Some American Families, compiled by Michel L. Call.
(2) The Plantagenet Ancestry of King Edward III and Queen Philippa, George
Andrews Moriarty.(3) Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists, Frederick Lewis Weis.
(4) Stammtafeln Zur Geschichte Der Europaischen Staaten, Wilhelm Karl, Prinz
Von Isenburg.(5) Complete Peerage, G. E. Cokayne.
(6) The Lineage and Ancestry of H.R.H. Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, Gerald
Paget.(7) The American Genealogist.
(8) The Genealogist.
(9) The New England Historical and Genealogical Register.(10) The Ancestry of Richard Plantagenet and Cecily Neville, Ernst Friedrick
Kraentzler.(11) The Plantagenet Ancestry, W. H. Turton.
(12) Tableaux Genealogiques des Souverains de la France et de seu Grands
Feudataires, Paris, 1863.(13) The House of Adam, Georgia B. Schwartz, 4 volumes.
(14) Archive Records, The Genealogical Society, Salt Lake City, Utah.
(15) Tablettes Chronologiques.
(16) From Whence We Came, Burdick.
(17) Magna Charta Sureties.
(18) Manga Charta Barons.
(19) Magna Charta, Wurts.
(20) Americans of Royal Descent, Browning.
(21) Burke's Dormant Peerages.
(22) Hist. Gen. et Chron des Pairs de France, Anselme, vi, page 247.
(23) Information supplied by Ida May Booher, 5719 North Kauffman,
Temple City, California.
References:
(1) Royal Ancestors of Some American Families, compiled by Michel L. Call.
(2) The Plantagenet Ancestry of King Edward III and Queen Philippa, George
Andrews Moriarty.(3) Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists, Frederick Lewis Weis.
(4) Stammtafeln Zur Geschichte Der Europaischen Staaten, Wilhelm Karl, Prinz
Von Isenburg.(5) Complete Peerage, G. E. Cokayne.
(6) The Lineage and Ancestry of H.R.H. Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, Gerald
Paget.(7) The American Genealogist.
(8) The Genealogist.
(9) The New England Historical and Genealogical Register.(10) The Ancestry of Richard Plantagenet and Cecily Neville, Ernst Friedrick
Kraentzler.(11) The Plantagenet Ancestry, W. H. Turton.
(12) Tableaux Genealogiques des Souverains de la France et de seu Grands
Feudataires, Paris, 1863.(13) The House of Adam, Georgia B. Schwartz, 4 volumes.
(14) Archive Records, The Genealogical Society, Salt Lake City, Utah.
(15) Tablettes Chronologiques.
(16) From Whence We Came, Burdick.
(17) Magna Charta Sureties.
(18) Manga Charta Barons.
(19) Magna Charta, Wurts.
(20) Americans of Royal Descent, Browning.
(21) Burke's Dormant Peerages.
(22) Hist. Gen. et Chron des Pairs de France, Anselme, vi, page 247.
(23) Information supplied by Ida May Booher, 5719 North Kauffman,
Temple City, California.