Person:Thomas True (5)

From the Sons and Daughters of Oregon Pioneers application filled out by Gladys (Westfall) (King) Mullen. He arrived in Oregon from Norway.

The Westfall Country book names him William True and his son William True Jr. His marriage record gives his name as Thomas^[3]. According to Gladys Mullin (granddaughter) he went by the name Thomas. Another granddaughter gave his name as John True^[1] but that is likely due to her not knowing his first name. His name might have been William Thomas True, or the Westfall Country book could have been incorrect.

He could not read or write. From Gram's notes he died 186[7].

On the 1900 US Census his son William Taylor True states that his father was born in Virginia. Also on the 1900 Census Nora, his daughter, states that he was born in Sweden.

1. ↑ Death record of Nora Ellen (True) Westfall
   Oregon, Multnomah County, State File No. 10982, Registrars No. 3651, 10 Oct 1956.

   Names her father as John True (and mother as Mary Westfall). The father's first name appears to be an error. Informant is her daughter Mrs. Agnes O'Connell.

2.   Letter
   Application for membership in the Sons and Daughters of Oregon Pioneers, 13 Apr 2003.

   Gladys Westfall Mullen, her address, her father, mother grandparents and Great grandparents with where born and when they arrived in Oregon. Reference number: WMS001-see digital file

3. ↑ ^3.0 3.1 Mary Jane Westfall and Thomas True, in California, United States. Select Marriages, 1850-1945
   image 351.

   married 18 Feb 1862 in Trinity Center, Trinity, California

4. ↑ From the book The Westfall Country