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 and says she was born in Morgan County, Illinois, in 1833. In 1850 the family started for California from Missouri, but finally landed in Oregon. The family again started for California in 1851, and several members, including Miss Rollins, went into the valley of the Illinois River near the stream that now bears her name. Mrs. Ort says as far as she knew, she was the first white woman in that part of Oregon, and that the county was named for her. She was married in 1854 to Julius Ort, in Colusa County, California, and in 1863 moved to Sonora County, where she was living at the time she wrote the letter. Walling's statement that Miss Rollins' married name was O'Kelly does not seem to be correct. According to Geo. H. Parker (letter to the Oregonian, November 2, 1913), Josephine Rollins was then (1913) living at Sonoma, California; Parker wrote that he had received a photograph of her taken when she was fortyfive years of age; that she was the sister of the wife of Jacob Thompson, of Ashland; that she came with her father, in 1851, to the county now bearing her name. In 1846 a girl named Martha Leland Crowley died on what has since been called Grave Creek. The legislature, by act of January 6, 1854, tried to change the name to Leland Creek, in honor of Miss Crowley (see Special Laws of legislature, page 19). The general public never adopted the new name and the stream is still called Grave Creek. Assertions that Miss Crowley's first name was Josephine and that the county may have been named for her do not seem to be substantiated by the available records. Josephine Rollins was the first white woman who made her abode there, so that the name of the county is probably hers. For history of the grave of Martha Leland Crowley, by C. P. Fullerton, Oregonian, November 23, 1883; by James W. Nesmith, ibid., November 23, 1883; page 2; by Matthew P. Deady, ibid., December 5, 1883.

JOSEPHINE CREEK, Josephine County. This is a tributary of Illinois River west of Kerby. According to Bancroft's History of Oregon, volume II, page 713, it was named for Josephine Rollins, who was a daughter of the man who discovered gold in the creek. In another place, volume II, page 227, note 38, Bancroft makes the conflicting statement that Josephine Creek was named for Josephine Kirby whose father discovered gold nearby. The compiler has been unable to reconcile these statements, and in view of what is known about Josephine Rollins, suspects that the story of Josephine Kirby is wrong or possibly a typographical error. For further information, see under JOSEPHINE COUNTY. Joy, Wallowa County. Joy was a pioneer post office near the Findley Buttes, about fifteen miles airline northeast of Enterprise. J. H. Horner told the compiler in 1931 that the office was named because of the joy settlers expressed at the possibility of mail service. These people did not then know about circular letters and advertising by mail. Newton W. Brumback was the first postmaster at Joy, in 1888.

JUDKINS POINT, Lane County. Judkins Point, in the east part of Eugene, was named for Thomas H. Judkins, who settled on a farm just east of the promontory in 1853. Judkins was born in New York in 1803 and came to Oregon in 1851. He settled first near Monroe. He died in 1878.

JUDSON Rocks, Marion County. These rocks are in Willamette River about two miles northwest of Sidney. They were named for L. B. Judson, a nearby landowner of pioneer days.

JUMPOFF Joe Creek, Josephine County. Jumpoff Joe Creek is in