Huff Family History

Abram C. Huff was born June 29, 1838 in Michigan to David D. Huff and Maria (Young) Huff, natives of New York. See below for more information on David and Maria's children. They made a couple marriages into the Maricle family. They managed to settle a lot of wilderness out West and could be described as a true pioneering family. Abram and his family migrated to Iowa when he was about 18 years old. He helped his father farm until he began tilling the soil for himself and continued in Iowa for twenty-two years. After that he journeyed to Minnesota where he remained five years. It was 1877 when he migrated to Oregon where he stayed the rest of his life. He enlisted in the Ninth Iowa Volunteers and served under Fremont until February 14, 1862, when he was honorably discharged. He was a member of the G.A.R. and one of the substantial men of the county (Gilliam, Oregon). He died in 1907. He was a remarkable man, little formal education, a reader and self-educated.

At some point the Maricle and Huff families lived close to each other in Wisconsin. Abram married to Sarah Ann (Sally) Maricle on March 22,1860. She was born in Pennsylvania and her father was William Maricle. Some family oral history reveals that Sally was a pretty girl with sparkling black eyes and black hair and very red cheeks. She was very tall and angular, a remarkable woman witha good sense of humor and happy disposition. She had a great capacity for living, very earthy. She was a bouncing vitality. She loved cooking, the farm, the garden and fruit. She believed that when we die, that is the end, no hereafter, but that we die as trees die and go back to the earth from whence we came. All who knew her loved her and enjoyed her quaint ways and generous nature. Abram and Sally had five children:

Abram Lincoln Huff (called himself Lincoln) lived in Arlington, Oregon married Lena and must have taken Susan as a second wife in 1860. She was born February 11, 1840 in Forest County, Pennsylvania.

Sherman Huff lived in Alberta, Canada married Rosa

David W. Huff died March 19, 1900, in his thirties as he had rheumatism of the heart and was never very healthy. He married Maud D. Ferra on November 27, 1897. They had two children:

Roy M. Huff

William Huff

Charles K. Huff who lived in Vale, Oregon married Ida Bennett and they had one son:

Irvin Huff

Charles remarried in 1907 to Laura Griffith and they had eight children:

George Huff

Claude Huff

Adaline Huff

Lola Huff

Lea Huff

Hazel Huff

Alice Huff

Jack Huff

Margaret Ann Huff married Howard Moore and lived in Spokane. She was an excellent dressmaker.

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On David D. Huff and Ann Marie young his wife I found them in the 1860 census for Winnesheik Co, Iowa their children:
Hiram 18 born in Michigan
Abel m 16 born in Michigan
Elvira 14 born in Michigan
Oliver 12 born in Michigan
Julie 8 born in Iowa
Eliza a 5 born in Iowa.

Eliza Ann Huff was 25 in 1880 census for Yoncolla, Douglas Cty, Oregon in all other census records she puts herself at a younger age than she is because she is 4-5 years older than her husband James Gustavus Clark. THey are both buried in Front Lake, Washington.

While in Yoncolla, Oregon they had 3 children:

Bert Gustavus Clark born 1880 married Lulu Pearl Mille.
Ray D. Clark born in 1885 he is my grandfather, he married Ethel Garrett and they divorced they had one child together named Evelyn Ellen Clark
Ora B. Clark born in 1887 in 1900 census they were in Ashwood, Crook Cty, Oregon married George Marvin Elkins. they had one son Garland Elkins.

Note from Dorothy: I noticed that on your site you had Charles K. Huff living in Vale, Oregon. I never did find him there. In census records he was in Umatilla, Oregon, and one census Yakima, Washington and for death he died in Umatilla, Oregon. I am curious on where in Canada that Sherman Huff and Herbert Maricle lived. My dad doesn't remember but he said Herbert came down in the 1940s and he and my grandpa Ray Clark went about visiting relatives in Portland, Yoncolla and over by Prineville. My grandpa Ray and his wife Florence went to visit him in the 1950s but he passed away a short time before they got there.

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