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Michael and Ruth Plaster, in 1857, made the 2,000 mile journey over the plains of the Oregon Trail to Brownsville, Linn County, Oregon. They had seven children at the time. Traveling on the Oregon Trail was difficult, and women planning to leave would gather for important social events with friends in the months before to sew quilts together. An article on the Oregon Trail says that "When it came time for a family or a group of families to leave, the farewells were often grandiose and sad...During the journey, women did most of the things they did back home; cooking every meal, taking care of the children, gathering food and fuel for the fire. Women had to do these things in dust, rain, hail, in tents or in the open air." Ruth's parents are listed as William Burress and Eleanor Frakes in the Oregon Biographical Index.
1819
Mar 30
| 1819 • The U.S. naval vessel USS Columbus is launched in Washington, DC. |
1820
Aug 7
Age: 1y
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residenceLittle York, Hardin, Kentucky, USA ⇓ Also living in Little York is a Job Burris. On the same page, a Charles and David Dougherty are also living. 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1820 • Trienio Liberal in Spain: A constitutionalist military insurrection at Cádiz leads to the summoning of the Spanish Parliament (March 7). |
1836
Jun 23
Age: 17y
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marriageMichael Plaster Schuyler County, Illinois, USA ⇓ "Schuyler County Illinois I Do hereby Certify that I Did Join to gether in Marriage Michel Plaster & Ruth Burrass on the 23 day of June 1836". Signature of the justice of the peace is difficult to make out. 4 Sources ⇓ |
| 1836 • Colony of South Australia founded by Captain John Hindmarsh |
1838
Mar 22
Age: 18y
birth of childAnn Marie Plaster Lee County, Iowa, USA ⇓ |
| 1838 • The people of the Cherokee Nation are forcibly relocated during the Trail of Tears in the United States. |
1840
Age: 20y
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residenceTownship 66, Lee, Iowa Territory, USA ⇓ Michael and Ruth (Burress) Plaster are living with their oldest daughter Ann Marie Plaster, who is about one or two years old. On the next page is a 20-30 year old Joseph Burris. 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1840 • Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland marries her cousin Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. |
1843
Jan 10
Age: 23y
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birth of childMargaret J Plaster Gentry County, Missouri, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1843 • Honório Hermeto Carneiro Leão, Marquis of Paraná, becomes de facto first prime minister of the Empire of Brazil. |
1846
May 16
Age: 27y
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birth of childThomas Jefferson Plaster Gentry County, Missouri, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1846 • The Liberty Bell is cracked while being rung for George Washington's birthday. |
1849
Oct 1
Age: 30y
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birth of childElizabeth Ellen Plaster Athens, Gentry, Missouri, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1849 • French troops occupy Rome; the Roman Republic surrenders. |
1850
Sep 24
Age: 31y
| 1850 • Europeans make up 22% of the world population. |
1850
Sep 24
Age: 31y
| 1850 • Harriet Tubman becomes an official conductor of the Underground Railroad. |
1852
Sep 10
Age: 33y
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birth of childEmily L Plaster Gentry County, Missouri, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1852 • Justin Perkins, an American Presbyterian missionary, produced the first translation of the Bible in Assyrian Neo-Aramaic, which was published with the parallel text of the Syriac Peshitta by the American Bible Society. |
1856
Feb 28
Age: 36y
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birth of childLaura Hanna Plaster Gentry County, Missouri, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1856 • 500 Mormon handcart pioneers leave Iowa City and head west for Salt Lake City, Utah, carrying all their possessions in two-wheeled handcarts. |
1857
Age: 37y
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movedOregon ⇓ The Plasters were pioneers on the Oregon Trail from Missouri to Oregon, a journey of 2,000 miles. In the "Oregon Biographical Index", it mentions that Ruth Burress and her husband Michael Plaster traveled to Oregon in 1857 from Gentry, Missouri over the plains. This photo is not of them, but of some travelers from that time period. See gallery for more info on the Oregon Trail: https://johnsonfamily.talldude.net/ruth-burress-124/gallery/oregon-trail/all 2 Sources ⇓ |
| 1857 • James Buchanan succeeds Franklin Pierce as President of the United States. |
1860
Age: 40y
| 1860 • German chemist Albert Niemann makes a detailed analysis of the coca leaf, isolating and purifying the alkaloid which he calls cocaine.Niemann, Albert (1860). On a New Organic Base in the Coca Leaves ("Über eine neue organische Base in den Cocablättern", published version of Ph.D. dissertation). |
1860
Mar 22
Age: 40y
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birth of childGeorge Washington Plaster Brownsville, Linn, Oregon, USA ⇓ 5 Sources ⇓ |
| 1860 • In Buenos Aires, leader Bartolomé Mitre subverts the Argentine Confederation and begins to establish a new centralist government with the help of Uruguayan Colorado party leader Venancio Flores. |
1870
Age: 50y
| 1870 • Just one of the 916 members of the Indian Civil Service is Indian. |
1878
Apr 3
Age: 59y
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deathBrownsville, Linn, Oregon, USA ⇓ A newspaper article published in the Oregon State Journal says that she died "Near Brownsville Apr. 3, 1878, Butter Plaster, wife of Michael Plaster, aged 59 years and 3 days." 2 Sources ⇓ |
| 1878 • The first assassination attempt is made against Umberto I of Italy by anarchist Giovanni Passannante, armed with a dagger. The King survived with a slight wound in one arm. Prime minister Benedetto Cairoli blocks the aggressor, receiving a leg injury. |