Autobiogaphical Sketch (Land Claim):2549 "Presley Warnock of Clackamas County, in the Territory of Oregon, being first duly sworn says that he is a white male settler on public lands in Oregon, that he arrived in said Territory on the 25th day of Sept. 1853, and will be above the age of 21 years on the 1st day of December, 1855. That he is a native born citizen of the United States and that he was born in Kentucky in the year 1810, that he has personally resided upon and cultivated that part of the public lands in Oregon particularly described in Notification no. [blank], hereunto annexed, continuously from the 26th day of Sept. 1853 to the 17th day of November 1855." (Sworn statement under oath on 17 November 1855)

Family Remembrance:795, p. 60-61. "Presley Warnock and his motherless children and the McCoys arrived in Oregon September 25, 1853, after a hard trip. The party traveled by day and at night the wagons were gathered in a circle with the horses and cattle on the inside. Not a great deal is known about this journey over the Old Barlow Road, or Oregon Trail, but Elizabeth Jane Warnock was such a beautiful girl that they were afraid the Indians might kidnap her. In fact, one young Indian brave followed the caravan for days. On the whole the Indians proved friendly. When the caravan reached the Snake River, the horses and cattle ate some poison weed and died and Presley Warnock and his family were forced to journey across the vast expanse of Oregon Territory with one horse and one ox.

Jack Folsom, Pendleton, Oregon, grandson of Margaret Ann Warnock and John Edward Folsom, states that his grandmother told him that they crossed the Snake river at Emigrant Gap near American Falls, Idaho. There were high banks on both sides of the river, slow water, a beach of sand and gravel. They calked the wagon beds and used them as boats and they went back and forth many times with their supplies, the women and children and the cattle. Some of the cattle couldn't swim and the men had to go along with them and grab them by the horns, raising the heads out of the water so the cattle could breathe. The ox was a wonderful swimmer so he was used to bring the cattle across. The cattle would be tied to him or his tail. The ox received special care and attention for his services in making the crossing.

The Warnocks settled at Oregon City and there Margaret Folsom and Elizabeth Jane became acquainted with John and Moses Folsom. They were married in a double ceremony on May 6, 1855, performed by Joseph M. Prescott, Justice of the Peace of Clackamas County in the Oregon Territory. Presley died Mach 30, 1868, at Clackamas County, Oregon." -- by Rachel Rolfe Feighny, a great granddaughter of Presley Warnock and Rachel Frame.

Biographical Sketch (1960):795, p. 58. "Rachel Frame . . . married Presley Warnock March 29, 1832. Rachel died sometime between May 7, 1843 when her youngest child was born and April 9, 1846, when Presley Warnock married Dorotha Davis in Porter County, Indiana. . . . The 1850 U.S. census does not list Dorotha in the family of Presley Warnock. A tradition in the Frame family in Indiana is that Presley found his wife mistreating his children, so he made a proper settlement on her and they separated. This is supposed to have been the reason he left Indiana. He sold the last of his land in Indiana in July 1853, and he and all of his children went to Oregon.

John McCoy, 22, and Weedon McCoy, 16, and one other McCoy boy went with the Warnock family to Oregon. They were the sons of Margaret Frame McCoy, Rachel’s sister who married a McCoy. In the 1850 census, Margaret is listed but her husband’s name does not appear, indicating that she was probably a widow at that time."

1810 Birth:795, p. 59.,2549 Frame family researcher indicates birth date of 7 December 1810 in Bourbon County, Kentucky. This is supported by Presley's 1855 statement under oath in connection with his donation land claim for 160 acres that he was "born in Kentucky in the year 1810."

1834 Relocation to Porter County, Indiana:47, vol. 1, p. 170. "The first settlements in what is now Porter township were made during the years 1834-35, when Samuel and Isaac Campbell, Newton Frame, David Hurlburt, Isaac Edwards, and a few others located in that part of Porter County."

1834 Relocation to Porter County, Indiana:771, vol. 1, p. 128. "Porter Township was created in 1836 and its boundary lines have been materially changed since originally created. It now has an area of about forty-five square miles. The first locations in the township were made in 1834 and 1835. Among the settlers of that period were Samuel and Isaac Campbell, Newton Frame, David Hurlburt, Isaac Edwards, William McCoy, Ezra Reeves, Morris Carman, Dr. L. A. Cass, William A. Nichols, J. C. Hathaway, William Frakes, Alpheus French, Henry W. Wilson, A. M. Bartel, Jonathan Hough, Wm. C. Shreve, Edmund Hatch, David Dinwiddie, Moses and Horatia Gates, William Robinson, Richard Jones, and Asa Cobb. The first school in the township is said to have been taught by Mrs. Humphrey at her home about 1838."

1834 Relocation to Porter County, Indiana:79, p. 245. "The township in which the village [of Boone Grove] is located, Porter, has a population of 1,199. Among the first settlers of the township, all of whom came in 1834 and 1835, were Newton Frame, William Frame, Samuel Campbell, Isaac Campbell, Isaac Edwards, Elder French, Ora B. French, Jacob Wolf, a Mr. Service and David Hurlburt. The Boone Grove Christian Church was first established in 1858."

1834 Relocation to Porter County, Indiana:79, p. 245. "The township in which the village [of Boone Grove] is located, Porter, has a population of 1,199. Among the first settlers of the township, all of whom came in 1834 and 1835, were Newton Frame, William Frame, Samuel Campbell, Isaac Campbell, Isaac Edwards, Elder French, Ora B. French, Jacob Wolf, a Mr. Service and David Hurlburt. The Boone Grove Christian Church was first established in 1858."

1834 Relocation to Porter County, Indiana:47, p. 36. "The year 1834 witnessed a larger immigration [to Porter County.] . . . A. K. Paine built the first dwelling and took up the first claim in what is now Jackson township; Thomas and William Gosset selected claims in Westchester township; William Thomas Sr., Jacob Beck, John Hageman, John I. Foster, William Frame and Pressley Warnick brought their families and established homes in the same township."

1835 Neighbors:47, p. 185-186. "It was in Westchester township that the first white settler in Porter County built his cabin. . . . In 1835 William Thomas Sr., William Gosset, Jacob Beck, John Hageman, John Foster, William Frame and Pressley Warnick brought their families and located in Westchester. Some of these men settled in territory afterward added to other townships and their names appear as pioneers therein."

1836 Porter County Election:63, p. 37. "At an election held at the house of William Gossett February 23, 1836, for the purpose of electing two Associate Judges of the Circuit Court, three County Commissioners, a Clerk of the Circuit Court, and a Recorder for the county the following men voted: . . . Pressley Warnick . . . Jeremiah Frame . . . William McCoy . . . William Frame. Total, 26."

1837 Land Patent:2614 On 15 March 1837 the U.S. General Land Office issued Certificate no. 684 to Presley Warnick of Union County, Indiana, for 88 acres, Range 6W of 2nd Principal Meridian, Township 37N, Section 34, sold at the Laporte Land Office. The land is located in present day Porter County, Indiana.

1840 U.S. Census:2280
Lake County, Indiana
Head of Family •• Presley Warnock
Males under 5 •• 1 << son William, age 3
Males 20-30 •• 1 << Presley, age 29
Females under 5 •• 1 << daughter Elizabeth, infant
Females 5-10 •• 1 << daughter Margaret, age 6
Females 20-30 •• 1 << wife Rachel
Females 50-60 •• 1 << Probably Peggy Frame, age 61, widowed in September 1839
No other evidence indicates that the Warnock family lived anywhere but in Porter County. Lake county is immediately to the west of Porter County and Porter Township is on the western side of Porter County. Assume this enumeration of the Warnock family residing in Lake County in 1840 is an error or perhaps the result of convenience for the enumerator rather than strict adherence to official boundaries.

1850 U.S. Census:1380
Porter County, Indiana (Porter Township)
Enumerated 14 September 1850
Presley Warnock •• 39, male, farmer, real property value $800, born in Kentucky
Margaret •• 16, female, born in Indiana
William M. •• 13, male, born in Indiana, in school within the year
Elizabeth J. •• 10, female, born in Indiana, in school within the year
Druscilla •• 8, female, born in Indiana, in school within the year
Mary F. •• 6, female, born in Indiana, in school within the year
Adjacent to Margaret Frame McCoy821 and family.
The Jane Warnock,431 age 10 female, born in Indiana, attended school within the year, enumerated with the household of John Frame in Jackson Township, Porter County on 19 October 1850 is assumed to be the same person as Elizabeth J. in the household of Presley Warnock.

1853 on the Oregon Trail:2549 In an affidavit filed on 17 November 1855 in connection with is donation land claim, Presley Warnock attests that he arrived in Oregon Territory on 25 September 1853.

1855 Donation Land Claim:2549 On 17 November 1855 Presley Warnock of Clackamas County filed a donation claim for 160 acres of public land in Township 3S, Range 4E.

1860 U.S. Census:2331
Clackamas County, Oregon (Springwater Precinct)
Enumerated 30 July 1860
Presley Warnac •• 50, male, farmer, real estate value $500, personal property value $200, born in Kentucky
Drucilla •• 14, female, born in Indiana
Mary F. •• 13, female, born in Indiana
Henry •• 7, male, born in Indiana
Presley's daughter Margaret Ann and her husband John Edward Folsom2332 were enumerated four dwellings later.

1866 Marriage Witness:925 "State of Oregon. County of Clackamas. This certifies that the undersigned, a Minister of the Gospel, by authority of a License bearing the date of 3rd day of Dec. A. D. 1866, and issued by the County Clerk of the County of Clackamas, did on the 6th day of Dec. A. D. 1866 at the house of Presley Warnock, in the County and State aforesaid, join in lawful wedlock C. Howell of the County of Clackamas and State of Oregon, and Mary F. Warnock of the County of Clackamas and State of Oregon, with their mutual assent, in the presence of Presley Warnock and Abigal J. Heckaras, witnesses. Witness my hand, Rev. R. I. Oglesby. Filed and recorded Dec. 10, 1866. J. M. Bacon, recorder."

1868 Death:2549 On 6 June 1868 both A. J. Chase and J. H. McCubbin made sworn statements regarding Presley Warnock's donation land claim of 160 acres and referred to "31st day of March 1868, the time of his death."

1868 Land Patent:2549 On 30 June 1868 the U.S. General Land Office issued Certificate no. 3283 to the heirs at law of Presley Warnock, deceased, Clackamas County, Oregon for 160 acres in Range 4E Township 3S, Sections 30 and 31, sold at the Oregon City Land Office. The heirs "having proven to the satisfaction of the Register and Receiver of Willamette District, Oregon the fact that such settlement was commenced on the 1st day of November 1853, four years prior to the date hereof."