Individual Details

Tabitha Moffatt

(1 May 1780 - 4 May 1858)

Social Reformer, Educator. Officially named as the “Mother Figure of Oregon” by the Oregon Legislator. Her son participated in the Great Migration of 1843. He talked his mother into emigrating to Oregon in 1846, as an elderly widow. Witnessing the suffering of children whose parents died on the trail, she was inspired to start an orphanage in Oregon in 1848. After a few years it became Pacific University, a liberal arts college that today has a national reputation for its psychology and optometry programs.

Events

Birth1 May 1780Brimfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States
Birth1 May 1780Brimfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States
Marriage1 Dec 1799Brimfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States - Rev. Rev. Clark Brown
Death4 May 1858Salem, Marion, Oregon, United States
Alt nameTabitha Moffat
FIND-A-GRAVEhttps://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6254261/tabitha-moffatt-brown

Families

SpouseRev. Rev. Clark Brown (1771 - 1817)
ChildOrus Brown (1800 - 1874)
ChildManthano Brown (1802 - 1876)
ChildPherne Tabitha Brown (1805 - 1891)
FatherDr. Joseph Moffatt (1738 - 1802)
MotherLois Haynes (1736 - 1785)

Endnotes

1. "Massachusetts Deaths and Burials, 1795-1910," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FH1D-LMJ : 10 February 2018), Tabitha Moffat, 19 Mar 1769; citing Brimfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, reference v 1 p 279; FHL microfilm 223,943..

2. "Massachusetts Deaths and Burials, 1795-1910," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FH1D-LMJ : 10 February 2018), Tabitha Moffat, 19 Mar 1769; citing Brimfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, reference v 1 p 279; FHL microfilm 223,943..

3. "Massachusetts Deaths and Burials, 1795-1910," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FH1D-LMJ : 10 February 2018), Tabitha Moffat, 19 Mar 1769; citing Brimfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, reference v 1 p 279; FHL microfilm 223,943..