HMCFamily.org is the website for the Hewitt-Matheny-Cooper Family Association. We are an organization of three related Oregon pioneer families that have been celebrating our heritage since the descendants of Henry and Elizabeth Hewitt began annual reunions in 1919. The branches of our family tree have grown to cover most of the United States since our families began coming to Oregon in the first wagon train of the Great Migration in 1843.
We are hoping this website will keep us better connected to each other and to our roots. We also hope that our heritage may prove interesting and of benefit to others who may visit here.
89, passed away Wednesday, October 8, 2008. There was a private family service. Published in the North County Times on 10/15/2008The following provided by son John Carlisle, Capt. Thomas M Carlisle was interred in Riverside National Cemetery, Riverside County, Riverside, CA on 10/24/2008. Honor Guard provided 3 Gun Salute, Taps, and Flag Ceremony. Thomas is interred with first wife Joan Elizabeth and is survived by sons John of Las Vegas, NV, David of Park River, ND, daughters Barbara Derrick of Lexington, SC, Diane Christy of Newport Beach, CA, and Patricia McComb of Escondido, CA, 14 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren. Thomas is the son of Kate Eunice Bailey and Roger Edward Carlisle, grandson of Cena Abby Layson and Rev. Mark Edward Bailey, great-grandson of Sarah Jane Matheny and Aaron Maxwell Layson, great great-grandson of Rachel Cooper and Henry Younger Matheny. Thomas was married to Joan Elizabeth Krause in 1944 until her death in 1989; in 1992 he married second Alverna Marie Wagner who died in 2007.