St Charles Co, MO where he married for the first time.
Spring 1850 Solomon loaded the family's goods into two wagons, eachpu lled by eight oxen (four yokes), and headed for new territory.They al so took their 3 horses and 8 head of "loose" stock.
1850/1851 Salt Lake City, UT. The family wintered there and resumedt he journey on 3/9/1851.
1851 Benton Co, OR They finally arrived at their destination whereSo lomon took up a donation claim for 1 year.
1852 Lane Co, OR The family moved again and settled down for thenext 2 0 years.
Nancy Zumwalt posted some Oregon history online. June 2006 Eugene’sRi ver Road:
"RELIGION & FUNERARY
The Methodists had an early start in Oregon, as Jason Lee was one ofth e first
protestant missionaries to come to the area and established aMethodist m ission and
settlement near Salem. In keeping with that tradition, the Methodistsw ere one of the
first dominant religious groups in Eugene. The First Methodist Churchw as established
in 1854 in the small log home of Solomon and Nancy Zumwalt, locatednea r the
present-day intersection of Highway 99 and Roosevelt Boulevard.Initial ly, itinerant
ministers led services. Reverend Noah Starr was the first regularminis ter to serve the
congregation while they met on the Zumwalt homestead.4 Though thecongr egation
established a formal church in town four years later, the earlymeeting s were important
to the establishment of the Methodist denomination in Eugene, and theg roup claimed
the distinction of building the second church building in the city,whi ch they used until
1886. This church was constructed by Solomon Zumwalt, himself, withthe h elp of his
son and other members of the congregation."
1872 The moved to a 450 acre farm on the Mohawk River which was theirf inal home.
