Sherman County Observer Obituaries

Sherman County Observer Obituaries 1900 – 1931
Moro, Sherman County, Oregon

The following are the death notices and obituaries contained within the pages of the Sherman County Observer, on the microfilm roll containing the issues from January 19, 1900 to October 6, 1905.

January 19, 1900

January 26, 1900

February 2, 1900

• C.W. Stokes died of consumption at the home of her mother Mrs. Slater, and brothers, in Moro last week.

February 9, 1900

• M. Anderson, long and favorably known as one of the most energetic farmers of Sherman county, died in the county hospital in this city Wednesday afternoon, where he was being treated for the nameless disease. This was the latest case that has occurred here, and was one of the very worst.  Mrs. Anderson, who has passed through the ordeal, was with him during the worst and was at his bedside when he expired.  He leaves a highly respected family (wife and three daughters whose many friends and acquaintances sincerely mourn with them in this sad affliction. [Thomas Monroe]
• W. Stokes was a visitor last week. He did not hear of the death of Mrs. S. until after the funeral.

February 16, 1900

February 23, 1900

March 2, 1900

• Genial Billy Bently is no more. He died at the home of his father in Indiana, January 30th.

March 9, 1900

March 16, 1900

• The death of Neil McLeod occurring in Goldendale last week was a sad surprise to many friends in this county.
• Old man Pitts, who has been a public charge nearly ever since he was buncoed out of his home at Grants, passed away on the 10th, aged about 90. The true history of poor John Pitts would make a book of marvelously sympathetic story. The bells of the city tolled in sad memory of his life.

March 23, 1900

• David Huff was taken to a hospital in Portland last week. A very sick man.  His death occurred a few days afterwards, before anything could be done for his relief, and the remains were brought to Moro for burial Wednesday.  Our sincerest sympathies are awakened at this termination of a genial life. [David W.]

March 30, 1900

April 6, 1900

April 13, 1900

April 20, 1900

April 27, 1900

• James and Mrs. Hays buried a little girl by the side of its sister in the Moro cemetery Saturday. The funeral was largely attended from Grass Valley.
• F. Guinther was up from Dalles City Saturday and accepted a $300 monument, placed to mark the final resting place of his parents in Moro cemetery. The work is really the finest in the county by L. Comini.

May 4, 1900

May 11, 1900

• The Bigelow News. Friends of Emily Corson, widow of the late H. Corson, of The Dalles, learned with sorrow of her death, which occurred at Monument, Grant county April 29th.  We extended our sympathy.
• The funeral of Miss Addie, daughter of McMillin, took place in Wasco Monday. Deceased was an invalid for some time, a bright and interesting young lady 20 years of age, who will be greatly missed by a large circle of friends and acquaintances.  To the stricken family we extend our sympathy.  They desire us to express thanks to all who so greatly assisted them in their days trials.

May 18, 1900

May 25, 1900

June 1, 1900

June 8, 1900

June 15, 1900

June 22, 1900

June 29, 1900

• Frank Bewley, whose death occurred in Hood River valley recently, was for years close friends with the writer of this. Lost to sight, tho’ never forgotten; notice of his death came upon us with surprising sadness.  Frank was a man whose personal integrity and moral worth was inestimable — and a whole community sustains loss by his death.

July 6, 1900

• The F.H. Watts Marble Works of The Dalles have finished placing a very neat, artistic and substantial monument in Moro cemetery, to the order of E.W. Elrod.

July 13, 1900

July 20, 1900

• Judge Fulton attended the funeral of J.P. Isaacs in Walla Walla whose sudden death in Portland on the 14th sent a shudder thro’ the Inland Empire, where Mr. Isaacs was greatly loved and respected.

July 27, 1900

• The funeral of the babe of Mr. & Mrs. Horace Strong, took place Tuesday afternoon. The little one was ill but a short time.   [Moro IOOF Cemetery]

August 3, 1900

• Louis Comini finished setting a handsome monument in Moro cemetery this week, marking the grave of T.M. Anderson.

August 10, 1900

August 17, 1900

August  24, 1900

• A child of Mrs. T. Farra was buried in Moro on the 20th. [David Ormond]
• The little babe of Mr. and Mrs. L.D. Holder, so long sick, died Wednesday evening. The sorrowing parents have the heartfelt sympathies of the community. [Beulah ]

August 31, 1900

September 7, 1900

• It is our painful duty to announce the death of Wm McNab of Rufus on Saturday evening Sept. 1. Mrs. McNab had been in poor health for some time as the result of a paralytic stroke.  [Place of Burial: Minnesota]

September 14, 1900

• Menke a laborer employed by the ORN near Biggs, was drowned September 2. The body was found Monday by his companions and Coroner Idleman noticed, who held an inquest assisted by Dr. Hartley.
• Died, September 1, at her home near Rufus, Mrs. Wm McNab.  The remains were taken to her former home in Minn. for interment.  By her death, we have lost one whose life and example were for the highest culture and refinement.  Her husband, and son, Alexander, are left to mourn her untimely death.  “To stifle down the gnawing pain,” and say, “We still divide our life.  She had the rest, and I the strife, and mine the loss, and her’s the gain.  Give her that peace, O Lord, Divine and blest. Thou keepest for those hearts who love Thee best.”

September 21, 1900

• B. McGrath, late of Moro, died at Wasco poorhouse. What a warning!
• Val Workman died at her home in Wasco on the 5th of dropsy of the heart; leaving a husband and three children. [Luellen]

September  28, 1900

October  5, 1900

• Uncle William DeMoss died in Iowa very suddenly September 24th, aged 73 years. DeMoss was manager of Lyric Band through Europe and America for seven years and his death is sadly and painfully realized Sherman county.

October 12, 1900

October 19, 1900

• John Kunsman made fast time between Moro and Montpelier, in hope of seeing his father alive, but the old gentleman had died before he reached there. He left Moro at 9:50 a.m. Friday, and reached his old home in Ohio at 3:15 p.m. Tuesday, and was delayed 7 hours in Chicago.

October 26, 1900

November 2, 1900 

• Funeral for Clyde Williams. In the midst of life we are in death, has been graphically pictured in the death and burial of C.W. Williams.  His illness was caused by a sudden cold, which developed hemorrhage of the lungs, and death came to him in the hospital at Portland, Sunday morning 28th.  The remains were brought home to Moro Monday and the funeral took place Tuesday at 11 a.m. in the ME Church, Rev. Hoskins officiating to a sad audience.  Our heartfelt sympathies are extended to his young wife, his mother, sister and brother in this, their great bereavement.  Deceased was a native of California, aged 23 years.  In business circles, he was the most popular man in Moro.  Everybody esteemed his acquaintance.  Peace to his ashes.
• We are pained to learn of the death of C.T. Moreing, who died in Portland, of cancer, October 22d.

November  9, 1900

• After a protracted illness Mele Bowles, daughter of T.J. Miller, the DesChutes merchant, died of consumption at her home last week, leaving a husband and four children, besides numerous relatives, to mourn her sad departure. [Metta]
• Presley Denny, of Salt Lake city, died of heart disease last week. Deceased expected to spend the coming winter in Moro, with his sister, Mrs. B.F. Pike, but was suddenly taken off with heart disease.  He was a prominent man in Utah.
• J.P. Lucas, wife of the Unites States land office register, died in The Dalles last week. This is sad indeed, and we extend our sympathies.

November 16, 1900

November 23, 1900

November 30, 1900

December 7, 1900 

• Augus Kuks, daughter of Mrs. McCullum [McCallum], died on Tuesday of pneumonia. Much sympathy is expressed for the bereaved ones. [Margaret J.]
• McDonald of Spokane arrived to attend the funeral of Mrs. Kuks, which was largely attended yesterday at the home place, east of Monkland.
• Alex Gravel died of peritonitis in a Portland hospital.

December 7, 1900

• The Collapse Came. The Death and Burial of County Commissioner Joseph A. Morrissey. After three years of the most wretched miseries, with only occasional lapses of convalescence, death summoned County Commissioner Joseph A. Morrissey at 12:30 November 30th.  He seemed to realize that the time was drawing close when he must bid earth adieu, and prepared for the worst.  He died with all his faculties, surrounded by his wife, two lovable children his brother, Wm. Weigand, and many friends and neighbors, at the hour above mentioned, quietly passing away in the 37th year of his age.    The funeral was largely attended at the Catholic church in The Dalles Dec. 2d, a great many attending from Sherman county.  His mother and married sister at Dufur Mrs. M. Callaghan and others were present. It is always a painful duty to write about the death of a friend.  So much might be said that one has not the conveniences for expressing.  As between us and Joe there should be no limit; we have traveled closely together in our friendships since we became acquainted, and now it seems to us are not far apart.  As Edward Bulwer Lytton wrote: There is not death!  An angel form Walks o’er the earth with silent tread; He bears our best beloved away, And then we call them dead. Ah!  ever near to us. though unseen, The dear immortal spirits tread; For all the boundless universe Is life!  There is no death!

December 14, 1900

December 21, 1900

December 28, 1900

January 4, 1901

• Frank Hawley died on the 30th, and was buried on New Year day.

January 11, 1901

January 18, 1901

January 25, 1901 

February 1, 1901

• Death claimed Mrs. Alma Williams Saturday last, after a long lingering illness with that dreaded disease consumption. The final end was calm and peaceful.  The funeral occurred on the 28th, and was largely attended by sorrowing relatives and friends, Rev. Hoskins officiating. Deceased was born in Sandusky, Wis., January 1st, 1879; married to W.C. Williams, Moro, November 20, 1898; died January 26, 1901, aged 22 years and 25 days.  She was a member of the United Brethren church, and a consistent Christian.
• Starnes of Washington arrived to attend the funeral of her sister, Mrs. Alma Williams.
• Card of Thanks. To the many friends who so kindly assisted us during the last sickness and death of our beloved daughter and sister, Alma, we return our heartfelt thanks.   and Mrs. C.B. Webb and family.  [Alma Williams]

February 8, 1901

• In Memoriam. Written by Mrs. E.A. Scheer, in memory of Mrs. Alma Williams. Mrs. Alma Williams was born in Sandusky, Wis., January1st, 1879 and died at her home in Moro January 26th, 1901, after a lingering illness with consumption, age 22 years and 25 days.  In November 20, 1898 she was married to Clyde Williams, who preceded her to the glory about three months.  Williams was converted several years ago, and united with the UB Church, of which she was a faithful member till death, when the Lord called her from the church militant to the church triumphant.   She always performed her duty faithfully.  She was ever ready to assist in whatever she found to do and will be greatly missed.  Her end was peace; for the Lord was her shepherd.  The close of her life was full of hope, and reliance on the promise of God.  She was looking forward to her final reward.   She leaves sorrowing parents, three brothers, three sisters and other relatives, and friends to mourn their loss, but their loss is her eternal gain. –Dearest daughter you have left us, And our loss we deeply feel. But ’tis God that has bereft us He can call our sorrows heal. Sister here your place is vacant. Vacant in our hearts and home, But in heaven it is taken Where the Savior bade you come. Yes, we know you are in heaven, While we’re left to sorrow here But the joys that shall be given, There will wipe away our tears.

February 15, 1901

• Death of S.P. Ornduff. Samuel P. Ornduff died February 7th, 1901, at his home 8 miles east of Wasco, of pneumonia.  He was sick less than one week and died surrounded by his family and friends.  Comrade Ornduff was born in Illinois, in 1842.  When still quite young he enlisted in Co. F, 3rd Iowa cavalry, and served through the Civil War, and had an exceptionally good war record, having served in the southwest against the rebel Gens. Forrest and Marmaduke.  He was married in 1864, to Miss Nancy Everett, who still survives him, has also four sons and one daughter all of whom reside in this county.  Comrade Ornduff was a charter member of W.T. Sherman Post No 4, GAR, and was one of its most enthusiastic members having held several offices in the post and on the staff department.  He was buried in Masonic cemetery, Wasco, by the Masonic fraternity.
• Alvia, the 8 year old son of Mr. Way of Klondike, was killed by falling under a loaded wagon, while on his way home from school last Thursday.  The shocking accident occurred almost opposite his home.  He only lived a few minutes.  No blame can be attributed to anyone.

February 22, 1901

March 1, 1901

• The death of Fraser is reported from Portland.

March 8, 1901   

• An infant son of Leroy Gow was buried in Moro cemetery Tuesday. Pneumonia was the cause of death.

March 15, 1901

• Ed Mack had a sorrowful mission in town Tuesday, to get a coffin for his little nephew, 11 months old, son of Martin Hanson.  Death occurred from pneumonia on the 11th, an only child.  Our sympathy is extended to the sorrowing parents.

March 22, 1901

• The funeral of Richard Herrin [Herin] took place at Bigelow March 15th attended by almost the entire community who felt the loss of one universally respected as a kind neighbor, true friend and a sincere Christian. His death on the 13th was caused from complications following la grippe.
• Richard Herin died last week, age 76. Buried in the Bigelow cemetery. [Emigrant Springs Cemetery]
• Jacob Pyburn, a resident of Rufus for the past nine years, died of pneumonia on the 16th.

March 29, 1901 missing

April 5, 1901

• Geo. Howell died Sunday and was buried in Wasco cemetery Monday. Mr. H. is lessee of the A.D. McDonald farm.  Our sympathies are extended to him in this deep affliction.

April 12, 1901

• W. Johnston, father of W.B. and Wes Johnston of this city, died at his home in Illinois on the 8th, aged 70 years.

April 12, 1901

• W. E. Allison died at 4 a.m. on the 8th. The funeral took place at the farm residence Tuesday, interment at Wasco.
• Elder visited Kent Sunday afternoon to minister the last sad rites at a funeral in the family of J.K. Craig. [Dorothy]

April 19, 1901

• Lines on the death of little Edwin Messinger, by Mrs. Erskine, will appear next week. [Edwin J.]
• Walter Stanley attended the funeral of her relative, Mrs. J.W. Marquis, in Dalles city Sunday. Death occurred in Good Samaritan hospital while undergoing an operation for an internal tumor.
• A telegram from R.C. Craven to Mayor Moore Sunday announcing the death of Miss Nora Craven in Dallas the evening before from typhoid fever, was received with a shock by all who knew the lady in Moro, where she was very highly esteemed.

April 26, 1901

• Louis Dillinger lost a 19 month old baby on the 19th. Burial at Rutledge.  [Rachel Ann]
• The fraternity of Moro Woodmen officially unveiled a very handsome Woodman monument over the grave of M. Anderson Sunday. The ceremony was very interesting and was witnessed by many people.
• Last week Dr. Ray Logan took Miss Jessie McGinnis to Spokane to be placed under the care of Dr. James Sutherland, who appeared to think there was some hope of the girl’s recovery, but she died on the 20th. The funeral took place in Moro on the 24th.  [Jessie M.]
• Word reached Grass Valley Monday that Tom Farrar was drowned on the 17th, in attempting to cross Red Deer river, en route to his new home. The river was full of floating ice, and Tom and another man endeavored to cross in a boat.  Tom’s family went with him to B.C., but were not in the boat.
• IN MEMORIAM Lines on the death of little Edwin Messinger  By Mrs. H.J. Erskine: One little chair is empty, One voice is silent tonight. One little pair of feet are still That a few days ago were so light. Our hearts are sad and dreary, Tho’ the fire burns warm and bright, For we miss our dear little Edwin Around our hearth tonight. But the little feet grew weary For all of our care and love, And wandered away from his home below To a brighter world above. God give us strength to bear it, ‘Tis a pure bright spirit we mourn, But heaven wanted yet one more angel And so little Eddie has gone.

May 3, 1901

May 10, 1901

• and Mrs. Spicer buried a 13 year old daughter at Ruthledge last week. She was a very interesting girl.
• Farra writes to J. M. Parry, April 30th, that the body of Mr. Farra had not yet been recovered. She is waiting, in hope of bringing the body with her to Moro.

May 17, 1901

• A sorrowful item of news reached us Saturday in the report that a little daughter of Ed Mack had been run over by a wagon and killed. The little one was buried Sunday.   [Jessie C. ] — Lines on the death of Jessie Mack, aged 4 years and 6 months: Jesus, while our hearts are bleeding,  O’er the spoils that death has won, We would, at this solemn meeting; Calmly say, “Thy will be done,” Though east down we’re not forsaken, Though afflicted, not alone, Thou didst give and Thou hast taken, Blessed Lord, Thy will be done.
• Cushman, father of Eugene, and Mrs. W.H. Moore, Mrs. H.A. Moore, Mrs. H.S. McDanel and Mrs. Frank Watkins, is at the point of dying as we go to press with this edition of The Observer.

May 24, 1901

• DEATH OF O CUSHMAN. The funeral of the late O. Cushman who died at his residence in this city Saturday took place at 10 am. Monday from the M.E. church.  All the members of the family except Mrs. W. H. Moore, who is absent in Europe, and Mrs. Lottie Watkins, who is in B.C., were present, besides a large number of friends and acquaint  acquaintances of the family.  Brief Masonic services were conducted at the grave, the first work of the kind of our new lodge. The funeral procession which followed the remains to the cemetery was the largest seen here for years.  Business in the city was suspended during the hours of the sad last rites.  Many friends sympathize with the sorrowing relatives in this most trying hour, but the power that gave life to frail humanity has always called loved ones away from earthly scenes, and will continue to do so until time shall be nor more.  We cannot understand the ways of Omnipotence.  It is not necessary that we should.  When the final summons comes let us all be as well prepared to obey as was our Brother Cushman. Deceased had passed his 78th year.  He was a native of New York state, but has been a resident of the Pacific coast many years.  Peace to his ashes.  [Obed]
• During the visit of Mrs. Ragsdale and Mrs. Anderson to the bedside of their parents in Umatilla county, the father died. The mother was somewhat improved when they returned.

May 31, 1901

June 7, 1901

• Byron Sanders was drowned in trying to ford the John Day river on horseback last week Wednesday. After his horse fell the young man swam to the Sherman county shore, but could not get up the abrupt bank and sank in a swirl-pool.  The body was recovered last Sunday. [William Byron.    Arlington Cemetery.  Died May 28th. Born 18 March 1882 to Joseph Harry and Evelyn Maria (Swank) Sanders.  Brother to: Bertha Ellen (McDonald)(Sagawe); Gracie Lee (Crum); Joseph Harry; Arthur L. and Frances Evelyn (Scott)(Neblock)]
• Russell W. Brock, a pioneer of 1850, was buried in Wasco with Masonic honors last week.

June 14, 1901

June 21, 1901

June 28, 1901

• Lloyd D. Idleman was called to hold an inquest on the body of a Jap laborer, killed by a passing train west of Biggs. The accident was purely accidental and unavoidable, hence the coroner deemed it unnecessary to hold an inquest.
• Saunders, of Gorman, was in on business Tuesday. In the late drowning of his son he is consoled with the fact that the body was recovered.  It was a very sad affair.  [William Byron Sanders]

July 5, 1901

July 12, 1901

• Miss Maude Belshee steadily failed, after her return from Tillamook, and finally died, on the 9th. A bright, hopeful life, obliterated.  We sorrow with the stricken family.  The funeral was a sad one.

July 19, 1901

July 26, 1901

August 2, 1901

• D. Edgar, an old-timer in the region, died in Nome, June 10th.
• Amos Shaffer, foreman for Col. C.A. Buckley, was killed by lightning July 21st, at their camp in Colorado. The body was embalmed and shipped to Goldendale for burial.

August 9, 1901

• A young man named Ingalls, from Hood River, working for Mr. Ellsworth, was drowned in the John Day river while bathing, Sunday.
• Young Arthur Hampton, who was taken to the Dalles hospital last week, submitted to an operation Saturday, from which he did not recover. His sister, Mrs. Pernie Johnson, started to go to him on the 7th, but the sad news so affected her that she was unable to proceed farther than Moro.

August 16, 1901

• Arthur H. Hampton, aged 15 years and 8 months, died August 8, of appendicitis, in the Dalles hospital, after an operation. Accompanied by his sorrowing parents the remains were taken to his home at Monmouth for interment.  The funeral services were held at the family residence Friday at 1:30 p.m. conducted by Bro. Buckham and Hon. B.F. Milkey, of the State Normal School.

August 23, 1901

• Miss Molesworth’s letter on the death of Miss Maude Belshee is a tender tribute to a lovely character, a model woman and a true christian. Sentiments really more touching than the gentle writer anticipated.

August 30, 1901

September 6, 1901

September 13, 1901

September 20, 1901

• Ed Reese, one of the locomotive engineers killed in the double-head wreck on an ORN gravel train near The Dalles Friday afternoon, was a son-in-law to T.J. Moffitt.

September 27, 1901

October 4, 1901

October 11, 1901

October 18, 1901

October 25, 1901

November 1, 1901

• Poole is with her daughter in The Dalles whose family affected. They’ve lost one of the little twin children by diphtheria.

November 8, 1901

November 15, 1901

• Jessie Thompson Belshe, died on the 10th at the house of J.F. Belshe. The funeral was held at Spaulding chapel, Monday, interment in Rose cemetery.  Deceased was beloved by all, and many sorrowing hearts mourn her sad departure.  [Nov. 8 – Mrs. R.W. Belshe is lying at the point of death.  Her sickness has been long and painful.  Her father, J.A. Thompson, with other friends and relatives have assembled in the house of sorrow at J.F. Belshee’s.]

November 22, 1901

November 29, 1901

• W. James, long and favorably known in Sherman county, died at his home in Portland and the remains were brought to Moro on the 26th, and conveyed to Rose cemetery for interment on the 27th. The funeral was conducted under the direction of W.T. Sherman Post, GAR, of which deceased was a member.  All living members of his family and many sympathizing friends, were present at the sad ceremonials in the Moro ME. church.  [George W.] [Oct. 25 – G.W. James is very sick at his home in Portland; his son G.E. and daughter, Mrs. Perry Axtell, are with him.]
• Kent correspondence – Death came to the home of Mr. McCulloch and claimed the wife and mother. They had only been here a short time, but had bought property and had the lumber on the ground for the erection of a hotel in Kent.  Her last words were “Take me back to bury me under the green trees,” and so her son started back to Iowa with the remains.

December 6, 1901

• A TRIBUTE TO COMRADE JAMES. Special Correspondence.     George W. James  was born in Marshall county, Illinois, Nov. 25th 1839, and resided in that state until the civil war, when he enlisted in Co. H, 77th Ills Vols. and served till the close of the war.  His service was in the southwest and he saw much in the campaigns that resulted in the capture of Vicksburg and in the Red river expedition, and also in the campaign against Mobile. Comrade James was always ready for duty, and his record while in the army is one that any man might be proud of.  After the war he lived a few years in his native state then came to Oregon, in 1878 locating in Yamhill county.  In 1885 he removed to Sherman county and took up a homestead in the Hay canyon, where he lived until 1894, then returned to Western Oregon for the purpose of educating his children, four of whom, with his wife, to whom he was married in 1866, survive him.  He died in Portland, Or., on the 62nd anniversary of his birth, and the 35th of his marriage, Nov. 25, 1901. Comrade James joined the GAR as a charter member of W.T. Sherman Post, Wasco, and was always an active member of the order.  His remains were brought to Moro and interred in Rose Cemetery, by the side of a son who died several years ago.

December 13, 1901

December 20, 1901

December 27, 1901

• Della Mitchell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. Coon, died at the home of her parents on the 18th.
• Merrill, stock inspector of this county, died at his home in Wasco X-mas morning, interment at Moro at 2 pm, an event which turned the day of gladness to one of sorrow in the two cities, where deceased was long and favorably known.
• Kent Correspondence — Muden received the sad news of the death of his father in Illinois last week.

January 3, 1902

• C.K. Huff who was recently taken to the Dalles for medical treatment, died in that city on the 28th. The funeral took place in Moro Tuesday. [Ida M.]

January 10, 1902

January 17, 1902

• Priscilla Fulton, mother of Judge John Fulton, died last week, aged 86 years. The remains were buried beside her husband in Wasco cemetery.
• Bernard Konrad, a man taken to the St. Vincent hospital from Biggs, recently, died in that institution on Saturday. Sheriff McGinnis was notified but not being able to find any friends or relatives of the man ordered his burial to be made there.

January 24, 1902

January 31, 1902

• Goffin was called to attend Grandma Williams on the 24th, who was quite ill at the farm of her son in Cottonwood. Mr. and Mrs. D. Maxwell were with the old lady.  Death came on the relief of the good old lady Sunday night.  The funeral took place in Moro Wednesday.

February 7, 1902

• Kent Correspondence. Lenard Edgar died Jan. 30 at his residence south of Kent of pneumonia.  He has been a resident of Oregon since 1864.  Interment at  Kent Cemetery, on The Observer  The funeral was conducted by Revs. Lanphear and Craig.  The family of 9 children, all grown, have the deepest of sympathy.
• Friends in Moro of Lee Armstrong, nee Ada Miller, will be pained to learn of her death which occurred on the 25th in Lebanon, one year and two days after her marriage.
• Kentner has erected a handsome monument in Kent cemetery, on The Observer Farm, marking the final resting place of his beloved gone to the great beyond.

February 14, 1902

• Miss Frances Gilbert, sister to Mrs. W.E. Lee of Demoss, died Sunday evening at Demoss of consumption. The remains were taken to the family home in Aumsville for burial, accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Lee.

February 21, 1902

February 28, 1902

March 7, 1902

• W. Howard died in the Dalles Saturday.

March 14, 1902

• Marvin Henderson died of consumption. The funeral took place in Moro Wednesday.

March 21, 1902

March 28, 1902

• Sidney E. Henderson was the name of the young man aged 16, who died at the Stewart farm, Ferry Canyon, March 10th. At the same farm, March 19, Claud Henderson died, aged 3 days.

April 4, 1902

• The wife of Wm Taylor, deserted by her husband in Portland, committed suicide by taking a dose of strychnine. She was a waif, adopted by John Donohue while in Kent, and married the son of Mrs. D. by a former husband.
• Very Distressing Casualty. The morning of March 26th, the clothing of a little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Young of Kent caught on fire while she was standing by a stove warming herself.  Young had broken a bone in his wrist a few weeks previous while getting wood in the canyon, and Mrs. Young had gone out to help him with his horses so be could plow some that day.  Mrs. Young said to little Bertha when she left the house, Now be a good little girl, and she said, all right Mamma, I’ll be a little lady.  They were only out about five minutes when they heard Mable, their other little girl, cry out that Bertha was burning.  Mr. Y. ran into the house and threw a quilt over her and smothered the flames, but her little life passed away soon after, only living two hours and a half.  She was 3 years 3 months and 16 days old.  J.K. Craig and F.C. Ireland made a forced trip to Moro for a coffin returning in the night, the funeral took place Thursday with interment at the Observer Cemetery.  The funeral sermon was preached by Mr. Craig, a very excellent discourse, attentively listened to by a large audience of sympathizing friends and neighbors. Mr. and Mrs. Young desire us to publicly thank the kind neighbors and friends, who so deeply sympathized with them in their affliction.    [Bertha]

April 11, 1902

• Abraham Loveall, brother of JE. Loveall of Kent, was buried in Moro Sunday, a car load of sympathizing friends accompanying the remains to this city, where a delegation of Woodmen took charge of the funeral which was held in the ME church, Rev. Frank Lanphear preaching the sermon. Deceased was a native of Missouri, born in July 1856, a resident of Sherman county 6 years, and very highly respected, he leaves a wife, a sister, three brothers, and numerous other relatives who request us to tender felt thanks to the friends and neighbors whose kindness and attention during the sad ordeal is greatly appreciated and never to be forgotten.

April 18, 1902

April 25, 1902

• The appearance of diphtheria in Shaniko caused much excitement last week. Logan were called from Moro and The Dalles and very soon restored confidence by the use of anti toxine.  Frances, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ross died.
• Wm Mercer of Klondike, is in receipt of the sad news of the accidental death of his brother in California.
• Wm Henrichs, who has been dangerously ill for three weeks, requiring the constant attentions of a trained nurse, died Tuesday afternoon. She leaves a babe and other children.  The deepest sorrow is felt by all who knew her, and much sympathy is expressed for the stricken husband and family.  The funeral was largely attended  at the Moro ME Church.   Interment in the Odd Fellows cemetery.  [Etta]

May 2, 1902

May 9, 1902

• The south bound CS Ry train ran over and killed an unknown man, lying between the rails, in a short curve, about half a mile north of Kent, Monday afternoon. Coroner Idleman, accompanied by Dr. Goffin, drove to the scene and proceeded to hold an inquest.  The verdict of the jury was suicide.  The position of the body on the track clearly indicated that deceased had premeditated the deed, having braced himself to receive full force of the shocking collision.  The body was fearfully mangled.  Deceased was a young man apparently about 5 ft. 4 inches of stature, weighing perhaps 130 lbs, light curly hair, light blue eyes, small round chin, small nose, sandy mustache, small soft hands.  He had been seen in the vicinity the better part of the day, but nobody knew him and there was nothing upon his person to lead to identification.  The body was given Christian burial near the spot.
• P. Wikoff and wife and S. Elcock and wife are expected home from Garfield Sunday, where they were called a week ago to attend the funeral of Mr. Long, brother of the ladies above mentioned.

May 16, 1902

• The floral offerings at the funeral of Poole were numerous and beautiful, and none the least appreciated was the gift of lilac from little Harry Johnston.
• Home Bereft of Mother. Suddenly and unushered, death stalked in the new and comfortable home of M.H. Poole Sunday afternoon rendering that happy circle inconsolably stricken — taking away the good wife and mother with no warning of the sorrowful incident.   The news spread rapidly through the city and many were the hearts sickened at the recital and instantly extended in sympathy to those in distress.  Death always carries with it grief and sorrow, no matter how it comes, but in this instance it is doubly deplorable. Mrs. Poole was a most gentle and estimable woman, universally loved in the neighborhood where she was known so well.  It is a sad blow to the husband, and doubly so for the daughters, who are deprived of a mother’s loving care and companionship.  The funeral took place in Moro ME Church, under the auspices of the Rebecca and Odd Fellow orders, of which Mr. and Mrs. Poole were members.  The church was filled, and the discourse by Rev. Hoskinson was very impressive.  Touching upon the Orders here so largely represented today the speaker said that “Odd Fellowship and Rebekah lodges were designed to comfort the sick and take care of the orphan; to provide a passport or letter of introduction, when among strangers in a strange city; it was a temporal institution, to look after the present welfare of members and not like the church, provide in any sense a spiritual future.  Odd Fellowship and Rebekahs had to look to the churches for spiritual comfort.” At the grave the beautiful burial service was recited closing with the Rebekah funeral hymn: Sister thou wast mild and lovely, Gentle as the summer breeze, Pleasant as the air of evening,  When it floats among the trees. Peaceful by the silent slumber, Peaceful in the grave so low, Thou no more shalt join our number Thou no more our songs shalt know. Yet again we hope to meet thee, When the day of life hath flown, And in heaven we hope to greet thee Where no farewell tear is known. [Martha Ellen ]
• Little John Isaac, the bright 3 year old son of Neil and Bertha McDonald, was buried on the 7th. Death was caused from whooping-cough attacking him while afflicted with tonsillitis.  This is indeed a sad visitation and our sympathies are extended to the stricken parents.
• At his home northeast of Garfield, Wash., May 3, 1902, Mr. N.B. Long, aged 48 years, 1 month, and 14 days.  Mr. Long was born in the state of Missouri.  Was married to Emma Sites in 1876.  He leaves a wife and seven children, three sisters, two of who Mrs. Widkoff and Mrs. Elcook, reside in this city; two brothers and a host of friends, to mourn his loss.  He was a faithful Christian, a devoted husband and father.

May 23, 1902

• The report has been confirmed that Frank Watkins met his death near Riverside, Wash., May 12th.
• The body of Fred Woodside, age 18 years, who was drowned at the Moppin [Maupin] ferry, Des Chutes river, April 21st was found lodged in the brush above Shears [Sherar’s] bridge, May 20. Coroner Idleman was notified and was present when the remains were identified by the young man’s father.  The death being accidental, an inquest was not held.

May 30, 1902

June 6, 1902

June 13, 1902

June 20, 1902

• Jesse Eaton, a pioneer of this county died in Portland on the 14th.

June 27, 1902

July 4, 1902

• Ivan Foster, a little grandson of J.E. Harris, died in California last week.

July 11, 1902

July 18, 1902

• Little Ivan Foster, son of Mrs. Bee Foster and grandson of Mr. and Mrs. J.E. Harris, died in Prescott, Arizona. The little fellow will be sadly missed by all who knew him and especially by his grandparents.

July 25, 1902

August 1, 1902

• The funeral of Sam McDonald was held in Hood River, where she was laid to rest in the family burial ground.
• J.A. Hand desires that The Observer return heartfelt thanks to all, both at home and in Vancouver especially to Mr. and Mrs. P.W. McDonald for assistance and sympathy during the trying ordeal of sickness and death of her husband. May God bless them all.  [James A. Hand]

August 8, 1902

August 15, 1902

August 22, 1902

August 29, 1902

September 5, 1902

September 12, 1902

September 19, 1902

• Miss Amanda Andrus sister of Rev. S.T. Andrus, was buried in DeMoss cemetery yesterday. Consumption was the cause of her death.
• Ed Eaton and wife went to the Dalles last week to attend the funeral of his brother Bert’s baby.

September 26, 1902

October 3, 1902

October 10, 1902

• J.W. Presby, long a resident of Columbus, died in Goldendale last week aged 78 years.

October 17, 1902

• Hicinbotham, long a resident of Columbus, died in a Portland hospital lost week aged 66, after a lingering illness. He leaves a wife, but no children.
• A.F. Watkins, in the Fulton settlement, died Monday. The funeral was held in Wasco.  [Cora ?}

October 24, 1902

• Death of E. Hoskinson. Last Tuesday evening Attorney R.E. Hoskinson of this city was so suddenly stricken unto death by heart failure at his residence that it was utterly impossible to secure any aid whatever, and it is very certain that aid would have availed nothing as the messenger of death came as the lightning’s stroke comes, and as quickly the white-winged spirit of our friend took its departure to the land where no shadows fall upon the scene. “Asleep in Jesus, blessed sleep from which none ever waken to weep.” The funeral was largely attended from the ME Church Wednesday afternoon, business and the schools having suspended during the time.  Reverends Evans and Elder each paid worthy tribute to the high moral character and manhood of deceased.  To his wife and infant, to his little orphaned boy, and to all sorrowing friends, The Observer extends heart felt sympathy, in the midst of their great sorrow. [Robert E. ]

October 31, 1902

• W.A. Kentner has been to Salem on business connected with the estate of his mother, who recently died in Dawson.

November 7, 1902

• Sherman County News.   Mrs. Charles Downing, known in Wasco, committed suicide by taking strychnine.

November 14, 1902

• The death of Lee, the little son of J.E. and E.M. Harris, of DesChutes, Nov. 6th, is another sad event in that family, where troubles have been frequent for so long a time. The little fellow was 8 years and 5 months old.  Death was caused by a fall from a barn beam on the 29th of October.  and Mrs. Harris request us to return their heartfelt thanks to the many kind friends and neighbors who aided and consoled them during the hours of suffering and death of their bright little boy.  Peace to his ashes.
• Resolutions of Sympathy – The following resolutions were not fully subscribed by all the attorneys in the county until after The Observer went to press last week, consequently we did not receive them in time for publication Nov. 7th. We give them in complete form today: RESOLUTIONS OF SYMPATHY.  Whereas, Almighty God, in His wisdom, has seen fit to remove from active life E. Hoskinson, an honored member of the Sherman county Bar and Whereas, In the death of Brother Hoskinson, Sherman county has lost a useful and valued citizen, the church a faithful and consistent Christian member, and his widow and children a kind and affectionate husband and parent; and Whereas, We, the undersigned members of the Bar and friends of the deceased, desire to place on record our appreciation of his many excellent qualities, and our sense of great loss his widow has sustained through the death of a faithful and loving companion; Now, therefore, be it Resolved, That we sincerely deplore the early demise of our deceased brother, and we hereby tender to his widow and children our heartfelt sympathy in their sad bereavement. Resolved, further, That a copy of these resolutions be forwarded to the family of the deceased, and that a copy be also published in The Sherman County Observer. Dated this 24th day of Oct. 1902 W.L. Bradshaw, Circuit Judge, 7th Judicial District; John Fulton, County Judge for Sherman county; Frank Menefee, Dist. Attorney, 7th Judicial District; H.S. McDanel, Clerk of Circuit and County courts; T.R. McGinnis, Sheriff of Sherman county; George W. Brock, Justice of the Peace, for dist. No. 3; John M. Parry, City Recorder of Moro; J.B. Hosford, Attorney at Law, Moro; C.J. Bright, Attorney at Law, Wasco; J.W. Allen, Attorney at Law, Wasco; W.H. Ragsdale, Attorney at Law, Moro; P.B. Stratton, Attorney at Law, Grass Valley.

November 21, 1902

November 28, 1902

• J. Dillinger’s sweet little babe died sometime between 11 o’clock Friday night and Saturday morning. The grief-stricken parents have our heartfelt sympathy. [Clara B.]

December 5, 1902

• Davis, for many years resident at Demoss, in this county, was buried at that place Monday. Death occurred in Salem. [C.B.]

December 12, 1902

• Jane A. Maxwell has had the remains of her mother, Mrs. Williams, exhumed and reburied in her family burial plat the Dalles city, where a handsome obelisk marks the grave of Mrs. Maxwell’s first husband, Perry Watkins.

December 19, 1902

December 26, 1902

• DeMoss Bros. have donated an acre for cemetery purposes. The grounds will be fenced and beautified, park style.  CB Davis, who died Nov. 28th, 1902, was the first interment, Dec. 1st.

January 2, 1903

• Peabody, mother of Mrs. FH. Meader, one of the best known women of Sherman county, died in Wasco Tuesday. The funeral was New Years Day.  [Elizabeth]

January 9, 1903

• Peabody died of neuralgia of the heart, from which she had been suffering for some time. She leaves a husband and three children, Ed and Wm. Froebe and Mrs. F.H. Meader.
• Billy Hoggards’ baby will squeal no more. He had it in his coat and sat down on it. Poor little picaninney.

January 16, 1903

January 23, 1903

January 30, 1903

• and Mrs. B.F. Hoover buried one of their infant twins Saturday. The little one died of pneumonia.  [Jan. 2, 1903 issue — Mrs. F. F. Hoover presented her husband with two handsome baby girls Christmas morning. Dr. Logan attendant physician.]

February 6, 1903

February 13, 1903

• Last week we mentioned the visit of Mrs. Brigham to her sister, Mrs. J.B. Havely. This week we are pained to report the death of Miss Grace Brigham, age 14 years of age, which occurred at Mrs. Havelys Tuesday.
• Sherman County News.   John Morrison, a former well known resident of this vicinity died at his home near Adams, Umatilla county, Sunday night.  His son William and family and Dan McLachlan, from here, attended the funeral Tuesday.  Mr. Morrison was universally respected.

February 20, 1903

• Moro ME Church was well filled with sorrowing relatives and friends Friday afternoon, to pay their last sad tribute to the memory of M. Powell. A very impressive sermon was delivered on the occasion by Rev. Hicks, of Grass Valley.  [J. Marion ]

February 27, 1903

• D. Bolton, father of George N., died at his home in Wasco county Friday night. The funeral was attended in Boyd Sunday.
• In Memoriam. Mary M. Seiders, wife of the venerable Patriarch JH Seiders, of Monkland, died at 10 o’clock Monday night at a Portland hospital, aged 57 years.  Her sister from Moro, Mrs. Webb, was two hours too late to be with her in her dying moments but she was carefully attended by those present. Mrs. Seiders has been an invalid for years, but has borne her griefs with that patience and resignation born of true Christian faith.  She and her good old husband through the many vicissitudes of life, have lived long and happily together (for nearly half a century), and to him, in this distress we extended heartfelt sorrow.  His future paths will be very dark indeed, but he knows to whom to appeal for consolation in his trouble. The remains arrived from Portland attended by Mrs. Webb and Mrs. Scheer (foster daughter), Tuesday evening.  The funeral was largely attended Wednesday afternoon, at which visible evidences of sorrow where shown by many loving hearts.  Rev. Elder preached a most appropriate sermon, in Moro ME Church.  Peace to her ashes.

March 6, 1903

March 13, 1903

• At the request of J.H. Seiders, Mrs. C.B. Webb and Mrs. E.A. Scheer, The Observer tenders thanks to the many kind friends who were so attentive and sympathizing during the recent sickness and death of Mrs. Mary Seiders.
• A.L. Lidstone, pastor of Spalding ME Church, was buried in Rose cemetery Sunday. Death was caused by consumption.

March 20, 1903

• A card of Thanks. To the editors: I wish to take this way of expressing my appreciation and gratitude to the Odd Fellows of Moro and Grass Valley, and to all friends who showed so much kindness and sympathy during the sickness and death of my beloved husband.   — A.J. Lidstone.

March 27, 1903

• Funeral of Mrs. John Moore. Helen Vincent Moore, better known as Mrs. John Moore, died at her farm residence south of Moro early Saturday morning March 21st at an advanced age of 73 years.  Mrs. M. was the last of the old folks who came from California over 21 years ago; she was noted as being a home body and from the time she came here has never been out of the county.  Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon, in Moro ME Church, decorated for the occasion with Easter lilies and potted plants.  Rev. Elder preached a very touching sermon on the uncertainty of life and the certainty of death.  The edifice was crowded with sympathizing and sad friends and relatives.  The Observers joins in the universal expressions of regret over the death of Mrs. Moore, and in expressions of sympathy for the bereaved.
• Special Correspondence. Pricilla Rees died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. M. O’Sullivan, Wednesday morning at 5 o’clock.  Deceased came here from Ontario in April of last year.  Besides the  daughter named she leaves two sons, John F. of Kent, and Levi, who is expected home at any time.  She was 45 years of age, and her death was due to heart failure.  She has been in poor health several years, but only confined to the bed two days before her death.  She was a woman of sterling worth, and was held in high esteem by all with whom she came in contact.  The funeral was held in the Baptist church in Grass Valley, interment in Odd Fellow’s cemetery.   —  CARD OF THANKS – We wish to thank the friends who so kindly assisted us in our hour of bereavement and sorrow, especially Mrs. Ella Sullivan, Mr. G.P. Sink, of Kent, Mr. C. W. Moore and Mr. Pace of Grass Valley.  Mrs. M. O’Sullivan   J.F. Rees.

April 3, 1903

• W. Armsworthy died in the state asylum Sunday. The sympathy of the community is extended to the aged father who resides in Wasco.
• B. Adams died in The Dalles last week. Mrs. Brown of this city is a daughter.

April 10, 1903

April 17, 1903

April 24, 1903

• Death finally released C.F. Coe, Wednesday. The funeral was largely attended yesterday.  Altho’ Mrs. Coe has long been an invalid, and death was looked for, the end produced much sorrow and we extended our heartfelt sympathy to the distressed family.  [Minnie L. ]
• The father of Neal O’Leary died in Portland on the 15th. He was a pioneer in Columbia and Wallamet steamboating.  He was mate of the steamer Senator when she was blown up at the foot of Morrison street, May 6, 1875.  He was also mate on the first steamer ever taken down over Cascade rapids  — the Harvest Queen, commanded by Capt. McNulty.

May 1, 1903

• In Memoriam. Minnie L. Johnston was born in Columbia county, Ohio, August 11, 1866.  When 3 years o f age moved with her parents to Iowa, that being her home until 3 years ago coming to Oregon in hopes of regaining her health.  In 1885 she was married to Deloss W.  Crowther, who lived but one year after their marriage.  Was again married to CF. Coe August 31, 1887.  She leaves to mourn her loss, a husband, 4 children, a mother, two sister, one sister Mrs. Dr. Brett, of Adel, Iowa.  She died April 21, 1903, at 6:30 o’clock, after an illness of four months.  During all her great suffering she never uttered one impatient word.  Joined the Congregation in 1897.  Was a faithful wife, kind mother, loving daughter and sister.  Funeral was held in Moro ME Ch. Thursday, April 22d, at 2 p.m.  The sermon was preached by Rev. SC Elder, pastor of the Presbyterian church.  A large and sympathetic congregation of relatives, friends and neighbors were present to pay their last tribute of respect to the deceased.   [Minnie L. Johnston Coe ]

May 8, 1903

• John Collier met his death in the big water tank at GB Bourhills’ in Grass Valley. He was painting the tank on the inside, and had gone in through the man hole with a lantern and a pot of paint Monday.  Not coming out at meal time search was instituted with the result of finding the dead body.  Gas of the chemical paint probably was the cause.  C. leaves a wife and two children.  She was Miss Emma Boyd, formerly of this city.  Coroner Dr. Logan investigated the matter and decided that no inquest was necessary.

May 15, 1903

May 22, 1903

• Flora Barzee, daughter of Jas. McMillen died at her home Sunday evening and was buried from the Wasco ME Church Tuesday, Rev. Archer conducting the services. Mrs. Barzee was a member of Moro Rebecca lodge, quite a number of the sisters attending the funeral.  We extended our sympathies to bereaved friends and relatives.
• CH. Dodd, well known in Oregon, died a few days ago at Assisi, Umbri, Italy. Deceased left here in 1899 for Italy in hopes of benefiting her health.  Her daughter, Miss Lacy E., was in Italy engaged in the study of art previous to her arrival there.  Charles H. Dodd is well known in business circles of the northwest.  Walther H. Dodd of New York, and Arthur Dodd of Portland, are sons.

May 29, 1903

June 5, 1903

• Hazen, a well known and respected citizen of this county, died at his home in Wasco yesterday. Mr. Peoples took charge of the remains for Masonic burial today.  [Omar A.]

June 12, 1903

• Simmons, who was an invalid rooming with his wife and child in Mrs. Maxwell’s building last winter, died at the Buckley ranch Sunday. The remains were embalmed by Mr. Peoples and taken to Oregon City for burial.

June 19, 1903

June 26, 1903

• B Holmes has news of the death of his father in Nova Scotia May 27th aged 79 years. [William]

June 26, 1903

• Anderson and Miss Jean, are still in Pendleton. Her mother, Mrs. Hampton, died soon after they arrived in Pendleton.  [Elizabeth J.   – Olney Cemetery, Umatilla County]

July 3, 1903

July 10, 1903

• Earl Saunders received word on the evening of the 4th, that his father had died that day. S. is in Athena now, the family residence.

July 17, 1903

July 24, 1903

July 31, 1903

August 7, 1903

August 14, 1903

• C.A. Buckley‘s good old mother died at her home in Brooklyn NY., a week ago. Mr. Buckley arrived a few days before death came, and was with her at the last.  Mrs. Buckley was a veteran in charitable work about her for many years, devoting nearly all her time to the relief of distress, and will be sadly mourned by a large circle of acquaintances in NY City and Brooklyn.
• Frederick Steiwer, an Oregon pioneer of 1850 and father of Hon. W.W. Steiwer, of Fossil, died at his home in Salem last week at the age of 75 years.

August 21, 1903

• A man named H. Reed from Wasco county, was given christian burial in Moro, Tuesday, at public expense. Death was loathsome.  He once lived near here and had as good chances as anybody for a fortune, but threw his opportunity to the dogs.
• S. Shandy received news of the sudden death of a brother in Illinois last week, from rheumatism of the heart. He was one of the C.B. & Q. train dispatchers.
• The father of John Coates, who arrived here from Idaho a month ago and became sick shortly afterwards was buried in the Wasco cemetery Saturday. He was 85 years of age and leaves a wife and eight children to mourn for him.

August 28, 1903

September 4, 1903

• When the funeral cortege from Grass valley entered Moro Sunday, en route to the cemetery, the ME Church bell was tolled as the procession passed through town with the remains of young Johnson, son of J.W. Death was from consumption.  [James E. ]

September 11, 1903

• A little child of Rev. Hicks was buried in Grass Valley Sunday. [William]

September 18, 1903

• The child of W.E. Harbert was buried by undertaker E. Peoples, in IOOF cemetery.
• Mary J. Leet, an early resident of Moro, died at her home in Falls City Sunday, and was buried here Tuesday forenoon, from the ME Church, Rev. S.C. Elder preaching the sermon. Her husband Oliver Leet, and relatives here, the Mowrys, have the heartfelt sympathies of a large circle of friends and acquaintances.  Mr. Elder told of the beautiful life she led and the influence which it exerted in her home, in society, in the church and in the world at large.  It seemed fitting that the music as sung by the choir should have been so beautiful.  One old, old piece, “Meet me There;” was rendered by special request.  Prettier floral offerings, and more profuse, have seldom, if ever before been seen in Moro.

September 25, 1903

• James K. Kelly, ex-U.S. Senator and Chief Justice of Oregon, died in Washington city last week. Col. K. was a leading citizen in Oregon many years.  A pioneer of the early days.

October 2, 1903

October 9, 1903

• Suicide of Jas. T. Belchee. Moro was shocked by the tragic death of James T. Belchee Saturday evening about 8:30 o’clock.  His wife gave the alarm to Dr. Logan, who immediately called R.J. Ginn by ‘phone, and these two gentleman appeared upon the scene in Mr. Belchee’s home before death, which came two minutes late.  The body was lying on the floor in his bedroom, feet under the bed as he had fallen, the pistol a few inches from his hand.  A coroner’s jury consisting of Frank Sayers, Geo. E. Thompson, JP Strahl, O.P. Hulse and R.P. Hulse, was summoned, and after investigation of the facts rendered a verdict accordance with the facts, the death was caused by a gunshot fired by his own hand.  The ball entered his right temple.  Two shots were fired, but one, it is thought, was produced by nerve reaction as the body fell to the floor.
• There was a large turnout at the funeral of T. Belchee Monday. A more sympathetic and heart felt attendance is seldom assembled.  School mates, and associates from boyhood, old men and women, who had know Jim all his life, shed tears of sorrow at his grave.  None knew the deceased but to love him.  He had faults, but who has not?  but at heart James Belchee was an honest faithful friend.  The funeral was conducted under auspices of the Odd Fellows, at Moro ME Church, Rev. Elder preaching a memorable sermon.  His father and mother, brothers and sisters, all have our deepest sympathies in their sorrows.

October 16, 1903

• C.H. Belchee, mother of Jas. T. arrived from California on the 8th.

October 23, 1903

• Herbert Johnson writes from Waitsburg informing us of the death of his father G. Johnson, Sept. 28. Mr J. was well known in Sherman county.  We extend sympathy to the family in their sorrow.
• Our dear little Grandson, DeWitt Lewis, son of Francis and Abbie Ireland, who for three days last week lay at the point of death, is now out of danger. His trouble was teethings and bowel complaint.—-P.S. — Alas, Hope told a flattering story.  Wednesday evening the little Love and Death departed together, leaving us all in sorrow.  [DeWitt Lewis Ireland]

October 30, 1903

• That was a sweet, sad funeral, from Moro ME Church last Friday, when dear little Lewis, son of Abbie and Francis Ireland was laid to rest. The little coffin was buried in flowers, and four little girls dressed in white acted as pall bearers.  Evans prayer, Rev. Elder’s talk, and the soft music of the choir was touching, tending to relax sorrowing hearts with the hope of again meeting the lost one where no sorrow is known.  On behalf of the stricken parents and sad kindred, we take occasion to say that cold type cannot possibly convey to the many kind neighbors and friends in any sense the gratitude we all feel for attentions bestowed during this trying ordeal.

November 6, 1903

• and Mrs. C.E. Poole‘s little boy died in Gilliam county, and was buried in The Dalles this week. Our sympathy is sincerely extended to the sorrowing parents and relatives.

November 13, 1903

• A. Urquhart, formerly in business in Rufus and then in Wasco, died in the Dalles, Nov. 6th. Mr. Urquhart leaves a wife and two small children.
• Biggs, Or., Nov. 9. About noon today, while coming to Biggs with a load of wheat, Willis Gallaway, who has been working on the farm of Mr. Harding, was accidentally shot.  V. Harding, a young man, who was riding with Gallaway, had a loaded shotgun.  Some sacks of wheat were about to fall from the wagon, and young Harding handed the gun to Gallaway while he replaced the sacks.  He had just left the seat, when he heard the report of a gun, and looked around in time to see Gallaway fall.  The charge entered Gallaway’s arm, just above the elbow, ranging upward, shattering the bone and badly lacerating the arm.  Gallaway was brought to Biggs.  The arm will have to be amputated at the shoulder.  He was taken to the Dalles.

November 20, 1903

• Willis Gallaway, the young man who was shot at Biggs and whose arm was amputated died in The Dalles hospital. The body was taken to Hillsboro for burial.  It is a sad thing to see so bright and energetic a young fellow taken when he gave such promise for a worthy life; but accidents will happen.

November 27, 1903

December 4, 1903

• Triangle Bar. — Joseph Saunders is very ill with typhoid fever in Arlington. [Joseph Harry Sanders, Jr.,  born   August 7, 1884 near Olex, OR; died December 7, 1903 in Arlington.  Buried in Arlington Cemetery.  Son of Joseph Harry and Evelyn Maria (Swank) Sanders.  Brother to: Bertha Ellen (McDonald)(Sagawe); Gracie Lee (Crum);  William Bryon, deceased 28 May 1901; Arthur L. and Frances Evelyn (Scott)(Neblock).  See the January 22, 1904, issue of this paper for notice of his death.]

December 11, 1903

• Death of Mrs. Kunsman. Mary Jane Kunsman, aged 42 years, a kind and loving mother, who had suffered the pains of illness uncomplainingly for many months, died at the home of her daughter in this city,  Mrs. L. Barnum, on the 6th, at 9:30 am the 23 anniversary of her marriage. Mrs. Kunsman was very highly respected by all who knew her, and the attendance at the funeral which was held in Moro ME Church Monday forenoon, attested her worth.  Rev. Eldar delivered a well worded sermon on the occasion, and the music was very appropriate to the sad event. Deceased leaves 7 children 4 sons and 3 daughters, two of the latter married.  The sorrowing family ask us to thank the attending physician Dr. Logan, the nurse Miss Brittain, and the many friends and neighbors who so attentively rendered assistance through the sickness, and at the death of their beloved mother.   Peace to her ashes.

December 18, 1903

• One of the pioneer settlers of Sliverton, D. Wolfard, died on the 6th he leaves a son of this city, Aubrey Wolfard.
• Louie Comini last week placed a monument over the grave of Mrs. Susan E. Miller, mother of Mrs. J. W. Brock and Mrs. Horace Strong, also one of the Woodman monuments to mark the grave of E. Johnson.

December 25, 1903

• J.C. Roberts, eldest sister of E.G. Barzee of this city, was buried recently in Woodburn.
• J.S. Fish was buried in the Dalles Monday. Death was caused from pneumonia.  To the sorrowing relatives we extended our sincere sympathies.
• Old Gentleman Morrow, father of Mrs. B.W. McCoy of this city, died very suddenly of heart disease at his home in Wasco on the 18th. Deceased was 73 years of age July 4th, 1903. [John Morrow]

January 1, 1904

• P.Disher‘s mother died in Berkeley Springs, W. Va., on the 28th, Harry left for that place on the 24th. Mrs. Disher was an aunt of Geo. N. Crosfield.

January 8, 1904

January 15, 1904

January 22, 1904

• Joseph Sanders, Jr., brother of Mrs. P.W. McDonald, who was so sick in Arlington as to call his sister there to care for him, did not recover. [see December 4, 1903]
• Death came to the relief of John Fredburg, and the burial took place in Moro Friday. To Mr. Fredburg, in his sad troubles, we extended heartfelt sympathy.
• Card of Thanks. I cannot find words wherewith to express my thanks to the kind neighbors and friends who did so much in the endeavor to alleviate the distress of my beloved wife in her sickness and to assuage my sorrow at her death, but I hope and pray that none of them may ever experience my sad fate from such visitation in any of their families.  Very Sincerely, John Fredburg.
• Goffin, Taylor, and Beers amputated a leg for Wm. Robertson at Kent, but the old gentleman could not survive the shock and death followed the operation. Deceased had bruised his foot, and blood poisoning set in.  Mr. Robertson had been a resident of Wasco county since 1864 until 1901, when he moved to this county.  He was 55 years and leaves a family of six children.

January 29, 1904

February 5, 1904

February 12, 1904

• DEATH OF C.N. McCALEB. Drowned In The Icy Waters of The John Day River, While Hunting. N. McCaleb was drowned in the John Day river Wednesday afternoon Feb. 3d, presumably while swimming out from the shore after a wild goose which he had shot.  With Henry Wright, Mr. McCaleb was working on his homestead until about 4 p.m. of the above date, at which time he left camp, saying he wanted to shoot some geese.  Not returning, a search was made for him with the result of finding his horse and gun, a dead goose, and his clothing, which looked as if he had stripped himself while running towards the river, as the garments were scattered from his gun and the goose to near the river’s edge.  Search was kept up for the body, Thursday and Friday, a rope having been stretched across the river to which a boat was secured, with occupants using hooks to drag the bottom of the river,.  By this means the body was found about noon Friday, by Ira Axtell and Roy Hulse.  The remains were brought to Moro and a coroner’s jury, composed of R.J. Ginn, W.B. McCoy, G.W. Brock, A.N. Montgomery, J.M. Dunahoo, and J.B. Mowry, rendered a verdict of accidental drowning.  Opinions differ as to whether deceased took with a cramp or, being over heated, the cold water was too much for his heart action.  Where Mr. McCaleb entered the water to 70 yards below, where his body was found, the depth averages from 5 to 7 feet across the river with a rather heavy current, the water being icy cold.  The remains were taken to Monmouth for interment at which place the parents of Mr. and Mrs. McCaleb reside.  Deceased leaves a wife and child in Moro, and parents in Monmouth to whom, in this hour of trouble, The Observer extends the sympathy of the community. CORONERS INQUEST.   Coroner Ray W. Logan held an inquest over the remains, Friday evening, the jury at which returned a verdict of accidental drowning.  The principal witnesses were Henry Wright and Frank Sayrs. HENRY WRIGHT.  Testified “I have been acquainted with the deceased for over five years.  I went over on the John Day to help him haul lumber for his homestead on Tuesday morning last.  I was working on his homestead all Wednesday forenoon, and in the afternoon, between 4 and 5 o’clock, he took his gun and horse and crossed the John Day river for the purpose of shooting geese.  I heard him shoot several times.  He did not return that night and next morning (Thursday) we searched for him along the river, with the result that his clothing was found near the water’s edge, also his rifle and a dead goose.  We continued our search for him, and early in the afternoon of Friday we found his body in the river.” FRANK SAYRS.  Testified: “I went over to the John Day river to help search for the body as I had heard of his being drowned while goose hunting.  A short time after 11 o’clock this morning Feb. 5th, we found the clothes of the deceased near the river on the Gilliam county side, also his gun, a sweater and a dead goose.  They looked as if he had taken them off before going into the river.  After searching awhile along the river we found the body in the river about 50 feet from the bank, and in about 5 feet of water.  It was about 75 yards below where we found his clothes.  The body had on a pair of drawers and a pair of socks.” Sunday evening Rev. SC Elder preached a memorial sermon in the Presbyterian church, which was a worthy tribute to a worthy man, whose sudden death should be a warning to others not to run into any kind of danger. [Charles N.]

February 19, 1904

• Johny Barnett, son of Jessie Barnett, died near Rutledge on Sunday Feb. 14th, and was buried in Grass Valley the 15th. [John H.]

February 26, 1904

• Sympathies of many Moro friends are extended to Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Holder, at the death of their little son Harry in Prineville, where two other of their children are dangerously ill.

 

• Ben Holt was in Wasco last week. We are pained to hear that he has lost his father, who died in Stockton Sunday, February 14th.

March 4, 1904

• Rebman was called to Eugene last week by the death of his sister, at the home of their parents. Mr. Rebman expected to arrive in time for the funeral though too late to see her before she died.
• Our sympathies are extended to Mr. and Mrs. Henry Flock who lost their little child Interment being at Grass Valley Thursday. [Frock?]

March 11, 1904

• Theron S. Hill, who has for so long been an invalid in Sherman county died peacefully in a Portland hospital, to which he had recently been conveyed for medical treatment.

March 18, 1904

• C. Deyo has been called to Omaha, on account of the death of his mother.
• Miss Mae Rust was called to the Dalles, Monday, by the death of her niece, youngest child of Mrs. Maud
• It was sad news from Kingsley that announced the death of the pretty little baby daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Swift. Burial took place on the 11th.  We extend heartfelt sorrow to our bereaved friends.

March 25, 1904

• Death of A. N. Montgomery. Dr. Guisendorffer of the Dalles and Dr. Taylor of Grass Valley, assisted Dr. Ray W. Logan of this city, in a very critical operation Tuesday in the case of Mrs. A. N. Montgomery.  The patient failed to rally after the operation and death followed Wednesday afternoon, rending one of the happiest homes in Sherman county desolate.  The funeral was held in the M.E. Church yesterday afternoon, attended by a large and a sad gathering of friends and neighbors.  Mrs. Montgomery was the daughter of Hon. W.H. Moore, who is stricken with grief at the sorrowful event.  Deceased is survived by a husband whose  sorrowing heart is buoyed by the tenderest sympathy of all who know him, also by two lovable children, a little girl three years old and a sweet baby daughter, about one month old, little darlings that can never know a mothers’ love.  Mrs. Montgomery was truly a most estimable lady and the community mourns her death. [Mabel Moore]

April 1, 1904

• Death of Miss Mary Peoples. Death claimed another victim in Spokane March 29th, when, after a long and patient suffering with dreaded disease Miss Mary Peoples closed her eyes to everything earthly and entered upon that period of blissful peace allotted to the pure in heart, the faithful christian.  The funeral will take place in Moro ME Church this forenoon, Friday, April 1st, at 10 o’clock, interment in Rose cemetery.  Miss Peoples was a person whose death the whole community mourns, and all extend sympathy in sincerity to the heart broken brother, and others near to him, now bowed in sorrow.
• W. Moore and wife of Grass Valley, and H. A. Moore, wife and son, Harry, of Portland, were in attendance at the funeral of Mrs. A. N. Montgomery, March 24th. Mrs. Moore brought a large number of beautiful lilies and roses from Portland which were used at the sad ceremony.
• At the congregational meeting of Moro Presbyterian church Sunday a very impressive series of resolutions of condolence upon the death of Mrs. Mabel Moore Montgomery were adopted.

April 8, 1904

• In Memoriam. Touching Tribute to the Memory of Miss Mary Peoples. (Communicated.) Leaves have their time to fall, And flowers to wither at the north wind’s breath, And stars to set – but all, Thou hast all seasons for thine own, Oh, Death! The truthfulness of Death’s untimely visitations, as portrayed in the last lines, were never more forcibly felt than when the sad news was flashed over the wires from Spokane last week that Miss Mary Peoples lay cold in the icy embrace of death in that city.  It was not wholly unexpected, but it was hard for her numerous friends to realized the truth of sorrowful announcement. Harder still to think that genial Miss Mary would no longer brighten loving circles in Moro with her presence. Indeed, does Death love a “shining mark,” and such he found in our departed friend.  Her heart, the receptacle of all that was true, noble and good, won for her the love of all who were so fortunate as to know her.  No shadows ever lingered in her presence.  An undercurrent of quiet humor; which she could so well adapt to all circumstances, made sunshine reign wherever she went.  Truly None knew her but to love her, None named her but to praise. The funeral in Moro M. E. Church was a very sad service.  John Evans, assisted by Rev. S. C. Elder conducted the ceremony.  The church was draped in the emblems of mourning with a profusion of cut flowers and potted plants about the altar.  Mesdames McPherson, Bright, Porter and Edgington were among the friends present from Wasco, bringing several choice calla lilies as a last tribute to their departed colaborer in the good work of the WCTU, and kindred organizations.
• A Card of Thanks. By request of Mr. Montgomery and the sorrowing ones stricken with him at the loss of his loving wife, Mrs. Mabel Moore Montgomery, The Observer attempts to return sincere thanks to all the many loving friends who, in the midst of this affliction, did so much to relieve the distress at the death and burial of Mrs. Montgomery. Resolutions of Condolence. Whereas, In the providence of God our beloved sister, Mabel Moore Montgomery, has been called to her heavenly home; Be it Resolved, That we bow in submission to our heavenly fathers will, and out of the darkness may we hear the Master, saying: “What I do thou knowest not now, but thou shall know hereafter.” Resolved, That we bear our testimony to the noble character and consecrated life of the deceased, who, in loyalty to the church, and in devotion to every good work, truly did not live for self, but for the glory of God and for the good of others. Resolved, That while our hearts go in sympathy for the husband and the loved ones in their bereavement, that we also lift up our voices in prayer to God for his sustaining grace and presence in this dark hour of need. Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be kept in the minute book of the church and that they be published in The Observer. Respectively submitted by the committee who were appointed at the congregational meeting of the Presbyterian church, March 27, 1904. Mrs. Bertha Logan, Mrs. Anna Moore, Rev. S. C. Elder.

April 15, 1904

• Isaac Hoover, father of B.F Hoover, of this city and Wasco, died aged 74 years, at his old home in La Porte, Indiana, April 2d, where he has resided continuously for 60 years. Deceased was six years our senior, but we were young men together, and in early days killed wild duck on Teegarden Lake, now the center of La Porte.  He lived a useful life, and is mourned by a very large circle of acquaintances.

April 22, 1904

• It is with the deepest regret that we announce the sad death of H. Kaseberg which occurred on the 16th, at St. Mary’s hospital, in Walla Walla. The funeral, which took place on the 19th, was largely attended.  The cause of death was a very severe attack of appendicitis on the 10th, followed three days later by an operation which he could not survive.  Besides a sorrowing wife and two children he leaves father, mother, three sisters and four brothers, to mourn his untimely death.

April 29, 1904

• Marie M. Goffin took old man St. Clair from Wasco, to The Old Man’s Refuge in Portland, last week where he died on the 23d, of heart disease.
• Andrew Willis died in the Dalles on the 18th, of kidney trouble. He leaves two sons and a daughter, J.W. and Fred Willis and Mrs. Mary Spoonemore.

May 6, 1904

• Our report last week that little Clifford, the smart four year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Williams, Grass valley, had rallied and was better, was most unfortunately based upon incorrect information. He died on the 25th and the funeral took place on the 27th.  It was a sad event, indeed, and our sympathy is extended to the bereaved parents.

May 13, 1904

May 20, 1904

• Hugh Gourley died very peacefully in a bed to which he had gone in apparent good health the night before. What a blessed death.  No one is aware when the summons came.  He was at the home of J.D. Whitten, an old friend of his, and when he retired seemed in good spirits.  He had evidently slept away, as no signs of a struggle were apparent.
• We are pained to announce the death of M. Starnes, which occurred in Salem Monday night.

May 27, 1904

• Memorial Services. Memorial services will be held in Spalding Chapel Sunday May 29th, at 12 M., in memory of M. Starns, whose death in Salem was reported last week.  Deceased made his home in the Hay Canyon settlement many years, and has a very large circle of warm hearted friends living there who consider that suitable tribute should be given, expressive of that sadness felt by the community at the death of an old-time neighbor and esteemed citizen, and also to convey to the family, bereft of its loving father and affectionate companion, a sense of sorrow which is mutual in the hour of bereavement. [copied as it appeared]

June 3, 1904

• Sad Death of Mrs. Nellie Wheat. W. McCoy and wife arrived home Saturday night from the bedside of Mrs. Nellie Wheat, their daughter, in a Portland hospital, but were immediately called back, and left at once by team via Grant.  A relapse had occurred and death followed at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday.  The remains were brought home yesterday, and the funeral will take place this (Friday) morning in Moro M.E. Church.  Rev. Stull, of Grass Valley, who was with them in Portland, will preach the funeral sermon.  Nellie was possessed of a kindly and lovable disposition and was loved and sympathized in her affliction by all who knew her.  She leaves a little daughter with her parents in Moro.

June 10, 1904

June 17, 1904

• We are glad to learn that Mrs. Jane Abraham will be properly cared for by friends in Portland, by who she has long been neglected. –  Since the above was placed in type Mrs. Abraham is dead.   The earthly sorrows of Mrs. Jane Abraham closed in death at Portland June 13.  Peace be to thee, poor woman, whose life teaching is one of christian folly.

June 24, 1904

• S. Amos died in Arizona last week, and the remains were bro’t to Sherman county for burial. Two months ago Mr. Amos left for Arizona anticipating relief from his affliction, consumption, and to be getting along nicely until the sudden news of his death was received.  Mrs. Amos was Miss Jessie McDonald, sister to Mrs. E. O. McCoy, Mrs. G.N. Crosfield and Mrs. J.N. Fordyce.  The funeral was largely attended in Wasco yesterday where Mrs. Amos lives, and where deceased had hosts of friends.  The Observer extends sympathy to the bereaved ones.
• W. Brock was called Hood River Monday by the sudden death of his niece, daughter of J. I. Miller. Miss Miller had driven some visitors staying at their home to the city on their return to their homes Sunday morning, and that evening died.  Stomach trouble is thought to be the cause of her sudden taking away.

July 1, 1904

• Emerson Williams died while passing a night of rest at his home in White Salmon. His wife was paralyzed to find him dead in the morning, as he retired in his usual health.  Williams formerly lived in this county; his brother married the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Erskine.

July 8, 1904

July 15, 1904

• Hadley‘s mother died a short time after W. O. Hadley’s arrival in California.

July 22, 1904

• W. Leonard and wife, accompanied by J. C. Coy, left for the Valley Wednesday with the remains of their adopted son, Ralph Sheldon, who died at their home near Kent, Tuesday, of consumption. Mr. Sheldon had but lately returned from the mountains his health improved so much that hopes were had of his recovery.  The family have the sympathy of a large circle of friends in their trouble.

July 29, 1904

• Fitzmaurice was called to Mayville Monday by a phone message saying his daughter, Mrs. Quinn, had a serious turn for the worse. A message received by the family Wednesday said death came Monday.  The funeral occurring Wednesday.

August 5, 1904

August 12, 1904

August 19, 1904

• Suicide at Kent. At a quarter past eight o’clock Sunday evening Martin Clum walked out of Wiley’s saloon at Kent, crossed the street, drew a pistol and shot himself in the right temple.  Several saw him do the deed and a crowd quickly gathered around him as he lay where he had fallen.  Death was instantaneous and as soon as those present were assured nothing could be done for him the body was carried into the old post office building, where it lay while a messenger was sent for Coroner Logan. On the arrival of the coroner, who was accompanied by Attorney Littlefield, a jury was impaneled, the following verdict being brought in after weighing the evidence in the case; “We the jury impaneled by the Coroner of Sherman county, to ascertain the cause of death of Martin Clum, find that the deceased came to his death as the result of a pistol shot fired by himself with suicidal intent. (Signed) Joseph Walton, Geo. A. Sink, Wm. Rudolf, J.H. Bottemiller, R. W. Montgomery, John J. Schaffer.” Mr. Clum has been a resident of this county, with the exception of a year spent near Prineville, for six years past: first working for Johnson, south of Moro.  For the last two years he has been located at Kent and was under bonds to appear at the next term of the circuit court to answer a charge of robbing a saloon at Kent.  This charge has worried him a good deal and he has often been heard to say that he would commit suicide, but his friends never thought he was serious in the matter until Sunday evening when he committed the rash deed.
• The Last Farewell. William Thomas Tomlin died at the home of his parents in this city Saturday afternoon at 4:27 o’clock and was buried in Moro cemetery from the Methodist Episcopal church at 11 o’clock Sunday morning.  Rev Stull of Grass Valley, officiating at the services. The church was filled by sorrowing and sympathetic friends before the funeral cortege arrived, escorted by Messrs. Henry Whitely, L. Barnum, F. M. Smith, D. Heydt, John Biggerstaff, and W. St Johns who acted as pallbearers.  Several floral wreaths and bouquets were placed on the casket by friends as a last tribute to the deceased. In his remarks Rev. Still called attention to the Christian faith which in the greatest hour of need is always such a staff to sorrowing hearts made heavy by grief, helping them to bear the burden with the hope of meeting beyond.  The text “Now is the Harvest Time,” compared the spiritual harvest with the material harvest; saying some flowers are allowed to ripen and mature while others are plucked and crushed under foot; why, we know not. “Pete” Tomlin, as he was familiarly named by all who knew him, was born in Missouri, October 28, 1878, being 26 years of age when the grim summons came.  He, with his parents, moved to Moro in 1888 and has resided in this vicinity ever since, with the exception of the last two years when he has been working in Morrow county and for Elrod & Moore on their Horse Heaven farm.  He came home the Wednesday before his death suffering from rheumatic fever, but the disease had gained such a hold that it could not be eradicated, running into brain fever, and he gave way under its ravages. Willie was one of the pioneer boys of Moro, went to school here, and has lived to see the town grow from a small hamlet to its present proportion and municipal ownership of public franchisees.  He had up to within three months of his death carried an insurance policy in the AOUW in favor of his mother, but had thoughtlessly let it lapse.  He was a good boy, a kind comrade, a dutiful and loving son.  He faced much promise of a useful life, but was cut down, as is the beautiful flower, ere fruitage time had come.  Such a boy will be missed and to those who will miss him most The Observer extends the sympathy of the entire community in their hour of sorrow.
• Card of Thanks. We desire to thank all the people of this vicinity, through the columns of the Sherman County Observer, for the many acts of kindness and sympathy shown us during our recent bereavement.  James Tomlin and Family.
• Louis Comini was in Moro this week on a delicate mission. Engravings were placed by him on the monuments marking the last resting place of Helen Moore and J.M. Powell in Moro cemetery and Miss Mary Peoples in Rosewood [Rose Hill] cemetery east of Moro.

August 26, 1904

• Calkin was called to Ione Tuesday by the death of his daughter-in-law.
• R.J. Ginn who so recently returned from the wedding of his sister, Miss Minerva Ginn, was suddenly called to Walla Walla Monday by the accidental death of her husband, H. F. Haley. Mr. Haley was a brake man on the O.R.N. Ry. near that city and in the pursuit of his vocation was riding on the foot board of an engine backing up to do switching.  In some manner while signaling to the engineer Mr. H. fell and was run over by the tender before it could be stopped, the wheels severing the right leg at the hip.  The unfortunate man was conscious from the time of the accident until anesthetics were given at the hospital but he never recovered from its effects, the loss of blood and the shock to the system having been too great.  Mrs. Haley, them Miss Ginn, visited in Moro last year and has a number of friends here who are shocked at the loss sustained by her.

September 2, 1904

September 9, 1904

• The Watts Marble Works of The Dalles has erected a family monument at Rose cemetery on the James family plot to commemorate the last resting place of G. E. James.
• Monuments were placed in Moro cemetery by the Watts Marble Works over the last resting place of Lewis Ireland, son of F.C. Ireland, and Merrill brother of Mrs. E. Peoples.
• Died at Moro, Saturday, Sept. 3d, 1904, Richard Herman, 5 months old son of Mr. and Mrs. Herman Steidel. The baby had been ailing by a day when a doctor was seen to be necessary he was to Moro by the parents, but died just as the doctor was called, congestion of the lungs being the immediate cause of death.  The funeral was held at Kent.  The Observer extends the sympathy of the community to the parents in the untoward circumstances of the taking away of their little one.  [Wilcox/Observer cemetery]
• Mr. and Mrs. Steidel’s infant son died last Saturday and was buried in the Kent cemetery; they have the sympathy of their many friends.

September 16, 1904

September 23, 1904

September 30, 1904

• M.F.S. Hinten was buried in Grass Valley cemetery on the 27th. On the same day A. Coon, a pioneer of this county, was buried in the same city.  Both were very highly esteemed people, and their mourning relatives have the sympathy of many friends in their great loss. [Annie Bell Henton]   [Adelbert Coon]

October 7, 1904

• In Memoriam. Annie Bell Henton, daughter of Major L and Alice White, was born January 20th, 1868, at Marincie, Lenawee county, Mich.  Her mother died when she was but a small child and her father had her cared for as best he could until he was married the second time.  The family moved to Oregon in 1874, making their home at Corvallis, Albany and Independence in the Willamette valley. She was married to Rev. M. F. S. Henton, at her father’s residence, in Independence, Polk county, Oregon, September 12th, 1888.  They resided in Polk county until they moved to Sherman county, reaching here May 2, 1894, where they have since made their home. By this union there were seven children, viz: Dora Agnes, Edna Alice, Wiley Logan, Ray Fuller, Amos Omar, Nettie Eunice and Cassie Esther, who with her husband survive her.  Mrs. H. was converted, which to her was a real experience, at the age of 17, and united with the Methodist.  In April, 1890, she united with the Baptist church and was baptized by her husband.  She remained in fellowship with this denomination to the time of her death. Mrs. Henton was unassuming in her manner yet made lasting friends on every hand, she was a devoted wife, a model mother, a good temperance and Sunday school worker, an excellent singer, and an earnest consecrated Christian.  She manifested great patience and an unshaken confidence in her Saviour during her illness.  She realized every thing to the last, calling her loved ones to her bed side only short time before she died, biding them good bye and telling them she was going where Jesus was. After an illness of about one year, with consumption, she departed this life, September 26th, 1904, in Grass Valley, Oregon, at the age of 36 years, 8 months and 6 days. The funeral was preached in the Baptist church by Rev. Wm. Nortridge, from 2d Timothy, 4th chapter, 6th and 8th verses, after which the body was interred in the Odd Fellows Cemetery.  She leaves her husband and children, two brothers and two sisters, a number of relatives and a host of friends to mourn her loss.
• The little one born to Mr. and Mrs. J.K. Craig in Antelope, was taken from them by death on the 29th. The Herald says the sad parents have the deep sympathy of the community in the loss of this little one, whose appearance in their home less than two weeks before promised them so much happiness.

October 14, 1904

October 21, 1904

• An unknown made his end of miss spent life at Rufus this week, a suicide, by hanging.

October 28, 1904

• W.H. Goetjen, who was taken to the Dalles hospital for treatment, died there, and was buried in Grass Valley cemetery. Her death is particularly sad, since but three months have elapsed since she was married to the companion who now mourns her loss.  [Annie A.]

November 4, 1904

November 11, 1904

November 18, 1904

• Smith, of Dufur, sister of Mrs. C. L. Ireland, had a relapse Tuesday, and Mrs. Ireland again went over to Dufur with the children, hoping against fate. Mrs. Smith is one of Dufur’s victims of Typhoid fever.
• The Grim Reaper. Death visits the home of W.D. Smith of Dufur.  Death in any form is sad.  But when it comes as it did in Dufur, Tuesday evening, and removes the mother of four little ones of tender age it is more than sad.  Tamar Smith, sister of Mrs. Laura Thomas Ireland, was stricken with typhoid, and while the physicians, nurses, and relatives thought she would recover, and Mrs. Ireland returned to Moro Tuesday, the final message came at 8 pm and Leonard and Laura left early Wednesday to aid the stricken father in his sorrow, and make arrangements for the funeral rites.  Alas: When the parted streams of life Join beyond all jarred strife, And the flowers that withered lay Blossom in immortal May — When the voices hushed and dear Thrill once more the raptured ear, We shall feel and know and see God knew better far than we.

November 25, 1904

• In Memoriam. Intensely Sad Ceremonials at the Burial of Mrs. Smith. Mrs. Tamar Thomas Smith, whose sad death in Dufur was reported in The Observer last week, was buried from Moro M.E. church Wednesday evening, November 17th, the remains having been conveyed by teams, accompanied by sorrowing friends, over a long, tedious drive from Dufur.  Friends in Moro had decorated the chancel for the occasion, and assisted by Rev. Evans and a full choir in harmony with the surroundings Rev. Adams delivered an eloquent sermon.  Smith leaves a husband, Wm D. Smith, and four children here, a father, Samuel Thomas, and sister, Mrs. Charles Anderson, at Randall, Minnesota, sister, Mrs. Laura Ireland, at Moro, and a brother, Frank Thomas, at Little Falls, Minnesota, to mourn her death. Mrs. Smith was born August, 1872, near Mt. Brydges, Ontario, Canada, moving when young with her parents to Minnesota, where she grew to womanhood.  She was married at Little Falls, Minnesota, to W.D. Smith, July 2, 1892, they continuing to reside in that state until their removal this year.  Though a resident of Dufur but a short time, Mrs. Smith endeared herself to a large number of friends, who were painfully shocked at her untimely demise, and they extend their sympathy to the sorrowing relatives. Speak not of death, Nor count that loss Which plucks from earth A flower to bloom in Heaven. * * * * Birth is a mystery, Life gives no one its key, But this grim messenger, This ceaseless wanderer. What does he call us to When we are gone? What brings he to our view. — Sunset or dawn?
• Addie Thompson, brother of Mrs. N.W. Thompson, died of typhoid on the 18th, in Brandon, Manitoba hospital. W Thompson left for Portland Wednesday to assist the parents in making arrangements for the funeral. [Adam L.]

December 2, 1904

• The death of W. Payne was not unexpected.  He has long been a sufferer.  His brother Frank and other of the family and friends, did all that was possible to restore his health.  [George W.]
• The remains of Adam Thompson, whose death in Manitoba we reported last week, were brought to Sherman county and buried from the farm of N.W. Thompson Sunday; interment at Rose cemetery. [Adam L.]
• and Mrs. Angus Kuks attended the remains of Addie Thompson, with N. W. and others from Portland, accompanied by the parents of Wm. Thompson.

December 9, 1904

• W. McDonald Dead. P.W. McDonald answered Death’s Summons in the Dalles Sunday, and the funeral was held in Wasco, 7th, many Sherman county friends and neighbors attending.  All of his suffering are now at an end.  His loss throws a pall over the settlement where he has lived so many years, with great open heart and hand, ever ready to relieve distress of others, and many mourn with his sorrowing family in sincere affection.  Well might our generous friend have said with the poet – Good night, old world.  Good bye to all your joys, Your sorrows, pleasures, passions, pomps and noise. I leave you for the eternal silence of the stars — The deafness of unbounded space, where bars No longer hold the soul in durance vile. Where naught can wound and nothing can defile. There the pure spirit shall despise the things The sense on earth hath loved. On wings Bathed in the ether of eternity — How sweet to feel from every passion free! And yet — it is an awful leap to take Into the great unknown!  Perchance to wake To greater woes, indeed, than those we have And hoped to bury in the silent grave.  [Patrick William buried in Catholic Cemetery, The Dalles, OR.  Born May 10, 1857 in Cork Co., Ireland.  Died December 4, 1904 at the age of 47 years, 7 months and 24 days.  Married  Bertha Ellen (Sanders) on November 28 1895 in Sherman County; four children were born to this union — Kathleen Maxine; Joseph Ralph; William Bryon and John Patrick]
• Clarence Merchant died of quick consumption at Kent Sunday night, and was buried Tuesday. She was a popular person in the neighborhood.

December 16, 1904

• The body of Theodore Liebe, who died at the home of his brother Judge Liebe in Dalles city last week, was taken to Portland where it was interred in Riverview cemetery. His wife, who was at his bedside when he died, a son, Henry, from Pendleton, Mrs. and Mrs. G. A. Liebe and daughter, and Theodore Liebe, accompanied the remains.
• Ebert Coyle, a brother to Loren and Thomas Coyle of Grass Valley, committed suicide at the farm of T.H. Fraser, a few miles east of Moro, Sunday afternoon by shooting himself in through the mouth. Coyle had been making his home at the farm for the past few days and at the time when he committed the deed was alone.  Mr. Teal was the first to find the body – he going to the farm that afternoon to see the man who has the place rented from Mr. Fraser.  Not finding anyone at the house he went to the barn where he discovered the body which was taken to Grass Valley Monday where funeral services were held, Mr. Coyle’s mother and sisters attending from the family home in Lebanon.
• A. Nicholsen of Boyd, was called to Pennsylvania last week on account of the sickness and death of a brother there. He will remain in the east until spring.

December 23, 1904

January 6, 1905

• G. Barzee returned to Tangent last week on account of the illness of his mother. Death occurred on the 30th and the funeral was attended Jan. 1st.  Mrs. Barzee was 72 years of age, an Oregon pioneer, very highly respected by all who knew her.
• The death of Frank Swift in Boise city January 2nd, is reported. The Dalles Eagles took charge and gave him Christian burial at Wamic.
• and Mrs. N.W. Thompson did not decorate the Christmas tree sent them by the W. R. L. Co., on account of the death of Mrs. Thompson’s brother, who would have spent Christmas with them at home if he had lived.

January 13, 1905

January 20, 1905

• We are sorry to hear that death has removed a promising young daughter from the family of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Vanlandingham. The funeral took place yesterday, in Grass Valley.  Miss Alice was a very charming little girl, about 14 years of age, and the stricken parents have the sincere sympathies of hosts of friends.

January 27, 1905

• Journal: Mr. and Mrs. McGrath’s little baby died at 8 o’clock on the 16th, and was taken to the Moro cemetery for interment. The services were conducted by Rev. Henton.  The little child had been in poor health for some time. [Jessie,  child of the W.B. McGraths]
• Burned to Death. Monday evening little Max, the baby son of Mr. and Mrs. Ora Elliott was burned so badly that death came to his release about 2 am. Tuesday.  The funeral was attended Wednesday morning by many sympathizing friend of the sorrowing family.  At the time of the sad event Mrs. Elliott had just stepped out for some wood when she saw flames in the dining room and rushed in and found the little fellow enveloped in fire.  She at once carried him to the faucet and managed to put out the flames severely burning her own hands in the attempt to save her baby.  Logan and Miss Stampher of St. Vincent’s hospital, were at once summoned and did all in their power to relieve the little sufferer but in vain.  The little fellow was severely burned on his entire left side, more seriously on his left hand and face, and had inhaled the fire in his frantic attempts to get away from it.  The sympathy of all is extended to the stricken family.  [Maxil]

February 3, 1905

• Death came to Clem S. Campbell, Saturday, at his home on what is known as the Pierson place purchased by him and his half brother, Mr. J.M. Allen, in 1895, when they came to this county from Centerville. Mr. Campbell was unmarried, but he leaves a large circle of acquaintances to mourn the departure of a kind neighbor, a generous, loyal and patriotic citizen.  Peace to his ashes.

February 10, 1905

February 17, 1905

• Grass Valley Journal — The little 4-year old son of Mr. and Mrs. O.C. Eakin, of Rutledge, died on the 3d. The parents have the sympathy of all. [Otis Robert]
• An infant son of Mr. and Mrs. W.J. Martin, died in Douglas on the 13th, two days old. Interment in Moro on the 16th.  The attendance of sympathizing friends at the grave was quite  [Leroy]
• An infant child of Rev. Allen, of Wasco was buried on the 10th.
• Word reaches this city from Eldorado, Calif., that E. McElwin died at that place recently of heart trouble. He left Sherman county for that place about six months ago; persecuted, and driven from home in most terrible, unfeeling manner.
• In Memoriam. At a meeting of Lupine Rebekah No. 116 the following resolutions were unanimously adopted: Whereas, The Angel of Death has visited the home of Brother and Sister Elliott and taken their darling child to Him who has said “Of such is the Kingdom of Heaven” Whereas, Being temporarily bereft of the jewel of their home, we would point them to the home above where they may go to claim their own, and where parting is no more. Therefore, be it resolved, 1. That while we bow with humble submission to the will of the Father, we mourn with our brother and sister in their sad bereavement.2. That the heartfelt sympathy of the entire order be extended to them. 3. That a copy of these resolutions be sent to the sorrowing parents, a copy be spread upon the minutes of the lodge, and a copy be sent to The Observer for publication.~ Maggie Strahl, Jessie Moore, Maggie Peoples, Committee.

February 24, 1905

• A.J. Adams was called to Milton Sunday, by the unexpected death of his little grandson. Mr. A. had just returned from Milton, where Mrs. Adams has been for some time, and at the time he left for Moro the baby had a severe cold, but not considered dangerous by the doctors.
• In Memoriam. We have been called upon to write some expression of the feelings of thankfulness actuating the hearts of our friends, Mr. and Mrs. W.J. Martin, to those who so generously extended the helping hand and the tender sympathy, at the death and burial of their infant, Roy.  What pathos there is, surrounding the birth, the life, the death and burial of that sweet little innocent, all in less than one week.  His birth occasioned much rejoicing, but so brief its life, ending so gloomily that it racked and distracted the families in two counties.  Baby Roy was a child of much more than ordinary promise.  But the key to the riddle of his life, could he have lived, is safely hidden away, like the little garment he was clothed with, unfolding only memories of his bright little existence, and that last beseeching look as he sank away to his final rest, so pure, so loved. — How sweeter than words that the Angels say, is the Love that lives forever,  “He rests in God.” “Tis all we heed, The mold’ring stone reveals no more. “In God.” Of other words what need?  These span the broad eternal shore.  Sleep on, sleep on, thou pulseless heart  Where jasmine stars drop golden rain, From every troubled thought apart, Forgotten every earthly pain.  Sleep on, thy long repose is sweet, Tender and cool the grassy sod.  O, trav’ler; stay thy hurrying feet —  Step softly here.  “He rests in God.”
• Gus Porchet was called to Portland to attend the funeral of his sister, who died Saturday. The young man has the sympathy of many friends in this vicinity.

March 3, 1905

• A very happy life of 73 years closed on the 26th by the death of a good old lady, Lydia Lynes, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. J.A. Smith, six miles south of Moro. The family were recently from the Willamette valley, and the remains were taken to Jefferson for burial.  One of the greatest losses any family suffers is the removal from its midst of the good old mother who have come in and out among children with their sweet kindly faces and old-fashioned ways, and to who all looked for counsel for so many years.  Such a one was called to her eternal rest at the death of Mrs. Lynes.  To the bereaved ones we tender our sympathies.

March 10, 1905

• Grandpa Vinton, long and well known in this country, died in Portland on the 3d, aged 75 years. The funeral was largely attended on the 5th.  He leaves a large family of grown sons and daughters, Mrs. Rutledge of this city being one of them, to mourn his departure, all of who have the sympathy of a wide circle of acquaintances in their sorrow.  Upon the loss of such a father; how precious the thought — There is no death!  The stars go down To rise upon some fairer shore, And bright in heaven’s jeweled crown They shine forevermore. There is no death!  But angle forms Walk o’er the earth with silent tread; They bear our best loved things away, And then we call them dead.
• Alma M. Patterson, mother of Mrs. C.A. Buckley, died on the 4th in her 75th year. The funeral occurred in Grass Valley Sunday, and the remains were taken to Portland Monday for interment.
• A little child of Thos. Striker was buried in the Brock school house settlement Monday, and another coffin was sent off by Mr. Peoples for a child of Mr. Malay [Maloy?] in the Sink neighborhood, whose mother recently died. This little one, only 18 months old, died of consumption.

March 17, 1905

March 24, 1905

March 31, 1905

• In Loving Remembrance. We are pained to record the sudden death from an accident, of Adrian, the intelligent and pretty little son of J.W. and Katie Engberg, at the farm near Blalock on the 24th.  The little fellow was riding his pony, which stepped into a badger hole, giving him such a wrench that his neck was broken.  The funeral took place at The Dalles Catholic church Monday morning.  Friends from Sherman county who attended the funeral were: Mr. and Mrs. Wm. O”Sullivan, Miss Frankie Parsons, Messrs. J.L. Blalock, W.L. McCaleb, C.C. Clark, A.N. Montgomery, Dennis Roach, W.T. Sylvester and Mrs. Wallis.  Adrian was nearly 9 years of age, and was a very promising boy.  We do most sincerely mourn with the stricken ones, for Adrian was so noble, so pure, but: It matters not the time When we shall end our pilgrimage here below; Whether in youths’ bright morn, or manhoods’ prime; Or when the frost of age has whitened o’er our brow. Snatched from a world of woe, When they must suffer most who longest dwell, Adrian vanished like a flake of early snow That meets into the sea, pure as from heaven it fell.
• and Mrs. Wm. O’Sullivan of Kent passed through Wednesday, from attending the sad funeral of little Adrian Engberg, at The Dalles. Mrs. O’Sullivan and Mrs. Engberg are sisters.

April 7, 1905

• Sarah Gilmore, mother of Mrs. John Fulton, died at her home at Granddalles, recently, aged 57 years. She had been an invalid for several years, a victim of consumption, and was taken suddenly worse.

April 14, 1905

• Alice B. Nelson, wife of Mr. N. living near De Moss, died Monday morning, after a long, lingering illness. The funeral occurred at the home of the family, interment at Rose cemetery.
• Susan Steiwer, mother of H.W.W. Steiwer, of Fossil, died on the 5th at her home in Salem aged 74 years. In 1843 with her parents she crossed the plains from Missouri, staying with Dr. Whitman at the trading post of Walla Walla during the winter, and in the spring settled in the valley.
• Harry Lanphear Word was received in Moro Thursday that Harry Lanphear had been so seriously injured by the kick of a horse at Blanchard, Iowa, that his life was almost despaired of.  His brother and sisters here were informed immediately and began preparations to go at once to Iowa, but before they could start, on the first train out, another dispatch told of the death of Mr. Lanphear, and they abandoned the trip.  No further particulars could be obtained, until due process of mail. [related to James Woods who is buried at Moro]
• Death of Mrs. Yates. Phil Yates death in confinement at Wasco last Monday, was and event which touches they sympathies of the whole community.  Mrs. Yates was Miss Martha Molesworth and a most bright and promising member of society, lovable and attractive, the life of the home circle, and especially among the school children was she a popular favorite.  To the sorrow stricken husband and bereaved relatives we extend our sincere sympathy.  God be with them in their sadness.  Remember: Life is real: life is earnest: And the grave is not its goal: Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul. The funeral services were conducted by Rev. Monroe in Wasco M.E. Church which was filled to its fullest capacity by sympathizing friends and relatives.  Interment in Masonic cemetery April 11th.
• The three year old son of Chas. Hoggard of Rufus, was buried in Wasco Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Hull, Miss Hull and Mrs. Underwood, are guests of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Hoggard.

April 21, 1905

• Elizabeth, an Indian woman who rendered the white people and Dr. Whitman, great service in the troublesome pioneer days of Eastern Oregon, died at the Umatilla agency recently. Elizabeth and her father staid with the terror-stricken survivors of the massacre of November 29th, 1847, until they were rescued, twice saving them from the tomahawk.  In 1873 Elizabeth was offered a comfortable home by survivors in Clatsop county, but she never would sever the bonds of her tribal relations even for a visit to Clatsop.
• Lane of Kent, was buried on Observer Farm this week. His death was the result of consumption contracted by taking a very severe cold.
• The accident which caused the death of Harry Lanphear, in Iowa, occurred some two weeks before any news of it reached Oregon. The horse kicked him in the bowels.

April 28, 1905

• Thomas Powell, brother of the late J.M. Powell, died of heart trouble at his home near Prineville on the 21st, aged 55 years. He leaves a wife and three children.

May 5, 1905

• In Memoriam. Thomas F. Cochran, was born in Noble county, Ohio, November 16th, 1847.  While yet a young man he united with the United Brethren church.  He enlisted in Co. F. 4th Iowa Infantry Feb. 1st, 1864, and served to the close of the war, being severely wounded at the battle of Resaca, Georgia, July 19th, 1864, from the effects of which he suffered to the time of his death.  He was married to Miss Angelina Corsan, at Western College, Linn county Iowa, March 12th, 1868.  To this union four children were born, Martin L., Eli C., Benajah T. and Rosa H.  In the summer of 1887 he removed to Sherman county, locating on a farm near Moro, where he died Saturday, April 29th, 1905, aged 57 years, 5 months and 14 days.  Comrade Cochrane joined W. T. Sherman Post No. 4, Grand Army of the Republic, July 10th, 1891, and served the post as chaplain for the last 11 years. — Card of Thanks.  I wish to thank all the friends and neighbors, The G. A. R. especially for their kindness during the late illness and death of my husband.  T. F. Cochran.
• Death came to relief of Father Cochran Saturday afternoon. The funeral was held in Moro M. E. Church Monday.  Interment in Moro cemetery.  Deceased was a veteran of the civil war.
• J.M. Axtell, died and was buried this week. She had been a long time sick, “nigh unto death;” and it seems doubly sad to give her up; but it was impossible to save her; and her friends and relatives must become reconciled to the inevitable.  Our sympathies are extended to them in their affliction.
• Dora, eldest daughter of Rev. M.F.S. Henton, lived in Tucson, Arizona, where she died of consumption on the 21st ultimo.

May 12, 1905

• Leonard Hathaway, who spent last summer here with his son Isaac, died at his home in Iowa May 7th.
• In Memoriam. Tribute to the Memory of Mrs. J. M. Axtell, Deceased.    Fannie I, daughter of John Knox and Nancy E. Black, born in Mercer county, Pennsylvania, November 11th, 1854, moved with her parents to Page county, Iowa, d. 1870.  Married to J.M. Axtell, December 24th, 1875.  Moved to the present home of the family, Sherman county, Oregon, in the spring of 1901. There were born to this union six children, all sons, four of whom are still living to mourn with the loving husband and father, the departure of wife and mother, who passed to her reward May 2d, 1905.  One sister and two brothers remain to await the call from the Master to the grand reunion of the family on the golden shore of the beautiful river.  Sister Fannie was a child of the covenant, uniting with the Presbyterian church at the age of 14 years.  After two score years of devoted service to the great head of the church militant, she is called to a higher, brighter, and better service in the church triumphant. Her devoted life of loving service to husband, children, relatives and friends, is only known and appreciated by her most intimate friends.  She is not dead to these, “Only gone before;” entered into that rest we would not break into by recalling her.  She has entered into that house “not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.”  When this earthly house of her tabernacle was dissolved she found “no dark river there to bar the way into those mansions prepared by Him whom she meekly followed, and whom she now sees, “face to face.”  “Saved by grace” was while here, and will be here theme throughout the ceaseless ages of eternity. We bow in submission to the will of Him who doeth all things well, anticipating the glad time when we with her having come up through great tribulation, and having our robes washed and made white in the blood of the Lamb, shall enter into the promised rest of the children of God.    Brother. — Card of Thanks.  We desire to hereby tender our sincere and heartfelt thanks to the friends who, in so many ways, and so cheerfully, ministered to our wants all through the sickness, and at the death and burial of our beloved wife and mother.  May the promised reward of our common Lord, be abundantly yours.  J. M. Axtell and children.
• Bell, aged 65 years, died suddenly at Judge Bennett’s last week. He was a former Sherman county laborer.  Little is known of his life or his people.  He left $1,400 in Portland banks, and had $70 in his pockets when he died.  Judge B. will make every effort possible to locate relatives and until every means of discovery have been exerted the body will be held.

May 19, 1905

• The mother of Hon. R. J. Ginn died on the 16th from the affliction reported last week. Ginn was with her at death.

May 26, 1905

• The Dalles’ Chronicle: Learning that Pat Bell, who died at the Bennett house ten days ago, had worked for Frank Paine [Payne] at Rutledge,  Coroner Burgett wrote to him for information concerning Bell, whose body has been held in hope of finding relatives.  An answer received said that the last Paine knew of Bell was on April 18th, when he brought him to Grass Valley from his place and Bell came on down here.  He further said that Bell told him he had no relatives in the United States and he said he knew the man received no letters whatever while he was in his employ.

June 2, 1905

June 9, 1905

• Deeds are now ready for lots in Rose Hill cemetery. The grounds are all fenced in, platted, and will be attended to in a way denoting memories of the dead.

June 16, 1905

• Hiram Donley‘s father died in Portland recently from a complication of diseases, chiefly paralysis.
• Mary A. Hinman, died on the 7th at the home of her daughter Mrs. Esther Robinson, aged 72 years. Her death will make many sad hearts.  To the sorrowing family we extended heartfelt sympathy.
• Friends of Mr. and Mrs. A.B. Wolford will regret to learn of another unfortunate incident in the family, the loss of their little boy Charley, at Silverton, June 10th.

June 23, 1905

• News was received by Mrs. J.H. Sachs this week of the death of her sister Maggie, from typhoid, on the 9th, at a hospital in Nelson, B.C.

June 30, 1905

• W. Curl, a pioneer of Oregon of the trail of 1847 was buried in Grass Valley on the 24th. Mr. Curl was 76 years of age, a resident of this county 20 years.  He is survived by an aged wife and seven children Dr. A.M. Curl of Idaho, James, of Spangle; R.H. and L.M. of Linn county, Mrs. Gleasing and Mrs. E. F. Heath.  [Caleb W.]
• Lewis Lockwood, husband of Mrs. Workman’s sister, met a terrible death at a steam mill where he was working in Vancouver, on the 10th. Escaping steam from a bursted pipe literally cooked him alive, but he lived in agony for 12 hours.  Wortman was notified, and was present at the burial.

July 7, 1905

July 14, 1905

July 21, 1905

July 28, 1905

• Eddie Howell was called home Sunday on account of the illness and death of his baby. Dave Walton took his place on the Shaniko-Biggs run.

August 4, 1905

August 11, 1905

• Adam Holder, one of the pioneer citizens of Oregon, and a long time resident of Grass Valley, Sherman county, died at his home of paralysis on the 3d was buried on the 4th. His suffering the last three days of life was intense.  Deceased was 79 years of age.  He leaves a wife and two sons, ex-Sheriff Wm. Holder of Paisley, and Luther Holder of Grass Valley.  In the early days of Benton county we knew Mr. Holder as one of the most energetic and enthusiastic men in the Corvallis community.  Always foremost in enterprises calculated for public good, and generally amongst the “shorn lambs” when dividends should be declared.  But he never flinched in good works.  Peace to his ashes.

August 18, 1905

August 25, 1905

September 1, 1905

• A. Happold, son of Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Happold, was taken from Bigelow to The Dalles recently for medical treatment for typhoid fever, died in the hospital there last week. He was a very promising young man, aged 19 years.

September 8, 1905

September 15, 1905

• A farmer named W. Chastian, living on J. Harvey Smith’s farm, which he had leased in company with W. E. Garrett, suicided Sunday by shooting himself, under dread of sending his demented little daughter to the asylum.  Dr. Logan held a coroner’s inquest and the jury returned a verdict in accordance with the facts.  Deceased was a widower and the little motherless and fatherless girl was taken to the asylum Wednesday.  [Joseph W.]

September 22, 1905

• Ex-Sheriff T. R. McGinniss has received news of the death of his mother in Iowa, on the 14th, aged 82 years. McGinniss was with her a month, recently, and the sad event was anticipated. [McGinnis]

September 29, 1905

October 6, 1905

• The Pacific Northwest. Evening Journal.  The body of Roswell C. Judson was taken east last night for burial at Farmington, Minnesota, the family home, where one of his sons still resides.  The widow, and Frank Judson and family of Omaha, accompanied the remains.  A funeral service was held at the First Presbyterian church and was largely attended.  Rev. Edgar P. Hill spoke and special music was given.  The casket was banked with floral tributes.  The pall was borne by W.E. Coman, Paul Shoup, G.W. Glines, A. McCorquodale, Frank F. Wamsley and W. D. Skinner, all attached to the local traffic department of the Harriman lines.

 

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Sherman County Observer
Wasco, Sherman County, Oregon

 The following are the death notices and obituaries contained within the pages of the Sherman County Observer, on the microfilm roll containing the issues from October 13, 1905 to November 17, 1911.

October 13, 1905

October 20, 1905

• John Donohue, formerly of Kent, was burned so bad that she died recently in Hood river valley.

October 27, 1905

• McCornack’s Funeral. The Journal thus refers to the funeral of Mrs. Edna Moody-McCornack had in Salem Sunday, Oct. 15th.  “We can but pay our tributes to the mortal, the loved form, that we poor finite can but recognize as the representative of that we cannot understand  — the spirit, soul, presence, life what you will.  So it was yesterday, when the body of Edna Moody – McCornack was laid away with tender hands, and bidden farewell with tear-dimmed eyes and hearts too full for words.  The services were held at the family residence, Rev. P.S. Knight reading the burial service and paying a loving tribute to the beauty and character that was no more.  Masses of bloom, tributes of affection covered the casket, and later the grave.  Lilies, typical if purity, and roses, white and fragrant as was the life of her whose closed eyes and silent lips lay so still beneath them.  Her immediate relatives, who were at the graveside, were beside her husband, her father and mother Ex-Governor Moody and wife; Ex-Congressman M.A. Moody, Attorney Ralph A., Will C., engaged in the warehouse business in The Dalles, and Zenus Moody, at present railroading in Southern Oregon.  Many were present from The Dalles, where Mrs. McCornack grew to womanhood, to testify their love and appreciation.  She was the youngest of a family of five, and, being the only girl, was worshipped by her brothers.”
• Wilber Benson died in Moscow hospital of typhoid fever on the 23d. His brother Roy was with him when he died, and brought the body home with him where interment was made on the 26th.

November 3, 1905

• Funeral Thanks. Etta Young, mother of W. B. Benson, whose funeral occurred in Moro last week, desires us to return thanks of herself and family for many attentions shown on this sad event.  In this case the holy words “in the midst of life we are in death,” has a double meaning, as the young man had no warning, death coming upon suddenly.  Deceased was born in California February 26^th, 1884.  There was a large attendance at the funeral, including a number of his schoolmates, school having closed a half a day for this purpose. Bless the dead! Their good, half choked by this world’s weeds. Is blooming now in heavenly meals, And ripening golden fruit of all those early seeds. Immortal dead! Ye in our lot are fixed as fate, And man or angel is too late To beckon back by prayer one chance upon your stats.

November 10, 1905

• McClesky, sister of Mrs. H.O. Shugart, arrived Sunday, from Cascade Locks to be at the bedside of the invalid, who now seems to be gaining her strength. The little baby boy died, and was buried on the 5th.
• Greenleaf is in the hospital under treatment for cancer. Said to be a very serious case.

November 17, 1905

• Laura May, infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T.W. Bland, of Prineville, was buried in this city on the 10th, Rev. Cook officiating at the grave. The little one died as the parents were traveling from the coast and the parents request us to return their thanks to the good people of Moro for the aid and sympathy extended to them in their sorrow.  [Place of Burial Unknown]

November 24, 1905

• Poor Uncle Bill Kelsey, aged and blind, has been bereft of his good wife, whose death occurred last week in Shaniko.
• Greenleaf was not expected to live out the day last Sunday as Mr. G. informed us in The Dalles.

December 1, 1905

• Death relieved Greenleaf on the 21st. Burial was at Trout Lake.

December 8, 1905

• J. H. Landry was called to Milton last week because of the sickness of her father. Death came and the funeral was attended on Thanksgiving day.

December 15, 1905

December 22, 1905

December 29, 1905

• W. H. Biggs’ funeral and the funeral of Merchant Webber and Miss Johnson, marred the pleasures of holiday week in our sister city, Wasco. Mrs. Biggs’ death occurred in Portland.  [Martha Ellen Biggs]  [Emil August Edwin Webber]  [Mary E. Johnson]
• Death darkened the portals of the Wm. N. Froebe home in New Mexico Dec 18th, at which time Froebe died. The funeral was attended by a host of sorrowing friends in Silver City on the 20th, and now the home of our friend is dark and lonely.  Mrs. F. has been suffering from consumption for several years. [Nancy Catherine]

January 5, 1906

• Kent died in the Dalles hospital. The remains were taken to Michigan for interment. [Adda Honsoh]
• C. Long, an old-timer living near Klondike, was reported dead on the 29th. He had a brother in Iowa. [Nelson C.]

January 12, 1906

January 19, 1906

January 26, 1906

• and Mrs. W. H. Turner, accompanied by Mrs. Wm. Currie, mother of Mr. Turner, departed homeward from Moro Tuesday on a very sad mission.  They came down from home Monday with the little babe of Mr. Turner for medical treatment, but the darling was past recovery and died at the hotel that night.  The stricken family request us to return their heartfelt thanks to all who so willingly aided them, during the sickeness and death of their little treasure.

February 2, 1906

• A dead Indian was found floating in the Columbia Sunday near Rufus. There remains were in bad condition, showing that corpse had been in the water a long time.

February 9, 1906

February 16, 1906

• N. Frost, one of those killed in the ORN smash at Troutdale on the 7th was an uncle to G.M. Frost of Moro, en route to Scio from Walla Walla.
• John McNulty died in The Dalles on the 9th, aged 76 years. He was a steam boat captain of the Oregon Steam Navigation Co. on the Celilo Dalles run in the early days.
• The funeral of Laura N. Roberts, of Colfax, Wash., who died at San Diego last week, was held in Portland. Mrs. Roberts was a sister of Mrs. Rohr, mother of G.L. at The Villa.  Mrs. Roberts was 60 years old.  Her father, Henry Miller, was a well-known Oregon pioneer.  He husband was John Roberts, son of a pioneer missionary. [Rohr Villa, a home on the Deschutes River, later called the Harris place, west of Moro.]
• and Mrs. Cotton Morrow of Wasco, lost their little three year old child this week. [Louis Monroe]
• Olaf Lieum, a brother of Mrs. S. H. Baker, died in Grass Valley on the 8th, aged 16 years. The remains were sent to North Dakota for interment. [Lium]
• Gibson was reported as rapidly nearing the end of her life Tuesday. She has long been a patient sufferer from disease of the spine.  Death came to her relief Wednesday evening at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Fred Messinger, in this city.  [Juliet]

February 23, 1906

• A large funeral attended the burial of Mrs. Gibson on the 16th from Moro M. E. church. Sermon by Rev. Tonkins.
• Morgan‘s father, who has been on the verge of the grave for weeks, at his home in Linn county, died last Sunday. Dick was called in time to be at the bedside before the final summons came.
• Eunice (Florer) Brittain, daughter of J.M. Florer of this city died of diphtheria at her home near Condon on the 19th. Dr. Logan had been called but it was too late, and a most aggravating case.  Two children in the family were taken down Monday.  Her brother Chas. from Moro, was there at the time of death and burial, but relief was wholly impossible.

March 2, 1906

• Referring to the sad death of Mrs. Brittain, in Condon, the Globe, says: Before the nature of the disease was known, a number of parties had been exposed to it. However, there is no occasion for undue alarm, the churches, schools and places of amusement have been closed on order of Dr. Wood, county physician.  Deceased was born at Vancouver, Washington and was 26 years of age at the time of her death.  Ten years ago she was married to John Brittain and came to Condon about two years ago to reside.  During this time she has made many friends who mourn her loss and whose sympathy goes out to the children who are left behind.

March 9, 1906

• Just as we go to press the startling news reaches us the Mrs. Fred Meader died at noon yesterday in a Dalles city hospital from the effects of an annesthetic administered to deaden the pain of an operation. [Mabel]
• James, mother of Geo. James of this city, had improved so far last week that Mr. James was able to return to his post in the county clerk’s office.

March 16, 1906

• James died in Portland on Wednesday. The remains arrived here last evening.  [Mary E.]
• The Dalles Chronicle: F. H. Meader came from Wasco to undergo a trivial surgical operation, and died at the hospital.  The operation was performed Monday and she appeared to be recovering nicely until Wednesday morning when she was attacked by acute inflammation of the kidneys, resulting from chloroform.  Dr. E. H. Parker, an eminent physician of Portland, was called in consultation with the hospital physicians but efforts to save her life were unavailing.  Mrs. Meader was a member of the Rebekahs, and well known in the Dalles.  A committee from the Wasco lodge took charge of the body, which was taken to Wasco for burial.  [Mabel]

March 23, 1906

• Cornett, one of the earliest pioneers of Oregon, died in Condon March 16th aged 84 years. Mr. Cornett was in the government service during the Mexican war, moving stores from Independence, Missouri, to Santa Fe and Albuquerque.  He was captain of the emigrant train in which he crossed the plains in 1853.
• H. Robinson, formerly of Wasco, where he was chief bookkeeper for the Sandow mills, died in Turner, March 12th, leaving a wife, but no children. Mrs. E.G. Barzee sister to Mr. R., was notified in time to be present at the grave; arriving home Thursday from her sad mission.
• Brisbine was called to Yamhill county Saturday in consequence of the death of his father.
• Special Correspondence.  Last Saturday on learning the sad news of his father’s death, Mr. S. Brusbine [Brisbine] started for Yamhill county.  His two sons went with him.
• In Memoriam. Death and Burial of Mrs. Mary E. James, late of this county.   After a lingering illness at her home in Portland, Mrs. Mary E. James, mother of Deputy County Clerk G.E. James, quietly fell asleep, aged 60 years on the 14th, beloved by all who knew her.  Some time ago her life companion left her a widow, and nearly all the time since that sad event her condition has been one of almost entire prostration.  Among her friends and neighbors she has always been held in high estimation, and although expected, her death made many sad hearts.  But, all remember that she had seen many years, and answered the final summons as like the fully ripened fruit for the harvest.  Though dead she still lives. Rev. J.F. Ghormley, pastor of the Portland Central Christian Church, an old time friend of the family, preached the funeral sermon in Moro on the 16th, to a very large congregation, paying a worthy tribute to the memory of deceased, in comforting words to the surviving children: G.E. James, Mrs. Clark Teal, Mrs. P.C. Axtell, and Mrs. Hollenbeck, and a very large circle of sorrowing friends and acquaintances. — The relatives have asked us in this connection to convey heartfelt thanks to all who rendered so much assistance to them and theirs in the dark hours of their sorrow and affliction.  Interment was had at Rose cemetery, where the family lot is already marked by those who have gone before, and thus the sad ceremony was drawn to a close.
• Wasco News. Being called upon suddenly and unexpectedly to sustain one of the severest blows that often falls to the lot of man to bear.  The death of a loving and devoted wife. I take this opportunity to trying in a feeble way to express my heart-felt thanks to the scores of friends who have been with me every moment of the day and by night in this dark hour of affliction, ministering, it seemed to me, “with angel hands.” and also to those who by telegram and letter expressed their tenderest sympathies.  Friend, brothers and sisters!  Out of a heart overflowing with gratitude I can only pray that should you ever have to travel the same dark path you will find it illuminated by the same rays of love, emanating from the Throne of God and transmitted through human agency.  H. Meader.   [Mabel]
• Ione paper: K. Fuller of Lexington, went to Wasco Tuesday to be present at the funeral of his mother, who died Sunday at the age of 84 years.  Mrs. Fuller had resided in Sherman county 22 years prior to her death.  [Mary Ann]

March 30, 1906

• W.A. Bressler and Mrs. C. T. Cook are very sick at their homes in this city. Mrs. Bressler has been threatened with appendicitis.  Mrs. Cook’s illness is the result of confinement and loss of her child.

April 6, 1906

• Bressler died on the 30th, and the remains were taken to Polk county for burial. Friends of the family request us to thank the kind ones who were so much help to them during the sickness and at the death.  There is heart-felt sympathy of a large community for the bereaved.

April 13, 1906

• John C. Kaseberg, father of J._. Kaseberg of this vicinity, died in Walla Walla recently, age 74 years. Deceased was one of our most prosperous farmers.
• P. Beach, for 20 years secretary of the Eastern Oregon Land Co., died in St. Mary’s hospital, San Francisco, on the 3d. Deceased was one of the most remarkable men of Pioneer days, and his history would be the history of California, in railway and steamship matters from the time of the Pony express.

April 20, 1906

• In Memoriam. Deaths of Father Kaseberg, Miss Emma Gosh, Mrs. Nels Hansen. Referring to the death of John C. Kaseberg, at Walla Walla, mentioned in The Observer last week, the Statesman says: John C. Kaseberg, brother of Henry Kaseberg, the old pioneer, died at the family residence, 318 East Rose street, [Walla Walla, Wa.] at 12:30 o’clock last night of asthma, aged 74 years.  Kaseberg lately returned from California, where he spent the winter.  The funeral will take place from the residence Wednesday afternoon at 2 o’clock.  Mr. Kaseberg was a native of Germany and came to the United States when a mere lad.  For years he farmed in Oregon, amassing a considerable fortune.  He moved to Walla Walla some years ago to make his home.  He is survived by seven children as follows:  Mrs. W.R. Copeland, Henry J. Kaseberg, Mrs. W. C. Bennett, Amelia Kaseberg and Albert Kaseberg, all of Walla Walla; John R. Kaseberg and E.E. Kaseberg, of Wasco, Oregon, where the family formerly resided.  [Place of Burial: Walla Walla, Washington]
• Beloved, kind, generous and esteemed Mrs. Nels Hanson is no more. She died at the Monkland farm residence Saturday a.m. 14th, and the funeral was attended Monday by loving friends and neighbors, whose sympathies were extended to the husband and father in his great grief.  But she has gone to her rest, where trouble ceases and all is perfect peace.  The bereaved who with sorrowing hearts had to see the loved one pass forever from their view in this world should remember that even at its worst this is only prefect rest.  Here is this world our happiest and brightest hours are mixed with sorrow therefore let us grieve as little as possible trusting that there is a brighter world beyond the grave.  [Carrie Hansen]
• The funeral of Miss Emma Gosh took place in Monkland Sunday morning. Deceased was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Gosh, and a very bright and promising girl.  She was never strong, but might have lived to fill the hopes of her parents but for a recent very severe attack of pneumonia.  A large concourse of people attended the funeral and many tender sympathies were awakened in sadness with the sorrows of the stricken parents and bereaved friends.  [Emma Gosch]
• Forshaw, father of J.M. Parry, died at his home in Falls city, last Monday, aged 75 years. Mrs. Parry and son Walter left of Falls city Tuesday.

April 27, 1906

• V. Johnson, formerly of this city died in a Portland hospital on the 18th. The funeral was held at Hood River.  Deceased leaves four sons and a daughter to mourn his loss:  M.J., of Moro, Carl and Gertrude, of Winlock, Wash., William, of Heppner, and Orrin, of Echo.

May 4, 1906

• Mona East Herrin arrived home Sunday from Portland where Mrs. H. was hastily called to attend the funeral of her grandmother who died in that city April 23d. Mrs. H. had just returned home the day before the sad message came, from waiting on the aged lady.

 May 11, 1906

• In Memoriam. Special Correspondence.   Marian H. Stoops, daughter of T.D. and M.E. Williams, died April 13th, 1906, at 8 o’clock a.m. in Wasco, Sherman county, Oregon.  She was a victim of that dread disease consumption.  She was 36 years and 10 months.  Was born near Santa Rosa, Sonoma county, California, June 13th, 1869.  She leaves one son, father and mother, three brothers and one sister besides a grandmother, four uncles and three aunts to mourn her loss.  But we do not sorrow as those who have no hope.  She, when dying sang “Jesus Lover of my soul,” all through, and two verses of “Nearer my God to Thee.”  She was laid to rest on the 14th of April in the Methodist cemetery near Wasco.
• B. Johnson has received word that W.A. Wright and wife, old and esteemed friends of the family, met death in the earthquake at Ocean Park, close to San Francisco. Mr. and Mrs. W. will be remembered by many who met them while visiting a year ago with Mr. Johnston and family.
• D. Buchanan, an Oregon pioneer, father of Mesdames Wilbur J. and Leroy H. Martin, died in Harney county, on the 29th, aged 76 years.

May 18, 1906

• The funeral of Grandma Christiansen, mother of John, was largely attended by Hay Canyon neighbors Sunday. The old lady was very much admired by all who knew her, and we extend our sympathy to the stricken ones who so loved the departed.

May 25, 1906

• John Andrew Patjen, who until the last few years was an active and substantial farmer, of this county, died in The Dalles May 17th. Remains were buried at Grass Valley.  Patjen was born in Germany, Feb 9th, 1839.  He leaves a wife, four daughters and a son.  Rev. C.T. Cook preached the funeral sermon.

June 1, 1906

June 8, 1906

June 15, 1906

June 22, 1906

• Shepard Newcomb, aged 84, died in Grass Valley, June 10th. Deceased was born in Ohio in 1822, and was one of the early pioneers of Oregon.

June 29, 1906

July 6, 1906

July 13, 1906

• Don Wheat was called to Eugene recently to be at the bedside of her dying mother, Mrs. Fannie Gilbert. The dreaded summons came on the 6th of July, when the good old lady was called to her final rest.  Those who knew her best claim that in removing Mrs. Gilbert the Lord has plucked one of his choicest flowers.  Her life was a beautiful one and the beneficial influence it has shed can never become extinct.  She was a christian lady possessing rare talents, and a will and disposition to do her Masters work.  This she did by improving her opportunities to do good unto others.

July 20, 1906

July 27, 1906

• J.O. Elrod had received word that her father H. B. Cook, aged 75 years passed away at his home in Fort Ripley, Minnesota, Tuesday, July 17. The cause of death was diabetes.  Mr. Cook was an old inhabitant of that state.  Mr. and Mrs. Elrod have just returned from a visit to the old home, at which time Mr. Cook’s sickness was not considered fatal.
• A. Raymond has received word that his brother Fred, located at Caldwell, Idaho, is seriously ill and will leave for there as soon as his business will permit. Dave Walton will conduct the Red Barn livery in his absence.

August 3, 1906

• The Red barn is once more vacant. A. Raymond who has conducted it for nearly a year past has disposed of his stock and buggies and will close up the business when he returns from Idaho where he was called by the death of his brother Fred.  We understand that J.M. Dunahoo of the Blue barn will purchase Mr .R’s draying interests.

August 10, 1906

• Capt T.J. Miller, the pioneer of DesChutes city, was laid away to his final rest last week. In the stirring times of the sixties Capt. Jeff was one of the noted masters at the helm in river navigation of the Columbia from Celilo to way up into British Columbia, and finally settled near the mouth of DesChutes river, nearly half a century ago, where he died. [Thomas Jefferson]
• W. Francis, well known in Sherman county, operating Geo. T. Parr’s Horse Heaven farm, died from injuries received in a harvest accident on the 26^th. Deceased leaves a family.

August 17, 1906

• Alice, wife of J.H. McCune, died in Yamhill county July 28th. He husband kept her at the open air sanitarium for nine weeks, when the doctor decided it was not lung trouble but stomach trouble.  He then took her home to her parents, where she had everything that loved ones could give her in her last days, and was finally laid to rest in the Happy valley cemetery ‘neath a bank of flowers.

August 24, 1906

August 31, 1906

• E.V. Mowry, mother of J.B. Mowry of this city, died at her home in Lodi, California, Tuesday, from the effects of an accident that occurred on the 10th, resulting in a double break of the bones of one of her lower limbs below the knee. Up till Tuesday she appeared to be on the way of recovery as she was in good physical condition, notwithstanding her age, 78 years.  News of her death caused a shock in the family here, as they had such high hopes of seeing her as soon as the harvest passed.  The telegram conveying the sad news came too late for Mr. Mowry to reach Lodi in time for the funeral.

September 7, 1906

• Grandma Brock died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. A.M. Hicks, in Wasco yesterday morning, after a long spell of sickness. She has long been a resident of Wasco and leaves many friends besides several children, to mourn their loss.  The funeral was conducted by undertaker J.E. Nichols, of Hood River.  [Elvira Ann]
• John H. Douma, long a sufferer from cancer of the stomach, was buried from Moro M.E. Church Sunday, Rev. Adams preaching the funeral sermon. Deceased was a native of Holland, age 46 years.  He was united in marriage to Miss Rinska Yousra, in May, 1890. Emigrated to the United Sates the same year.  There were born to them 8 children, all of who are living.  Deceased was reared in the christian faith being a member of the Dutch Reformel church.
• A man was killed for his money opposite DesChutes city Saturday by some person unknown. Judge Rudolf held a coroner’s inquest, and the body was buried in Moro cemetery.  From a note book retained by Sheriff McCoy it is supposed that his name was O.H. Schnaubelt.  He was well dressed, in all new clothing, and had $1.55 in his pocket which the slayer overlooked perhaps.  He was apparently about 25 years of age, medium size, and a German.  The murderer used a juniper club, picked out the DesChutes river drift.  No clue.
• E.A. Parr and wife were grieved by a telegram Monday from Berkley, Cal., announcing the death of Mrs. Parr’s mother, Mrs. Nanscowan, who was killed that morning in a street car accident. This is a very sad termination of a most pleasant visit, and our sympathies are extended to Dr. and Mrs. Parr in the trouble.

September 14, 1906

• Kent Recorder. Nina Hennagin came up Sunday to be at the bedside of Mrs. Johnson, whose death, quite sudden, occurred on the 2d, at the home of her son, Wilbur Regester, aged 66 years.  The remains were taken to Hood River for interment.
• Kent Recorder. B. Wilcox has information from Dakota that Abe Dyer had been accidentally killed while running an air motor.  He was standing on the side of the car, when it turned over.  It took 15 men and 4 horses 45 minutes to remove the car and get him out.  W.B. Wilcox Jr., runs the same motor on opposite shifts.

September 21, 1906

• H. Butts, a pioneer of Oregon well known in the Inland Empire, was buried in Dalles city Sunday. One of his sons, Truman, is doing business in Grass Valley.
• Don Morrison, son of Rev. J.M. Morrison formerly of Sherman Co., died in Portland recently, aged 23 years. His old school mates feel the deepest sorrow at the news of his death, and he will be remembered for many noble qualities.

September 28, 1906

• F. Zell, son of Abraham Zell, an old time resident of Prineville, and well known in this region, was assassinated at his home 22 miles out on the Bend road Monday night. The victim answered a knock at the door, when the assassin told him to throw up his hands.  Zell thought he was joking, and laughed starting at once to the barn.  When he had gone but a short distance the fellow shot at and killed him instantly.  The murderer was arrested and taken to jail.  He is a farm hand name Fred Shepard, angered about his wages.   [See Shephard – 07 December 1906]

October 5, 1906

October 12, 1906

October 19, 1906

• Another sorrow has visited Henry Wakerlig, of Bake Oven, in the taking of his wife, who died ten days ago aged 60 years. We extend our sympathy to the stricken family.  The loss of a devoted wife and mother is the greatest loss on earth
• B. Boyer, long an invalid at his home in Grass Valley, died on the 13^th, highly respected by all who knew him.

October 26, 1906

• The death of Golden, founder of Goldendale, occurred last week. Mrs. W.M. Barnett of Wasco, was his daughter, the first white child born in Klickitat county.  Mr. Golden was one of the most substantial and highly respected pioneer citizens of both Oregon and Washington and accomplished a vast good in the development of the Pacific Northwest wilderness.

November 2, 1906

• W.U. Ragsdale, who has been very ill since the death of their baby boy, is now on the way to complete recovery, so anxiously hoped for by her family and friends.
• Four convicts from Prineville enroute for Salem, passed down the road Sunday, in charge of Sheriff Elkins and three deputies. Frank Sheppard, the degenerate who murdered Zell, was one of them.  He is under sentence of death, and will swing at a ropes end on the 23d.  Dell, who shoved a drunk and accidentally broke the fellows’ neck, goes up for one year.  Two horse thieves go to serve seven years each.  Pretty expensive “citizens” that for Crook county which needs the civilizing influences of a railroad or two in that region.  The criminal class always tumble to themselves at the awakening echoes of approaching business prosperity attended by Christian homes.

November 9, 1906

• Rosa McMillen, granddaughter of Ned Florer, late of this city, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ezra Sexton, whose death occurred at Hood River last week, was buried in the family lot at Moro.
• J.P. Harden, whose sudden death occurred last week in the Monkland settlement, was a woman who will be missed in the community. A loving mother, a faithful wife, and a most remarkably kind neighbor.  Our heartfelt sympathy is extended to the lonely husband, and the dutiful children.  Though the cloud of grief looks dark indeed, it is a silver lining.  Her pure soul was carried by angels wings to meet its God.  “Blessed are the dead.”  What a wonderful affirmation this is.  How it strikes upon our ears.  It’s the message of God to our sorrowing hearts.  To us who live death seems so sad.  It leaves us with hearts torn and bleeding.  Too often we shut out.  Trust in God. [Hardin]

November 16, 1906

November 23, 1906

November 30, 1906

• A terrible fatality befell three telegraph linemen who were discharged in Dalles city Saturday, and started in to beat their way east by riding brake beams. One of them was killed before reaching DesChutes, name unknown; another, supposed to be named O’Kane, was killed crossing this county, and fragments of his body were strung along the track all the way to Arlington and back, by trains passing both ways until daylight.  The 3d man reached Umatilla junction alive.  Goffin was notified and proceeded to Grant Sunday morning, on reports that a man had been killed, expecting to have to hold an inquest, but found it impossible and quite unnecessary so all the remains that could be gathered together were collected and given christian burial by Undertaker Axtell in Moro on arrival of the evening train.
• Henry Wakerlig, of Bake Oven, was again visited by affliction last week when his daughter Rose died of typhoid fever. Deceased was 23 years of age and was possessed of a loveable disposition, and her death will be the cause of genuine regret to her many friends.  Surviving members of the family have the sincere sympathy of the community.

December 7, 1906

• Fred Shephard, the degenerate who murdered Zell, was hung in prison in accordance with the sentence imposed upon him.
• Mesdames Christiansen and Rudolf attended the funeral of the little child of John M. Johnson, buried at Hood River last week.

 

• Henry Wakerlig, of Bake Oven, who recently lost his wife and dau. from typhoid, has his son Ernest, and son in law Warren Spalinger, who are also victims of the disease in the Dalles hospital for treatment. The Chronicle says both are severe cases.

December 14, 1906

• Judge Hull of Grant, this county, was run over and instantly killed by the yard engine, in Dalles city last Tuesday. Judge Hull was one of the foremost citizens of Sherman county, and besides numerous relatives to mourn his untimely death, has a large circle of friends who will be greatly pained to hear of so dire a calamity befalling him.  [John]

December 21, 1906

Kent Recorder.  J.J. Schaeffer and family returned home Saturday.  He left his brother resting well, having stood the trip to Portland exceedingly well. J.J. Schaeffer was called back to Portland Wednesday.  It is supposed from this that B. F. was worse.

December 28, 1906

January 4, 1907

January 11, 1907

• Death came to the relief of F. Schaeffer Sunday evening, at a Portland hospital. Ben was one of the exemplary citizens of this county, and will be greatly missed by a wide circle of friends.  He was attended by his devoted brother J.J., who accompanied the remains east for burial. [See December 21, 1906]

January 18, 1907

• A casket for a child was shipped to Klondike Wednesday, but whose darling it is that rests under the snow there today we were unable to ascertain.

January 25, 1907

• In Memoriam. Clarissa Axtell died a peaceful death Sunday morning, at the home of her step son, O.W. Axtell, in this city, aged 78 years.  Deceased was born in Washington county, Pa., December 22, 1828.  She was united in marriage with Nathan Axtell in 1872.  There were no children from this union.  She made a public profession of her faith in Christ early in childhood and united with the Presbyterian church.  At the time of her death she was a member of the Moro Presbyterian church. Although an invalid for years Grandma Axtell was always cheerful, and up to the hour of death was able to be about the house and had eaten her breakfast as usual but a short time before the final summons came.  Her friends were numbered by her acquaintances, and all whose good fortune it was to know her, loved her for her kind disposition.  The attendance at the funeral, which occurred Monday afternoon, was indicative of the esteem in which she was held, the whole neighborhood being present to honor her memory.  An excellent sermon by Mr. Adams, and special choir service, expressed the sentiment that — ‘Tis hard to break the tender cord, When love has bound the heart. ‘Tis hard, so hard to speak the word: “Must we forever part!” —- The family desire that we publicly convey their heart felt thanks to one and all who so kindly aided them in the trying hour, an evidence of love and esteem at the final closing of a cheerful life.[Clarissa Axtell]
• Resolutions adopted by Eureka lodge 121, A.F.& A.M., at a regular communication held January 17, A.D. 1907: Whereas, Death had entered within the precincts of our lodge and taken from our midst Brother F. Schaeffer, who was ever our consistent companion and faithful counselor; and Whereas, He has been an active, earnest, energetic and enthusiastic Mason for many years, really at all times to meet, act and part on the level, having served with credit to himself and honor to the fraternity in most of the important offices of the lodge, and Whereas, In his quiet, unobtrusive way he was always ready to aid help and assist a needy brother, Therefore, be it Resolved, By Eureka Lodge 121, A.F.&A.M., in regular communication assembled, that in the death of Past Master B.F. Schaffer this lodge loses one of its strongest pillars, and Masonry one of its most finished workmen. That our Brother, having finished his work, had laid aside his plans and has been called from labors on earth to everlasting refreshments, where neither time nor storms can trouble him. Further, That we tender to his relatives our since sympathy in this, their bereavement, and assure them that we cherish the memory of one who has been a true and faithful friend, and a loyal Mason. Further, That these resolutions be made part of the permanent record of this meeting, and that the charter be draped in mourning for the space of 30 days. “Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we be celebrate the death of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he entered upon the heritage of a diviner life.” – John M. Parry, E.V. Littlefield, R. Urquhart, Committee.

February 1, 1907

• Miss Kate McDanel, sister of our county clerk, H.S. McDanel of this city, died in Portland Wednesday morning.  The wires were so badly demoralized by ice and flood that the sad intelligence failed to reach here until yesterday afternoon.  McDanel then immediately began arrangements to join this mother in grief, and left at midnight with Mr. Dunahoo in an effort to catch an early train on the main line this morning.  This will be sad news to many friends in Moro of the stricken mother and brother.
• Among the personal effects left at her death by Grandma Axtell, was the will of great-great-Grandfather Axtell, executed 100 years ago. It is in a most excellent state of preservation, and is unique in other notable ways besides its very handsome penmanship, ancient style of spelling, and such things as are found only in extremely rare manuscripts.
• In Memoriam. Hall of Bethlehem Chapter, No. 78, O.E.S., Moro, Or., Jan. 29. Whereas, F. Schaeffer, a member of this Chapter, has departed this life, and Whereas, Brother Schaeffer has always been a faithful and conscientious member; and by his death this Chapter has lost an honorable and respected Brother, therefore Be it Resolved, by Bethlehem Chapter No. 78, Order of Eastern Star, that in memory of our departed Brother we express our sorrow by having the charter of this Chapter draped in mourning for the period of 30 days and that a copy of these resolutions be forwarded to the family of Brother Schaeffer, and that a copy of the same be printed in The Sherman County Observer. Fraternally submitted, E.V. Littlefield, May Barnum, Lillian Page, Committee.

February 8, 1907

• We learn that County Clerk H.S. McDanel succeeded in reaching Portland in time to attend the funeral of his sister Kate Sunday — 56 hours en route from Moro.

February 15, 1907

• James Mitchell is still very ill in Umatilla county. Mr. Michell [Mitchell] is this week in receipt of news of the death of his aged father in Europe.  “Misfortunes seldom come singly.”
• County Clerk McDanel returned Monday evening from his sad and eventful trip to Portland. Sad, because it was to the burial of his loving sister Kate; eventful because of storms without a precedent in the country.

February 22, 1907

March 1, 1907

March 8, 1907

• Grandma Elizabeth Hawley, an esteemed pioneer of Oregon, died at the home of her son-in-law, I.N. Lemon, last month. The remains were taken to Benton county for burial.
• Friends of Mr. and Mrs. Meach will be pained to learn that their little boy was drowned in the Columbia river recently, at Vancouver. The body was recovered after 24 hours search.
• W. Lewis was called to Rosalia this morning by telegram announcing that his brother Charles had been fatally injured in an accident. No particulars. [Accident proved not to be fatal; see April 5, 1907.]

March 15, 1907

March 22, 1907

• Ella E., beloved wife of P.H. Johnson, died at their home in this city Sunday evening after a brief but painful illness. The funeral was largely attended at the M.E. Church Rev. Easter, of the Wasco Christian church officiating.  Deceased was in her 48th year.  Besides her husband she leaves two sons and two daughters: Claude of Moro, Roy of Vancouver, Mrs. C.E. Davis of The Dalles, and little Gladys, 4 years old.  The family requests us to extend heartfelt thanks to all who so kindly aided then by sympathy and deed in their great sorrow.
• Death visited the family of Mrs. Wallen’s sister in Kennewick last week taking away a child.

March 29, 1907

April 5, 1907

• D. Gibson of Laidlaw, who was recently called to Walla Walla to attend a sick son, arriving after his death, has sadly returned to his home, with heartfelt sympathy from his many old time friends and neighbors in Sherman county.
• W. Lewis and sister, Mrs. F.R. Messinger, found their brother Charles Lewis in bad fix when they arrived at Rosalia. He was digging in a ditch when a cave occurred, burying him under 12 feet of earth.  He was rescued in 13 minutes, but his collar bone and several ribs were broken.  Recovery was assured when they left for home.

April 12, 1907

April 19, 1907

• and Mrs. Geo Hennagin returned from their sad mission Sunday, the burial of her mother, Mrs. Fuller, at Underwood, Wash. Death occurred on the 11th, at the age of 64 years.
• The remains of E. Harris will be brought to Moro for burial in June, after the assembling of the family from many different and distant points. The remains were embalmed and temporarily laid in a vault where death occurred in Washington April 4th.  Mr. Harris was a pioneer from life, having been born on the Oregon trail 69 years ago, and had his home in the Oregon country all his life time.

April 26, 1907

May 3, 1907

May 10, 1907

• Grandpa Maxwell died at the home of his son in Washington county on the 27th ult., aged 86 years.

May 17, 1907

• A. Miller, brother of Attorney M.E. Miller of this city, died at the family home in Vancouver Wash., Tuesday. There were five brothers in the family.

May 24, 1907

• “In the midst of life we are in death.” While awaiting his sad mission to Moro, to convey the remains of his father here for burial, the wife of West Harris died of neuralgia of the heart.  Deceased was formerly Miss Nellie Williams of 8-mile.  She leaves four children.
• H. Watts, of the Dalles Monument works, placed a monument over the grave of Mrs. N.P. Hansen, in Moro cemetery last week.
• The funeral of E. Harris will take place in this city, at the ME Church on Sunday next at 10 a.m. Deceased was for many years a resident of Sherman county.  He was born on the Oregon Trail July 3d, 1847, and died at Mesa, Wash., on April 4, 1907.  In order that relatives coming from distance might have time to reach here and be at the funeral, the body was embalmed and the funeral was postponed.  Two sons of the deceased, West and Frank, are expected here tomorrow evening with the remains, and the funeral will take place as above mentioned, interment in the family lot, Moro cemetery.  Friends are invited to attend.

May 31, 1907

June 7, 1907

June 14, 1907

June 21, 1907

June 28, 1907

July 5, 1907

• A murderous affair occurred at McDonald, in this county, Tuesday afternoon, by which one man was killed, Billy McDonald badly cut about the head with a shovel in the hands of one Ward, a Gilliam county rancher. Ward had been to Wasco drinking, and took the man that was killed (Freeman), out of jail, to work on his ranch.  When they reached McDonald they were fighting, and Billy McDonald went to separate them when Ward turned upon Billy and hit him over the head several times with a shovel, cutting him badly.  This crazed Mr. McDonald who defended himself with a pistol, and in the melee the man was shot, but by whom killed the coroner’s jury did not decide.  Ward is in jail to answer for the results of his drunken debauch.   [Jack Freeman]

July 12, 1907

• Peter S. Peterson, formerly a resident of this county, died at his California home last month, from the effects of injuries received in a runaway accident. Deceased was a brother-in-law to Lot Rust, Sr., and his popular family will be remembered by many of the early residents of Moro and vicinity.

July 19, 1907

July 26, 1907

• Death of A Pioneer. Lot M. Rust Joins the Great Army In the Beyond. Death sent its messinger and took the good old man away from all troubles and cares of earth July 19, 1907, in the evening of life.  All his loving children and beloved wife were at his bedside at the last hour.  Deceased had been confined to his house and bed for the past eight years, and as the end seemed near his children were notified and came from their homes far and near. His sickness and decline brought him much pain, which was borne with fortitude, and most all of the time he was in the full possession of his facilities of his mind and exhibited a calm, resigned christian spirit — full of hope, tenderness, and an earnest solicitation for those whom he thought should be in the fold of christianity.  He had many visits from his neighbors during his illness, which cheered him, and all did what they could to minister to his wants. Deceased was born in Palmoa, Maine, March 21, 1833.  Went to California in 1857.  Eleven years later he was married to Miss Marcia H. Cooper.  Five children were born of this union, Mrs. Pearl A. Leslie, Mrs. Ruby Pettes, Lot W. Rust, Mrs. Maude E. Watson, and Miss Mae Rust, all of whom were present at his death bed to mourn their loss.  Mr Rust was converted at his home in 1891, and was baptized into the Baptist church the same year.  He lived a consistent, christian life.  He was a pioneer of Sherman county, and has been a resident of the farm where he died, near Moro, for almost a quarter of a century. The funeral was very largely attended at the Methodist Episcopal Church, in Moro, Rev. John Tonkins officiating, assisted by Rev. A. J. Adams, song service by a mixed choir from all churches of the city.  Floral offerings were numerous.  At the journeys’ end of our old friend, what can be more appropriate than these lines by Helen-Hunt-Jackson, herself a sorrow tried invalid, with a glorious journeys’ end: There is an Inn at Journeys’ end; It hath a low green door. Who entereth there, at set of sun Cometh forth no more. Ah, many softest beds there be In the same Inn of Rest. And there they sleep so quietly Who toiled in East and West. There have no dreams, they never stir, They will not hear a sound; Nor any wind shall ruffle them In that enchanted ground. Until one day an angels’ call The happy sleep shall break; And at the trumpet from the sky The slumberers shall wake. Beyond that Inn of Journeys’ end A city riseth fair — With golden turrets wonderful And many a shining stair. And thither, at the very last; Gods’ saints shall gladly throng, And there shall life forevermore Gods’ praise in endless song.— In conclusion the family desire to express thanks for many thoughtful attentions and sympathizing acts rendered in their time of sorrow the hour of need, by loving friends and neighbors.  God will bless you all for it.

August 2, 1907

• If human sympathy and brotherly love could avail to alleviate the bitter pangs of such a sorrow as Mr. and Mrs. C.W. Moore experienced in the loss of their son Raymond, by drowning in the Columbia last Friday at The Dalles, says the Chronicle of Monday evening, their burden would have been greatly lightened yesterday, as they were surrounded by a multitude of sympathetic friends, besides a score or more of immediate relatives, and heard the words of consolation expressed. Not only did their recently acquired friends gather about them, but the high esteem in which they were held in their former home, and the love of true and tried friends, was expressed more deeply than words could tell, by the arrival of 59 neighbors from Grass Valley and 25 from Moro, to attend the funeral.  In closing the sermon Rev. Poling commended to the sorrowing ones the great Comforter who makes it possible for all to say, “It is well.”
• J.H. Shearer [Sherar] died Sunday evening at their home at Shearer bridge, loved and mourned by all who knew her. To the bereaved husband and brother, and dear friends, left in sadness and deep sorrow, extend our sympathy.  The funeral took place in The Dalles Tuesday.  Deceased was a pioneer of 1850, arriving in The Dalles when 2 years of age with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert.  In April, 1863, was married to Mr. Shearer [Sherar], and in 1871 they made their home at the beautiful DesChutes falls, which became one of the world famous homes in Oregon, where the happily mated couple entertained thousands of visitors, travelers and tourists, who always after held their host and hostess in grateful remembrance.  But one of her 11 brothers and sisters survive, Geo. A. Herbert, of Cornucopia, former sheriff of Wasco, county, who was at her bedside during her last few weeks on earth.  Hundreds in the Inland Empire, particularly in the regions of her home, will sadly miss her. [Jane]

August 9, 1907

• The recent accidental death by drowning while bathing in the Columbia river at the Dalles, of Raymond Moore, son of Register C.W. Moore was an extremely sad affair. The sudden death of Mrs. Nena M. Staples, of Spokane, August 1st at the home of her sister, Mrs. Moore, mother of the drowned boy, added another great grief to the sorrows of the stricken family.  Staples came down from Spokane to attend the funeral of her nephew, and was apparently sleeping soundly in a tent on the lawn, but was found to be dead.  The hot weather and grief is supposed to have weakened her heart.  Mrs. Jessie Moore, of Portland, is with the family in their distress.

August 16, 1907

August 23, 1907

August 30, 1907

• A.J. Adams is still at Hood River, attending her daughter, Mrs. Nichols, who has been hovering between life and death for several weeks, suffering from a combination of ills incident to her recent confinement and loss of the child. Mrs. A. writes daily bulletins of the case to Mr. Adams, and all will be pleased to know that the sufferings of the patient are lessening, and strong hopes for her steady recovery are now possible.

September 6, 1907

September 13, 1907

• Miss Elsie Thompson, long and favorably known in Sherman county died at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.A. Thompson, in Portland, Saturday, aged 20 years. Funeral services were held in Portland Sunday, and interment took place at Rose cemetery Monday evening after the train arrived, followed by a long procession of friends and old time neighbors from Moro and vicinity.  Deceased was a most amiable young lady, and leaves hosts of companions, besides her nearest and dearest of kin, to mourn her sad departure.  N.W. Thompson and Mrs. Angus Kuks were sisters of Miss Elsie.

September 20, 1907

September 27, 1907

• R. Fowler, long a resident of Rufus, died on the 10th, and was buried in Wasco cemetery on the 12th. His trouble, cancer, caused him deep misery, but he bore his affliction with singular patience.   The large funeral and handsome floral tribute, attested the friendship of his neighbors. [William]

October 4, 1907

October 11, 1907

October 18, 19907

• W.H. Biggs, one of the pioneers of Sherman county, died at his home in Wasco Wednesday. He was a prominent man in the community.  We are not informed as to arrangements for the funeral.  [William Harrison]
• Clay Neece returned from a sad mission to the coast last week, the burial of his mother, whose death occurred on the 4th at Seaside. Deceased was for many years a resident of this county.

October 25, 1907

November 1, 1907

November 8, 1907

November 15, 1907

• An employee of V.H. Smith was accidently killed Tuesday on the road wheat hauling. The trail became detached and in attempting to fix things he was crushed under a loaded wagon.
• C.l. Ireland received the sad news of the death of her brother-in-law, Mr. Anderson, killed Wednesday by a Northern Pacific Ry train, near Randall, Minnesota.

November 22, 1907

November 29, 1907

December 6, 1907

December 13, 1907

December 20, 1907

December 27, 1907

January 3, 1908

January 10, 1908

January 17, 1908

• In Memoriam. Death and Burial of Mrs. Anna- Landry Calbreath.  It always seems doubly sad when a young person, just in the bloom of youth, is chosen by the grim reaper for his garner; but he is certainly no respecter of persons and the young as well as the old are taken.  Such a one was Mrs. Anna-Landry Calbreath, beloved wife of our worthy friend, I.D. Calbreath. She had been an invalid for a long time, and had made numerous visits to Portland and The Dalles for medical treatment, once submitting to a surgical operation, and it was finally decided two weeks ago to submit to a 2nd operation, which was performed on the 6th, at a Portland hospital, where she died at 5 o’clock on the morning of the 10th, in spite of the best care and attention that could be bestowed upon her.  Her sister, Mrs. Clara Belchee, was at her bedside when the summons came, Mr. Calbreath was near and ‘phones, in readiness to carry the word to anxious relatives, were open, but the word was the worst; expected, but still hoped against. Mrs. Calbreath, nearing her 26th birthday, was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J.H. Landry, native of Washington, but for years a resident of this city. The funeral took place Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock, at Moro M.E. Church, which was filled with sorrowing people, many near and dear to the deceased, and all with a tender regard for memory of her good qualities.  The reading of the scriptures, the music of the choir, the sermon by Rev. Perry Chandler were all in sweet harmony with the solemn surroundings.  The floral tributes were profuse and beautiful, but they conveyed no purer sentiment than the exalted character and virtues of the deceased, who lying in that elegant open casket, appeared to be at temporary repose more than one sleeping the long sleep of death. Deceased expected to be taken in to membership of the M.E. Church, on her next attendance.  Yet, alas, as the good speaker expressed it, her death came so very sudden that she passed on beyond, and entered into the blessed place prepared in heaven for those who confide in the Lord.  She leaves a loving husband, two darling little children, devoted parents, three affectionate sisters and one kind brother, besides a score of close relatives, of whom many came to the farewell, realizing that — A precious one from them had gone, A voice they loved was stilled; A place was vacant in the home, Which never can be filled. God in his wisdom had recalled, The boon his love had given; And though the body moulders here The soul is safe in heaven.

January 24, 1908

• Born to the wife of W.A. Woods a son on January 21st. The little stranger was not for this world, was buried in Moro cemetery Friday.
• A. Kentner, one of the pioneers of Kent, died at The Dalles sanitarium January 18th and was buried at Kent the following Monday. Mr. Kentner suffered from a disorder of the blood which resulted in a stop of the circulation and death resulted in spite of the best care of physicians.

January 31, 1908

• O.W. Richardson who has for several years lived in the Fulton neighborhood, west of Wasco, died Saturday morning at the home on the farm at the age of 61 years 4 months and 18 days, leaving a husband and four sons to mourn her loss. Interment at Wasco cemetery Tuesday afternoon.  Mrs. Richardson was a kind neighbor and a pioneer of Oregon, crossing the plains by ox teams with her parents when only six years old.  [Mary A.]

February 7, 1908

February 14, 1908

• Word has been received from Alaska of the sudden death by paralysis, January 8th, of Rod Cameron. Cameron was well known in this county and leaves, besides a brother, many friends to mourn his loss.
• Friends of J.W. Engerg [Engberg] and family of Blalock, formerly of this county, will be pained to hear of the death of their only remaining son, a bright boy of six years, who died at the family home February 6th, of spinal meningitis. Interment was at The Dalles cemetery, February 8th.

February 14, 1908

• The funeral of W. Rayburn, one of the oldest settlers of Sherman county, took place Feb. 12th, from the residence of his son near Klondike. [W.J.]

February 21, 1908

• On Tuesday morning, Feb. 11th, there passed over the Great Divide a pioneer of eastern Oregon, Joseph H. Sherar, than whom none was better known among the early settlers of this section. S. came to The Dalles in 1862, from California, with the first pack train ever used in Oregon; selling it two years after he soon settled on a homestead, where he afterwards built Sherar bridge and grade.  From that time to the present Wasco and Sherman county history is not complete without the name of J.H. Sherar.  [Confirm builder of the bridge]

February 28, 1908

March 6, 1908

March 13, 1908

March 20, 1908

• Ione received a shock in the death of A. Woolery that has plunged its people into a grief that cannot be measured in words.

March 27, 1908

April 3, 1908

• Luther B. Hill, the Moro recluse, died Wednesday night. The funeral took place from the M.E. Church, Thursday afternoon, Rev. Tonkins officiating.  Interment by his brother’s side in Moro cemetery.  Peace be thine, unfortunate old man.  [March 27, 1908 – Old man Hill, crazed by despondence, isolation and neglect, has become demented, and last Sunday made an attempt upon his life, slashing himself with a knife.  Mitchell, who frequently visits the old man, happened to call just in time to prevent the unfortunate from bleeding to death, and called in assistants to care for him in his lone and loathsome home, where he has lived by himself since the death of his older brother, some years ago.  As soon as the public was made acquainted with the facts the human heart responded quickly, and the poor old man was made as comfortable as possible.]

April 10, 1908

April 17, 1908

• The Dalles Chronicle: Saturday evening the sad news came to the Nolan home of the death of Kane, near Seattle, a sister of Mrs. Nolan. Mr. and Mrs. Nolan, and daughter Alice, and John Moabus, brother of deceased, left on the early train Sunday for Seattle.

April 24, 1908

• D.J. Goodrich, of Ray, Ind., daughter of the late Luther B. Hill wishes to thank all those who were kind to her father during his illness and death; also the ladies who so kindly sang at the funeral.

May 1, 1908

May 8, 1908

• Katie Martin-Axtell was taken to the hospital for treatment on the 1st, where an operation was performed, on account of an abscess resulting from an accidental fall from a horse something more than a year ago. The patient appeared to rally from the effects of the operation at first, but death occurred on the 4th.  Deceased was the wife of Roy Axtell, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wilber Martin, and was very highly respected in the community where she was known.  The funeral was held under the auspices of the Daughters of Rebekah, from the ME Church, Thursday afternoon,  Heartfelt sympathy is extended to the bereaved ones in this affliction.

May 15, 1908

May 22, 1908

• James Walker died at 10:20 on the 20th, at his home on Rattlesnake grade, after a long illness. The funeral will be held in Wasco tomorrow.
• Friends of Mr. and Mrs. J.N. Fordyce were pained to hear of the death of their darling little daughter Ruth, which occurred Monday last in Portland, The sweet little girl is generally mourned in this city where the bereaved family formerly resided, and a host of friends extend sincere sympathy to them in their sorrow.

May 29, 1908

June 5, 1908

• Grandma Robertson, mother of Mrs. Emerson Barzee, died in Wasco last week, after a lingering illness. The remains were taken to Linn county for interment.  Deceased was highly esteemed by a large circle of acquaintances who mourn with her bereaved ones.  Upon the loss of one like Grandma Robertson, how precious is the thought that There is no death; the stars go down To rise upon some fairer shore; And bright in heaven’s jewelled crown They shine forever more. There is no death; but angel forms Walk o’er the earth with silent tread And bear our best loved things away And then we call them dear.

June 12, 1908

• Urquhart is in receipt of news of the death of her brother’s wife’s mother in Ontario. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Smith were former residents of this city, where he filled a position in The Observer office.

June 19, 1908

• Grandpa Barnett died in Wasco on the 13th. Deceased was a pioneer in Sherman county, loved by everybody.  His sons, W.M. and Lafayette and daughter Mrs. Siscel all lived near him, and to them The Observer extends sympathy.  [Andrew]

June 26, 1908

July 3, 1908

• Death of B.W. Anson. Mrs. Anson, beloved wife of our friend B.W. Anson, died at their pleasant farm home near Klondyke on Sunday last, of pneumonia, contracted with a severe cold taken on a recent visit to Hood River valley.  A most unselfish, sweet character, she appreciated all that a kind, considerate husband and sympathetic friends did for her, and seemed to endeavor to allay their fears concerning her, the while she hoped against hope. Our sincere sympathy is extended to the sorrowing husband and relatives in their deep affliction.  [Josephine]
• Anson was a sister of G.W. Hildebrand and Mrs. J.A. Walter, last of Klondike. She leaves one child, a daughter about 13 years of age.

July 10, 1908

• Sam Brisbin was on the 4th again called to the bed side of his mother, who was reported worse at her North Yamhill home. He reached there in time to attend the funeral, she having died before Mr. Brisbin left Moro.  Brisbin was over 80 years of age, a loved and highly respected pioneer.

July 17, 1908

July 24, 1908

July 31, 1908

• Carl Williams died on the 24th at Red Lands, Cal. Deepest sympathy is extended to the sorrowing family.  The remains will be brought to Grass Valley for interment.
• The wife of N.W. Markley, formerly of Moro, threw her 7-year old daughter into Lake Washington last Friday and then leaped in herself. The woman was drowned, but the little girl succeeded in saving herself.  Markley practiced law when living in Moro.

August 7, 1908

• In Memoriam. Tribute and Commendation on the Death of Mrs. Woods and Infant. Sometime, when all life’s lessons have been learned, And sun and stars forever more are set, The things which our weak judgments here have spurned; The things o’er which we grieve with lashes wet Will flash before us out of life’s dark night, As stars shine brightest in darker tints of blue; And we shall see how all God’s plans were right,  And how what seemed reproof was love most true. But not today.  Then be content, poor heart! God’s plans, like lilies, pure and white unfold. We must not tear the close shut leaves apart, Time will reveal calyxes of gold. And if, through patient toil we reach the land Where tired feet with sandals loose, may rest, When we shall clearly know and understand, I think that we all may say: “God knew best.” — In the midst of life we are in death.  How rudely, yet how sadly we were called upon to realize the fact that the spirit of Mrs. Marie Emily Woods has drifted past the dark portal of death into the bright beautiful beyond, bearing upon her bosom her first born babe, a little son born August 1st.  Death came to both August 3d, and the funeral was held in Moro ME Church at 4 o’clock pm, August 5th.  No greater sorrow has ever come to the whole community of Moro than that caused by the sudden and unexpected death of Mrs. Woods.  No other young woman in the community commanded a wider circle of friends than did she. —  Marie Emily Woods, one of the daughters of Mr. and Mrs. W.A. Norcross, was born at Weiser, Idaho, Nov. 14th, 1888.  Died August 3d, 1908, aged 19 years, 8 months and 18 days, leaving a loving husband, kind and affectionate father, mother and three sisters, and one of the most extensive circles of relatives and friends as the very large funeral attested.  A sad event which will ever be held in memory as one of the touching incidents in the history of Moro.  The Sermon by Rev. Adams, the beautiful pieces by the choir, and the last sad rites at the grave all tenderly touching the hearts of that large assemblage of neighbors and friends, told those nearer and dearer to the departed one that at best life is but a struggle, and when the end has come, and  death has drawn the line between the known and unknown, we feel that all is well.  Our bodies are made up of the matter of the earth animated by a living soul.  And after a few years this matter of the earth wears out and the change comes, that strange, yet common change, called death.

August 14, 1908

August 21, 1908

• A son of Rufus Wallace [Wallis], who has been in the employ of the O R N as brakeman two or three years, was run over by his train recently, and was taken to Walla Walla hospital where one leg was amputated at the knee, and the other foot taken off. Death resulted and the young man was buried at Rufus Tuesday. [Place of Burial: Rufus Pioneer Cemetery]

August 28, 1908

• A. Thompson of Portland, former treasurer of Sherman county, is here looking after his farming interests near Moro. We were pained to hear from him that his father, Hon J.J. Thompson, well known for years by everybody here, died in California July 13th, aged 82 years.  He was sick but a few days, having contracted a cold which ended with pneumonia.

September 4, 1908

September 11, 1908

September 18, 1908

September 25, 1908

• Tom Vanausdale, once city marshal of Moro, died recently in Missouri and the remains were brought to Hood river for burial in the John I. Miller family plot, being a son-in-law of John I. Horace Strong attended the funeral from here.

October 2, 1908

October 9, 1908

October 16, 1908

• Grandpa L. Mowry, father of our townsman J.B Mowry, died at his home in Lodi, California, on the 9th aged 85 years.
• Grandma Holder, of Grass Valley, died on Wednesday. Holder was the widow of A. Holder, deceased, mother of William and L.D. Holder, late of this city.

October 23, 1908

October 30, 1908

November 6, 1908

November 13, 1908

• Harriet Jane Erskine, wife of Abiel Erskine, formerly of this county, died at midnight, October 24th, 1908, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. G.E. Williams, at Seattle, Wash., after 24 weeks of patient suffering from paralysis, caused by a disease of long standing. She was called Home to her loved ones who have gone before.  She was laid to rest in the beautiful Lake View cemetery, on a bed of evergreens, covered with many floral offerings from her friends. ——— Mr. and Mrs. A. Erskine came overland from Nelson Station, Butte county, California, leaving there late in the summer of 1880 arriving at the present location of Erskineville, Oregon, October 19th, of the same year, where they lived and farmed for 26 years.  In the spring of 1881 Mr. Erskine plowed, with his 8 horse gangplow, brought from California, a small piece of land that yielded 800 bushels of 1st grade club wheat when threshed.  While the crop was growing Mr. Erskine was away hauling the large timbers for the John Day river bridge, leaving Mrs. Erskine to protect the unfenced field of growing grain.  Many a night she would get up and go out waving a large piece of white cloth in the wind to frighten large bands of range horses away.  She never tired of showing samples of the wheat and extolling the resources of the bunch grass land.  From flour made from this wheat she baked many a pan of biscuits and gave to the weary travelers that camped near with their families hunting for homes in a new country.  She would go miles to help those that needed assistance.  One cold night she was called away from home in a blizzard.  Her family tried to persuade her not to leave in the storm, but the answer was: “The mother needs me, and I must go to her.”  Mrs. Erskine was the mother of six children, all Californians by birth.  Two boys and four girls.  Three children are buried in Northern California, and two in the state of Maine.  In 1881 people in the surrounding country as far south as Grass Valley, the Colony as it was called; contributed 25 cents each per month, to a boy, George Larison jr., the first mail carrier, to carry the mail from Wasco to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Erskine.  In 1882 they petitioned Washington city to establish a regular post office.  Mrs. Erskine having kindly spent her time caring for the mails the neighbors had Mr. Erskine appointed postmaster and a regular office was established, with a mail route from Wasco to Erskineville, under the administration of President Chester A. Arthur.
• Harriet J. Erskine, wife of Abiel Erskine, formerly of Sherman county, died on the 24th ult, at Seattle. Another Pioneer gone to her rest.

November 20, 1908

• S. Fowler is settling the estate of Levi A. Greenleaf, deceased, having been appointed executor, with the will annexed, by Judge Wm. Henrichs of the Sherman county probate court.

November 27, 1908

• Viola, the sweet and interesting little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Galley Medler, died of pneumonia at the farm home below Wasco Wednesday evening. [Flora Viola]
• Abel C. Dougherty, a relative of the family of James Woods of this city, met his death yesterday while out with a tank team, hauling water for the well drillers at the Pinkerton farm. The body was recovered last evening in a field, and the team found near by.  Funeral at 11 am tomorrow (Saturday) at Moro. [Abel Comstock Dougherty, brother of Margaret Jane Dougherty who married James Woods in Iowa and came to Sherman County with other families from Page County, Iowa.]

December 4, 1908

• A. Kime received news of the death of his father Thanksgiving day in Missouri. The sad message came on Saturday.
• M. Allen is settling the estate of C.S. Campbell deceased.
• In Memoriam. Abel Comstock Dougherty deceased, was born in Dubuque county, Iowa, Jan. 20, 1852, died Nov. 26th, 1908.  Dougherty went to Colusa county, California, in 1874, and while there was united in marriage to Mary Mizner.  From this union six children were born, two of whom survive him.  Mrs. Lena Cooper of Bakersfield, California, and Mrs. Jesse Holly of Los Angles, California.  Mr. Dougherty came to Sherman county in July, 1898, and has since that time been well known in this community as an honest, industrious, kind hearted man, and will be much missed by his many friends who mourn his death.

December 11, 1908

• Sutton, mother, and T.S. Sutton brother, of Mrs. O.B. Messinger came up from Yamhill county to attend the funeral of the little son of Mr. and Mrs. Messinger, who died last Sunday. [Clifton A.]

December 18, 1908

• In Memoriam. The funeral services of W. Garfield were held in the church at Kent, Oregon, Thursday afternoon, December 10th, 1908.  He was buried in the Odd Fellows’ cemetery, at Grass Valley on the 11th. Deceased was born March 16th, 1834, at Mount Holly, Vt.  In 1857 he married Cordelia Beebe, of Manchester, Vt., and soon after went to Decorah, Iowa.  This was his home until the spring of 1882, when he removed with this family to South Dakota.  He lived there until about 12 years ago, when he and his wife came to Sherman county, Oregon.  During this time he lost his wife. He has been a christian since his youth.  Has done all in his power to uplift his fellow man, and lend a helping hand and always stood up for the right.  This will in memory chronicle the death of an affectionate father, brother, uncle and grandfather. He leaves a daughter in Ipswich, South Dakota; a sister in Decorah, Iowa; a brother in Wadena, Minn; nieces in Minnesota; a nephew at The Dalles, Oregon; a niece and a daughter, Mrs. Effie Houghton, and also a granddaughter, at Kent, and six grandchildren in Dakota. Only at rest, And loving us yet With love that shall never know Change or regret.[Daniel W. ]
• The remains of Mrs. Jane Helyer Edwards were interred in Moro yesterday after a brief, sad ceremony, Rev. A.J. Adams officiating. Deceased was the loved and loving wife of Leroy T. Edwards, of the Kent settlement, and was taken to The Dalles for treatment a short time ago, where she died on the 16th, aged 34 years and 4 months, leaving besides her husband and 4 children, a mother, a sister, and 4 brothers.  Peace to her ashes.

December 25, 1908

• Friends of Commissioner Duncan Chisholm and wife of Kent, will be pained to learn of the death of their little 5-months old daughter last week. Interment took place at the Catholic cemetery in Dalles city.

January 1, 1909

• In Memoriam. The glories of our mortal state Are shadows.  Not substantial things.There is no armor against fate, Death lays his icy hand on kings. Scepter and crown Must tumble down; And the dust be equal made With the poor sickle, scythe and spade. — Mary A. Hulse, wife of O.P. Hulse, was born at Waverly, Ohio, May 5th, 1894.  Married to O.P. Hulse December 16th, 1876, at Wilmington, Ohio.  Mother of three children: Roy, Guy, and Ray.  Died at Portland, Oregon, December 26, 1908, buried at Moro, December 28, from the M.E. church, Rev. A.J. Adams officiating.  Interment at Odd Fellows cemetery. From all earthly scenes our friend is gone, but she will never be forgotten.  Her friends, which are many, will ever keep her memory fresh within their hearts, and although hushed are her lips in death, yet the tender blades, and the perfume of flowers will speak of her; and to those who knew her best will say, “Here sleeps one who was kind and noble and true.” Mrs. Hulse was a long-time sufferer, but with heroic fortitude, until God called her, and her spirit took its flight.  Never again on the earth will we hear her kind voice, or see her pleasant smile, but there is “one who can clasp each link in heaven again.” The funeral was one of the largest ever in Moro.  The family desire us to return their thanks to the many sympathizing friends and neighbors who rendered so much comfort to them in their hours of sorrow.  [Mary Alice] [Note – the date of birth is how it appeared in the paper.]

January 8, 1909

• J.F. Walton, formerly of this city, died on Christmas day at her home in California.
• Ralph G. Rohr, brother of G.L. Rohr, late of Rohr Villa, this county, died at the home of his mother in Portland, during the holidays. Ralph had been in ill health for a number of years.

January 15, 1909

January 22, 1909

• Grandpa Belshee died at the home of his son J.F. Belshee near Wasco, on the 19th, at the advanced age of 95 years. [Robert James]

January 29, 1909

• Late Robert James Belshee. Tender Tribute to the Memory of a Gracious Life.  (Published by Request.) Robert James Belshee was born in Virginia, June 1st, 1815, and lived there until 1855, when he came to Warsaw, Hancock county, Ills.  He removed from there to the Willamette valley, Oregon, in 1878, remaining there six years, come to Wasco county, now Sherman county, in 1884.  He was married in 1844 to Elenaor Smith.  Of this union three children are now living: Mrs. CL Gilbert, Cleveland, Ohio; Chas H. Belshee, Woodland, California; and Joseph F. Belshee of Wasco, Sherman county.   Other children died in childhood.  His wife died in the faith of the Saviour in 1875, in Hancock county, Illinois.  He has made his home with his son JF Belshee, and his wife Mrs. Emma Belshee, for the past 32 years, with slight intermission, where he has been ministered to by loving hands.  He was gloriously converted, and joined the ME Church over 40 years ago, awakening his family on the night of his conversion with shouts of praise, telling them of his new found Savior.  He lived a triumphant christian life, that developed into a rich, ripe and mellow experience, and sweetly came to old age rich in grace.  He loved his bible, and fed upon the word of God.  Its pages were worn by his sacred fingers.  The Gospel in song was likewise his delight.  He had an untroubled faith and hope.  His interests were clearly transferred from earth to heaven.  It was an inspiration to meet and converse with him.  He was a member of Spaulding Chapel ME church, since that class was organized.  His powers were well preserved until Sunday morning, January 17th, when he fell and broke his leg.  He never rallied from the shock except to point heavenward and tell the watchers he was going Home, bidding them to meet him there, and asking them to sing the songs of Zion.  He departed this life from the home near Wasco, January 19th, aged 93 years, 7 months and 18 days.  His was an abundant entrance into the world where it is said, “There shall in no wise enter into it anything that defileth.”  He was a great grandfather, and besides his immediate sons and daughters, who have many sympathizing friends, there will be those of the 3d generation who will ever hold the seraphic life of Grandpa Belshee in loving remembrance.  The funeral services were conducted by Pastors F.E. Smith and W.E. Pinkham, in the Wasco ME church, and was laid to rest in the Spaulding Chapel burial ground, January 20th, 1909.  [Rose Hill Cemetery]

February 5, 1909

• James P. McMillin, a well known citizen and prominent farmer of this county, died of cancer of the throat at The Dalles hospital on the 29th, and was buried at Wasco on the 30th, under auspices of the order of Odd Fellowship, after a very touching discourse by the Pastor of the local church, of which he was a firm and consistent member. Several of his family were present at his death, which was peaceful, after his long suffering.  The funeral was the largest ever seen in Wasco.  Deceased was born April 7, 1830.  Came to California at an early day, and has been a resident of Sherman county for 25 years.  McMillin and nine living children survive the good old man.

February 12, 1909

• S. Johnson died Monday forenoon after a most painful suffering for about 50 hours with that terrible malady meningitis. He was attacked while milking the cows at home in this city Saturday morning, and was buried Tuesday evening.  All that was possible to be done for his relief was done, and Dr. Morse, with able assistants, in the absence of Dr. Goffin, remained with the case every hour but without success.  Deceased leaves a wife, son and daughter, and scores of relatives and friends to mourn his sudden and violent death.  Peace to his ashes.

February 19, 1909

February 26, 1909

March 5, 1909

March 12, 1909

• Martha Gilmore, mother of Mrs. John Fulton, died at her home north of The Dalles last week aged nearly 91 years. The funeral was held in Wasco, interment in the Wasco cemetery beside the remains of her husband Judge Gilmore, who died in 1900.  Mrs. Gilmore was one of the most cheerful of the aged and always popular ladies of a very extensive and social circle centering at The Dalles, and will be missed by scores of others who have tender regards for dear good Aunt Martha. [Martha Ann Stevenson] [Place of burial: Wasco Methodist Cemetery]
• Grandma Isaac Thompson died on the 4th at the home of her son, Elwood, at Trout Lake. Deceased was widely known in this county and was greatly admired for many excellent qualities.  To her bereaved husband and sorrowing sons and daughters, The Observer extends heartfelt sympathies.

March 19, 1909

March 26, 1909

April 2, 1909

• That was a sorrowful story indeed that reached Moro this week from Alberta, telling of the tragic death of the mother and brother of R.M. Brash of this city. It appears that mother and son, John, were living on a farm 1 1/3 miles from Millett, and John was accustomed to going into town once a week to the lodge meetings.  On the 16th of March a very stormy day, he failed to come and a committee of brothers made a search party and on the 22nd found the mother dead and frozen on the trail, with her two dogs standing a guard over her body against hungry wolves.  After caring for the remains of the old lady, a part of the committee proceeded to the farm, and there they found John, dead in bed, evidently from heart disease.  The house was in perfect order, dishes washed and put in place, and one window raised for ventilation.  It is supposed that after John died the mother started after help and perished by the way side.  It is a very sad affair, and touches the hearts of many whose sympathies are extended to the stricken survivors.
• Friends of Mr. and Mrs. James Belshe, of Polk county, were pained to hear of the death of their daughter Ada on the 28th, after an illness of 11 weeks. The funeral took place at Monmouth, and interment was had at the family plat at Rose cemetery, east of Moro, attended by a large number of old-tine friends and neighbors Tuesday.  Deceased was 23 years of age, an accomplished teacher, and will be sadly missed by a large circle of acquaintances, both here and in the valley.  [Ada L.]

April 9, 1909

April 16, 1909

• H. Monroe was found dead in bed at his cabin near McDonald, in this county on the 10th, apparently from heart disease. Sheriff Freeman and Dr. O.J. Goffin, coroner, went to the place and had the remains moved to Moro, where they were prepared for burial and were accompanied by his son Percy to Portland for the funeral.  Deceased is survived by his widow, and one son, Percy C., who is in business in Portland. [McDonald is the site of the Oregon Trail crossing, ferry and bridge on the John Day River in Sherman County.]

April 23, 1909

• Munroe, nee Miss Edith Diekman, came up from Portland with her husband’s mother, and went out to the farm Tuesday, where Mr. Munroe, Sr. died suddenly recently, to see how matters are. Deceased was alone when he died and an autopsy showed that the cause of death was heart failure. [W.H. Monroe]

April 30, 1909

• The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Daugherty was buried from the residence Sunday afternoon, Rev. A.J. Adams officiating.

May 7, 1909

May 14, 1909

• John Kennth, the six year old son of Mr. and Mrs. J.V. O’Leary, of McKenzie Bridge, died of appendicitis in the hospital at Eugene, on the 27th ult.

May 21, 1909

May 28, 1909

• Richard Sigman, father of Mrs. C.S. O’Leary, of Grass Valley, died recently at his Dufur home aged 65 years.

June 4, 1909

June 11, 1909

• William R. Derby, of Lafayette, died on the 4th at his home, nearly 80 years of age. Deceased was one of the incorruptible republican members of the 1883 assembly.  He served during the civil war in a Michigan regiment with honorable distinction.  His life may be summed up as a typical soldier in the time of his country’s need, of a faithful and capable citizen and legislator in the councils of Oregon and, above all, that of an exemplary neighbor of a free republic.  He leaves a widow and five grown sons, on of them, Fred L. of The Observer office.

June 25, 1909

• Sanders returned from Hood River Wednesday. His little grandson Joseph, 11 years old, son of Pat McDonald, deceased, was buried that day at Wasco cemetery.  Death occurred in The Dalles Monday. [Joseph Ralph McDonald –  Died 21 June 1909.  Son of Patrick William (deceased 04 Dec 1904) and Bertha Ellen (Sanders) m(1) McDonald, m(2) Sagawe.  Brother to Kathleen Maxine; William Byron; John Patrick McDonald and Julia May Sagawe; Richard Lee Sagawe (deceased 17 June 1917]

July 2, 1909

• Keep fly poison out of the reach of children. and Mrs. J.C. Benson, of 5-Mile, lost a little tot last week who drank it, perhaps thinking it was water.

July 9, 1909

• Accidental Drowning. C. Leonard, Manager of Sandow Mill, Lost in DesChutes.    A party consisting of R.C. Atwood and wife, V.H. Smith and wife, E.C. Leonard and wife, of Wasco, and Geo W. Berrian and wife of Moro, left Saturday enroute to Bend by automobile to participate in the trout barbecue at that place.  The party stopped for lunch and rest at Cove, and while the men were engaged in fishing, the ladies went in wading;  they had been in the water but a short time when venturing too far lost their footing in the cold water and cried for help;  Mr. Berrian hearing their cries rushed up to the place and helped all to ashore, the last being Mrs. Leonard; while this was being accomplished Mr. Leonard appeared and went into the water to assist, but got beyond this depth and was carried away by the swift current. Word was sent to Wasco, Moro, and Grass Valley by phone from Sherar Bridge and several automobiles loaded with searchers were soon on the way to the accident; but though a diligent search has been made there has been failure to secure the body. —  It is with much regret that we have to announce the death of Mr. Leonard who was one of the popular business men of Sherman county, being manager of the Sandow Mill property at Wasco for over a year.  He was a good citizen and a conscientious, square dealing business man as well as a good husband.  Sherman county can ill afford to lose such men as Mr. Leonard for he belonged to a class of citizens who stood for right in city and county government and always lent a helping hand in anything that was of benefit to the community.  His death is a source of regret to all who knew him.  The bereaved family and relatives have the sympathy of the entire community.

July 16, 1909

July 23, 1909

• J. Cook, a brakeman on the O R & N between The Dalles and Umatilla, fell from a freight train half a mile west of Rufus on a curve in the sand cut about three o’clock Wednesday morning. A west bound passing shortly after ran over and killed him before he could recover from the fall.  After the inquest he was taken to The Dalles by friends.  Cook formerly lived at Oregon City, and leaves a wife and three month old baby in The Dalles.

July 30, 1909

• Death’s messenger came to the home of Mrs. Edna Vinton Walker, daughter of David E. Vinton, at the family home in Grass Valley Sunday afternoon July 25th, taking the young wife and mother. Immediate cause of death was blood poisoning.  The funeral was held at Grass Valley Tuesday morning at 10 o’clock.  The funeral was attended by Mrs. Walker’s grandmother Mrs. Elizabeth Cushman, and aunts, Mrs. W.H. and H.A. Moore of Portland, and Mrs. H.S. McDanel and Mrs. W.C. Rutledge of Moro.  [Edna J.]

August 6, 1909

• A Spokane dispatch of Sunday announces the death of Mrs. Frank H. Spaulding, wife of Rev. Spaulding, and their two sons, aged 9 and 14 years, in Lake Kelso, while frolicking on the beach, the boys ventured into the water and got beyond their depth. The older boy was taken with cramps and cried to his mother for aid.  The mother plunged into the cold water to rescue him, when the cries of the drowning boy reached the little fellow a fit took hold of him and he sank beneath the surface.  All were lost.  The bodies were recovered and the funerals were held at Athol, Idaho, Monday.  [Cassie J., Angus, Robert W.]

August 13, 1909

• As The O. Man was leaving The Esmond for Eastern Oregon the latter part of July, Day Clerk H. Stolte put into our hand a sealed envelope, with instructions to open it when we arrived home. We did so, and found therein a fine picture of Mr. Stolte, with this inscribed on the back of it: “Let our faults be written upon the sands; our virtues upon the tablets of love and memory.”   Within a few days The Oregonian brought us news that Brother Stolte was dead, suddenly at home of heart disease, the funeral occurring last Saturday.  But memories of his good deeds will live long in the land where he dwelled so many years and was so generally a favorite among those who knew him best.

August 20, 1909

August 27, 1909

• Friends of Wm. Froebe will be pained to learn of the death of his estimable wife, which occurred on the 20th, of cancer of the stomach at Wasco. F. was a very highly esteemed by a large circle of friends and acquaintances. [Mollie Q.]
• Sam Barr is dead. Should he be so fortunate as to find his good old father across the river Styz, wonder if that last dispatch: “Bury father where he is;”  will be called up?  His son comes from the east to his funeral.

September 3, 1909

• Hon George A. Liebe, buried on the 26th at The Dalles, was a pioneer of August 1, 1858, and if any such there be, was most certainly one of God’s chosen people. Enemies he had none, his friends were legion.

September 10, 1909

• and Mrs. John Christensen buried their darling infant Sunday. Services at the farm home were conducted by Rev. A.J. Adams, interment in Rose cemetery. [Henry Christianson]

September 17, 1909

• Robert Urquhart was called to Linn, Wash., Monday to attend the funeral of his brother’s wife. He went through to Rufus with his own team, George driving.

September 24, 1909

• The premature discharge of dynamite at the government canal work at Celilo Friday killed a laborer named Alec Jackson, and so badly injured another, Ole Carlson, that he will die. Jackson was blown 100 feet in the air.

October 1, 1909

• It is thought that the young man killed on the railway east of Arlington last week, was a former employee of Mr. Wise, on the John Holman farm near this city.

October 8, 1909

October 15, 1909

October 22, 1909

October 29, 1909

November 5, 1909

• G. Johnson, a former resident of this city, died at Hood River on the 2d. When here Mr. Johnson had charge of the city pumping station.

November 12, 1909

• Letha Lee, aged 7 years, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A.E. Moretz, whose sickness was reported in The Observer last week, died at 11:35 Thursday night the 4th. It was a terrible shock for our friends to part with little Letha, for it seemed that there was a great future in store for such a bright child, but God had need for her and called her to come up higher.  The funeral services were conducted at Monkland church where both Rev. Adams and Rev. Lowther tendered words of consolation to the stricken parents and scores of sympathizing friends in attendance.
• Johnson, of Hammond, Wn., attended the funeral of her son J.G., at Hood river, returning to Sherman county with her son-in-law A.C. Coe, a short time, before doing back to Washington.

November 19, 1909

• The death of Peter Taylor in Portland last week, leaves W.S. Failing sole survivor of the first gold prospecting party on the John Day in that terrible winter in 1861-2. They were the only white people in what is now Wheeler county, and they suffered miserably in their search for the yellow sands which were never found.

November 26, 1909

• Martha, 2d daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Holman, died at the home of her parents in Portland on the 11th; burial at Rose city cemetery. The stricken family have the heartfelt sympathies of a large circle of neighbors and friends in this vicinity.

December 3, 1909

• Frederika Hansen, mother of Mrs. Boesen, died in this city at an advanced age last Friday. Funeral was attended by family and sympathizing friends, from the residence, Saturday forenoon; burial in Moro cemetery, Rev. A.J. Adams officiating.

December 10, 1909

• Sad indeed was the second fatality which occurred in the family of our friends Mr. and Mrs. A.E. Moretz last week, taking another one of their little ones away from them under circumstances similar to that which took away an old little girl so recently. Much sympathy is extended to the bereaved family. [Opal A.]
• Joseph Sanders wife’ died at Yakima last week, burial at Arlington on the 5th. He had great difficulty in attending the obsequies, on account of the irregularities of train service. [Evelyn Maria (Swank) born at Brownsville, Oregon 25 August 1857; died 30 November 1909.  Mother of Bertha Ellen m(1) McDonald, m(2) Sagawe; Gracie Lee Crum; Byron William, deceased 28 May 1901; Joseph Harry, deceased 07 December 1903; Arthur L.; and Frances.  Place of Burial – Arlington cemetery]

December 17, 1909

December 24, 1909

• Thomas Frazer, an old time resident of Yamhill county and one of the leading farmers of Sherman county, was buried at Rose cemetery on Saturday. Death occurred in Portland, where he has made his home of recent years.  Funeral services, under the auspices of the IOOF, of which he was an honored member, took place at Moro M.E. church, Rev. AJ Adams officiating.  A large delegation of friends attended the sad obsequies, and evidenced their sympathies for the widow and the stricken ones of the bereaved family.

December 31, 1909

• In Memoriam. Words of Sympathy on the Death of Thomas H. Fraser.  Not good bye, you are never away From my thoughts so long that I need the word. I shall miss your hand clasp just for today And the sound of your voice will be joy deferred. — Thomas H. Fraser, a former resident of this district, died at his home in Portland, December 15th 1909, at the age of 55 years.  He was born in Nova Scotia in 1854, came west while a young man and after remaining in California six years located in Oregon, where he has since resided.  He has been troubled by paralysis for the past six years and death finally resulted.  He was a kind husband and loving father, who bore his sufferings without a murmur, and always had a pleasant word and a cheerful smile for all.  He leaves a wife and four children, Verdi, Christia, Mabel and Tom, besides a host of friends to mourn his loss.  We hope to meet him in the skies. — Relatives of deceased desire to extend heartfelt thanks to the many friends who have assisted them during their recent loss.

January 7, 1910 

• Alvin Sigman, brother of Mrs. C.D. O’Leary of Grass Valley, died at his home near Dufur last week, of Bright’s disease of the kidneys. He was a popular and highly respected citizen.

January 14, 1910

• Nelson Dade, the lone colored man who has lived in Moro several years, died Wednesday. A few friends gave him christian burial.  Peace to his ashes.

January 21, 1910

• It is with sadness that we record the death of E.S. Cattron, at her home in Wasco on the 16th, from nervous prostration, the result of a long siege of sickness. Besides her husband, Mayor Cattron, she leaves two lovely little girls, and hosts of loving kindred and friends, to whom we extend sympathy.   Interment was had in the old home cemetery in Polk county.

January 28, 1910

February 4, 1910

• The death of O.D. Taylor at Portland on the 29th, is reported. He is survived by a wife, three daughters and three sons all residents of Baker city, except one who lives in The Dalles.

February 11, 1910

• Cora Davis-Russell, long an invalid, suffering from lung troubles, finally yielded to the inevitable and died in Spokane on the 6th. The remains were brought to Sherman county, and the funeral was held in Grass Valley on the 8th, interment in the family lot.

February 18, 1910

February 25, 1910

• Laura Ada, the 12 year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Walker of Wasco, died at The Dalles hospital Saturday of acute nephritis. Funeral and interment at Wasco.

March 4, 1910

• Edna Watkins, 10 years old, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A.F. Watkins, was buried near Wasco. Her death resulted from an operation for appendicitis.  We extend heartfelt sympathies to the sorrowing family.

March 11, 1910

• The dead man found near Mr. Tom’s place Sunday proved beyond a doubt to be the remains of Jef Nickson who has been missing since November. [One Jeff Nixon was counted in the 1887 and 1889 Washington State Census, Klickitat County, a ferryman in 1887, born about 1853 in England.]
• Fred C. Matthias and wife were business visitors in Moro on the 9th. Matthias’ father, W.A. Pickard, died at Yakima on the 18th, from the effects of an operation for blood poisoning.  Deceased was 54 years of age.  Some years ago he was a resident of Sherman county.

March 18, 1910

• A son of Henry Frock was buried from the farm home on Sunday, Rev. Smith officiating. The lad was 8 years of age.
• In Memoriam. Parma (Idaho) Review:  Nellie Rose Hulse was born to Mr and Mrs L.G. Rose Aug. 8th, 1882 at Ft. Ripley, Minn., where she resided with her parents until she was 22 years of age.  At the early age of twelve she was converted in the Salvation Army, in which she remained a good soldier for many years. In 1905 she moved to Moro, Oregon, for her health, and lived with her aunt, Mrs. Elrod, where she became acquainted with and on March 30^th, 1908, married Roy Hulse, one of Moro’s best young men.  After the wedding, which took place at the home of her parents in Parma, Idaho, she went to her new home in Moro where she lived so happily for two short years. She was brought home Feb. 20th and died March 3d, being 27 years, 6 months and 25 days old. She leaves to mourn her loss a loving husband, father, mother, four brothers and two sisters and host of friends in Moro and Parma as she was loved by all who knew her. Funeral services were held in the first Presbyterian church of Parma, Rev. Elder the pastor officiating, assisted by Rev. M. Dilly of the Free Methodist church.  Interment in the Odd Fellows cemetery. She left us at the river side, We saw her vanish o’er the tide. Her parting wrung our hearts with pain, But, Oh! I’m sure we’ll meet again.

March 25, 1910

April 1, 1910

• J. Larsen, father of Mrs. C.J. Bright, formerly of Wasco, died suddenly in The Dalles, at the home of his daughter, of heart disease, on the 22d.

April 8, 1910

• Conductor Killed by His Train. Conductor E. Hornish, of the OR&N freight service, was run over by his train near Grants Friday night and instantly killed.  He was on the car roofs and started rearwards, leaving a brakeman a few seconds when the wind extinguished the light of his lantern and he fell between the cars.  The train was running slow and when Mr. H. disappeared stopped within three cars of his fall.  The body was fearfully mangled.  After gathering the remains the train proceeded to The Dalles.

April 15, 1910

April 22, 1910

April 29, 1910

• Grandpa Sink and Mr. King two well known pioneers of Sherman county, were laid to rest in the Wasco cemetery last Sunday. [Thomas W. Sink] [George Washington King]

May 6, 1910

May 13, 1910

• Death of Miss Mary B. Nickelson. Miss Mary B. Nickelson, daughter of J.C. Nickelson of Boyd and niece of J.A. Nickelson of this city, died of diphtheria at The Dalles at midnight Sunday and was taken to Dufur early Monday morning.  This is one of the saddest cases we have ever had to chronicle. It is sorrowful enough for one so young with such a promising future, to be stricken in the midst of her social circle when all may attend and pay tribute to her memory, but a bereavement such as this, and so sudden, sends a shock to all who knew her.  Miss Nickelson was an expert stenographer and type writer in the employ of Lane & Sexton, and was admired for the many worthy characteristics of her cheerful nature.  Her uncle here was informed and prepared at once to attend the funeral but a later dispatch, informing him as to the situation, caused him to abandon the trip.  We deeply sympathize with the sorrowing family and friends.

May 20, 1910

• Clarence B. Thompson, son of Mr. and Mrs. J.J. Thompson, and a brother of H.A. Thompson late of this city, died in San Francisco on the 12th. Deceased will be remembered by many of the older residents of Sherman county.

May 27, 1910

• Sam Brisbine attended the funeral of his brother A. Brisbine at Portland, interment at Forest Grove. Sickness was a brief attack of tuberculosis.

June 3, 1910

• The death of Lemuel Sells occurred at his home in this city, at noon Memorial Day. He was past 71 years of age and his death was due to an affliction of the bowels from which he has long suffered.  He was born near Indianapolis, Indiana, and has been in active pursuits all his life, an esteemed citizen wherever his lot was cast.  At the time of death he was Collector and Marshal of the city of Moro.  He leaves a wife and one son, Emmit, in this city, Mrs. P.C. Angel, of Oakland, Cal., J.W. Sells of Great Falls, Montana, and G.M. Sells of North Bend, Oregon, all of whom were at his bed side when the final summons came,  except G.M., who could not get here. Much sympathy is extended to the bereaved family, who lost in him a kind, loving father and husband.  Funeral services were conducted by Rev. Adams, Tuesday afternoon in the ME church. — The family wish us to express their sincere thanks to the neighbors and friends of Moro and vicinity who so kindly assisted them during this trying ordeal of sickness, death, and burial.

June 10, 1910

June 17, 1910

June 24, 1910

July 1, 1910

July 8, 1910

• Died at Walla Walla, Monday, June 27th, Huffman, mother of Mrs. Emmit Sells. Mrs. Huffman has been a sufferer from cancer for some time, the end being expected for some weeks.

July 15, 1910

July 22, 1910

July 29, 1910

August 5, 1910

• Mary E. Howard, formerly of this city, died at Colfax aged 78 years, July 1st. She leaves three living daughters; two in Oregon and one in British Columbia.

August 12, 1910

August 19, 1910

August 26, 1910

• June Crum, a 6-year old grandson of Dr. Joseph Sanders, died in Portland on the 17th from the effects of a tumor. S. attended the funeral at Arlington on the next day, making a forced drive to meet the train at Biggs.   [Second born son of nine children born to George L. and Gracie Lee (Sanders) Crum. Place of Burial – Arlington cemetery]

September 2, 1910

• Died, in The Dalles on the 27th Ed Eaton, from a complication of diseases. Interment at the Wasco cemetery on the 30th.  Deceased was well and favorably known here, having been born and raised in Sherman county. [E.]

September 9, 1910

• Clay Johnson the young man of 17 years, recently from the east, and who was taken to The Dalles hospital from Kenneth farm, suffering from typhoid fever, died last week. His parents live in Tennessee; the remains were sent to relatives at Fossil for burial.

September 16, 1910

September 23, 1910

September 30, 1910

October 7, 1910

• G.V. Stanton died of tuberculosis at The Dalles hospital; interment at Grass Valley cemetery. Mr. Stanton has many friends here who extend sympathy in his bereavement.  [Alva E.]

October 14, 1910

October 21, 1910

• Walter E. Thompson, brother of H.A., known here some 20 years ago as a bright young man, died in Arizona on the 3d, aged 33 yrs. For several years past he has been connected with the government service, in the Quartermasters department.  The remains were interred in the family lot at San Francisco, where the mother, Mrs. M.J. Thompson, still lives.

October 28, 1910

November 4, 1910

November 11, 1910

• Death of John H. Landry. John H. Landry, one of the earliest pioneers of Moro, died at 5 o’clock am Sunday, from a complication of afflictions, chiefly disease of the heart.  Landry has always been respected as one our most respected citizens.  He is survived by his wife, three daughters, Mrs. W.S. Powell, Mrs. Clara Belchee, Miss Eva Landry, and one son, Jesse N. Landry. The funeral was held Tuesday afternoon in the ME Church, interment at the family lot in Moro cemetery.  The church was filled with sympathizing friends and neighbors who express deep sorrow at the great affliction visited upon this stricken family.  Rev. Lowther touched the hearts of his hearers in tender tribute to the memory of deceased and the lovely floral offerings attested the esteem of loving hearts outside of the immediate family.  An elder brother, Henry, and all of the near relatives were present at these last sad rights.

November 18, 1910

November 25, 1910

• Portland Adams, of McMinnville, died of paralysis at The Dalles on the 16th, aged 64 years, while on a visit to relatives. T. Clay Neece was a niece of deceased, and happened to be in The Dalles when death occurred.  The remains were taken to McMinnville for funeral and burial.

December 2, 1910

• Miss Elsie Ragsdale of this city died at 6 p.m., at the home of her mother in this city, November 25. The funeral was attended from the home of Hon. W.H. Ragsdale, brother of deceased, with interment at Moro cemetery.
• Russell, an aged relative of Mr. Dunn, died at the farm on John Day Sunday morning and was buried at Moro cemetery on Monday. Deceased was 81 years of age, a long time resident of Yamhill county.  He never was married.  [Amos E.]

December 9, 1910

December 16, 1910

December 23, 1910

• Death of Grandpa J.B. Wheat. Grandpa B. Wheat died at the some of his son Don in this city, the night of December 15th, surrounded by his family, the loving and faithful wife of so many years, three sons and one daughter, Mrs. Wm H. Rose, of Jackson county, thus closing a career of usefulness embodying the fullness of a life of nearly 75 years.  He had been on the decline for many months on account of a tumor on his neck, and for weeks death has been expected, but with all the attendant pain and anxiety of friends, retained the cheerful attitude of the true and tried christian, and was conscious to within a few hours of the final summons.  The funeral was attended at Moro ME Church, Saturday morning, Rev. Havener officiating.

December 30, 1910

• F. Guinther was a Moro visitor Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. G. buried their little 7-months old daughter on the 18th.
• The death of Mrs. Hattie Williams occurred at Seattle November 26th. Deceased was an only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Erskine, pioneers of Sherman county and founders of Erskineville.  W. leaves a husband and one married daughter in Seattle, with whom Mr. Erskine makes his home.

January 6, 1911

• A Berkeley, California paper, reports the death and burial in that city last month, of Mrs. A. Lyon, wife of E.E. Lyon, formerly of Sherman county, where both were very highly respected by a large circle of friends, with whom we join our sympathies in their bereavement.

January 13, 1911

• Holder dead. Wm. Holder, three times sheriff of Sherman county, died at his home near Paisley Dec. 31st.  Death came in the night as he slept, and was unknown to the family until Mrs. H. entered the room New Year’s morning to announce that he was wanted at the phone.  Alas, he had gone where a previous summons called him.  He was a native of Benton county, Oregon, aged 56 years.  Peace be with him.

January 20, 1911

• News of the death of W. Benson, June 6th at Oroville, Wash., of heart disease, reached Moro this week, and his son Harry left on Tuesday to make arrangements for bringing the remains to Moro for final interment. Mr. Benson was one of the pioneers of Sherman county.
• The funeral of George E. Thompson took place in Vancouver Saturday. A large number of friends and relatives from this county attended.  Mrs. Thompson was greatly beloved by a large circle of friends, and her death is sadly and sincerely mourned.
• The sad news of the death of Mrs. Lottie Surgensen, at Ellensburg, Wash., was received by wire late Friday evening. Saturday morning Mr and Mrs. H.S. McDanel and Mr. and Mrs. E.A. Cushman left Moro by team to attend the funeral.  Surgensen was a sister of Mrs. McDanel, Mr. Cushman, Mrs. D.E. Vinton, Mrs. Laura and America Moore.  H.A. Moore and wife and Mrs. Laura Moore were also in attendance.  This is truly a very sad incident, surrounded by all the comforts of a good home, loving husband and everything that makes life worth living.  Lottie is stricken by pneumonia, and besides two pretty daughters leaves a son five days old.  To the bereaved ones The Observer extends heartfelt sympathies.

January 27, 1911

• Alex Hunter has received word of the death of his mother on the 13th, at her home in Canada, aged 90 years. She was a native of Scotland, and came to Canada with her parents when about 12 years old and settled on the Ottawa river about 30 miles from Ottawa city, Canada.  She leaves two sons, Alex, who resides in Sherman county, and William, of Maidstone, Sask., three daughters, Mrs. John Brownell of Sask., Mrs. Geo. A. Williams of Dresden, N. Dakota, Mrs. Chas. Develin of Ottowa, Canada, besides several grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren.
• and Mrs. Jerome Morrow, living in the Gorman district, lost their bright little 2-years old boy on the 23d. Burial was at Wasco on the 24th.  Our sympathy is extended to the family.  [Eugene]

February 3, 1911

• John Venable, Jr, of Rufus, was a Moro visitor on business last week. His father, a veteran of 86 years, died on the 23d.  Deceased had been a resident of Sherman county 22 years, coming here from Illinois, and was highly esteemed by all who knew him.

February 10, 1911

• Wash M. Reynolds died in the operating room at the Sacramento hospital where he was taken from Yuba City after the accident which caused his death. By the request of the deceased his remains were brought to Wasco for interment, and the funeral was held there on Sunday last, under auspices of the K of P attended by Mrs. Reynolds, other relatives, and scores of old-time friends and acquaintances.
• F.M. Whiteley, of Adams, mother of Mrs. J.H. Landry, of this city, died February 1st, after a lingering illness; she was one of the pioneers of Umatilla county, very highly respected by a large circle of acquaintances.  We extend sympathy to the bereaved.

February 17, 1911

• Henry Hennagin has just returned to his home in Benton county, from a sad mission to Woodlawn, Cal., the death and burial of his brother John. He arrived at the bedside of his stricken kinsman four days before death claimed him.
• Charles Adams, who was a business visitor in Moro early this month, died suddenly of congestion of the brain at The Dalles, en route to his Tygh valley home. The sudden and unexpected death was a terrible shock to his family and many friends;  he was a warm hearted, affectionate nature, and a favorite with all who knew him, being a man of the highest integrity in every way.

February 24, 1911

• The infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Warfield died Monday morning. Funeral services were held at the family residence Tuesday a.m.  Interment at Grass Valley cemetery.
• The suicide of E. Mills, once bumming around here selling wireless stock, saved him from criminal prosecution for forging the names of Mr. and Mrs. E. Sink. Mills passed in his chips recently while in jail at Spokane.  The note forged against Sink was for $3,500 and in payment for wireless stock, alleged to have been sold Sink; the court held that the bank would have to cancel the note and free Mr. and Mrs. Sink.

March 3, 1911

• Twins were born to Mr. and Mrs. J.F. Foss on the 24th, a girl and boy, but unfortunately the latter was still born.

March 10, 1911

March 17, 1911

March 24, 1911

• “One-eyed Susan,” as she has always been known, perhaps the oldest Indian squaw in the community, died at Hood River Thursday and was buried in the cemetery at Underwood, Wash. It is believed that she was nearly 100 years old.

March 31, 1911

• The funeral of Beers was one of the largest ever held in Sherman county, friends attending from various parts of the state. Death occurred at the home place at Bigelow, March 25th, funeral in Wasco Sunday.

April 7, 1911

• Ah-tub-sis-tu, the oldest Indian woman on the Umatilla reservation and probably one of the oldest in the Northwest, died at the home of her nephew, Amos Pond, acting chief of the Umatilla tribe. Though her exact age is not known, her nephew and J.M. Cornelison, missionary for the Indians, believe she must have been nearly a hundred years old.
• Death and Funeral of Dr. Beers. Harland Edgar Beers died at his home near Wasco, Saturday March 25th, 1911, 2 p.m.  Dr. Beers was one of the pioneer physicians of this county.  He came here in 1890 and spend the greater part of his life here; going east in 1892 to take a regular course in the Medical University at Buffalo; then to New York city for a three months course in surgery; he returned to Albany, Oregon, and followed his chosen profession there for five years, then coming to this county again, still following his profession until 1907, when his health failed. Harland Edgar Beers was born in Linn county, near Albany, September 14th, 1864; died March 25th, 1911, aged 46 years, 6 months and 11 days.  He leaves a wife and one child, father and one brother, and many friends to mourn their loss.  Funeral services held at the M.E. church in Wasco, were conducted by the pastor of the Christian church assisted by the pastor of the M.E. church, Sunday, 3 p.m.  The seating capacity of the church was taxed to its utmost to accommodate the large crowd of friends who gathered to pay a tribute to their friend and physician for whom they had often anxiously awaited his coming to relieve the suffering of some loved one.  Being a prominent member of the Elks, immediately after the services the brotherhood took charge and conducted the remains to the cemetery where he was laid to rest with the honors of the order.
• and Mrs. Fred Hennagin have the heart felt sympathies of a large circle of friends and acquaintances at the loss of their infant daughter, buried at Rose cemetery March 31st.
• John B. Crosfield, mother of Geo N. Crosfield, died at the family residence in Portland, recently, aged 65 years, of heart failure. Mrs. Crosfield was born in Chippewa, Ontario, Canada, November 11, 1845.  Her maiden name was Eliza A. Patterson, and she came from a well-known Methodist family, her father and grandfather having been missionaries of that denomination.  She was married in Canada December 11, 1866, and came to the United States in 1869.  She was a resident of Portland for 25 years.

April 14, 1911

April 21, 1911

April 28, 1911

May 5, 1911

• Again we are called upon to note the death of a dear friend, L.A. Loomis of North Beach, Wash. She was a lovely Christian character, always extending a helping hand to the needy, for many years a member of the Presbyterian church at Ilwaco, where she will be missed by its members.
• Fred R. Derby of The Observer force, was called to the bedside of his dying mother at Lafayette last week. He was fortunate in seeing her alive after his arrival at home, but death claimed her the same day.  The funeral was held Saturday.  Since his residence here Mr. Derby has been twice to funerals at his home in Yamhill county, the former one being the death of his father.  His friends all sympathize with him in these afflictions.

May 12, 1911

• P. Coe received a telegram Monday from Glenwood, Iowa, conveying the sad information that his mother, Mrs. P.B. Coe had died that morning from a paralytic stroke; aged 78 years.

May 19, 1911

• Ex-Governor Buried.   — The funeral of LaFayetre Grover, ex-governor of Oregon, was held at Trinity Episcopal Church at 2 o’clock Friday afternoon.  The cortege was composed of 65 men from the Third Regiment of the Oregon National Guard, under the command of Colonel Dunbar.  The interment was at Riverview cemetery.
• Thomas W. Norcross, father of W.A. Norcross, of this city, died of paralysis May 14th, in his 83d year, at the home of his son, Frank H. in Reno; Mr. N. was one of the pioneer miners of California and Nevada; he leaves many kindred and a wide scope of acquaintances who will drop a tear in his memory; the funeral took place at Reno Wednesday, under auspices of the Masonic order, of which he was an honored member.
• We were surprised Monday at receiving a letter from J.P. Lindeman, Santa Fe, Ks., May 9th. He was called there on account of the sickness and death of his brother, which occurred April 26th.  L. is very favorably impressed with the beauty and productiveness of that portion of the country, which is a great cattle country, level as a floor, no sand, fine grass, 60 miles from the Colorado line and 34 from the Oklahoma line.  Land is selling at $8 to $10 per acres; range cattle are worth from $20 to $40 each, good cows $40 to $50.

May 26, 1911

June 2, 1911

• “Judge Long Hair,” one of the oldest and best known Indians on the Umatilla reservation, died at 80 years Friday.

June 9, 1911

• Death of Mrs. MacDonald. Mrs. Jeanette MacDonald, mother of Mesdames Crosfield, McCoy, Amos and Fordyce, died at the home of Mrs. Crosfield in Wasco on the 2d, at a ripe old age; funeral and interment at The Dalles on the 4th. Thus do the early pioneers depart us, only to be remembered always for the days when but few social and congenial spirits lived neighbors in this golden Inland Empire to cheer the hope of the coming day when all the comforts of life might be enjoyed; but alas, that time seems all too brief, at the hope realized.  But we feel that perhaps ’tis well, as one of us enters the joyful eternity allotted to such as the deceased.
• Mary E. Coleman died very suddenly at the home of her daughter, Mrs. T. R. McGinnis, in Corvallis, Friday June 2d, aged 78 years. Mrs. Coleman has made her home in Moro with her daughter, Mrs. M. L. Hoskinson, for several years, and at the time of her death had been away on a visit to relatives in Portland and other places in the valley.  Funeral services were conducted by Rev. A.J. Adams in the Moro M.E. church Tuesday, June 6th.

June 16, 1911

• Died: At hospital in Portland, Sunday, June 11th, B. McCoy, of this city, aged 62 years.  The remains were brought to this city Monday, and the funeral attended at 2 p.m. Tuesday, by a large assemblage of truly sympathizing friends and neighbors.  Thus has ended a remarkably kind and accommodating life.  Bro McCoy was known as one of the most active and attentive citizens of this city and county at times when the call was made for relief of sickness or distress in the community, and will be greatly missed.  Deceased was born in 1850 in Illinois, married Anna Morrow in 1873, served 4 years as deputy and 4 years as sheriff of this county.  There was standing room only in the church at this funeral, and Rev. Adams delivered one of the most impressive sermons ever delivered on such an occasion in the county.  Floral offerings were beautiful and liberal tokens of high respect.  He leaves a wife, three married daughters, a motherless granddaughter, and one son, to mourn his death.  He performed his part in life well and faithfully and his rest must be blessed and peaceful.  [William Benjamin]

June 23, 1911

• Charlie French was drowned the afternoon June 13th on the Metolus river near Sisters, Crook county.
• Anthony Mitchell, pastor of the Presbyterian church at Prineville, died at his homestead near Bend June 14th of stomach trouble. Mr. Mitchell has a number of friends in Sherman county who will be sorry to learn of his demise.

June 30, 1911

July 7, 1911

July 14, 1911

July 21, 1911

 

July 28, 1911

• John E. York, who was murdered in southern Oregon last week, was a teamster from Shaniko. Mike Morgan, alias Hailey Wilkes, the murderer, had accompanied York to Grants Pass.  The murderer was a deserter from the army.

August 4, 1911

August 11, 1911

August 18, 1911

• A. Bull was called to Vancouver on the 19th, to attend the funeral of his sister, Mrs. C.B. Wintler, whose death occurred on the 18th of tuberculosis, after an illness of nearly a year. Mrs. W. was a resident of Portland 17 years.
• J. Heckard, former landlord of the Biggs hotel, was buried at The Dalles on the 19th as the result of an accident in which he lost a leg by a passing freight train under which he fell on the 15th. He was taken to The Dalles by the train under which he had fallen, but was beyond the hope of successful treatment, and died on the 17th, still unconscious.  Jake, as we all called him, was one of the noblest work of God.  None knew him but to love him for his amiable traits and many are they who will tearfully remember him.  To his wife and little boy and girl, his brothers, sister, and good old parents, we tender sincere sympathies.

August 25, 1911

September 1, 1911

• Richard Conroy, aged about 28 years, herding sheep for Lafe Penland, 25 miles south of Heppner, was recently found with his face blown off, lying on one side of a log and his shot gun on the other. The chin, cheek bones and eyes were gone when found, and he was still alive, but unable to tell how it happened and died before medical assistance could reach him.  His father lives in Vancouver, BC, and he leaves a sister here, Mrs. J. Tonkins, of Monkland.
• W. McClelland, father of Mrs. J.C. McKean of this city, died at his home in Wasco on the morning of the 28th, in the 59th year of his age. Deceased had been ailing for several months, and some time ago was thought to be on his dying bed, but he rallied and after that was able to attend to business and visited with his daughter and family in Moro.  When the final summons came, though anticipated, it caused a shock to many of the closest friends of the family.  The funeral took place Tuesday p.m. at Wasco, Rev. A.J. Adams of this city officiating, and was largely attended by sympathizing friends and neighbors.  Deceased is survived by his loving companion of 31 years, one son and a daughter, Mrs. McKean of this city. [George Washington]

September 8, 1911

September 15, 1911

• The funeral of S.L. Brooks will take place in The Dalles today; death came last Monday at Pasadena, California, where she was with Mr. Brooks in the hope of restoring her health.

September 22, 1911

September 29, 1911

• Chronicle: H. Ireland died Sunday morning, at his farm home seven miles east of The Dalles, of heart failure and dropsy.  Deceased, who was 46 years old, is survived by a brother, F.V. Ireland; and uncle, J.W. Leonard, resides in The Dalles.  Mr. Ireland came to Wasco county a few months ago from Polk county; the remains will be taken to Monmouth for burial.

October 6, 1911

October 13, 1911

October 20, 1911

October 27, 1911

• Sudden Death of Mrs. A.A. Jayne. and Mrs. A.A. Jayne left Hood River last week intending to take up their residence at Los Angeles, Mr. J. having previously gone to Mexico where he had secured some extensive realty holdings, and Mrs. Jayne remained at Portland on a visit.  Sunday evening as she was passing from St. John’s into Portland Mrs. Jayne was stricken and fell in a faint on the floor of the car, and expired shortly afterward at a drug store where she was taken.  Dr. Yielding, who attended the case pronounced death from valvular affection of the heart.

November 3, 1911

• C.B. Davis‘ death occurred at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Weeks, in Lane county Oct. 25th, aged 72 years. Interment in the family lot by the side of her husband here, Sunday, October 29th.  The final sad rites were largely attended by sympathizing friends and old-time neighbors.
• Davis, mother of Waldo and Mrs. Geo. DeMoss, was buried at DeMoss cemetery Sunday. A good lady gone.
• and Mrs. L. Barnum attended the last sad rites after death of Mr. Fowlie, at The Dalles; burial was at Albany. Mrs. Barnum accompanied Mrs. Fowlie to Portland with the remains en route.
• Another Wasco County Murder. The Moro funeral director furnished a coffin Tuesday for a woman buried at Antelope on the 1st.  Inquiring for particulars we learned that death was caused by a drunken son, who plunged a knife into his 70-years old mother as she was bending over the wash tub at her work, death following the dagger in 20 minutes.  The assassin Bill Gleason [Glisan], was prevented from killing his father Ed, and a brother Al, by their timely appearance and struggle to capture and disarm him, all the time his mother was dying on the ground near the tub where she was killed.
• Chauncey O. Hosford, 91 years old, pioneer Methodist preacher of 1845, survivor of the First Methodist Conference of Oregon, who preached a sermon in Portland when it was a hamlet of only 14 log cabins, died at his home Saturday in Mount Tabor.

November 10, 1911

November 17, 1911

• Clara Belchee of Portland, was at the funeral Monday of her uncle, Henry Landry.
• The funeral of Uncle Henry Landry took place Monday afternoon, from Moro ME Church. His sufferings, the last few days of his life, were intense, but it appeared to be a great relief to him that he was able to reach this city from Arizona, whither he had gone in hope of relief, as here he would be surrounded by immediate relatives and friends, at home, so to speak, where his brother John H. had died such a brief time before.  Deceased having never married leaves only the living members and descendants of his father’s family.  He came direct to Moro from Arizona, convinced that he could not live much longer, and it was well that he did so, as he was tenderly cared for until the final summons came.

 

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Sherman County Observer

Moro, Sherman County, Oregon

 

The following are the death notices and obituaries contained with in the pages of the Sherman County Observer, on the microfilm roll containing the issues from November 24, 1911 to December 28, 1917.

 

November 24, 1911

• H. McCune left for Linn county Monday, to attend the funeral of his grandfather, who died at Lebanon on the 18th.
• Eugene Markley, a former attorney of this city, suicided in the Rose City Thursday; brooding over financial and domestic troubles , and being at the bottom of the ladder in an overcrowded profession brought him to it.
• Dell Howell, slayer of the Shaniko mayor, was sentenced for life; young Glisan, who murdered his mother near Antelope, received a similar sentence.

December 1, 1911

• Thomas Claxton, 60 years of age, was buried at Grass Valley on the 26th. He died from the effects of paralysis.  About his last work was upon the Moro school building with his son in law, Mr. VanNyce.

December 22, 1911

December 29, 1911

• McKean, father of Deputy Sheriff McKean of this city, and R.H. of Wasco, died on the 27th, at Bolivar, Mo., aged 76.
• Harry Milne, shot by Cal Stevens at Wasco Saturday evening, died. Whisky was at the bottom of the fracas.  Deputy McKean took Cal to jail on Christmas day, and he is held to answer.

January 5, 1912

January 12, 1912

January 19, 1912

• James M. DeMoss had a paraletic stroke Thursday, affecting the right side and causing loss of speech. Death followed on Wednesday. Prof. J.M. DeMoss was one of the early pioneers of Oregon, and made his home many years in this county at DeMoss springs, making annual concerts tours extending throughout the United States, and once across the Atlantic.  His abilities as a singer were most wonderful, and were highly complimented up to the very last of his entertainments last month, which he informed us was to be his farewell.  Liking data today we hope to give further thought to the subject next week.
• DeMoss Springs Letter. J. M. DeMoss died Wednesday Jan. 17th at 7:25 a.m.  He was sick just a week.  A paraletic stroke caused his death.

January 26, 1912

• DeMoss Springs Letter. Prof J. M. DeMoss was buried in the DeMoss cemetery Saturday Jan. 20^th; Rev A.J. Adams conducted the funeral services. Emma DeMoss had received a telegram from Geo. saying on account of poor service of trains they were unable to attend the funeral of their father.
• John R. Forest, long and popularly known in Yamhill county, died at his Wheatland home on the 15th. E.V. Littlefield, formerly of this city, wife of Judge Littlefield, was a daughter.
• Sherman County Pioneer at Rest. The funeral services for Prof. James M. DeMoss were held at DeMoss Saturday afternoon, January 20th, Rev. A.J. Adams preaching the sermon. Mr. DeMoss was born in Indiana May 15th, 1837, dying at the town which bears his name January 17, 1912, the place which he called home for twenty eight years.  His parents removed to Iowa when he was five years old; from there he came to Oregon in 1862.  He united with the United Brethren church when tend years old and entered the ministry and was ordained at twenty.  During his lifetime he acquired considerable fame as a musician and was a recognized author of music compositions of merit.
• A Portland paper says: “Older Oregonians, in noting the death of James M. DeMoss, will recall the pleasure given by the famous family of musicians to many a crossroads audience a quarter century or more ago.” Portland then was nearly at crossroads, and the DeMoss family many times played in the Beaver town.

February 2, 1912

February 9, 1912

• Kessinger and brother, E. N., returned February 5th from a horseback trip to Kingsley where they visited their grandmother, Mrs. R. Brittain. This was the first time roads and weather permitted the trip since the death of their grandfather January 7th.
• Term of Circuit Court. Cal Stevens was indicted on a charge of murder in the second degree for killing Henry Milne; entered a plea of not guilty.  By his attorney, W.C. Bryant, it was agreed that this case be tried the first day of the May term.
• C.W. Smith was called to Prineville this week to attend the funeral of her niece, Mrs. Sadie French, formerly of Grass Valley.

February 16, 1912

• Ed Miller long and favorably known in this county as a popular and obliging citizen, died at the hospital in Rochester, Minnesota, on the 1st, where he had been for a long time receiving a course of medical treatment in hope of recovering his health. The remains were brought to his Sherman county home for interment, services at Wasco by Rev. Poling and burial in the Odd Fellows’ cemetery.
• Kent letter to Shaniko Star: Sara J. Hall died at the home of her son Sunday morning at the age of nearly 82 years.  Funeral services were held in the church Monday at 2 p.m. and on Tuesday the remains were taken to Vancouver for burial beside her daughter, who died some years ago.  The body was accompanied by the two sons, W.S. and A.K. Hall and grandson T.E. Bayliss.

February 23, 1912

March 1, 1912

March 8, 1912

• Simon Elcock returned Friday from Garfield, Wash., where he was called to attend the funeral of Yarbough, sister of Mrs. Elcock.
• Card of Thanks. We wish to thank the kind friends and neighbors who were so generous in their help and care during the late sickness and death of our wife, and mother.  E. Epplet and Family.

March 15, 1912

• The funeral of Miss Anna Fulton took place at Wasco Sunday, the services being conducted by Bethleham Chapter Order Eastern Star of Moro. Death occurred at St. Vincent hospital after an illness of several weeks.  Miss Fulton was a daughter of the late Colonel and Mrs. James Fulton, who came to Oregon in 1847.  They lived for a time in Yamhill county, but later moved to what has since become Sherman county, where the family has long been prominent.  Miss Fulton is survived by three brothers, Judge John Fulton, David Fulton, and two sisters, Mrs. H.B. Isaacs, and Mrs. Elizabeth Scholl, of Walla Walla. [Two brothers named]

March 22, 1912

• Margaret Harring McDanel, a California pioneer of the early fifties, died in Portland on the 15th at the home of her son, H.S. McDanel. Deceased was a native of New York, where she was born in 1830.  In the early fifties she emigrated to California by way of Cape Horn, settling in Butte county.  Here she was married to Thomas McDanel who died many years ago.  She made her home in Oakland, California, until the earthquake in 1906, when she moved to Portland.  She is survived by her son, H.S. McDanel, and an adopted daughter, Miss Ruth McDanel.

March 29, 1912

April 5, 1912

April 12, 1912

• The mother of Mrs. J. A. Rassmussen died at her home in Washington county on the 5th. Rassmussen was compelled to leave her husband sick at home in the Monkland district, to be at the mother’s beside when the final summons came. [Rasmussen]

April 19, 1912

April 26, 1912

May 3, 1912

• B. Haverly, for many years a well known and respected resident of Wasco county, died at his home in Dufur on the 26th. Mr. Haverly was formerly mayor of Dufur.  Deceased was very highly respected by a large circle of acquaintances in Sherman county.

May 10, 1912

• and Mrs. A.E. Moretz have had another sad experience; the death of their baby Florence, 16 months old; the 3d time that grim death has knocked at their door within the past 2 1/2 years, and each time has taken a precious flower from their home. The funeral service was conducted from Monkland Presbyterian church on the 3d.  Friends and neighbors are united in their sympathy with the bereaved family and relatives.
• Murray a pioneer and well known citizen of this county, at one time largely interested in the orchard business at Grants, passed away at his McDonald home on the 4th; funeral and interment at The Dalles Monday. Mr. and Mrs. W.G. McDonald, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. N. Crosfield, Mrs. J.S. Amos, and other relatives and sympathizing friends from this county attended the funeral.  [The Dalles IOOF Cemetery?  See June 7, 1912 – Mrs. Wm. Murray]

May 17, 1912

May 24, 1912

May 31, 1912

• Carl Stevens was acquitted of the charge of 2d degree murder at the May term of court in this city, indicted for killing Henry Milne at Wasco last December. Both were bartenders in Rheinhart’s saloon; the defense pleaded self-defense.  The court issued four special venires before the jury was secured.  After 24 hours deliberation they brought in an acquittal verdict.  This case established a record for Sherman county in the number of men excused before the jury was secured and the length of time the jury was out.

June 7, 1912

• Sudden Death of Mrs. Murray. Chronicle: Wm. Murray of McDonald, died suddenly at The Hotel Dalles May 31st, where she was a guest during a few days’ stay in the city, heart failure causing her death.  Mrs. Murray came to The Dalles Wednesday to decorate the grave of her husband who was buried here May 7th. Deceased was born July 15th, 1838, in Scotland.  Surviving is a daughter, Mrs. W.G. McDonald, and four sisters, Mrs. E.O. McCoy, Mrs. G.N. Crosfield, Mrs. J.N. Fordyce and Mrs. J.S. Amos.  The funeral was held Sunday at the Congregational church, interment in the family lot in Odd Fellows’ cemetery. [Isabella?]
• John Sicsel, a pioneer in the Wasco settlement, died on the 26th ultimo.[Siscel]

June 14, 1912

• Death of Mrs. Taylor Burgin. The family of Taylor Burgin desires to return thanks to the many kind friends and neighbors for sympathy and assistance during the late illness, death and burial of Mrs. Burgin.  Deceased was born in Lane county, Oregon, October 5, 1862, and spent nearly all her life in this state; besides her husband she leaves two sisters and a brother.  She and Mr. Burgin were married January 20, 1893, death occurred June 3, 1912, after a very painful illness of five months.  A large number of old-time friends in Sherman county attended the final obsequies at Moro last week and several from Portland among them Mr. and Mrs. M. Damon and Mr. and Mrs. Blaine Damon.

June 21, 1912

• Fred Schilling died at Portland Monday and was buried in the IOOF cemetery at Grass Thursday at 10 o’clock. [Sophia]

June 28, 1912

July 5, 1912

July 12, 1912

• Walker, one of the pioneer families of Sherman county, and recently one of the county commissioners, died of paralysis July 1st at The Dalles hospital. Funeral and interment at Wasco, on the 3d.
• The death of John Lynch, at Vancouver, was a shock to her many friends in this county where she was well and favorably known having lived a number of years at Bigelow, and later at Wasco. The funeral took place at Vancouver on the 2d of July.

July 19, 1912

• The funeral of the late Andreas Rasmussen took place at the family residence in Portland July 11th; interment at Greenwood cemetery.

July 26, 1912

• Shocking Harvest Accident and Death. Bullard, father of Charles Bullard, of Upper Hay canyon, was killed at the farm of W.A. Woods about six o’clock Saturday morning, as he was leading a string of seven horses to the combine for beginning the day’s run.  The bunch were stampeded by fright of the rear teams, and crushing him to earth dashed over him with such violence that his head and body was mangled so that death resulted within an hour. Dr. O.J. Goffin was immediately summoned, and did all that could be done for the unfortunate man, but the head was so crushed that it was impossible to stop the fast ebbing life.  Deceased was past 60 years of age; his home was at Vancouver, and he was here to be with and assist his son in the harvest. The remains were taken to Vancouver Sunday, where the funeral services were held on Monday.  We sincerely sympathize with the bereaved family and friends in this melancholy trouble.

August 2, 1912

• Lost His Life While in Bathing Pool. Charles G. James, of Arleta station, Portland, who has been working with the Ben Shull threshing outfit, met accidental death by drowning Saturday after work hours.  A party of ten went swimming in an irrigation reservoir near their work.  James was only one to dive; all the others waded first.  The water was too cold for bathing, being fed by springs.  He was heated, just had eaten and walked half a mile to swim.  The shock affected his heart.  Others in the party thought he was joking when he sank.  The body was in the water more than an hour before it was recovered, the reservoir dam having to be partly removed to drain off the deep water.  The dead man leaves a wife and four daughters, the oldest, of whom is 15.  The coroner’s jury returned a verdict of accidental death.  The body was shipped to Portland for burial Monday.
• Nannie E. Clark, survivor of Frank S. Clark, deceased, died at Hood River on the 26th.

August 9, 1912

August 16, 1912

August 23, 1912

• Roy Langdon, an employee of Smith Bros. Gilliam county threshing crew, was drowned in the John Day river Sunday the 11th, near Jack Gibson’s place, while bathing; the body was recovered and buried near the home farm on the 12th.

August 30, 1912

September 6, 1912

September 13, 1912

• Samuel L. Brooks, one of The Dalles most estimable citizens died of heart disease last week; one year since the death of Mrs. Brooks at Los Angeles. Both rest together in The Dalles IOOF cemetery.
• Sad news came Saturday that Rich Ramey was in some manner killed in a mixup with his team on the road one day last week, while returning to his son’s home east of Wasco. One wheel of the wagon passed over his head and death resulted in a few hours afterward.  His family are in California, and the sad news will be a calamity to them.

September 20, 1912

September 27, 1912

October 4, 1912

October 11, 1912

October 18, 1912

• A young girl from The Dalles, by the name of Hart, was killed at a dance in Condon, at 12 o’clock Wednesday night by a pistol shot fired by an outlaw 18 or 19 years of age, known as Bob Morgan, with an alias (Bob Whitney). Also, at the same time and place he shot and wounded another man name unknown to our informant.  The murderer escaped with about $50 in his possession, and is supposed to be traveling this way.  [Virgie Hart]

October 25, 1912

• In Memory of Henry Hennagin. Henry Hennagin was born in St. Lawrence county, New York, January 22d, 1851, and died at his home in Linn county, Oregon, 3 1/2 miles east of Corvallis, October 16th, 1912, aged 61 years, 9 months and 24 days. Brother Hennagin was converted, and united with the church 21 years ago last July, at a Methodist camp meeting held near Rutledge in this county, and remained an active member in the church until his death. He was also one of the pioneer homesteaders of Sherman county, and spent a number of the active years of his life here, and at Hood River, and in the Willamette valley, being a sufferer from Brights’ disease, for about 16 years, and moved from place to place as his health seemed to require, but for many years has regarded Sherman county as his home, and at his personal request his remains were brought here for burial on the 18th.  The funeral was conducted from the home of his son Fredrick, Mountain View farm, on the 19th, by W.L. Dillinger, assisted by W.C. Johnson of Moro ME church, and the remains were laid to rest by the side of his first wife in Rose cemetery. He leaves a wife, nine children, two step children, and a number of grand children, to mourn his death.  Sister Hennagin and family have the sympathy of all their neighbors and friends in their sad bereavement.

October 25, 1912

• Bob Morgan is Captured. Slayer of Virgie Hart breaks down when jailed. Condon, Or. — Bob Morgan, who slew pretty Virgie Hart and fatally wounded Miss Crane, a bystander, here, was captured by Sheriff Montague of Gilliam county, 18 miles south of Fossil.  When disarmed and placed in jail he broke down and cried like a child. Morgan did not show fight.  He threw up his hands and held them up until Dr. Taylor applied handcuffs.  Morgan had nothing to eat from Thursday night until Saturday morning except a few apples.  He had two meals since.  He expressed sincere regret at shooting Miss Crane, but had nothing to say about shooting the girl.

November 1, 1912

November 8, 1912

• John Christiansen, a pioneer of Sherman county, who has long been a suffering invalid, and was lingering between life and death since his return from Portland last month, died at the family home east of Moro, Wednesday night. The funeral was held today, interment at Rose cemetery.
• Pearl Ellis, a former Moro resident, sister of Attorney W.C. Bryant, died in Portland last week leaving a six weeks’ old babe, interment was at Falls city. Mr. Bryant returned Tuesday from the sad mission of attending.  Mr. Ellis, husband of the deceased, will be remembered as accountant in the Sherman Trading Company.
• John Hastings and wife of The Rose Farm, returned from Vancouver Wednesday, where they attended the funeral of Hiram Cox, a near relative.

November 15, 1912

• In Memoriam. John Christiansen was born near Copenhagen, Denmark, April 1st 1865, and died at his farm home in Sherman county, Oregon, November 6th, 1912, aged 47 years, 7 months and 6 days.  He came to Oregon in the fall of 1885, and has ever since made his home in the county. He was married to Miss Daisy Hennagin March 28th, 1895, and to this union was born three sons, and two daughters, four of whom survive him.  He was a loving father and husband, and a friend to all who knew him.  Funeral services took place at his farm residence November 8th, 1912, and was attended by a large number of relatives and friends; the Masonic order of Moro, of which body he was an honored member, attended and took charge at the grace, carrying out the solemn observance of their ritual on such occasions.  The grave was elaborately decorated with flowers, and the congregation dismissed.  Christiansen and family have the universal sympathy of their neighbors and friends in their sad bereavement.

November 22, 1912

November 29, 1912

• E.B. Miller’s visit with her father terminated sadly by his death, on the 20th, at his home in Hood River valley. Mr. and Mrs. Bishop were preparing for visit to California when death occurred.

December 6, 1912

• Humphry Peugh died suddenly Sunday evening, 24th, at a ripe old age, at his Hood River home. He was preparing to spend the winter in California.  Several relatives in Sherman county mourn his death.
• Death of Fred Schilling. Fred Schilling, Sr., died at the home of his son-in-law at Kent, on the 27th.  He was a victim of paralysis, having had three strokes prior to his death.  He is survived by three children; Mrs. C. Hilton, Gus F. and Wm. Schilling.  Schilling, wife and mother of the family, died in Portland recently, after a lingering illness. [Martin F.]

December 13, 1912

December 20, 1912

December 27, 1912

January 3, 1913

January 10, 1913

• Editor C. Ireland of the Sherman County Observer, died at his home in Moro the evening of January 7th, 1912, at seven o’clock of cerebral hemorrhage of an artery of the brain, resulting in paralysis of the limbs and body which his weakened heart action could not withstand. Mr. Ireland’s last sickness dates from December 6, 1912. During the past year he has been very weak, tho’ apparently in good health, causing him to forego his usual annual vacation trip to the home of his son and daughter in Portland and it was with difficulty he was persuaded to remain at home, as he considered that he was needed at the office.  His last visit there and work performed being only three weeks and three days before the final summons came; while the last piece of “copy” written was that acknowledging the cream “Gypsey” had sent as a Christmas present. Christmas night intense pain in the abdomen necessitated four hours of attention by Dr. W.C. Nason before relief was obtained; after that Mr. Ireland seemed to improve until Sunday night, January 5th, when he suffered a partial paralytic stroke at eight o’clock followed by nearly a complete attack at four o’clock Monday morning.  From that time he gradually grew worse, but with so little outward symptoms that the close approach of death was not realized until Tuesday afternoon. Mr. Ireland retained all the faculties of his mind, except for brief intervals, until within less than three hours of his passing away.  He was a genial, generous, sunny disposition; he was a kind father; he always tried to interest his fellow men in the better and more material objective of life; even the suffering of dumb animals always brought a responsive sympathetic attempt at relief. Funeral services were held at the Moro Methodist Episcopal church; the edifice being crowded; county court was adjourned and the schools dismissed to allow attendance at the services; Rev. C. W. Johnson preaching the sermon.
• C. Ireland was born July 4th, 1836, at Rutland, Vermont; moved to Indiana when a boy and was educated at an Episcopal church private school, there being no public schools at that time. He learned the printing trade in Mishawaka, Indiana, while attending school; afterwards working at that trade with Schuyler Colfax, later vice president under U. S. Grant, at South Bend, Indiana, where he assisted Mr. Colfax prepare the first Rebeka, I.O.O.F., ritual. His first business enterprise was the establishment of the Mishawaka, Indiana, Free Press which is still published at that city and the first copy of which is still retained in the family; later he worked with the world famous editors of those days; Horace Greely on the New York Tribune and Wilber F. Story of the Detroit Free Press; representing Mr. Story at the first republican convention held at Charleston, South Carolina, before the war. Mr. Ireland came to Oregon in 1861, across the plains, by ox team and set up the first job press, at The Dalles Mountaineer office, ever used in the then Oregon country, east of the Cascades.  He established the Oregon City Enterprise in 1866; the Astoria Astorian in 1873; the Astoria Pioneer in 1887; the Portland Express in 1891; and has, by purchase, conducted newspapers in several different sections of Oregon; he was a potential employee of the Portland Oregonian in the early days of Oregon journalism, antedating the services of its famous editor, H. W. Scott, and assisted in securing Mr. Scott’s services as editor.  He was an active member of the Episcopal church and was identified with its early Oregon struggle, until his establishment in Moro removed him from the denominational church circle. DeWitt Clinton Ireland is survived by a son, Alba., living in Chicago; a son DeWitt L., Sydney, Australia; a son, Francis C., Portland; a daughter, Mrs. G.L. Rohr, Portland; a son, Clinton L., Moro.
• R. Belshee, an old pioneer Sherman county, farmer died at Hood River, Oregon, January 8th, 1913. Funeral services were held at the Moro M.E. church January 11th; interment at Rose cemetery, east of Moro.

January 17, 1913

• In Memorium. Ellen Jane Cullen Buchanan.    Those of us who are advancing in years; do we ever stop to consider that this grand country of ours, known far and wide as the Oregon Country, is not so very sold as time is measured by destiny?  As we peruse the several newspapers that come to us from over the state we see each week an announcement that one more pioneer has passed to the Land of Many Mansions; where no longer is in store hardships, such as only a pioneer could know but only rest, which most likely had been dreamed about and never realized in this age of modern inventions. And, now, closer home to us, is another pioneer passed to her rest.  Mrs. Ellen Jane Cullen Buchanan who died at her home in LaGrande, Oregon, the morning of January 5th, 1913, at the advanced age of 83 years 8 months 13 days.  She was married to William D. Buchanan in Miami county, Ohio October 19, 1849, and crossed the plains by ox team to Oregon in 1865.  They made their family home at LaGrande, except for a brief time when they moved to Harney county, where Mr. Buchanan died April 19, 1906. Mrs. Buchanan was a member of the Christian church for forty-two years; all who have known her testify to her patient, beautiful life; always thinking of others’ welfare; anxious that her children become Christians and follow in her footsteps.  During her last sickness nothing seemed to please her more than songs by her children from the familiar hymnal. Funeral services were from the LaGrande Christian church, Rev. A.J. Adams, pastor, preaching the sermon.  Interment was at Island City cemetery.  There remain to mourn her loss seven children, who were all able to be with their mother when the messenger came:  Mrs. Joseph Spencer and Mrs. Judge Harrison, of LaGrande; Wm Buchanan, Baker City; Joseph and George Buchanan, Harney City; Mrs. W.J. Martin, Walla Walla; Mrs. L.H. Martin, Moro.
• James R. Belshee   It is written; “In the midst of life, there is death also.”  James R. Belshee, one of the early pioneer farmers of Sherman county, who had but recently purchased a home in Hood River was stricken with paralysis while at work at his home Wednesday January 8th, dying almost immediately.  Only the evening before, at the annual meeting, he had been elected an officer of the Christian church. Funeral services were from the Moro M.E. church; Rev. J.H. Swift, pastor of the Hood River Christian church, preaching the sermon; interment was in the family plat at Rose cemetery. There remain to mourn his loss Mrs. Anna Belshee, Hood River; Mrs. Wm. Kenny, Valley, Idaho; Miss Nellie Belshee and Wilfred Belshee, Hood River; and sons Clay and O.L. Belshee, Moro.

January 24, 1913

January 31, 1913

• We are sorry to record the death, January 23d, of J.W. Leonard at her Ten Mile home, near The Dalles, from pneumonia. Funeral services were held at The Dalles Christian church and interment was at Monmouth.  Mr. and Mrs. Leonard formerly lived in this county, near Kent, for several years.

February 7, 1913

February 14, 1913

• C. Garl, in charge of the O.W.R. & N. section at Moro, left Monday for Portland where he met and accompanied the remains of his father to Burlington, Washington, for interment. Mr. Garl’s father died at Santa Rosa, Ca., February 7th at the advanced age of 81 years.

February 21, 1913

• George A. Simon was a passenger to The Dalles Tuesday morning where he will meet and accompany Mrs. Simon on her return home from Sunnyside, Washington. Charles Wilcox, mother of Mrs. Simon, died at the family home in Sunnyside, February 12th the funeral being held last Sunday.  Beside Mrs. Simon three brothers, Roy, Ray, and Guy, survive their mother.
• Joaquin Miller, the poet of the Sierras and author of Songs of the Sunland, died February 17th in his one room cabin, which he built many years ago, in the Piedmont hills near San Francisco. He died in the afternoon while the warm sunshine was flooding the room.

February 28, 1913

• Violet Leona, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A.J. Syron, died Sunday morning at their farm home near Moro age 6 years, 7 months and 17 days. Funeral services were from the Moro Methodist church Monday afternoon; Rev. C.W. Johnson, preaching the sermon.  Six young school girls of Moro, Misses Vivian Strong, Wilma Henrichs, Havie Hansen, Ida Montgomery, Neta Martin, Fay Johnson, acting as pall bearers.  A special part of the services was a solo by Mrs. Roy Benson entitled Baby Hands. God holds the key of all unknown, And I am glad; If other hands should hold the key, Or if he trusted it to me, I might be sad. What if tomorrow’s cares were here, Without its rest? I’d rather he unlocked the day; And, as the hours swing open, say, “My will be best.” The very dimness of my sight, Makes me secure; For, groping in my misty way, I feel his hand; I hear him say, “My help is sure.” I cannot read his future plans; But this I know: I have the smiling of his face, And all the refuge of his grace, While here below. Enough; this covers all my wants, And so I rest; For what I cannot, he can see, And in his care I saved shall be, Forever blest.
• Alex Hunter died very suddenly Wednesday night at one o’clock from heart trouble; interment will be at Moro. Services will probably be held Saturday, depending upon arrival of relatives.  [Alice]
• S.D. Montgomery has received notice of the death of her sister, Mrs. James Boughton, who died at Watonga, Okl., February 17th after a lingering illness.
• C. Garl is very sick since his return from Burlington, Wash., where he attended the funeral of his father.
• H. Carter died February 23rd at the home of his daughter Mrs. E.M. Meach, near Vancouver, Wash., from an attack of pleurisy aged 72 years. Mr. Carter was at one time a resident of Moro, and was a cabinet worker by trade.

March 7, 1913

• Alex Hunter who fell asleep in the Lord February 27th, 1913, at one o’clock in the morning at her home in Moro was born June 6th 1862, in Fitzroy, Ontario, Canada. She was the daughter of Robert Hunt who moved with his family to Rembina, N.D., in the year 1881.  She was married to Alex. Hunter at Jolliett, N.D., in 1887 and came to Forest Grove, Oregon, November 28th, 1901, and later moved to Sherman county in 1907 where she lived up to the time she was called home. She leaves to mourn her loss a husband, four children, Margaret Mable, Alice Oleiva, Samuel Ray, John Willard, and five sisters, Mrs. Adam Campbell of Manitoba, Canada, Mrs. W.J. Harper and Mrs. J.S. Murphy, of Corvallis, Oregon, Mrs. Clark Murdock of Cashmere, Washington, Mrs. James Murphy, of Jolliett, N.S., and grandchild, Frances Ethelyn Kessinger. Mrs. Harper and Mrs. Murphy were able to be at the funeral services which were held from the Moro M. E. church Saturday morning.  F. C. Marshal, of Portland, preaching the sermon.

March 14, 1913

• A memorial service will be held in the M.E. church Sunday in memory of Grandma DeMoss who recently died at her home at Barton, Clackamas county, but who had made Moro her home and the place of her christian operation and benevolences. Special music will be supplied and a large attendance is anticipated.
• Editor H. Overman of the Shaniko Star was found dead in his room at the Hotel Dalles Wednesday morning from heart trouble.

March 21, 1913

• N.G. Blalock, one of the best known of Oregon’s pioneers, died at Walla Walla last week at the age of 78. Dr. Blalock suffered a stroke of apoplexy in his office, his condition being so serious that his son who attended him forbid his removal home.
• Word was received Tuesday of the death of Dr. O.J. Goffin’s father at his home near Gervais February 24th.

March 31, 1913

April 4, 1913

April 11, 1913

• Word has been received at Moro of the death of J.M. Dunahoo at his home at Newberg April 4th.  The remains were taken to California for interment.

April 18, 1913

April 25, 1913

• Sherman County Pioneer at Rest. John A. Wright, father of former county commissioner A. M. Wright, died at his home in Eugene, Oregon, at 4:10 pm Tuesday, April 15th, of causes incident to old age. Mr. Wright was born near Zanesville, Ohio, and at the time of his death was 78 years 8 months and 18 days old.  He was married at his native town to Miss Eva Vestal March 22d, 1859. Mr. Wright was identified with the early settlement of what is now Sherman county, coming to this section in March, 1884, and engaging in the sheep business in the Rutledge district where he took up a homestead.  Afterwards as industrial life of the county expanded he became one of our successful pioneer farmers, finally retiring from active farming in 1909 when he moved to the Willamette valley. This is the first death in Mr. Wright’s immediate family; he being survived by a widow and four children; A.M. Wright of Monkland, Oregon; Mrs. D.H. Leech of Albany, Oregon; Mrs. James H. Fraser of North Yakima, Wash.; Mrs. J.V. O’Leary of McKenzie Bridge, Oregon.

May 2, 1913

• Levi Clark, father of Mrs. W. O. Hadley and Fred W. Clark, former residents of Moro, was found dead in his bed April 23d at the home of his family at Hood River. He went to bed the previous evening seemingly in his usual health, but it is supposed that he succumbed to heart failure at near the midnight hour.

May 9, 1913

• Mrs. J.R. Morgan, writing from the family home at Franklin, N.C., reports the death of her father, G.W. Dean, April 29th of cancer, aged 78 years.

May 16, 1913

May 23, 1913

May 30, 1913

• Death of a Bright Young Man. This community was profoundly stirred last Friday night when it became known that, for reason unknown, James G. Huls had died by his own hand at the family home east of Moro. The young man had been alone all day plowing until, at five pm a neighbor happened to see him take the team in for the day.  His wife, Mrs. Grace Thompson Huls, was at her parents home, but a short distance away; his mother was at the bedside of sick daughter Mrs. Ola Huls Ruggles; his father and married sister, Mrs. Allie Huls Ruggles, were attending the field meet at Grass Valley. The tragedy had evidently taken place somewhere in the neighborhood of seven o’clock as he had written a letter to his wife dated 6:30 pm, and one also to his parents written about the same time.  In these letters no reference was made as to the direct cause of the rash act, only saying that no one knew anything about his troubles and that no one was to be blamed for his deed.  After writing the letters Mr. Huls must have gone up stairs; laid down upon the bed; crossed his feet; pulled his shirt back with his left hand and shot himself through the heart with his right hand; death being instantaneous; he not moving after the shot was discharged. His father, coming home about 9:15, and not finding him in the house became uneasy and going upstairs looking for him saw him by light of a match he had struck, on the bed.  The match went out as he reached over to wake his boy and instead he felt the revolver.  He does not know how he got down stairs and with his auto as far as the fairgrounds where he wrecked it and ran the rest of the way to town for the help which could not avail. The funeral was the saddest and the largest of any ever held in Moro; Dr. W.S. Nichol of Hood River preaching the sermon from the Methodist Episcopal church to a congregation gathered to pay their last respects to one who had grown up in their midst from a boy.  The building was crowded and a number who attended could not gain admittance; the Woodmen and Circle attended the services in a body.  Floral offerings in profusion were sent by friends, the casket being covered with emblems of spring time. James G. Huls was born October, 1889, in Missouri and died near Moro May 23d, 1913; he came to Sherman county with his parents 1891 and was a graduate of Moro schools; married Grace Thompson February 5th, 1913.  He was one of the best young men that we have ever known; he had no bad habits of any kind, and was very popular with all who knew him.  A number of his young friends say of him that they have never heard him speak ill of anyone, even when he might have angry provocation; that is something that cannot be said of many of us and speaks volumes as to his character.  He was but a young man and to young people life is serious and trouble, when it comes, is very hard.  [James G. Hulse]
• E. Brownlee died at Wasco Monday evening from injuries received at the Hugh Shull farm where his plow team and two other teams had a run away shortly after being hitched up for the morning work. It seems the teams had to go through a corral and the noise of the cutaway disc scared the horses that Brownlee was driving; they ran, throwing him in front and under the plow; the runaways scared the other teams and when stopped Mr. Brownlee was under his plow with another plow and horse on top of it.  His right leg was severed close to the body and the left knee cap cut out.  Mr. Shull dressed the wounds the best he could and started for Wasco with him by auto, meeting Dr. Morse at Hay Canyon, where surgical attention was given the unfortunate man.

June 6, 1913

• Serious Automobile Accident. John Reckman was instantly killed and his wife so seriously injured in an auto accident west of Kent Sunday afternoon that her recovery is very doubtful.  Reckman was returning home in his new 1913 Cadillac from an afternoon spent visiting with neighbors when the accident occurred, the first known of the tragedy being when Jacob Wassenmiller, who was inspecting his field of wheat, noticed the overturned car; finding Mr. Reckman and Mrs. Reckman close by, one dead and the other apparently dying. As near as can be figured from the nature of the marks left upon the roadway Mr. Reckman must have felt the front left axle break close to the wheel, as he had the lever in neutral position and the emergency break set.  Shortly after the front axle breaking the right hind wheel gave way, forcing the car to travel in a circle.  When stopped it had turned turtle once and a half and was facing the way it had come with the wheels in the air. The accident occurred close to the Wm. Koehler farm on a straight piece of road that has neither rocks or ruts to make automobile driving dangerous.  Those who have seen the axle say that it was a defective casting and that a full half inch shows an old break and that there are two other places on the same axle that are, or may be, as dangerous to an occupant of a car. John Reckman was one of the most progressive farmers of Sherman county and has made his home in this county since the pioneer days of farming in the Kent section.  He had no immediate family; a daughter of Mrs. Reckman being the only other member of the family.  The funeral was held at Grass Valley Thursday afternoon; a large delegation of Odd Fellows from the different lodges of the county being present.  Mrs. Reckman is at Grass Valley under the care of Dr. M.B. Taylor.  Hopes are entertained of her recovery.

June 13, 1913

June 20, 1913

• Amelia Alley died suddenly at her home near Grass Valley Sunday evening while preparing supper from an attack of asthma. The death came as a shock to her relatives and friends as very few knew that she was liable to an attack of this nature. Mrs. Alley was the youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred W. Matthias of Klondike.
• Sherman County Pioneer Called Home. Milton [Milon] A. Van Gilder, pioneer resident of this county residing west of Wasco, died at his home five o’clock Friday morning, June 13th.  The death was not unexpected as Mr. Van Gilder had been ailing for sometime; undergoing an operation last fall in hopes of relieving his distress; at which time it was definitely ascertained that his trouble was cancer of the stomach and that there was no hope for recovery. Funeral services were conducted Sunday from Wasco Methodist Episcopal church, Rev. A. S. Black preaching the sermon.  The services at the cemetery were conducted by the Masonic fraternity at the special request of Mr. Van Gilder, who had planned all details of the funeral services when it became known that he could not recover his health. By request of the worshipful master of Taylor Lodge, Wasco, J.M. Parry of Eureka Lodge, Moro, assisted by L Barnum and Robert Urquhart conducted the services.  It was the special request of the deceased that J.N. Parry officiate as Mr. Van Gilder and Mr. Parry had been for years very closely associated in the work of the Masonic order. Taylor lodge, Wasco, and a large delegation from Eureka lodge, Moro, A.F.&A.M. left Wasco at ten o’clock the day of the funeral by automobile and acted as escort to the cortege from the family home to Wasco.  Uniform rank Knight Templar lodge of The Dalles being represented by a committee of six, in full uniform, who acted as escort to the family.  Floral offerings, attesting to the esteem in which his neighbors and friends held Mr. VanGilder, were very extensive; completely covering the new mound in the cemetery. Mr. Van Gilder was a native of New York state, coming to Sherman county in 1889, he was a member of the United Brethren church and a charter member of Taylor lodge A.F.&A.M., Wasco, being its first worshipful master; his is the first death in the family, leaving a wife and five children; a daughter Mrs. Arthur Sargent, and four sons, Harry, Vernon, Bryan, Darwin, all residing at home or very close by.

June 27, 1913

July 4, 1913

• Winnie, the 5-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mr. Frank Fulton, Jr., is dead as the result of a Fourth of July accident and her mother is suffering with severely burned hands and arms. The children were playing with fire crackers when the dress of the little girl got afire; the burns of the mother was caused in her efforts to extinguish the flames.

July 11, 1913

July 18, 1913

July 25, 1913

August 1, 1913

August 8, 1913

• Margaret Rutledge of Ellensburg, Washington, who has been visiting at the home of her son, W.C. Rutledge at the Moro Hotel, was called home very suddenly last week by the serious illness of her favorite grandchild. The little fellow passed away before her arrival home, the funeral being held that day.  Mr. Rutledge accompanied his mother to their Ellensburg home.
• Miss Ida Montgomery has received notice of the death of her cousin, Merle Mcaboy Montgomery at Weldon, Illinois July 29th.

August 15, 1913

August 22, 1913

• Former County Treasurer Dies. Captain Walter Stanley, born in Michigan in February, 1839, died at his home at Orchards, near Vancouver, Washington, August 13th, after a prolonged illness. Captain Stanley came to Sherman county as book keeper for Moore Bros., W.H. and H.A., who in the early history of Moro conducted a store where now stands the brick building occupied by the Moro Commercial Company.  While acting as book keeper for the mercantile company a bank was formed by the Moore Bros., the first in the county south of Wasco, and the same one that is now known as the W.W.M. Co. bank at Moro. After the organization of the bank Mr. Stanley for a while tended the books for both institutions, but the bank grew so rapidly that all his time had to be given that and he was appointed cashier; the first cashier of a Moro bank.  Shortly after this he was appointed county treasurer and was re-elected each term until he resigned a few years ago because of his health. Mr. Stanley was a veteran of the civil war; had fought the Indians upon the middle west plains after the war; and was a member of two filibustering expeditions to central America, led by General Walker, which nearly involved this country into a war trying to save the members of the party when captured by the enemy.
• Accidental Death of W. Matthias. Thursday evening, upon his return from Wasco and while unhitching the team he had driven, in the barn yard of his home east of Klondike F.W. Matthias, met with a serious accident that caused his death Sunday morning. While the team was yet fastened to the hack by two traces a piece of paper was blown by the wind under the horses; this scared them and when the team started Mr. Matthias was caught and dragged around the yard and against a watering trough.  When rescued and taken to the house it was found that all his ribs were crushed and the bolts on the end of the watering trough had made very deep cuts on his body; the injuries were of so serious a nature that death came to his relief. Funeral services were held Monday afternoon from the Methodist Episcopal church at Wasco by Rev. John S. Andersen of Moro M.E. church and Rev. A.S. Black of Wasco M.E. church, the pastor of the deceased, who arrived home from his vacation the day of the funeral just in time to preach the sermon.  The services at the home, the church, and Sunrise cemetery, near Wasco, were participated in by the M.W.A. lodge of Klondike, in honor of their departed brother.
• Fredrick William Matthias died at his home near Klondike Sunday morning at half past ten o’clock the 17th day of August, 1913, aged 57 years 7 months and 18 days. He was born in Germany on the 29th of December, 1855, and was married to Dora Helm in 1877 to which union six children were born; two children dying infancy and one daughter Mrs. Amelia Alley, was laid to rest June 18th, 1913. Beside his aged mother he leaves a wife and three children, Frederick Carl, Alvena Louise, and John Clifton.  He came to Kansas in 1881 and to Sherman county, Oregon in 1887 and has made his home here ever since. He joined the Lutheran church at the age of fifteen and has been a firm believer of that faith all his life.  He was also a member of the Klondike lodge M.W.A. He was always a loving husband and devoted father and, the Observer desires to add, among his business acquaintances and neighbors was considered a man of his word and an upright citizen.

August 29, 1913

September 5, 1913

• H. Watts of the Watts Marble Works at The Dalles was in Moro Saturday engaged in erecting a Regal blue monument over the grave of Jas. Huls. This week at the Rose cemetery Mr. Watts will put in place a marble coping around the family plot of John Christiansen and engrave an additional inscription on the family monument there to the memory of Mr. Christiansen; at the Wasco cemetery Mr. Watts will place a granite monument to the memory of the parents of W.M. Barnett; at the Grass Valley cemetery Mr. Watts will place a marble monument to the memory of Mrs. F.J. Krusow.

September 12, 1913

• Old Resident Passes Away. Friends of I.N. Lemon and family will be bereaved to learn of the death of Mrs. Irene Hawley Lemon who died at her home in Grass Valley September 3rd, after a lingering sickness of four years.  Funeral services were held in the Methodist Epsicopal Church Thursday afternoon, Rev. Henry Attenborough officiating.  Burial was made in the Odd Fellow cemetery. Mrs. Hawley was born at Monroe, Oregon, March 9, 1861.  She married I.N. Lemon September 19, 1886.  Two weeks after their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Lemon moved to Sherman county and have resided here continuously since that time.  She is survived by her husband and two sons, Lester and Erwin Lemon.

September 19, 1913

• Little Mary Axtell, age five years, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ira K. Axtell died Tuesday afternoon at the home of the little girl’s grandfather in Moro of a complication of diseases induced by summer complaint. The little girl was taken sick at the farm home of the parents east of Moro several weeks ago, but was moved to Moro when she did not improve and respond to treatment.  The funeral was held at ten o’clock Thursday morning.  [May]
• and Mrs. Dan McLachlan were in Moro this week from Portland in attendance at the funeral of their grand daughter, little Mary Axtell.

September 26, 1913

October 3, 1913

October 10, 1913

October 17, 1913

October 24, 1913

October 31, 1913

• Hugh Logan died at his home in The Dalles last Monday morning of pneumonia, complicated with heart trouble. He was one of the most widely known of the pioneer physicians of eastern Oregon, having practiced his profession in his home city for more than 41 years, starting with nothing when he lost both his parents by shipwreck when he was only 15 years of age.  Dr. Ray W. Logan now of LaGrande and formerly of this city, is the only surviving child.

November 7, 1913

November 14, 1913

November 21, 1913

• H. Elliott has returned from Medford where he attended the funeral of his brother W.A. who died in that city October 28th.

November 28, 1913

December 5, 1913

December 12, 1913

• R. C. Byers passes away. Friends were grieved to learn Wednesday, December 10th, of the death at the family home east of Moro of Mrs. R. C. Byers.  She had been a sufferer for a considerable time from dropsy, but lately had been better in health, being able to visit in Moro only last Friday.  Immediate cause of death was heart failure, induced by her long illness from dropsy. The funeral was conducted from the home Thursday of this week; interment being in Rose cemetery; Rev. A.J. Adams, of Moro Presbyterian church officiating. Mrs. Byers had been a resident of Sherman county but a few years, yet in that time had established a large circle of friends and acquaintances who sympathize with the family in their affection.  [Lillie E.]
• Death of R. Martin. At the family home, south of Moro, J.R. Martin, one of the early pioneer agriculturists of Sherman county passed away Tuesday, December 9th, aged 82 years and nine months. Mr. Martin was a true pioneer, crossing the plains in 1853 to California, later Mrs. Martin and two children made the same trip and their home was that state until 1880 when they moved to Umatilla county, coming to Sherman county the following year. Mr. Martin was a progressive farmer, a good neighbor, and esteemed by all who knew him.  He leaves a wife and seven children to mourn their loss: One daughter, Mrs. C.F. Coe of Moro; a son Dwight in California; a son Julius in Idaho; a son Wilber J., in Washington; and three sons living in Moro, Leroy H., Harvey U., and Elwin. The funeral was conducted from the Presbyterian church Thursday morning; a large number of friends attending and all the children excepting the son residing in California and the one in Idaho.  [John Rusco]
• At the conclusion of the second funeral at which he had officiated in the one day, Thursday, Rev. A. J. Adams received word that H. Windom, brother-in-law to Mrs. Adams, had died that morning at his home in Prineville.

December 19, 1913

• It is our misfortune to chronicle with this issue of the Observer, the death of Walter H. Moore; one of the most widely known of the early pioneers of Sherman county. His death occurred at the home of his cousin, E.H. Moore, in this city last Saturday morning of pneumonia contracted the same week while showing land to a prospective resident of the county. In the opinion of the management of the Observer Moore was the best friend that Moro, and Sherman county as well, had ever had.  He leaves several monuments to his memory in and about his old home; chief of which can be cited that he was responsible head that guided the voters choice for Moro to be the county seat; then the securing of the fruits of the political victory by the forwarding of efforts to secure the present brick court house by personal donations and solicitations of financial support to be added to the appropriation made by the county court; to this must be added the largest benefit ever brought to the county in the construction of the Columbia Southern Railway, which he succeeded in financing until the bonds were sold and the road an assured success.  He was the first mayor of Moro and served in that capacity for successive terms until his removal to Portland.  These are but public monuments to which must be added a prominent interest in the business life of the county, beginning with his first endeavor at Erskineville, when the firm of Moore Bros. was launched with his brother Henry A. as a partner and continuing when the family had moved to Moro and become the owners of the then town site and the incorporating of the first successful banking business of the county which was afterwards sold to the Wasco Warehouse Milling Company when moving to Portland.  During that lapse of years friendships were formed that anyone would be proud to possess, when crops were poor and farmers new to a new country and financial ruin faced any business firm that were reckless with credit; then was Walter H. Moore erecting monuments to his memory as credit was extended in this new country to enable it to become the empire it is today.  Numerous instances of help extended in time of need could be cited, but even then more have been called to memory the past week then words could be found to convey to others as well able to respond with another instance of well doing. Mr. Moore had again become a resident of this city the last year; engaging in the automobile and real estate business.  He always took an active part in promoting matters of a public nature that would in any particular benefit his home city; the last effort in that direction being attendance upon a meeting of the Business Men of Moro Saturday evening, December 6th, to arrange for a made-in-Oregon entertainment and banquet to their agricultural friends of this business section of Sherman county. Funeral services were held Monday afternoon, December 15th, from the Methodist Episcopal church Rev. A.J. Adams of Moro Presbyterian church preaching the sermon.  The many friends attending from all parts of the county taxed the capacity of the church edifice and forced a large number to remain outside the building during the services.  The pall bearers were Henry Ruggles, N.W. Thompson, B.F. Peetz, L.L. Peetz, O.L. Belshee, and Fred Hennagin.  Delegations from the Moro, Wasco, Kent and Grass Valley lodges of IOOF formed an escort for the cortege from the residence to the church and after the services to the cemetery.  The services at the cemetery were in charge of The Dalles lodge of Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, a number of prominent business men of that city attending the funeral as a committee from the lodge to pay a last mark of respect to their departed friend and fellow lodge member.  Floral remembrances were received from a large circle of friends; the casket at the church being covered with offerings and the new mound in the local cemetery being all but covered with the fragrant blooms.— The work I’ve done is with you; maybe some things went wrong, Like a note that mars the music in the sweet flow of a song! But, loved ones, when you think of me, I only wish you would  Say as the Master said of one “he hath done what he could.” And when you sit together, in the time that is yet to be, By your love encircle fireside in this pleasant land so free, Let all the past come before you, and with something like a sigh Just say “we haven’t forgot him, since the day he said Good Bye.” —–  Walter H. Moore was born at Knox Grove, Ogle County, Ill., near Chicago, June 16, 1854, the family later moving to Kansas and crossing the plains by ox team to Idaho in 1865.  They moved to California in 1866, locating in the mining district at Cherokee, in Butte county, finally coming to Oregon and locating in Sherman county in 1882, where Mr. Moore filed on a homestead near what is now the town of Moro.  His first business venture was at Erksineville, in 1886, with his brother Henry A., Moore.  The firm was known as Moore Bros., and in 1887 was moved to Moro, where later they purchased the interest of the pioneer business of Scott and McCoy, and with it the townsite of Moro.  In 1896 they incorporated the banking business of Moore Bros., which was sold by them when moving to Portland ten years later.  He is survived by a wife, son and three brothers, L.K. Moore and H.A. Moore of Portland, and C.W. Moore, of The Dalles.
• In Memorium. R.C. Beyers, of Moro, Oregon, departed this life, December 10th, 1913.  The malady being organic trouble of the heart aggravated by pneumonia. She was born at Valparaiso, Indiana, Sept. 1865, her parents Julian Hatch and Maria Hatch, christening her Lydia Elizabeth. Her childhood was spent at South Bend, Indiana, her parents removing to Nebraska when she was twelve years old. In 1883 she was married to Rolla C. Beyers then residing in Madison county, Nebraska.  They later made their home in Washington county, Oregon; Goldendale, Washington; Battle Ground, Washington, and Moro, Oregon, where her husband and two of the surviving children still make their home.  These are Arthur H. Beyers, and Mabel Beyers, the other daughter Mrs. Grace Beyers Thogerson living at Boyd, Oregon. The father and mother of the deceased, Rev. J. Hatch and Mrs. Hatch of Orenco, the sister Julia Hatch also of Orenco, a brother, Albert S. Hatch of Gaston, Oregon, and J.G. Thogerson of Boyd attended the last sad rites.  Two other brothers complete the family circle, F.M. Hatch of South Bend, Indiana, and James L. Hatch of Aldermere, B.C. These and a host of friends mourn a devoted wife, mother, daughter, sister and friend.  One whose faith in God never swerved and whose life witnessed for him from the time that she made a public profession of her faith at eleven years of age until her last days with us.

December 26, 1913

January 2, 1914

• Herbert Murphy, formerly a resident of Grass Valley, died at Pendleton December 24th; interment at Grass Valley, December 27th. At the time of his death Mr. Murphy was clerk at Hotel Pendleton.
• Lewis W. Case, father of J.W. Case, formerly of this city died December 21st at his home.

January 9, 1914

January 16, 1914

• In Memorium. John B. Yarbrough, whose death from pneumonia occurred at Moro January 5th while visiting at the home of his sister-in-law, Mrs. Emma Elcock was buried from the Methodist church at Garfield, Washington, the interment being at Frees cemetery, across the Idaho and Washington state line, near Garfield, in the family plot where rested the remains of his wife, a son, daughter, mother in law and brother in law.—  Herbert and James Yarbrough, sons of John B. Yarbrough, and a brother, Tom Yarbrough, join in asking the Observer to thank the residents of Moro for the kind assistance given their brother and father while sick at Moro and the help extended the family after his death.
• and Mrs. J. B. Holman left for Portland this week to attend the funeral of Mr. Holman’s nephew who died in that city last Sunday.

January 23, 1914

• In Memorium. Oscar Leonard Holman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Martin Holman, died at the family residence, 710 Albina avenue, Portland, Saturday evening, January 10th, after an illness of several months, age 21 years and 11 months. Mr. Holman had a large circle of acquaintances in Portland, where he had attended the public schools and later was engaged in business, and numerous friends in Moro where his father was formerly engaged in farming for a number of years.  He was a nephew of J.B. Holman of this city.  The funeral was from the family residence and interment at Rose City cemetery.
• Ralph Brisbine has been caretaker at the W. F. Jackson farm while Mr. and Mrs. Jackson have been at Hood River attending the funeral of Jackson’s father who passed away at the family home in that city January 11th.

January 30, 1914

February 6, 1914

• N. Stevenson of Klondike, accompanied by his daughter Audrey, has arrived home from Fresno, California, where he was called to attend the funeral of his brother who died recently from ptomaine poisoning from ice cream. Just a short time previous another brother had died from diabetes, after a protracted illness.  Both deaths occurring so near to each other has affected the health of Mr. Stevenson’s father materially and urgent business was the only reason for his return to Sherman county at this time.

February 13, 1914

• Minnie A. Hosford, wife of Attorney J. B. Hosford of Portland, died at the family home in that city February 4th. Mrs. Hosford had a large circle of friends in Sherman county, where the family lived for several years before moving to Portland.
• A. Campbell, representative from this county at the last legislature and a well known pioneer nursery man and insurance agent in this county twenty years ago, died at his Portland home on February 3d.
• Edna VanAusdell, eight year old granddaughter of J.I. Miller of Hood River; died in that city Friday, the 6th, from inflammatory rheumatism of the heart. The little girl was a grand niece of Mrs. H.W. Strong and a niece of Mrs. J.A. Armstrong, who left Saturday morning accompanied by J.A. Armstrong, to attend the funeral held Sunday in Hood River.

February 20, 1914

February 27, 1914

• W. Ross and son Elfin were called to Macleay, Oregon, last week by the death of T.A. Jones, grandfather of Elfin and Carlton Ross, Wednesday February 18th. Mr. Jones was a pioneer settler of Oregon and had been a resident of the valley for a number of years.

March 6, 1914

• D. May, father of Mrs. Esta Powell, died at the family home in Wasco March 4th from an attack of Brights disease.
• From friends visiting in California Mrs. L. Barnum has received word of the death of Uriah Serviss February 20, at his home in Gridley. Serviss was one of the pioneer farmers of this county, moving to California when the E.O.L. Co. disposed him of his farm interests when they won their suit before the courts.
• Death of Mrs. Eva Landry Heim. Friends and neighbors were all saddened Friday, February 27th, when they learned that in the early morning hours of the night, forty minutes after midnight, the angel of death came to relieve the suffering of Mrs. John Heim. The funeral was held from the Moro Methodist Episcopal church at two o’clock Saturday afternoon; the edifice being crowded with friends come to say their last good bye to their friend and school mate.  The sermon was preached by Rev. C.A. Smith, pastor of Moro M.E. church.  Interment being in the Moro IOOF cemetery. Eva May Landry was born at Grants, Sherman county, September 21st, 1890; moving to Moro, with the family, when two years old where she has since lived.  She has grown with the growth of this city, attending the public schools as a child and later, in 1904, uniting with the Moro M.E. church.  She was united in marriage to John Heim December 24th, 1911; to this union was born one child which she carried with her to the life beyond.  There survive her a husband, a mother, two sisters, and a brother.

March 13, 1914

March 20, 1914

• Through a correspondent in Portland we are advised of the death of Rose Stanley, formerly a resident of this city when her father was cashier of the W.W.M. Co. bank.

March 27, 1914

April 3, 1914

April 10, 1914

• C.E. Davis has received word of the death of her fifteen year old sister at Salem from typhoid fever.

April 17, 1914

April 24, 1914

May 1, 1914

May 8, 1914

• Ben Andrews of Rufus, was called to the home of his daughter at Mount Pleasant, Wash., by news of the death of his grandchild in that city on May first.

May 15, 1914

• Bennett, sister to E.E. and J.R. Kaseberg, died May 9th at her home in American Falls, Idaho; the funeral was at Walla Walla this week. [Elizabeth “Lizzie” Kaseberg]

May 22, 1914

• Word was received Monday from A.M. Wright at Eugene that his mother had died that morning at their home in that city. Wright had sold his farm interests in this county last fall to be with his mother in her old age, but it was for only a short time.

May 29, 1914

• E.A. Race and children are visiting in Moro at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. F.A. Sayrs, while Mr. Race is in El Paso Texas, where his father, Dr. Chas. T. Race, died at the family home in that city May 8th. E.A. Race was a former manager for the Tumalum Lumber Co. at Moro and later at Mosier; a position he resigned some time ago to enable him to be with his father.

June 5, 1914

June 12, 1914

• L.H. Martin received word Monday of the death of her sister’s husband M.A. Harrison, at the family home in LaGrande, at eleven o’clock Sunday evening June 8th. Mr. Harrison was a pioneer coming to Oregon in 1865 and was county judge at the time the county seat was moved from Union to LaGrande.

June 19, 1914

June 26, 1914

• Andrew J. Dufur, Jr., first mayor and one of the founders of Dufur, died in Portland.
• Section men, burning brush and weeds on the railroad right of way between Biggs and Wasco, found a dead man in the sage brush Monday. After an inquest by the coroner he was buried where discovered.  There was nothing by which he could be identified, and there was no evidence of violence.  It is supposed that he had lain in the bushes about ten days as a copy of a daily paper of June 12 was found near him.

July 3, 1914

July 10, 1914

July 17, 1914

• Fatal Harvest Accident. Hiram S. Coy, son of Geo. W. Coy, was fatally injured Friday afternoon July 10, east of Monkland at the W. W. Nichols farm, better known as the Joe McDonald place. The young man was driving derrick team for the Wm. Myers heading crew, stacking with nets.  In net stacking the starting strain is sudden, sharp and severe to life the more than ton of grain and straw from wagon to stack and in this instance, just as the two horses met the strain, both traces on one harness broke and the end of the double tree, flying in a circle, hit the young man, who was walking close behind the team, a hard blow in the stomach and intestines. Dr. C.L. Ploey was immediately called and applied all means possible that would relieve the suffering of Mr. Coy; all other means failing it was decided an operation be preformed to obtain relief from the acute suffering, but just as arrangements for the operation had been completed the young man died, death occurring at three o’clock Saturday afternoon.  The funeral was from the Monkland church; Rev. A.J. Adams preaching the sermon; interment was at Rose cemetery.

July 24, 1914

July 31, 1914

August 7, 1914

• Sherman County Pioneer at Rest. Emmitt Olds, a pioneer farmer of the Grass Valley district, died in The Dalles Thursday evening, July 30th, at 10:30 o’clock, aged 68 years.  Olds had been spending some time at Shipherd’s Springs on account of his health, and on the day of his death was brought to The Dalles hospital in hopes of saving his life, but he died a few hours after reaching there.  The remains were taken to Grass Valley and the funeral held in that city last Sunday, interment being in IOOF cemetery. Emmitt Olds was a native Oregonian, being born in Yamhill county September 13th, 1846, his parents having crossed the plains in 1844, taking a donation land claim, and in odd times his father was the pioneer maker of brick of that section. After his father’s death, in 1883, Mr. Olds came to Sherman county, having married Miss Elizabeth Messinger November 23d, 1873.  He first became interested in sheep raising and afterwards farming.  He was active in political affairs, attending nearly every republican convention held in this county as a delegate.  He was the second postmaster that Grass Valley had and was county stock inspector for five terms.

August 14, 1914

• Jack Hayes, visiting at the home of R.C. Byers from The Dalles, received word Wednesday of the death of her sister in Portland. The funeral is expected to be held at The Dalles.

August 21, 1914

• H.M. Bryant, mother of Mrs. L.W. Ross, died at her home in Portland last week after an illness of several weeks. She had been a visitor at the home of her daughter in Moro but a short time previous in the hope that a change might be beneficial, but continued illness decided that a return to Portland was best.  Mrs. Ross accompanied her mother to Portland and remained with her until she passed away.

August 28, 1914

• H. Elliot has received word of the death of his oldest brother at the family home at Waterloo, Iowa. Mr. Elliot is unfortunate in that of the deaths of three brothers, two sisters, his father and mother he was only able to attend but one funeral.

September 4, 1914

September 11, 1914

September 18, 1914

September 25, 1914

October 2, 1914

October 9, 1914

October 16, 1914

• Elizabeth White, wife of Nathan White, deceased, and mother of W.E. White, died at the family home at Newberg, Oregon, October 7th. The family were former residents of Sherman county, being engaged in farming between this city and Grass Valley.

October 23, 1914

October 30, 1914

November 6, 1914

• Jacob Hinkle, an Oregon pioneer of 1853, died at his Philomath home October 26th. He was one of the founders of the present Oregon Agricultural College at Corvallis.  Hinkle was an uncle to Mrs. A.C. Thompson of Monkland, the family is one of the few in America that has proud of their identification with colonial affairs in a period of American history dating prior to the revolutionary war.

November 13, 1914

November 20, 1914

November 27, 1914

• and Mrs. R.D. Jackson were called to Portland last week by the death of Mr. Jackson’s father and the illness of Mrs. Jackson’s sister.

December 4, 1914

December 11, 1914

• Kenneth Harvey, four month old son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Messinger, who reside near The Dalles, died at Wasco last week while the parents were visiting at the home of relatives.

December 18, 1914

December 25, 1914

January 1, 1915

January 8, 1915

January 15, 1915

 

January 22, 1915

• The grim reaper, Death, visited Moro Tuesday afternoon, taking as toll the young life of Garland Douma who has been sick for sometime, altho it was not known that he was confined to his home. Garland was only 22 years of age, born in the Willamette valley, and was a cheerful, likeable and industrious young man and at the time of his death was engaged in farming part of the E.O.L. Co. land holdings near Moro.  Funeral services were conducted Thursday from the Methodist Episcopal church and interment was in the IOOF cemetery, Rev. A.J. Adams conducting the services and preaching a most impressive sermon to a congregation that taxed the capacity of the church building; the casket being screened from sight by the many beautiful floral offerings.

January 29, 1915

• Eliza J. Powell and son Chas. L., were called to Brownsville Wednesday by the death of Mrs. Powell’s brother, F. M. Barr, from blood poison.

February 5, 1915

February 12, 1915

• Word has been received by Mrs. J.M. Axtell of the death of her father at Salem, Iowa, on February 3d, aged 82 years.

February 19, 1915

• Lucinda DeMoss Shatto, aunt of P.W. Davis, died at the home her nephew at DeMoss Friday, February 12th, caused by attack apoplexy, age 83 years. Funeral services were held Saturday, Rev. A.J. Adams preaching the sermon, interment at DeMoss cemetery.  Mrs. Shatto in early life was the wife of a frontier minister and with him shared the arduous labors endured by the early pioneer preachers; three brothers were ministers in United Brethren church and a son in the Congregational ministry.

February 26, 1915

• Sarah Wylie, sister to J. Marsh at Wasco, died suddenly at The Dalles last week of an attack of apoplexy just previous the serving of a banquet in that city to a convention of fruit growers. Mrs. Wylie had always taken a very prominent part in public affairs and will be missed by her many friends.

March 5, 1915

• Lambert Whealdon, father of Mrs. W.C. Bryant, died in this city at the home of his daughter Wednesday morning. Whealdon and wife were visiting at Moro during the last five weeks and had been ill for sometime prior to his visit here.  The funeral party left Thursday morning for the family home at Plainview, Linn county near Albany.

March 12, 1915

• George E. Lewelllen’s father died last week in Portland while undergoing an operation for cancer of the face.

March 19, 1915

• Currie was found dead in bed at a rooming house in Wasco Wednesday morning, when his room was entered to call him for breakfast at 8 am. During the early morning he was known to be awake and had asked for a drink of water.  Mr. Currie lacked two days of 72 years.  Funeral services were conducted on his birthday at 10 a.m. Friday from the Presbyterian church at Moro, interment at IOOF cemetery at Grass Valley.

March 26, 1915

April 2, 1915

April 9, 1915

April 16, 1915

• Word has been received at his place of the death of Wm. Hines at the family home in Hood River.
• Word has been received by friends at Moro of the death of George Bunn at the family home in The Dalles. Funeral services were held last Sunday afternoon from the Catholic cathedral at The Dalles.  The family were former residents of this county, residing near Wasco where they yet have farm interest.

April 23, 1915

April 30, 1915

May 7, 1915

May 14, 1915

May 21, 1915

May 28, 1915

• Uncle James Martin died Tuesday morning at The Dalles hospital from a complication of disease caused by old age. Interment was at Moro cemetery Wednesday afternoon, services being held at the grave.  Martin was 86 years old; born at Ashtabula, Ohio, March 30, 1829; he came to the Pacific coast in 1853 and since that time he had resided in California and Oregon.

June 4, 1915

• G. Bosen, former resident of Moro, died May 24th at Springfield, Oregon.

June 11, 1915

• Elvin Fuller, son of A.K. Fuller was drowned Sunday evening near their new home at Castle Rock, Wash. A number of Sherman county friends of the family joined in sending a floral offering in an anchor design for the funeral on Tuesday the 8th.

June 18, 1915

June 25, 1915

 

July 2, 1915

• Death Calls Young Man. Harvey Austin May died at his home, near Spaulding chapel, Friday, June 25th, age 25 years.  He was born near Solomon City, Kansas, and at the age of four moved with his parents to the Willamette valley and later to Sherman county.  The family, for a short time, lived near Ione in Morrow county. He attended business college in Salem where he met Miss Inez Jones of Gervais, Oregon, whom he married October 8, 1912.  He was employed in Portland, Ore., until October, 1913, then moving to Sherman county where they have since resided. He is survived by his young wife and two year old daughter; his father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. L.D. May; three sisters, Grace and Lulu, of Monkland, and Mrs. Guy Boyer, of Heppner; two brothers, Wallace, of Monkland, and Everett, of Corvallis.  Funeral services were conducted Sunday afternoon from the M.E. church at Moro, the edifice being filled with friends of the family, Rev. Robertson preaching the sermon.  Interment was at the Moro cemetery, twenty one automobiles and two carriages following the funeral party to the last resting place of the departed.
• A. Jones, brother to Mrs. Harvey May, was in attendance, from his home at Gervais, at the funeral service for Mr. May, Sunday. Mrs. May accompanied her brother, on his return Tuesday, and will visit with her parents at Gervais.
• Funeral services for Lew Hailey were held at Wasco Monday.

July 23, 1915

• Died in Oklahoma City. L. and S.D. Montgomery have received notice of the death of their sister, Mrs. Chas. Parkhurst, who died at Wesley hospital Oklahoma City, Wednesday July 7th.  Although she had been ill for three months death came unexpected, she being afflicted with Pelegra which doctors claim is incurable, although persons afflicted with it may linger for years.  A sister, Mrs. Chas. Tom, lives at Rufus, in this county.
• Two Brothers Dead. Two brothers, former residents of Sherman county near DeMoss, have passed away with the last two months.  Seven weeks after Martin Cochran died of cancer of the stomach at Seattle, May 23d, his younger brother, Benjamin F., died at The Dalles, July 12, from tuberculosis inducted from a fall from a horse four years ago. Martin desired that his remains be cremated and his ashes be interred at Moro cemetery. Ben F. Cochran was laid to rest in the IOOF cemetery at The Dalles.
• J.C. Hockman has received word of the death, at the family home near Colville, Wash., of Earl Sachs, nine year son of Mr. and Mrs. J.H. Sachs, who was accidentally shot to death by a playmate while alone playing with a 45-90 winchester. J.H. Sachs and wife were formerly residents of Moro; they were married in this city when Mr. Sachs had the meat market opposite the Martin building and Mrs. Sachs was known as Miss Jennie Kay.

July 30, 1915

• Paul Farrell is Killed. The Dalles. — Paul W. Farrell, the 19-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. W.A. Farrell, of Rainer, Wash., and nephew to President J.D. Farrell, of the Oregon-Washington Railroad & Navigation company, was fatally injured in the railroad yards here, when he attempted to board a moving work train.  He fell to the ground and in trying to get out of the way of the train raised his foot, which was caught by a car, his body being drawn under the wheels.  He was rushed to The Dalles hospital, but there was no chance to save his life.  His body had been badly mangled and he suffered a deep gash on the head.
• M. Axtell has received word of the death of his brother-in-law Rubin Ferguson, who died Monday, July 26th, at his home at Loveland, Colorado.

August 6, 1915

• Sam P. Brisbine has received word of the death of his step-mother, Priscella Fleming, in North Dakota, July 22d, at the age of a few days less than 93 years. “She was a good Christian, a loving wife, a kind mother, and a good step mother.”

August 13, 1915

• Sam P. Brisbine has received word of the death of her step-mother, Mrs. Priscella Fleming, in North Dakota, July 22d, at the age of a few days less than 93 years. “She was a good Christian, a loving wife, a kind mother, and a good step mother.”

August 20, 1915

August 27, 1915

• E. and J.O. Garrent, of Grass Valley, were called to Burns, Oregon, on account of the death of their father, on the 17th.
• The baby son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Sargent died Tuesday at the family home west of Moro. Funeral services were held Wednesday, interment at the Wasco cemetery.
• Joe Erickson, a stranger working at the Blackburne orchards near Rufus, was drowned Sunday evening while swimming in the Columbia river. W. Blackburne and Erickson had just finished a swimming contest and Blackburne had started for shore, when he heard Erickson cry as if in pain.  He turned back and tried to help Erickson and did get him nearer shore, but Erickson slipt from his hold.  The next day the body of Erickson was seen on the river bottom, but disappeared before it could be secured.

September 3, 1915

• The infant child of Mr. and Mrs. Emil Anderson died Thursday afternoon, August 26th.

September 10, 1915

September 17, 1915

September 24, 1915

• Sherman County Pioneer at Rest. After an illness continuing several weeks, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. H.A. Moore in Portland, Elizabeth Ellen Hufford Cushman passed away last Friday morning, September 17th.  Funeral services were held at the Methodist Episcopal church at Moro Sunday afternoon, Rev. Robertson preaching the service, after arrival from Portland by train of the funeral party.  Interment was in the family lot at Moro cemetery. Mrs. Cushman was 79 years old.  Born in Indiana in 1836, she crossed the plains with her parents in 1854 going to California where she married Obed Cushman in 1855.  She lived in Butte county, California, until 1881 when she came to Sherman county, being among the first early settlers of this section of Oregon. Mrs. Cushman was active in the social life and upbuilding of this county until the death of Mr. Cushman at Moro in 1901 and her removal to Portland about six years ago.  She is survived by four daughters and one son:  Mrs. W.H. Moore, Mrs. H.A. Moore, Mrs. H.S. McDanel, at Portland; Mrs. D.E. Vintin at Grass Valley; E.A. Cushman at Moro.

October 1, 1915

October 8, 1915

• Claud Thompson Huddleston, age 11 months and 6 days, son of District Attorney Huddleston, died at the family home in Wasco last Sunday morning of whooping cough. The funeral was from the residence Monday afternoon, several friends of the family attending from Moro.

October 15, 1915

October 22, 1915

• T. Boothby, formerly a resident of this county, farming at Kent and also being interested in an orchard at Rufus, died at a hospital in Portland October 11th, where he had been taken for treatment for cancer. Funeral services were held from the Christian church at The Dalles.

October 29, 1915

November 5, 1915

November 12, 1915

November 19, 1915

• and Mrs. A.J. Adams were called to Gilliam county, near Condon, Saturday by the sudden death of Mrs. Adams’ brother, who had been farming in that vicinity for the past two years. Word was late in reaching Moro and the trip had to be made on short notice with the aid of Mr. and Mrs. H.U. Martin and their Studebaker, going and coming after dark.
• M. Wright left Thursday for Albany to attend the funeral of his nephew, Paul Leach, who died at the family home near that place Wednesday from the results of a fall from a 12-foot tank October 29th. He and a companion were soldering leaks inside the tank when the charcoal fumes began to be noticed and they started to leave the tank, upon getting outside and starting to go down the ladder the young lost his hold and fell.  Paul Leach was 23 years old, the son of D. H. Leach who formerly lived in the Monkland section.

November 26, 1915

December 3, 1915

• A monument for Harvey May and a family stone and markers for John R. and James A. Martin were placed in Moro cemetery Saturday by F.H. Watts of The Dalles.

December 10, 1915

• L. Barnum was called to Dufur last week by an accident to her niece, daughter of her brother, W.J. Kunsman, who fell from a chair and dislocated her spine. The two older children were brought to Moro by Mrs. Barnum, pending the illness of the younger, who later failed to rally from the effects of the accident.  The funeral party arrived at Moro Tuesday evening, services being held Wednesday morning from the residence of L. Barnum, interment being in the family plot in Moro cemetery.  [Leona Myrtle]

December 17, 1915

December 24, 1915

• Edgar, only son of Dr. and Mrs. J.W. Dennelly, died at the family home in Arlington on Wednesday, December 15th. Edgar Dennelly was a talented young man, a college graduate, and had about finished his studies preliminary to taking the examination for admission to the Oregon bar.  He has a number of friends in Sherman county that regret his early death.

Attorney C. J. Bright of the firm of Bright, Bryant and Ellis, has received a message announcing the death of his father at Massillion, Iowa.  The deceased was a native of Virginia and a confederate veteran of the Civil war.

December 31, 1915

• Juddie, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. Lee S. Hines, died at the family home in Wasco Tuesday from an aggravated attack of Pneumonia. Funeral services were held Thursday, interment being in Wasco cemetery.  Hines and family have had, this fall, their share of sickness, it being but a few days since Mr. Hines was able to leave a sick bed himself.
• Robert Jones, pioneer farmer who formerly lived near Bourbon station, died last week at Hood River. C. Eakkin of Rutledge was one from this county who attended the funeral Sunday.
• A. Happold died on the 23rd at Santa Cruz, California, where she had gone in search of health, accompanied by her daughter. The funeral party arrived home on Monday and interment was the following day at Wasco cemetery.

January 7, 1916

• Katie, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Soren Hansen, living 9 miles west of Moro, was taken sick last Wednesday with diphtheria and the progress of the disease was so rapid that the third day, Friday following, death resulted. Funeral services were from the home and interment at Moro cemetery.  The youngest daughter of the house is very ill with the same disease.  No one seems to know how the disease was brought to the family, but precautions are being taken to see that it does not spread to other localities.

January 14, 1916

• Sherman County Pioneer Passes. Taken suddenly ill Monday while a guest at the home of Alf Dillinger, in The Dalles, C. Eakin, aged 60, a Sherman county pioneer farmer, died at seven o’clock that night.  Mr. Eakin had been suffering with an attack of the grippe and had been out of bed only a few days when he decided to go to The Dalles to purchase horses, when he was taken ill soon after his arrival. Mr. Eakin had farm interest near Rutledge, where his son now has a farm; several years ago he moved Philomath, but was intending to again make Sherman county his home.  Funeral services were held Thursday from Moro M.E. church, Rev. Magwood from Grass Valley assisting Rev. Robertson and preaching the sermon.  Interment was at Rose cemetery, east of Moro.   [Otis C.]

 

• Isabella Bennett died at her home at White Salmon on Saturday, January 1st, age 84 years. Mrs. Bennett was a pioneer of Sherman county, living at Kent for a number of years, and leaves a large number of friends and relatives in this and joining counties.  Her three sons, R. C. Bennett of Grass Valley; W. H. Bennett of Kent, and Milton Bennett of White Salmon; were able to be with her at the last.
• G. Barton, owner of Rohr Villa fruit ranch on the Des Chutes river, west of Moro, died at The Dalles hospital Sunday evening from the effects of ptomaine poisoning. The remains were sent to Portland for interment, that being the family home during the winter months.
• Alta, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Soren Hansen, died Thursday morning at the family home west of Moro from diphtheria.  Interment was at Moro cemetery Friday afternoon.
• Father Hickey, pastor of the Catholic church work of this county, died at Portland last week. Funeral services were held from the Cathredal at Portland on Saturday, January 8th.
• Harland, infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Fish of Biggs and grandson of Judd Fish of The Dalles, died at The Dalles hospital last Saturday after an illness of several days. [Place of Burial Unknown]

January 21, 1916

January 28, 1916

February 4, 1916

February 11, 1916

• L.H. Martin informs us the G.W. Clelland, a former resident of Moro, living at Portland at the time, has passed away leaving a son and daughter, both married, and a wife, all now living at Portland. Mr. Clelland was a resident of Moro about 14 years ago.  Death occurred Sunday, June 30th, from heart failure; funeral services were held the following Wednesday.

February 18, 1916

February 25, 1916

• and Mrs. H. M. Shull were called to Juliaetta, Idaho, by the death, on the 5th, of Mrs. Shull’s mother.

March 3, 1916

March 10, 1916

March 17, 1916

• First Fatal Accident. A freight train, running away on the steep grade into Biggs, was wrecked last Thursday morning about 3 a.m., causing the death of the fireman, Lew Kaster, and brakeman, W. Stimpson, and serious injury of the engineer.  The rear brakeman survived the wreck with minor injuries and the conductor got off without a scratch, although the car on top of which he was riding was reduced to kindling. The train got past control about two miles south of the Mud Hollow section house and was running close to 80 miles an hour when a car left the track at that place, wrecking six cars loaded with wheat  and the caboose.  The engine and one car continued the wild race down grade for another mile when it left the track on a curve and plowed into the hillside.  The cars in the first wreck were thrown down a 30 foot embankment. The failure of the air brakes is supposed to be the cause of the accident.  Both men killed had families in Portland, the brakeman having only been employed but a short time by the railway company.  This is the first fatal accident to occur on the Shaniko branch.

March 24, 1916

March 31, 1916

• The funeral of Mrs. Luzena Sink was held at Wasco Monday. Sink was of a pioneer colonial Virginia family and was herself familiar with the hardships of the pioneer life of Illinois, Missouri, California and Oregon.  She had lived to the uncommon age of 91 years and 7 months.
• John Nort was called to Hoquiam, Wash. Wednesday to attend the funeral of her brother.

April 7, 1916

April 14, 1916

April 21, 1916

• John Johnson died at the family home south of Moro early Tuesday morning. Johnson was one of the early pioneer farmers of Sherman county, but later years had suffered much from asthma.

May 5, 1916

May 12, 1916

May 19, 1916

• Word was received Wednesday by J.M. Parry of the death of Miss Saidee A. White Tuesday night at St. Vincent hospital, following an operation fro abscess. Miss White has a large number of friends in this city and the news of her death was entirely unexpected.  She was an owner of property in Moro and had made arrangements to return and take a position in the post office as assistant postmaster.  She was to have been to Moro the day she submitted to the operation from the shock of which she did not rally.  Thus ends a very useful life and one who is mourned by many friends in Moro.

May 26, 1916

• Miss Edwards, grade teacher in the Wasco school, died at The Dalles Thursday following an emergency operation for appendicitis.
• George Potter and mother were called to Spokane last week by the death of his grandmother.
• Grant Morgan, was called to Vancouver, Wash., Thursday by news of the death of his father.

June 3, 1916

• The owner of the Wasco bakery committed suicide Wednesday morning in the yard at the rear of the bakery. He had gotten up early and cleaned his gun, remarking he was going to shoot rats.  An employee of the bakery happened to go to the door just as the suicide pulled the trigger.
• The 2-year old son of J.G. Odell manager of Grass Valley branch of the Tumalum Lumber Co., was drowned Wednesday morning in a pool of water at the back of the family residence. In a futile effort to save the child’s life, a pulmotor was brought from The Dalles by Harry Walters; the auto making the run in the record time of one hour and twenty-five minutes.  [Robert Lewis]

June 9, 1916

• Funeral services were conducted in the M. E. Church Thursday morning for Mrs. Eliza M. Harris, who died last week in Seattle at the home of her son Wesley. Interment was in the family plot in Moro cemetery.  Harris was a pioneer of Sherman county and formerly kept the toll gate at the foot of the Harris grade leading across the DesChutes to The Dalles. —–  Card of Thanks – We wish to thank our friends and old-time neighbors who so kindly helped us at the funeral services of our mother, Mrs. Eliza M. Harris.     Wesley Harris, Brothers and Sisters and Families.
• Attorney W. C. Bryant was called to Portland Monday by the death of his brother in that city Sunday.

June 16, 1916

June 23, 1916

June 30, 1916

July 7, 1916

• Fatal Cloud Burst. Loss of Life and Property Caused by Unusual Storm.  For the first time in the history of Sherman county a cloud burst exacted a toll in human lives last Friday night about six o’clock in the Hay canyon section.  There had been threatening weather for more than a week, but no one gave it serious consideration as to possible damage, althou it had rained nearly every day for the previous week, a very unusual condition at this time of year. The storm center was over the farm of John Hastings, where the heaviest property loss occurred.  Hastings, his daughter Alta and Res Boyce were in the barn at the time the flood lifted the building off its foundations and swept the two last named into a side current and down stream several hundred feet.  Mr. Hastings got upon a hog house and from there to the combe of the barn and was carried to where the other two had gotten from the water.  His loss was close to $2500 consisting of the barn, machinery, horses, and wheat.  The house had about three feet of water on the floor, but not damaged. In the same canyon with Hastings was Dayton Henrichs who lost small farm buildings, machinery, and chickens. The main damage was confined to Hay canyon, from the P. C. Axtell farm to its junction with Grass Valley canyon.  In this section the first to suffer damage was Mr. Axtell who lost about 40 hogs all his chickens, small buildings, and some growing grain. The next was C. C. Callaway farming the W. J. Furnish place, where the barn was carried away, the spring and water system damaged, and machinery, buggy and about 1000 new fence posts were lost.  He had 13 head of horses, mares, colts, and a stallion, engulfed in the flood, without loss. The next was the W.W. M. Co., owning the place farmed by A F. Fortner, where the house, some stock and machinery was swept away, Mrs. Elizabeth Fortner, mother of A.R., and daughter, Mrs. L.H. Lawrence of New Meadows, Idaho, were in the house at the time of the accident and were carried away with the building.  The daughter was found 4 1/2 miles down stream and the mother 9 miles.  They had packed their trunks and had intended to leave for the coast the day after the storm happened. From the Fortner place to the end of the canyon no other damage has been reported, but the canyon carried water for quite a while after the main flood had passed, which was estimated to be thirty feet deep at its crest and bank to bank. J.W. Kunsman, O.T. Burnett and Ray Havener were working on a new road location below Monkland and were camped in the main canyon with the road between their tent and the hillside.  They did not realize the seriousness of their situation when the waters first appeared.  Ray Havener was the first to grasp the situation and he made for the hillside through water that soon took him off his feet and carried him 200 feet down stream before he reached safety.  Mr. Burnett started to follow Havener, first going into the tent after his personal effects, when he started to cross the hillside the slight delay and the goods he was carrying was too much of a handicap and he was carried down stream three miles and found by the searching party next morning.  Mr. Kunsman apparently thought the others were needlessly alarmed and that the waters were from the heavy rain then falling and that a knoll close to the tent would be sufficient protection until the flood passed, but he also was carried away and found the next morning close to where Mr. Burnett lay. At the J.M. Allen place, 12 miles below the Fortner farm, the water is reported to have raised 15 feet in 15 minutes and at the Herman Christiansen farm, on the south edge of the storm, there were four inches of rain in a straight sided vitrol trough in a very short time. A very narrow escape from the flood was that of Wm. Burres and family who were following Hugh Shull out of Wasco, both driving autos and going up Hay Canyon to their homes.  Mr. Shull was the faster driver and turned out of the canyon just as the water approached and three miles behind Shull was Burres, stopped by the flood as he was driving onto the canyon floor. Roads in places are washed and a number of bridges wrecked in a section that includes a scope of country extending from the west top of Lone Rock grade eastward to the Neil McDonald farm and north to an apex at Hay canyon warehouses.  In this district the new road completed last year by the county down Hay canyon was ruined and a new road bed will have to be graded in a number of places. A double funeral service was held at Moro M.E. church Sunday afternoon for Mr. Kunsman and Mr. Burnett and at the same hour at Wasco for Mrs. Fortner and her daughter.
• T. Burnett was born at Gower Missouri, November 11, 1877, died June 30, 1916. He joined the Christian church at the age of 21, moving to Moro in October, 1913.  He leaves a wife and two children a boy, Ralph W., age 16 years, and a little girl, Marieta Louise, age 3 years, a father, mother, two brothers and two sisters.
• W. Kunsman was born in Williams county, Ohio, July 7, 1854, died June 30, 1916. He leaves a mother, a sister, two brothers, three daughters; Miss Mary, Mrs. A. L. Landingham, Mrs. L. Barnum; four sons, James, Harry, Irvin, and Roy.  [John W.]
• Isabelle Fortner died June 30th, 1916. Her home was at New Meadows, Idaho.  She leaves a husband, one daughter, and three sons; Frank E., Fred R., Archie R.
• L. H. Lawrence died June 30th, 1916. Her home was at New Meadows, Idaho.  She leaves a husband, father, sister, and three brothers, Frank E., Fred R., Archie R. Fortner.  [Pearl]

July 14, 1916

• A Pioneer Passes. Nathan W. Silver, former Sherman county resident died in Portland June 27th last, was born in Wayne county, Ind., Sept. 26, 1847, and served as a private in the civil war in Co. C, 11th Kansas cavalry.  He was married to Juliet A. Heath of Salt Marsh. Kan., Nov. 14, 1867, and to this union were born five children — Nana J., Eva E., Fannie P., Winnie E. and Chester G, all of who survive. In March, 1875, deceased came to Oregon, settling near Turner where he resided until 1904, moving then to Moro, where he was occupied in farming until 1911, in which year he moved to Portland where he resided until his demise at the age of 68 years, 9 months and 1 day.  The remains were taken to Turner and interred under Masonic auspices, of which order he had been a member for many years.
• Henry Smith One of the few remaining actual pioneers of Sherman county passed away at his home in Moro during the early morning hours of July 11th, Henry Smith at the age of 70 years.  Funeral services were held from the Moro M.E. church Thursday afternoon, the sermon being preached by Rev. Robertson; interment in the family plot in Moro cemetery. Thirty or more years ago a large part of the United States was unknown country.  Then it was that the word pioneer meant measurably more than it does today when the hardships that accompanied those who best understood the meaning of the word accompanied the explorers of a new country.  Pioneer to some means the life of the early trapper and hunter, but in later years it is best understood as a term to describe the labor and financial loss incurred in trying to learn the secrets necessary to become a successful farmer in a new section. Of this last Henry Smith was one.  He was born in Marion county, Iowa, April 25th, 1846, was married to Isabelle H. Ramsey March 17th, 1867, who survives him.  To this union was born eight children, two girls and six boys, all of who are now living; Iva L. Bates of Wellston, Iowa, Myrtle L. Wells of Independence, Oregon, Wm Lloyd Smith of Kingsley, Oregon, Orville G., Roscoe, and Hubert Smith of Riverside, Wash., Clyde E. and Arthur Smith living in this county; he also leaves one sister Mary Mills of Donna, Texas.  Mr. Smith held a birthright in the Friends church, and after the family came to Oregon, in 1888, he united with the United Brethren church.

July 21, 1916

July 28, 1916

August 4, 1916

August 11, 1916

• News has been received here that one of Simon Elcock‘s nephews was killed in an automobile accident at Canyon, Minnesota, on July 1st.

August 18, 1916

August 25, 1916

September 1, 1916

September 8, 1916

• Tribute and Memorial. To Mrs. Addie Brownlee Knapp, born October 11th, 1886; married Oly R. Knapp December 3d, 1914 died July 19th, 1916, interment at Wasco cemetery. A poem by E.W. Knapp was part of her tribute.

September 15, 1916

September 22, 1916

• Fatal Threshing Accident. George Wright, 19 year old son of Dell H. Wright, was instantly killed Wednesday morning at the Wolfard Belshe farm.  He and his brother had been helping their father put the separator in shape the night before and it is supposed that when his time off the hoedown allowed, he went to the shady side of the engine to sleep.  While he slept the drive belt slipped off the separator and the engineer moved the engine ahead to help its replacement running over and crushing the boy’s head, who was not discovered until the men went to the fly wheel of the engine to help with the belt.  Funeral services were held from the Moro Presbyterian church, Rev. Adams preaching the sermon.

September 29, 1916

October 6, 1916

October 13, 1916

October 20, 1916

• The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Lester Walker died at the family home in The Dalles the evening of Tuesday, October 10th. Walker is a brother of Mrs. E. C. McMillan, who was in The Dalles at that time.

October 27, 1916

November 3, 1916

November 10, 1916

• E. Robinson, a Sherman county farmer, died at Wasco November 3, after a long illness. He was born at Mount Pleasant, Iowa, in 1852 and came to Sherman county in 1882.  Services were held from the Wasco M.E. church, of which he was a member for 28 years.   [Francis E.]

November 17, 1916

November 24, 1916

December 1, 1916

December 8, 1916

December 15, 1916

December 22, 1916

December 29, 1916

• John Graham, a pioneer resident of Sherman county formerly living near Rufus, died at her home in The Dalles last Friday. T.E. and W.F. Hulery of this city were grandsons of Mrs. Graham.  The funeral services were held Sunday, being attended by W.F. Hulery and family, T.E. Hulery and family not being able to attend.

January 5, 1917

January 12, 1917

January 19, 1917

• The little ten month old son of Mr. and Mrs. E.K. Bogart, died Sunday last from pneumonia aggravated by whooping cough. The little boy had been sick for some time, but was thought so much better that his father left that day for Hermiston on a business trip.  Funeral services were held Tuesday at the M. E. church, Rev. Robertson preaching the sermon.

January 26, 1917

• Elmira Benjamin, grandmother of Mrs. Grace Bourhill, died at her home at Grass Valley January 18th at the age of 98 years. The funeral was held from the house Sunday afternoon, Rev. Robertson of the Moro M.E. church conducting the services.  Mrs. Benjamin was born in Springfield, Ohio, May 22, 1820; was married to Richard Benjamin in the summer of 1837 and crossed the plains to Oregon in 1852, where she has since lived.  She leaves six children and a number of grandchildren.
• Word has just been received here that R. Craig passed away at his home at Camas, Wash., December 17, Mr. Craig was a plasterer by trade and a number of buildings in Sherman county yet attest to his careful workmanship. The family lived at Wasco for several years.

February 2, 1917

• Minnie, youngest daughter of Henry Peters of Kent, died Saturday from pneumonia.
• Shooting Affray Near Wasco. A most deplorable affair occurred last Monday five miles east of Wasco in which one man will probably lose his life and a good woman become involved in much trouble. As near as the facts can be learned Earl Rasmussen, who lives on a ranch in the John Day Valley, with two companions named Allie Doan and Ray Brady, were returning home from Wasco with provisions, liquid as well as solid, it is said, when their wagon broke down near the ranch of Charles Harper.  At their request Mr. Harper loaned them a conveyance and to it they hitched their team and proceeded on their way, but had gone but a short distance when their horses ran away and escaped from them. They then returned to the Harper place to borrow a team, but in the meantime Mr. Harper had gone away and so they applied to Mrs. Pearl Bozart, his housekeeper, for the horses.  She, having no authority, refused their request, when Rasmussen and his companions, it is claimed, went to the stable and took a team against the protestations of Mrs. Bozart, accompanying the act with threats and much profanity, so it is said. Mrs. Bozart, finding that words would avail nothing, stepped into the house and secured a 22-calibre rifle and again commanded them to desist.  This they refused to do and it is reported that Rasmussen advanced toward her in a threatening manner using violent language in the meantime. At this point Mrs. Bozart fired two or three shots over their heads, which having no effect she then shot for keeps and placed the next bullet between Rasmussen’s eyes and grazed Doan’s scalp with another. The wounded man was rushed to The Dalles hospital and operated upon, but late reports give little hope for his recovery. Sheriff McKean made a thoro investigation of the affair Tuesday and after consultation with the district attorney decided not to make any arrests at present.  Bozart has expressed her perfect willingness to answer any charge brought against her, and as she can be found whenever wanted the officials will be as lenient with her as the case will admit. Mrs. Bozart is the mother of two young children, bears an excellent reputation and we are informed has the sympathy of those living in the community where the tragedy was enacted. The wounded man, we are told, is noted for his quarrelsome disposition and has been involved in many brawls.  He is said to have a father and brother living in Portland.

February 9, 1917

February 16, 1917

February 23, 1917

• Harold Buckley, younger son of Mr. and Mrs. C.A. Buckley, died at Portland Tuesday afternoon. He had been sick for the past several months, but lately it was thought his health had materially improved.

 

March 2, 1917

• Morrison and wife left Tuesday for The Dalles to attend the funeral of Miss Edith Hunter, 18-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J.R. Hunter of Trout Lake, Wash., who died at the family home last Sunday afternoon.

March 9, 1917

• D. Wallen and wife left Saturday morning for Spokane, summoned by the death of Mrs. Wallen’s father on Friday. He had been sick for several weeks, but was thought to be better when Mrs. Wallen returned earlier in the week.  Funeral services were at the old family home at Garfield, Wash.  S. B. Shoemaker was a pioneer of the eastern Washington county.
• and Mrs. D.E. Stephens were at LaGrande this week, called by the death of Mrs. Stephens’ brother-in-law, a prominent lumber manufacturer of that section.

March 16, 1917

• C. W. Mason died at The Dalles hospital Tuesday morning from cancer of the liver. Interment was at their old home at Corvallis.  Mrs. Mason was taken to the hospital Sunday morning in hopes that an operation might benefit her.  She leaves a young son and husband.  The family formerly lived at Moro, moving to Kent last summer.

March 23, 1917

March 30, 1917

April 6, 1917

• E. Hulery and wife and W. F. Hulery and wife were called to Rufus Wednesday at attend the funeral of their nephew, the infant child of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Morris, who died Tuesday from a cold following convalescence from he measles.
• William J. Davis, a prominent Sherman county farmer, died at The Dalles hospital last Friday morning following a long illness. Funeral services were held at Grass Valley Saturday afternoon.
• W. Elrod died suddenly early Wednesday morning at his home near Lents, at Portland, from pneumonia. Mr. Elrod was a former resident of Sherman county and at one time farmed considerable land in the Webfoot district, where he also operated a threshing outfit.  He had been sick for some time, but on Monday was much better and gave his consent for his 16-year-old son to enlist in the army, the boy leaving the same day for San Francisco.

April 13, 1917

April 20, 1917

• O.A. Ramsey and daughter Leonore returned Tuesday from Dufur, where they were called to attend the funeral of Lloyd Smith‘s eldest daughter, Clare, who died at Kingsley last Sunday.
• While temporarily despondent over increased rental charges and the necessity of reseeding his fall wheat, C. Davis committed suicide at Kent Tuesday morning, the injuries received causing his death that evening. Upon telephone order from Kent S.P. Brisbine supplied the casket for the funeral, held Wednesday afternoon, Rev. Robertson of Moro conducting the service.  Mr. Davis was the father of Mrs. J. C. Wilson and Luther Davis, both living at Kent.  [Hider C.]

April 27, 1917

• Will H. Parry, Vice-Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, died in a hospital in Washington, D. C., Saturday, April 21, following an operation for gall stones. He was born in Pittsford, Monroe county, N.Y., June 29, 1864, hence was 53 years old.  His brother J.M. Parry of Moro, at the time of his birth was with the army of the Potomac before Petersburg, Va.

May 4, 1917

May 11, 1917

• Distinguished Citizen Passes. Saturday morning last Sherman county lost one of its most valued citizens in the unexpected death of M. Barnett, pioneer farmer, merchant and banker of Wasco, following what was thought to be an operation for a minor malady. Funeral services were conducted Monday afternoon from the Wasco opera house, people attending from every section of the county.  As a special mark of respect to the memory of Mr. Barnett every business house in the county was closed the afternoon of the funeral and the Masonic lodges of Moro and Wasco attended in a body. The beauty and number of the floral offerings received from sympathizing friends nearly covered the large American flag that draped the front of the stage. Honorary pall bearers were John Fulton, David Fulton, R. Dingle, W.A. Murchie, Henry Richelderfer and G.C. Friedley.  Active pall bearers were G.N. Crosfield, Fred Blau, E.D. MeKee, J.A. Ellis, W. G. Armsworthy and J.P. Yates. W.M. Barnett was born at Yankeetown, Ind., January 27, 1853, and died at Portland, Ore., May 5, 1917.  He came to the Pacific coast when about 20 years of age, and soon afterward located near Goldendale, Wash., where he married Sarah E. Golden, moving to near Wasco shortly afterward, in 1879, where he took deep interest in the growth and prosperity of Sherman county. Mr. Barnett is survived by a widow, four sons and four daughters.
• Willard Andrew Fred, son of Mr. and Mrs. M.F. Melzer, died Friday, May 4. The funeral was from the family home at Monkland, Rev. Robertson conducting the services.  Interment was in Rose cemetery. —- Card of Thanks.  We wish to thank our relatives and friends who were so kind to us in our sorrow by the death of our loving baby boy.  and Mrs. Martin Melzer.

May 18, 1917

May 25, 1917

June 1, 1917

June 8, 1917

June 15, 1917

• J.W. Messinger died Wednesday afternoon at the home of her son George, west of Wasco, from pneumonia. Mrs. Messinger had been sick for about a week, but the family did not realize how serious was the sickness until too late.  Funeral services were held Thursday afternoon from Moro M.E. church, Rev. Robertson preaching the sermon.  [Burzilda]

June 22, 1917

• In Memorium. Burzilda Olds Messinger was born February 5, 1849, at Lafayette, Yamhill county, Oregon.  Died at the home of her youngest daughter, near Wasco, June 13, 1917.  She was married to John William Messinger September 11, 1867, near Lafayette.  To this union eight children were born, five sons and three daughters, all yet living.  She united with the Baptist church while young and had continued her membership until her death. She leaves two brothers, a sister, husband, eight children; Edgar G. of Wapato, Wash.; Otis B. of Moro; Fred R. and Mrs. Flora Coon of Grass Valley; Jacob I. and Albert L. of The Dalles; Mrs. Anna Rust of Sherar Bridge and Mrs. Myrtle Kaseberg of Wasco; 26 grand children and one great grand child.
• The little four months old daughter [son] of Mr. and Mrs. Edw. Sagawa, living near Monkland, died Sunday afternoon. Funeral services were held Tuesday, interment being at Wasco cemetery. [Place of Burial – Sunrise Cemetery.   Richard Lee Sagawe  –  son of Edmond and Bertha Ellen (Sanders)(McDonald) Sagawe.  Brother of Kathleen Maxine McDonald (Yates); Joseph Ralph McDonald, deceased 23 June 1909; William Bryon McDonald; John Patrick McDonald; and Julia May Sagawe.]

June 29, 1917

July 6, 1917

• Word was received by Mrs. A. M. Wright Tuesday that her sister, W. D. Ritchey of Steubenville, Ohio, died there on the 3d inst.
• A distressing fatal accident occurred Sunday last by which Clide Zobel, the 20 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. P.H. Zobel lost his life by drowning in the John Day river.  The young man was on his way to visit his claim across the river some 13 miles from the home place, going horseback.  The first knowledge the family had of the tragedy was when the horse returned home riderless Sunday night with the boy’s shoes tied to the saddle.  A search of the river was at once made and the body found with neck broken, it is reported.  The supposition is the young man was swimming beside the horse when it began plunging, striking him with its feet, causing the injury and drowning.  At first foul play was suspected, but as his purse, watch and other valuables were later found beneath a rock on this side of the river, that idea was abandoned.  The funeral services were held at Monkland Thursday, Rev. B.T. Smith of Moro preaching the sermon.

July 13, 1917

• J. A. Silver, mother of Mrs. E.E. and Mrs. A.L. Barzee and C.G. Silver, died at her home at Arleta, Portland, Sunday last. Funeral services were held Tuesday.

July 20, 1917

• Last Wednesday F. H. Watts, manager of Watts’ Marble Works, places a large three-piece blue Vermont marble monument in the J.W. Messinger family plot in the Moro Baptist cemetery to the memory of Burzilda Messinger, who recently died of pneumonia.
• Miss Ethel McDonald, young daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Neil McDonald of Hay Canyon has been a great sufferer from heart trouble for some time past. Last Friday her condition was so low that her life was despaired of, and her grandfather, Isaac Thompson of Moro, and other relatives were summoned to her bedside.  Since then however, she has rallied and her recovery is hoped for.

July 27, 1917

August 3, 1917

August 10, 1917

• Ethel Irene McDonald, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Neil McDonald, passed away at the family home south of Monkland Friday, August 3, aged 9 years, 4 months and 20 days. Miss Ethel has been ill for many months, everything possible known to medical science to help the sufferer having been used to no avil.  A large number from Moro attended the funeral services held Sunday afternoon at Spaulding Chapel, Rev. Robertson preaching the sermon.  Interment in the family plot at Rose cemetery.
• Davis, visiting in Sherman county from his home at View, near LaCenter, Wash., died Saturday evening at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Grant Morgan, south of Monkland. Mr. Davis was 82 years old July 17th and had been sick since July 5th, having contracted pneumonia while attending the Pioneers’ Picnic at DeMoss on the 4th.  Five children were with him at the last:  Mrs. Grant Morgan, Mrs. Thos. McFadden, of Monkland; Mrs. Mattie Ritchy, Mrs. Mary Smith and a son, J.B. Davis, all residing at View.  Funeral services were held at the Grant Morgan home Sunday afternoon, the services being conducted by Rev. Robertson.  Interment was at Mountain View cemetery near LaCenter on July 7.

August 17, 1917

• Isaac Thompson received this week the sad intelligence of the death of his sister living in Illinois. She was 85 years of age.

August 24, 1917

August 31, 1917

• Virginia Alice, five months old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Rich, of Ajax, Gilliam county passed away on the 26th at the home of Mrs. Rich’s sister at DeMoss. Funeral services were conducted Monday by Rev. Robertson, from the Christian church at Wasco, interment being at the Wasco cemetery.

September 7, 1917

September 14, 1917

September 21, 1917

September 28, 1917

October 5, 1917

• C.R. Rollins, a pioneer physician of the Oregon country and Sherman county in particular, died last week in The Dalles at the home of his daughter, Mrs. C.W. Moore. There were only 42 white people in what is now Sherman county when Dr. Rollins located at what is now Grass Valley in 1878, where he shortly afterward erected a store building and operated a mercantile business in connection with his practice.  He was the first practicing physician in Grass Valley, operated the first store, the first hotel, and is credited with raising and threshing the first crop of wheat within the boundaries of what is now Sherman county.

October 12, 1917

• A. Rasmussen was a visitor from Hillsboro during the fair, Mrs. Rasmussen not making the trip, the death of her father at their Hillsboro home last week preventing her visiting Sherman county at this time.

October 19, 1917

October 26, 1917

• Death visited the home of Mr. and Mrs. Homer Belshee Monday night, taking Eva, their youngest daughter, away with him. The little girl had been seriously ill the last two weeks with summer complaint.  Funeral services were held Wednesday, Rev. Dow DeLong preaching the sermon.

November 2, 1917

November 9, 1917

November 16, 1917

November 23, 1917

November 30, 1917

• A large number of Sherman county baseball fans will remember K. Harlan who died on the 17th at LaGrande of typhoid fever. He was a very efficient amateur baseball pitcher and a successful newspaper publisher.  His last visit to Moro was about two years ago with the nine from Condon.

December 7, 1917

December 14, 1917

December 21, 1917

• Sherman County Pioneer Passes. Cora L. Cushman Vintin is one more pioneer Sherman county has seen leave her lands of golden promise for the life beyond, she having passed to the shadowy shores of the unknown land at her home near Grass Valley on December 12th, after an illness of several weeks. Mrs. Vintin was born in Cherokee county, California, in 1866, coming to Oregon and Sherman county in 1881.  She was married to David E. Vintin in 1884 and to them was born five children, four yet living.  She has resided in Sherman county continuously since her entry into its pioneer life, was a prominent and faithful worker in the Baptist church and a member of the Rebecca lodge at Grass Valley.  She leaves a husband; one grandchild; four children, Guy W., Eugene, Laura, and Mrs. Frank Bayer; three sisters, Mrs. Laura Moore, Mrs. H.A. Moore, and Mrs. H.S. McDanel; and one brother, E.A. Cushman. Funeral services were conducted from the Baptist church at Grass Valley, the Rebecca lodge of that city assisting with the service.  The sermon was a very impressive one, preached by Rev. Bailey, who had in earlier years baptized Mrs. Vintin into his church.  The casket at the church and the little mound in the cemetery being draped with many beautiful floral offerings from loving friends and relatives.

December 28, 1917

 

End of Roll.

 

Sherman County Observer

Moro, Sherman County, Oregon

 

The following are the death notices and obituaries contained within the pages of the Sherman County Observer, on the microfilm roll containing the issues from January 4, 1918 to January 25, 1924.

 

January 4, 1918

• A daughter born to Mr. and Mrs. Chris Andersen New Years evening, living only and hour and a half. Anderson is now recovering nicely.

January 11, 1918

• Mary Morrow, one of the early pioneer settlers of Sherman county, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. E.E. Kaseberg, in Wasco January 9th at the age of 82 years. Mrs. Morrow is fo a long-lived family, one sister who recently passed away at an age of 86 years, and other living to be nearly as old.  Nine children, 8 residing in Sherman county, were with her when the call came.
• B.T. Smith left Monday evening for Newberg, to be with Mrs. Smith, called there by the illness of her father who died on Tuesday of this week.

January 18, 1918

January 25, 1918

February 8, 1918

February 15, 1918

• W.H. Helyer Called by Death. Mrs. Willa Hawley Helyer, who died at The Dalles hospital February 2, was born 14 miles southeast of Cottage Grove January 30, 1875.  By her own efforts she became a graduate of the Oregon State Normal and the Oregon Agricultural college.  After her graduation she proved herself a successful teacher.  In 1989 [1899] she came to Sherman county and near Kent, Or., took up a homestead which has proved a valuable wheat ranch, which she still owned. In January, 1917, she became the wife of W.H. Helyer, a prosperous farmer of the Kent section. Mrs. Helyer is survived by her husband, mother, five brothers and five sisters.  She was buried in the Mason’s cemetery at Cottage Grove Wednesday.
• C. Bryant and family were called to Portland on the 8th by news of the death of Mr. Bryant’s mother.
• D. Holder passed away at his home near LaGrande at 6:30 a.m. Friday.
• Herman Pape and wife returned Friday evening from Cottage Grove, where they attended the funeral of W.H. Helyer, who died last week in The Dalles from cancer of the stomach.

 

• Con Stillwell, one of the popular members of the younger set in Moro a few years ago, died at the family home east of Moro last week from a long continued tubercular illness. The funeral was held last Friday from the Moro Methodist church, Rev. W.L. Dillinger preaching the sermon, interment following in the IOOF cemetery.
• Joseph jr., seven year old son of Mr. and Mrs. J.J. Schaeffer, died early Monday morning, following an illness of many months. Funeral services were held Friday afternoon from the Methodist church, Rev. Baily of The Dalles an old time friend of the family, preaching the sermon. Interment was in Moro cemetery.

February 22, 1918

• Funeral services for the late D. Holder was held Sunday morning from the Presbyterian church, Rev. B.T. Smith preaching the sermon.

March 1, 1918

• Word has been received by Sheriff McKean of the death at Astoria by drowning of Jim Reid on the 23rd. Reid joined the national army in the 2d contingent to leave Sherman county.

March 8, 1918

March 15, 1918

March 22, 1918

• Word has been received by Mrs. M.H. Rust of the death of her sister, Mrs. Abbie Shepherd, on March 11th at Andover, Mass.

March 29, 1918

April 5, 1918

• Serious Auto Accident. Monday evening shortly after seven o’clock George Crumley, agent at Wasco for the Standard Oil Co., met with a serious accident just north of Moro on the Wasco road at about 50 yards this side of the new concrete culvert. He had stopped at the Moro Hotel for supper on his way home from Redmond as he was passing through town and after leaving the hotel had stopped at Foss & Co., for gasoline before continuing his trip. It was noticed as he left town that he was traveling at an excessive speed and it is thought that the steering wheel got away from him as he hit a rut in the road, causing the car to turn completely over twice or more times and catching him under the car.  The windshield and steering wheel and post were wrenched, but little other damage was done the car. J.F. Belshee noticed the accident and was the first one to give aid to the injured man, finding him unconscious in the road about 100 feet behind the car.  He was taken to the Moro Hotel and Dr. C.L. Poley summoned, who could find no injuries except to his head, which seemed to suffer severely in the smash up. Tuesday morning Mr. Crumley’s pulse was more than twice normal and it was thought that he had but slight chances for recovery.  He has remained unconscious and this makes it extremely hard to determine just how badly he is injured. The same afternoon Dr. Morse was called in consultation and it was decided to take him to The Dalles where he died half and hour after his arrival at the hospital.

April 12, 1918

April 19, 1918

• A hurried auto drive was made early Thursday morning by J.M. DeMoss to The Dalles to make train connections for Winlock, Wash., in response to a telegram from Mrs. DeMoss’ brother, Roy Dugger, telling of the sudden death of their father.

April 26, 1918

• Chris Kopke, farming southwest of Grass Valley, committed suicide Thursday in his barn. It is said that he was discouraged over the prospects of the war.  The funeral was held Sunday afternoon at Grass Valley.
• M. Bryant, who has been recently making his home with his daughter at Moro, died in The Dalles Saturday morning. He leaves a daughter, Mrs. L.W. Ross of Moro, and a son, A.M. Bryant, of Grass Valley.  Funeral services were held on Monday in Portland.

May 3, 1918

May 10, 1918

• Dan Dillinger, brother to Mrs. Wm Morrison, was instantly killed at Marshfield on April 27th when struck by an automobile which went over a grade while being driven at reckless speed. By an irony of fate Mr. Dillinger was walking on the railroad grade, several feet distant from the highway, purposely to avoid the automobile traffic.
• Myrtle Ella Clark, age 4 years 10 months 2 days, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jerome E. Clark, was accidentally killed Saturday morning by having some heavy timbers fall upon her as she was playing near where they were piled. Funeral services were conducted Monday afternoon from the Presbyterian church, Rev. B.T. Smith preaching the sermon.
• Beatrice Mabel Kessinger, infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Kessinger, died at their home near Monkland on May 2, age 1 year 2 months and 16 days. Funeral services were conducted by Rev. B.T. Smith from Monkland church the following Saturday.
• Boyrie, assistant teacher in the Moro high school, was called to Portland last week by news of the serious illness of his father, who died shortly after Prof. Boyrie reached home.

May 17, 1918

• Arie [Arlie] Coon, 22 year old son of J.B. Coon of Grass Valley, died at the hospital in The Dalles Monday, May 6th, tubercular trouble. Funeral services were from the Methodist church at Grass Valley, Rev. Dow DeLong of Moro preaching the sermon.

May 24, 1918

• Miss Maggie Eaton died Sunday evening at The Dalles hospital from diabetes. The funeral was held at Wasco on Tuesday.

May 31, 1918

• A. Maxwell and wife returned last week from Hillsboro where they were called by illness of Mr. Maxwell’s mother, who died Sunday, May 19th, at the home of I.H. Maxwell in that city, aged 83 years.

June 7, 1918

• In Memorium. Between three and four hundred neighbors and friends from all sections of Sherman county met Thursday morning at the Moro Presbyterian church to honor Mrs. Jennie B. Morrison with the last sad marks of esteem and respect that is possible for mortal man to bestow. Jennie Belshee Morrison was born in Warsaw, Illinois, August 19th, 1874.  United with the Presbyterian church at Monkland in 1892, under the pastorate of Rev. J. M. Morrison.  Married to J.B. Morrison, at Moro, January 1st, 1894.  Died in Portland, June 4th 1918, at age of 43 years 9 months and 16 days. Mrs. Morrison passed away at the Good Samaritan hospital, the direct cause of her death being embolism in the heart chamber, following birth of twin baby girls on May 30th.  Surviving her, she leaves a husband, J.B. Morrison; three sons, and five daughters, Clarence R., Janes B., Mrs. Marie Wilcox, Margarette M., Lillian L., Joseph K., and the infant twins, Jennie B., and Josephine, one of whom has since passed away.  In addition to her immediate family she leaves her parents, C.H. and Mary D. Belshee, residing at Hermiston, and six sisters and one brother. Rev. A.J. Adams, former pastor of Moro Presbyterian church and an old friend of the family, now residing at Bickleton, Wash., preached the funeral sermon, taking as a text the 13th verse of the 14th chapter of Revelations: Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord; that they may rest from their labors; their works do follow the.

June 14, 1918

• Joseph Irby, father of J.K.Irby, merchant at Kent, died at his home in Baker city last week, aged 81 years.
• George Sink, a member of one Sherman county’s oldest pioneer families, passed away June 6th in Portland, following a surgical operation.

June 21, 1918

• Word has been received by Mrs. J.L. Bracket of the death of her father at the advanced age of 80 years, at the family home in Wintersett, Iowa, on June 9th.
• B.T. Smith was called to Grass Valley Saturday last to conduct the funeral service of W. D. Scott, who died in that city last week.

June 28, 1918

July 5, 1918

• Carl Peetz, one of the most widely known of the early pioneer farmers of Sherman county, died at his home in this city late Monday afternoon. Funeral services being conducted from the M.E. church Wednesday, Rev. John Robertson, preaching the sermon.  Peetz was born in Schleswig Holstein, Germany, November 12, 1838, came to the United States in 1866 and to Sherman county in 1886.  He had long been confined to the home by sickness and the past year had not been able to sit up in bed.

July 12, 1918

July 19, 1918

July 26, 1918

August 2, 1918

August 9, 1918

August 16, 1918

August 23, 1918

• and Mrs. Jas. Woods have returned from a trip to Salmon, Idaho, where they were called by the serious illness of David Dougherty, brother of Mrs. Woods, who died in that city July 24th. On their return they visited with their son, Albert, at his new farm home near LaGrande.

August 30, 1918

• A. Sanchez, enlisted from Santa Paula, California, who recently died of wounds in France, was a nephew by marriage of Sheriff McKean.
• The only son of Frank E. Brown, the well known horticulturist residing near Rufus, is reported killed in action in France. Frank, jr., had enlisted from Montana, but he is a Sherman county boy in the hearts of many who knew him here.
• Robert A. Murray, one of the pioneer settlers of Sherman county, died in our sister city of Wasco last week. Funeral services were held Saturday, interment being made in Wasco cemetery.  Murray was born in Grant Town, Scotland, in 1851, and come to this country at the age of 18 years and to Sherman county in 1887.  He was married to Sarah Sallans at Canandaigua, New York, in 1881.  Beside a widow he leaves the following children: Dica Murray, and Mrs. J.P. Yates, Wasco; Mrs. A.R. Rebman, Pendleton; Allan J. Murray, Camp Lewis.  Those attending the funeral services from Moro were J.F. Belshee and wife, Chris Anderson and wife, R.J. Ginn, Mrs. L. Barnum, Mrs. Robt. Urquhart, Miss Mary Kunsman.
• The sympathy of the community has gone out to Rev. John Robertson in the death of Robertson at Salem Hospital this last Monday evening, just a little over two weeks after the arrival of their baby boy. Funeral services were held from the home of Mrs. Robertson’s mother on Wednesday afternoon, conducted by Rev. Richard N. Avison, pastor of Salem M.E. church, interment was at Salem.  The silver lining in the dark cloud of this occurance is that latest report was that the baby was doing fine.

September 6, 1918

• R.A. Murray, member of one of the early pioneer farmer families of Sherman county, died last Sunday morning at Wasco, less than a week after the death of Mr. Murray. Mrs. Murray had been sick for some time and was near death’s door when the summons came for the husband.  Funeral services were conducted from the home Monday afternoon.  [Sarah]
• The funeral of William Leech Bennett brother of Mrs. R.W. Pinkerton, who died at Boise, Idaho, on Monday, August 26th, was held late Friday afternoon at Moro cemetery.  Owing to late arrival of the train, a service at the Presbyterian church, decorated in honor of the departed, had to be changed to services at the grave, conducted by Rev. B.T. Smith.

September 13, 1918

• While touring in their auto near Rosalia, Wash., on Thursday of this week, W. Hansell and wife and a friend riding with them were killed when the auto crashed through a bridge railing. The wife of the man killed was serious injured, but the two twins were not injured.
• J.A. Rasmussen died at Good Samaritan hospital in Portland on September 4th, following an operation for goiter. Funeral services were held at the family home in Hillsboro last Friday, attended from Moro by Hans Thompson, N.P Hansen and wife, and Chris Anderson and family.

September 20, 1918

September 27, 1918

October 4, 1918

• Moro community was called upon unexpectedly on Monday, September 30th, to sympathize with Mr. and Mrs. Otto Peetz in the sudden sickness and loss of their first born. Thomas Benson Peetz was only 1 year 1 month and 1 day old when death came to him following a very brief illness.  Funeral services were held on Wednesday morning from the Methodist church, conducted jointly by Rev. Smith and Rev. DeLong, the little casket being completely hidden by the floral offering of the many friends of the family.  and Mrs. J.T. Walley, parents of Mrs. Peetz, were both able to be present at the funeral, coming from Portland.

October 11, 1918

• The community was saddened on Monday of this week by the sudden death early that morning of Eugene Silver, 14 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Silver, who was accidently killed at about 4:45 that morning by a fall from his pony while rounding up the horses preliminary to beginning the weeks work. When the pony came to the barn without the rider a search was made by auto, but it was not until day was breaking that he was found when he had fell or been thrown from the horse, at the head of a small draw in the west part of the field.  It is thought that the accident was caused by either a startled rabbit or bird breaking cover, but the exact cause will never be known.  Eugene was one of the most manly boys of our acquaintance; always polite, but never ostentatious; and will be missed by a large circle of friends and acquaintances.  Funeral services were held from Moro M.E. church Tuesday afternoon, interment in the IOOF cemetery.

October 18, 1918

October 25, 1918

• Nine deaths in Sherman county in less than a week proves that the epidemic of influenza is serious. There are rumors of more deaths than this number, but this report is authentic.

November 1, 1918

• Marcia H. Rust, was born May 14th, 1835, at Palermo, Maine, died October 18th, 1918, at the age of 83 years 5 months and 4 days, at her home near Moro, living on the homestead 37 years. Married to Lot M. Rust at Sacramento, Calif., November 24th, 1867, her husband preceding her 11 years 3 months.  To this union was born five children:  Mrs. Pearl A. Leslie, of North Yakima, Wash., Ruby B. Pettys of Grass Valley, Lot W. Rust of Grass Valley, Mrs. Maud E. Watson of The Dalles, Mrs. Mae M. Nichelson of Moro. Mrs. Rust united with the Baptist church of Moro 20 years ago and has since lived a consistent Christian life.  She had read the Bible through more than 38 times and was exceptionally well posted on the progress of the war and on current events, being a great reader of newspapers.  She was a very temperance worker throughout the county until her sickness prevented further work in this line and all during her sickness was very patient while suffering intensely at times.
• Samuel Roy Hunter, son of Alex Hunter, formerly of Moro, was born at Woodbridge, North Dakota, November 27th, 1896, died at Monkland, Oregon, October 25th, 1918, at the age of 21 years 10 months 28 days. He is survived by his father, Alex Hunter of 121 East 28th St., Portland, two sisters and one brother, Alice O. Hunter, Mrs. A.R. Kessinger, and John W. Hunter, all of Monkland, Oregon.

November 8, 1918

• Roberta, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Neil McDonald, died at the family home in Hay Canyon Thursday. [See November 15th, 1918, Alberta McDonald]
• Card of Thanks – We wish to thank the many kind neighbors and friends who so sympathetically helped us during the sickness and funeral of Mrs. Lucinda B. Blalock, mother of Mrs. Grace E. Menane. Their kindness will ever be remembered most gratefully.  and Mrs. J.G. Menane   W.H. Blalock.

November 15, 1918

• Henry, son of L.W. Baker, Mayor of Grass Valley, was the first Sherman county boy reported killed in action in France. We hope it is also the last.  Word was received late last week by his father, just before the ending of the war.
• Alberta, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Neil McDonald, was born August 11th, 1905, died November 8th, 1918, at the family home in Hay Canyon, age 12 years, 2 months, 27 days. B.T. Smith, of Moro Presbyterian church conducting services at the graveside in Rose cemetery.

November 22, 1918

• Miss Vera Westerfield, daughter of Editor and Mrs. Westerfield of Grass Valley, died at Portland November 19. Funeral services were held the Thursday following, interment at Riverview cemetery near Portland.
• A Jap workman named T. Taketa murdered a fellow Jap workman named Tokaki at Erskine Sunday morning by stabbing in the back as the victim was climbing back into his bunk from a trip outside the work car at about 5:30 a.m., the man dying in about 10 minutes. Both men belonged to an extra railroad track gang.  The murderer had been acting queerly for several days, and seemed possessed with an idea that someone was trying to kill him.  He was brought to Moro and lodged in jail, where he nearly succeeded in hanging himself at noon time Monday by means of his grass belt when all the court house were away at lunch.  He was adjudged insane and taken by train Tuesday to the state hospital at Pendleton, on the same train his victim was shipped to Portland for burial.

November 29, 1918

December 6, 1918

December 13, 1918

• Bullard left Friday morning for Vancouver, Wash., where he was called by the funeral of his mother who died Wednesday night at her home in Buena Vista California.
• Ruthie Howell, wife of J.R. Howell, died at her home in Wasco December 8th, 1918, leaving a husband and five grown children: Mrs. Ella Haynes, of Tacoma; Mrs. Ruthie May Siscel, C.H., and W.E. Howell, of Wasco, and J.F. Howell, of Camp McClellan, Alabama.  Mrs. Howell was born in Benton county, Oregon, November 29th, 1851, was married to James R. Howell on October 10th, 1868.  Funeral services were held from the Methodist church at Wasco of which she was a member, Tuesday afternoon.

December 20, 1918

• In Memorium. In memory of Chris Schultz, a Danish born one hundred per cent American, who came to the United States May 26th, 1909, at the age of 15 years, enlisted in the famous 91st division of the United States Army at Camp Lewis, died of wounds received in battle on September 26th, 1918. Chris Schultz came to Sherman county, Oregon, to the home of his cousin, Chris Anderson, a pioneer farmer of this county then living and farming in the Monkland district, in 1909, at the age of 15 years. He worked for a number of our Sherman county farmers, learned our language partly by attending the Moro High School and two terms of a business college at Portland, doing so with his own money earned after his arrival in Sherman county, then visiting his parents in Denmark and returning to this country, taking a course in Caterpillar tractor operation and engineering at the Holt Company school at Stockton, from which he graduated with a high record. While at Stockton he registered for selective army service and when his number was called responded by saying “I am ready.  I have no weak heart nor physical defects.  My thoughts are of the need of my county and not of myself.” Corporal Chris Schultz leaves an estate of $1200, money loaned; $150 Liberty Loan bonds bought since entering the army; $2500 paid up life insurance in an old line company, and $10,000 of paid up government insurance.  This is a record to be proud of and one which will not be equaled by many young men of American birth.  The reputation he leaves in Sherman county is that he always gave a dollars worth of work for every dollars worth of wages he received, and the loss to his relatives in Sherman county is partly recompensed by the thought that he was every inch of his being an American citizen, first and always. When such young men as Corporal Schultz give up their lives willingly in defense of an adopted country, what is there that can be done by those who remain at home to in any way make up to the community for their loss to their country and the state in particular.  No monument will be sufficient.  It is doubtful if many young men of American birth could do as well in a foreign land.

December 27, 1918

January 3, 1919

January 10, 1919

• Buck Torrey died from pneumonia Friday morning, after a very short illness of about eight hours.
• John Johnson, younger son of Mrs. G. Johnson living south of Moro, died at the family home late Thursday afternoon of influenza pneumonia. John was a most likeable and gentlemanly young man and had the characteristics of a good citizen.
• Etta Moore has received word from the adjutant general’s office at Washington of the death of Corporal Harold L. Dixon, signal corps, on December 31st, of abscess peritinonsillar and myocarditis. Mr. Dixon had been a resident of this county for several years making his home principally with L.V. Moore and family at their farm south of Moro.

January 17, 1919

• M. McKinney, farming the O.L. Belshe place near DeMoss, died Wednesday morning from the flu. He leaves a wife, sister to Mrs. T.W. Alley, and two children.  Funeral services were held Thursday afternoon, Rev. Mr. Lamb officiating.  Deceased was 34 years of age and a native of Illinois, moving to Sherman county in 1918.  Besides his wife and two children, age 13 and 7, a mother and two sisters in Illinois and a brother in the navy are left to mourn his loss.
• Eugene Amidon died Tuesday and her daughter Hallie on Monday, victims of the prevailing epidemic of flu. The two other daughter, Marie and Lenora, are both very sick at the family home north of Moro.  Two younger children are with Mrs. John Muir in this city and will most likely escape the disease.  We understand that funeral arrangements are in abeyance until the arrival of relatives from the East. [Allie Roberta and her mother Sadie E. ]

January 24, 1919

• A phone message was received by Mr. and Mrs. A.M. Young Tuesday morning announcing the death of Mrs. Young’s brother, A. Stayton, of Stayton, Marion county, Oregon, and Tuesday’s mail brought the sad news of the death of Mr. Young’s niece, Mrs. Floyd Borge, of Corvallis. Mrs. Borgue was the daughter of A.J. Johnson, president of the Benton County National Bank, a brother-in-law of A..M. Young.  The letter also states that four other members of the family are quite sick with the flu, which was the cause of death of those before mentioned.
• In Memorium. Sadie Elizabeth Kingdon was born in Kansas January 26, 1881.  At five years of age she accompanied her parents to Michigan, where she lived until her marriage to Eugene Amidon on June 28, 1905.  Coming at once to Seattle, Wash., they lived there until eight years ago, when they moved to Moro.  Amidon breathed her last on the morning of Tuesday, January 14, 1919, age 37 years 11 months and 18 days, leaving to mourn her loss a husband, one son and four daughters, two sisters and three brothers, besides other relatives and a host of friends.  One daughter, Hallie Wilberta, died 12 hours before her mother died.  Three other daughters are seriously ill. Hallie Wilberta Amidon, was born in Moro January 12, 1912, and died Monday evening January 13, 1919, aged 7 years and one day. Mother and daughter were laid to rest in one grave in the Moro cemetery Saturday, January 18, Rev. T. B. Smith officiating.  A memorial service will be held after the influenza epidemic has passed.
• Alice May McCullum was born in Glengarry county, Ontario, August 7, 1876, moving with her parents to what is now Sherman county, Oregon, when she was 7 years of age. She was married to Louis D. Holder November 14, 1894.  To them was born three girls, all dying in infancy.  Their home was in the county until eight years ago.  Holder died February 14, 1918.  Since her husband’s death Mrs. Holder has made her home in Moro with her mother and sister.  Mrs. Holder died January 21, 1919, after an illness of less than one week, aged 42 years, 5 months and 14 days.  Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon at the grave in the Odd Fellows cemetery at Moro.  She was laid to rest in the family lot beside her husband. [McCallum]
• Word was received in Moro Friday of the death of Mrs. Mary Adams at her home in Cadiz, O. Adams and daughter, Miss Carrie, were visitors this summer in Moro at the A.M. Wright home, Mrs. Wright being a daughter, and four months to a day after their leaving Sherman county the grim reaper called Mrs. Adams for a last journey.

January 31, 1919

• J.W. Leonard, a popular factor in social activities in and near Kent when residing in that district several years recently, died at the family home in The Dalles last week from influenza. Mr. Leonard also was very sick from the same disease, but is recovering.

February 7, 1919

• H. McCune left on Sunday for McMinnville to attend the funeral of his brother-in-law, who died Thursday in Washington, D.C.
• Word has been received in Moro of the death from influenza near Mosier of Elva Evans, leaving a husband and nine children, the youngest less than a year old. Mrs. Evans was formerly the eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Coyle, a pioneer farmer family living between Moro and Grass Valley.  She is survived by her mother, two sisters and a brother who now live in California.

February 14, 1919

February 21, 1919

February 28, 1919

• Hattie Larison was born in Lane county, Oregon, on September 28, 1873, coming to Eastern Oregon with her parents when a small child. She was married to Philip Zobel at Springfield, Ore., Sept. 10, 1892.   Coming to this county in 1901 she had resided continually here since.  The home was blessed with seven children, of whom four daughters and one son survive their mother.  All four daughters live in this county, the son is with the army in France. After a weeks’ illness Mrs. Zobel breathed her last Monday, Feb. 24, at the family home southwest of Grass Valley, aged 45 years, 4 months and 25 days. The funeral service was held in the Moro Presbyterian church, Rev. B. Trueblood Smith officiating, and interment was in Rose cemetery, where the remains now repose by the side of her two children who preceded her to the eternal shores.
• Word was received in Moro on Monday of the death of P.H. Zobel shortly after midnight Sunday at their farm home west of Grass Valley. Funeral services were held Tuesday morning form Moro Presbyterian church, Rev. B.T. Smith conducting the service.

March 7, 1919

• Henry Gearheart Johnson was born near Moro October 3, 1890, and spent the most of his life in this county, attending the public school in Moro.  In 1902, with the family, he went abroad for medical treatment and study in Europe, returning to Moro after an absence of five years.  For several years he had been obliged to go to California and Arizona during the winters on account of delicate health.  The last message received directly from him he seemed to be feeling some better; then, without warning that he had died in Phoenix, Ariz., Thursday, Feb. 27, aged 28 years, 4 months and 24 days.  He was a member of the Lutheran church and also of the Masonic order. Funeral services were held from Moro Presbyterian church Wednesday afternoon at 2 o’clock, Rev. B.T. Smith conducting the services.  Interment was in IOOF cemetery.

March 14, 1919

• W.B. Johnson received a telegram Wednesday informing her of the sudden death of her father, Samuel Welton, at the family home in Carlinville, Ill. The same day Mr. and Mrs. Johnston left for Carlinville, driving to Rufus for the night train.  The farm is in charge of Mr. Barnett until their return.

March 21, 1919

March 28, 1919

• Louis Heydt, a pioneer resident and merchant of Moro, died on March 20, 1919, aged 44 years. Interment was in Mt. Scott cemetery, near Portland.

April 4, 1919

April 11, 1919

• One of the few left in Sherman county of the early pioneers of this section died in Moro last week in the person of Mrs. Jas. Tomlin, whose last sickness was little known by her many friends.  Funeral services were conducted Monday afternoon by Rev. DeLong from Moro Methodist church, a large number of friends of the family being present in honor of the departed. Laura Ellen Thornton was born at Stockton, Mo., Feb. 9, 1861, and died at Moro, April 6, 1919, age 58 years, one month and 27 days. She was married to James Tomlin in Stockton, Mo. on Dec. 7, 1879, moved to Moro, Oregon, from Stockton in 187_, where she has since resided. She has left to mourn her loss, one sister and three brothers who reside at Stockton, Mo.; husband and eight children — Mrs. Rose Kunsman, Mrs. Sadie Shearer, James, Edward, Ben, Carol, and Laurel, all living at Moro except Mrs. Shearer who lives at Shedd, Ore., and George who is with the United States army at Segendorf, Germany.  All but two of the children were at her bedside when she passed away.  One boy, William, died in 1904. She joined the Presbyterian church at Stockton in 1884.

April 18, 1919

April 25, 1919

May 2, 1919

May 9, 1919

• Kent Items. Miss Annabell Hubbard is back again from Oklahoma, where she was called by the death of her brother.
• City Marshal A.M. Young was called to Scio Monday because of the death of his father in that city on May 5th, aged 89 years. Nathan Young was a pioneer flour manufacturer in Minnesota and Oregon, having been one of the first to build a flour mill at Minneapolis, coming to Oregon in 1875, where he engaged in the flour business in the Willamette valley.  At the time of his death he was a Mason on long standing.
• Bartlett was called to Portland Tuesday last by the sudden death of his uncle in that city.

May16, 1919

May 23, 1919

May 30, 1919

June 6, 1919

June 13, 1919

• Sherman County Pioneer Passes. Nannie Bailey Morrison, wife of Rev. J.M. Morrison, died at her home, 348 E. 6th street North, Portland, Friday, June 6th, at 2:25 pm, at the age of 81 years.  She was a native of Pennsylvania, married Nov. 18, 1862, moved to Oregon in 1884 and to Sherman county in 1886.  She is survived by her husband, four daughters, Mrs. Ella Nelson and Mrs. Nannie B. Thomas of Portland, Mrs. Margaret M. Bates of Corvallis, Mrs. Maude A. Keenen of Portland; three sons, Joseph B. of Grass Valley, Thomas C. of Willamina and James M. of Wasco; 18 grandchildren and two great grandchildren. Mrs. Morrison and family lived in Sherman county near Monkland for a long term of years while Rev. Morrison was pastor of the Presbyterian church at Monkland.  The church at Moro was first started as a mission of the Monkland church with Rev. Morrison as pastor, but the change caused by increase in population and the taking up of government lands for farms caused the opposite condition between the two churches. At present time both the churches maintain a separate organization.

June 20, 1919

June 27, 1919

July 4, 1919

July 11, 1919

July 18, 1919

• An unfortunate accident occurred at the Lot Rust home, west of Grass Valley, late Wednesday afternoon. One of the older children had taken a pump gun out of the house to shoot a hawk and in returning it failed to withdraw the load. Later, one of the younger children while playing with it pulled the trigger, with the result that the load passed through the ceiling of the lower floor and struck Mrs. Rust, who was in an upper room in the face, killing her almost instantly.  Rust was an elder daughter of J.W. Messinger and a sister to O.B. and F.R. Messinger and Mrs. Bud Coon.   The funeral was held Thursday afternoon from Moro M.E. church, interment in Moro cemetery.  [Anna]

July 25, 1919

August 1, 1919

August 8, 1919

• W. Baker, for many years manager of the Citizens Commercial Co., at Grass Valley, died in that city Saturday from lockjaw, caused from a sliver that lodged in his finger when unpacking goods for the store. Mr. Baker did not consider it dangerous until taken seriously ill from the effects of the poison shortly after telling a friend that altho it had festered it was not sore, but that he had a pain in his neck and face.  At that time no one thought the two might be from the same cause.  Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon, interment being in Grass Valley cemetery.

August 15, 1919

August 22, 1919

August 29, 1919

September 5, 1919

• Word was received Monday by Neil McDonald of the sudden death of his brother, Dick McDonald, at Hood River early that morning from stroke of paralysis affecting the left side. McDonald was a man of very genial disposition, winning friends and holding them firmly and, at the time of his death, was 60 years old.  He formerly lived in Sherman county, being engaged in farming and in business at Biggs during the pioneer days when all wheat had to be hauled by team to the river.  Funeral services were in charge of the Masonic order at church and cemetery, R.J. Ginn and Neil McDonald and wife attending from Moro.
• An unusual electric rain storm broke the drouth in Sherman county last Saturday that has revailed since April 5th except for a few local showers that did not lay the dust. Near Kent a son of Mike O’Sullivan was killed by lightning as he sat in the open door of a building watching the storm.  Telephone wires and poles were down in all directions from Kent, and one report said that the straw carrier of a threshing rig was blown at right angles to its correct position.  Along with the report of rain and storm came word that the center of the storm left a streak about three miles south of Kent where very little rain fell on the dry soil.
• The death of D. Beeler, brother to Mrs. George Lamborn, occurred at the Lamborn home near Wasco August 28th, due to hardening of the arteries. Mr. Beeler was a familiar figure about Wasco for the past five years, where he had many friends.  The remains were taken to Missouri where they will rest in the family plot near the old home town.

September 12, 1919

• E.E. McVicker was called to Wasco Thursday, September 4 to preach the sermon at the funeral services held in memory of Mrs. Ira A. Coffey, who died at The Dalles September 2. Mrs. Coffey was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Eli May.

September 19, 1919

• Sherman County Pioneer Passes. After a residence in Sherman county numbering 37 years Jennie McPherson died at the family home located at the edge of Wasco city limits Wednesday night, September 10, age 72 years and 42 days. Mrs. McPherson was born in Illinois, coming to Oregon across the plains by ox team in 1862.  On the way to the Willamette valley the party used the old emigrant road across Sherman county, passing just a few miles north of the place where subsequently she made her home for so many years.  The family spent their first year in the new country in Washington, later going to California, where in1872, at Marysville, she married Mr. McPherson. The family located near Wasco in 1882 on the farm owned by Mrs. McPherson at the time of her death.  Funeral services were held from the home Friday afternoon, interment being in Wasco cemetery. Three children, K.A. McPherson of Moro, J.E. McPherson of Seattle and Mrs. Nellie Woods of Wasco, survive the loss of a mother’s guilding counsel and have the sympathy of the community in their trouble.
• Near Fatal Accident. Miss Cecil Wright, 18-year-old daughter of D.H. Wright, had a near escape from burning to death about 5 p.m. Saturday when a gasoline iron she was using came in too close contact with the fumes of gasoline contained in an open pitcher near where she was working, causing the liquid to explode and shower flames over her and her work in the kitchen of the family home north of Hay Canyon. On the back porch at the time of the accident was a galvanized tub holding about two inches of water and screwed to the tub was a clothes wringer.  Miss Wright ran from the room, seized the tub and upended it over her head and back, extinguishing the flames but not before practically all her clothing had been burned off her. At the time Mrs. Wright was at the barn and saw her daughter run from the house with the burning pitcher of gasoline and herself apparently a ball of fire, saw her turn the water over her and quench the flames, all in less than a half minute.  Undoubtedly the tub of water saved her life, otherwise she would have gone to the creek for water and probably would never reached it. The victim was burned from above the waist line to her heels, on the front of her right arm and slightly on the neck and face.  Most of the burns are third degree or muscle burns, very little being less than second degree burns.  Poley is treating the patient in a unique manner, but with every expectation of success, it having been used successfully in similar occasions, althou the need is rare.  A heavy canvas covered with a draw sheet lined with oil silk is suspended in a large bath tub, the patient seated on the oil silk and the tub filled with a salt solution heated to body temperature.  Over the tub is heavy blankets to hold the heat.  The patient eats and sleeps in the tub, being removed once a day for changing the water.  Reports are that she suffers very little except when out of the bath tub, and that the wounds are beginning to heal nicely.

September 26, 1919

• Accident Terminates Fatally. Miss Cecil Wright, who was burned by the explosion of gasoline at the family home in Hay Canyon the morning of the 13th, died early Sunday morning during a fainting spells and the accident tended to make them more severe. Miss Wright was the eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D.H. Wright and at the time of her death was 19 years, 8 months and 25 days. She was a student of the Wasco high school, this term would of been her senior year.  She leaves a father, mother, three brothers and one sister to mourn her departure and a large circle of friends among the young people of Moro and Wasco who sympathize with the family in their misfortune. Funeral services were conducted from Moro Presbyterian church Monday afternoon by Rev. E.E. McVicker, interment being Moro cemetery.

October 3, 1919

• S. Wilson, who has been making his home with his son, J.M., at Kent, died Sunday, September 20th from the effects of a paralytic stroke suffered September 17th. Funeral services were held Tuesday, interment in IOOF cemetery at Kent.

October 10, 1919

• An automobile, reported as belonging to Bert Conklin, a farmer living on 15-mile, Wasco county, ran off the pavement near the box factory close to The Dalles, sometime early Tuesday morning with fatal results to one of occupants. The place where the car left the pavement has a slight slope off the grade and a drop of about five feet, which the car took before hitting a large rock and partly wrecking itself.  D. ‘Billy” McDonald, one of the three occupants of the automobile, was thrown from the back seat, striking on his head and meeting instant death.  McDonald is not related to either W.G. McDonald of John Day ferry or Mrs. Sagawa of Fairview school district.  It is said he had been working on the Medler farm near Wasco.

October 17, 1919

October 24, 1919

• Word has been received by W.A. Rigdon of the sudden death on October 16th at Bonner’s Ferry, Idaho, of Royal, the 12 year old son of Chas. D. Hayner. Death was caused from an injury received in play while wrestling with his chum, causing hemmorhage of the brain.

October 31, 1919

• Susan Henderson, one of the early pioneers of Oregon, was buried at Wasco October 25th. She was born in Missouri in 1843 and with her parents, crossed the plains by ox team in 1853.  Settling near Eugene, Oregon, at the age of 13, she was married to John Henderson and moved to Jackson county, she was married to Jacob Pyburn, a Civil war veteran, in 1873.  Since 1887 she had lived in Sherman county, most of the time near Rufus.  She was the mother of 13 children, eight of whom are living.

November 7, 1919

November 14, 1919

November 21, 1919

• While resting in Portland, on her way to Fall City to be with her mother, Mrs. J. M. Parry received word that her mother had passed away on the 17th.

November 28, 1919

December 5, 1919

• Friends of the family were grieved to learn of the death of David Fulton last week in Portland. Funeral services were conducted in Wasco Sunday under the auspices of the Elk’s Lodge.  Fulton was one of the few remaining early pioneer farmers and stock raisers who have assisted in making Sherman county what it is today and his demise will be a loss to the district in which his interest lay for so many years.

December 12, 1919

• Jean Annabel infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H.B. Pinkerton, died during the early morning hours of Sunday, December 7th, from a choking spell. Floral offerings from friends, former schoolmates, and relatives completely hid the little casket during the funeral services conducted from the Presbyterian church Tuesday afternoon.  Interment was in Moro cemetery.

December 19, 1919

December 26, 1919

• Sarah J. Merrill died in Portland December 18th at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Ella Wright, aged 84 years. Funeral services were held last Sunday at Wasco interment being at Moro cemetery.  Mrs. Merrill formerly lived in this county, but the last few years has resided in Portland.

January 2, 1920

January 9, 1920

• and Mrs. Jas. Woods received word the day after New Years of the death of their grandson, Albert Jordon, at Portland that day. The young man is a son of J.W. Jordan, former Sherman county resident now living at Viola, Idaho, where the funeral was held.
• L. Grimes received a telegram January 8th stating that her mother had been laid to rest at Yakima that afternoon. Mrs. Black, sister to Mrs. Grimes, returned to her home near Wasco Sunday afternoon.

 

January 16, 1920

• Word was received by G.B. Bourhill Wednesday afternoon of the death of B.T. Smith at St Vincent hospital Tuesday evening from tuberculosis of the intestines. Funeral services were conducted from the First Presbyterian church, Portland, Friday, several from Moro and Monkland attending. [Benjamin Trueblood Smith]

January 23, 1920

• M. Parry died in Portland at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday afternoon. The funeral was held in that city Friday, a large number of his friends attending from this section.  We are very sorry that death called Mr. Parry at this time, not leaving him any of the pleasures of leisure for which he had planned so much.     [January 16, 1920 – J. M. Parry suffered a paralytic stroke and nervous collapse Saturday, caused by a reaction from the strain of conducting the post office for so many years.  His two sons, Harry and Walter, came up from Portland the first of the week to be with him and as soon as the business of turning the local postal affairs over to his successor had been concluded, left Wednesday for Portland where Mr. Parry will be able to receive special medical attention.]
• Word was received on the 22nd by Don C. Wheat apprising him of the sudden death of his mother, Mrs. Charlotte T. Wheat, at the home of her son at Roseburg, on the morning of January 22d, at the advanced age of 85 years. Definite announcement cannot be made at this time, but it is expected the funeral services will be conducted Saturday afternoon shortly after arrival of the train.

January 30, 1920

• In Memorium. H. Buxton died at 3:30 am Sunday morning from an attack of influenza pneumonia after an illness of less than a week.  The Saturday previous he had been at Wasco on official business where he aggravated a cold which he had had for a week previous.  At the time of his death he was beginning the second year of his first term as sheriff of Sherman county.  His untimely death has cast a mantle of deep gloom over Moro community and has again brought sharply to the attention of the public the necessity of taking all possible precautions against further inroads of the epidemic of influenza now so prevalent over the entire United States. Philmore Henry Buxton was born in Forest Grove, Oregon, March 30th, 1877; died January 25th, 1920; aged 42 years 9 months 26 days.  He was married on October 19th, 1898, to Gladys Nauffts, coming to Sherman county in 1909 where he first worked on the farm of his brother-in-law, south of Moro; later moving to Moro where he has since resided.  Two children were born to this union, Willis Ivan, and Thelma Margaret.  Willis at the present time is in the naval service, stationed at Constantinople, where he is in charge of the radio department at the United States legation. He passed his boyhood days at Forest Grove, where he was educated and graduated from the Pacific University.  He was converted when 19 years of age and joined the Methodist church and was always an active Christian worker and was superintendent of the Sunday School at Moro for a number of years.  He was elected as sheriff of Sherman county in November, 1918, which office was left at his death. Rev. L.E. Tabor, of Grass Valley, conducted the funeral services at the home on Tuesday of this week, following which the deceased was taken by train to his boyhood home where he was laid to rest in the old Buxton cemetery near Forest Grove. He leaves a widow, Mrs. P.H. Buxton; two children, Willis Ivan and Thelma Margaret; a father, H.T. Buxton, living at McMinnville; a sister, Mrs. J.H. Teegarden, living at Forest Grove; a sister, Mrs. Ethel Gardner, living at Vanwert, Ohio; a brother, W.H. Buxton, living at Portland; a brother, Carl Buxton, living at Columbus, Ohio.  [January 23, 1920 – Sheriff P.H. Buxton is seriously ill at his home in this city with pneumonia, contracted in Wasco Saturday while selling goods at sheriff’s sale.]
• Albert Folda, frightfully burned last week at Grass Valley when unknowingly using gasoline in place of kerosene to hasten a fire in the kitchen range, died Sunday as a result of the injuries received. [January 23, 1920 – Albert, 11-year old son of Jos. Folda, was badly burned at the family home in Grass Valley Thursday evening about six o’clock when starting a fire with gasoline in place of kerosene as he thought. Mrs. Robert Burns, telephone operator, saw the boy run from the house as she was passing and went to his assistance, putting her cloak about him and smothering the flames. The boy is expected to recover. The kitchen of the house was burned, but not beyond repair.]

February 6, 1920

• J.M. Axtell and daughter, Mrs. A.K. Axtell left Sunday for Hillsboro to attend the funeral of their grandson and nephew who died last week in the naval hospital at Mare Island from an attack of pneumonia. The young man had only joined the navy a short three months ago.
• J. Ginn returned Thursday from Pendleton where he was called by the sudden death of his sister, Mrs. Caroline Thompson. Mrs. Thompson was a member of one of the early pioneer families of Oregon; born in Minnesota in 1868, coming to Oregon shortly afterwards and locating in Umatilla county; she has been a resident of Pendleton the last 22 years, being identified with the active church work and civic affairs until the day of her death.

February 13, 1920

• In Memorium. Archie McDermid was born February 8th, 1853, near Nottawa, Ontario, Canada, died in Portland, Oregon, February 11th, 1920, at the age of 67 years and 3 days.  He was a son of Dougall and Jeanett McDermid, was one of 11 children, four boys and seven girls.  Five sisters and two brothers have preceded him in death.  One brother, John McDermid of Wasco, Oregon; two sisters, Mary McCarl and Elizabeth Cameron of Collingwood, Canada, and a number of nieces and nephews survive him.  He grew to manhood in Canada, coming to Oregon in 1879 and locating in Sherman county near Wasco.  He was a member of the Presbyterian church, having joined the Moro church of that denomination a number of years ago.  McDermid was of a quiet unassuming disposition, was very highly respected in the community where he was well known for his many acts of quiet generosity.
• Woods and wife left Saturday for Portland to attend the funeral service to be held Monday in honor of Archie McDermid.

February 20, 1920

February 27, 1920

• Christine Hansen, mother of Mrs. Martin Hansen and Mrs. Chas. Boardman, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Martin Hansen at Metolious, Saturday morning. Funeral services were conducted Tuesday at Rose cemetery by Rev. McVicker.
• John McDermid, brother of Archie McDermid who recently passed away in Portland, died in that city Saturday from heart failure. Funeral services were held at Wasco Tuesday afternoon interment in Wasco cemetery.  McDermid was one of the pioneer farmers of Sherman county who will be long remebered for the many acts of kindness performed during his life among us.

March 5, 1920

• In Memorium. John D. McDermid was born October 18, 1850, neat Nottawa, Ontario, Canada, died at Portland, Oregon, February 21, 1920, at the age of 69 years, 4 months and 3 days.  He was a son of Dougald and Jeannette McDermid, one of eleven children 4 boys and 7 girls.  Four sisters and three brothers have preceeded him in death.  Archie passed away 10 days before him, two sisters, Mary McCarl and Elizabeth Carmeron of Collingwood, Canada and a number of nephews and nieces survive him.  He married Eliza Smith at The Dalles, Oregon, December 8, 1898, who is left to mourn his loss.  He grew to manhood in Canada coming to Oregon in 1890 locating in Sherman county near Wasco where he continued to reside till a few months ago when he went of Portland for medical treatment.  McDermid was a very highly respected citizen of this county and his loss will be mourned by his many friends.

March 12, 1920.

• Word was received Thursday last by Mrs. Wm. J. Martin of the passing away of her mother the previous day at the family home in Harrisburg, Oregon.

March 19, 1920

March 26, 1920

April 2, 1920

April 9, 1920

• Edmond Sagawe died suddenly from heart failure last Thursday at their Fairview farm home shortly after his return from Wasco. He had been out in the yard where some were working and coming into the house remarked to Mrs. Sagawe that he felt dizzy, sat down in a chair and expired immediately.  Sagawe was born in Berlin, Germany, February 26, 1867, coming to Sherman county in 1892.  He was married June 18, 1907, and leaves a widow, one daughter, one step daughter, and two steps sons to mourn his loss.  [Died  01 April, 1920 — Edmond married Bertha Ellen (Sanders) McDonald on 18 January 1907.  They had two children born of this union: Julia May; Richard Lee, who died on 17 June 1917.   The three step children are the children from Bertha’s first marriage to Patrick W. McDonald: Kathleen Maxine, William Byron and John Patrick McDonald.]
• Edith E. Ashler, a former resident of Moro and daughter of J.M. Florer, who died at her home in Portland March 31st was interred in Moro cemetery, April 3.

April 16, 1920

April 23, 1920

April 30, 1920

May 7, 1920

May 14, 1920

May 21, 1920

• Chester Arnold, 2-months old son of V.V. Rust and grandchild of Lot Rust, died Sunday morning at the family home near Shearer. Funeral services were conducted from the Moro M.E. church on Monday, interment being in Moro cemetery.
• The 9-year old son of Mrs. Mitchell, of Kent, was killed Wednesday when thrown from his horse as he was crossing scab patch on the farm. The body fell on his head, striking a rock, killing him instantly.  Word was brought to Moro Thursday when S.P. Brisbine was notified to prepare a casket for the funeral.  [Clarance]

May 28, 1920

• A stranger from Portland, who had come to Moro to work on the railroad section, died Wednesday night from, it is reported, alcoholism.

June 4, 1920

June 11, 1920

June 18, 1920

June 25, 1920

July 2, 1920

• In Memorium. John Hastings, a well known and popular farmer of the Hay Canyon district, died at St. Vincent hospital in Portland last Saturday evening, the funeral being held Monday from the home of his mother at Vancouver, Wash.  Hastings for a number of years had been a sufferer from what is known as “Hodgkins” disease and last fall went east to secure relief from eastern surgeons, but was disappointed as they could promise nothing certain. He was 53 years of age at the time of his death, a member of the Christian church since 16 years of age, and an elder at his death in the Wasco Christian church, and member of the Woodmen lodge. He leaves to mourn their  loss a widow and four children, Mrs. Clyde Crites, Mrs. Charles Cunningham, Everett Hastings, and John Lewis Hastings, all of Moro; an aged mother, Mrs. Sarah Collison, and a sister, Mrs. J.A. Walters, of Vancouver, Wash., and  sister, Mrs. Mary Moore, of San Francisco.  [John Sherman]

July 9, 1920

• We wish to thank our Moro friends for their kind sympathy and beautiful flowers rendered us in the passing of our baby. and Mrs. G. H. Wilcox.

July 16, 1920

• In Memorium. The many friends of Mrs. J.M. Woods and family of Wasco were shocked to learn of the sudden death on Sunday of Mrs. Woods following an operation in that city the preceding Thursday for gall stones. Mrs. Nellie McPherson Woods was born, raised, and lived in Sherman county.  She was a member of one of the earliest of the pioneer families and always had taken an active part in every effort to promote the social and educational life of her particular community as well as of the county as a whole.   Woods was but 36 years old, just when one enjoys the zest of living most, and had always enjoyed abundant good health that had enabled her to participate so freely in all things for the benefit of the community life.  We regret sincerely to chronicle the passing of so estimable a character.

July 23, 1920

• Word was received Sunday by the family apprising them that the mother of Mrs. G.A. Meloy, Jr. had passed away at the family home in Corvallis on Sunday.

July 30, 1920

• In Memorium. After many months of suffering from organic heart trouble Pearl Emmaline Newton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R.W. Pinkerton and wife of W.W. Newton, died at The Dalles hospital at 8 p.m. Sunday, July 25th. Newton was born in Page county, Iowa, March 29th, 1884; came to Oregon with her parents in March, 1886; was married to Mr. Newton December 27th, 1905; she united with the Moro Presbyterian church at an early age and lived a good consistent life as daughter, sister, wife, and mother.  She leaves her parents; husband; a son, Elmer; two sisters, Mrs. C.E. Poole of Spokane and Mrs. M.R. Eoff of Yakima; a brother, Harry B., of Moro, and many relatives and friends to mourn their loss.  Funeral services were held from the Presbyterian church Tuesday afternoon, Rev. E.E. McVicker preaching the sermon.  Interment was in the family plot in the IOOF cemetery.
• John W. Messinger, pioneer settler of Oregon and Sherman county, died at his home in McMinnville Monday noon, July 26th, from a hardening of the arteries. Messinger was born April 2d, 1846, in Iowa, crossing the plains at an early age to Oregon where he married Brizillia Olds at Carlton on September 11th, 1867.  To this union eight children were born, of whom seven are living. After the death of Mrs. Messinger, about five years ago, he married Sadie Swann of McMinnville who survives him.  Funeral services were held Wednesday at McMinnville.

August 6, 1920

August 13, 1920

August 20, 1920

August 27, 1920

• Anna McDonald, mother of Neil McDonald of Hay Canyon district, died at the home of her son George at Hardman, Oregon, on Saturday, August 21st, from the results of her clothing catching on fire when attemping to build a fire in the kitchen stove the pervious Thursday. Funeral services were held at Hardman on August 29th at 10 am.  Mrs. McDonald was 85 years of age at the time of her death.  She was identified with the early history of Sherman county.

September 3, 1920

• A. McPherson, assistant cashier of the Bank of Moro, died at the Good Samaritin Hospital in Portland Thursday noon following an operation early in the week for cancer of the intestines. Very few of his many friends knew of his sickness and fewer that he had gone to the hospital. “Kennie” McPherson, as he was more popularly addressed, was known by nearly all residents of Sherman county; in the early days he was one of the noted baseball stars of the local teams, playing with Wasco; later he was employed in the Irby store at Kent; then county clerk, and last assistant cashier of the Bank of Moro.  Funeral services will be held at Wasco at three o’clock Sunday afternoon.
• News was received in Moro Thursday of the sudden death of K. Moore on August 31st at his home in Portland, following an illness at the office at which time he called his home by phone and said he was coming home and to have a doctor there when he arrived, but death occurred before the doctor made his visit. Mr. Moore was for many years actively interested in Sherman county affairs, being engaged in the general mercantile business at Grass Valley and later at Moro.  In early life he was a carpenter and many buildings in Sherman county in the pioneer days were constructed under his supervision.

September 10, 1920

• Smothered in Bulk Grain Bin. Harold, 10-year old son of  and Mrs. Hans Thompson, living at Fairview school, was smothered to death in a bulk grain bin on his father’s farm while at play about nine o’clock Tuesday morning.  The children had been in the habit of jumping into the grain and sliding to the center and no one knew that Harold was in the top of the bin when the machinery was started to begin loading onto the wagons the first load of this season’s wheat for the haul to the warehouse. The first anyone knew of the accident was stoppage of the grain and in trying to find the cause the body was found where he had been pulled by the outgoing grain.  In an attempt to rescue him a hole was chopped in the side of the bin, but he was past help when taken out. Funeral services were held from the Presbyterian church at Moro Wednesday afternoon, Rev. E.E. McVicker preaching the sermon.  Interment was in the IOOF cemetery.

September 17, 1920

September 24, 1920

• Maria M. Kearney was born in Lane county, Oregon, August 18th, 1855. In 1883 she married T.H. Fraser who came to Oregon from Nova Scotia.  To their union seven children were born, four of whom are still living to mourn her death.  They are Mrs. Verdi Penticost, Mrs. Christie Simmons, Mrs. Mabel Jones, all of Portland, and Tom Fraser, of Moro, Oregon.  He husband died in December, 1909, and was buried in Rose cemetery where Mrs. Fraser was laid to rest Wednesday, following her sudden death last Saturday from an attack of apoplexy, Doctor J.C. Ghormley of Wasco conducting the services from Moro Methodist church. The deceased was a member of the First Christian church of Portland and attended services regularly.  Fraser was a woman of sterling character and a devoted wife and mother.  She was beloved by all who knew her and leaves a host of friends to mourn her death.  Besides her children she leaves two sisters, Mrs. Ed Smith of Gresham, Oregon, and Mrs. E.E. Helyer of Moro, Oregon, and a number of nieces and nephews.

October 1, 1920

October 8, 1920

October 15, 1920

October 22, 1920

October 29, 1920

• Wm Nelson, of Kent, died at St. Vincent hospital on Thursday, the 21st, subsequent to an operation performed two weeks previously. Funeral services were held at Kent on the 23d.  The family were former residents of this section, moving to Kent several years ago.  [Francis]

November 5, 1920

• In Memorium. J.T. Ashby, sister to Mrs.C.L. Ireland, died at Banks, Oregon, last Friday at midnight after an illness of four days caused by an acute attack of pneumonia.  The family had moved to Banks less than ten days before her illness, where they had brought a well placed newly build home just at the city limits and within a few blocks of the business district.  Before they left Grass Valley for their new home Mr. Ashby had accepted a position with the Banks Commercial Company and was moving their furniture into the new home when sickness visited them.  Funeral services were held from the Methodist church of that city Monday, interment being in the cemetery nearby.  Mr. Ashby’s three married sisters live in and near Banks, two of the families being owners of the Banks Commercial Co., and the family had anticipated very pleasant surroundings in their new home. Mary Emily Thomas was born near Mount Bridges, Ontario, Canada, March 2d, 1877.  Died at Banks, Oregon, October 29th, 1920.  She came to Moro, Sherman county, Oregon, from Randall, Minnesota, in May, 1908, where, on October 22d, 1910, she was married to Joseph T. Ashby.  Deceased leaves a husband; three sons Clarence Andersen, Francis Andersen, and Boyd Ashby; a sister, Mrs. C.L. Ireland of Moro, Oregon; a brother Frank J. Thomas of The Dalles, Oregon, and a father, Samuel Thomas of Randall, Minnesota.
• Lola Ethyl Messinger, oldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. O.B. Messinger, was born May 16th, 1894, at Erskinville, Oregon. Died November 2d, 1920, at the home of her parents near DeMoss. She graduated from the Moro high school in 1915; taught the Gordon Ridge school two successive terms; in February she graduated from the Oregon Normal College.  August 11th, 1918, she was united in marriage to Ray C. Harris; she taught the DeMoss school the terms of 1919 and 1920.  She united with the Methodist church in Moro at the age of 19 years and has lived a consistent Christian life.  She possessed a winning lovable character and every one with whom she met were added to the host of her many friends.  She was a worthy daughter and sister and affectionate companion.  She leaves to mourn their loss a precious baby, Lola Mahda, her husband, Ray C. Harris, father, mother, two sisters, Mrs. Violet Noonan, Miss Iris Messinger.  Funeral services were conducted from the Methodist church at Moro Thursday morning, November 4th. by Revs. Ghormley, Dillinger, and Miles, and the body laid to rest in the Baptist cemetery.
• Mary Frances Pichetle was born at St. Paul, Oregon, September 1st, 1866, later moving to Oakland, Oregon, where in 1882 she was married to Joseph LaChance. To this union ten children were born, six having passed away and four survive her.  May 5th, 1902, she was married to Wm. Nelson of Adams, Oregon, and soon after moved to DeMoss Springs, Oregon, and has lived in Sherman county until death called her from us on October 21, 1920.  She is survived by her husband, Wm. Nelson of Kent, Oregon, two sons, Alfred and B.H. LaChance, of Philomath, Oregon, two daughters, Mrs. Grace Gregg and Mrs. Eva Gregg, both of Kent, Oregon and six grandchildren.
• Poley was called to Portland Tuesday by the serious illness of his mother, death occurring late in the week. Funeral services were to be held this Saturday.
• The two year old daughter of J.C. Hartley of Kent was accidently burned to death Wednesday at the family home near that city. The little one was alone in the house at the time and when discovered her clothing was in flames from kerosene she had spilt.  No damage to the house was reported.
• The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Kessinger died October 29th. The funeral service was held on the 30th at Moro and the little one laid to rest in the IOOF cemetery, the pastor of the Presbyterian church officiating.  The family has the sympathy of their neighbors and friends in this hour of bereavement.
• H. Peugh, father of H.T. Peugh of Wasco, died at the family home at Long Beach, California, Tuesday. Mr. Peugh was one of the early pioneer farmers of Sherman county, selling his property several years ago because of health.

November 12, 1920

November 19, 1920

November 26, 1920

December 3, 1920 

• Shilling, mother of Wm. Schilling of Kent, died at the family home early this week. [Schilling]
• In Memorium. Otis Wesley Dillinger, oldest son of Mr. and Mrs. W.L. Dillinger, was born in Gilmore, Washington, June 4, 1902, and died at the home of his parents near DeMoss, Oregon, November 24th, 1920. Wesley was born in the parsonage in Gilmore where his father was serving his first pastorate.  His home has been with his parents, they living two years each at Gilmore, Belmont, and Centerville and one year in The Dalles.  The past twelve years his home has been in Sherman county. He was an industrious young man; successful at farming, but being of a mechanical turn of mind was not satisfied on the farm so had laid aside his earnings that he might attend the auto school in Portland.  His plans were all made to go in a few weeks and it must have been a disappointment to him for his mind dwelt much upon auto repairing and in his deliriums he would talk of his work. He united with the Methodist church when a small body and held his membership in the Moro Methodist church at the time of his death.  He leaves to mourn their loss: his parents, two brothers, Joyce and Everett, and one sister, Laura, of the immediate family besides other relatives and many friends.  Funeral services were held Friday morning, November 25th, from the Methodist church, conducted by Rev. H.H. Miles and Rev. E.E. McVicker, interment being in Rose Hill cemetery.
• Funeral Director S.P. Brisbin was called on Friday to provide burial caskets for two young children living in the southern part of the county. The first call was for the 4 1/2 year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L.D. Peterson, living near Bourbon, Friday morning; funeral services were held on the 27th at Grass Valley.  Late the same afternoon a call was received for the infant daughter of L.S. Minks and wife, living near Sherar Bridge, the funeral being held Saturday at Grass Valley.

December 10, 1920

• Attorney Bright was found dead in his back office early Tuesday morning after a search of several hours when he failed to return. It is thought that the direct cause was an attack apoplexy, from which he had suffered previous seizures.  Funeral services were held Thursday afternoon at The Dalles.  Bright was early identified with the history of Sherman county, residing at Wasco, where in 1888 he established the first newspaper in what is now Sherman county.  This was the present Sherman County Observer which he soon after sold and after some years at Wasco was moved to Moro when this city was first platted and helped ever since build up this section of Oregon. [Cornelius J.]

December 17, 1920

December 24, 1920

December 31, 1920

• Clark Dunlap, pioneer east Oregonian since 1868 and resident of Sherman county for more than 30 years, died at his home in Wasco on December 16th. He was always prominently identified with the building up of Sherman county and for a number of years was active in the social and political life of the county, only relinquishing his interest in these matters as age compelled him to forego the pleasures they brought him.

January 7, 1921

January 14, 1921

• January 9th, at the home of his daughter Mrs. J.P. Strahl, Peter P. DeMoss died at the age of 86 years. Funeral services were held Tuesday from the Lents Baptist church, interment being at his former home near Estacada where Mrs. DeMoss was buried.  “Uncle” Peter was one of the early pioneers of Oregon; crossing the plains twice by ox team and also making a third trip west by way of Panama.  He was a veteran of two Indian wars in Oregon as well as a miner who knew firsthand the rough nature of the early mining camps.  DeMoss was a resident of Moro for several years.

January 21, 1921

January 28, 1921

• As a result of the world war Arthur Phillips lost his son, who now sleeps with his comrades in France. Because of this and in memory of his son, Mr. and Mrs. Phillips last week adopted a little girl from the home at Portland.

February 4, 1921

• H.A. May, who has been staying with her husband’s parents, L.D. May and family, received word last Friday that her father was accidentally killed by the back-lash of a tree stump he was sawing off a “down” tree at his home near Salem.

February 11, 1921

February 18, 1921

February 25, 1921

• Death of Rev. DeLong‘s Daughter. The following from the Arlington Bulletin will be probably the first news of death taking one of the members of Rev. Dow DeLong, formerly pastor of Moro Methodist church: On Sunday, February 13th, death entered the home of Rev. and Mrs. Dow DeLong, bearing away their beloved little daughter, Mary Patricia, born September 23d, 1920, her demise being result of pneumonia.  Funeral services were held from the Methodist church Monday, February 14th, at 10 am, and the remains transported to Oak Grove, the former home of the family, for interment.  DeLong has been resident pastor of Arlington Community Methodist church for the past two years and in his ministerial capacity, his leadership of the Boy Scout, and other religious and semi-religious activities, has won the esteem of Arlington people, who universally extended sympathy to the sorrowing parents.

March 4, 1921

• Melvin Eakin, infant son of W.B. and Fay V. Eakin, died at the family home near Rutledge on Monday, February 28th, after an illness of only sixteen days. Funeral services were held from Rutledge church Wednesday Rev. Hatchel of Grass Valley preaching the sermon.  Interment was at Rose cemetery under direction of Sam Brisbin of this city.

March 11, 1921

March 18, 1921

March 25, 1921

• After many months of suffering, Soren Hansen died in this city Thursday evening, March 17th, from a cancerous affection that had caused him to be confined to his bed the fast five months and which had make him practically helpless for the past year.
• Funeral services were conducted from the Presbyterian church Sunday morning, the many floral offerings in memory of Mr. Hansen completely hiding the alter rail and filling the space in front of the pulpit. The church was crowded with his personal friends and the many friends of the family of who a large number attended from his former home at Kent.  E.E. McVicker, pastor of Moro Presbyterian church, delivered the sermon and was assisted with the service by Rev. H.H. Miles, pastor of Moro Methodist church.  Interment was in the family plot in Moro cemetery. Soren Hansen was born in Klargen Denmark, August 8th, 1858; died in Moro, Oregon, March 17th, 1921; he came to this county in 1874, at the age of 26 years, and to Oregon in 1902, first locating at Eugene; moving to Sherman county in 1904, locating at Kent and later moving to Moro.  He married Katherin Boesen, in Michigan, July 31st, 1886; to this union eight children were born, two passing away in infancy and two daughters five years ago.  He leaves to mourn his departure a wife, four children, five brothers, and one sister; the children are Ove Hansen, living in Kent; George, Elmer, and Mrs. Havie Brisbin, living at Moro; one brother lives at Renton, Wash., and a sister at Ottowa, N.D.
• Peter Hansen, who was in Moro this week in attendance at the funeral of his brother, Soren Hansen, wishes to express his deep appreciation of the way the people of Moro have treated him and this brother’s family. More particularly for the manner in which the funeral was conducted and for the many acts of kindness and sympathy extended to him personally during his stay.  Mr. Hansen visited for a short time at Kent before returning to his home at Renton, Wash., accompanied by Mrs. Soren Hansen.
• Kent News Letter. A number of Kent people attended the funeral of Mr. Soren Hansen at Moro Sunday.

 

• Carl Gillmor was called to Bend to attend the funeral of her sister-in-law.

April 1, 1921

April 8, 1921

• Clara Blackburne, 79 years old, a resident of Sherman county for more than 30 years, died Monday at her home near Grants. She is survived by two sons, Albert W., of Arlington, and Geo. W. of Rufus; one daughter, Mrs. Minnie C. Harley of Portland and seven grandchildren.  Funeral services were held at Wasco, interment being in the Wasco cemetery.
• Double funeral services for John Medler, 84 years old, and Arthur H. Medler, his grandson, 22 years old, were held Sunday afternoon in the Wasco opera house under the auspices of The Dalles lodge BPOE, of which Arthur was a member. Interment was in the Wasco cemetery.  John Medler was one of the very early pioneer farmers of Sherman county and, although not well for several months past, was sick but a short time before his death.  H. Medler passed away following an operation at Wasco for appendicitis.
• Kent News Letter. Several of the Kent people attended the funeral of little Adelene Walton in The Dalles April 3d.  and Mrs. Walton have the heartfelt sympathy of many friends.

April 15, 1921

• Kent News Letter. The infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W.S. Orcutt died Wednesday morning.  The remains were brought to Kent and burial services held Thursday forenoon.  The parents have the sympathy of many friends.  [Letha Jane]

April 22, 1921

• Norman Leroy Barnet passed away Saturday morning, after an illness of four days. The funeral was held Sunday afternoon, a large number of relatives and friends attending the service.  The parents have the heartfelt sympathy of the entire community.

April 29, 1921

• Goodrich D. Boardman, an early pioneer farmer and settler of Sherman county, died at his home in Portland April 22d. Boardman was a sufferer for the past nine years, following a paralytic stroke.  He is survived by his brother, Charles Boardman of San Francisco; his widow, Mrs. Elizabeth Boardman of Portland; four sons, Charlie, of Kent, Sherman county; Bert, of Portland; Frank of Oregon City; Elmer, of Forest Grove; and a daughter, Mrs. Carrie Weygandt, of Canby.  He also leaves 14 grandchildren.  Boardman school, southwest of Moro, was named for him and was built on land donated by him for early school facilities in Sherman county.
• Julian Hatch, known to many Sherman county people, died at his home in Forest Grove April 21st aged 87 years. Mr. Hatch was a civil war veteran, serving with the First Michigan engineers.  By trade he was a cabinet maker and at one time was employed with the Singer Sewing Machine Company.  While living in Nebraska he was ordained to preach by the United Brethren church, later affiliating with the Presbyterian denomination.  He did missionary work in Nebraska and later in Oregon.  R.C. Byers, of Moro, is a son-in-law by a former marriage.  Miss Julie Hatch, missionary to Siam, is a daughter.
• Guy Chamness, after an illness of two years, passed away at Wasco on Wednesday, April 20th. Funeral services were held from the Christian church at Wasco, Rev. W.A. Givens preaching the sermon.  Mrs. Chamness was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G.C. Young of Kent. [Iris A.]
• A. Thompson, a former resident and pioneer farmer of Sherman county died at his home in Portland April 26th. He was a member of Moro Lodge No. 113, IOOF, joining while a resident of Moro June 15th, 1892.
• Kent News Letter. and Mrs. Chas. Boardman was called to Portland on account of the serious illness of his father, who died shortly after they arrived.

May 6, 1921

• C.D. Watkins passed away at the family home near Klondike. The family formerly lived near Grass Valley, funeral services being held at the at place Friday.  [Emma Fawcett]

May 13, 1921

• Margaret Hunter Kessinger was born December 18th, 1891, in Julliette, North Dakota, and died May 7th, 1921, after an illness of several weeks, at her home in Hay Canyon. Kessinger came with her parents to Forest Grove, Oregon, where they resided for some time, later moving to Sherman county where she has since made her home.  June 18th, 1911, she was united in marriage to A.R. Kessinger and to this union six children were born, three dying infancy.  She was a loving mother and companion, a kind and worthy friend and neighbor.  She leaves to mourn her loss her father, a brother, a sister, her husband, two daughters, and a son.  Funeral services were conducted from the Moro Methodist church Monday morning by Rev. Harold H. Miles and the body laid to rest in the IOOF cemetery.  [Margaret Mabel]
• R. Morrison, an early pioneer farmer of Sherman county, died Sunday night at his home at Hetzic, B.C. Mr. Morrison formerly lived in the Monkland section, farming what is now part of the McLachlan holdings.  He was a brother to Wm. Morrison of this city and a brother-in-law of R.J. Ginn.

May 20, 1921

• Wanda Horner, infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H.R. Horner, died Tuesday morning, May 17th at 5:30 on the E.E. Barzee farm, after a few days of sickness. The family had had a siege of tonsilitis and baby Wanda was the last to take it.  Pneumonia set in, but was soon checked.  Eryseplas developed from the tonsilitis.  Just when she appeared to be recovering the dreaded disease took her away. Wanda was born August 18th, 1920, and died at the age of 8 months and 29 days.  The remains was taken to Kent Tuesday evening and funeral services was conducted from the Christian church Wednesday morning by Rev. Harold H. Miles of Moro Methodist church.  Interment was in the IOOF cemetery at Kent.
• Kent News Letter. The funeral of the infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H.R. Horner was held at Kent Wednesday morning.  [Wanda]

May 27, 1921

• Sarah Jane Rogers, who died at Condon last February was reburied at Moro May 22d, 1921, by the side of her husband and children who were buried in Moro cemetery in 1898, following their death from typhoid fever while living in the old stone Monkland store building. One daughter lives near the John Day river, in this county, and another married daughter lives in Condon.  S.P. Brisbin was in charge of the arrangements.

June 3, 1921

June 10, 1921

• H. Andrews, a prominent resident pioneer residing west of Wasco died unexpectedly Sunday noon as he was getting into his car after closing the gate on his way to Wasco. He had been in ill health for some time, but it was not considered to be serious.  Funeral services were conducted Tuesday afternoon from the Christian church at Wasco, Dr. Ghormley preaching the sermon
• H. Rich died early Sunday morning at his Wasco home after an illness of several years. Funeral services were in charge of the Crandall Undertaking of The Dalles, at the Wasco Christian church Monday afternoon, Rev. Roberts pastor of The Dalles Christian church preaching the sermon.  [Orsinius H.]
• The ashes of Mrs. Dora Williams was on Sunday afternoon placed by the side of her husband and son in IOOF cemetery by the Odd Fellow lodge of this city following a service by the lodge conducted by the lodge chaplain, H.H. Miles.  Mrs. Williams was a very early pioneer of this county and city, conducting the first hotel in Moro for years.  She was 86 years old when she died at Pasadena, California, on May 5th last, where services were held by the family and the remains cremated to be forwarded to Moro, as she had often desired before her death.

June 17, 1921

June 24, 1921

July 1, 1921

• Harry Mathews, who had been working for Mr. Wray living just south of Grass Valley, died at the farm home on Monday evening aged 60 years. Funeral services were held on Tuesday afternoon from the house, being in charge of the Grass Valley branch of the Crandall Undertaking Company, the sermon being preached by the Methodist pastor at Grass Valley.

July 8, 1921

July 15, 1921

July 22, 1921

• A. Ramsey received word last week of the death of his father at the family home in Richland, Iowa, July 6th, at the age of 81 years. Mr. Ramsey  was a volunteer soldier in the civil war, serving with the 40th Iowa infantry.  Besides his son in the city he leaves a widow, daughter and son who reside in the east.  Mrs. Henry Smith, a pioneer resident of the Rutledge section, was a sister.
• Elmer Starr, who was drowned at Kirksville, Missouri, while in bathing July 4th was a son of Dr. and Mrs. Philo Starr, an early pioneer family of Sherman county living then in the Hay Canyon section and who have continued to hold their property interests in Sherman county. Philo Starr and E.B. Penland, another early pioneer farmer of the same section, who has maintained his interests here, are brother-in-laws.

July 29, 1921

August 5, 1921

• A. Barnes and family were called to Portland this week by the death of his brother Peter. Deceased was a member of the construction crew now working at Moro and had been at his usual tasks until but a few days before his death.

 

August 12, 1921

• Sisters Drowned Near Kent. Marie and Prisellia O’Sullivan, 20 and 18 year old daughters of Mike O’Sullivan of Kent, were drowned just before noon Sunday morning when crossing the John Day river near their home.  Altho a ford was close by, they headed the horses into deep water so they could arrive sooner at a bathing beach they had intended using, as they had done numerous times before.  Evidently the horses became unruly when they slipped off a ledge and threw the sisters into an eddy estimated to be 20 feet deep.  About 40 men answered the alarm, but it was after 3 p.m. when the older girl was found and near 5 p.m. when the second was taken from the water, both within ten feet from where they last went down.
• Kent News Letter. The entire community was greviously shocked Sunday to learn of the death of sisters Marie and  Priscila O’Sullivan in the John Day river.  The accident occurred sometime in the forenoon, the bodies not being recovered until late in the afternoon, about 40 men were assisting in the rescue work.  O’Sullivan was convalescing from a serious operation and fears are entertained for her health.  A brother, Lawrence, came from Pendleton.  The father is working on a railroad in Alberta, Canada.  Interment was made in the I.O.OF. cemetery at Grass Valley.  The family have the sympathy of all in their double bereavement.

August 19, 1921

• George Hildebrand, pioneer farmer living three miles east of Wasco, died Wednesday morning at The Dalles following an extended illness. No date has been set for the funeral services.  The body is being cared for by the Wasco branch of the Crandall Undertaking company.

August 26, 1921

September 2, 1921

• Sarah Goetjen, who died last week in Portland was interred in the Grass Valley cemetery Sunday last. Mrs. Goetjen was a member of a pioneer family formerly living in the Rutledge district.
• Annabelle, 5 months old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W.C. Todd, who died at the family home near Grass Valley on the 24th after a protracted seizure of pneumonia, was buried in the Moro IOOF cemetery last Thursday.

September 9, 1921

September 16, 1921

September 23, 1921

• Funeral services for the late Henry S. Baker were held at Grass Valley last Sunday afternoon in the public auditorium. The American Legion posts of Sherman county being in charge.  The sermon was delivered by Dr. J.C. Ghormley, holding the rank of lieutenant in the naval reserve.  Following the service a funeral cortege more than a half mile in length escorted the remains to the cemetery.  Henry Baker left Camp Lewis in July 1918, with the 91st division as a member of Company D 363d infantry.  He was killed in action October 4th, having passed safely through the major part of the battle of the Argonne.  The remains were brought back to his native land the first of this month and was received at Grass Valley last week.

September 30, 1921

October 7, 1921

October 14, 1921

• Luna Alma Crowther, wife of Arthur C. Crowther died Saturday night October 1st, at 11 o’clock at The Dalles hospital following a long illness from Typhoid fever a sudden turn for the worse, came in her condition that morning, leaving no hope for recovery. The death was a great shock to friends, who until the last day, believed she was holding her own in the battle with the disease.  Crowther had lived in The Dalles seven years, and endeared herself to everyone with whom she came in contact.  Her husband and numerous other relatives survive.
• John H. Buker one of the very early Oregon pioneers, died at the family home at Grass Valley Wednesday morning. Buker was a United States navel veteran of the Civil War coming to Grant county soon after his discharge and to Sherman county about twenty years ago.  Mrs. G.B. Bourhill, of this city is a daughter.  Funeral services were held at Grass Valley Friday, Rev. H.G. Hansen, pastor of Moro Presbyterian church, preaching the sermon.
• M. Morrow, salesman and designer for the Pendleton Marble Works, was in Sherman county last week. Mr. Morrow for several years had made regular business visits to this county and average of about six weeks. This trip he has set up a fine Barre Granite Monument in the cemetery Grass Valley for Roy J. Baker in memory of his son Darold who passed away early this summer. [Oregon Death Index lists a Darold LeRoy Baker died 03 March 1921. No obit was found.]
• Brief telegraphic word received by Editor C. L. Ireland Friday morning from J. E. Nichols from Oakland, California, conveying the sad news to friends in Moro that Mrs. Nichols’ mother, Mrs. A.J. Adams, had passed away Thursday evening at her home at Sutherlin, Oregon. Funeral services will be held at Sutherlin this Sunday afternoon, Rev. Adams being pastor of the Presbyterian church at that place.

October 28, 1921

November 4, 1921

• A card received from Mrs. J.E. Nichols states that she wishes to thank the membership of the Presbyterian church and the Dorcas Society for the very handsome floral remembrance at the time of her mother’s funeral. Riverview cemetery, Portland was selected as the last resting place of Mrs. A.J. Adams.

November 11, 1921

• Kent News Letter. The community was startled Tuesday to learn that Walters, a farmer living in the Jackknife neighborhood, had died suddenly after a short illness.  None of the neighbors knew of his sickness.  He was buried in the Odd Fellows cemetery north of town.  His bereaved and aged mother, sisters and brothers have the sympathy of all.

November 18, 1921

November 25, 1921

December 2, 1921

December 9, 1921

December 16, 1921

December 23, 1921

• E. Stephens, superintendent of the Federal and State Experiment Farm, was called to Malad, Idaho, last week by the illness and death of his father. Mr. Stephens was accompanied by his older son Edmund and expects to return just before Christmas.

December 30, 1921

• News Letter From Kent. We learn that the infant of Orval Gibson formerly of this city, was buried last week.  They have the sympathy of the neighborhood.
• William Albert Miller, a former resident of Sherman county in the Monkland section where he was a farmer and mail carrier, died December 22d in The Dalles at the home of his sister, Mrs. A. Dillinger. Funeral services were held Saturday at the Zell Undertaking Parlors and interment at IOOF cemetery.  Miller was a resident of Cliffs, Washington, for several years.  He leaves a widow and four children. Mrs. J.R. Hunter, Underwood, Washington, is a niece.

January 6, 1922

January 13, 1922

• In Memory of Mrs. B.F. Pike. Funeral services for Mrs. Mahala G. Denny Pike, a member of the fast thinning ranks of Oregon pioneers who crossed the plains in the ‘fifties,” were held Monday afternoon in The Dalles, Rev. H.C. Kohr officiating, interment being in the IOOF cemetery.  Pike died January 5th, at Newberg, following a series of paralytic strokes which had left her practically helpless.  She is survived by her husband, B.F. Pike, for many years assessor for Sherman county, and one son, I.D. Pike, postmaster at Grass Valley.  Mahala G. Denny was born in Morgan county, Ohio, on October 30, 1842.  She crossed the plains in 1852 with her parents and settled in Linn county where Lebanon new stands, where she was educated and where she grew to womanhood. She was married to B.F. Pike in 1871.  They lived in Umatilla county seven years, from where they moved to Sherman county, then a part of Wasco county. Here they lived 25 years, during which time they say the surrounding country develop from a vast area of wild bunch grass and sage brush to one of the richest agricultural counties of the state. From their home in Sherman county they moved to Newberg in 1908, where Mrs. Pike resided until the time of her death. While in Sherman county Mrs. Pike was at one time president of the W.T. Sherman post of Women’s Relief Corps.  At the time of her death she was a member of the Shiloh post of that organization at Newberg.  Members of the local post of the Women’s Relief Corps of The Dalles attended the funeral in a body. Mrs. Pike’s brother, O.N. Denny, was at one time county judge of Wasco county.  He was later sent to China as consul general, and still later became advisor of the king of Corea.  It was while there that he sent the first stock of Mongolian pheasants, now known as the Denny pheasants, to Oregon.
• L. Montgomery received word Wednesday of the death of his mother, Mrs. Sarah M. Wylie, at Clinton, Ill. following a brief illness. Mrs. Wylie, if she had lived, would have been 86 years old in March.

January 20, 1922

• W.C. Guyton received a telegram from Arvada, Colorado, stating that her mother Mrs. J.D. Bell, had died. Mrs. Guyton went by auto to Rufus where she took the train for Colorado.  Mr. and Mrs. Bell formerly lived at Kent.

January 27, 1922

February 3, 1922

• News Letter From Kent. Word was received here Saturday that P. Howell had died early Thursday morning at the home of his son Roy, in Vancouver, Washington.  Mr. Howell is the father of Mrs. William Young and Mrs. William Mitchel of this city, and George and William Howell near The Dalles.

February 10, 1922

• Eugene Herschel Altermatt, 15 year old son of A.P. Altermatt, The Dalles, Oregon, was drowned in the Columbia river Saturday, February 4th, when the sailing canoe in which he was voyaging across the river was capsized by a terrific gale that swept up the gorge. P. Altermatt was formerly manager in charge of the Fleck orchards at Rufus, being a relative of L.B. Payne, present owner of the orchards.
• and Mrs. G.E. Mathews returned from Portland, where they were called by the illness and later death of Mrs. Mathews’ mother.
• Christian Hansen, father of Mrs. Martin Hanson, who died last week at the family home near Sisters was put to rest in the family plot in Rose cemetery Wednesday. Hansen was past 80 years and has been in poor health for a number of years.
• C.E. Boardman received word Monday that her father had passed away at the home of Martin Hansen at Sisters, Oregon. The remains were laid to rest in the Rose cemetery near Moro.  Mrs. Boardman has the sympathy of all her friends.

February 17, 1922

February 24, 1922

• Ralph Wheat Drowned in Flood Stream. Our community was saddened Saturday afternoon by an unfortunate accident in which Ralph Wheat, aged seven years, who has been making his home in Moro with his uncle Don C. Wheat, since the death of his parents last year, lost his life in the flood waters of the usually placid creek that meanders thru Moro to a juncture with Grass Valley canyon creek below De Moss. Ralph had left town in the early afternoon to overtake three playmates who were following the creek on the side of the Sherman highway, stopping occasionally to note the action of the flood, caused by the melting snow and the debris carried past by the swift waters. When his playmates were overtaken he found that he was on the opposite side from them and attempted to cross.  They warned him of the danger and he started back to town while they continued, thinking he was going home.  Evidently he came to a place where he thought he could cross safely and started to wade the creek.  About this time Mrs. Truman Strong noticed Ralph in the waters and ran toward him to help him cross, but before she reached him he lost his balance and was seen being carried down stream. Mrs. Strong ran to her home close by and phoned the alarm to Moro.  Searching parties were organized and within an hour Ralph’s lifeless form was found about half a mile down the stream, lodged among the flotsam of the flood, having been carried thru two barb wire fences in that short distance. Funeral services were held Monday afternoon from the Methodist church, Rev. U.C. Smothers preaching the sermon.  Miss Myrtle Wheat, a sister, teaching school at Harrisburg, and an older brother, Daniel, living with his sister Myrtle, attended the funeral.
• Word was received Saturday that Mrs. J.C. Freeman’s mother died that day, before the arrival of Mrs. Freeman at her home in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
• Snodderly, mother of Mrs. J.J. Schaeffer, died late Friday night at the family home near Erskine at the advanced age of 85 years. A married daughter and three sons live at and near Prineville where the deceased was taken Sunday for interment.
• The little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Tomlin died Sunday at Wasco. Funeral services were held at that place Tuesday afternoon.

March 3, 1922

• Andrew Jackson Henkle was born May 27, 1828, in Shelby county, Ohio. In 1839 he moved from Ohio to Iowa.  In Adams county, Iowa, he married Mary Wood, January 1, 1852.  In April 1853 they left their home in Iowa, close to the Missouri line, and started for Oregon with ox teams overland across 3000 miles of hostile Indian territory.  Henkle, the youngest married man, against his own inclination, was chosen captain of the party making the venture, which consisted of forty wagons, twelve families and eighty people.  They traveled to within forty miles of Salt Lake City, thence north across Green river, past Soda Springs, over a 100 mile desert that took them two nights and a day without water.  It was in this desert that the action of the reflected sun from the white sands of the desert so affected Mr. Henkle’s eyes that in 1890 he was totally blind. The caravan continued down the Columbia past where is now Biggs and over the Barlow road into the promise land of the Willamette valley, where they took up a land claim near Corvallis. In the Spring of 1884 they came to Sherman county for the first time, settling about three miles from the John Day river in the Webfoot district.  Several years later they moved to Teko, Washington, remaining there four years, and then moving to Priest River, Idaho.  In 1916, having been in Priest River for twenty years, they moved to Moro, where they have remained up to the time of Mr. Henkle’s death, February 25, 1922. Mr. Henkle became a Christian early in life and was an inspiration to those who came in contact with him.  He was a member of the famous Henkle family of Oregon, which is the largest in the state, numbering over 200.  His ancestry is traceable back in an unbroken line for 400 years.  He was the father of eight children, four of whom are living: Francis Henkle, Priest River, Idaho; Rosa Thompson, Moro, Oregon; Thomas J. Henkle, Moro, Oregon; John W. Henkle, Clarkston, Washington; eighteen grandchildren and twenty-four great-grandchildren.
• Miss Eliza Curl was born April 3, 1837 in Carel county, Missouri. She crossed the plains with her parents in 1853 and settled in Linn county, Oregon, where she spent her girlhood.  She was married to James H. Snodderly on March 8, 1855.  To this union were born eight children:  five sons and three daughters.  In July, 1869, she moved with her family to Crook county and settled on the Ochoco. Mrs. Snodderly was one of the staunch pioneers who stood for righteousness and added respect to the Baptist church in which she was a lifelong member.  He husband answered the call in 1898.  From this time on she lived with her son and daughter in Prineville.  In later years she has been with her daughter, Mrs. Schaeffer of Moro, Oregon.  At this place she answered the summons on February 18, 1922. Services were conducted at 2:00 pm at the home of Mr. Jacob Boone in Prineville.  Wesley Johnson, pastor of the Christian church, conducted the sermon. Mrs. Snodderly is survived by five children: Mrs. Jacob Boone, William Snoderly of Prineville, Mrs. J.J. Schaeffer of Moro, and two sons, Joe and Fred of California; four sisters and one brother, Mrs. Pauline Peterson, Pendleton, Oregon; Mrs. Mary Smith, Lebanon, Oregon; Mrs. Julia Wilcox, Carson, Washington; Mrs. Jessie Crisman, Hamilton, Oregon; Dudley Curl, Lebanon, Oregon.

March 10, 1922

• Helen Loraine Tomlin, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward L. Tomlin was born at Moro, Oregon, November 25, 1920, and died at Wasco, Oregon February 19th, 1922, at the age of 1 year 2 months 25 days. She was taken ill at her former home about three weeks ago, with slight symptoms of any serious illness, until a week had elapsed, and failing to obtain relief, after all strenuous work of local doctors she was taken to specialists in Portland where wall medical aid proved futile. But with the love and hope for her recovery, she was brought safely home, and like a “flower budded on earth to bloom in Heaven” she was called to answer God’s will, and quietly and peacefully she did beckon to the Angel of Death. She leaves to mourn her loss a loving father and mother, a host of sorrowing relatives, and an aged grandfather who has been her devoted companion from day to day, also a grandfather, an aunt and uncle in Arizona, who mournfully grieve her loss.
• News Letter From Kent. It is reported that Lorenz Frost was killed in Bend Saturday.  Frost worked in Kent last summer.  It was quite a shock to the people here to hear of his death. [See March 17, 1922.]

March 17, 1922

• P. King returned Sunday from Newport where he was called by the death of Mrs. King’s mother the Wednesday previous. Mrs. Ransom Smith was one of the very early pioneers of Sherman county and at the time of her death was 85 years old.
• News Letter From Kent. It was false report of Mr Frost being killed.

March 24, 1922

March 31, 1922

• Funeral services were held in Wasco Wednesday morning for Frank Murchie, under the direction of the Crandall undertaking company. Murchie, whose home was at Spokane, has been visiting with his brothers, Albert and Harry, when he succumbed to cancer of the spine with which he had been afflicted for some time.

April 7, 1922

• Daniel McLachlan, formerly of Monkland, passed away at Portland, Oregon, Tuesday evening, April 4th, at 6 o’clock, after a lingering illness of several months. She came to the United States from New Zealand with her husband in 1881, and in 1882 they settled in Sherman county in the Monkland district east of Moro.   They lived there until about 12 years ago when they went to make their home in Portland.  At her death she was about 74 years of age.  Besides her husband she leaves four children: Mrs. Bessie Axtell, Mrs. Stella Dillinger, Mr. Daniel McLachlan, Jr., all living east of Moro, and Mrs. Maggie Woods, near Dufur.  In addition to the above there are also 13 grandchildren to mourn her loss.  All of the children and most of the grandchildren were at her bedside at the time of her death. Deceased was brought to Moro on the afternoon train Thursday, accompanied by the relatives, and the funeral service was conducted that afternoon by Rev. Henry G. Hanson, from the Presbyterian church. The body was laid to rest in the cemetery west of town. [Mary nee Robertson] [Moro Cemetery]
• and Mrs. T.B. Searcy returned Tuesday from McMinnville, where they were called by the illness of Mrs. Searcy’s father, John W. Shelton, aged 88 years and 10 months at the time of his passing. Mr. Shelton was an early pioneer of Yamhill county.  Six sons and two daughters survive him, all but one of his children being with him in his last moments.
• Henry Preston Lewis, aged 18, one of the men injured in the wreck of the rock crusher at DeMoss, died March 30th in the hospital at Wasco. Lewis came down from La Grande just a week before the accident occurred, obtaining employment as stationary engineer.  He is survived by his father and nine brothers and sisters in La Grande.  His mother and two of her children are dead.  The body was forwarded to La Grande and burial took place Sunday.

April 14, 1922

April 21, 1922

• Henry Root, one of the pioneer homesteaders of Sherman county, and a cousin of Elihu Root, the American statesman, died Saturday night at his farm home four miles west of Wasco. Root was eighty years old at the time of his passing.  He crossed the plains with and ox caravan in 1852, moving to Sherman county in 1881.  Three children survive him; William D., George H., and Mrs. H.E. [Nora F.] Morrow.  The funeral was held Thursday afternoon at the Wasco Methodist Church, interment being made in the Wasco cemetery.  [George Henry  –  He was also survived by his wife, Harriett Ann (Goodyear) and eight grandchildren.]
• W. C. Guyton received a telegram Wednesday stating that her grandfather, Mr. Lake of The Dalles had passed away.

April 28, 1922

May 5, 1922

• J.P. Strahl passed away at the family home in Portland Tuesday morning following a brief illness from pneumonia. The family lived in Moro for many years and have a large circle of friends in Sherman county who will regretfully learn of the bereavement.

 

May 12, 1922

May 19, 1922

May 26, 1922

• F. Hill Killed in Accident. Clarence F. Hill was accidently killed about 11 o’clock Wednesday morning in the Farmers Elevator & Supply Co. engine room as he was applying belt dressing to the feed grinder drive belt. He had operated the machinery alone so many times that he was considered to be thoroughly familiar with its operation, but this day Manager McKean was intending to assist him as soon as he returned from a business trip to the bank. When McKean returned he heard the engine running, without the grinder, and upon investigating found Mr. Hill lying on the floor near the rapidly revolving machinery. Help was summoned, but he must have been killed almost instantly when drawn into the machinery. Coroner Myers and Dr. Morse were called from Wasco; upon their arrival the remains were removed to the S.P. Brisbin building and Manager Bert Thomas, of the Crandall Undertaking Co., called to prepare the body for shipment to the parents’ home at Springfield, Oregon.  A hinge panel casket and steel burial vault were used. Mr. Hill was a member of BPOE lodge at The Dalles, secretary of Moro lodge IOOF, and active member of the local American Legion post.  He served in the marine corps, aviation division, as a gunner during the world war; three times having pilots of his planes shot, but each time making a safe landing.  In one air battle he received a wound in the leg.  Mr. Hill carried a $7,500 accident policy in addition to the state accident insurance.  Mr. Hill was engaged to Miss Bernice Lloyd of La Grande, the wedding having been planned for next month. A short service was held at the Legion hall previous to taking the remains to the depot for shipment, where a brief farewell service was held by the Legion.

June 2, 1922

• Gusten, working on the Sherman Highway south of Moro, committed suicide Friday last by touching off a stick of dynamite he had placed in his mouth. He was buried by the county in Moro cemetery.  Coroner Myers has ascertained that he had no known relatives in Oregon, but that he had a sister in Sweden and that his trunk and personal effects were held for him in Helena, Montana.

June 9, 1922

• William S. Mowry committed suicide in Portland last week while despondent over continued ill health. He is a son of J.B. Mowry, formerly resident of Moro.  His brothers, George and John, are successful attorneys in Portland, holding appointive positions with the district attorney for Multnomah county.

June 16, 1922

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July 21, 1922

• William Schlaise found dead Saturday morning. Local carpenter dies in bed during attack of epilepsy.  William Schlaise was found dead in his bed Saturday morning, after no response was given to the breakfast call, by W.C. Campbell, with whom he had been living since his recent return from Pendleton. Mr. Schlaise had been working unusually hard during the last few weeks in his trade of carpentering, rebuilding the wheat warehouses that collapsed last winter under the heavy load of snow on the roofs.  It is thought that this hard work caused an epileptic fit, to which Mr. Schlaise had been subject for some time, and that during the night while suffering from an attack he turned face down in bed, smothering himself. Funeral service was held in the Methodist church Monday afternoon. The sermon was preached by Rev. U.C. Smothers.   Following the church service the local American Legion took charge of the service at the cemetery.  The many beautiful offerings of flowers showed the sympathy of the public for the distant kindred.  The mother, four sisters and three brothers, living in Wisconsin, were unable to be present.  Schlaise and her relatives were present.

July 28, 1922

• Moro community was startled Thursday by news that R.C. Ornduff had passed away at The Dalles hospital during the previous night. She had been ill for several months with an acute diabetes condition, but, nevertheless, she always appeared cheerful to her friends. Funeral services will be conducted on Saturday afternoon at 3 o’clock from the Crandall Undertaking Parlors at The Dalles.  By special request, E.A. Race of Hood River, J.A. Hardin of The Dalles, F.E. Fortner, Roy Kunsman, T.E. and W.F. Hulery, will act as pallbearers.  [Vivian]

August 4, 1922

August 11, 1922

• Funeral services were held in Grass Valley. Saturday afternoon, August 5th, in memory of the 3-day old infant son of Mr. and Mrs. A.S. Noyes.
• Catherine A. Burmester, aged 85 years, passed away on August 5th at the home of her daughter, Mrs. C.C. Deyo, at Rufus. Funeral services were held at the Wasco Methodist church, interment being in the Wasco cemetery.  Besides the daughter, Mrs. Deyo, two sons, Henry B. Burmester, of Glenwood, Wisconsin, and Herman Burmester of this city, survive.
• One man is dead and 15 others are in a hospital recovering from injuries received when train No. 4 of the O.W.R & N., westbound was wrecked near North Fork.

August 18, 1922

• George Frazier, foreman of the railway bridge crew, was fatally injured Wednesday afternoon while working on the high trestle near Hay Canyon. A report states that Mr. Frazier was astride a plank, pushing it to place, when the end back of him fell off the trestle and threw him 25 feet to the ground.  He fell on his hands, breaking both wrists.   The local passenger train, arriving shortly after the accident, was stopped and the injured man was taken to Grass Valley, but he died before reaching the doctor’s office.

August 25, 1922

• Henry W. Patison, a resident of Grass valley for the past 23 years, committed suicide in his room at the Grass Valley hotel by shooting himself last Sunday afternoon. He was despondent because of a long continued illness.
• Joseph Hoberg, well known Methodist minister, died at his home in McMinnville. He was 94 years old.

September 1, 1922

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September 22, 1922

• Elizabeth Ann Porter Dunn. J.W. Dunn passed away at her home in this city Tuesday evening, having suffered from cancer of the stomach for several months.  The funeral was held Wednesday afternoon from the Presbyterian church.  Rev. Henry G. Hanson officiated.  Members of Moro lodge IOOF acted as pall bearers. Elizabeth Ann Porter was born April 6th, 1860, in Cole county, Illinois.  She crossed the plains with parents at the age of four years, settling in Linn county, Oregon.  She was married to Thomas J. Farra on February 1, 1880.  Then children were born to this union, of whom six are living.  The Farra family came to Sherman county in 1887 and, after the death of Mr. Farra, Mrs. Farra was married to Mr. Dunn, July 10, 1901.

 

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December 22, 1922

• Mary Wood Henkle, wife of the late Andrew Jackson Henkle, passed away Wednesday morning, December 20th, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. A. C. Thompson, in Moro, reaching the ripe old age of 87 years, 10 months and 4 days. Funeral services were held at 11 o’clock Friday morning at the Moro Methodist church, Rev. U.C. Smothers of the Methodist church conducting the service, assisted by Rev. H.G. Hanson of the Presbyterian church.  Interment was make in the Wasco cemetery, beside her husband, who passed away February 25, 1922, at the age of 94 years. Mrs. Henkle, with her husband, was one of the early Oregon pioneers, crossing the plains by ox team in 1853.  Shortly after they started across the plains, Mr. Henkle was elected captain of the train of forty wagons, twelve families and eighty people. Mr. and Mrs. Henkle first settled near Corvallis, where they took a land claim.  In the spring of 1884 they moved to Sherman county, locating in the Webfoot district within three miles of the John Day river.  Later they moved to eastern Washington and Idaho.  They moved to Moro in 1916, where they have since resided.  On January 1, 1922, the elderly couple had the pleasure of celebrating their 70th wedding anniversary.  Henkle’s death has come before the recurrence of the anniversary date. Mrs. Henkle was the mother of eight children, four of whom survive her: F.M. Henkle, Priest River, Idaho; Rosa Henkle Thompson, Moro, Oregon; T.J. Henkle, Moro, Oregon; J.W. Henkle, Clarkston, Washington.

December 29, 1922

January 12, 1923

• Word was received Thursday by Clarence and Francis Anderson that their step-father, T. Ashby, had passed away in Forest Grove that morning. Mr. Ashby formerly lived at Antelope and more recently at Grass Valley, where had a large circle of friends.  He had been confined to his bed for several months with spinal trouble.

January 19, 1923

• Mary Margaret Chambers, 87, last surviving member in Albany of those pioneers who crossed the plains to Oregon in 1845, is dead at her home, as the result of old age.

January 26, 1923

February 2, 1923

February 9, 1923

• Student Killed in Accident. Stanley Reise Meets Death When Car Overturns North of Wasco.    Charles Stanley Reise, high school student of Arlington, was killed in an automobile accident on the Girkin [Gerking] canyon road, between Wasco and Rufus, about midnight last Friday.  The car contained six high school students from Arlington, three in each seat.  Reports of the accident agree that the driver of the car was traveling over a road he knew little about and the brakes refused to control the car on the steep grade. Two other passengers in the car were severely injured, taken to the hospital at The Dalles and later discharged from medical attention.  The students had been in attendance at the Arlington-Wasco basketball game and were returning to Arlington at the time of the accident.

February 16, 1923

February 23, 1923

March 2, 1923

• Word was received in Moro Wednesday that E.M. West had passed away the day before at Battleboro, Virginia, after a short illness following an attack of flu contracted while nursing a private patient who was suffering from that disease. It is expected that funeral services will be held in The Dalles on Sunday, March 11th. Mrs. West had been visiting and traveling in the eastern states for several months.  She is one of the very early pioneers of Sherman county, living when at the overland stage station on what is known as the Love place, south of Victor Andersen. A husband and seven children survive.  A.J. West and their younger daughter Leola reside in Benton county, Oregon; two sons, E.E. and Ladru Barnum, reside in The Dalles; one son A.H. Barnum, and a daughter, Mrs. L.L. Peetz, reside at Moro; two daughters, Mrs. Chas Bartlett and Mrs. Stanley Lake, reside at Hermiston, Oregon.

March 9, 1923

March 16, 1923

• L.D. Eaton passes. Funeral services were conducted Sunday afternoon from the Moro Presbyterian church for Mrs. L.D. Eaton, who passed away March 10th at the home of her sister, Mrs. E.A. Hoskinson, near Kent.  Rev. H.G. Hanson preached the sermon.  Interment was in the IOOF cemetery at Moro.  Besides husband, L.D. Eaton, and son, Karl Eaton, residing near Grass Valley, deceased is survived by three brothers, David Hampton, of Monmouth, T. R. and F.M. Hampton, of Pendleton, and five sisters, Mrs. Mary L. Ragsdale of Moro, Mrs. O.A. Anderson of Silverton, Mrs. E.A. Hoskinson of Kent, Mrs. John Brown of Oswego, and Mrs. Julius Martin of Stites, Idaho.  [Lissa]

March 23, 1923

March 30, 1923

• News Letter From Kent. A number of friends of the family; residing in Kent and vicinity, attended the funeral service held Sunday at Grass Valley in honor of W.B. Wilcox.  Mrs. Wilcox was the mother of George Wilcox, proprietor of the drug store in that city.

April 6, 1923

• Henry G. Hanson received a telegram Thursday morning from Willmar, Minnesota, announcing the death of his father on Wednesday evening, April 4th. Besides Mr. Hanson here at Moro, there are a brother and sister at the family home, one sister at Wist, South Dakota, and one at Whitewater, Montana.  The father was 83 1/2 years of age and had been confined to his bed for about eight months.  His helpmeet passed on about twelve years ago.  Mr. Hanson left late Thursday afternoon for Willmar, Minnesota, expecting to return within ten days time.

April 13, 1923

• E. Fortner late Saturday evening, was called to Kettle Falls, Washington, by the sudden death of his father at the family home in that city.

April 20, 1923

April 27, 1923

May 4, 1923

• In Memorium. Mary Hampton Ragsdale passed away at her home in this city Saturday noon, April 28th.  Funeral service were held at the Presbyterian church Sunday afternoon, Rev. H.G. Hanson conducting the service.  Interment was in the IOOF cemetery. Mary Hampton Ragsdale was born in Dade county, Missouri, May 27th, 1846.  She crossed the plains to Oregon in 1874 and moved to a homestead in what is now Sherman county near Moro in 1881.  Surviving her are four sons, A.J. West of Otis, Oregon; C.P. Ragsdale of Baker, Oregon; W.H. Ragsdale and Ray R. Ragsdale of Moro, Oregon; fourteen grandchildren; seven great grandchildren; three brothers, and four sisters.
• Funeral services were held in Grass Valley Monday morning for the 12-year old son of Howard Coon who accidentally shot himself last week. U.C. Smothers, of this city, conducting the service.  Interment was in the Grass Valley cemetery.

May 11, 1923

• Wasco Newspaperman Dies Suddenly. M. Snyder, editor of the Wasco News-Enterprise passed away about six o’clock Wednesday evening.  He was in his usual health during the day but as he entered his home at supper time he had a sudden attack of heart failure, sank to a chair, lapsed into unconsciousness, from which he failed to rally.  Funeral services will be held next Sunday at Hood River, under auspices of the Masonic lodge.
• Henry Smith, and old-time resident of Antelope, dropped dead in front of the drug store in Grass Valley Wednesday noon. He was trying to locate a doctor when struck by apoplexy.

May 18, 1923

May 25, 1923

• F. Foss and family attended funeral services held last Monday in Portland for Harry Kuks, son of Angus Kuks, of Grass Valley, who died recently in Port Arthur, Texas. Mrs. Foss is an aunt to the deceased.

June 1, 1923

• John H. Johnson, civil war veteran and retired farmer, died at his home in Wasco Saturday, May 26th, following a paralytic stroke. At the time of his death Mr. Johnson was past 84 years of age.  Funeral services were conducted Monday afternoon by Rev. B.L. Hicks from the Christian church at Wasco.  Interment was in the cemetery near Wasco.  His widow, five sons and one daughter survive his passing.

June 8, 1923

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July 6, 1923

• George Hennagin was called home from Metolious Wednesday by the news of the death of her father, F.B. Fuller, at Kelso, Washington, on July 3d.
• An unknown man, tamping powder in a hole for a blast to furnish rock for the road crusher work at Bauers & Bauers camp near Bourbon, was blown high in the air when the explosive prematurely exploded Saturday afternoon. The jerk of the man’s body separated his head from his body, the two coming down separately.

 

July 13, 1923

• Poley was called to Wasco Tuesday night to attend Wallace Fields, cousin of I.E. Fields. Because of the serious nature of the illness, Fields was taken to the hospital at The Dalles about midnight, where he died about ten minutes after arrival.  An aggravated case of diabetes was said to have been the cause of death.

July 20, 1923

• Transient Family Looses Mother. A.E. Morris, age 43, mother of six children died suddenly at Grass Valley Saturday afternoon.  Twenty minutes before her serious sickness she was apparently in the best of health.  Her husband summoned Dr. Thatcher immediately but nothing could be done.  A sad feature of the case is that the family are strangers, but the good people of Grass Valley did all in their power to lighten the burden.  Funeral services were conducted by Rev. U.C. Smothers in the Methodist church and interment at the local cemetery.  The family are nice appearing and were well dressed and have the respect and esteem of the people of Grass Valley.
• Moro Resident Passes Suddenly. Monday morning, shortly after seven o’clock, as H. Ellsworth was returning to his home from a brief visit at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Lusk, he collapsed in the street between the Bryant and Nish residences, dying almost instantly from the effect of a paralytic stroke.  Funeral services, under the direction of the Crandall Undertaking Co. of The Dalles, were held at Moro Methodist church Wednesday afternoon, Rev. U.C. Smothers preaching the sermon.  Interment was in Moro cemetery.
• Clarence Herbert Ellsworth had been failing health for a number of years. At the time of his death he was 73 years 3 months and 3 days old.  He was born in Illinois April 13th, 1850.  He was twice married, his first wife passed away October 1876.  August 8th, 1879, he married Anna Udell, sister to his first wife.  He leaves a wife, ten children, fourteen grandchildren, and two great grandchildren, and one brother residing in Britt, Iowa.

July 27, 1923

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August 24, 1923

August 31, 1923

• Arthur Dickison, aged 16, son of Professor J.M. Dickison of Spray, was drowned in the John Day river while swimming.
• Margueritte Knapp, wife of O.R. Knapp, residing northeast from Moro about 18 miles, died in Wasco last Thursday at a hospital in that city, following an operation. Deceased leaves a husband and two minor children, one aged three years and another two months.  The remains were sent to Kamiah, Idaho, for burial.

September 7, 1923

• Early Pioneer Presbyterian Moro Pastor Passes at Portland Home. James M. Morrison, for a number of years pastor of Presbyterian churches in Sherman county, having been the founder of both the Moro and Monkland churches, died at the family residence, 348 East Sixth Street North, Portland, Oregon, Wednesday.  Although 92 years of age he was able to take his usual walks until the last.  He passed away with no sickness and apparently no pain while he was having breakfast. Mr. Morrison was born in Colerain, Pa., July 21, 1832.  In 1856 he was graduated from Delaware college and later from Princeton Theological seminary.  Over a period of 38 years he served churches in Pennsylvania, Missouri, Iowa and Oregon.  His last pastorate was in Moro where for 15 years were added to the natural work of the church the struggles and hardships encountered by pioneers in a new county. His wife, Nancy Bailey Morrison, died four years ago.  In addition to five great-grandchildren, the following sons and daughters survive: Joseph B., Thomas C., James M., Mrs. Ella Nelson, Mrs. Nannie Thomas, Mrs. Margaret Bates and Mrs. Maude Keenan.

September 14, 1923

September 21, 1923

September 28, 1923

• S. Orcutt passed away at his home in this city at 12:30 am Tuesday morning, the immediate cause of his death being complications caused by eating grapes and watermelon. Funeral services were held from the Methodist church at Moro at eleven o’clock Tuesday morning followed by interment in the IOOF cemetery at Kent.
• News Items From Kent and Vicinity. The funeral of S. Orcutt who died Tuesday morning in Moro was held at the Odd Fellows cemetery Tuesday afternoon.
• Morrison and wife returned Tuesday from Adams, Umatilla county, where they were called last week by the serious illness and death of Mr. Morrison’s sister, Mrs. Eliza Bradley.

 

October 5, 1923

• Early Pioneer Passes at Seattle. C. Brock, former resident of Sherman county in the early days of its history, passed away at Seattle on October 1st.  Funeral services were held at his home town, Hood River, on Wednesday.  Mr. Brock is survived by his widow; two sons, Roy C. of Davenport, Iowa, and E. Clay Brock, of Seattle; one daughter, Mrs. John W. Allen, of Redmond; three brothers and one sister, Russell Brock and Jacob L. Brock, of Hood River, C.M. Brock and Mrs. A.M. Hicks, of Wasco. Mr. Brock, since its formation and at the time of his death, was appraiser for the Federal Land Bank.  He was county clerk of Sherman county when this county was first set off from Wasco county, later moving to Hood River.

October 12, 1923

• Joseph Walton, 74 years of age, died in his home in The Dalles Sunday following a long illness. The deceased formerly lived in the Kent section, where he had been an active farmer, retiring about twelve years ago to live in The Dalles.  Besides the widow, two sons G.R. Walton of Los Angeles and L.V. Walton of Kent survive.  Walton was a great uncle of A.S. Johnson of this city.

October 19, 1923

• News Items From Kent and Vicinity. Word was received from Mrs. Houghton last week, stating that her husband had passed away the first of October.  They have been living at Pasadena, California, the last five years.  The family were old time residents of Sherman county.
• A premature blast near Shaniko killed Robert Hodge and Charles Rogers, workmen employed on the Cow canyon section of The Dalles-California highway. The explosion threw both men 100 feet in the air and mangled their bodies beyond recognition.  Hodge was a former sheriff of King county, Wash., while Rogers was a Portland man.

October 26, 1923

• Biographic History Sketch of Rev. M. Morrison. The following brief historical sketch of the life of Rev. J.M. Morrison was read by Rev. H.G. Hanson at the morning service at the Presbyterian church last Sunday.  It will be transmitted to the Oregon Synod of the Presbyterian church to be included in the permanent church records of the work in Oregon as well as being filed with the records of the  church for Moro district. James McCalmount Morrison was born July 21, 1832, at Coleraine, Lancaster county, Ohio, the son of Alex Wilson and Margaret McCalmount Morrison.  He was graduated from Delaware college in 1856 and from Princeton theological seminary in 1861.  He was licensed by Donegal Presbytery on June 4, 1861, and ordained by Platte Presbytery on April 6, 1876.  He served Upper Nottingham church for a while, then went into educational work, being principal of Spring Run academy 1864-66, and holding the same position in Female Seminary, Newburg, Pennsylvania, 1866-68.  Returned to ministerial labors he preached at Rockford, Missouri 1869-72, organizing a church at that place in 1870.  His next charge was Union and Kings City, 1877-80, followed by service at College Springs and Blanchard, Iowa, 1880-81.  At this stage he decided to cast in his lot in the great and growing west, coming to Oregon in 1884, and remained in this state until his death.  His first charge was at Weston, 1884-86, and then his last and longest work at Grass Valley, Moro and Monkland 1886-99.  While retiring from the active pastorate at this time, he did not give up preaching but for eight more years did considerable work in vacant churches and filling pulpits on Sundays.  He passed away on August 29, 1923, in Portland, Oregon, at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Nannie B. Thomas, with who he had made his home since his removal to Portland. On November 8, 1832, he married Miss Nancy Bailey of Barleyville, Pa.  His helpmeet passed on four years ago.  Surviving him there are in addition to five great-grandchildren and eighteen grand children, the following sons and daughters:  Joseph B., Thomas C., James M., Mrs. Nannie B. Thomas, Mrs. Margaret Bates and Mrs. Maude Keenan. While a man of scholarly tastes, devoting a part of his life to educational service, his work was largely in the smaller places and in pioneer labors.  To this he seemed to have been eminently fitted, as revealed by the fact that he organized five churches during his ministry, and others grew out of the work which he was instrumental in starting.  In his latter days he said that if he had his life to live over again, he would choose pioneer work.  The estimate of his character as revealed by relatives, friends, and ministerial coworkers reveals him as a man of deep spiritual convictions, rich in that inner experience which betokens a close walk with God.  He was an ardent prohibitionist, and always willing to cooperate with the various agencies which worked for the overthrow of the liquor traffic.  His great reverence for the Sabbath, and faithful observances of it in pioneer fields no doubt wielded a silent influence even among those who had not learned this lesson in their personal lives. The last years of his life were spent quietly in Portland at the home of his daughter.  After a long consistent life of faithful service he has been called to his heavenly home, where the crown of glory is now his reward.
• R.J. Ginn received word Monday of the death of her elder sister, Mrs. Agnes Smiley, at her home at College Springs, Iowa. The message stated that she suffered attack of hemorrhage of the brain while at the supper table Saturday evening and that she passed away shortly before noon on Sunday.
• Word was received Late Thursday evening that Huge McIntyre had met death that afternoon in an auto accident near Pendleton. McIntyre left Moro Thursday morning, driving a Ford car.  It is presumed that he got out of control in soft gravel, through his not being familiar with that type of auto.  He had rented his place near Moro to his son and was moving back to his old home at Athena, Umatilla county.

November 2, 1923

November 9, 1923

November 16, 1923

• Mary Seymour, the last of the Wasco tribe of Indians, which once inhabited the basin where The Dalles is now located, and from which Wasco county was named, died at The Dalles at the age of 113 years.
• Zell, father of C. M. Zell, proprietor of Zell’s Funeral Home, died at his home in Prineville Monday. At the time of his passing, Mr. Zell was more than 90 years of age.

November 23, 1923

• G. Flett, well known pioneer of eastern Oregon, died at his homestead on Rock creek, 16 miles from Condon, at the age of 81 years.

November 30, 1923

December 7, 1923

December 14, 1923

• In Memorium. L. Evans passed away at his home south of Moro Thursday morning about 2 a.m.  Immediate cause of death is reported to be dropsy, following a siege of pneumonia.  For many years Mr. Evans farmed the Allison place near DeMoss, moving to the Frock place south of Moro about two years ago, he having bought the place at that time. Melford L. Evans was born in Mississippi in 1867, passed away at his home near Moro on December 13th, 1923, aged 56 years.  He leaves a wife; four sons and one daughter, Hershel, Worth, Douglas, and Melford, Jr., and Mrs. Edna Arnold, all of Moro; two sisters residing in Texas; three brothers, two residing in Texas and one in California. Funeral services were held at 11 o’clock on December 14th, from the Methodist church, under the direction of Zell’s Funeral Home, Rev. U.C. Smothers officiating.  Interment was in the IOOF cemetery at Moro.
• A large number of Sherman county friends of the family will be sorry to learn of the death of Ray Gardner at the hospital at Bend, Oregon, on December 5th. Gardner was a brother of Miss Gardner, a former employee of the Bank of Moro, and had large farming interests near Culver.  Mr. Gardner will be greatly missed by the folks of the summer homes at Camp Sherman.  He made the acquaintance of a large number of local people through furnishing the music for the Martin Hansen and L.L. Peetz parties, as well as other social affairs put on by the camp.

December 21, 1923

December 28, 1923

• Stiers Dies on Christmas Day. Mrs. Margaret Stiers passed away on Christmas day at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Robert Eslinger, west of Grass Valley, at the advanced age of 78 years, 2 months and 14 days. Funeral services were held from the Baptist church at Grass Valley Thursday, under the direction of Crandal Undertaking Company, Rev. W.L. Dillinger, of DeMoss, preaching the sermon. Mrs. Stiers was born in Mayfield, Benton county, Kentucky, October 11th, 1845.  At an early age she, with the family, moved to Illinois, where at a later age she married.  She then moved to Texas and from there to Missouri, where she lived more than 23 years until she and her husband moved to Sherman county 24 years ago.  Since the death of her husband, 20 years ago, she has made her home with her daughter.  She is the mother of four children, of whom but one is now living.  She was a member of the Christian church for 54 years.  During the world war, at the age of 70, she showed her patriotism by knitting 113 pairs of sox for the soldiers.

January 4, 1924

• B. Crosfield Killed by Street Car. John B. Crosfield, age 80, was hit and knocked to the pavement by a west bound Montavilla street car at East 30th and Glisan street Monday night in Portland, death following from a fractured skull as he was being taken to the hospital.  Funeral services were held Thursday noon with interment at Riverview cemetery. John B. Crosfield was the father of George N. Crosfield of Wasco.  He is survived by three children:  Mrs. C.V. Cooper, Charles W. Crosfield and George N. Crosfield; five grandchildren:  Mrs. Jess Sexton, George N. Crosfield, Jr., Charles W. Crosfield, Jr., Dorothy Ariss, Mrs. H.A. George, and a great grandson, Newton Ladrue Crosfield.

January 11, 1924

• Wasco Farmer Accidentally Killed. Milton O. Howell,  55 years old, a farmer living east of Wasco, was accidently shot and killed Monday morning, the accident occurring in a woodshed in the rear of the family home. No one saw the accident and an investigation of the shot, which was plainly heard, was not made for several minutes owing to the fact that Mr. Howell had left the house with the intention of shooting some rats in the woodshed. How the accident occurred may never be known, other than that the shot struck Mr. Howell on the right side of the neck and entered the lower part of the head.  Death was said to have been instantaneous. Funeral services was held Wednesday afternoon from the Methodist church at Wasco under the direction of the Crandall Undertaking company. About five months ago, in the parlors of the Hotel Moro, Mr. Howell was married to Mrs. George Hilderbrand who, with her eight children, survive him.
• Funeral services for Miss Beulah L. McMillan who died in Portland last week was held Sunday afternoon at Wasco at the Christian church, under the direction of Crandal Undertaking company. Miss McMillan was 19 years of age and the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward McMillan of Wasco.  She is survived by a sister, Mrs. Edward Tomlin of Portland, and two brothers, Chester McMillan of Arlington, and Lawrence McMillan of Wasco.

January 18, 1924

• Death Calls William I. Westerfield. William I. Westerfield, editor of the Grass Valley Journal for 26 years, died suddenly at his home in that city at about 6:30 o’clock Sunday evening, January 14th, from acute dilation of the heart. He had been complaining for three or four days of a sharp pain in his chest and upon his return home Sunday evening went to bed, asking Mrs. Westerfield to bring him a glass of water before leaving for church.  This she did, but stayed at home.  Sitting in the room under that occupied by Mr. Westerfield, she heard an unusual sound, went to him and found him unconscious.  Upon her return from going to a neighboring home for help, Mr. Westerfield was found dead in his bed. The funeral services were held Friday morning at the city auditorium in Grass Valley under the direction of the Crandall Undertaking company.  Following the service the funeral party departed for The Dalles where train was taken for Portland, interment being in a cemetery in that city by the side of his daughter.   Westerfield is survived by his widow; two daughters, Alvena and Neva, living in Los Angeles, California; a son, Floyd, engaged in the newspaper business at Springfield, Oregon; two brothers, George H. and Alexander B.  All members of the immediate family were able to be present at the funeral. Mr. Westerfield came to Sherman county in 1897 from his former family home at Lafayette, in Yamhill county.  He has a brother engaged in the printing business at McMinnville, in the same county.

January 25, 1924

 

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Sherman County Observer

Moro, Sherman County, Oregon

 

The following are the death notices and obituaries contained within the pages of the Sherman County Observer, on the microfilm roll containing the issues from February 1, 1924 to February 21, 1930.

 

February 1, 1924

February 8, 1924

• John T. Williams, former resident of Sherman county and farmer east of Moro, died Sunday at his home in the province of Alberta, Canada, according to advises received that day by relatives. Deceased will be returned to this state for interment at The Dalles.  D.A. Maxwell, formerly of this city, is a sister of Mr. Williams.

February 15, 1924

February 22, 1924

• Children Injured by Dynamite Caps. Orville and Elinora Nunn, aged nine and seven years respectively, were seriously injured Monday afternoon at Klondike while playing with a box of dynamite caps they had found in an old barn. The girl had both eyes blown out, her left hand blown off and her body riddled with particles of the caps.  The boy is less hurt and has a chance for recovery altho he may lose both eyes.  The girl died Monday afternoon, funeral services being held Tuesday afternoon from the Christian church at Wasco with interment following at Grass Valley. Mrs. Nunn, mother of the children, chanced to be in the office of Dr. Morse when the children were brought in and watched physicians remove them from the automobile, unaware that they were hers until she heard their names mentioned.  Nunn is an employee of the railway company and was at work on the section when the accident occurred. [Eleanore Conway Nunn]
• Albert Allen Mersinger, aged 50 years, passed away this week at Wasco, death being caused by pneumonia. Mersinger was a wheat warehouse man, was unmarried, and had lived in Sherman county for the past fifteen years.  Surviving him are four brothers and one sister:  John and Earl Mersinger of Los Angeles, California, Clarence Mersinger, of Kent, William Mersinger, of Bend, and Mrs. C. W. Nish, of Olex.  Funeral services was held at Wasco Friday under the direction of Crandall Undertaking company.

February 29, 1924

• Frank A. Sayrs, one of the most widely known pioneer retired farmers of Sherman county, died at the family home in this city at 5:30 p.m. Thursday evening. Funeral services will be held at the Methodist church at 11 a.m. Saturday, interment following at Moro cemetery in charge of the IOOF lodge.

March 7, 1924

• Death of F.A. Sayrs Ends Active Career of Pioneer. Francis Alroy Sayrs was born at Corvallis, Benton county, Oregon, on August 10th, 1856, and passed away at his home in Moro, Oregon, on February 28th, 1924, being 67 years 6 months and 18 days of age. He was married to Emma J. Powell February 22, 1879, at Prineville, Oregon, where they lived until the fall of 1883 when they moved to Sherman county, settling on a farm three miles west of Moro and which has since been known as the Sayrs farm.  It was here that Mr. and Mrs. Sayrs first knew the hardships of pioneer life and it is here that their family of boys and girls grew to young man and womanhood, all of whom were at his bedside when he was called to rest. About the year 1908 Mr. Sayrs retired from active farm service and has since resided in the city of Moro.  During his lifetime he has seen the old style frontier dwindle and fade into active cosmopolitan localities.  He has seen the interior section of Oregon gradually change from a stock county into the wheat growing empire of the present day.  The change of conditions he witnessed can be best be expressed by the   that when he lived at Prineville it was a journey of weeks to freight goods into that section from The Dalles where now it is done by railroad and automobile in comparatively a few hours. He was active in community and lodge affairs, being a member of Moro lodge IOOF for 27 years, Moro lodge Woodman of the World for 24 years, a member of the city council for 24 years and a member of the board of directors of Moro school district for nearly 30 years. Besides his life companion he is survived by four daughters, Mrs. R.T. Morgan and Mrs. C.R. Axtell of Moro, Mrs. W.A. Morgan of Condon, Mrs. E.A. Race of Mosier; two sons, Omer G. Sayrs and Carroll T. Sayrs of Moro; twenty-one grandchildren, one great grandchild, two sisters, and a host of relatives and friends to mourn his loss.

March 14, 1924

March 21, 1924

March 28, 1924

April 4, 1924

April 11, 1924

• J. Schaeffer returned Sunday from a visit of several weeks at Amhurst, Ohio, undertaken shortly after the first of the year when word was received by him of the serious illness of his brother, R.C. Schaffer, who passed away at his home on February 22d.

April 18, 1924

April 25, 1924

• Herman Reckman, son of Dick Reckman of Grass Valley, passed away at the family home near that city on Tuesday, April 22d, from complications caused by cancer of the stomach. Funeral services were held on Thursday from the Methodist church at Grass Valley, Rev. U.C. Smothers, of this city, conducting the service.  [Reckmann]

May 2, 1924

• Friends of the family in this city received word last week that E. Sheets had passed away at Spokane late Tuesday evening. Funeral services were conducted last Friday.  The family has a large circle of friends and acquaintances in Sherman county who sympathize with them in their trouble.  Mr. Sheets and family were former residents of this city, he having been in charge of the city gas engine light and water plant for a number of years.  It was largely due to his efficient upkeep of the plant that only once during his term of engineering did the lights fail to come on at the anticipated time and that was caused by his enforced absence for duty because of a broken oil feed line on his automobile when returning from a trip to The Dalles over the deeply rutted rocky road used at that time.

May 9, 1924

• Pioneer Sherman County Resident Answers Final Roll Call. Ophelia Anderson, well known in Sherman county through a residence of many years, passed away at the home of her daughter at Silverton, Oregon, Thursday evening, May 1st, the call coming to the family suddenly. Mrs. Anderson was one of the few yet with us who knew the hardships of pioneer farm life in what is now Sherman county.  For many years the family lived east of Moro in the Hay canyon district, later moving to Moro.  Funeral services were held in this city last Saturday afternoon, interment being in the IOOF cemetery at Moro. Mrs. Anderson was 69 years of age and was the mother of Mrs. L.D. Idleman of Salem, Mrs. C.L. Stamey of Silverton, and Mrs. A.S. Johnson of this city.  Mr. Anderson passed away in this city 25 years ago. Her surviving brothers are Thomas R. Hampton, F.M. Hampton, of Pendleton, and D.M. Hampton, of Monmouth, father of A.C. Hampton, former principal of Moro schools now city superintendent of schools in La Grande.  Surviving sisters are Mrs. J.J. Martin of Pomeroy, Washington, Mrs. E.A. Hoskinson, of Kent, Oregon, and Mrs. J.H. Brown, of Oswego.  The eldest sister, Mrs. M.L. Ragsdale, of this city, passed away last year as did also Mrs. L.D. Eaton, of Kent, this county.
• Funeral services for Mrs. Elizabeth Hiles of Grass Valley, who died in The Dalles on April 30th, were held in Grass Valley last Saturday from the Methodist church, Rev. U.C. Smothers of this city preaching the sermon. Hiles was 85 years old and the mother of Mrs. J.M. Marlin and grandmother of Mrs. W.L. Dillinger and V.B. and Dell Eakin.

May 16, 1924

• Kent News Items. Miss Ross received word Saturday that her grandfather had died at Albany.
• Word has been received that Mrs. Sarah Trotter, a former old time resident of this district, died April 30th at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Mamie Spears.
• William Doering, 14, died from burns suffered when his steel fishing rod came into contact with a high-tension wire near the White River power plant in southern Wasco county.

May 23, 1924

• Catherine Patjens died in Portland at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Morris Holman, on May 15th and was buried Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock at Grass Valley. Mrs. Patjens formerly lived at Kent.  She is survived by four daughters and one son:  Mrs. Anna Holman of Portland, Mrs. Tom Smith of Yakima, Mrs. John Schassen of The Dalles, Mrs. Elizabeth Strange of Portland and John Patjens of Kent.
• Fred D. Peterson died at the home of his son, Leo E. Peterson, at the Powell farm west of Moro Thursday morning, May 22nd, after an illness of several months. Funeral services were in charge of Zell’s Funeral Home, interment being at Mount Vernon cemetery near Corvallis.  Deceased was a native of Sweden, coming to this country in 1910.  Surviving him are his widow, Mrs. Lillian Peterson; their son, Leo E. Peterson, of this city and a daughter, Mrs. Helen Goodrich of Portland.

May 30, 1924

June 6, 1924

June 13, 1924

• Word was received in this city on Tuesday of the sudden death of M.L. Evans of this city, at Hoquiam, Washington, where she was visiting with her daughter.  Funeral services will be held on Thursday, after arrival of the afternoon train, at the Methodist church.  [Minnie H.]

June 20, 1924

• In Memorium. Minnie Hirsh Evans was born in Dover, Tennessee, March 20th, 1861, and died at Hoquiam, Washington, Tuesday morning, June 10th, 1924, at the age of 53 years 2 months and 20 days.  She was married to Melford Evans in the year of 1890.  He also departed this life December 13th, 1923.  There are five children to mourn her loss: Mrs. Edna Arnold, Hoquiam, Washington.  Herschall, Worth and Douglas Evans, of Moro and Melford Evans of San Diego, California.  There are seven grandchildren. Mrs. Evans has been a resident of this vicinity for the past twenty years and leaves many friends.

June 27, 1924

• John McClure, formerly resident of this city who has been living at The Dalles the past few years, died in that city at 11:20 o’clock Wednesday morning. Funeral services will be held at Zell’s Funeral Home at The Dalles at 10:30 o’clock Friday morning, Rev. H.G. Hanson, of this city, conducting the services.  Interment will be in the IOOF cemetery The Dalles.
• Calvin Haynes passed away at the family home in this city on Monday, June 23d, aged 91 years 6 months 14 days. He was born in Delaware county, New York, December 9th, 1832.  The family moved from that state to Illinois in 1850 where in 1868 he married Mary Murry, who died in Illinois in 1885.  Later, Mr. Haynes moved to Iowa and came from there to Sherman county in 1903.  Four children survive, Fred Haynes of Kent; Frank Haynes of McMinnville; Oscar W. Haynes of Yamhill, and Mrs. Lulu M. McLean of Portland.  Funeral services were conducted at the church on Wednesday morning by Rev. U.C. Smothers, pastor of the Methodist church at Moro, of which denomination Mr. Haynes was a lifelong member.  Following the service the remains were taken by train to Rochelle, Illinois, to be placed beside his wife.  Fred Haynes accompanied the remains on their last journey.

July 4, 1924

• Word was received in this city on Monday of the unexpected death in Portland that morning of Claud May of Wasco, aged 40 years. Deceased is reported to have been suffering from tubercular trouble for some months.  He was a member of The Dalles Elks lodge and of the Knights of Pythias of Wasco.  The latter lodge conducted the funeral services at Wasco on Wednesday afternoon, under the direction of the Crandall Undertaking company.  May is survived by his mother, two sisters, his wife and two children. [Claude Olney May]
• Francis Marion Blagg, 16 year old son of Jas. Blagg, living near Grass Valley, died at Forest Grove on Friday, June 27th. Funeral services were held at Grass Valley last Sunday, Rev. W.L. Dillinger conducting the service from the Methodist church.
• Young Gilliam County Man Meets Death in John Day River Sunday. Word wads received in this city on Monday morning of the accidental death by drowning of Lee Johnson Sunday afternoon in the John Day river near the Gibson farm close to the Cottonwood bridge crossing.  Deceased was 20 years old, a son of Heath Johnson, living near Mikkalo, and a cousin of C.E. Johnson and Mrs. A.S. Johnson of this city.  The young man’s mother will be remembered by many residents of this county as Hester Clark, daughter of F.E. Clark formerly living near Grass Valley. As near as can be determined the accident was the result of a dive into comparatively shallow water, the family having driven to the river after having had Sunday dinner at their home.  It was noted at the time that the boy had landed in shallow water, but he appeared all right. Suddenly he was seen to turn and headed towards the center of the river, then he held his hands over his head and sank from sight.  Body bruises on his head, face, chest and stomach corroborate the theory of internal injury received in the dive. Funeral services were held on Tuesday afternoon from the grange hall south of Mikkalo, interment being in the cemetery at Ajax, in Gilliam county.

July 11, 1924

July 25, 1924

• In Memorium. Thomas VanLandingham, aged 74 years, passed away Sunday evening at his home in Grass Valley.  He is survived by his wife, two sons, one daughter, a sister and three brothers.  VanLandingham is one of the pioneers of Sherman county, coming here in the ’80s.  For a number of years he owned land east of Grass Valley in the Rutledge district, later moving to Grass Valley where he has resided for some time.  Funeral services were held at Grass Valley, under direction of the Zell Funeral home on Thursday afternoon from the Methodist church, Rev. U.C. Smothers, of this city, conducting the service.
• Following an illness of two and a half months, Issac Thompson passed away at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Neil McDonald in Hay canyon, Tuesday morning, 89 years 10 months and 2 days. At the time of his death Mr. Thompson was one of the three surviving veterans of the civil war residing in Sherman county.  He was a member and, at the time of his death, commander of W.T. Sherman post G.A.R. of Sherman county, Oregon.  Funeral services was held at the family home on Wednesday afternoon, Rev. U.C. Smothers, of this city, conducting the service under direction of the Zell Funeral home.  Interment was in Rose cemetery in Hay canyon. Deceased was born in Harrison county, Ohio, on September 20th, 1834.  He was united in marriage to Mary A. Easly May 22nd, 1856, who departed this life at Trout Lake, Washington, on March 4th, 1909.  Eight children were born to this union, four of whom have passed to the great beyond as follows: Sarah E., Florence E., Richard E., and Vincent G.  Surviving children are Elwood, residing at Oregon City; Jess B., residing at Milwaukie, Oregon; Bertha A. McDonald, residing at Moro; Aaron, present address unknown, and 31 grandchildren and four great grandchildren. At the time of the civil war deceased enlisted in Company D, 151st regiment Illinois infantry, leaving the service at the close of the war.  He was converted and joined the Presbyterian church in Illinois and later, when he moved to Oregon in 1896, transferred this membership to Moro Presbyterian church, of which he lived a consistent member until his death.  During his last illness of about two and a half months he bore his suffering with christian fortitude.

August 1, 1924

• Word was received last Wednesday evening from Hermiston that H. Belshee was accidently shot that afternoon, passing away in the early evening. Mr. Belshee was a brother of J.F. Belshee and father of Mrs. W.H. Ragsdale.  W.H. Ragsdale and wife, J.F. Belshee and wife and Roy Belshee left early Thursday morning for Hermiston.

August 8, 1924

• H. Belshee. Funeral services under direction of Zell Funeral Home, was held from the Presbyterian church in this city last Sunday afternoon in memory of Charles H. Belshee who died at his home in Hermiston the previous Wednesday from a shotgun wound near the heart received while hunting rats in his yard.  We are informed that, at the time of the accident, he was holding his gun in his left hand and trying to raise a board from off the walk around his house under which a rat he had wounded had run.  In lifting the board, his left hand discharged the gun, causing his death about two hours later.  The funeral service was conducted by the Rev. Henry G. Hanson, pastor of the Presbyterian church, who made a special trip from Portland to be present.  Interment was in the IOOF cemetery. Chas. H. Belshee was born March 26th, 1850, at Warsaw, Illinois.  He was married to Mary D. Sink on March 17th, 1870.  To this union was born nine children.  They moved to Sherman county, settling in Grass Valley canyon north of this place, in 1883.  They moved to California in 1900 where they remained until 1917 at which time they moved to Hermiston.  He united with the Presbyterian church at Monkland, this county, in 1893. Mr. Belshee died on Wednesday, July 30, 1924.  He is survived by his widow, six daughters, one son, eighteen grandchildren, and one brother.  Mrs. Warren Myers, Oakland, California; Mrs. Maud Collins, Chico, California; Mrs. W.H. Ragsdale, Moro, Oregon; Mrs. G.S. Vaughn, Berkeley, California; Mrs. C.J. Thorp, Sacramento, California; Mrs. J.L. Smith, Lemon Grove, California; G.B. Belshee, Los Angeles, California; Frank J. Belshee, Moro, Oregon.
• While using a shotgun to shoot rats on his ranch home in the Columbia district near Hermiston, Charles Becho [Belshee], 75, accidently killed himself.

August 15, 1924

• E. Jones Dies From Injuries Received in Automobile Accident. To have suffered a broken back, yet live to take care of her two small sons many be the happy aftermath of Mrs. Elizabeth Marquis of Centerville, Washington, who was seriously injured in an automobile accident east of the tunnel on the Columbia river highway near the Deschutes river last Thursday. Charles E. Jones, well known Sherman county farmer and businessman formerly living in and near Wasco, who was driving the car which upset at the bottom of a 20-foot grade pinning himself and three others beneath it, died Saturday as the results of internal injuries caused when his chest was crushed. Both of the two little sons of Mrs. Marquis will recover from their injuries; one having suffered a broken collar bone. Mrs. Marquis suffered a complete break in the back bone which made a slight pressure upon the spinal cord, enough to cause a state of paralysis.  Other injuries were not of sufficient extent to cause alarm. The accident was caused when the wind blew Mr. Jones’ hat from his head, and for which he made an impulsive grab, losing control of the steering wheel.  The car turned sharply to the right and went off the grade, tipping end over end and landing at the foot of the embankment upside down.  The boys crawled from beneath the wreckage and passing tourists lifted the prostrate forms of Mrs. Marquis and Mr. Jones, who were taken to the hospital in an ambulance.

August 22, 1924

• Oregon Pioneer Called Home. William W. Masiker, pioneer of 1853, died last week in Spokane.  Masiker was a half brother of A.J. Price and an uncle of L. Barnum and E.E. Barnum of The Dalles,  A.H. Barnum and Mrs. L.L. Peetz of this city.  He has numerous other relatives in Wasco and Sherman counties, and is survived also by two brothers, Carson C. Masiker of Maryhill, Washington and M.J. Masiker of Grants Pass, Oregon.  His wife survives also, as does his son, Walter Masiker of Spokane, and one daughter, Mrs. Frank Phelps of Los Angeles.  Mr. Masiker was born 76 years ago in King county, Ill., started across the plains in 1852, arriving in Oregon the following year.  He lived for a number of years on Fifteen Mile creek near Dufur, following his coming to Wasco county in 1862.  In 1870, he went to Grant county, and later to Columbus, Washington, now Maryhill, where he was married, in 1877, to Miss Laura Henderson.  Funeral services for Mr. Masiker were held at Maryhill, Washington, last Sunday, A.H. Barnum and wife attending the services from this city.

August 29, 1924

• John Dunn. Word was received in this city late Monday that John Dunn had passed away in Portland that evening.  Funeral services were held at Grass Valley on Wednesday afternoon, under direction of the Crandall Undertaking company, by IOOF lodges of Wasco, Grass Valley and Moro, Mr. Dunn being a member of the last named lodge.  John Dunn was formerly a resident of Grass Valley, coming to that place from Lafayette, Yamhill county, in 1897.  He was a blacksmith by trade and for a number of years operated a shop at Grass Valley, which he sold some years ago and moved to a small farm on the John Day river.  He was a resident of this city until about a year ago, since which time he has made his home in Portland. At the time of his death, Mr. Dunn was past 75 years old, having arrived at that age on January 7th, 1924.  Surviving him are: three sons, Ray Dunn, of Cisco, California, Ralph and Earl Dunn, of Bend, Oregon; a grandson, Hildred Zell, of The Dalles; one brother, B.W. Dunn, of Grass Valley; two sisters, Mrs. L. McVicker, of Portland, and Mrs. Emma Lee, of San Francisco; one brother-in-law, Monroe Messinger, of Portland. Immediate cause of death was leakage of the heart, induced in part by high blood pressure.  His last sickness was of less than two week’s duration, having been affected by an attack of heart failure while taking a bath at his home in Portland on Saturday, August 16th.

September 5, 1924

September 12, 1924

• Funeral services was held at Wasco last Friday for J. Gilmore, aged 75 years, who died at the home of his sister at Hood River last week. Mrs. John Fulton, residing west of Wasco, is a sister of Mr Gilmore.

September 19, 1924

September 26, 1924

• Funeral Services Held Wednesday at Moro Honor of Otto Peetz. Attendance of Friends From State-Wide Districts Tax Capacity of Building to Limit. Wednesday, September 24th, was a day of sorrow throughout all Sherman county.  On that day more than one thousand neighbors and friends, among whom were numbered many friends from in and out of the state boundary lines, gathered at Moro to honor the memory of Otta Peetz and to attend the funeral services held in this city on that day. Because of its greater adaptability, the opera house was chosen as the place within which the service was held.  Taxed to its entire capacity, the building was not able to accommodate all who would attend the service.  Floral offering in profusion from county officials, lodges, societies, church and individual friends, banked the front of the stage from one side to the other, until all semblance of its usual appearance was lost among the flowers.  A special choir of eight voices sang at intervals during the service, to the soft toned music of a piano presided over by Mrs. Roy Kunsman.  Direction of the funeral was in charge of Zell’s Funeral Home.   The center of the auditorium was reserved for members of the Rebecca and IOOF lodges, who had met at their lodge rooms and marched in a body to the hall.  All but a very few chairs in the center section was filled by members present from the several lodges in the county. The service was conducted by Rev. Henry G. Hanson, pastor of the Presbyterian church of this city.  He spoke of the mystery of untimely death, the taking away of friends and companions when their need and presence is most helpful.  He said the mystery of death had not yet been solved, probably never would be solved. Rev. Hanson spoke about the personal integrity of Otto Peetz, his deep sense of responsibility for any trust reposed in him; he spoke about his home loyalty, always thoughtful for those near and dear to him and also of his neighbors and friends.  Home loyalty went farther than this with Otto Peetz, he always in every way possible upheld and sought to improve conditions and growth in his home town and in the county at large.  Lastly Rev. Hanson spoke of the unassuming goodness of Otto Peetz, never permitting his left hand to know what his right hand was doing, performing acts of kindness whenever possible without thought of personal reward and many times without personal benefit to himself. Following the service the funeral cortege was escorted to the cemetery by the Odd Fellow and Rebekah lodges in regalia, followed by friends and neighbors in automobiles, the longest funeral escort ever seen in Sherman county.  The hearse, escorted by the six pallbearers, L. Barnum, O.L. Belshe, E.D. McKee, Geo. Hennagin, Martin Hansen and J.P. Yates was in sight of the cemetery before the last of the procession had gotten in line at the hall.  At the graveside the simple burial service of the IOOF lodge was held, Rev. B.L. Hicks, pastor of the Christian church at Wasco, acting as chaplain and Wiley Benefiel, noble grand of Sherman lodge of Wasco, responding. Otto Peetz was born in Douglas county, Minnesota, on March 16th, 1873, died in Portland, Oregon, September 21st, 1924, aged 51 years 6 months and 5 days.  He came to Sherman county with his parents in 1886 and has been a resident of Sherman county practically all of the time since.  In 1892 he went to Grant county, Oregon, where he conducted a sheep ranch until, in December, 1899, he returned to Sherman county. When about fifteen years of age he was severely injured by a horse falling upon him, the principal injury being confined to one of his legs.  In 1898 he suffered an attack of measles, which seriously affected this limb and three years later it became necessary to amputate it in order to save his life.  He remained under the care of physicians for a period of eleven months, three being passed in a hospital in Portland.  A number of operations were made in the endeavor to save the injured limb and twice following the amputation it was opened for the purpose of removing dead and decaying bone, which might have seriously affected his health. He moved to Kent in March, 1903, where he engaged in business and also secured land under the homestead act.  June, 1904, Otto Peetz was elected assessor of Sherman county, on the republican ticket.  Previous to this he had always been patriotically active in party work, but had never aspired to office; in fact his nomination came as a complete surprise to him; it having been made in the convention by acclamation. Otto Peetz has served his county as assessor continuously since his induction into office in July, 1904.  His untimely death can be truly imputed to the fact that he carried the burden of the office too hard; he died from overwork, the mental worry and anxiety to deal justly and impartially with his fellow men in the responsible position that was his. He was a member of the Odd Fellows and Rebekah lodges of this city and the Encampment degree of Odd Fellowship at Grass Valley.  He was a member of the Presbyterian church of this city, holding the office of trustee at the time of his death.  He was always genial and pleasant under many trying circumstances and will be missed in the home, in the church, the lodge, and at the court house. October 5, 1916, he married Margaret Whalley of Portland, and to this union two children were born, Thomas Benson and Carl Fredrick, the former having passed away at the age of one year in 1918. Deceased leaves a wife, Margaret Whalley Peetz and one son, Carl Fredrick, his aged mother, Mrs. Catherine Peetz of Moro and the following named sisters and brothers: Mrs. E.G. Messinger, of Wapato, Washington; Mrs. Robert Montgomery, of King Hill, Idaho; Mrs. O.C. Kirtley of Wasco; L.L. Peetz and H.F. Peetz, of Moro; Ben F. Peetz, of Eugene, besides other relatives and a host of friends, county-wide and state-wide to mourn his loss.

October 3, 1924

October 10, 1924

October 17, 1924

October 24, 1924

• Anson Tom, aged 65 years, died last Friday at The Dalles, from cancer in an advanced stage. Tom lived for many years at Rufus and is a brother of Chas. A. Tom of The Dalles and an uncle of Curtis Tom of Rufus, candidate for state representative.  C.L. Montgomery, of this city, was a relative of Mr. Tom by marriage.  [Anson S.]

October 31, 1924

November 7, 1924

• Cora M. Barnes, of this city, died at the hospital in The Dalles Wednesday evening at 10 o’clock. Immediate cause of death was convulsions brought on by kidney poisoning.  Mrs. Barnes suffered the first attack at 4 a.m. Wednesday morning, followed by other attacks until her death late that evening.

November 14, 1924

• The 15 year old son of J.M. Yocum, living near Klondike, was accidently shot in the left thigh while hunting on Monday. The effect of the shot shattered about two inches of the thigh bone and resulted fatally to the young man on Wednesday.  [Douglas Yocum]

November 21, 1924

• Virginia Ramey, widow of William Ramey, died Wednesday, November 12th, at the family home at Rufus after an illness of six weeks. Mrs. Ramey was 87 years of age and was a pioneer of Sherman county.  She came to Oregon more than 35 years ago from California and settled with her husband on a farm in Sherman county where she made her home until a few years ago.  Mrs. Ramey is survived by two daughters, Mrs. W.F. Bartholomew of Rufus, and Mrs. Ben Andrews of Wasco; and one son, George Ramey of Rufus.  Funeral services were held Friday morning at the grave in the Wasco cemetery, under the direction of the Crandall Undertaking company.
• George W. Davis. George Davis, living about ten miles southeast of Grass Valley died last Sunday morning at the family home.  Davis has been ailing for about two years, but had been in bed about a month, suffering from paralytic strokes and other complications.  The funeral took place Monday afternoon at the family home, in charge of Rev. Henry G. Hanson of the Presbyterian church of Moro.  Mrs. Roy Kunsman of Moro played while those present joined in the singing of appropriate hymns.  Interment took place at the Grass Valley cemetery. George W. Davis was born near Cedar Rapids, Iowa, October 27th, 1861.  He moved to New Castle, Nebraska, where he was united in marriage to Miss Susie Taylor.  To this union were born six children, Mrs. Allie Noyes, Mrs. Mary Owens, Lawrence Davis, Nicholas Davis, Joshua Davis, and Viva Davis, all of Grass Valley, Oregon.  He departed this life November 16th, 1924, at the age of 63 years and 19 days.  He leaves to mourn his loss beside the widow, six children, eight grandchildren, and many distant relatives and friends.

November 28, 1924

• Bernard Keenan, 84, a stage driver in early days, died at the family home in Biggs. Keenan crossed the plains to the gold fields of California in 1857.  In 1860 he followed the gold train to Boise, Idaho, where he drove stage until 1864, then removed to Walla Walla, where he continued his work, driving between Walla Walla and Pendleton.
• Funeral services for Mrs. Martha French, a former resident of Grass Valley who was killed in Portland last Wednesday by J.B. Mooney, who attempted suicide and is now convalescing in a Portland hospital, were held at Grass Valley last Friday afternoon. Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Mildred Plyer and Irene French of Portland; a sister, Mrs. John Hayes of Grass Valley, and a brother, Henry Clements, of Portland.   French was shot and killed by Mooney, who she had married and left, upon discovering that he already had a wife in the east.
• P. Anderson, better known to his large acquaintance in Sherman county as Shorty, was accidentally killed Thanksgiving afternoon when his car he was driving to The Dalles got into a tail spin just as it left the first overhead railroad crossing near Celilo. The car skidded completely around and went off the grade backwards between two fence panels, falling about fifty feet and turning over on top.  Mr. Anderson was pinned under the car by the steering wheel and received severe internal injuries from which he died about six o’clock the same evening.  Dr. M.F. Floyd, of this city, who was with Mr. Anderson, was not injured beyond a severe shaking up.  The car is reported to be badly wrecked, having turned over several times in its descent down the grade.  It was brought to Moro Friday by F.D. Flatt and A.M. Young in the Flatt auto dray.  [Hans P.]

December 5, 1924

• Douglas Yocum, 16, son of Mr. and Mrs. J.M. Yocum of Portland, died at Wasco from wounds resulting from the accidental discharge of a gun while hunting.
• Funeral services were held from the Presbyterian church in this city last Sunday afternoon in honor of P. Andersen, accidentally killed in an automobile accident on the Columbia highway on Thanksgiving day. Rev. Henry G. Hanson preached the sermon.  Mr. Andersen was a member of Moro lodge IOOF, Moro Rebekah lodge, and Chris Schultz post American Legion of this city.  Members of these orders attended the funeral in regalia and uniform, the Legion post supplying a guard of honor to escort the remains to the church and from there to the cemetery.  Knowledge of the family ties of the deceased are indefinite.  It is thought that a mother, sister and brother survive him, all of whom are   (believed) to live in Denmark.
• Agnes Brisbane, wife of S.P. Brisbane of this city, died Sunday morning at the family home following an illness of several months. The deceased was taken to her former home at Hillsboro, Oregon, where funeral services were conducted.  Mrs. Brisbane was 71 years of age and had lived in Moro for 12 years.  She was born in Davenport, Iowa, January 23, 1853, coming to Oregon in April, 1871.  She leaves to mourn her loss, her husband; one daughter, Mrs. S.E. Hoover; one granddaughter, Orel Hoover; two brothers, J.H. Fleming, Independence, Oregon, and Robert Fleming, Albuquerque, New Mexico; one half sister, Lettie Howdishell, Golden City, Missouri; besides many others who found in her a kind neighbor and a sincere christian friend.

December 12, 1924

• Deniza Fagan, 65 years old, died Sunday morning at the family home near The Dalles, after a lingering illness. Surviving are her husband, Peter C. Fagan; three sons, F.E. Fagan of Woodburn;  W.G. Fagan and Hugh Fagan of The Dalles; a sister, Mrs. Dellah Wilkerson, and a brother, A.S. Fox, both of The Dalles.  Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon from the Zell chapel, Rev. John L. Bogue officiating.

December 19, 1924

• Two Sherman County Pioneer Men Pass From This Life Past Week. R. Howell, known to a large circle of Sherman county friends, passed away at his home in Wasco late Sunday afternoon following a brief illness, altho he had been ailing for some time. At the time of his death Mr. Howell was aged 78 years and 2 months.  Funeral services were held at Wasco on Tuesday afternoon under the auspices of the IOOF lodge at the church and the Masonic lodge at the cemetery.  Interment was in the Wasco cemetery.
• John H. Schassen, 62 year old pioneer farmer of Sherman county, of late years a resident of The Dalles, died at the family residence in that city Saturday evening, following a sudden attack of heart failure while down town the preceding Thursday. Mr. Schassen was born in Hanover, Germany, coming to the Untied States and to Sherman county when a young man. He homesteaded a farm near Kent which later formed a nucleus for a land holding of about 1000 acres.  Two years after locating in Sherman county, in 1886, he married Margaret Patjens who, also, was born in Hanover, Germany. Funeral services were held in The Dalles on Tuesday afternoon.  W.I. Eck, pastor of the English Lutheran church of that city, conducted the service at the church and the Elks’ lodge of that city conducted the service at the grace.  Interment was in the IOOF cemetery. Deceased leaves a widow; one son, John A., of Kent, and five daughters, Mrs. Emma Davis and Mrs. Ann Clark, residing at Kent, and Lillian, Minna and Hilda, residing at The Dalles.
• Nick Eby, 18 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. N.K. Eby, who reside in West Sutherlin, was kicked to death by a horse when placing feed in the animal’s stall.

December 26, 1924

• Commander Fred M. Perkins, gunnery officer of the battle fleet, who was injured in a crash of his seaplane at San Pedro, California, December 15th, died at the naval hospital in that city on Tuesday morning. He suffered a puncture of the left lung and a broken leg in the accident and subsequently contracted double pneumonia.  Commander Perkins was rated by naval heads as one of the nation’s foremost experts on gunnery, firing and armor.  The plane, in which he was a passenger, had been catapulted from the United States battleship California, had made a successful flight and was returning to the ship when it went into a spin and crashed.  Commander Perkins is a son of Mr. and Mrs. W.T. Perkins of Portland.  Miss Dorothy Perkins, teacher of the 3rd and 4th grades in Moro schools, is a sister.

January 2, 1925 Missing

January 9, 1925

January 16, 1925

• P. McMillian, formerly a resident of Wasco and a member of a pioneer family of Sherman county, died last week in California, according to word received in this city last Monday. Funeral services were held at Wasco Monday afternoon, directed by the Crandall Undertaking company.  Mr. McMillian had made his home in Portland for a number of years.  [James P.]

January 23, 1925

• R.A. Stow of Grass Valley passed away the morning of January 15th at a hospital in Portland following a recent operation. To the many friends of the family this sad news came very unexpectedly as word had been received that she was doing nicely.

January 30, 1925

February 6, 1925

• M.W. Armstrong received word late Friday evening of the death of her sister in Portland.
• George Howell has received word of the death of her father at Battleground, Washington.
• B.F. Ireland arrived home on Monday stage from Walla Walla, Washington, where she had been at the bedside of her mother, Mrs. C.P. Woodruff, who passed away on Tuesday of last week.
• William A. Johnston, known to practically every farmer in Sherman county as “W.A.” died suddenly at his home in The Dalles last Saturday. He was a member of all lodges in both the York and Scottish rite freemasonry and a prominent member of the Elks lodge.  Unknown to his friends he was under medical attention for several months, as a sufferer from stomach and heart trouble.  Funeral services were held on Monday under auspieces of the Masonic lodges.

February 13, 1925

• Saturday last, O.A. Ramsey received word of the death of his mother at the family home in Richland, Iowa, at the advanced age of 84 years. Deceased was also a sister of Wm. Lawson, who has been a visitor here from his home in Heppner.

February 20, 1925

• Samuel Bates, 73 years and 6 months old, a retired farmer of Grass Valley, died at the family home in that city Friday night of pneumonia. The remains was taken to Vancouver, Washington, where funeral services were held.  The deceased had been a resident of Grass Valley for the last 35 years and is survived by the widow, Mrs. Elizabeth Jane Bates; two daughters, Mrs. L.G. Stafford of Portland and Mrs. William Fish of Vancouver, Washington; one son, William S. Bates of Monette, Washington; 13 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.  Bates had been ill but a few days.  He was born July 22, 1851, in Ohio and came west as a young man.

February 27, 1925

• Katherine Orr, aged 66 years, passed away at the family residence in Portland last Wednesday. Funeral services were held from the Millard avenue Presbyterian church on February 21st, interment being at Mount Scott cemetery.  Mrs. Orr is the wife of R.P. Orr former resident farmer north of Wasco and is the mother of Mrs. Sadie Orr Dunbar, prominent in women’s club work in the state of Oregon as well as national affairs.
• R. Barzee and wife were called to Prineville Thursday by receipt of word of the death of Mrs. Boone, sister of Mrs. J.J. Schaeffer, and aunt of Mrs. Barzee. J.J. Schaeffer and wife have been at Prineville the past several weeks.

March 6, 1925

March 13, 1925

• Mary Crandall, 69 years old, died the evening of March 3rd at the home of her brother, Frank Payne, in Sorosis park, The Dalles. Surviving are the brother and one nephew, Ben Payne, of Grass Valley.  Funeral services were held Friday at Grass Valley, Rev. B.H. Kenyon officiating.  Interment was under the direction of the Zell funeral home.
• Miss Virginia West, teacher in the public school at Grass Valley, was called to Portland last Friday by the news of the death of her grandmother.
• E. Hammond, prominent civil engineer, died in San Francisco last Saturday aged 70 years. Mr. Hammond had charge of construction of the Columbia Southern railway when the line was built from Biggs to Shaniko.  Later the road was purchased by the O. W. R. & N. company.  Mr. Hammond came to Oregon in 188- from North Dakota, moving to California about five years ago.

March 20, 1925

• Allen R. Graham, 70 year old last September, recent months a farmer at Centerville, Wash., died at that place last week. Funeral services were held in The Dalles and interment at the IOOF cemetery, Rev. W.I. Eck officiating.  The deceased was the father-in-law of Mrs. L. Grimes, former resident of Moro and Wasco and was predeceased by his wife many years ago.  Pallbearers at the funeral were Frank Watts, Henry Cramer, N.H. Martin, George Wedekind, Grant Morgan and John Thompson.
• E. Morrow and wife were in The Dalles Friday to attend the funeral of the infant son of Mr and Mrs George Murray of that city. [George Byron  –  d. 12 March 1925   s/o George I. and Mabel I. (Morrow) Murray; grandson of Harry E. and Nora F.(Root) Morrow.]

March 27, 1925

April 3, 1925

• N. Milliard, 76 years old, a resident of Rufus, Oregon, district for 25 years, died in a hospital at The Dalles Tuesday evening. For some years Mr. Milliard has been in poor health and had been living with his son, Bruce Milliard, also a resident of the Rufus district.  Mr. Milliard is survived by two sons: Bruce Milliard of Rufus, and H.N. Milliard of Eugene. [Millard]

April 10, 1925

April 17, 1925

• Funeral services were held at Wasco on Tuesday morning of this week for Mrs. Irene McMillin, wife of Edw. Tomlin, who died at Portland on Friday, April 10th.

April 24, 1925

• Former Wasco Boy Killed in Mill Accident. John Elwood Lamborn, son of Will L. Lamborn, former resident of Wasco now residing at The Dalles, was instantly killed in a sawmill accident in Tillamook county on April 16th.  Deceased was a graduate of Wasco and The Dalles high schools and of the Oregon Agricultural college.  He was an ex-service man with a record of 14 months with the American expeditionary forces in France.  His father and two brothers, Clarence and Frank, survive him. Funeral services were held at the Methodist church in Wasco last Sunday afternoon followed by military honors at the graveside in charge of the American Legion.  Pallbearers were ex-service men of the American Legion, while the color guard, bugler and firing party were composed of legionnaires and members of Company H, national guard unit of The Dalles.
• Emma A. Walker, 69 years old, formerly a resident of Sherman county died in Portland last Friday from an attack of heart trouble. Funeral services were held at the Methodist church in Wasco on Monday afternoon, interment being in the cemetery at Wasco.  Mrs. Walker is survived by two sons, Lester W. and W.C.; three daughters, Mrs. Eugene McMillin, Mrs. May McMillian, and Mrs. Belle Fulton; ten grandchildren, and three great grandchildren.
• L. Freeman, brother of J.C. Freeman of this city, died last Monday at his home near Terrebonne, leaving a widow and five children.  Funeral services in charge of the Bend lodge of Elks will be held next Sunday at Terrebonne, the deceased being a member of the Elks lodge of Wallace, Idaho.  His work as a miner at Wallace was indirectly the cause of this death because of the rock dust inhaled into his lungs which after many years, formed an abscess when he contracted pneumonia.

May 1, 1925

May 8, 1925

• Nancy Walter, aged 88 years, died at her home at Kent, last Friday. The body, in charge of the Zell funeral home, was sent to Panora, Iowa for burial.  Mrs. Walter is survived by a son and daughter, both of whom live at Kent.
• A. Buckley Dies Monday Eve at Portland. Colonel Chas. A. Buckley, prominent sheep man, farmer and business man of Sherman county, died Monday night in Portland following an operation for stomach trouble.  He had been visiting the Buckley farm, southwest of Grass Valley, where he became suddenly ill last Friday and was taken to Portland the following day in an invalid car.  Surviving him are his widow and son Conklin.  Funeral services were held in Portland this Friday.  Mr. Buckley came to Sherman county in 1883, first engaging in the sheep business and later becoming identified with all phases of progressive farming.  He was keenly interested in the growth and prosperity of Sherman county and could always be counted on to do everything possible to further the interests of this section of his adopted state.

May 15, 1925

• Death Calls at Two Moro Homes Last Week. Wm. [Rachel] Morrison died at the hospital in The Dalles last Saturday following an illness of many months.  Funeral services were held in that city on Tuesday afternoon, Rev. H.G. Hanson of Moro Presbyterian church preaching the sermon followed by a service by the Eastern Star lodge of Moro at the graveside and interment in the IOOF cemetery at The Dalles.  ——
• E.E. Helyer died suddenly at her home in Moro last Sunday night from acute heart trouble. Funeral services were held Tuesday morning at Moro Methodist church Mrs. R.A. Feenstra preaching the sermon, after which deceased was taken to McMinnville for interment.  [Elizabeth E.]

May 22, 1925

May 29, 1925

June 5, 1925

• Carmen Brisbine, seven year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R.P. Brisbine of this city, died at the family home Monday noon of this week. Funeral services were held at the Presbyterian church Wednesday afternoon, Rev. H.G. Hanson conducting the service.  Four Moro girls acted as pall bearers.  Funeral arrangements were in charge of the Crandall Undertaking company, interment being in Moro cemetery.  [Carmen Elaine]
• J.F. Foss received word Thursday of the death of her uncle, A.D. McDonald, at the family home in Spokane that afternoon. The family accompanied by Mrs. McCallum, sister of Mrs. McDonald, left Friday afternoon by motor for Spokane where they will attend the funeral services to held in that city Saturday.  Mr. McDonald formerly lived in Sherman county, he having been one of the pioneer farmer settlers of this section.

June 12, 1925

• Former Moro Resident Dies at Camas, Wash. — Word was received Sunday in Moro of the death that morning of K. Cochran at the family home in Camas, Washington.  Funeral services were held in that city Wednesday afternoon, attended from Moro by Roy Powell and wife, W.S. Powell and wife, E.H. Moore and wife, Collis Moore and wife, J.W. Cochran and wife, Mrs. E.J. Powell and Chas. L. Powell and wife of Portland. C.K. Cochran was a former resident of Moro and Grass Valley, his wife being a daughter of Mrs. E. J. Powell of this city.  During his residence in Sherman county he was prominently identified with the business and farming interests of the community and has a large circle of friends who join with the Sherman County Observer in extending their sympathy to the family.  J.W. Cochran of this city is a brother of the deceased.
• R. Barzee received word on Monday of the death of Mrs. R.S. Wilcox at Hood River. The Wilcox family formerly lived in the Rutledge district and at one time farmed the Edw. Alley place.  Mr. Barzee and wife left Tuesday for Hood River where funeral services were held that morning.

June 19, 1925

• Word was received by Mrs. O.A. Ramsey last Sunday of the death of her uncle, B. Craft, at the family home in Portland that morning. Mrs. Ramsey left for Portland Sunday evening.  Mr. Craft formerly lived between Moro and Grass Valley where he had extensive land holdings and farmed on a large scale.
• In Memorium. George Wall, age 78 years, died at Hot Lake, Oregon, last Monday morning following an illness of about a year.  Wall built the roller mill at Early about 25 years ago and operated it with water power from the John Day river for more than 20 years.  The remains were received at The Dalles by the Crandal Undertaking company Wednesday and taken to Biglow school house where services were held at 10 a.m. Wednesday.  Interment was at Emigrant Springs cemetery near Biglow.  Mr. Wall is survived by one son, Homer S. Wall county road master for Sherman county, and six daughters, Mesdames Malcolm Stephens, Nooksack, Wash.; A. Berry, La Grande; A. Harthley and R. Baker, Cove, Ore.; R. Rice and E. Price Pilot Rock, Ore.
• W. Hull of Wasco died June 13th at his home at the age of 62. Mr. Hull came to Oregon in the fall of 1903 from Pike county, Ill., and had since resided at Wasco.  He leaves four sons, D.D. Hull of Astoria, Bruce Hull of The Dalles, and Wade and Wayne Hull of Wasco, and one daughter, Mrs. F. M. Crews of Springdale, Washington.  Four sisters survive, Mrs. Josie Underhill, Mrs. F.L. Morrow, Mrs. Andrew Shearer and Miss Jessie Hull, all of Wasco; and four brothers, C.E. Hull, Chico, Cal., Albert Hull, Vancouver, Wash., and Frank and Will Hull of Wasco.  There are also four grandchildren.  Funeral services were held at the Methodist church at Wasco Tuesday afternoon with the Crandall Undertaking company in charge.

June 26, 1925

• In Memorium. Louis David Eaton, resident farmer living southwest of Grass Valley, died at a hospital in The Dalles Tuesday morning from an attack of intestional obstruction.  Funeral services were conducted from Moro Presbyterian church, Rev. R.A. Feenstra preaching the sermon Wednesday afternoon.  Interment being in the IOOF cemetery at this place, under the auspices of the Masonic lodge of Grass Valley, of which Mr. Eaton was a member. Louis David Eaton was born August 1st, 1858, at Travers City, Michigan.  He was married to Lissa Hampton October, 1889.  He is survived by a son, Karl Eaton of Grass Valley; a sister, Mrs. Ella Thompson, living at Oswego; a brother, Darwin Eaton and a sister, Mrs. Harriet Thompson, both living in British Columbia; and two grandchildren.
• Word was received here that Joseph Patterson died at her home at White Salmon, Washington, Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. Patterson is a sister of Mrs. B.A. Hogue.

July 3, 1925

• Margaret Hill died Friday, June 26th, at her home at Rufus, at the age of 40. She is survived by a husband, Herbert Hill; two sons, Robert and Howard; her parents Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Lindeman; two brothers, Robert and C.H. Lindeman, all of Rufus, and a sister, Mrs. Alta Willard of Biggs.  Funeral services were held Sunday at the graveside at IOOF cemetery in The Dalles.

July 10, 1925

• In Memorium. Dewey Eldon Thompson, age 2 years 4 months 19 days, son of Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Thompson, died July 5th at a hospital in The Dalles, following a brief illness and an operation for obstruction of the bowels.  He was taken ill while the family were visiting at Belknap springs on a vacation motor trip from here to Portland, Corvallis and Eugene.  They cut their trip short and drove home, thinking the boy would improve when home. Funeral services were held on Tuesday from the Presbyterian church under the direction of Zell Funeral Home, Rev. R.A. Feenstra of the Methodist church preaching the sermon in the absence of Rev. Hanson.  Interment was at Moro IOOF cemetery.

July 17, 1925

July 24, 1925

• C. Tate, Pioneer Farmer Dies at Wasco. H.C. Tate, Sherman county pioneer, 97 years old, died at his home in Wasco Thursday, July 16th.  A native of Ireland, deceased came to the United States 80 years ago.  He settled in Chicago, later crossing the plains to California in 1853.   For several years he traveled over the country from east to west and returned to the west in 1877 when he settled in San Luis Obispo county, California.  In 1886 he came to Oregon, locating on a farm near Rufus.  His wife, to whom he was married in Chicago, in 1859 was also a native of Ireland and died many years ago.  The late Mr. Tate is survived by five sons, Walter Lee of Los Angeles, W.E. of Wasco, Frank and R.L. of Chicago and W.A. of La Center, Wash., one daughter, Mrs. Mollie Schreiner of Portland; and two sisters, Mrs. Elizabeth Reid of Wasco and Mrs. Mary Hoffelkus of California.  Funeral services were held at the home of his son, W.E. Tate at Wasco Sunday afternoon under the direction of the Crandall Undertaking company.  [William]

July 31, 1925

• In Memorium. L.J. Gates, formerly Miss Gonhilda Beck, wife of L.J. Gates of The Dalles died last Friday morning at the home of Mrs. S.H. Silkworth in Portland.  Mrs. Gates had been ill several months, the cause of her death being heart trouble.  She was born in Norway, 47 years ago, and when a child came to America where she and her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Beck, lived in Chicago for several years.  Then they came to The Dalles, where she attended school and later lived in Kent after her marriage to Mr. Gates, until the fall of 1916 when the family moved to The Dalles. Mrs. Gates was an active worker in church, lodge, club and social circles.  She is survived besides her husband, by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Beck of Portland; a brother, Oscar Beck; a sister, Mrs. Wm Seufert of The Dalles, and three daughters, Margaret, Adelia, and Camilla Gates. Funeral services were held in The Dalles Sunday afternoon in charge of Rev. H.C. Kohr of Oregon City, assisted by Rev. C. Edwards of The Dalles.   A large number of Sherman county friends of the family attending.

August 7, 1925

• A.M. Young received word from Salem Monday of the accidental death of her nephew, Vern Wilson, killed Saturday, July 18th, near Detroit, Oregon, by a wire cable while working in a logging camp. The young man was 25 years old.  His parents reside at Salem where he was taken for burial in the IOOF cemetery, of which order he was a member.
• Franklin Gibson, eight week old baby boy living near Wasco with his grandparents, W.A. Bayliss and wife during the absence of his parents in or near Portland, died Sunday night from pneumonia following an attack of whooping cough. Funeral services were held at Wasco Tuesday morning interment being in the Wasco cemetery.

August 14, 1925

• Harvest Accident Kills Sherman County Farmer. Frank C. Schumacher, about 45 years old, assisting with the harvest on the Pierson brothers farm, northeast of Moro, was caught in the machinery of the combine he was oiling Monday morning about 11 o’clock and so severely injured that he died at 6:45 Monday evening. According to reports of the accident, by members of the threshing crew, Mr. Schumacher was filling grease cups near the jackshaft when the sleeve of his jumper was caught by a set screw and he was drawn into the moving machinery.  His body showed bruises at many different places, but his death was thought to have been caused by an injury to the base of his spine which caused paralysis of the respiratory organs. When caught by the machine, Schumacher was pulled under the dog house.  As he felt himself being pulled under the shaft he called to the men to stop the machine which was done almost immediately.  When removed from his dangerous position he was taken across the field about half a mile to the home of J.H. Constant where first aid was administered until arrival of Dr. J.A. Wonderllick from Wasco and Dr. W.N. Morse from The Dalles, who soon discovered that very little hope could be held for his recovery from the accident.  Reports state that Dr. Wonderllick reached the scene of the accident 27 minutes after being notified and that Dr. Morse reached the scene 1 hour 32 minutes after notice reached him at The Dalles. Coroner C.L. Poley was called Tuesday morning and an inquest and hearing was held at the scene of the accident with the following named serving as jurors:  P. Hansen, Hans Thompson, J.H. Constant, Clifford Constant, Val Workman and W.J. Brownley.  Miss Bessie Anderson acted as stenographer for the coroner at the inquest. Mr. Schumacher was unmarried and had recently proven up on a homestead in the neighborhood in which the accident occurred.  It has been ascertained that his mother and a sister live at Kent, Minnesota, a sister lives at Cordova, Alaska, and a brother at Tracy, Minnesota.  Under instructions from his brother, the remains were shipped to Tracy, Minnesota, by train Wednesday, after being embalmed and prepared for interment by Zell Funeral Home.

August 21, 1925

• Ronald Ellsworth, 4 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. George Ellswvorth, died suddenly Tuesday evening at the family home in Moro. The little boy had been sick the past several months, but was thought to be improving in health when he was stricken with his last illness.  Funeral services were held Thursday afternoon from the Methodist church under direction of Zell Funeral home.
• In Memorium. Addie King, wife of O.P. King, died at Ventura, California, Tuesday afternoon, August 18th.  She leaves her husband, O.P. King; three children, Glenn P. King of Moro, Mrs. Gladys Burks of Ventura, California, Mabel King of Ventura, California; one brother, Ed. Smith of Gresham, Oregon; one sister, Mrs. Minnie Fairchild of Newport, Oregon. While no definite information as to the funeral is known at this time it is probable that services will be held at the gravesite at Grass Valley cemetery Sunday afternoon at 3 p.m. in charge of the Rebekah lodge of Grass Valley.  The deceased will arrive in The Dalles Sunday morning.  The funeral will be directed by Zell Funeral home.
• Funeral services were held at Arlington on Monday for A. J. Neufeldt, wife of Rev. Neufeldt pastor of the Methodist church at Arlington. Mrs. Neufeldt died suddenly at Bend last Wednesday, according to information reaching Moro.  Rev. Neufeldt was formerly pastor of the Methodist church at Wasco.

August 28, 1925

• In Memorium. Ronald Maurice Ellesworth, only child of George and Leota Ellsworth of Moro, was born in Portland on the fourth day of September nineteen hundred and twenty, nearly five years ago. He left this life about midnight August the nineteenth, and many are the relatives and friends who miss him more than tongue can tell. It seemed impossible to locate the nature of his illness, although he had not been well for a month or six weeks. He was taken to The Dalles and Portland, but found no help from doctors there. The funeral service was held at the Methodist church on Thursday last.  Misses Millie Benson and Elsie Bourhill sand the songs of comfort and Mr. and Mrs. Feenstra conducted the service.  Many friends and beautiful floral offerings endeavored to express their mute sympathy.

September 11, 1925

• The funeral of Mrs. Janet Leonard, who died Tuesday of last week at The Dalles hospital, was conducted from the M.E. church at Grass Valley last Sunday. Leonard lived with her son, Alley Leonard, near the head of Shearer [Sherar] grade south west of Grass Valley, having come to this county with her husband nearly forty years ago.  Mrs. Leonard, a native of Scotland, was 64 years old at the time of her death.  She leaves one son and three daughters to mourn her loss.
• Funeral services were held at Wasco on Monday for Edward Merrill, a resident of Wasco in the early pioneer days but who has been living in Portland for the past several years.  Merrill is a brother of Mrs. Ella Wright, Mrs. Maggie Peoples and Tom Merrill, also former residents of this county who now live at Portland.  Deceased was a member of the Wasco lodge of Odd Fellows and Woodman lodge of that city.

September 18, 1925

September 25, 1925

October 2, 1925

• Mary Boyer died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. J.N. McInnes, Thursday morning. Funeral services were held at Grass Valley Friday afternoon.
• Peter Boyer, mother of Mrs. John McInnes of Kent, died last Thursday following an illness of several months. Funeral services were held Friday in Grass Valley at the Methodist church under direction of the Crandall Undertaking company.  Rev. Feenstra of this city conducted the services.

October 9, 1925

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December 11, 1925

• Fred Lyda and wife were called to Portland last week to attend the funeral of Mr. Lyda’s 4 year old nephew.
• The funeral of Mrs. Mary L. Benefiel, 84 years of age, who died at Walla Walla Sunday was held from the Dufur Methodist church Tuesday afternoon, followed by burial in the Wasco cemetery. The deceased was one of Oregon’s oldest pioneers, having come to the state with her parents in 1848, and settled in the Willamette valley.  The funeral was under the direction of the Crandall undertaking company.  The deceased is survived by five sons and a daughter; Charles W. Benefiel of Irrigon, J.W. Benefiel of Wasco, John R. Benefiel of Spaulding, Frank and Earnest Benefiel and Mrs. W. R. Laurence, all of Walla Walla.

December 25, 1925

• Sherman County Pioneer Dies At The Dalles. Joseph T. Morris, aged 81 years, a resident of Rufus for 20 years, died at his home, in The Dalles Saturday evening, December 19, services were held from the Zell funeral home Tuesday morning followed by interment in the Wasco cemetery.  Morris resided in The Dalles for the last four years.  He was a member of the Grand Army of Republic, having enlisted in Company K, Third regiment of Illinois cavalry.  He is survived by a son, Walter A. Morris, of Rufus, and three daughters, Mrs. A.M. MacNab of Wasco; Mrs. L.W. Langford of Rufus and Miss Nellie Morris of The Dalles.
• G.A. Williams received word last week of the death of her brother Dan Smith, at Hoople, North Dakota, December 15th. A son, Dr. George Smith, residing at Pilot Rock, Oregon, was present when the summons came.

January 1, 1926

Janaury 8, 1926

• Vera Kessinger, seven months old daughter of L.C. Kessinger living east of Moro, was brought to the office of Dr. Wonderlick Tuesday suffering apparently from an attack of infantile paralysis, the right arm being affected. Morse was also consulted by the parents of the little sufferer the same day.  Late Tuesday evening symptoms of meningitis developed, causing death of the baby at about 2 a.m. Wednesday morning.
• Vera Virginia Kessinger, seven months old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L.C. Kessinger, died at the family home, east of Moro at two o’clock Wednesday morning. The little one was taken suddenly ill on Monday with what at first was thought to be infantile paralysis and which later developed into meningitis.  Funeral services were held at the graveside at Moro cemetery by Rev. R.A. Feenstra at noon on Thursday.
• In Memorium. F. Belshee passed to his future reward on New Year day at the family residence in Moro, following an illness of several months.  Funeral services, in charge of Zell Funeral Home, was conducted from the Methodist church in this city at noon Sunday.  Interment being at Rose cemetery, east of Moro. The Methodist church building, during the funeral service, was crowded with friends who had come from all parts of the county to pay their last respects to the deceased.  Rev. R.A. Feenstra, pastor of the Moro Methodist church, preached the sermon, using the life of the deceased as his text.  F.L. Sexton and wife old time friends of the family and residents of The Dalles, sang a duet.  Mrs. R.A. Feenstra, Mrs. J.J. Schaeffer, E.E. Barzee and Tom Fraser sang quartet selections. Mr. Belshee was one of the early day pioneer farmers of Sherman county.  Himself and family coming to what is now the north central empire of Oregon when conditions were new and methods of farming yet to be learned.  Shortly after their coming to this county, their home was one of the first places where Sunday school and church services were first inaugurated. Since then Mr. Belshee has always been in the fore front and back of every movement to advance the moral well being of his adopted county and state. J.F. Belshee was born at Warsaw, Hancock county, Illinois, April 16, 1856,  and was married to Emma Bledsoe, October 26, 1875. Of this union twelve children were born, three of whom died in infancy.  The nine living are Robert, Charles, Howard, Homer, Estella and Edith of Moro; Roy of Wasco; Frank of Portland; and Cassie of Salem;  all of whom are married and with their husbands, wives, and twenty-eight grandchildren mourn the loss of a faithful and beloved husband, father and grandfather. At the age of sixteen he was clearly converted and has always sought to promote the moral and spiritual interest of the community in which he has lived. Mr. Frank Belshee came to Yamhill county, Oregon, with his family in 1879 and moved in 1883 to Sherman county.  He homesteaded near Monkland and greatly contributed to the up-building of this community.  He was an official member of the Methodist church, whose interests he always espoused and whose fellowship was precious. He passed away at four o’clock on January first, 1926, at his home in Moro, Oregon.
• Walter Elmer Eakin, aged 14 years 3 months 17 days, son of Mr. and Mrs. L.D. Eakin, was accidentally killed about eight o’clock Tuesday morning, January 5th, when a four horse team became frightened at a bunch of loose horses and started to run away after having been driven up to a water trough for a drink in the Edward Alley farm corral east of Grass Valley. L.D. Eakin and son Elmer were enroute to Grass Valley with a four horse team and wagon after a load of coal for their farm. As was their custom, they drove into the E.W. Alley farm yard to water their team and had driven up to the water trough to allow the horses to drink.  Just at that moment a bunch of loose horses came swiftly over a hill near where the outfit was standing, causing the horses to become frightened and start to run away. Elmer, as was his custom to assist his father in every way possible, attempted to stop the running horses by catching at them when the team started.  He was thrown backward to the ground, presumably by one of the horses hitting him in the chest, the blow causing concussion of the brain from which he died about ten minutes after having been raised from the ground.  The only marks on his body being a slight scratch on his face and a bruise on his back. Funeral services were held from the auditorium at Grass Valley at 10 o’clock, Thursday morning under direction of Zell Funeral Home.  The services was conducted by Rev. F.L. Jones of The Dalles, followed by interment in the IOOF cemetery at The Dalles.  Elmer Eakin was the second eldest of four children.  Three sisters, Gertrude, Leta and Emmajean, his parents, relatives, and many friends have lost a cheerful helpful member from their circle.

January 15, 1926

January 22, 1926

• In Memorium. Funeral services were held from the Methodist church at Moro on Saturday, January 16th, to honor Mrs. Frances Britton Moquet who passed away at the family home at Union Gap, near Yakima, Washington, Thursday, January 14th.  Moquet had been ill for several months and had but recently submitted to an operation in the hope that her health would be improved. Frances E. Britton was born April 2nd, 1860 at Bunker Hill, Illinois.  She was married the second time in 1882 to S.C. Kessinger and nine children were born of this union.  The youngest of these children, Albert, died March 10th, 1910, at six years of age.  The children living to mourn the loss of a good mother are: Luther, by her first marriage; Roy, Roxy, Coila, Mona, Arno, Clyde, Eunice and Lillian.  Also Hazel who was born after her marriage to Francis C. Moquet, to whom she was married April 4th, 1905.  There are 23 living grandchildren.  Miss Britton joined the Seventh Day Adventist church when fifteen years old, and was a church worker wherever she lived.  She manifested great faith in God and died happy in her hope of her reward.  Her death occurred at Union Gap near Yakima, Washington, January 14th, at 7 a.m.
• Word has been received by Mrs. Wiley McDonald last Saturday of the death of her father the previous day at the family home in Newberg, Oregon. At the time of his death, Mr. Baratholmew was 87 years old.

January 29, 1926

• Word was received by Mrs. Wallace Jones Monday that the baby boy of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Bozarth, of Portland, died January 15th, of diphtheria. The Bozarth family formerly lived in Rufus.
• Henry G. Hanson received a message Wednesday morning conveying news of the death of her brother-in-law, J. Frank Aldrich at Corvallis. She left that afternoon to be with her stricken sister at the funeral.  Moro people will remember that Mr. and Mrs. Aldrich were married here at Moro about a year and a half ago.

February 5, 1926

• A. Tom received word Monday evening that Hallie Rice, vice president of the Wasco county bank, who has been ill for the past week, died in a Portland hospital Monday morning.
• In Memorium. Funeral services under the direction of the Zell funeral home were held at Grass Valley Thursday afternoon for John L. Wray who died Tuesday evening at The Dalles hospital following an illness of one week.  Edward Cofer conducted the funeral service, following with the services at the grave by members of the Odd Fellows lodge.  Interment was in the IOOF cemetery at Grass Valley. John T. Wray was born in Monticello, Wayne county, Kentucky, April 17, 1878, and passed away at The Dalles, Oregon, February 2, 1926 at the age of 47 years 9 months and 13 days.  Surviving the deceased are his widow; his 7 year old son; three brothers, Hamilton, James and Joe Wray; and four sisters, May, Dora, Lizzie and Pearl. Mr. Wray came to Grass Valley in 1900 and has resided in Sherman county ever since.  Prior to coming to Sherman county he resided in Wasco county.  During part of his residence in Wasco county he was connected with that grand old pioneer Joseph H. Shearer [Sherar], pioneer bridge builder who built the bridge crossing known to this day as Shearer [Sherar] bridge on the Deschutes river west of Grass Valley.  His later years was devoted to farming near Grass Valley. Besides the immediate family Mr. Wray leaves a great number of warm personal friends who he has made and kept while living in this country.  He was a consistent member of Grass Valley IOOF lodge, under whose auspices funeral services were conducted.
• Funeral services was held in The Dalles on Wednesday afternoon for Hallie S. Rice, business man and banker of that city, who died in a hospital in Portland Monday following an illness of several weeks with an ingrowing goiter.

February 12, 1926

• Died Sunday night February 7th, Oscar Watkins, 8 year old; youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. Bert Watkins residing three miles east of Wasco. The cause of death was scarlet fever complicated by pneumonia.  His brief illness began Thursday February 4th when he was seen by Dr. Wonderlick, factory and Dr. Morse of The Dalles Saturday his condition was not satis was called.  Sunday afternoon his condition became suddenly worse and when again seen by Dr. Wonderlick the child was moribund and expired before midnight.  He leaves to mourn, his parents, four brothers, the oldest of whom is employed in Portland and who reached home shortly before the end.  Burial took place in private at the Wasco cemetery Tuesday afternoon.  [Place of Burial – Sunrise cemetery] [The sentence containing “factory and Dr Morse of The Dalles Saturday his condition was not satis was called.” is the way it appeared in the paper.]
• William Birgfeld, who was the music instructor for a number of Rufus people, died in Portland at his home Sunday.
• Man Found Dead Near Rufus On Oregon Trail. Rufus, Ore., Feb. 7: — (Special) Last Sunday morning while looking over the bank at the “Slide” about a mile east of here.  Atley [Atlee] Wilson and Milbern Blevens, found the dead body of a man apparently about 45 years old.  It is thought by the doctors that he had been dead about ten days.  He wore three pair of pants, two jackets, and no socks or underwear, He had a suit case and a small hand grip.  The body was found about 150 feet below the highway, in a mass of boulders, which had evidently crushed his skull.  The remains were taken to The Dalles by the Zell Funeral Home where the body will be held until his relatives are located. Sheriff Chrisman, who was called when the dead man was found, reported that the two hand grips which the man had in his possession contained a large number of religious tracts.  Apparently the man had been walking on the highway and in the dark stepped off the highway to permit a car to pass.  The step proved fatal as at that place the hillside has a straight drop of 50 feet, then a sloping steep bank for an additional 100 feet.  Marks struck in falling.  He landed head on the hillside show where the man first among the boulders at the bottom crushing in the top of his head. A roll of undeveloped film, found among his effects, was developed in The Dalles.  Among the pictures in the roll was an excellent likeness of the dead man. [Copied as found]
• Death Takes Three Members From Douma Family. Funeral bells tolled three times on successive days in a very sad and strange manner the last week in January for Mr. and Mrs. Jake Douma and family, now residents of Tillamook, Oregon. Sunday, January 24th, 1926, at 4 p.m., a cousin of Mrs. Douma, Luther Edwards, age 18, was drowned at  Oceanside beach. Monday, January 25, 1926, at 9 p.m., Velda Marie, aged 1 month 28 days, infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Douma, passed away. And yet the grim reaper was not satisfied for on Tuesday, January 26th, 1926, at 6 a.m., Jasper Edwards, an uncle of Mrs. Douma, was summoned to his future home. Little Velda Marie Douma and Jasper Edwards were laid to rest in the cemetery near Dundee, Oregon, on Thursday, January 28th.  The body of Luther Edwards has not been found. Jake Douma is a brother of the four Douma brothers of this city and a former resident of Moro.

February 19, 1926

February 26, 1926

• In Memorium. Jane Martin Dies At Age Of 91.   Mrs. Jane Catherine Martin, Sherman county pioneer and head of five generations, died at the home of her son, Elwin E. Martin in The Dalles, at 8 o’clock Saturday night in her 91st year.  Mrs. Martin had been a resident of The Dalles seven years.  Her husband, John R. Martin, died in 1913 and was buried in the family plot at Moro. The funeral of Mrs. Martin was held at Moro at 2 o’clock Monday afternoon from the Presbyterian church under the direction of the Crandall undertaking company.  Following services read by Rev. H.G. Hanson interment was made in the family plot of the Odd Fellows’ cemetery at Moro, beside the grave of Mr. Martin. Mrs. Martin, before her marriage Jane Catherine Brown, was born in Green township, Erie county, Pennsylvania, March 21, 1935 [1835], of Dutch parentage.  Her parents, Ezekial and Catherine Slauson Brown, were reared in Waterfold township. In 1851 the daughter was married to John Rusco Martin, a native of Chautauqua county, New York.  His father, John Allen Martin, came to America from Glasgow, Scotland, when 16 years of age.  The elder Martin had been a drummer boy in the British navy.  When the son was six years old the family moved to Ohio where they engaged in farming and in the manufacture of woolen goods, later moving back to Pennsylvania.  The family finally emigrated to Wisconsin, where the father died. In 1853 John Rusco Martin left his wife and two infant children and in company with 18 other young men crossed the plains to Hangtown, California, one of the famous old gold mining camps.  He packed back to Salt Lake City in 1855 and met his family, who had come from Pennsylvania by wagon train. Indians Cause Worry.  The journey from Salt Lake City back to California was a harrowing trip.  The Indians came into their camp and ordered Mrs. Martin to make corn-meal mush for them and serve it with spoons.  When they left they took three spoons, valued as heirlooms because they were made from the shoe and knee buckles of Mrs. Martin’s father.  The next day, however, the spoons were returned by order of the Mormon leader. The wagon train bearing the Martin family passed over the old Mormon trail just after the Mountain Meadow massacre, one of the bloodiest ever perpetrated by the Indians.  The Indians stole the Martin’s oxen and took the pillows from under their heads as they slept.  They stole two pans of bread placed near the head of the children’s bed.  These youngsters are Dwight R. Martin of Sherian, California, and Mrs. Etta Coe of The Dalles. The couple lived in southern California until 1881 when they moved to Sherman county.  Mrs. Martin lived here until 1919, when she came to The Dalles and until three weeks ago, lived an active life at the home of her son.  She had begun spring garden when stricken down, it is said.
• Jane C. Martin was born in Green township, Erie county, Pennsylvania, on March 21, 1835 and passed away at The Dalles, Oregon, on February 20th, 1926, thus lacking about one month of completing ninety one years of earthly sojourn. In 1851 she married John R. Martin at Waterford, Erie county, Pennsylvania.  To this union there was born ten children, seven of whom are still living — Dwight R. Martin of California; Julius Martin of Idaho; Elwin E. Martin, Harvey U. Martin, and Mrs. Etta E. Coe of The Dalles, Oregon; Wilber J. and LeRoy H. Martin of Moro, Oregon.  Her husband passed away in 1913 at Moro, Oregon.  Besides the seven children she is survived by 28 grandchildren, 50 great grandchildren and four great great grandchildren. As a young couple with two children they started westward with the sturdy pioneers of the 50s, crossing the plains by wagon and locating in southern California were the remaining  children were born, one excepted, Verdinal, who was born on the plains.  About fifty years ago they came to Oregon living first in Umatilla county.  About 1880 they came to Moro, Oregon, and located on the place where Chas. Cunningham now lives.  For the last number of years she has lived with her children in The Dalles. Mrs. Martin is remembered for her thrift and neighborliness, her ability to find time amidst a very busy home life to have a kindly thought and give a friendly ministry to anyone who were sick or in need.  She was baptized in 1853 shortly before leaving the east.  While not uniting with any church some of her spiritual faith and aspirations can be gained from this public stand just before leaving for the unknown west.  That she looked unseen is shown in the hymn which into the future and contemplated the was her favorite, and which at her desire was sung at her funeral, “I go to prepare a place for you,” a paraphase of John 14: 1-3. The funeral was held from the Presbyterian church in Moro on Monday, February 22nd, at two o’clock in the afternoon, Rev. Henry G. Hanson officiating.  A quartet composed of Mr. and Mrs. Fred C. Hutchcroft, Mrs. Wilford Belshe, and R.C. Byers sang two hymns, “Jesus, Savior Pilot Me,” and “Rock of Ages, Cleft for Me,” while Mrs. Roy Kunsmah sang, “I go to prepare a place for you.”  The pall bearers were Messrs. W.H. Ragsdale, W.S. Powell, Wm. Henrichs, George Meloy, Henry Ruggles and R.J. Ginn.  Interment was at IOOF cemetery beside her husband.
• George L. Buchanan, brother of Mrs. W.J. Martin of this city and Mrs. L.H. Martin of Portland, died in the last named city February 16th. Interment was at Mr. Buchanan’s home at Burns, Oregon.  Deceased is survived by his widow, a son and two daughters, four sisters, one brother and six grandchildren.
• Daniel Stewart, Wasco and Sherman county pioneer who was born 60 years ago in Scotland, died at the home of his sister, Mrs. D.D. Nelson, near Wrentham at 4 o’clock Tuesday morning. Stewart came to this section of Oregon in 1882 and was a pioneer farmer on the high plateau south of The Dalles, later owning several thousand sheep with winter range in Sherman county.  Beside his sister he leaves three brothers, James and John of Moro and Charles of The Dalles.  Funeral services were held in The Dalles Thursday, under direction of Crandall undertaking company.

March 5, 1926

• Jean Dutton aged 25, died Sunday morning at the Hamilton hospital in The Dalles. He leaves to mourn his loss a wife and young son, about two years of age also a brother.  Dutton was taken to the hospital by Dr. Wonderlick on Wednesday morning and operated on for acute gangrenous appendicitis.  His condition was thought serious from then on but his death was a shock to the community.  Burial took place Tuesday afternoon from the Methodist church in Wasco cemetery.
• Word was received at Moro Tuesday of the serious illness of B. Kirkendahl at Yamhill, Oregon, by his daughters, Mrs. C.P. Walker, Mrs. Wilford Belshe and Mrs. F.W. Hutchcroft, who left that day for Yamhill. Thursday morning word was received that Mr. Kirkendahl had passed away late Wednesday evening, after an illness of about four days from an attack of flu.  He was 76 years old at the time of his death.

March 12, 1926

• In Memorium. Sara Nickel McClelland was born February 18, 1862, at Albia, Iowa and passed away in Moro, Oregon, on March 9th, 1926, age 64 years and 19 days.  November 4th, 1880, she was married to George McClelland in Coalfield, Iowa.  They came west in 1894 and settled in Centerville, Washington.  About 25 years ago they moved to Wasco, Oregon where her husband died in 1912.  The same year Mrs. McClelland and daughter moved to Moro where they have since lived.  Three children were born into the family of who two survive, Esssie (Mrs. J.C.) McKean, and Miss Ruth McClelland, both of Moro, Oregon.  She is also survived by a brother, James Nickel of Albin, Iowa, four sisters, Margaret and Martha of DesMoines, Iowa, Mary (Mrs. Piersol) of Pendleton, Oregon, and Elizabeth (Mrs. W.N. Froebe) of Woodland, Washington.  There are two grandchildren, Georgia and Kenneth McKean of Moro, Oregon. At an early age she untied with the Reformed Presbyterian church (Covenanters,) the faith in which she was brought up.  While at Wasco she was a member of the Methodist church, and on arriving in Moro she united with the Presbyterian church of which she remained a faithful member up to her death.  Mrs. McClelland was a women of quiet retiring disposition, of sterling honesty, religious earnestness, and unselfish spirit.  The sympathy of church and community is with all those who have been thus bereaved of a good unselfish character. Funeral services were held at two o’clock on Thursday afternoon from the Presbyterian church of Moro with interment in Sunset cemetery near Wasco, where her husband was buried.  The funeral sermon was preached by Rev. Henry G. Hanson.  A quartet consisting of Mrs. Harry B. Pinkerton, Miss Dorothy Perkins, Mr. R.C. Byers and Dr. J.R. Morgan sang at the church.  The pallbearers were Messrs. O.L. Belshe, L.L. Peetz, Geo. Hennagin, W. H. Ragsdale, R.J. Ginn and J.C. Freeman.

March 19, 1926

• In Memorium. Carrie E. Holmes of Grass Valley, wife of Sam B. Holmes, died at the family home in that city Friday morning, March 12, following a brief illness.  The passing of Mrs. Holmes was a severe shock to her large circle of friends residing in Sherman and Wasco county who had had no previous knowledge of her illness.  Funeral services were held at Grass Valley on Sunday afternoon at two o’clock under direction of Zell Funeral Home, Rev. Cofer of Grass Valley conducting the service at the Baptist church in that city and of which denomination she was a member for a long period of years. Mrs. Holmes was a niece of Joseph H. Sherar, pioneer road and bridge builder in this section of Oregon in the early pioneer days and who continued his activities along this line until advanced age forced his retirement from business affairs. Deceased was born in Nicholville, New York, May 12, 1857, and passed away to the great beyond at her home in Grass Valley on Friday, March 12, 1926, aged 69 years and 10 months.  She was married to Sam B. Holmes at Ogdenberg, New York, August 15, 1899, immediately removing to Sherman county, Oregon, where her husband had taken up land under the homestead land laws in 1885 and where her uncle had located and built the first pioneer bridge across the Deschutes river October 3, 1871, at what has since been known as Sherar Bridge, Oregon. Mrs. Holmes is survived by her husband, Sam B. Holmes; four children, Mable and Cassie Holmes, residing at Grass Valley; Millie von Borstel, residing near Kent; Lelia Brogan, residing near Antelope; William S. Holmes, residing upon and operating the family homestead and land holdings adjoining; a brother, Henry Sherar, residing at Nicholville, New York; a nephew residing in Colorado; and ten grand children.
• P. Carroll, grandfather of Mrs. O. A. Ramsey, died at his home in Mosier last Saturday evening. Mr. Carroll had been a resident of Mosier for 33 years.
• Wasco Resident Dies Suddenly While At Work. Job Burden Eaton died suddenly Tuesday afternoon at 5:15 p.m. while engaged in his regular work piling sacks at the Wasco Warehouse Milling company at Wasco.  He was in his usual health shortly before being stricken with an attack of heart failure.  Fellow workers immediately called Dr.  Wonderlick, but Mr. Eaton was past aid. Mr. Eaton known as Bert Eaton was born in Yamhill county, September 21, 1860, the son of Jesse and Mary Burden Eaton.  His parents brought him to The Dalles in 1862, the family finally settled in Spanish hallow, near the present townsite of Wasco. With the exception of a few years spent in Grant county, the deceased  had been a continuous resident of Wasco and Sherman counties.  He leaves a divorced wife and five children, George W., C.L. Eaton, Mrs. Dora Wilson and Miss Hilda Eaton, all of Portland, and Harry Eaton of Los Angeles.

March 26, 1926

• In Memorium. Julia Catherine Stark. The funeral of Mrs. S.L. Stark of Grass Valley occurred from the Methodist church at Grass Valley Saturday, March 20th.  A large number of friends and neighbors attended the services which were under the direction of Zell Funeral Home.  W.L. Dillinger preached the sermon and was assisted during the service by Rev. Cofer pastor of the Baptist church at Grass Valley and by Rev. Feenstra, pastor of the Methodist church at Moro and Grass Valley. Julia Catherine Hacklemen was born at Pleasantville, Missouri, October 14th, 1880.  She was married to Samuel L Stark, in the city of her birth, May 20th, 1900.  To this union were born twelve children, three of whom died infancy.  The family came direct from their home state to Grass Valley, Oregon, February 18th, 1913.  Her death occurred at The Dalles hospital on March 18th, 1926. Her death is a terrible loss to the family and the sympathy of the entire community goes out to them in their sorrow and bereavement.  Deceased is survived by her husband, Samuel L. Stark, and nine children, Josephine Parkhurst of Melrose, Oregon, Curtis, Eula, Hadley, Wallace, Helen, Ferdinand, Harry and Olen Stark.
• Samuel French Scott passed away at the family home at Lafayette, Oregon, Tuesday March 23rd, at the age of 77 years. Mr. Scott was born in Iowa and came west by ox team and covered wagon when a lad of thirteen.  He settled with his parents on a homestead on the bank of the Columbia river opposite old Fort Vancouver and there grew to manhood. He was actively interested in the growth of Portland and was well acquainted with that city when stock grazed through the tall firs and undergrowth on the present site of Broadway and Washington streets. Christmas day 1873 Mr. Scott was married to Clara S. Payne, daughter of a pioneer family.  To this union six children were  born:  Winnie Lavelle, who died in infancy; Ryland O., and Frank M. Scott of Wasco; Mrs. Wm. G. North of Portland, and Mrs. Frank E. Fortner of Moro. Mr. Scott was for many years a member of the Woodlawn Methodist church, Portland. His widow, five children, thirteen grandchildren and a host of friends are left to mourn his loss.  Interment will be at Portland.
• Word was received in this city last Saturday of the death of Tally Newcomb former farmer residing west of what is now Kent. Newcomb farmed in that section before a railroad through the center of Sherman county was not yet a dream.  His son, J.S. Newcomb, has farming interests near Kent at the present time.  Mr. Newcomb has been a resident of Camas, Washington, for several years.

April 2, 1926  

• In Memorium. Charles Wilson Thompson was born July 30, 1832, at Rock Island, Illinois.  His earlier years were spent in Illinois and Iowa.  On December 6, 1851, at Princeton, Iowa, he was married to Miss Delilah Baxter.  To this union there were born eleven children, one of whom, Ella, died in infancy.  The other ten children are still living and are as follows:  Emma Elliott of Moro, Mrs. Mary A. Leslie of Los Angeles, Andrew C. Thompson of Moro, Mrs. Harriet Nish of Tygh Valley, Ned W. Thompson of Moro, J. Ezra Thompson of Corvallis, I. Owen Thompson of Metolius, B.R. Thompson of Pasadena, Calif., Mrs. Myra Bullard of Moro.  Mrs. Thompson passed away November 28, 1893.  Mr. Thompson remarried in March 1894 to Mrs. Belle Jones at Riverside, California, where they have since made their home.  About two weeks ago he came back to Moro with his son Andrew and passed away on April 2, 1926, at the age of 93 years, 9 months, and 2 days.  Besides the ten children he is survived by his wife in Los Angeles, 31 grandchildren, 31 great grandchildren and 3 great great grandchildren. Mr. and Mrs. Thompson came from the middle west to Corvallis in 1874, and to Monkland in 1883, where he was a farmer, a merchant and also the first postmaster.  With Rev. J.M. Morrison he helped in planning and building the Presbyterian church at Monkland, also assisted in organizing the first school district and building the first public schoolhouse.  As a very young man he united with the Methodist church and continued a member of that church all his days.  At one place he united with the Evangelical church.  In Monkland he belonged to the Presbyterian church.  While in California he was a member of the Methodist church.  He was especially active in Sunday school work in which he took a genuine interest until the loss of hearing prevented him from continuing such activities.
• Henry Richelderfer. Retired pioneer farmer of Sherman county residing for many years on his farm west of Wasco and more recently living in Portland, died in Centralia last Thursday at the advanced age of 80 years.  Funeral services were held at Wasco last Sunday followed by interment in Wasco cemetery. Henry Richelderfer was born at Port Clinton, Schuylkill county, Pennsylvania, March 8th, 1846.  His father was a native of the Keystone state as was his mother, both descendants of old and prominent Pennsylvania Dutch families.  His father was for many years a railroad engineer on the Philadelphia & Reading road.  During the Civil war Mr. Richelderfer enlisted in the 214th Pennsylvania volunteer infantry, being mustered out with honors at the close of the war.  Following this he worked as conductor and brakeman on several eastern roads until migrating to Kansas in 1877.  He ame to Sherman county in the fall of 1880, taking up homestead land near what is now the town of Wasco.  During part of his early pioneer farming days in Sherman county he was also a conductor on the O.R.& N. Co. railroad. He was married to Mary Evans April 29th, 1870, at New York city, to which union five children were born all of whom are yet living.  Besides a wife in Portland, he leaves two daughters, Mrs. H.P. Dutton of Wasco and Mrs. R. Fordyce of Husum, Wash., and three sons, Asa. D., Harry, and Earl H., all of Wasco.
• The funeral of the two year old son Kenneth of Mr. and Mrs. George Wilcox of Grass Valley took place from the Grass Valley Methodist church last Friday. R.A. Feenstra preached the funeral message.  A large crowd attended, including several Moro friends and relatives of Mr. and Mrs. Wilcox.
• M. Marlin, age 69, early resident of Sherman county, died at Grass Valley Thursday morning, April 8th. Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Mary Marlin; five sons, Ashley, Albert, Walter and Millard of Grass Valley, and Clifford of Condon, and four daughters, Mrs. Frank Olds of Grass Valley, Mrs. Melva Panksley of Yakima, Mrs. O.E. Baker of Monument and Mrs. Thomas Moore of New York.  He also leaves two nephews, Linn and Dell Eakin of Grass Valley.  [Jesse M.]

April 16, 1926

• L. Matthes received word Saturday that his brother’s child was killed in an automobile accident near Salem Saturday.

April 23, 1926

• In Memorium. Catherina D. Peetz.  Catherina D. Schacht was born on April 9, 1844 in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.  She was married to Carl Peetz in 1866.  Soon afterwards they came to America, settling in Ottertail county, Minnesota, where they lived until 1873.  They then came to the Pacific coast and lived in the Puget Sound country 13 years.  In 1886 they moved to Oregon, settling near Moro in Sherman county.  Here Mr. Peetz died in 1918.  Mrs. Peetz has of late been making her home with her daughter, Mrs. O.C. Kirtley west of Wasco, where she passed away after a short illness on April 16, 1926. Nine children were born into this home of whom the three eldest have passed away.  Two died in childhood while Otto Peetz died in 1924.  The surviving children are L.L. Peetz of Moro, Oregon;  Mrs. E.G. Messinger of Wapato, Washington; H.F. Peetz of Moro, Oregon; B.F. Peetz of Bend, Oregon; Mrs. O.C. Kirtley of Wasco, Oregon, and Mrs. R.W. Montgomery of King Hill, Idaho.  There are also 14 grandchildren and 7 great grandchildren. Mrs. Peetz united with the Lutheran church at the age of 15 and remained a member of that faith until some years ago, when she united with the Moro Presbyterian church. The funeral services were held from the Methodist church in Moro followed by interment at IOOF cemetery.  Rev. Henry G. Hanson of the Presbyterian church officiated, assisted by Rev. R.A. Feenstra of the Methodist church.  Music furnished by a quartet from the Presbyterian choir with Mrs. M.G. Melzer as accompanist.  The quartet composed of  Mrs. H.B. Pinkerton, Miss Dorothy Perkins, Mr. R.C. Byers and Mr. Tom Fraser sang “Shall We gather at the River;”  Miss Pinkerton and Miss Perkins sang as a duet “Abide with Me”;  Mrs. Eraser sang as a solo “Some Day the Silver Cord Will Break”, the quartet singing the chorus.  Acting as pallbearers were L. Barnum of The Dalles, W.H. Ragsdale, O.L. Belshe, M.A. Bull, George Hennagin and W.S. Powell. Many floral offerings gave testimony to the esteem in which she was held by those who knew her.  Mrs. Peetz will be remembered as a woman of gentle disposition, unselfish in act and interested in church and the better things in life.  The sympathy of the entire community is with the bereaved in their loss.

April 30, 1926

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May 28, 1926

• In Memorium. Mary L. Hoskinson.  M.L. Hoskinson passed away at the Mid Columbia hospital at The Dalles on Thursday evening, May 27th, after an illness of a few brief weeks.  When first going to the hospital for medical treatment her condition was not considered to be serious, but her health failed to improve as the days went by until about a week ago when the doctors said the end could only be within a short time.  Mrs. Hoskinson has an extensive acquaintance and a large circle of friends in the state as well as in Sherman county who will be grieved to hear of her death. Mary Louisa Coleman was born in Bremer county, Iowa, November 10th, 1866, and passed away on May 27th, 1926, aged 59 years, 6 months and 26 days.  She moved to Oregon, coming to Sherman county, 1896.  She married to R.E. Hoskinson at Moro on November 1st, 1900, to which union there was one child born, Jessie Hoskinson, now residing at Moro.  Mrs. Hoskinson was first elected to the office of county clerk for Sherman county at the election held in November, 1918, and was again reelected to the office at the elections held in 1920 and 1924. Mrs. Hoskinson leaves one daughter, Jessie Hoskinson of Moro; three stepsons, Robert Hoskinson of Moro and Dean and Buell Hoskinson, present address unknown; two sisters, Mrs. R.J. Ginn of Moro and Mrs. T.R. McGinnis or Corvallis; two brothers, J.E. Coleman of Moro and J.L. Coleman of Lincoln, Nebraska; two uncles, James Woods of Moro and Ren Woods of Clarinda, Iowa; and an aunt Mrs. A.D. Blair of Clarinda, Iowa. Funeral services will be held at Moro opera house Sunday afternoon May 30th, at 2 o’clock.  Interment will be in the IOOF cemetery at Moro.

June 4, 1926

• In Memorium. Mary L. Hoskinson.   Funeral services in honor of Mrs. M.L. Hoskinson were held at Moro opera house on Sunday afternoon under direction of Zell Funeral Home.  The large building was taxed to hold the large number of relatives and friends of the family who had met to honor the departed.  Floral offerings were beautiful and profuse in number.  The pallbearers were all elective officers of Sherman county who had served during Mrs. Hoskinson’s incumbency of the office of county clerk and were County Judge E.D. McKee, County Commissioner A.A. Dunlay, County Commissioner L.L. Peetz, Sheriff Hugh Christman, Treasurer A.M. Young and School Superintendent A.M. Zevely.  The sermon was by J.G. Gay, Pentacostal minister from Longview and Kelso, Washingon.  Interment was at the IOOF cemetery at Moro.
• R. Venable Meets Death In Auto Collision. Harold Venable of Wasco was instantly killed as the result of an automobile crash on the Sherman highway between Moro and Wasco last Sunday night about nine o’clock between a Ford coupe that Mr. Venable was driving and which was occupied by himself and wife and an Oakland car driven by Wm. Bigelow residing near Nish station. The car driven by Harold Venable was completely demolished in the head on collision of the two cars. The top was torn off and parts of the car body were wrenched from their fastenings.  Marks on the gravel highway showed plainly that the Venable car had made two and probably three end over end tumbles before coming to a stop.  Mrs. Venable has no recollection of how she was able to come through the effects of the collision without fatal injuries, but it is thought that she was thrown through the side door when it was torn off the car by the force of the collision. Harold Venable was found shortly after the accident crumpled under the dash of the coupe he was driving, and, without a doubt, was instantly killed when the two cars collided.  The Bigelow car escaped with only a crumpled left fender and left front wheel being torn off.  Even the headlight lamps were not injured.  Bigelow himself came through the accident without a scratch. The cause of the accident was trying to mix liquor with automobile driving on the part of Bigelow, who was arrested at the scene of the accident on an open charge of driving while in an intoxicated condition.  Bigelow at the time of the collision was said to be two thirds of the distance from the center of the highway to the left side while the marks on the gravel surface showed that Venable had been driving nearly on the extreme side of his portion of the highway for a considerable distance before the two cars met in collision.  The scene of the accident was about halfway between the Lamborn corner and the concrete bridge at the foot of the grade leading to the city reservoir on the hill overlooking the town of Wasco. Harold Venable has been employed by County Engineer Homer S. Wall for several years with the county rock crusher plant and at the time of his death was foreman in charge of the crusher.  Wm Bigelow is a mechanic, specializing in harvester and combine repair work and their operation. At a preliminary hearing in the justice court at Wasco on Wednesday Bigelow was held to the grand jury without bail.  A special meeting of the grand jury will be held at Moro on Saturday at which time Judge D.R. Parker will be present from Condon and convene a special session of the circuit court.  Under the statutes of Oregon Bigelow can only be charged with two crimes for his part in the unfortunate collision.  One charge will be involuntary manslaughter and the second will be driving an automobile while under the influence of liquor.  Common talk on the streets is to the effect that Bigelow will plead guilty to both indictments and if this action is taken on his part he will be sentenced while Judge Parker has court in session.
• Harold Rex Venable. Funeral services were held under direction of Crandall undertakers company at Moro opera house Tuesday afternoon in honor of Harold Venable who met instant death Sunday evening as the result of an automobile collision.  The building considered to be one of the largest in Sherman county, was not able to hold the large number of relatives and friends present to honor the memory of a most promising young man who was taken away from the midst of his family in the prime of life.  The floral offerings were immense and the sympathy manifested most touching. Sermon was by Rev.  A. Edwards, pastor of the Methodist church of The Dalles and who had read the ceremony that had united Mr. Venable and Miss Millie Benson of this city in marriage on December 12, 1926 [1925].  A quartet sang softly “Shall we gather at the river”, and “Safe in the arms of Jesus”.  Mr. Wayne Hull of Wasco sang a special number, “Sometime we’ll understand”.  Interment was at Wasco cemetery at the side of his mother. Harold Rex Venable was born on what is known as the old Hull farm north of Wasco in 1898.  Passed away at Wasco on May 30th, 1926.  He would have been 28 years of age on July 22, 1926.  He was married to Miss Millie Benson of this city on December 12, 1925, at The Dalles.  His mother died when he was 11 months old.  Surviving him is his bride of six months; his father, J.B. Venable of Elk, Washington; a sister, Mrs. Chas. Myers; four aunts, Mrs. E.K. Weld of Wasco, Mrs. A.B. Cortway of Wenatchee, Washington, Mrs. A.E. Smith, Silverton, Oregon, Mrs. Eva Doane, Wasco, Oregon; two uncles, P.A. Venable, Elk, Washington, J.R. Venable, Toppenish, Washington, and twelve cousins.

June 11, 1926

June 18, 1926

• Word was received at Moro on Monday morning by friends of Miss Dorothy Perkins that her father, William Perkins, had passed away at 7:30 that morning at the family home in Portland.

June 25, 1926

July 2, 1926

• Winston Taggart, Mrs. Jas. Mitchell and L.J. Foss, nephew and sister and father of J.F. Foss of this city, were visitors in Moro this week from Athena. While here Mrs. Mitchell had the body of her infant daughter disinterred and shipped to Athena, where it will rest alongside Mr. Mitchell.

July 9, 1926

• Interment services were held at Wasco last Saturday for Charolette Hatley, four month old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M.B. Hatley of DeMoss. Death was caused by an attack of pneumonia following whooping cough.
• Charlotte, four month old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M.B. Hatley, died at the family home near DeMoss last Friday following an attack of pneumonia following an illness caused by whooping cough. Funeral services were held at the family residence Saturday afternoon, Rev. W.L. Dillinger conducting the service.  Interment was at Wasco cemetery.

July 16, 1926

• Ira K. Axtell died at a hospital in The Dalles last Friday evening following an operation for cancer of the colon. Axtell had been ill for a long period before death came to his relief.  Funeral services were held Monday morning at ten o’clock at the Presbyterian church, under direction of Crandall Undertaking company, Rev. R.A. Feenstra preaching the funeral sermon.  Interment was in Moro cemetery. Ira Knox Axtell was born December 6th, 1880, in Page county, Iowa, where at Blanchard he united with the Methodist church. In the year 1901 he came with his parents to Sherman county where he has since resided.  He was united in marriage to Bessie McLaughlin [McLachlan], December 14th, 1904.  He was preceded in death by his mother who died May 2nd, 1905, and by an infant daughter.  Deceased is survived by his widow; his daughter Marie; his father, J.M. Axtell; and three brothers, Roy F. Axtell of Roseville, California, Aden K. Axtell, and Clare R. Axtell of this community.
• H. Elliott died at the family home in this city last Sunday afternoon, July 11th, following an illness of several weeks. Funeral services were held at the Presbyterian church in this city on Monday afternoon under the direction of Zell Funeral home, Mrs. R.A. Feenstra preaching the sermon. Interment was in Moro cemetery. Joshua Henry Elliott was born at Rockford, Illinois, November 15th, 1853.  At the time of his death he was aged 72 years and 8 months.  When he was 18 years old he moved to Iowa with his parents and there was united in marriage to Emma Thompson November 19th, 1873.  He moved to Oregon in 1876, settling in the Willamette valley, and moved from there to Sherman county in 1886.  Deceased is survived by his widow; six children, Mrs. Geo. Meloy of Corvallis, Oregon, Mrs. M.A. Bull of Moro, Oregon, Mrs. E.S. Everett of Holton, Oregon, Mrs. C.A. Adlard of Moro, Oregon,  J.O. Elliott of Wasco, Oregon, and M.H. Elliott of Newport, Oregon; a brother, Lincoln Elliott of Frazer, Iowa; thirteen grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
• B. Mowry, former resident of Moro, died at his home in Portland on Friday, July 9th. Funeral services were held on Monday in the chapel of the Portland crematorium.  Deceased is survived by his widow, Mrs. M.L. Mowry; a daughter, Mrs. L.A. Moon; and two sons, George and John Mowry.

July 23, 1926

• Funeral services for Mary Maxine Richelderfer, 5 year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Asa D. Richelderfer of Wasco, who died at The Dalles hospital Tuesday night, was held from the family residence Thursday under the direction of the Crandall Undertaking company. The little girl was born at the home place October 5, 1921.  Besides her parents, she is survived by a sister and two brothers.

July 30, 1926

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August 20, 1926

• Benjamin F. Pike, aged 85 years 8 months 26 days, passed away at the home of his son, I.D. Pike, at Grass Valley Friday morning, August 20th. Funeral services will be held at the Grass Valley civic auditorium Sunday at 11 a.m., followed by a G.A.R. service at The Dalles at 3:30 p.m.
• P. Altermatt, age 53, former resident of Rufus and The Dalles, died at his home at Albany, Oregon, last Thursday. Funeral services were held at Albany last Sunday.  Mr. Altermatt is survived by his widow, two daughters and four sons.

August 27, 1926

September 3, 1926

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September 17, 1926

• Peter L. Schamel, formerly a resident of this county farming near Grass Valley and more recently near Lind, Washington, died at the Mid-Columbia hospital at The Dalles last Friday evening, following an operation for cancer of the stomach. Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Kate Schamel, and three sons, George C., Lind; Frank V., of Silverton, Oregon, and Ralph R., of Sapulpa, Oklahoma.  Funeral services were held at Woodburn last Sunday.
• Funeral services were held from the Catholic church in The Dalles this last Monday morning for Mrs. Katherine Cronin Engberg of Clem, Gilliam county, who died at her farm home last Saturday. Surviving are her husband, J.W. Engberg; a daughter, Mrs. Jack Sherman, and a grandchild. Engberg taught school in Wasco and Sherman counties for several years before her marriage to Mr. Engberg in the last nineties.  They operated a large farm in the Klondike district when living in this county and were the first to harvest grain with a combine harvester in this section of Oregon.
• C.G. Hulse received word Monday of the death of her mother, Mrs. John Newport, at Norborne, Carroll county, Missouri, occurring last Sunday. Mrs. Newport was 90 years old the first day of last May.  She was the mother of 13 children, 12 of whom are living.  Mrs. Hulse was the middle one of the 13 children.

September 24, 1926

• Tom Fraser and family left Wednesday for Portland where they were called by news of the death of Verdi Ethel Pentacost, sister of Mr. Fraser and also second cousin to the Helyer brothers residing at Kent and Antelope. Funeral services were held at Portland Thursday afternoon, followed by interment at Lincoln Memorial Park. [Pentecost]

October 1, 1926

October 8, 1926

• Verdi (Fraser) Pentecost of 636 Montgomery Drive, Portland, Oregon, died Tuesday, September 21st due to the effects of cerebral hemorrhage, which first occurred in February of 1924, at which time she was living at 151 Lownsdale, Portland, where she maintained a small apartment house. She was the daughter of the late Thomas H. Fraser who came to Oregon from Nova Scotia, and Marie M. Kearney, his wife, who was born and reared near McMinnville, Oregon. Her parents made their home in Portland in later years, but previously were residents of Sherman county, farming about nine miles east of Moro where their son Tom now lives. The deceased was born near LaFayette, Oregon, was educated in the public schools of Yamhill county, later graduating from the LaFayette Seminary at the age of fifteen years.  She was a member of the Evangelical church at LaFayette, and was active in the social work of both school and church while there. She married Ray Pentecost of Tacoma in the year of 1917 and is survived by two children, Vivan aged seven years and Buddy aged six, also by her two sisters Christie Fraser and Mrs. Mable Jones, both of Portland, and her brother Tom Fraser of Moro, Oregon. Previous to her marriage she was a school teacher, and while still a young woman was widely known throughout both Portland and the state, leaving a host of friends.  Pentecost was a devoted mother and a loving sister, and well beloved by all who knew her.  Interment was at Mount Scott, in the Lincoln Memorial Park.

October 15, 1926

October 22, 1926

• Martha E. Vintin, aged 76 years, passed away at the home of her daughter, Mrs. W.W. Walker at Klondike, Thursday, October 14th. Mrs. Vintin had been ill for several months, but had apparently improved during the last few weeks and had just recently returned from a visit with relatives at Portland.
• Martha Evan Vintin. October 14, at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. Lottie A. Walker, Wasco, Martha Vintin, age 76 years, mother of Mrs. Estelle Snook of Madras; Mrs. Sadie S. Gray, Mrs. Margaret Rutledge, Mrs. Manie P. Rollins and Roy Vinton of Portland; George and David of Grass Valley, and Edward Vintin of Conquille.  She is also survived by 14 grandchildren and 15 great grandchildren.  Deceased was taken to Portland where funeral services were held Monday afternoon followed by commitment at Riverview cemetery.  Vintin was actively identified with the early farming and business life of Sherman county, at Grass Valley in the hotel business and previous to that residing on farm property in what is known as the Rosebush district east of Grass Valley.

October 29, 1926

• The funeral of P. Birks who died suddenly last Wednesday night was held here [Wasco] Friday and was one of the largest seen here for some time. The funeral service was conducted by the Masonic lodge of Wasco, Rev. Henry G. Hanson of Moro preaching the sermon.

November 5, 1926

• Geo. P. Fridley passed away last Thursday morning and was buried Saturday in Sunrise cemetery.
• Ermina Brigges Fridley. Funeral services for Ermina Adline Brigges Fridley, who died at the family home at Wasco at 5:45 Thursday morning, was held from the Wasco Methodist church at 11 o’clock Saturday morning under the direction of the Crandall Undertaking company.  Following a funeral sermon by Rev. Frank R. Jackson, interment was in the Wasco cemetery. Mrs. Fridley was born at Albany, Ore. in 1869 and was orphaned at the age of 6 years.  November 5, 1869, she was married to George C. Fridley at Lebanon and the young couple moved to a ranch at Emigrant springs, Sherman county, in 1883.   They made their home there until a few years ago when they moved to Wasco.  Four children, Clyde, Clifford, Dora and Nettie, and her widower survive, all of them being present at her beside at the time of her death.  Another daughter, Callie died in 1918. Besides her immediate family, she leaves five grandchildren and two brothers, Jarvis Brigges of Oakdale, Wash., and Adophus Brigges of Two Rivers, Wash.  She was a member of the Methodist church, becoming affiliated with that denomination upon moving to Sherman county.  [copied as it appeared]`
• Pluma Adeline Walton, aged 77, died last Thursday night at the home of her son, L.V. Walton at Kent. She also leaves one other son, G.R. of Eight Mile; two sisters, Mrs. Jane A. Gardner of Long Beach, Calif., and Mrs. Mary Boyd of Montpelier, Ind.  Mrs. Walton’s residence was in The Dalles.  Her husband, Joseph, died three years ago.  Funeral services was held Sunday from the Zell funeral home, with a minister of the Christian church officiating followed by interment in the IOOF cemetery.

November 12, 1926

• E. Buell, principal of Moro high school, received word late Wednesday of the death of his father at Fall City that day, aged 73 years. Mr. Buell and family left by auto early Thursday morning to attend the funeral.
• and Mrs. J.J. Wiley were visiting with friends in Moro on Tuesday from their home in the Rutledge district. Mrs. Wiley has called by a fatal accident to her father, O.H. Torgerson, on September 30th and who passed away on October 15th. Mr. Torgerson was a pioneer of the Elk River section of Idaho, was 40 years old at the time of his death, father of 12 children of who nine are living.

November 19, 1926

November 26, 1926

December 3, 1926

• Word has been received that Miss Jessie Blair, niece of Jas. Woods of this city, passed away at the family home in Clarinda, Iowa, Thanksgiving day. Miss Blair at one time taught in the Moro public schools.

December 10, 1926

December 17, 1926

• Word was received in Moro Monday morning of the death of George Meloy III at the family home in Corvallis last Sunday.
• Funeral services for Robert Benjamin Hailey, Sherman county pioneer residing near Wasco, who died at The Dalles hospital Sunday morning were held from the Wasco Methodist Episcopal church Tuesday afternoon Rev. C.A. Edwards of The Dalles acted as officiating minister.  The funeral was under the direction of Crandall Undertaking company.
• Patrick Mooney of Arlington died at a hospital in The Dalles last Sunday morning from an illness of several weeks of cancer of the stomach. Mooney was a partner of R.L. Kunsman, formerly of this city, in a grocery and meat market business at Arlington.

December 24, 1926

• Funeral services for David B. Hearing, uncle of Clyde Hearing of Wasco, who died at The Dalles on December 14, was held last Friday at the graveside in IOOF cemetery at The Dalles. Hearing was at one time chief of police at LaGrande.  He was also a former resident of Shaniko, where he operated a blacksmith shop.

December 31, 1926

January 7, 1927

• Word was received in Moro Tuesday afternoon of the death of Mrs. L.W. Rakes of Rufus at the Mid-Columbia hospital at The Dalles late Monday evening following a slight operation performed last Friday. Death is said to have been caused by ether-pneumonia, contracted because of the operation.  Rakes has been assistant teacher of Rufus school, under Mr. Rakes as principal, for the last several years.  Her death will be a district loss to Rufus community and a stock to her many friends.

January 14, 1927

• Rhonda Hubbard Rakes. Rhonda Rakes, aged twenty-eight years, died at the Mid-Columbia hospital in The Dalles the morning of January 4th, 1927, following an operation and a very brief illness.  Deceased was taken for interment to Mt. Vernon, Washington, the home of Mrs. Rakes’ parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hubbard. Mrs. Rakes was born at O’Conner near Mt. Vernon, was graduated from the Mt. Vernon high school and later from the Washington state normal at Bellingham.  Mr. and Mrs. Rakes have both been employed as teachers at the Rufus school, in Sherman county, for three and one-half years.  Mrs. Rakes was highly respected by those of her profession in the county and also in the state and was sincerely loved by the children and parents of the Rufus community.  Her interest in her pupils of the first four grades followed them to their homes and throughout the summer vacations.  Mrs. Rakes also worked with the upper grades and high school children as industrial club leader and as director, assisting her husband in various forms of school entertainments. During her years at Rufus she has left an invaluable impression for good on the minds of the growing children and the community as a whole.  The position of a sincere teacher is difficult to fill, but the love of the children of Rufus will stand as undying proof that Rhonda Hubbard Rakes met the qualifications of a real teacher as given by the First Great Teacher. To mourn her loss Mrs. Rakes leaves her parents and immediate family at Mt. Vernon, Washington; her husband, L.W. Rakes of Rufus, the entire Rufus community and many other friends.

January 21, 1927

January 28, 1927

• Funeral services were held at the Crandall undertaking parlors in The Dalles Thursday afternoon for Ronald Peter, [Buxton] 14 months old son of Mrs. Geneva McDonald, who died last Monday evening.

February 4, 1927

February 11, 1927

• Gus Schilling, resident of Kent, received word late Sunday of the accidental drowning of her brother, Richard O. Koberstein, at 4:40 Sunday afternoon, February 6th, in the North Platte river near the city of North Platte, Nebraska. Mr. Koberstein was 51 years old, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Koberstein of Hastings, Nebraska, where he also lived.  The accident is thought to have happened while Mr. Koberstein was working on the frozen over river, cutting and packing ice for summer use.  The news came to Mrs. Schilling just as she was recovering from a severe attack of flu.

February 18, 1927

February 25, 1927

March 4, 1927

• John T. Lucus. More than 150 people, most of them from Sherman county, attended the funeral of Mrs. John T. Lucus, held from the Crandall Chapel at The Dalles Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock.  Mrs. Lucus, formerly Emma Elizabeth Olds, was born February 4, 1853, in Cincinnati, O., and moved with her parents, to Fort Scott, Kansas, in 1871, she married John Thomas Lucus, and the young couple moved to California four years later.  They came to The Dalles in 1878 and later settled on a homestead in Klickitat county seven miles from The Dalles.  In 1886, they moved to Centerville and in 1893, returned again to Granddalles.  In 1897, they again moved, this time to Wasco, when they spent their declining years.  The husband died at Portland August 10, 1904, and was buried at The Dalles.  Mrs. Lucus spent her last days at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Addie Knight of Oakland, California.  Four sons and four daughters survive of ten children.  Pallbearers were Earl Jones, George Potter, Phil Yates, John T. Johnson and Melvin D. Beer.

March 11, 1927

March 18, 1927

• A.M. Young late last week received word of the death of her oldest living brother, Thomas A. Stayton, at Placerville, California, February 26.
• Funeral services for Mrs. Helen A. Perkins, mother of Mrs. F.B. Peetz of this city, who died at the home of her daughter Mrs. Don Yantis in The Dalles Thursday evening, March 10, was held at Portland last Saturday. Perkins was a sister of Frank Benson, former secretary of state and acting governor of Oregon when George Chamberlin, then governor of Oregon, was first elected United States senator from Oregon.

March 25, 1927

• Funeral services for Mrs. Gladys McMillian Fuller, former resident of Wasco who died at Bend last Sunday, were held from the Methodist church at Wasco Tuesday afternoon under direction of Crandall Undertaking company. Interment was in the Wasco cemetery.

April 1, 1927

• J. Ginn received word Monday of the death of his brother-in-law, Jay Williams, at the hospital in Portland last Sunday evening. Mr. Ginn met the funeral party at The Dalles Monday evening and continued to the family home at Walla Walla.  Mr. Williams was a retired farmer who had an extensive real estate and insurance business at the time of his death.

April 8, 1927

• Funeral services for Earl Shipley, who died at his farm home near Grass Valley Tuesday, April 5, were held at Moro Presbyterian church Thursday afternoon under direction of Zell funeral home, Rev. R.A. Feenstra of this city preaching the funeral sermon, followed by interment in the IOOF cemetery at Moro. Mr. Shipley had been ill for more than two years, following an injury to his knee from the kick of a horse. He was born at Oswego, Oregon, November 5, 1885, and died at his home near Grass Valley April 5, 1927, at the age of 41 years and 5 months.  In 1906 at Portland, Oregon, he was united in marriage to Adelia Pointer.  Of this union three children were born, Vernon, 18 years, Earl aged 10 years; John aged 3 years.  The family moved to Sherman county in 1919, locating near Grass Valley, and have resided here since that time. Surviving Mr. Shipley are his widow; three children; his mother, Mrs. Fannie L. Shipley of Portland; and two brothers, Vernon living near Grass Valley and Carrol residing at Bend.

April 15, 1927

April 22, 1927

• Funeral services for Franklin Payne, pioneer of Oregon aged 76 years, who died last Friday afternoon at his home in The Dalles, were held at 1 o’clock Sunday afternoon at Grass Valley. C.B. Kenyon of the Bible Student denomination officiated, followed by interment in the Grass Valley cemetery under the direction of Crandall’s. The deceased was born in Johnson county, Missouri, and came to Oregon in 1886.  He settled with his family in Grass Valley, where he resided until he moved to The Dalles.  He leaves three children, Ben F. of Grass Valley, James L. of The Dalles, and Minnie Whetshire of Portland; 12 grandchildren.  Mr. Payne was a member of the Odd Fellows lodge of Grass Valley.
• Military funeral services, with members of the American Legion posts of Grass Valley and Moro attending, were held at the auditorium in Grass Valley Tuesday afternoon in honor of Harding G. Dugger, 87 year old farmer of that section, who died at his home near Grass Valley Sunday last. The funeral service was under direction of Zell Funeral Home, Rev. R.A. Freestra of Moro conducting the service.  Interment was in Grass Valley cemetery, a salute being fired as he was placed to rest and taps being blown at the conclusion of the service at the graveside. Harding G. Dugger was born in Pikeville, Tennessee, March 16, 1840.  Died on April 17, 1927, aged 87 years, 1 month and 2 days.  He was united in marriage to Nancy Ann Jenkins August 19, 1860, in Crossfield, Tennessee.  To this union were born seven children, two of whom have passed on.  Surviving are Hattie Dugger of Grass Valley, William R. Dugger of Colfax, Mrs. Mae Peterson of Grass Valley, Alvin Dugger of Bridgeport, Alabama, Mrs. Lillian Turner of Little Rock, Arkansas, twelve grandchildren and four great grandchildren.  He served in the Union Army 1861 to 1865 in company K 1st Tennessee infantry.  He was a lifelong Christian, united with the Baptist church of Grass Valley about three years ago.

April 29, 1927

• Word was received from Mrs. W.F. Hulery of Corvallis under date of April 21 of the death of Virgil McKinney at Wickenburg, Arizona. McKinney is a brother of Mrs. T.E. Hulery of Eugene and a former resident of Moro, and while living here with his sister attended Moro high school.  He is survived by his wife and daughter, his parents, five brothers and two sisters.  Interment was at Corvallis, Oregon.

May 6, 1927

• Harold Shull, residing with his father on the farm north of Hay Canyon junction, committed suicide Tuesday afternoon by shooting himself in the head with a 22 caliber rifle. The young man was 28 years old and had been despondent since a series of accidents last year, the first being a kick in the stomach by a horse and the last occurring when a pulley block used to pull a pile from a deep well fell and injured his head.  Funeral services will be held at Wasco this Friday afternoon under direction of Zell Funeral Home.  [Harold Ralph]

May 13, 1927

• Jessie McDonald Fraser, known to a large number of the old-time residents of Sherman county through friendships and acquaintances formed when she owned and operated the European House at The Dalles, died at her home in Portland this week. At her bedside at the time of her death was her nephew, Mr. Tom Fraser of this city.  Funeral arrangements are under direction of Crandall’s.  Interment will be in the IOOF cemetery at The Dalles.

May 20, 1927

May 27, 1927

• Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon at Grass Valley for Harry King, who died at a hospital in Portland Monday. At the time of his death Mr. King was 72 years of age and had lived in the Grass Valley section for 45 years.  Immediate relatives surviving are a sister, Mrs. Laura J. Barnes of Milwaukie, Oregon; and three brothers, Marcus, of Virginia, Illinois; William, of Springfield, Illinois; and D.P., of Long Creek, Oregon.  [Rufus Harry King]

June 3, 1927

• Charles G. Huls was born at Antioch, Ohio, February 22, 1863, and passed away from this life May 30th, 1927, at the age of 64 years 3 months 8 days. The deceased was united in marriage to Miss Lenora M. Newport at Wyontotee, Kansas.  To this union were born seven children.  There remains to mourn his loss his widow and four children:  H.T. Peugh, Wasco, Oregon; Mrs. O.N. Ruggles, Grass Valley, Oregon;  Mrs. W.A. Ruggles, Moro, Oregon; and Clarence P. Huls, Moro, Oregon; eight grandchildren; three brothers, O.P. Huls, Dufur, Oregon; Richard Huls, Nevada; G.R. Huls, Hood River, Oregon; three sisters: Mrs. Martha Hunt, Wilmington, Ohio; Mrs. Lillie Taylor, Davenport, Iowa; Miss Jennie Huls, Astoria, Oregon. Mr. and Mrs. Huls came to Oregon in 1890.  They resided at Toledo, Oregon, one year; from whence they came to Sherman county in 1891. Funeral services were held at Moro in the American Legion hall Wednesday afternoon under direction of Zell’s.  Interment was in the IOOF cemetery. For 36 years Mr. Huls has been prominently identified with the growth and material prosperity of Sherman county; as a farmer, a horseman, and a merchant.  A large number of beautiful floral offerings evidenced the regard in which he was held by the community.  Rev. R.A. Freenstra, pastor of the Methodist church, gave the funeral message, assisted by the Rev. R.E. Clark, of the Presbyterian church.  The double men’s quartet sang most touchingly a number of the old hymns that Mr. Huls had most liked to hear.  [Charles G. Hulse]
• Funeral services were held last Saturday afternoon at the Methodist church at Moro for the five months old son of Mr. and Mrs. R.A. Havner of Klickitat, Washington. Interment following in the Rose Hill cemetery east of this city.  [Raymond H. Havner, Jr.]

June 10, 1927

• Word was received at the G.C. Akers home this week of the death of Mrs. Titus, mother of Mrs. Wayne Akers, at the family home in Eugene. Funeral services were held at that place Wednesday.  Titus was a member of an old pioneer family of that section of Oregon.
• Funeral services for Dillinger, one of the few remaining early pioneers of Sherman county, were held from the Crandall chapel in The Dalles last Friday. A large number of Sherman county people attended.  Interment was in the IOOF cemetery at The Dalles.

June 17, 1927

• Funeral services for Elmer Gosson who died at the family home at Wasco June 9, were held last Saturday under direction of Crandall of The Dalles. Following the church services, interment was at the Odd Fellows’ cemetery at The Dalles, where the mother of the deceased is buried.

June 24, 1927

• A. Ruggles of Moro, O.N. Ruggles of Grass Valley, and their sister, Mrs. Lu Brown of Hillsboro, were called to Pendleton on Tuesday by news of the death of Albert Rasmussen, husband of their sister, Mrs. Sadie Rasmussen.

July 1, 1927

July 8, 1927

• Funeral services were held from the Zell Funeral Home at The Dalles on Tuesday for Mrs. J.W. Dillinger, 74 years old, a resident of Oregon since 1881. Dillinger was an early pioneer of Sherman county, moving to The Dalles about 23 years ago from their home southeast of Moro.  Besides her husband, two children survive, Mrs. Vesta Wilder of Portland and W.L. Dillinger of Dufur, and six grandchildren.  Mr. Morrison of this city, was a brother-in-law of the deceased.

July 15, 1927

• Albert Medler, Sherman county pioneer, died at the Mid-Columbia hospital Monday afternoon, where he had been about a week. Death terminated a long illness.  Funeral services were held in Wasco Wednesday, at two o’clock, from the Christian church under direction of Crandall’s.  Medler was a member of a prominent family.  He was born in West Virginia in 1875 and came with his parents to Oregon in 1881, settling near Wasco in Sherman county.  He is survived by his mother, Mrs. B.F. Medler, three sisters, Mrs. C.W. Johnson of Wasco, Mrs. E.E. Barnum of The Dalles, Mrs. Ida Woolen of Portland; three brothers, Walter Medler and Julius Medler of Wasco and Fred Medler of Portland.

July 22, 1927

• and Mrs. Andy May, living east of Moro, and Walter A. May of this city, left Moro Wednesday for Portland to attend the funeral services of Mrs. Pearl E. Schmidt, sister of Walter A. May and niece of Andy May. Mrs. Schmidt passed away at the family home in Portland early Sunday morning.  Surviving Mrs. Schmidt are her mother, Mrs. Docia May of Portland; a sister, Mrs. Charles Powell of Portland; three brothers, Walter A. May of Moro, Edgar May of Oregon City, Robert May of The Dalles.  Interment was in Belle Passe cemetery at Woodburn, near the old family home in Marion county.

 

July 29, 1927

• Martha A. Forbes of Moro died Tuesday morning, July 26, following a surgical operation at the Mid-Columbia hospital at the age of 57 years, after a long illness. She is survived by a widower, J.W. Forbes, a son, Frank and a daughter, Cleo, all of Moro; and a daughter, Mrs. Grace Graham of Willard, Wash.; five sisters, Mrs. Cora Isenberg of Hood River, Mrs. Blanche Kautz of West Virginia, Mrs. Maud Pointer of Vernonia, Mrs. Zello Tubbs of Willard and Mrs. Daisy Hennagin of Moro; and two brothers Albert Fuller of Moro and David Fuller of Baker. Funeral services were held at the Zell Funeral Home in The Dalles on Thursday morning, Rev. H.G. Hanson of Woodburn preaching the sermon at the special request of the deceased.  Interment was near the old family home at Hood River.

August 5, 1927

August 12, 1927

• M. Young received word Sunday of the death of his oldest sister, Mrs. A.J. Johnson, age 59, at the family home at Corvallis, occurring at 10 o’clock that morning. Mrs. Johnson was the daughter of Nathan Young who came to Oregon from his Minnesota farm in 1876.  She is survived by Mr. Johnson, prominent banker and financier and former representative of Benton county in the state legislature, and five children who make their home at Corvallis.

August 19, 1927

August 26, 1927

• Wheat Truck Upsets. Julian Quincy Gwynne, aged 30 years, farmer living 12 miles east of Wasco, was fatally injured and F.J. Bradley of Klickitat seriously injured as the result of a wheat truck, which Mr. Gwynne was driving, turning over about three miles east of Klondike last Friday afternoon when meeting an automobile driven by Mrs. F.M. Scott on the recently constructed and graveled market road east of Klondike. Both the loaded wheat truck and the automobile when passing, gave each other plenty of room, but the right front wheel of the truck struck a soft spot at the side of the gravel causing it to topple over.  Bradley, who was a helper worker with the truck, was thrown clear of the wreck, going out of the front seat through the cab.  Gwynne was pinned under the wreck.   At first he was not seriously injured and called out to his helper, asking if he were hurt.  Shortly after, the load and truck suddenly settled down on him, causing a fractured skull, crushed chest, and other injuries which resulted in almost instant death.

September 2, 1927

September 9, 1927

• Funeral services under direction of Crandall’s were held at Wasco last Wednesday for Claud O. Barnett, 10 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. L.T. Barnett, Rev. Arthur Harriman conducting the service. The young man had been ill only a short week at the time of his death, September 6th.

September 16, 1927

September 23, 1927

September 30, 1927

• Hazel Woods was called Bickleton, Washington on Monday by news of the serious illness of her mother, Mrs. Glass, who passed away at the home of her son late Wednesday. Funeral services were held at Bickleton September 30th.

October 7, 1927

• Funeral services for P. Hardin, pioneer Sherman county farmer was held from Crandall’s chapel at The Dalles Tuesday morning, Rev. C.A. Edwards officiating. Interment was at the Moro cemetery the same afternoon. The deceased was born August 24, 1845, at Rutherford, N.C.  He lived until 1893 in Alabama, coming to Hood River that year.  Five years later he moved to Sherman county and took a ranch east of Moro. He leaves four sons and five daughters.  Sons are John A., The Dalles; S.V., Ashland; J.W., Lewiston; R.N., Baker; daughters, Mrs. E. Sink, Portland; Mrs. W.L. Taylor, Pendleton; Mrs. Minnie Rich, Yakima; Mrs. I.E. Fields, Grass Valley and Mrs. E. Ginn, The Dalles.  Ten grandchildren also survive. Mrs. Hardin, mother of the children, died about 22 years ago and is also buried at Moro.

October 14, 1927

• News Items from Kent. After an illness of five days J. E. Norton passed on to the Great Beyond Friday evening.  She leaves a husband, four children, father and mother, brothers and sisters, and a host of warm friends.

October 21, 1927

• Funeral services were held at Portland on Tuesday, October 19th, for Mrs. Clara Sibley, mother of Professor Homer Sibley of Moro, who died at the family home in that city.

October 28, 1927

• Funeral services for Mrs. Nellie Turner Clark, who died at The Dalles October 21 at the age of 73, were held from Crandall’s Tuesday afternoon. Clark came to The Dalles nearly 50 years ago, where she married Bates Clark.  They moved to Moro about 35 years ago, living here for a number of years.  At one time Mr. Clark owned the Red Barn livery business and later a livery stable at Rufus.  They moved to Mabton Washington, about 12 years ago where Mr. Clark died.

November 4, 1927

November 11, 1927

November 18, 1927

• B. Florer, a former resident of Moro who has during the last few years made Wasco his home, died at The Dalles on November 15th from the effects of a 2-year old injury.

November 25, 1927

• M. Leslie died at Yakima, Washington, November 16th, at the age of 70 years. He was one of the very early pioneer farmers of Sherman county and was appointed the first sheriff of this county when it was set off from Wasco county in 1889.  He served in this capacity for six years, later moving to eastern Washington where he lived at Priest Rapids on the Columbia River.

December 2, 1927

December 9, 1927

• The young son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Lucus of Lexington who was reported to be sick last week at Wasco with infantile paralysis, died last Friday. The family were visiting relatives at Wasco during Thanksgiving week, when the boy became ill.  Since his death it is said that injuries received in a football game, played just before his going to Wasco, may be responsible for his sickness.

December 16, 1927

December 23, 1927

December 30, 1927

• In Memorium. David Shearer, aged 80, who was buried at Oakville, Ore., December 23, was Linn county’s first rural mail carrier.  He carried mail on the rural route out of Shedd more than 30 years ago and served as a carrier from Shedd and Tagent for more than 25 years.  He was retired seven years ago.  Shearer died at the home of his son, W.Y. Shearer, near Shedd.  The other children are Andrew and J.A. Shearer of Wasco, Earl and Lawrence Shearer of Tangent, Mrs. W.C. Allingham of Mount Shasta and Mrs. T.J. Quick of Oakland, Cal.  Mr. Shearer was a native of Ireland.

January 6, 1928

• E.J. Powell received telegraphic word Wednesday that her younger sister, Mrs. Rebecca Carey, had passed away at her home in Caldwell, Idaho, that day from bronchial pneumonia. Interment will be at the old Carey home at Burns, Oregon.

January 13, 1928

• News Items from Kent. Quite a number of sympathizing friends attended the little Barnet baby‘s funeral at Grass Valley Monday.
• In Memorium. The funeral of Ray Robert, infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Barnet of Clem, Ore. took place from the Methodist church at Grass Valley Monday afternoon, Mrs. R.A. Feenstra preaching the sermon.  Dorothy Foss and Emmajean Stephens sang accompanied by Velma Powell at the piano.  and Mrs. Barnet, parents of the baby, are former residents of Sherman county and have many friends and relatives here who remember them with sympathy at this hour of their trial.  Many beautiful floral offerings were expressive of the thoughtfulness of loved ones.

January 20, 1928

January 27, 1928

February 3, 1928

February 10, 1928

• Word was received Sunday by Mrs. Dewey Thompson of the accidental shooting and death of her father, Mr. E. Peake, that day when hunting near Oregon City in company with his nephew and son-in-law. Mr. and Mrs. Thompson left for Portland early Monday.  Funeral services were held at Portland Wednesday, followed by interment at Lincoln Memorial Park.

February 17, 1928

• L.P. Haven of Wasco died suddenly Sunday night shortly after being admitted to a hospital at The Dalles. Funeral services in charge of Zell funeral home were conducted from the Christian church at Wasco, Rev. Arthur Harriman officiating.
• Death Claims Mrs. Rohr. The Sherman County Observer was printed this week one day ahead of usual schedule to permit Editor C.L. Ireland to leave Moro late Wednesday night to attend the funeral of his sister at Portland on the following day.  G.L. Rohr died at her home in Portland on Monday morning, February 6th, after an illness of several weeks.

February 24, 1928

• Funeral services were held at Battle Ground, Wash., last Saturday in memory of Mrs. J.C. Teals who died at the family home at that place last week. [Teale]

March 2, 1928

• Funeral services were held for James Arthur Tomlin at Moro Methodist church Sunday afternoon under the direction of Zell Funeral Home, Rev. R.A. Freenstra preaching the sermon. Death came as the result of an automobile accident near Burns, Oregon, when the car in which he was driving to work, in company with his brother Laurel, upset when the front wheels cramped.  His brother was thrown clear to the car, but Jim was caught and crushed under the weight.  He was taken to a hospital at Boise, Idaho, where death came on Thursday, February 23. James Arthur Tomlin was born November 12, 1886, in Cedar county, Missouri.  He moved with his parents to Moro in 1888, where he has resided until recent years.  He was married to Caroline Eilers in 1913.  He is survived by his wife; three sons, Arthur, Richard and Robert and one daughter, Marie; his father, James Tomlin of Moro; five brothers, Edward of Portland, Carl of Wasco, Ben of San Francisco, George of Moro, Laurel of Bend; two sisters, Mrs. W.Y. Shearer of Shedd, Oregon, and Mrs. H.O. Kunsman of Moro.
• Luella Lela Teale, 57, died February 16th at her home at Battle Ground, where she had lived 15 years. She was born in Illinois, came with her parents to Yamhill county, Or., in 1878, moved later to Sherman county, Oregon, and from there to Clark county, Wash.  The widower, J.C. Teale, one son, Howard A. of Ashland, Or., one daughter, Mrs. J.A. Armstrong of Patterson, N.J., one brother and two sisters survive.  Funeral services was held February 17th, at Knapp’s chapel.  N.M. Fields of Camas officiating.
• Funeral services for John Howard Bowles, 64-year-old resident of Wasco, who died Saturday at the Mid-Columbia hospital after an illness of about two years, was held from the Zell funeral home in The Dalles Tuesday afternoon, under the auspices of the Christian Science church. Interment was in the Odd Fellows’ cemetery. Hugh Bela, Fred Hennegan, W.H. Burres, Earl Jones, Everett Watkins and Delbert Hull, all of Wasco, acted as pall bearers.  Bowles had been a resident of Wasco since 1894 and at one time owned the Wasco News-Enterprise.  He leaves two daughters, Mrs. Guy Andrews of Wasco and Mrs. Meta Nosworthy of Vancouver, B.C., and one son, Howard, of Los Angeles.

March 9, 1928

• G.C. Akers was called to Eugene late last Saturday night by news of the death of her 2 1/2 year old grandson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Akers of Eugene, following an attack of intestinal poisoning.

March 16, 1928

March 23, 1928

March 30, 1928

April 6, 1928

• Rufus Local News Notes. Dora Rayburn died last Wednesday at her home in Portland.
• Funeral services were held at Wasco last Sunday for Mrs. Frank Rayburn, a former Sherman County pioneer who died at her home in Portland last Wednesday. [Dora D.]

April 13, 1928

• Rufus Local News. Art Junky, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Striker, passed away Saturday night.  Her death is grieved by the surrounding community.  We also extend her parents our deepest sympathy.  Her home was in Colfax, Washington.  [Juhnke]

April 20, 1928

April 27, 1928

May 4, 1928

May 11, 1928

May 18, 1928

• National Pioneer Passes. Funeral services for N. Wiley, Wasco county pioneer, brother of J.J. Wiley of Moro, who died Saturday afternoon, was held from Crandall’s chapel at The Dalles Tuesday afternoon.  W.J. Sutherland of the Christian Science church officiated, and Shirley Wolff sang during the services.  Interment was in the Odd Fellows cemetery.  Members of the Masonic lodge, of which the deceased was the oldest member in the state, had charge of the graveside services. Mr. Wiley’s life was replete with experiences of the early mining days.  He was successively a freighter, miner, stockman, butcher, hotel keeper and rancher.   He had a part in almost every enterprise of early days.  He was acquainted with most of the influential men who came from this section of the country and, when a boy of 19 drove the team and rig which carried Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas on a 400-mile stumping campaign through Wisconsin and Illinois. Mr. Wiley was born in Wisconsin May 9, 1839.  On August 27, 1858, he was hired by a livery stable owner named Blodgett to go to Warren, Ill., and transport Lincoln and Douglas on a six-week’s speaking tour through the two northern states. Mr. Wiley had his own rig and procured the finest span of horses he could find.  The next few weeks were among those which the elderly man never forgot, and of which he never tired of telling.  He recalled a great many incidents of that period when he was in intimate contact with the two outstanding men of the nation at that time. In 1860, he came across the plains, celebrating his 21st birthday anniversary at Des Moines.  He arrived at Fort Dalles September 3, 1860, and here cast his first presidential vote — in favor of Douglas, for Mr. Wiley was a staunch democrat. For many years he freighted in eastern Oregon, particularly on the portage between the Columbia and Snake rivers, and in the eastern Oregon mining districts.  He hauled the logs for the first Masonic hall in the Pacific northwest, and was a charter member of Oregon lodge No. 1, A.F.&A.M.
• Henry Gosch, Pioneer, Dies. Funeral services for Henry Gosch, Sherman county pioneer who died at The Dalles Sunday morning after a lingering illness, was held Tuesday afternoon.  P.A. Hilgendorf of Hood River officiated followed by interment in the Rose cemetery east of Moro under the directions of Callaway’s. Mr. Gosch was born May 21, 1857, at Rensfelt, Holstein, Germany.  Leaving his native country in 1875, he came to New York and later to Scott county, Ia.  In 1877, he came by rail to San Francisco and to Portland and The Dalles by boat. He filed on a Sherman county homestead August 1, 1883.  He was married April 4, 1886, to Pauline Rieker of Horkheim, Wurttemberg, Germany, and to this union were born three daughters, the first-born dying in infancy and a daughter, Emma, passing in 1906. In September, 1909, the family moved to The Dalles.  His widow and daughter, Magdalene, survive him.

May 25, 1928

• Funeral services were held at the Christian church in Wasco Monday afternoon in memory of Mrs. Lee A. Everett, sister-in-law of Chas. Everett. [Mary Louise]
• Margaret McCallum. In the evening of a busy life at the age of more than 81 years death called to Mrs. Margaret McCallum early Monday morning at the home of her daughter, Mrs. J.F. Foss, in Moro on May 21.  She was one of the early pioneer settlers of Sherman county and had lived to see the country grow from a wild waste of waving bunch grass to the successful and prosperous farming community it is at the present time. Funeral services in her memory were held Wednesday afternoon under direction of Zell Funeral Home at the Wasco [?] Presbyterian church, Rev. Henry G. Hanson, pastor of the Presbyterian church at Woodburn and former pastor of Moro Presbyterian church, a close personal friend of the deceased, preached the sermon.  Most beautiful were the floral tributes that had been offered by friends of Mrs. McCallum and the family which graced the auditorium of the church while the service was being held. Mrs. Margaret McCallum was born December 25, 1846, in Cornwall, Ontario, Canada, age 81 years 4 months 26 days, died at Moro, Oregon, May 21, 1928.  She was married to Daniel McCallum October 3, 1871, at Cornwall.  Three children were born to them.  Alice Holder and Mrs. Margaret Kuks, born at Cornwall, Canada, both of who have passed on, and Mrs. Jennie Foss of Moro. They left Canada and lived a few years in Wisconsin.  Pioneering to Oregon in 1884, they settled on a farm near Moro.  Her husband passed away November 23, 1890, since which time she has made her home with her daughter, Mrs. Jennie Foss of Moro, who survives her.  She is also mourned by three sisters, Mrs. Agnes McDonald of Spokane, Miss Jane McKay and Mrs. Annie Robinson both of Minneapolis, Minn., also by seven grandchildren, four great grandchildren, eight nieces and six nephews. Mrs. McCallum came to the Moro Presbyterian church by letter on November 10, 1888, having previously been a member of the Monkland Presbyterian church.
• Julia E. Ramsey, mother of John M. DeMoss of Wasco, passed away at her home in Tualatin at 7:30 a.m. Tuesday, May 22. Funeral services in memory of the departed was held at Tualatin on Thursday, followed by interment in Tualatin cemetery.  Ramsey was for many years a resident of Sherman county and at the time of her death was 65 years old.

June 1, 1928

• Word was received by O.A. Ramsey on Tuesday that his uncle, Lossen, had died that morning at Heppner. The news was unexpected as no previous word had been received of Mr. Lossen’s illness. Funeral services were held at Heppner Decoration Day.  Mr. Lossen was an old timer in Oregon county, having been a miner, stockman and stage driver in the days when the state was in the making.
• Father Taken By Death. Samuel Thomas, aged 76 years, father of Mrs. C.L. Ireland of Moro and F.J. Thomas of The Dalles, died in the last named city Sunday afternoon, May 20th, following a long continued illness.  Thomas has lived at Randall, Minnesota, nearly continuously for the past 50 years.  He visited at Moro in 1902 and worked that summer in this county during the harvest season.  Altho urged to come to Oregon at different times in past years, he preferred to remain in Minnesota until about ten days ago when his son went east and prevailed upon him to come west. Funeral services were held at Zell’s Funeral Home in The Dalles on Thursday, Rev. Arthur Hicks of Moro conducting the services.  Special vocal numbers were sung by Mr. and Mrs. Frank Sexton of The Dalles.  Interment was in the IOOF cemetery at The Dalles.

June 8, 1928

• Lester Heath, pioneer resident of Grass Valley, died in The Dalles on Monday. Funeral services were held from Zell’s Funeral Home at The Dalles Thursday afternoon, Rev. E.C. Cofer officiating, followed by interment in Grass Valley cemetery.
• Albert S. Porter, pioneer resident of Sherman county, died in The Dalles Tuesday morning following an illness of more than two years. Funeral services were held at the Methodist church in Wasco Friday afternoon, Rev. F.R. Jackson officiating.  Interment will be in Wasco cemetery.  Porter has been an employee of the W. W. M. Co. for twenty years, in charge of their Hay Canyon warehouse.

June 15, 1928

June 22, 1928

• Maren Callesen Skov, daughter of Iver Bertelsen and Mariel Skov, was born June 20, 1842, in Denmark. Died June 17, 1928, at the home of her son in Goldendale, Wash., following a sickness of several months. She came to America June 20, 1865, and was united in marriage to Jess Marcusen Hansen the same year, settling in Iowa.  To this union five children were born, Annie Marie, who passed away when a child; Emma Bethelda Wilder, who passed away in 1918; Martin of Sisters, Oregon; Hannah Christena Mack, of Yakima, Washington; Iver B. Hansen of Goldendale. In 1865 they moved to St. Joseph, Missouri, and seven years later moved to San Francisco, California.  In 1886 the family came to Sherman county, Oregon, where Mr. Hansen took up land, being one of the earliest pioneers in this part of Oregon. Mr. Hansen passed away July 31, 1899, and since that time deceased has made her home with her youngest son at Goldendale. At the age of 14 Mrs. Hansen united with the Lutheran Church and has lived a Christian life.  At the time of her death she was a member of the Presbyterian church at Goldendale.  She leaves to mourn her loss two sons, one daughter, thirteen grandchildren, nine great grandchildren and a host of friends. Funeral services were held at the Chapman Parlor in Goldendale Wednesday, June 20, 1928.  Interment was at Rose cemetery, east of Moro, by the side of her husband. A precious one from us has gone, A voice we loved is stilled. A place is vacant in our home, Which never can be filled.

June 29, 1928

• J. Ginn was called to Walla Walla on Monday by news of the death of his sister-in-law, Mrs. Walter Ginn, in that city last Saturday.

July 6, 1928

July 13, 1928

July 20, 1928

• Ray Mahler of Wasco died at a hospital in The Dalles last Thursday following a brief illness. She is survived by her husband, one child and her parents.  Funeral services were held at Beaverton Monday afternoon.

July 27, 1928

• William Kolher was killed in an automobile wreck near here Saturday. He was returning to his home from the Kopke ranch about two o’clock in the afternoon, and evidently lost control of his car going down a steep hill and at a short curve ran off the bridge across the canyon on the road west of the Louis Schadewitz farm.  He was found by Mrs. Oliver Schadewitz at about three-thirty and was dead then.  The body was taken to The Dalles and is at Zell’s.  Telephone from Zell Tuesday stated that his relatives were in The Dalles and that the funeral would be held there Wednesday at 10 a.m.
• Emma Florence Hoskinson was born August 23, 1966, at Springfield, Missouri; she was married to E.A. Hoskinson March 21, 1888, in Umatilla county, Oregon, and came to Sherman county with Mr Hoskinson in 1902. She passed to the life beyond on Thursday, July 19, 1928, at Salem, Oregon.  She had been visiting with her sister-in-law at Monmouth, Oregon, up to within a very short time of her death. Mrs. Hoskinson was a member of the noted Hampton pioneer family of Umatilla and Polk counties, in Oregon.  At the hour of her funeral services at Moro on Sunday, July 22, she had three sisters laid to rest in the Moro cemetery.  Originally the family numbered 12 children. Surviving Mrs. Hoskinson are: her husband, E.A. Hoskinson; her son, Guy L. Hoskinson; and six grandchildren, residents of Kent, Oregon; two sisters, Mrs. J.J. Martin of Moscow, Idaho, and Mrs. J.H. Brown of Portland, Oregon; and one brother, T.R. Hampton of Pendleton

August 3, 1928

August 10, 1928

August 17, 1928

• Kent Local News. Feeling has been running rather high over the auto wreck Saturday night when Alfred Marx was killed by an auto driven by Millard Marlin of Grass Valley.  Although Marlin is blamed many think that the parties with him are more to blame than he is.  Remarks are freely made that it is time for Sherman county to rid herself of a few undesirable citizens.
• Motor Cycle Rider Killed. Alfred Marx, 21, of Salem was instantly killed when a motorcycle he was riding collided with an automobile driven by Millard Marlin of Grass Valley at a curve on the Sherman highway, near Kent, last Saturday night.  A coroner’s jury, impaneled the next day by Dr. C.L. Poley decided that careless driving on the part of both persons caused the wreck. The body of the victim of the crash was sent to Salem where funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon.  Following the funeral service, it was said that the father of the young man would come to Sherman county from Salem and seek to have the coroner’s jury again impaneled for the purpose of securing details of the accident and fixing responsibility for the crash.
• Killed by Passing Car. John P. Brackett of Rufus, aged 65 years, died late Monday night from injuries he received about 5 o’clock the same afternoon when struck by a car driven by E.G. Cornwall of Portland. Bracket was employed by the state highway maintenance department and had just finished his day’s work on a repair job about a mile east of Rufus.  According to the report of the accident, made to traffic officers by Cornwall, Bracket was standing with his back to traffic and stepped in front of the Cornwall machine just as it was passing.  The impact of the accident threw Mr. Brackett, who is a heavy man, about 15 feet and forced the radiator of the car backward off its frame support. Mr. Brackett was taken to Rufus and an ambulance summoned from The Dalles to take him to the hospital.  He exhibited unusual stamina in being able to walk to and from the ambulance.  The injuries proved fatal about eight hours after the accident.  Funeral services were held at Eagle Creek in Clackamas county Thursday afternoon under direction of Callaway’s of The Dalles. Mr. Brackett was born in Missouri August 5, 1863.  He had lived at Rufus for 30 years, owning part of a section of land near that city.  For the past five years he had worked for the state highway department at intervals between farming seasons. He is survived by his widow, Alice; a daughter, Rose June, and his father, H.H. Brackett; brothers Allen and Joe of The Dalles and Herman of Rufus, and sisters, Mrs. W.M. Oehman of Newport, Ore., Mrs. Frances Camp of Portland and Mrs. Dora Clester of Eagle Creek.

August 24, 1928

• Terminating an illness of less than ten days, death came to Arthur Phillips at 12:15 a.m. Tuesday morning at a hospital in The Dalles where he had gone for surgical and medical relief. Phillips was a resident of Moro district for more than a quarter of a century; first as a farmer and owner of a hay baling machine, followed by stock and fruit interests.  He later moved to Moro where he owned a hotel business, selling that to take up diversified gardening.  About ten years ago he bought the Belshee harness shop and business. Arthur Phillips was born at Riverside, California, January 25, 1873; died August 21, 1928 at The Dalles at the age of 55 years.  Besides Mrs. Phillips to whom he was married at Yakima 26 years ago, there remains a son Anton, address unknown, by a former marriage and Grace Phillips, adopted daughter 14 years old.  Deceased was a member of the Catholic church, uniting with the church very early in life.  He was also a member of Moro lodge of Woodmen. Funeral services under direction of Zell Funeral Home was conducted from Moro Methodist church Wednesday afternoon, Rev. R.A. Feenstra preaching the sermon.  Acting as pallbearers were W.S. Powell, Hugh Chrisman, J.C. Freeman, W.A. May, A.M. Young and Geo. B. Bourhill.  Interment was in IOOF cemetery at Moro.  A large number of friends and neighbors attended the funeral services and many floral gifts of friendship and esteem were draped about the casket.

August 31, 1928

• Word received this week by Mr. Wiley from Mrs. J.J. Wiley who was called to Spokane last week by news of the death of her brother-in-law, states that her sister, Mrs. Lizzie Roberts, and Mrs. Roberts’ daughter are both very ill following the shock of their loss and that consequently Mrs. Wiley is indefinite as to her plans to returning to Moro.

September 7, 1928

September 14, 1928

• Funeral services were held at the Moro Presbyterian church on Tuesday afternoon in memory of Dan McLachlan who died at his home in Portland September 9th following an illness of several weeks. At the time of his death Mr. McLachlan was 84 years old.  He was one of the early pioneer farmers of Sherman county, residing for many years in the Monkland district until his removal to Portland.  He is survived by his widow, Frances McLachlan; three daughters, Margaret Woods of Dufur, Bessie Axtell of Moro, and Stella Rennin of Portland; one son, Dan Jr. of Moro, and a number of grandchildren. The funeral sermon was by Rev. Edwards of Portland, pastor of Mr. McLachlan’s home church.  Pallbearers were old friends of the deceased, Mr. Hailey of Portland and A.M. Wright, R.W. Pinkerton, A.C. Thompson of Moro.  A special quartet, Rev. and Mrs. R.A. Feenstra and Mr. and Mrs. G.C. Akers, was assisted by Mrs. M.G. Melzer as pianist. Attending the service from out of the county were Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Hale of Pendleton, Mr. and Mrs. Gibson Morrison of Adams, Oregon, and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Morrison of Long Beach, California.
• Funeral services will be held at the Methodist church in Wasco this Friday afternoon in memory of William Walker, former resident of Wasco recently residing at Marshfield. R.A. Freestra, pastor of Moro Methodist church will conduct the service. Mr. Walker was born and raised near Wasco and at one time in early days attended the old Neece school on the north side of Gordon Ridge.  About 20 years ago he owned the Wasco News, moving from Wasco to engage in the newspaper business at Redmond and later at The Dalles, where he published a daily paper advocating prohibition strenuously during the home rule and local option era.

September 21, 1928

• W. Pinkerton and wife, Jas. Woods and wife and Anson Woods drove to White Salmon last Saturday to attend the funeral services held in memory of Mrs. Harriet Comstock. Deceased was a former resident of Sherman county, living near Kent, and was within one month of being 94 years old at the time of her death.

September 28, 1928

October 5, 1928

October 12, 1928

October 19, 1928

• Oehman Funeral. Funeral services in charge of Callaway Undertaking Co. of The Dalles were held at Wasco last Saturday in memory of Wm. Oehman who died recently at his home at Newport, Oregon. Mr. Oehman came to Sherman county about 35 years ago from Kansas.  He purchased a tract of land about 7 miles northeast of Wasco and became known as one of the most successful farmers in that area.  He owned in excess of 1200 acres of fine wheat land. About 1916, he rented his Sherman county land and bought a tract at Summit, near Corvallis, where he farmed for a few years, later moving to Newport.  He was married to Mrs. Lottie Reid about 20 years ago.  No children were born to the couple.  Mrs. C.M. Kuypers of Rufus, a sister, survives, in addition to the widow.

October 26, 1928

• Funeral services were held at Yakima on Monday in memory of William Gilmore, brother of Mrs. John Fulton of Wasco. Gilmore was a native son of Oregon.  He had lived in the Yakima valley for 29 years previous to his demise and at one time served as deputy sheriff under H.L. Rucker.  He is survived by two sons and four daughters.
• The body of John Chamberlain, 70 year old Sherman county farm worker, was found on a farm near Wasco early Saturday morning. Deceased had been suffering from heart trouble and it was supposed that this was the cause of his death.  Funeral services were held at the graveside at the Odd Fellows cemetery near The Dalles the same afternoon, under the direction of Crandall Undertaking Parlor.
• M. Williams, pioneer merchant and banker of The Dalles, died at a hospital in Portland last Saturday morning, following an operation to which he submitted three weeks ago. At the time of his death he was manager of A. M. Williams & Co. dry goods store, president of the state wide chain stores of the Willams Self-Service Co., president of the First National bank of The Dalles, and president of Walther-Williams Auto Co.  Funeral services were held in The Dalles on Tuesday.

November 2, 1928

• H. Adams and wife were called to Chehalis, Wash., Monday on account of the death of Mrs. Adam’s father. We did not learn full particulars but understand that he was accidently killed.
• Alta Ireland, housekeeper for E.W. Newton, was called to Hood River last week by the unexpected news of the death of her husband, who had been ailing for several months. Deceased was a brother of Ben Ireland, formerly of Kent and now living at Hood River.

November 9, 1928

November 16, 1928

• Kent Local Items. Word was received here Monday that Mrs. Warren Norton was dead.  E. Norton and J.H. Kelly left Monday afternoon to attend the funeral at Airlie in Polk county.
• and Mrs. A.M. Wright drove to Pendleton last Sunday to attend the funeral service held in that city in memory of L.E. Pentland, brother of E.B. Pentland of Halsey and Sherman county.
• James Harvey Smith, resident of Sherman county for more than a half century, died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Etha Schilling, at Grass Valley last Friday. Funeral services were conducted from the Grass Valley auditorium Sunday afternoon followed by interment in the Grass Valley cemetery under the direction of Zell’s. Members of The Dalles Elks lodge had charge of the services at the auditorium, and members of the Odd Fellows’ lodge of Grass Valley officiated at the graveside.  Smith was a charter member of the Odd Fellows and a member of The Dalles Elks lodge. Mr. Smith was born in New Brunswick, Canada, February 4, 1853.  He came to California as a boy, and at the age of 21, moved to Tygh ridge, where he took up a homestead.  After living there five years, he moved to Grass Valley, where he spent the remaining 50 years of his life.  He would have been 76 years of age next February. He is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Schilling and Mrs. Mary Cronk, of Hoquiam, Wash., and a son, Harvey L. Smith of The Dalles; two brothers, Thomas of Yakima and Albert of Ione, and seven grandchildren.

November 23, 1928

November 30, 1928

• Funeral services were held in Moro Wednesday afternoon under direction of Crandall’s in memory of Mrs. Elizabeth McGahhey, former resident of Sherman county, who died Monday in Portland at the home of her granddaughter, Mrs. E. Sink, at the advanced age of 92 years. Deceased leaves nine children, John Hardin and Mrs. Elwood Ginn of The Dalles, two granddaughters in Yakima, one each in Pendleton and Portland, a grandson in Grangeville, Idaho, and in Baker and Bonanza, Oregon, and twelve great-grandchildren. [McGaha] [Place of burial: Moro Cemetery, Moro, Oregon]

December 7, 1928

December 14, 1928

• The body of James Henry Duncan, aged 91 years, who died at McDonald’s ferry, 20 miles east of Wasco on the banks of the John Day river Sunday, was sent by Crandall’s to Sherwood, Ore., for burial. Duncan was born in Chilicothe, Mo., February 21, 1838.  He had made his home for several years at Sherwood, and was visiting a son, Montie Fleet Duncan, when death occurred.  The son is a dairyman.  He also leaves another son and a widow at Sherwood.
• Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon at Callaway’s Chapel in The Dalles in memory of Mrs. O.R. Knapp, to whom death came suddenly Sunday morning, following a failure of the heart action at the family home east of Moro. Rev. Joseph Knotts conducted the service. J.M. Lowe sang.  Deceased was taken to Pullman, Wash., and laid to rest beside her father.  Beside Mr. Knapp, she leaves her mother, four brothers and three children by a former marriage.

December 21, 1928

• Funeral services were held at Grass Valley on Tuesday in memory of the six months old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arch Ryssell. [copied as it appeared] [Russell]
• J. R. Morgan received word last week of the death of her sister-in-law at the family home in North Carolina.

December 28, 1928

• Word was received last week by Mrs. Celeste Fowler and family at Rufus of the death in Kansas City of Thomas A. Fowler, brother of Mr. Fowler, deceased, and uncle of J.S. Fowler, of Rufus. The Kansas City paper, speaking of the death says: “Thomas A. Fowler, retired Pettis county farmer and stockman and former circuit clerk of this county, died at the age of 94 at the home of his nephew, Jay G. Fowler in Kansas City.  Death was due to pneumonia. Mr. Fowler was circuit clerk from 1887 until 1895.  He was born in Boone county, Mo., near Columbia, coming with his parents to Pettis county in 1840.  The Fowlers settled on what is known as the Limestone Valley farm, at a time when Georgetown was the county seat and Sedalia, prairie. Fowler was educated at the old Arator school and the University of Missouri.  He married Miss Alice Bohannon in 1883, she died 17 years ago. Mr. Fowler was the last of the family of 15 children.  One grandchild, Ruby Graham, son of Glenn Graham and Mr. Fowler’s daughter, Anna survives.   Dr. J.J. Fowler of Sedalia is a nephew.  Two other nephews, Ben and John Fowler, and a niece, Miss Rose Fowler, also survive.”
• County Notes. Wasco Local Items.  Edd Smith, brother of Victor Smith, passed away in the veteran’s hospital at Portland last week.

 

• County Notes. Wasco Local Items. Bryan Van Gilder passed away in California on Monday of this week.  The funeral will be held here on Friday at two o’clock, services to be at the grave.  [Violet M. (Crane)]

January 4, 1929

• County Notes. Shaniko Local Items.  Mike Conroy, brother of Pete Conroy, was buried in The Dalles last week.  Those from here to attend the funeral were Ed. Wakerlig, John Joyce and Pete Conroy.

January 11, 1929

• Anton Ricardo, died rather suddenly at the Kent hotel Thursday morning. The funeral was held Friday, interment in the IOOF cemetery here.  The deceased was an early settler here and at the time of his death owned his original homestead north of town, but has lived at the hotel since he lost his house by fire 15 to 16 years ago.  He lost his mind to some extent several years ago and A.A. Dunlap was appointed guardian of his business.  No relatives or no known heirs, but the general opinion is that Mrs. Pluemke is richly deserving of what is left of the property as she has taken all care of him for years at a very reasonable compensation.
• J. Harper, father of J.C. Harper formerly a resident of Moro, died December 29. Funeral services were held at the home at Corvallis on January 1, with all nine children present.
• Funeral services for Laurence McMillen of Wasco, who died at Riverside, Calif., last week, were held from the Wasco Christian church Friday afternoon, Rev. Harrison officiating. Interment was in the Wasco cemetery under the direction of Crandall’s.  The deceased was the son of Edward H. McMillen, member of a pioneer Sherman county family.

January 18, 1929

• Kent Local Items. The whole community was shocked to hear of the sudden death of Irene, little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W.E. Beyer, at about 8 o’clock Monday evening.  We understand that the cause was pronounced spinal meningitis.  Burial was in the IOOF cemetery Tuesday afternoon.  M. Zell having charge.  All are extending their sympathy to the bereaved family.

January 25, 1929

• Kent Local Items. and Mrs. Beyer wish to extend their thanks to all who assisted them in their recent bereavement.
• Kent Local Items. Understand that returns from the state laboratory are that the disease that killed little Irene Beyer was spinal meningitis, and that the doctors think there is no danger to any further spread of it.
• Card of Thanks. We wish to thank the neighbors and friends from their help and sympathy during the sickness and death of our little Irene. – Mr. and Mrs. W.E. Beyer and and Mrs. Geo. W. Howell and family.

February 1, 1929

• Roy W. Belshee of Wasco passed away on Wednesday of this week, following an illness of several weeks. Funeral services were to be held from the Methodist church at Wasco on Saturday afternoon.  [Mary Jeanette]

February 8, 1929

• Mary Jeanette McBain was born in Sleepy Eye, Minnesota, December 22, 1880, and came to Oregon in June, 1900. She was married to Roy Belshee November 23, 1902, at Portland, Oregon, shortly after coming to Sherman county, where they have since resided. She passed away at Portland, Oregon, on January 30, 1929, at 12:50 p.m., at the age of 48 years, one month and eight days. She leaves, besides her husband, one daughter, Mrs. W. Emalyn Wilson and one son, Leroy Belshee, and one grandson, Jerrol Wilson, all of Wasco, her father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. A. McBain, Mankato, Minnesota, two sisters, Mrs. George N. Hanson, of Minneapolis and Miss Ethel McBain, of Mankato. The last named sister was with her at the time of her death, two brothers having passed on. Mrs. Belshee grew to womanhood in Sleepy Eye, Minnesota, graduating with high honors, being valedictorian of her class, later teaching school there. Early in life she became a member of the Congregational church of Sleepy Eye, but in 1904 transferred her membership to the Methodist church at Spaulding Chapel, seven miles east of Moro, Oregon, near their first Sherman county home and recently transferred her membership to the Methodist church at Wasco, where she was an active member until the time of her death, having taught the Bible class in Sunday school until the last Sunday before Christmas. She was also an active member of Marion Rebecca lodge, No. 127 and Annie Fulton Chapter, No. 124, having held highest offices in both organizations, also a member of Naidie Temple, Daughters of the Nile of Portland, Oregon.  Belshee will be greatly missed from the membership of the organizations with which she has been affiliated, as well as her wide circle of friends, for to “know her was to love her.” While in Portland, during Mr. Belshee’s last illness, Mr. Belshee had the pleasure of meeting a school mate from her old home in Sleepy Eye, who graduated from the same class with Mrs. Belshee.  He spoke repeatedly of the high regard in which she was held among her girlhood friends, being considered as a sister among them. [copied as it appeared]
• Town Talk. Judge Wm. Henrichs received word Sunday morning of the death of his sister, Mrs. Martha Jahn, at the family home in Dixon, California.

February 15, 1929

February 22, 1929

• Barbara Yates, Oregon pioneer and mother of J.P. Yates of Wasco, representative at Salem from Sherman county, passed away at The Dalles on February 19th, where she was taken several weeks ago after suffering an injury to her hip in a fall at her home in Wasco. Mrs. Yates was born in Germany in 1846. After coming to the United States, she was married in 1869 at Springfield, Ill., to Captain J.H. Yates, a Civil War veteran.  They came to Oregon in 1883, settling in Eugene.  Mrs. Yates had lived at Wasco for the last 18 years. Deceased leaves four children, J.P. of Wasco, Hawes Yates of Willamina, Fred of Elmira and Mrs. P.G. O’Meara of Wasco; nine grandchildren and five great grandchildren, and a sister, Mrs. J.H. Johnson of Wasco.  She was 82 years of age.
• Funeral services for Mrs. Eliza Tate Reid, former resident of Wasco, were held from the Wasco Methodist church Sunday afternoon. N. Sherman Hawks officiating.  Interment was in the Odd Fellows’ cemetery at The Dalles under the direction of Callaway’s.  Two sons, Andrew Reid of Ponoka, Canada, and William Reid of Vancouver, B.C., and a daughter, Mrs. J.P. Neece of Portland, attended the services.  At the time of her death, Mrs. Reid was 90 years old.  Her father died at the age of 97 years, and a sister in Califorinia is 92 years old.
• Edwin V. Littlefield, former circuit judge of Sherman, Gilliam and Wheeler counties and one time resident of Moro, died suddenly at Portland Monday morning, following a heart attack. Judge Littlefield was well known among the legal profession of Oregon. He was born February 14, 1873, at St. Joseph, Yamhill county.  After attending public and high school in that county, he was graduated from Lafayette seminary, in 1891, and became principal of the McMinnville schools. He became school superintendent of Yamhill county in 1896, serving until 1900.  In June of that year he was admitted to the bar. In 1904, Mr. Littlefield moved to Moro and engaged in the practice of law.  When the judicial district was formed in May, 1907, he was appointed circuit judge of Wheeler, Gilliam and Sherman counties by Governor Chamberlin, and was elected to that office in June, 1908.  He held the position until March 15, 1909, when he resigned and moved to Portland.  At the time of his death he was a member of the law firm of Joseph, Haney and Littlefield.

March 1, 1929

• Kent Local Items. M. “Uncle Ben”, Brown died quite suddenly at his home here Saturday evening, and was buried here Tuesday, Rev. Cofer of Grass Valley delivering the funeral address.  Services at the grave were conducted by the Masonic Lodge and the American Legion.  He was over 92 years old and had lived in Sherman county 35 years.  There were more people at the funeral than any ever held in Kent.
• Funeral services for Benjamin M. Brown, who died at his home at Kent Saturday evening at the age of 92 years, was held Tuesday at 11 a.m., from the Kent church under the direction of Zell’s. Edward Cofer conducted services with the Masons and American Legion conducting graveside services with military honors.  Interment was in the Kent cemetery. The deceased is survived by six sons, Ben C., of Bend, Charles of Medford, George and Anderson of Tekoe, Wash., John of Netrat Bay, Andrew of Seattle and two daughters Mrs. Mary Fowler of Wheatland and Mrs. Ellen Rider of Portland.  Two brothers, Fred of Kent, and D.D. of Milford, Kans., also survive. Mr. Brown was for 35 years a resident of Kent.  His wife had been dead for a number of years and he and his brother, Fred, made their home together.  He was a veteran of the Civil war, being a member of Company C, 7th Indiana Volunteer cavalry, in which he served two and a half years.  He was discharged from the army in 1866.  He was at one time a member of General Custer’s regiment and served under him in Texas.  He was a member of the Grass Valley Masonic lodge, No. 143.

March 8, 1929

• Baker, sister of Ash Marlin, died last week at her home in Condon. Deceased was brought to Grass Valley where funeral services were held last Sunday.

March 15, 1929

• William Kenny was born December 25, 1850, at Boyle-on-the-Shannon, Rosscommon county, Ireland. He passed away at his home at Vay, Idaho, March 8, 1929. Mr. Kenny came to America in January, 1879, locating later in Sherman county, Oregon, where he married Miss Lou Belshe at Monkland, Oregon, June 10, 1886. Deceased is survived by his widow and eight children: Charles W. Kenny and James D. Kenny of Moro, Oregon; P.H. Kenny and John Kenny of Vay, Idaho; Mrs. Mary Mersinger of Moro, Oregon; Mrs. Ella Kirby and Miss Margaret Kenny of Spokane, Washington, and Miss Adeline Kenny of The Dalles, Oregon.
• Frank M. French, resident of Grass Valley for a number of years and more recently living at The Dalles, passed away March 6th. Funeral services were held last Friday from Calloway Chapel, The Dalles, followed by interment at Grass Valley cemetery.  Deceased in the early pioneer days of Sherman county and until recently, conducted the French Orchestra that played for nearly all the dances in this section of the state.

March 22, 1929

• Funeral services in memory of Mrs. W.W. Nichols, who died at her home east of Moro last Friday after a period of suffering, was held Sunday afternoon from the Methodist church at Wasco.

March 29, 1929

• Death Calls Pioneer. Jessie Gertrude Calkins, age 43 years, died in her home in Selah Heights, Yakima, Wash., Saturday morning.  She leaves her husband, A.C. Calkins, one son, William C. age 11 years, a daughter, Marjorie, age three years, and two brothers, John M. Johnson and Orin C. Johnson.  The family recently moved to Washington from Hood River, Oregon, where funeral services were conducted in her memory Tuesday. Mrs. Calkins, at the time of her death was a member of the Rebecca lodge and of the Methodist church.  She was a daughter of W.V. Johnson, one of the extreme early pioneer farmers of Sherman county, who had land interests for many years in the Hay Canyon district.

April 5, 1929

• The old pioneer farmers of Sherman county are passing rapidly from the view of the younger generation. The latest death to be reported is that of Simon Elcock at his Roseville, California home on Monday.  Elcock for a long number of years operated the only stationary threshing outfit in the Monkland district.  He was a veteran of the civil war and also a member of the Moro lodge of IOOF.

April 12, 1929

• Word was received Tuesday by A.M. Young, secretary of Moro lodge IOOF, of the death late Monday night of Emerson Peoples at the family home at Manhatten Beach, Tillamook county. Peoples was an early resident of this county, farming in the Boardman district and later operating a furniture store in Moro.  He was a charter member of Moro lodge IOOF, retaining his membership until his death occurred.
• and Mrs. C.P. Moore drove to Portland last Sunday to attend the funeral service for Mrs. Louise Patton, aunt of Mrs. Moore, who passed away last Friday.

April 19, 1929

• Death Calls Pioneer. Sanders, a resident of Moro for more than 30 years, died last Saturday morning at the Mid-Columbia hospital at the age of 80 years. Funeral services under direction of Zell Funeral Home were conducted from the Methodist church at Arlington Sunday afternoon followed by graveside services conducted by Arlington Masonic No. 88 of which Mr. Sanders was a member. Active pallbearers, from Moro, were S.P. Brisbane, J.C. Freeman, A.M. Young, J.C. Hockman, W.F. Cody, and G.A. Williams, members of Moro lodge 113 IOOF, of which Mr. Sanders was also a member.  Interment was in the family plot at Arlington, beside his wife and two sons. Mr. Sanders leaves three daughters, Mrs. Grace L. Crum of Olex, Mrs. Frances Scott, address unknown [Portland], Mrs. Bertha Sagawe of Moro and one son, Arthur L. Sanders, also of Moro.  [Joseph Harry]
• Funeral services in memory of George Vernon Stanton was held from the Grass Valley Methodist church Thursday afternoon, Rev. John Seetoff conducting the service. Stanton died at his home in Seattle April 15.  Interment was in Grass Valley cemetery.  Surviving are three sisters: Mrs. E. Remington, Mrs. Howard Coon, Mrs. J. Oaks; two brothers: Ed Stanton of Marysville, Wash., and Bert Stanton of Klamath Falls, Oregon.

April 26, 1929

May 3, 1929

• James W. Engberg, former resident of Sherman county and the first farmer in eastern Oregon to pioneer in threshing his wheat crop by use of a combine harvester, died at the home of his daughter in Walla Walla last Sunday, April 28th.  Funeral services were held Tuesday at St. Peter’s church in The Dalles, followed by interment in the Catholic cemetery beside his wife.  Engberg was farming on a large scale in the Emigrant Springs district, northeast of Klondike, in the late 90s when he decided to change from stationary thresher to combine harvester.
• Kent Local Items. U. Leonard was in Hood River the past week on account of the death of his mother.  She was buried Sunday.  [April 26, 1929 — Kent Local Items.  Report is that Mrs. J. U. Leonard has the small pox, and it is causing some excitement, but the general opinion is that there is not much danger of it spreading.]

May 10, 1929

• Richard P. Sibley, father of Homer Sibley, principal of Rufus public schools, died Tuesday, aged 74 years, at Good Samaritan hospital in Portland.
• Funeral services will be held at Grass Valley this Friday in memory of Marlin, former resident of that place, whose death recently occurred at Phoenix, Arizona, as the result of being struck on the head by a falling piece of iron while Mr. Marlin was working with a deep well drilling machine. [Almon J.]

May 17, 1929

May 24, 1929

June 7, 1929

June 14, 1929

• Death Visits Moro Home For Pioneer. James Woods Answers Summons to Lay Down Life’s Burden. Margaret Jane Woods was born in Pennsylvania November 28th, 1943, and died at her home in Moro, Oregon, June 13th, 1929, aged 85 years, 6 months and 15 days. She was married to Jas. Woods at Dubuque, Iowa, on December 16th, 1863.  To this union were born nine children, five sons and four daughters, all of whom survive the loss of their mother: Anson B., at Walla Walla, Wash., Albert, Dufur, Ore., Wilbur, Lewiston, Idaho, James C., Lewiston, Idaho, Ellsworth, Walla Walla, Wash., Mrs. Hattie Jordon, Viola, Idaho, Mrs. Julia Hansen, Portland, Ore., Mrs. Nellie Cushman, Moro, Mrs. Etta Moore, Moro. After leaving Iowa, they went by train to California and in the fall of 1883 they came overland to Moro, where they have since made their residence.  Mrs. Woods was a charter member of the First Presbyterian church of Moro where the funeral service will be held Saturday, June 15th, at two o’clock.  Music will be furnished by the regular choir and the pastor, Rev. Chas. D. Parrott, will preach the sermon.  Interment will be at the Moro cemetery. Honorary pallbearers will be: Wm Henrichs, R.J. Ginn, James Coleman, Andrew C. Thompson, A.M. Young and J.M. Axtell.  Active pallbearers will be L.L. Peetz, T.W. Alley, W.H. Ragsdale, W.S. Powell, Hugh Chrisman and J.C. Freeman. Besides the above mentioned children, Mrs. Woods is survived by her husband, James Woods; two sisters, Mrs. Lizzie Burnight of Oakland, California, and Mrs. Mary Waugh, who lives in Iowa; eighteen grandchildren and eight great grandchildren, and a host of friends who will miss her in her accustomed place.

June 21, 1929

• Funeral services will be held in The Dalles under auspices of Moro Rebecca lodge on Saturday afternoon, June 22, in memory of Mrs. Henry Lloyd who died Monday night at her home near Wasco. While ailing for a long time the death of Mrs. Lloyd was sudden.  Sunday, the day before her death, she was visiting in Moro with Mr. Lloyd.
• H.G. Hanson, Mrs. Hanson and son Leroy, in company with Mrs. John Muir, drove here from Woodburn last Friday to attend the funeral of Mrs. Jas. Woods conducted last Saturday from the Presbyterian church.
• “Uncle” Jas. Woods has closed his Moro residence temporarily and is visiting at the E.A. Cushman home, which is also Mr. Woods’ old farm home.
• P. Hulse and wife drove over from Dufur last Saturday to attend the funeral services for Mrs. Jas. Woods.

June 28, 1929

July 5, 1929

July 12, 1929

July 19, 1929

July 26, 1929

• Charles Sparling, brother of Clarence Sparling of Moro, was fatally burned Monday morning at his home in The Dalles where he attempted to start a kitchen fire with gasoline which he thought was kerosene. Funeral services were held at The Dalles followed by interment at Wasco cemetery.  Deceased leaves his widow, Mrs. Bertha Sparling, and three children, Martella, Rosella and Darrell.

August 2, 1929

August 9, 1929

• Henry Schadewitz, retired wheat farmer and resident of Sherman county since 1884, died early Friday in The Dalles at Mid-Columbia hospital at the age of 71 years. He had lived in The Dalles since his retiring from active farm work, ten years ago. Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon from the American Legion hall in Kent under direction of the Crandall Undertaking Co.  John Seethoff, pastor of Moro Methodist church, preaching the sermon.  Interment was in the Kent cemetery. Mr. Schadewitz was born in Rochester, N.Y., of German parents, September 15, 1857.  He came with his parents to California when only a few months of age moving from there to Oregon in 1884.  In 1892 he went back to California and was married in Jackson, Amador county, to Miss Emma May Parks.  They returned at once to Sherman county. He was an extensive wheat farmer living three miles west of where Kent is now located.  For many years he conducted the only United States post office, on his farm, between the towns of Grass Valley and Antelope.  Surviving are his widow, five children, Carl H., and Louis M., of Kent; Mrs. Olive M. Barnett of Clem, Mrs. Lola M. Barnett of Grass Valley, and Melvin R. of Moro, and two brothers, Louis and Charles of Kent, Oregon.
• Funeral services were conducted at the Miller & Tracy funeral chapel in Portland on Thursday, July 25, by Rev. Smith, pastor of the Nazarene church, followed by commitment services in Moro Friday afternoon, July 26, in memory of Theodore Kaseberg. Theodore Kaseberg was born in Wittenburg [Wettesingen], Germany, August 5th, 1943, coming to the United States on a sailing vessel at the age of 13 years. He was married to Margrate Shilen [Margaret Schuler] at St. Louis, Mo., June 30, 1868.  Nine children were born of this union, six dying in infancy.  Surviving are Carrie C., wife of W.F. Jackson of Moro, Robert W. of Portland and George W. of Wasco.  Kaseberg died at Moro February 4, 1891. Mr. Kaseberg had made his home in Portland for the past 22 years.  He was a pioneer of this county, coming to Oregon in 1887 and to Sherman county in 1888.  He conducted a blacksmith business here for a number of years in the building facing the Moro Hardware Co. store and which he sold to Foss & Co. in 1907.
• News Items From Kent. The funeral of Henry Schadewitz was held in the new Legion building Sunday and was well attended.  Fifty cars were in the procession to the cemetery.  Among those from a distance who attended were L. Barnum and J.W. Hoech of The Dalles; J.P. Yates of Wasco; W.C. Bryant, G.C. Akers, Hugh Chrisman, L.V. Moore, from Moro; Fred Krusow of Grass Valley, and many others.

August 16, 1929

• News Items From Kent. Several people from Kent attended the funeral of Mrs. K.F. Thomsen at Antelope on Tuesday.  and Mrs. Thomsen were well known here, as they lived at Kent for many years.   Mrs. Thomsen died at her home near Antelope Sunday, after a long illness.  Funeral services were held at Antelope.  Interment was in the IOOF cemetery at Grass Valley.

August 23, 1929

• Lawrence W. Rakes, county superintendent for Sherman county, received telegraphic notice Sunday that his father, John G. Rakes, died that morning at 1:35 a.m. at the family home in Bentonville, Arkansas, at the age of 75 years.

August 30, 1929

September 6, 1929

• Funeral services in memory of Mrs. Everett Nunn, who died last Thursday at The Dalles, was held Sunday afternoon from the Christian church at Wasco. Interment was in the Wasco cemetery.  [Edith Pearl]

September 13, 1929

September 20, 1929

• Samuel Porter Brisbine, native of Oregon, died at his home in Moro September 17, aged 76 years, 5 months and 16 days. Funeral services were held at the home Wednesday afternoon,  Seethoff delivering the sermon and Mrs. L.J. Cope singing.  The same afternoon deceased was taken to Hillsboro by Crandall’s where a second service was held and interment made in the family plot in the Hillsboro cemetery. Mr. Brisbine was born at Newberg, Ore., April 1, 1853.  His parents crossed the plains to the Willamette valley in 1847.  He moved to Moro about thirty years ago, at first engaging in farming.  He is survived by his widow, Hattie Coburn Brisbine; two sons, Hayden Brisbine of Banks, Ore., and Ralph, of Moro; a sister, Mrs. Lenore Simmons of Yamhill; a brother, Lyman Brisbine of Newberg, and seven grandchildren.
• Isabelle Smith, was born in Michigan in 1845, being 84 years old at the time of her death at her home in Yakima, Wash., Friday, Sept. 13, where she has been cared for by her daughter, Mrs. Iva Bales, and son Orval Smith. The family came to Oregon, and Sherman county in 1886. The last two years being spent in her home at Yakima, Wash. Mrs. Smith was the mother of six sons and two daughters, all of whom attended the funeral held in Moro Sept. 15, at the Methodist church.  Rev. Cofer of the Grass Valley Baptist church delivered the sermon.  Mrs. Smith joined the Baptist church when 13 years old.  The sons are: Lloyd of Dufur, Ross and Hubert of Okanogan, Orval of Yakima, and Clyde and Arthur of Grass Valley; daughters are: Mrs. Iva Bales of Yakima and Mrs. Wells of Independence.  [Isabelle Halferty]

September 27, 1929

• Sarah E. Coon, aged 83 years, for 41 years a resident of the Grass Valley district, died Tuesday at the home of her son, Leslie Coon, at Grants Pass, Ore. Funeral services were held from the Methodist church at Grass Valley, Rev. Chas. D. Parrott of Moro conducting the service.

October 4, 1929

• E. Fagan and family were visiting in Moro last weekend from McMinnville. Their coming to eastern Oregon at this time was occasioned by the death and funeral held in The Dalles last Saturday for an uncle of Mrs. Fagan.

October 11, 1929

October 18, 1929

October 25, 1929

• Anna I. Urquhart, aged 58 years, a resident of Moro for 31 years, died at her home in Moro at 9:30 Monday morning. Funeral services were held from the family residence Wednesday morning, Rev. Chas. D. Parrott, pastor of the Presbyterian church, officiating.  Pallbearers were from the membership of the Masonic lodge of Moro. Following the services at the home, graveside services were conducted by the Order of Eastern Star of which Mrs. Urquhart was a member. Mrs. Urquhart came to Moro in 1898 from Ashland, Wis., with her husband, Robert Urquhart, to whom she was married on November 21, 1888 at Ripley, Ont., and who now survives her. Three sons and two daughters also survive, Willard and Laura Urquhart, of Moro; George and Orin, of Portland, and Mrs. Ida B. Hunter, of Ephrata, Washington.  Urquhart leaves two sisters, Mrs. Nettie Smith and Mrs. Hope Johnson, of Flint, Mich., two brothers, Frank Smith of Scotland, Ont., and James Smith of Windsor, Ont., and eight grandchildren. William Shiel, now of Moro, was Mrs. Urquhart’s uncle, and another uncle, James Riley, of Blanchard, N.D., also survive her.
• Funeral services were held from the Moro Methodist church at 11 o’clock Monday morning for Otis B. Messinger, brother of Ira and Albert Messinger of The Dalles, and Fred R. Messinger of Blalock, who died Friday at St. Helens, Ore., at the age of 59. Messinger was for many years a resident of Moro and Grass Valley districts, moving from Sherman county to St. Helens about four years ago.  He was a member of the Baptist church at Moro when a resident here, and also was a member of the Woodmen of the World and Modern Woodmen of America. Otis Bennie Messinger was born at Lafayette, Oregon, Jan. 9, 1870.  Died at St. Helens, Oregon, October 18, 1929, at the age of 59 years, 9 months and 9 days.  Was married to Sarah A. Sutton in 1893.  Six children were born to this union, 4 of whom are living:  Mrs. J.F. Noonan of Moro, Oregon; Mrs. J.A. Newton of Conjilon, New Mexico; Otis Messinger of St. Helens, Oregon; Ray Messinger of Chico, California.  Also 10 grandchildren, 4 brothers and 2 sisters survive him besides other relatives.  He came to Sherman county at the age of 19 and lived here until four years ago when he moved to St. Helens, Ore.  He united with the Baptist church at an early age of life.
• Jesse E. Nichols, son-in-law of Rev. A.J. Adams, former Presbyterian minister at Moro, died at his home in Los Angeles October 18.

November 1, 1929

• A.S. Johnson left Monday morning upon receiving word that her 17 months old nephew, David Hampton Stamey, had died at the family home in Silverton Sunday evening.

November 8, 1929

November 15, 1929

November 22, 1929

• Funeral services for the late S. Grant Morgan, who died at his home in The Dalles at the age of 60 years last Saturday, was held Tuesday from Callaway’s chapel in The Dalles. Rev. G.L. Matlock of the Christian church officiated, after which the deceased was taken to Vancouver, Washington  for burial.  Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Ada Morgan; two daughters, Mrs. Ethel Mitchell of Canada and Mrs. Fay Boice of Wasco; one son, Maurice Morgan of Battleground, Washington; two brothers, O.L. Morgan of Brush Prairie and I.L. Morgan of Tacoma, and 15 grandchildren.

November 29, 1929

• George Newton Crosfield, for the past 35 years identified with the business life of Sherman county, died at a hospital in The Dalles Sunday evening, November 24, following an illness of three weeks. Rev. John Richardson conducted the funeral services from the Congregational church in The Dalles Tuesday afternoon, followed by interment in the IOOF cemetery at The Dalles under the direction of Crandall’s. Honorary pallbearers were John Fulton, Fred Blau, W.C. Bryant, E.A. Medler and W.E. Tate of Wasco, and L.L. Peetz of Moro. Active pallbearers were R.H. McKean, Walter Medler, J.T. Johnson, Charles Everett and Frank Lamborn of Wasco and Carl McKean of Moro. Mr. Crosfield was born in West Virginia February 8, 1870.  He came to Oregon when 18 years old and soon became identified with the farm machinery business.  He established himself in business at Wasco about the year 1897 and since that time until his death was interested in every enterprise that would result in the social and business advancement of Sherman county.  He was married, at the old town of Grants, this county, in 1894 to Miss Isabell McDonald. Besides his widow he leaves one daughter, Mrs. Jess Sexton of The Dalles; a son, Newton, of Wasco; a brother, Charles W. Crosfield of Portland, and a sister, Mrs. Emma Cooper, also of Portland.  He was a member of The Dalles Elk Lodge.

December 6, 1929

• Funeral services were held at Grass Valley Friday afternoon in memory of B. Wilcox who died at The Dalles hospital Wednesday following an operation. Funeral services were participated in by Sherar Grange and the Odd Fellow lodge,  Mr. Wilcox being a member of both organizations.  [William Benson, Jr.]
• Funeral services were held from the Moro Methodist church Friday afternoon in memory of Mrs. Amanda Jane Hoyt, mother of Otis Baker and Dennis Baker. Hoyt had been sick for the past several weeks.  Her sister arrived here from Portland last Saturday and was at the family home when death came.

December 13, 1929

• Rufus Garage Man Dead. Clinton Clifford Calvin Deyo, veteran Rufus garage and service station man, dropped dead from a heart attack at his place of business Thursday, December 5, at the age of 57 years.  He had been a resident of Rufus for 27 years and had been in business in that town most of the time.  Deyo was born in Omaha September 11, 1872, and was married in that city July 7, 1897 to Helen Burmester, who survives him.  Surviving also are three children, Clinton Clyde, Delbert H., and Irene Deyo, all of Rufus.

December 20, 1929

• Funeral services were held at the Methodist church in Wasco last Sunday afternoon in honor of A. Smith, father of Chester W. Smith of Moro, Mrs. Darby of Wasco, and Lester K. Smith of Grass Valley. [J. Arthur]

December 27, 1929

• The passing of A. Smith of Wasco is regretted by a large number of friends and neighbors. He had lived all of his 69 years in Oregon, the land of his birth.  His parents came to Oregon in 1859 and they were among the pioneer builders of early years.  The state was only one year old at the time Mr. Smith first light of day.  He grew to manhood in the Willamette valley near Salem, and was married to Nora Lynes [Lyons], 49 years ago at Jefferson, Oregon. Mr. Smith came to Sherman county about 25 years ago, farming first at Grass Valley, then at Gordon ridge.  For the past 12 years he had lived in Wasco and was filling out his third term as recorder for the city of Wasco.  He was a member of the Methodist church and IOOF lodge of Wasco.  Mr. Smith had been enjoying fairly good health until just a few days before his death, becoming ill on Wednesday.  He was rushed to The Dalles where an operation was performed with the hope that his life might be prolonged.  He died the following Friday, December 13, 1929. Funeral services were held from the local Methodist church Sunday with Rev. N. Sherman Hawks officiating.  His remains were laid to rest in the Masonic cemetery.  The pallbearers were Judge Krusow of Grass Valley, E.E. Barzee of Moro, Judge E.D. McKee, Grant Armstrong, Frank Lamborn and Charles Everett of Wasco. Three sons and one daughter remain to mourn his passing: Lester K., of Grass Valley; Chester W., of Moro, and Arthur J. and Mrs. Darby of Wasco.  A brother C.M. Smith of Jefferson, a sister Mrs. W.T. Rigdon of Salem and six grandchildren.

January 3, 1930

• C. Bryant and family were called to Portland Saturday last, by news of the death of Mrs. Lois Whealdon, mother of Mrs. W.C. Bryant, Friday, December 27. Mrs. Bryant had been with her mother since before Christmas.

January 10, 1930

January 17, 1930

January 24, 1930

• Ester Speidel, daughter of Rev. D.H. Leech, former resident of Sherman county, and niece of A.M. Wright of Moro, died at her home in Washington, Iowa, Monday, January 20th. She is survived by her husband, John M. Speidel, who came to Oregon to attend O.A.C., where he graduated in animal husbandry.

January 31, 1930

• Veteran Railroad Fireman Succumbs to Injuries. Robert Dugger, veteran railroad fireman, died Tuesday afternoon from burns suffered January 16 when his engine left the track on the Shaniko branch near Grass Valley and overturned.  Dugger was severely burned about the back when a steam pipe broke. The wreck, occurring shortly before midnight, was blamed on a broken or spread rail.  John Perry, engineer, who was burned while assisting Mr. Dugger from the overturned cab, will recover. A.E. Dalrymple, conductor, and Karl E. Smith, head brakeman, also injured in the accident, are recovering.
• H. Larson received word this week that his second cousin, Mrs. Chris Satter, had died at the family home in Artesian, South Dakota, on January 18th.

February 7, 1930

February 14, 1930

• T.B. Searcy was called to Goldendale on Wednesday to attend the funeral of her sister-in-law, Mrs. Flora Shelton, who died at the family home in that city last Sunday evening. Mrs. Shelton was a daughter of Mr. Golden, founder of Goldendale.

February 21, 1930

 

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Sherman County Observer

Moro, Sherman County, Oregon

 

The following are the death notices and obituaries contained within the pages of the Sherman County Observer, on the microfilm roll containing the issues from February 28, 1930 to March 6, 1931.

 

February 28, 1930

• James P. McClintock. Word was received in Moro this week of the death of James P. McClintock at the family home in Vancouver, Wash., Sunday morning, February 23, 1930, at the advanced age of 82 years.  McClintock was born at Alleghany City, Pennsylvania, May 22, 1848.  The family moved to Sherman county near Moro in 1903 where they were engaged in farming west of this city.  Later, in 1917, they moved to The Dalles and in 1924 moved to Vancouver, Wash.  Mr. McClintock is survived by his widow, Elizabeth McClintock, and three children: Ada McClintock Taylor, Ponca, Neb., Wm. A. McClintock, Condon, Ore., and Mrs. W.A. Tate, LaCenter, Washington.

March 7, 1930

March 14, 1930

• Hazel Moquet Gangl. Funeral services were held at South Yakima, Washington, Wednesday afternoon, followed by a commitment service Thursday afternoon conducting by Rev. Chas. D. Parrott, pastor of Moro Presbyterian church, at the IOOF cemetery at Moro in memory of Mrs. Hazel Moquet Gangl who died March 10 at her home in South Yakima, following an attack of pneumonia. Surviving Mrs. Gangl are her husband, Karl G. Gangl; her four year old son, Karl Francis, and her father, Francis C. Moquet; her mother having passed away four years ago; four half sisters:  C.J. Thompson, Mrs. Robt. W. Belshee, Mrs. Wesley Fuller, all residing at Moro, and Mrs. W.E. Buzan of Camas, Washington; four half brothers; Roy Kessinger and Moen Kessinger of Moro, Clyde Kessinger of Reedsport, and Arno Kessinger of Vancouver, Washington.  Mrs. Gangl was a member of the Evangelical church of Yakima and also a member of the Mooseheart Legion.
• County Commissioner A.A. Dunlap received word at Kent on Monday of the death of his father, A. Dunlap, aged 68 years, at the family home at Warne, Penn., Saturday.

March 21, 1930

• Sarah Whiteley Landry. Sarah Landry passed away at the home of her daughter in Portland last Sunday morning, following an illness from heart trouble.  Funeral services were held at the Methodist church in Moro Tuesday afternoon, Mrs. R.A. Feenstra formerly of Moro and now living at Sheridan preaching the sermon.  Interment was at the IOOF cemetery at Moro. Sarah E. Whitley, was born May 16, 1854 and passed away March 23, 1930, at 3:15 a.m. at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Clara Barnum, in Portland, aged seventy-five years, ten months, and twenty-two days.  She was a native Oregonian having been born in Yamhill county, Oregon.  Thirty-eight years ago she came to Sherman county and has resided here continuously every since. She was married to John H. Landry near Sprague, Washington fifty-three years ago.  Her children are Frankie and Will Powell and Eva and Jess Landry of Moro, Clara and Byron Barnum of Portland. Her grandchildren are Leota, Bart, Helen, Revella, Velma, Opal and Arnold.  One great grandchild Gene. She also left four brothers and two sisters.  One sister, Mary, of Portland and her family, and one brother, John, of Adams, were present at the funeral.

April 4, 1930

• William F. Guyton, Aged Pioneer of Kent, Dies. William F. Guyton, resident of Wasco and Sherman counties for many years, died Sunday morning at the home of a daughter in Oregon City, within a few weeks of his ninetieth birthday anniversary.  He was a member of the Dalles-Wasco County Pioneers’ association. Funeral services was held from the Legion Hall at Kent Tuesday afternoon, Rev. W.I. Eck officiating.  Interment at the Rose cemetery near Moro, where members of the Grass Valley Masonic lodge conducted the graveside services.  Guyton is survived by his widow, Anna; five sons, W.C., and Charles F., of Kent, Albert of The Dalles, Roy of Tanasket, Wash., and Claude of Shaniko; three daughters, Mrs. Maude Walton of Kent, Mrs. Lola Nachand of Oregon City, and Mrs. Ida Douthit of The Dalles; 25 grandchildren and 5 great grandchildren. The deceased was born in Guernsey county, Ohio, May 30, 1840.  At the age of 20 he set out for San Francisco via Panama, and spent three years mining, coming to Portland by steamer in 1863.  He went to Idaho City and mined for a few weeks, undergoing severe winter hardships. Returning to Oregon he settled at McMinnville, where he was married in 1867 to Mary Ellen Smith.  In 1877 he came to Wasco county and ranched about 7 miles from The Dalles, removing in 1886 to Kent, where he lived for about 40 years. A family reunion was held May 30, 1924, on the occasion of Mr. Guyton’s 84th birthday anniversary, when 43 members of his family, including all eight children and 22 of 24 grandchildren, were present.

April 11, 1930

• News Items From Kent. Word was received here Monday morning that Howard Wattles was instantly killed while working on a high voltage line near Maupin.  He was well known here a few years ago.
• Lemuel Sells. Mary Ann Moore was born at Jacksonville, Illinois, December 23, 1846; died April 4th, 1930, at Berkeley, California at the age of 83 years, 5 months and eleven days; daughter of Nathaniel and Mary Ann Moore who emigrated to Illinois from Kentucky in the early days, and where a family of ten children were born.  She married Lemuel Sells of Carlinville, Illinois in 1863.  Seven children were born to this union, three died in infancy.  The children now living are Emmett and George of North Bend, Oregon, and Ada Sells Angel of Berkeley, California.  She leaves seven grandchildren and three great grandchildren.  Her husband’s death preceded hers about twenty years, he having passed away in Moro, Oregon, on May 30th, 1910.  —  Card of Thanks. We appreciate the kind consideration and sympathy of our friends in Moro at this time of sorrow at the death of our mother.  It was always her wish to be brought back to Moro for burial.  Emmett Sells  George Sells  Ada Sells Angel.

April 18, 1930

April 25, 1930

• John Fulton, prominent Wasco and Sherman county pioneer, died at his home west of Wasco about 10 o’clock Friday night after a long illness at the age of 77 years. Funeral services were held from Crandall’s at 2:30 Tuesday afternoon, Rev. Crowder of the South Methodist church of Salem officiating.  The body will remain at Crandall’s following the service until the completion of a mausoleum in the Wasco cemetery.  Pallbearers were Emil Anderson, Victor Anderson, Judge E.D. McKee, R.H. McKean, Ben Andrews and Earl Jones all of Wasco. John Fulton was a native of Oregon, born in Yamhill county May 24, 1852, son of Colonel and Mrs. James Fulton.  His father and mother crossed the plains to Oregon in 1847, settling near Carlton in Yamhill county.  They with their children, came to Wasco county in 1857, settling on a ranch on Fifteen Mile. Mr. Fulton was educated in the public schools of Wasco county, entering Whitman college in 1866 and reading law for two years in The Dalles.  He engaged in freighting and ranching and in 1876 settled on a ranch near Wasco.  He was married November 12, 1878, to Miss Brittana Gilmore, who was of pioneer parentage and was born in Yamhill county July 12, 1855. The day after their marriage they moved to their home near Wasco, retaining this as their residence up to the present time.  Fulton was elected Wasco county surveyor in 1880, serving until 1886, and after Sherman county was set aside in 1889 he served as county judge from 1892 until 1904. His chief interest was farming, however, and his ranch near Wasco was known as one of the most modernly equipped in the state.  Immediate surviving relatives are a brother, Frank Fulton, of Portland, and his widow. Mr. Fulton was active vice-president of the Old Wasco County Pioneers’ association at the time of his death, and had been scheduled to give a talk on “Early Pioneers of Wasco County,” at the May annual meeting of the organization.
• William A. Murchie, a resident of Sherman county since 1880, died Sunday, evening at a local hospital in The Dalles at the age of 71 years. Murchie, after arriving here in 1880, settled on a farm in what is now Sherman county, where he lived continuously until after he retired from farming in 1917.  He was a member of the Old Wasco County Pioneers’ association. Services were held at 10 o’clock Tuesday morning in The Dalles followed by interment in the Odd Fellows’ cemetery.  Rev. Crowder of the South Methodist church of Salem, assisted by Rev. Joseph Knotts officiated.  Pallbearers were old time friends. Mr. Murchie is survived by his wife and a daughter, Mrs. J.C. Ballinger, of The Dalles.  Mr. and Mrs. Murchie had made their home with Mrs. Ballinger for some time.  He also leaves three brothers, Harry of The Dalles, Mac of Roosevelt, Ky., and Albert of Vicksberg, Miss., and one sister, Mrs. Ida Knight of Portland.
• James Venable, Sherman county pioneer, died at Spokane Friday at the age of 60 years. He was born at Klickitat, Wash., in 1869 and came with his parents to what was then Wasco county, in 1888, settling near Wasco.  He remained there until about seven years ago, when he moved to Spokane.  Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Fannie Myer of Portland; four sisters, Mrs. A.B. Courtway of Wenatchee, Wash., Mrs. Rose Weld and Mrs. Eva Doane of Wasco, and Mrs. A.C. Smith of Silverton; two brothers, P.A. Venable of Elk, Wash., and John Venable of Washington, and two grandchildren.  Funeral services were Tuesday from the Wasco Methodist church, Rev. Falk officiating.  Interment in the Wasco cemetery under the direction of Crandall’s.
• Anna Needles Walker was born in Kent county, Delaware, March 27, 1855, and passed away at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Lewis Olds, near Grass Valley Monday April 20, 1930, at the age of 75 years and 24 days. Funeral services were held at the Grass Valley Methodist church Wednesday afternoon, Rev. F.A. Ginn pastor of the local church preaching the sermon.  Interment was in the IOOF cemetery at Grass Valley. On the 18th of January, 1877, she was married to Horatio M. Walker in Michigan.  To them were born three children, one died in infancy and Ida and Fred surviving.  After their marriage the family moved to Nebraska and later to South Dakota.  Mr. Walker’s health having failed they drove across country by team and wagon from Yankton, S.D., to the vicinity of Rutledge, Sherman county, where in 1895 Mr. Walker died.  After the death of her husband deceased continued to carry on the farm until the marriage of her daughter to Mr. Lewis Olds.  Since which time she has made her home with them. She is survived by one sister; a daughter, Mrs. Lewis Olds of Grass Valley; a son, Fred Walker, of Paulina, Oregon; three grandchildren, Daniel Walker, Thelma and Alton Olds, all of Grass Valley. In early life Mrs. Walker was converted and united with the Methodist Episcopal church, remaining loyal to that church through all her life.  She was a pioneer and the way of life was rugged.  Few flowers were strewn in her pathway, she very courageously filled her place, did the work given to her to do and now rests from her labors.

May 2, 1930

May 9, 1930

• Hibbard S. McDanel Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon in Portland in memory of Hibbard S. McDanel who died at his home in that city last Saturday.  Kenton lodge of Masons officiated followed by vault entombment in Riverview abby.  He is survived by his widow Mary McDanel. H.S. McDanel was born at Stanton, Delaware, January 22, 1858.  His father was a native of Pennsylvania, descendant of an old and distinguished American family.  His mother was born in New York City, her parents came from Holland. At the age of six months, the family moved to Butte county, California.  In January, 1882, Mr. McDanel moved to Sherman county, where he filed on a homestead and farmed until he was appointed deputy county clerk and later elected county clerk for five successive terms. He was married February 15, 1891, to Mary Cushman.  The family moved to Portland, about 18 years ago.  He was a member of Moro Eureka lodge 121 A.F.& A.M., and Moro lodge 113 IOOF.  [Note: The various spellings of McDanel are here corrected.]
• The last sad rites were held in honor of Mrs. Robert W. Montgomery at the Moro M.E. church at 11:00 o’clock Tuesday morning. A very beautiful and helpful service was conducted by Reverend Charles D. Parrott of the Presbyterian church and Reverend F.A. Ginn of the Methodist church.  The pallbearers were Mr. O.L. Belshe, Mr. Roy Powell, Mr. Jesse Landry, Mr. M.A. Bull, Mr. A.S. Johnson and Mr. W.H. Ragsdale.  Several sacred selections were beautifully rendered by a quartet of musicians, Mrs. L.H. Nahouse, Mrs. Wilford Belshe, Mr. T.H. Fraser and Mr. Homer Belshee, accompanied at the piano by Mr. L.H. Nahouse.  The bower of flowers provided by loving friends afforded such relief to a sorrowful occasion as it is always in their power to do.  Interment was in the Moro IOOF cemetery. Anna Peetz Montgomery was born about eighteen miles from Seattle, Washington, November 24, 1885 and died, after an illness of several months duration, in a Portland hospital on May 3, 1930 at the age of 44 years, 5 months and 9 days.  With her parents and sisters and brothers she moved to Sherman county in March, 1886, spending her girlhood and early married life in this community and in Kent.  She married Robert W. Montgomery on June 28, 1903 at Moro, Oregon.  Three children were born to this union, one of who died in infancy.   Montgomery is survived by her husband Robert W. Montgomery; and two children, Robert Montgomery, Jr., and Lucy Montgomery, and by two sisters and three brothers who are left of the nine children born to Carl and Catherina Peetz.  The sisters and brothers are:  Mrs. E. G. [Lena] Messinger, Wapato, Wash.; Mrs. O.C. [Emma] Kirtley, Wasco, Oregon; Mr. L.L. Peetz, Moro, Oregon; Mr. H.F. Peetz, Moro, Oregon; and Mr. B.F. Peetz, LaGrande, Oregon. Mrs. Montgomery was endowed with the cheerful, foreword looking spirit of her mother, devoted to her family and the type of neighbor who made worthy friends in every community in which she lived.

May 16, 1930

May 23, 1930

May 31, 1930

June 6, 1930

June 13, 1930

June 20, 1930

• Edward Rollins. Mrs. Mamie Rollins, wife of Ed Rollins of Oregon City, and a sister of Dave and George Vintin of Grass Valley died in Portland Tuesday morning.  She was born in California in 1864 and moved to Sherman county when still a young girl and was well known to all of the first settlers of south Sherman county.
• Margaret Rutledge, wife of Walter C. Rutledge, formerly residents of Moro, died at the St. Vincent hospital in Portland at eight o’clock Thursday morning, June 19. Funeral services were held in Portland Saturday, commitment in Riverview cemetery.  Surviving her death are Mr. Rutledge; two sons, Joseph V. and Walter C. Rutledge; two daughters, Mrs. Jeannett M. Paulson of Seattle and Mrs. Frances King of Moro.

June 27, 1930

• Robert Walker, father of William Walker of Klondike and uncle of Hugh Walker of Moro, died at his home in Dufur early Monday morning aged 78 years. Funeral services were held at Dufur Wednesday, Rev. A. Bash officiating.  Many old friends of the family attended from Moro and Grass Valley. Mr. Walker was born in Collingwood, Canada, February 29, 8152.  He came west in 1875, spending a year in California, then moved to eastern Oregon where he has since resided during the past 54 years.  He first located in Umatilla county, moving to Sherman county and locating at Grass Valley in 1904.  About 15 years ago he retired from active farming. His death is the first in the immediate family.  He is survived by his widow, eight children, a brother, and three sisters.

July 4, 1930

• M. Wright received word Saturday from his sister, Mrs. John V. O’Leary, that Mr. O’Leary had passed away very suddenly that morning, June 28, at the family home in Butte, Montana. Mr. O’Leary was a former resident of Sherman county, a land owner and sheep and cattle raiser located in the Rutledge district east of Grass Valley.  He left here about 15 years ago, first locating at The Dalles and later moving to Montana.

 

July 11, 1930

July 18, 1930

July 25, 1930

• Richard Dingle Was a Sherman County Pioneer. Richard Dingle, a Sherman county pioneer of 1888, died in The Dalles Tuesday morning at a local hospital, at the age of 70 years.  Dingle was born in England, March 14, 1860 and came to the United States in 1880.  He was married March 20, 1886 at Goldendale, Wash., to Miss Edith Wing who died at Wasco six years ago. The deceased settled on a homestead near Rufus when he first came to Sherman county.  Later he moved to Moro where he operated a blacksmith shop, retiring in 1917.  Five years ago he married a second time.  His wife, who survives him, was formerly Eliza McDermid. Four children by his first marriage survive him.  They are Mrs. Nellie Fields, Mrs. Prudence Fields, and W.H., and R.T. Dingle, all of the Wasco district.  Other surviving relatives are three grandchildren; two sisters in England, two brothers in England and one brother in Coeur d’Alene, Ida. Funeral services will be held from the Christian church at Wasco, of which the deceased was a member, Sunday afternoon at 2:30, Rev. Charles Fesler officiating.  Interment will be in the Sunrise cemetery at Wasco.

August 1, 1930

• Moro Visitor Dies Suddenly. T. Cole, aged 77 years, died suddenly at 8:45 o’clock Saturday evening at the home of his son Fred Cole, farming on the west end of Gordon Ridge.  Mr. Cole in company with his son Harry of Sherwood, Ore., and Mrs. Gillihan of Portland, arrived at the farm Saturday afternoon about 5 o’clock, intending to visit and watch a combine harvester work in the field.  After eating a hearty supper he complained of being cold, taking a warm place behind the stove, where he suddenly collapsed and died almost instantly.  The remains were placed in charge of Callaway’s and conveyed to Sherwood Wednesday where funeral services were held the same afternoon.  Deceased leaves two brothers: Frank Cole of Chehalis, Wash., Walter Cole of Los Angeles; two sisters: Nettie and Mary, both of Los Angeles; two sons: Harry of Sherwood, Ore., and Fred of Moro, Ore., and one daughter, Lottie Cole of Sherwood, teacher in Moro schools.

August 8, 1930

August 15, 1930

• Card of Thanks. We wish to take this opportunity to thank our many kind friends and neighbors for their kindness and help at the time of the illness and death of our dear Thelma.  and Mrs. Geo. W. Howell and family.  [Thelma May  Howell  – Oregon Death Index gives date of death as July 30, 1930.  No obituary was located.]

August 22, 1930

• Edith Belknap. Following an illness of several weeks, Mrs. Edith Belknap died at The Dalles hospital at 10:15 o’clock Wednesday night.  Funeral services will be held at the Presbyterian church in Moro at 2:30 o’clock Friday afternoon, conducted by Rev. Henry G. Hansen, former pastor of Moro Presbyterian church and now pastor in charge at Independence, Ore.  Interment will be in the Moro cemetery, where graveside services were conducted by the Order of Eastern Star, of which the deceased was a member. Mrs. Belknap was a member of several local organizations and active in church and lodge circles.  Surviving her death are her husband, C.V. Belknap of Moro; a son, George Belknap of Portland; two brothers, E.F. Paulsen of Spokane and Paul Paulsen of Portland; an uncle, H.W. White of Battle Graund, Wash., and a cousin, Mrs. J.J. Kimm of Vancouver, Wash.
• Josiah D. Bell. D. Bell, resident of Sherman county in the Kent district for several years, died at a hospital in The Dalles Thursday morning, aged 74 years.  Surviving relatives include two daughters, Mrs. Rachel I. Sandman of Encinitas, Calif., and Mrs. Ada Guyton of Kent; six sons, Alfred of Kansas, John and Ray of Colorado, Leslie of Moro, and Roy and Paul, whereabouts unknown; eleven grandchildren and two nephews, Ashford and Miles Ferguson, both of The Dalles.

August 29, 1930

September 5, 1930

September 12, 1930

• The man found dead near Biggs last week was a Mexican section hand, named Steb Sondoual. The coroner found that he had died from natural causes and, after the official investigation had closed, the man was buried in Moro cemetery last Saturday.  [Sondonal]

September 19, 1930

September 26, 1930

October 3, 1930

• Hattie Woods Jordan, who passed away at the family home near Moscow, Idaho, Friday, September 26th, was a member of one of the early pioneer families of Sherman county, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Woods whose home for many years was just a little ways north of DeMoss Springs. Mrs. Jordon was aged 64 years at the time of her death. She leaves a husband, and two sons; three sisters, five brothers and father to mourn her death.  All were present at the funeral services, held on Monday, except her father who could not attend because of his advanced age.  Surviving sisters are Mrs. L.V. Moore, Mrs. N.P. Hansen and Mrs. E.A. Cushman.  The brothers are Anson Woods, Walla Walla; Ellsworth Woods, Weston; Wilbur Woods, Milton; James Woods, Lewiston; Albert Woods, Dufur.

October 10, 1930

October 17, 1930

October 24, 1930

October 31, 1930

• James Woods, Funeral Services Held From Church at Moro Friday. James Woods, a pioneer resident of Sherman county, died Tuesday, October 28, in his 89th year at the Mid-Columbia hospital.  Services were held Friday morning at 10 o’clock from the Presbyterian church at Moro, of which the deceased was the last surviving charter member.  Interment in the Moro cemetery.  Music was by the church choir.  The church service was conducted by Rev. Hutchinson of The Dalles. Mr. Woods was born in Pittsburgh, Pa., in 1842 and nine years later went to Dubuque, Ia., where he was married in 1863 to Miss Margaret Dougherty, December 16.  In 1866 Mr. and Mrs. Woods moved to southwestern Iowa and in 1883 came to Oregon and settled in the Moro district where they lived continuously until the death of Mrs. Woods in June 1929.  They operated a wheat ranch until recent years. In December, 1928, several months before the death of Mrs. Woods, they celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary, when all of their nine children were present.  Eight of the children now survive, the eldest, Mrs. Hattie Jordon of Moscow, Ida., having died a month ago.   During the last year Mr. Woods spent much of his time at the home of Dr. and Mrs. W.N. Morse of The Dalles, the latter being his granddaughter. The surviving children are Anson B. Woods of Walla Walla; Mrs. N.P. Hansen of Portland; Mrs. Nellie Cushman of Moro; Mrs. Ettie Moore of Moro; Albert Woods of Dufur; Wilbur E. and James G. Woods of Lewiston, Ida., and Ellsworth L. Woods of Weston.

November 7, 1930

November 14, 1930

• Laura Hoxter Whalley, wife of Judge John T. Whalley of Portland and mother of Mrs. M.W. Peetz and Mrs. Carroll Sayrs of Moro, died at the home her son in Troutdale, Oregon, Wednesday, November 12.

November 21, 1930

• Graveside commitment services were held at Wasco cemetery Wednesday, November 19, for Mrs. Martha Barzee of Portland, who died in Portland November 16, aged 68 years. [Martha E.]

November 28, 1930

December 5, 1930

December 12, 1930

December 19, 1930

December 26, 1930

• Resolution of Condolence from the members of Sherman County Pomona Grange for the loss by death of Lottie V. Walker, wife of W.M. Walker of Klondike, Oregon. [An obituary was not found. The Oregon Death Index shows a Lottie Walker died 04 November 1930 in Portland.]

January 2, 1931

• Word came to friends in Moro on Monday of the death of N. Lemon at his home in the Willamette valley. Mr. Lemon had many friends in Sherman county, dating back to the pioneer days when he helped create the present Oregon inland empire.

January 9, 1931

• Masons Honor Memory of Deceased Member. Thursday evening, at the meeting for the joint installation of officers of Eureka lodge A.F.& A.M. and Bethleham Chapter O.E.S., a large picture of John M. Parry, charter member of Moro lodge, was hung in the lodge with appropriate ceremony.  Part of the ceremony was the reading of the life history of Mr. Parry by W.D. Wallan, who was made a Mason and a member of Moro lodge by Mr. Parry.  Part of Mr. Wallan’s address we take pleasure in printing, as follows: “John Matthews Parry was born in Monmouthshire, England, August 29, 1842, to Wm. Parry and wife, his father being a Methodist minister.  April 18, 1851, the elder Parry with his brother and their two families embarked on a sailing vessel for the United States, arriving in due time in New York and finally settling about ten miles from Albany, N.Y. where John M. spent his boyhood.  He worked for the farmers of the neighborhood, and acquired a fair education for those times.  October 10, 1861 when just 19 years of age, he enlisted in the Union Army being mustered into Battery L. N.Y. 1st Light Artillery and served during the war.  He was in 17 battles, a number of them being major engagements.  The 2nd Bull Run, Fredricksburg and the battle of the Wilderness.  Following the war he went into the wilds of Michigan and taught school.  In 1870 he went into Indiana as a salesman for a Nursery Co., selling trees over the states of Iowa and eastern Nebraska. It was in Indiana that Mr. Parry met and on December 27, 1870, married Miss Helen Forshey.  In 1872 they removed to Otoe county, Nebraska, Mr. Parry engaging in the general merchandise business, which he continued until 1882.  In 1883 [they] came to San Francisco by train and then by boat to Portland.  Leaving his family, now consisting of his wife and 3 sons, Harry, John and Walter, with a friend and Masonic  brother and his family at Gaston, Ore., Mr. Parry rode up and down the Willamette valley looking for a location, finally buying 900 acres of land, mostly timber, in Polk county, near what is now Falls City.  In 1894 he came to Sherman county, locating at Moro, engaged in business and was finally appointed and served as post master for a number of years.  [He] passed away in Portland, Ore., January 21, 1920. As a man and citizen Mr. Parry was above reproach.  Patriotic, and with a wholesome regard for law and order. Imbued with the pioneering spirit in his private life, he also pioneered in Masonry.  While teaching in the Michigan woods he was made a Mason at Hart, Mich., in a little log lodge room by Wigton Lodge No. 251 in the year 1868.  Shortly after moving to Syracuse, Nebraska, about 1875, Bro. Parry with others petitioned the Grand Lodge of Nebraska for the organization of a Masonic lodge there.  A charter was finally granted to Mt. Morish Lodge No. 57 with Bro. Parry first master. August 29, 1900, 9 Masons met in Bro. Parry’s office and took preliminary steps looking to the organization of a lodge in Moro.  These men were Obed Cushman, Geo. Meader, F.D. Nelson, C.E. Deakin, M.H. Poole, J.B. Hosford, S.S. Hays, Robt. Urquhart and John M. Parry.  In due time dispensation was granted and the lodge was organized, with Bro. Parry again as Master.  A charter finally being granted to Eureka Lodge No. 121  September 9, 1902. Of the nine Masons here and the three borrowed from Taylor Lodge at Wasco, who signed the petition only two survive.  These being Bro. Robt. Urquhart of Moro and Bro. S.S. Hays in Portland. Almost two years ago a movement was started to procure and hang a picture of Bro. Parry in the lodge room as a memorial to Bro. Parry’s life as a Mason, and after more or less delay and difficulties these having finally been overcome.  Tonight our efforts are rewarded and the picture is hung at the left of the picture of Geo. Washington and above the Masters chair.”
• Issac Newton Lemon. (Special Communication) The death of Issac Newton Lemon at the family home in Corvallis, Oregon, on Sunday, January 4th, marks the passing of a Sherman county pioneer and one of Natures gentleman. Dr. D.H. Leech of the First Methodist church of Albany in his eulogy on his friend said, “He was a good man, a good neighbor, true to his friends and always ready to offer assistance to others in time of trouble or need.  A man whose word was as good as his bond, who was square with all men, and expected them to be the same with him.”  Continuing Dr. Leech said “We were friends for a third of a century and because of that friendship and our faith in each other I am here today to perform this last service for him.” The funeral was from the First Presbyterian church of Corvallis.  The front of the church and casket was banked with the many beautiful floral offerings of the many friends of the family.  L.J. Murdock and Mrs. E. Widdows sang most beautifully “Nearer My God to Thee” and “Rock of Ages” by request accompanied on the organ by Byron Arnold of the department of music at Oregon State College. Mr. Lemon was laid to rest in the Bellefountain cemetery by the side of his son Leston whose death he had never ceased to mourn.  A large gathering of the old friends of his boyhood days was assembled at the cemetery to pay their last respects to “Ike.” He will be greatly missed by his family and his many friends both in Corvallis and in his former home in Sherman county. “Above the cloistral valley Above the Druid rill There lies a quiet sleeper Upon a lonely hill Ah, who would break rapture Brooding sweet and still The great peace of the sleeper Upon that lonely hill.”

January 16, 1931

• Hannah M. Webb, formerly a resident of Sherman county, passed away at the age of 80 years, 9 months and 12 days, Monday, January 12, 1931, immediately following a sudden stroke of paralysis, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Oneita Millard, in Portland, Oregon. Her husband, Chauncey B. Webb had preceded her to the Heavenly Home more than 21 years. Mrs. Webb had been active until the day of her death, and went away peacefully just as she would have wished it to be after a long and well spent life.  Her trust was in the Lord. She leaves to mourn their loss six children:  Mrs. Myrtle E. Starns, Summerville, Oregon; C. Stanley Webb, Chicago; Mrs. Clarice L. Kruger, Portland; Ernest G. Webb, Beaverton, Oregon; Mrs. Oneita Millard, Portland, and Leslie E. Webb of King City, California. Mr. and Mrs. Webb were numbered among the pioneer settlers of Sherman county, living for many years near DeMoss on the farm now owned by R.C. Byers where they conducted the post office for that district more than forty years ago and until they moved to Moro where they were identified with the old Moro Hotel until selling the business to Walter C. Rutledge.

January 23, 1931

January 30, 1931

February 6. 1931

• J. Ginn left Sunday for Walla Walla by stage to attend the funeral of Wm. Elliott, his brother-in-law, who died in that city last Friday following an illness of two months. Mr. Elliott was 78 years old, a native of Peterborough, Ontario.  He moved to central Oregon in 1879, locating in Sherman county in 1882 where he engaged in farming in the Monkland district, at the time owning the farm now owned by Robt. Belshee.  Mrs. Elliott died five years ago.  Five children, three sons and two daughters survive Mr. Elliott.

February 13, 1931

February 20, 1931

February 27, 1931

March 6, 1931

 

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