Published as it appeared on Oct. 22, 1901, in the (Portland) Morning Oregonian, Page 8, Column 4.
Death of Mrs. H.R. Linville.
Mrs. Carrie Linville, wife of H.R. Linville, died very suddenly at her home, 113 East Alder street, Sunday. She had been in failing health for about a year, but Sunday was feeling fairly well. After a few minutes’ conversation with her husband, she suddenly fell to the floor and died instantly. The cause of her death is given as dropsy of the heart. She was 30 years old. She was born at Corvallis and came to Portland with her parents when very young. Her husband and two children survive her. The funeral will be held this afternoon at 2 o’clock from the house. Lone Fir cemetery will be the place of interment.
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Editor’s note: The obituary published in the Oregonian includes some inaccuracies. Mrs. Linville was age 29 at death (about one week shy of her 30th birthday) and she was buried at Mount Union Cemetery, not Lone Fir. According to a medical certificate filed with the city of Portland, the cause of death was heart failure with Bright’s disease as a contributing cause. Born Carrie Evalena Ross, she was born to Paschal Ross and Linda Mason on Nov. 29, 1871, in Oregon. She married H. Riley Linville on Sept. 22, 1891. They had two children, sons Ross and Don. According to the 1880 census, she was living at age 8 with her family in Philomath.