Mount Union Stories: Ann M. Allen (1820-1905)
Published as it appeared on Sept. 16, 1905, in the (Portland) Oregonian, Page 6, column 5. Mrs. Anne M. Allen. PHILOMATH, Or., Sept. 15.—(Special.)—Mrs. Anne M. Allen died at her home in this city Wednesday night, aged 85 years. She…
Mount Union Stories: Luman Robert Ray (1841-1907)
In this week’s Mount Union Stories, read about Luman R. Ray, an Ohio-born man who died one day shy of his 66th birthday at his home two miles west of Philomath.
Mount Union Stories: Rozella C. Shipley (1870-1908)
In this week’s Mount Union Stories, read about Rozella Shipley, daughter of John and Mary Wyatt who died at age 37 from heart failure.
Mount Union Stories: Mary “Polly” Horton (1836-1909)
In this week’s Mount Union Stories, read about 72-year-old Mary “Polly” Horton, who was born in Ohio and lived in Kansas before setting in Oregon in 1875, and was a victim of tuberculosis.
Mount Union Stories: Clara V. Claybaugh (1887-1910)
In this week’s Mount Union Stories, read about Clara Claybaugh, who was married less than a year to a Philomath College graduate and was preparing to become a school teacher when she died at age 23 in Idaho.
Mount Union Stories: Edgar J. Hendricks (1842-1911)
In this week’s Mount Union Stories, read about Civil War veteran Edgar J. Hendricks, who died in December 1911and is buried in the cemetery’s Southwest section.
Mount Union Stories: Joseph H. Benton (1839-1913)
In this week’s Mount Union Stories, read about Joseph H. Benton, a 74-year-old man who appeared to have lived in Oregon only the last few years of his life.
Mount Union Stories: John W. Lenger (1845-1914)
In this week’s Mount Union Stories, read about John W. Lenger, who was born in Germany and died at his Corvallis home in the summer of 1914.
Mount Union Stories: Leah M. Crail (1845-1915)
In this week’s Mount Union Stories, read about Leah Crail, a well-known Philomath woman who died in 1915 from heart failure.
Mount Union Stories: Elizabeth Jane Wood (1850-1916)
In this week’s Mount Union Stories, read about Elizabeth Jane Wood, who lived in Benton County most of her life after arriving with her family as a child in the 1850s. In her obituary, she was called a distant relative…
Mount Union Stories: Justina Newton (1838-1917)
In this week’s Mount Union Stories, read about Justina Newton, who was among the pioneers of that family who lived in the Philomath vicinity. The wife of Norris P. Newton, she was the mother of nine children.
Mount Union Stories: Elizabeth Scarborough Buoy (1845-1918)
In this week’s Mount Union Stories, read about Elizabeth Scarborough Buoy, a 25-year resident of Philomath who died at age 72 in 1918.
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