Mount Union Stories: Janna P. Kriens (1830-1898)
In this week’s Mount Union Stories, read about Johanna Kriens, a German immigrant and mother of 13 who died of typhoid fever at her Philomath-area home in 1898.
Mount Union Stories: Hattie K. Williams (1873-1902)
In this week’s Mount Union Stories, read about Hattie Williams, a Philomath schoolteacher who died in 1902, is remembered through her mother’s memorial poem and records tracing her family, marriage and short life.
Mount Union Stories: James Watkins (1833-1903)
In this week’s Mount Union Stories, read about James Watkins, 69, who came west from Iowa to California and then to Benton County, where he lived 30-plus years.
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.
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