Obituaries and Death Notices

AUSTIN, JAMES A.
Death took James A. Austin, pioneer of Minnesota and long a resident of Oregon, at his home in Woodburn on December 20. He was 80 years of age and had been in ill health for several years. Funeral services were said on Friday afternoon in Woodburn, his home for a third of a century. He was born at Monroe, Wis., in 1842. In 1864 he moved to Minnesota, where in may he took up a homestead in Meeker county. Two months before he married Sarah L. Barrick at Faribault, Minn. Four sons and two daughters were born from the union. The year 1889 saw his advent to Oregon. In the fall of 1891 he established a grocery business in Woodburn and remained active up until six years ago. Mrs. Austin died in Woodburn in November, 1892. He married Mrs. Jennie M. Carlson in September, 1895. He leaves his widow at the home in Woodburn and the surviving children of the first union: A. E. and H. M Austin of Woodburn, L. B. Austin of Pasadena, Cal, Mrs. W. B. Cornutt of Portland and Laura F. Austin, Bombay, India. An elder son died in Minnesota in 1889. [The Oregonian, 24 December 1922] Transcribed by James Van Der Mark

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