Wasco County Obituaries and other death records

 

 


Wm. Goodwin, aged 85 years, father of Mrs.J. Draper residing at the corner of C and 20th  streets, died of senile decay at his daughter’s residence Tuesday. The funeral will occur today at 10:30 a.m. in the Christian Church. The body will be shipped from Noice’s undertaking parlors to The Dalles, Oregon, where it will be interred beside the deceased’s wife, who died in 1890. Mr. Goodwin was one of the earliest settlers on the Pacific coast having lived in Oregon and on Bellingham Bay for the last forty years.

©John Brassfield
 


Death Return

Name of Deceased: Wm. Goodwin

Date of Death: Dec. 10, 1902

Age Last Birthday: 85

Sex: Male

Color: White

Married, Single, Widow or Widower: Widower

Place of Death: Whatcom

Disease or Cause of Death: Uremia

Birthplace: Peoria, Ill.

Residence: Whatcom,W--

Occupation: Farmer

Father’s Name:

Father’s Birthplace:

Mother’s Maiden Name: York

Mother’s Birthplace:

State of Washington, County of Whatcom, ss.

            I hereby certify that the above is a true return of the Death, and of the other facts there recorded.

            Dated at Whatcom, Washington, this 17 day of Dec. 1902

L.R. Markley, M.D.

©John Brassfield
 


Funeral Notice

Died in The Dalles, May 27, 1880

Mrs. Catherine Goodwin, (Mother of Mrs. H.H. Draper), aged 72 years.

            Funeral services will be held at the Methodist church, Wednesday, May 29, at 2 o’clock P.M. Friends of the family invited.

©John Brassfield
 


GOODWIN—In this city Monday, May 27th, at 10 o’clock P.M. Catherine, wife of William Goodwin, aged 72 years. Funeral services were held at the Methodist church at 2 o’clock this (Wednesday) afternoon.

Mrs. Goodwin has been a helpless invalid for more than fifteen years during which time she has received the constant and tender care of her bereaved husband. They were married February 17, 1839, or a little more than fifty years ago. About fifteen years ago she received a stroke of paralysis which rendered her helpless, but she has had the most affectionate care of both her husband and daughter, Mrs. H.H. Draper. Since that time she has had three other paralytic strokes, the last on the 20th of this month, being the immediate cause of her death. She joined the Methodist church in Oregon in 1858 and remained through life true to that faith. For fifteen years Mr. Goodwin has given his entire time to her, an example of devotion which puts to shame those doubters who think marriage is a failure, and illustrated that deep affection which abides through sickness and sorrow, through weal and woe, which promising to love, cherish and protect, smoothes the pathway of her who came to him a bright and happy girl, down the dark and desolate hills of helpless age, to the grave.

©John Brassfield
 


Near Antelope, Wasco County, on the21st of April, Wm. Robertson, wife and child were riding in a wagon down Antelope hill, the little one saw a rabbit, and in its delight slipped from the mother's hands and fell out of the wagon. Mrs. Robertson sprang out and pushed the child away from the wheels, saving its life, but at the sacrifice of her own. Her head was almost crushed before the team could be stopped, and she died shortly afterwards.

Morning Oregonian, April 30, 1877

©Shauna Williams
 

On Wednesday last, William Tarlton was found dead in Current crook canyon in southeast part of Wasco county. The cause of his death is unknown but he is supposed to have been thrown unknown but he is supposed to have been thrown from his buckboard while going down a steep hill and killed. Wednesday morning Mr. Tarlton had been at Antelope and had started for home on Muddy, which was the last seen of him until his body was found about 4 o'clock PM by Mr. Vandervert, lying by the side of the road Current creek canyon. Mr. Tarlton was an Englishman by birth and was about 40 years of age.

Morning Oregonian, April 22, 1890

©Shauna Williams
 

Two young men, Joseph D. Walker and Thomas Gordon, living in Wasco County, who had been long been on bad terms, met on Monday. An old quarrel was renewed and several shots were fired on each side. Gordon was shot through the head and instantly killed. Walker was also seriously wounded, but is in custody. The trouble arose over the disputed possession of a tract of land.

Evening Observer, Dunkirk New York October 30, 1884

©Shauna Williams
 

BANKROBBER DEAD
John Hoffman, Suspected of Robbing an Oregon Bank, Dies on His Way to Spot Where Money is Hid.
    The Dalles, Ore., Oct. 16-The body of John R. Hoffman was found yesterday about a miles from the Tygh Valley store, on the Mays ranch, death being due to an overdose of morphine. The remains were found near a creek, where he had evidently lain down to rest and expired.
     Hoffman was arrested about a year ago near Tygh by Wasco county officials, suspected of being the highwayman who held up the Woodburn (Ore.) bank in broad daylight  a few months previous. At his examination he was able to prove an alibi and satisfy the court that he had been on the ranch of Morrow & Keenan, near Grizzly, the day of the bank robbery.
     It is believe by the county officers here that Hoffman was the right man and that he had a cache of money somewhere in the neighborhood of Tygh to which he was working back. A check for $75, issued August 23, 1906, by the First National bank of Prineville, was found on his person, indicating that he had been working in Crook county during the summer.

October 16, 1906  Fairbanks Evening News, Fairbanks Alaska

©Shauna Williams 
 

COMMITS SUICIDE
Young Son of the City Marshal of The Dalles, Oregon, Takes His Life For Reasons Unknown.
     The Dalles, Ore., Oct. 16-Guy Sexton, second son of City Marshal Sexton, committed suicide last night at his home in this city, by shooting himself in the temple with a pistol. No cause for the suicide is known. He was a well known young man, aged 21.

October 16, 1906  Fairbanks Evening News, Fairbanks Alaska

©Shauna Williams 
 

SLAYS BROTHER
The Dalles, Ore., Nov. 7- Dave Jones, Tygh Ridge rancher, has confessed shooting his brother and attempting to destroy the body by setting fire to a barn, Sheriff Harold Sexton of Wasco county said tonight.

Helena Independent, November 8, 1936

©Shauna Williams
 

Portland, Oregon, February 27. Mail advices from Pay creek, Wasco county, bring information that Mrs. Jas. Johnson, wife of a farmer on Dr. Baldwin's ranch, was burned to death on Tuesday night. She was standing near an open fire-place when her clothes caught fire and every stitch was burned off.

Feb. 28, 1882-Idaho Tri Weekly Statesman, Boise City Idaho

©Shauna Williams
 

Harman, William, blacksmith, North Water near Wolcott, res same [died, The Dalles, Oregon. May 15, 1890, aged 84.]

1843 Chicago (Illinois) Directory updated with death dates in 1896

©Kim Torp
 

MRS. ElLIZA MCFARLAND
A Former Resident of Richland County Dies in Oregon
     Older residents of this community will remember Mr. and Mrs. Isaac McFarland, who resided in this city many years ago, but in the '50's removed to the west. The Dalles (Ore.) Chronicle of April 15, contains the following obituary sketch of Mrs. McFarland:
     Mrs. Eliza McFarland, one of the oldest and best respected pioneers of this community, died at her home in this city Friday night after a prolonged illness at the age of 86 years.
     Eliza Sirpless was the daughter of James and Mary Sirpless and was born in Washington village, Richland County, O., Jan. 7, 1817, and lived the earlier years of her life in that state. On May 21, 1832, she was married to Isaac McFarland. In the year 1850 they moved to Knox county, Illinois, and in 1852 the family crossed the plains to Oregon. Settling in Oregon City, Mrs. McFarland's husband and sons saw service in the Roque River, Indian War, moving in 1854 to the Dalles and making that their permanent home.
     In Mrs. McFarland's home near Fort Dalles were held the first services conducted by a Methodist minister in this community, a half dozen persons attended each service. From these meetings presided over by the Rev. Mr. Kelley, long since dead, grew the prosperous parish of the First Methodist church of this city.
     Mr. McFarland died in 1869. Of her eleven children but three survive-E.B. McFarland, of Portland; Albert McFarland, of Seattle, and Charles, of Wyeth.
     Mrs. Eliza McFarland's mother died in 1850. Her father, James Sirpless, was married again to Mrs. Martha Ann McBride and to them were born five children, of whom three survive-Albert B. Sirpless and Mrs. Nellie Beeler, of Lawrence, Kas., and William E. Sirpless, of Greenwich.

 

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