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Charlie Hamilton, 75, farmer from Alicel, died Wednesday, June 9, in a local hospital after a long illness.

Mr. Hamilton was born in Scioto, Ohio, August 25, 1867. He had been a resident of Union county for 70 years.

Survivors are three sisters; Mrs. Walter Pratt, Mrs. J. G. Wright and Mrs. Charles Gray. He also had several nieces and nephews.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday, June 13, at the Snodgrass Funeral Home. Rev. Irvin S. Motz will officiate. Burial will be in the Summerville cemetery.

Charles W. Hamilton was born in Scioto, county, Ohio, May 2, 1845 where he lived until 1869.

At the age of 18 he enlisted in the Union army. From May 2, to Sept. 3, 1864, he served as corporal in Company I of the 140th regiment. In this long and terrible struggle he offered his life daily for his country standing where only the bravest can stand.

Sept. 13th, 1864 at Platsmouth [sic - Portsmouth], Ohio, he was united in marriage to Miss Sarah F. Bridwell and to this union were born 11 children of which six now survive him.

The living children are Mrs. Hattie Wright of Joseph; Mrs. Sallie Gray of Bend, Ore.; Mrs. Mina Pratt, of Lewiston, Ida.; and Charles Hamilton, Mrs. Lettie Pratt and Mrs. Nora Cook all of this valley.

Beside[s] there [these] he is survived by 14 grandchildren and 11 great grandchildren, and a host of friends.

In 1869 Mr. Hamilton moved his family to Missouri, where they lived until 1874 when they came across the plains in a covered wagon to Oregon settling east of Alicel on what is known as the Henry Young place.

In 1902 they moved to Shasta county, California, and in 1909 to Benton county, Oregon, where they lived three years, after which time they moved to Eastern Oregon and settled in Wallowa county. In 1921 Mr. Hamilton moved back to the Grande Ronde valley where he has made his home since, until his death May 5 at the advanced age of 88 years and three days.

His wife, Sarah F. Hamilton, died in April 1925.

Mr. Hamilton was converted and joined the Methodist church while yet a young man, and has been an active Christian all of his adult life.

He had a serious heart attack three years ago, and his remaining until now has been due to his unusually strong constitution.

The services will be held at Summerville chapel at 2:30 Sunday afternoon. Rev. Howard B. Smith, of the American Sunday School Union, will be in charge.

About 7 o'clock Monday morning, T.H. Harryman, who lives adjoining Hance Hamilton's residence property, discovered the latter lying dead in his dooryard. The news was communicated to Justice of the Peace, E.B. Morelock, who as acting coroner took charge of affairs.

On examination it appeared as if Hamilton had gone out in his dooryard about bedtime the evening before to cut a few sticks of wood, when he was stricken with heart failure and had fallen over dead. No movement of the body was perceptible after it reached the ground which lead to the conclusion that he was dead when he fell. A coroner's jury was empanneled and, after examining the premises and the body and listening to the testimony of the physicians, a verdict in accordance with the above facts were rendered.

Deceased was one of the early settlers of this county and had lived in this section for the past twenty-five years. He was 87 years old and had never been married. He lived alone most of the time, and although possessed of considerable means lived in a very squalid manner. On his person was a purse containing $35.80 and under the mattress of his bed were two sacks, one containing $500.00 in gold and the other $700.00. He had several thousand dollars on deposit in the local bank and owned quite a little property in addition.

No relatives of the dead man live in this county, although he has a nephew living at Sprague, Wash. and a niece who lives at Newberg, this state. The latter arrived on Wednesday's train in time for the funeral.

Funeral services were held in the M.E. church at 2 o'clock Wednesday afternoon and the body was intered in the city cemetery.

Mrs. Mary E. Hamilton, the mother of Sheriff Hamilton, died suddenly at her residence in Baker county on the morning of January 1

Two days following the death of Mrs. Hamilton, her sister Mrs. Nancy Warrenstaff, died at her home in La Grande after a brief illness and was buried in the Kellogg cemetery at that town.

O.G. Hamilton, 55 an O.W.R.&N. conductor with a railroad record of nearly 35 years standing, died at 4 o'clock Tuesday morning and his wife, who is a few years young, lies in a grave condition at the hospital in La Grande as the result of injuries they sustained when their car dropped over a 100-foot embankment into a pile of blasted rock, about eight miles west of La Grande on the Old Oregon Trail highway about 6 o'clock Monday night.

Mrs. Hamilton states she had no warning whatever before the car plunged over the grade. It is evident that the driver became confused by a gap in the white guard fence, mistaking it for a continuation of the highway and drove his car straight for the ledge.

A tourist camping on a nearby hill, heard the crash and ran to the rescue. Seeing he could do nothing alone, he hurried to the Five Point filling station, for assistance. The nearest telephone was at Hillgard, and from there help from La Grande was summoned and a doctor and ambulance were soon on the scene. Mr. and Mrs. Richardson, were both of large stature, and it was necessary to lift them onto stretchers, and carry them up an almost perpendicular bank.

The Hamilton's have been residents of La Grande since 1910. The death of Mr. Hamilton leaves the widow quite alone. She was an only child of parents who are now dead. Funeral arrangements are held waiting word from relatives of Mr. Hamilton in the east.

(In the article it does say Mr. and Mrs. Richardson - Janine)