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Mrs. Ruth Malone, who has been a resident of Cove for a number of years, died Tuesday afternoon following a short illness. Funeral services were held at Cove this afternoon at the Baptist church, and the burial took place in the Cove cemetery.

Mr. Malone was in North Powder on his way to Baker, the home of Mrs. Dora Miller, a sister of Mrs. Malone. Mrs. Miller was to return to Cove with him to attend the funeral services. Mr. Malone stopped in North Powder to inform friends of the death of his wife.

Mrs. Malone was born Mar. 30, 1869, and was 62 years of age at the time of death. She is survived by her husband; a son, William, of La Grande; a daughter, Mrs. Anna Richardson, and a sister, Eveline Millman, of Cove, and a sister, Mrs. Miller, of Baker. Another sister and three brothers who live in the east also survive her.

MALLORY:- In this city November 22, 1891, Rufus Romaine, infant son of Mr. and Mrs. C.M. Mallory of Heppner, Oregon, aged 5 months.

The little sufferer was brought to the house of its grandmother Mrs. R.A. Davis on the 14th inst., and every possible effort made to give it relief but without success. The remains were taken to Heppner, Monday.

Died in Union, Thursday evening, Sept. 18, 1899, the 3 year-old son mf Mr. and Mrs. C.H. Marsh. The child was sick only one week with diptheria. The funeral took place yesterday. The bereaved parents have the sympathy of the entire community. - Union Republican.

Andrew Mattson, who came to this city last Thursday from Portland to work on the new railroad, was drowned in Grande Ronde river about 13 miles below this city Wednesday afternoon. When Mattson reached the railroad camps, after leaving Elgin, he was crazed from the effects of liquor. He did not recover as expected he would, from that condition and became totally insane. Two messengers came to town about noon Wednesday and reported the matter to the authorities, who dispatched a special officer to bring the unfortunate man to town. At 5:30 p.m. of the same day another messenger reported that a man had drowned in the river. He was not acquainted with the circumstances and all he knew was that the body had been recovered. Coroner J.C. Henry was notified and E.B. Morelock, justice of the peace, was appointed to hold an inquest. According to instructions Morelock sent a conveyance after the dead man and subpoenied a number of witnesses. The conveyance returned to Elgin last night with the remains and the driver reported that the drowned man was the one who had been insane. Mattson started to follow the messengers to town and on his way deliberately walked into the river.

An inquest is being held this morning.

The dead man has a sister in Butte, Mon., and a brother in Clealum, Wash. The latter has been notified and instructions will be awaited as to the disposal of the remains. Mattson has an acquantance here who has known him for several years and says tht his parents, who reside in Norway, are well-to-do people.

Word has been received of the death of W.S. Mayberry at his home in Weiser, Idaho. Mr. Mayberry was employed as principal of the Wolf Creek school, but resigned before the holidays on account of ill heath. He had been a sufferer from rheumatism for some time. Mr. Mayberry is survived by several grown children.

Thomas a. Mayes, 32, an almost life-time resident of the Haines vicinity, died at St. Elizabeth hospital at 2:45 Monday of this week. Death is attributed to spinal meningitis and his death followed an illness of but a few days duration. Mr. Mayes was the step-son of W.H. Mayes of the Rock Creek - Muddy Creek district and with the exception of a few years spent in Southern California and at Oak grove, Oregon had been a resident of the Haines community all his life. A son, Thomas Jr., is seriously ill with an attack of the same disease.

Mr. Mayes was a veteran of the world war and member of local lodges and civic bodies. For the past several years he had been engaged in the handling and shipping of butterfat and operated a meat market in Haines.

The widow and two small children, Elenor, and Thomas Junior, and one brother, Arthur, of Omaha, Nebraska, survive.

Funeral services were held at Haines Thursday afternoon, conducted by Miss Josie Blokland pastor of the Haines M.E. Church and was largely attended. Beautiful floral tributes conveyed the sympathy of many friends. Burial was in the Haines cemetery.

The following clipping is from a California paper, relating particulars of the recent death of a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ira Messenger, formerly of Union, and will interest some of the older residents of this place:

Instant death overtook 8-year-old Katherine Messenger, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ira Messenger of Burbank, when an automobile in which she and her father were driving up the Mt. Wilson road backed of the grade at 11;30 a.m. yesterday and fell 350 feet into the gorge below.

Mr. Messenger was thrown clear of the car. He suffered severely from nerve shock after the accident and was given treatment at the Emergency Hospital in Pasadena. The body of the little girl was taken to the Burnham undertaking parlors in Pasadena.

As the accident was explained by Mr. Messenger to the Pasadena police, the machine backed up on him after the engine died when he undertook to shift the gears, and the car rolled over the grade before he could set the brakes.

He was thrown out, but the little girl was hurled to the bottom of the ravine, where she was picked up dead. Mt. Messenger and his daughter were on their way to the top of Mt. Wilson for an outing when the accident occurred.

The mother was prostrated when she heard of the accident.

DIED – Monday February 27, 1905 at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J.W. Tuttle, on Willow Creek, Mrs. Maria Louisa Spakes Myers aged 72 years, 5 months, 9 days.

Mrs. Myers, one of the pioneer women of Union County, had resided in and near the town of Summerville since the year 1884, and was among the most widely known citizens of the county.  Ever since the beginning of civilization’s era in this section Mrs.
Myers had, with all the effectiveness of an energetic and loyal pioneer woman, borne her important part in the many trials and
hardships, as well as the pleasures and good fortunes that have always marked the way of the pioneer in a new and developing
land.  Her touch, with unfading and deathless imprint is left with that of other pioneer men and women upon the region where
for nearly half a century she made her home and strove faithfully that a bright future might be the heritage of they who came after her.  The world has no better, no nobler, people than they who have given their lives to the broadening of civilization’s empire, and among these Mrs. Myers held her place with a steadfast devotion and a humble determination that is worthy of a heroine’s crown. Her womanly and christian character, the distinguishing feature of her private life, is best attested by the turning of the fleeting spirit when she prayed, in almost her last words “Oh Lord make me happy in this world and in the world to come.”

Mrs. Myers, who in family descent was of French extraction, was in her maidenhood Miss Maria Louisa Spakes.  She was born in the District of Columbia, August 21, 1822.  In childhood she with one brother was left an orphan, and for nine years made her home with an uncle at Berryville, Virginia, and then moved with him to Missouri in 1840.  In the latter state, at Memphis, on February 18, 1844, she was united in marriage to Henry A. Myers, who preceded her to the grave in 1896.  In 1864 with her husband and children she moved to Oregon crossing the plains by team and settling in Northern Union county.  She was a devout member of the Baptist church, with which she united at Edinburg, Mo. in 1855.

Mrs. Myers was the mother of eight children, Mary Catherine, Eliza, Sarah M. Humphrey, John, James Cooper, Jeanette and Benjamin Franklin Meyers.  Of these, they who live to mourn a loving mother’s death, are; Mary Catherine Wade, Sarah M. Glenn, Jeanette Tuttle, and Benjamin Franklin Myers.

The funeral rites were performed on Tuesday, February 27, and the body was laid at rest in Summerville cemetery.

Barney Milady, an old man who had been employed as watch at Rumble & McCully's sawmill about 6 miles below the Wallowa Bridge, was found dead last Friday morning in a small ditch about one mile above the mill.

The old man had gone from the mill to the Canyon Hotel on the night of March 8th for supplies and stayed at the hotel that night, leaving early the next morning for the mill with a sack load of supplies thrown across his back, and was seen about 1 o'clock that afternoon about two miles below the fish hatchery by John Fisher and wife. So far as can be ascertained that was the last time he was seen alive, and nothing was known of him until found last Friday morning by John Fisher and others who had started down to the mill for lumber. When within about one mile of the mill Mr. Fisher and friends found the body of the old man lying in a ditch face downward. Fisher immediately went to the Canyon House and notified the company of his death and they in turn notified the coroner of Wallowa county who impaneled a jury and proceeded to the place where the unfortunate victim had been found. After looking over the ground it was decided not to hold an inquest as it was evident that the man had met death by drowning, all circumstances pointing to that fact. Close to the man was an empty whiskey flask and it is thought that the unfortunate had imbibed too freely and had fallen into the ditch in a helpless condition and was unable to get out. The ditch was small and the water was so shallow that a portion of his dead emerged above the surface. The unfortunate had evidently emptied the bottle at that point while on his way to the mill with his supplies and toppled into the ditch in a drunken condition. Although the body had been in the ditch for 13 days it was in an almost perfect state.

The remains were prepared for burial at the Canyon Hotel and conveyed to the Joseph cemetery, where they were interred Sunday, and where he said some time ago that he wanted to be laid to rest.

Barney Milady was born in Ireland and was 81 years and 10 months old. He had been a resident of this country for several years and had been working for the sawmill firm for several months. He was a member of the Catholic church. So far as could be learned he had no relatives in this country and the whereabouts of relatives in Ireland, if he had any, could not be obtained.

Those who knew him say that he was a kind-hearted old man but addicted to the drink habit, which no doubt was responsible for his miserable death.

Willie Millman, of Cove, was kicked by a horse Friday evening of last week, and was later taken to La Grande for treatment and died on the operating table. The young man was about 17 years of age, and after he was injured insisted on finishing his chores, ate a hearty supper and was apparently getting along all right, but later was taken worse, resulting in his removal to La Grande. He was kicked in the stomach, and an investigation showed the injuries had been so severe that the only wonder was that he kept about at all. He was working for Lloyd Carter when the accident happened.

The people of Elgin received another shock last Friday evening by the intelligence that Frank Milne, of this city, had been drowned in Clarks creek, a short distance above Elliott's. Mr. Milne had been out on his ranch on that stream, looking after his cattle and had gone over on the creek to look for a horse at the time the accident occurred. Just how he happened to be drowned will never be known, as he was alone at the time, but the supposition is that he endeavored to cross the stream on a foot log and fell in. The stream was quite high and swift at the time.

The funeral was conducted Sunday afternoon in the Presbyterian church, Rev. Bleakney, officiating, and was quite largely attended. The interment was in the city cemetery.

A wife and three young children are left to mourn his untimely death.

Mrs. T.B. Garrison received word of the death of her mother Mrs. Mary Mitzel which occurred at Portland early this morning. Mrs. Garrison returned form her mother's bedside recently and will not attend the funeral.

Ernest Pulliam was killed instantly and Herbert Mock fatally injured when Pullam's car skidded in soft gravel near Unity, between Baker and Huntington Friday of last week. Mock died a few hours after the accident in a Baker hospital. Pullam was a resident of Boise, while Mock was known to have been a resident of Sardina, Ohio. Two other men riding in the car escaped with minor injuries.

In Eagle Valley, June 25th, of typhoid fever; Lottie Moody; aged 11 years and 5 months.

Martha Ann MORGAN of 873 S. College in Union died Friday, Aug. 25 at the local hospital at the age of 51.

Mrs. MORGAN was born on Dec. 11, 1920 at Bakersfield, Calif., the daughter of Thomas and Bessie DAVIS. She was a graduate of Woodbury Art College in Los Angeles, Calif.

On March 2, 1946, she was married to Jefferson Lee MORGAN at Las Vegas, Nev. They lived in Bakersfield, Calif. until September of 1968 when they moved to Union. She was a member of the Union Rebekah Lodge and President of the Union Home Extension Unit.

Survivors include her husband J. Lee MORGAN, Union; two daughters, Teresa Lee MORGAN and Judy Ann MORGAN both of Union; brother, Elvin DAVIS, Bakersfield, Calif., sister Betty BEEBE, Bakersfield, Calif.; numerous nieces and nephews.

Funeral services were held on Wednesday, Aug. 30 with Rev. Robert Dowery and the Union Rebekah Lodge officiating. Concluding services followed at the Union Cemetery.

Funeral services for James P. Morelock, who died unexpectedly early Monday morning, will be held a 1:30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon at the Snodgrass and Zimmerman mortuary. Dr. Henry Marcotte, of the Presbyterian church will officiate. The Stanley lodge, A. F. & A. M., of Wallowa, of which he was a life member, will have charge of the grave services at the Summerville cemetery.

Mr. Morelock was a native of Union county. He was born in Summerville Sept. 23, 1872 and was 65 years, one month and 9 days of age. He resided in Oregon all his life, and much of the time was spent in Wallowa county.

Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Mary Morelock; a daughter, Mrs. Jesse V. Andrews, La Grande; a son, Ed, who is with the state highway department at Jordan Valley; the following brothers and sisters, William of Cottage Grove; Mrs. Martha Russell and Mrs. Mary Smith, of Elgin; Lee, of Los Angeles; Roy, of Seattle; Mrs. Emma Christian, of Seattle; Mrs. Cora Evans and John W., both of Pendleton; Leonard, of Salem, Ore., and Tylden, whose address is unknown.

June 2nd in La Grande, MRS. CHARLOTTE MORRISON, wife of Rev. A. Morrison, aged 49 years.

County Assessor J. H. Morton, after a long and painful illness, died Saturday night at 11:30 o'clock, at the Grande Ronde hospital.

James H, Morton was a native son of Oregon, having been born in Lane county on June 7, 1856, where he resided until he reached the age of 10 years, when he and his parents came to this county where he has resided since. In 1879 he was united in marriage to Miss Rhoda J. Jasper, a daughter of honored and respected pioneers of Union county. Born to this union were 11 children, 8 of whom are living. The living children are: Miss Allie Gordon, of Walla Walla, Harsha J. Morton also of Walla Walla, Mrs. Jessie Jolly and Misses Maude, Nellie, Dillie and Master Glenn.

Interment took place at Summerville under the auspices of the Knights of Pythias.

J. H. Morton was well known in Union, and his surviving relatives will have the heart felt sympathy of a large circle of friends.

Mrs. J. T. Mulvehill, a former resident of Union, died in the Baker Hospital Sunday, December 1, 1918. The funeral took place Monday, December 2, from the Catholic Church in Baker.

Josephine La Notte Mulvehill was born in New Orleans, May 28, 1862, and died in Baker, Oregon, December 1, 1918. She was taken suddenly ill Friday night November 29-her ailment was pronounced acute diabetes. She was rushed to St. Elizabeth's hospital at Baker, early Saturday morning, where every possible aid was given her, but she passed away Sunday forenoon at 11 o'clock, surrounded by all her family.

The Mulvehills have been residents of Oregon 21 years, residing in Union all of the time, except the last three years, when they moved to a ranch near Haines.

Mrs. Mulvehill is survived by her husband, J. T. Mulvehill; two sons, Andreas and Leo, of Haines; two daughters, Mrs. Alva Peters and Mrs. Herman White, of North Powder. She was a loving and affectionate wife and mother, a kind friend and neighbor, beloved by all who knew her.

The funeral services where held at Baker, Monday December 2, at 4 p. m. at St. Francis Cathedral, Rev. Father August E. Loeser officiating. The remains were shipped the same night to Portland for cremation and were accompanied by all of the immediate family.

Mrs. Mulvehill was a member of Preston W. R. C. No. 22, a benefit member of Union Circle No. 209, and also of Artisans. Many Union friends extend sincere sympathy to the bereaved family. Quite a number of Union people attended the funeral services.

Representative T.N. Murphy, who had been in Portland for several days receiving medical treatment, died suddenly in that city Monday, December 14, 1903.

Deceased was a well known business man of La Grande and was elected as representative to the legislature from Union county in 1902, which position he filled with credit. he leaves a wife and daughter, besides numerous friends to mourn his loss.

The interment took place in the Catholic cemetery at La Grande Wednesday morning.