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RINEHART:-Near Summerville, April 26, 1890, Eddie Rinehart, son of Jasper Rinehart, aged 16 years, 6 months and 25 days.

The deceased came to his death by drowning in the Grande Ronde river. He had driven some horses across the large ditch which empties into the river on the Bloch place. He was riding a horse and as the animal sprang in to cross the ditch they became separated, the horse swimming back to the shore while Eddie managed to gain the farther bank. he was then left without means of escape as he was then on an island, formed by the ditch and the river. He attracted the attention of some passers by who paid no heed to his crys. At last another young man saw him and went up the river some distance and came down in an old boat in which they started across the river, while thus engaged the boat began to leak and fill with water. It seems the young man became excited and in his attempt to spring towards the shore he upset the boat, throwing them both in the water. The man who had come to the rescue was able to gain the shore but Eddie Rinehart went down beneath the cold waves never to return the bright promising youth he had been. He sank at 7 o'clock Saturday and the body was not recoveread until 8:15 Sunday morning. The funeral took place at one p.m. Monday. The heart stricken parents have the sympathy of the whole community.

ELGIN, Aug. 27 - Mrs. Margaret Ann Rinehart, Oregon pioneer of 1852 and member by marriage of the famous Rinehart clan, died here at the home of her daughter Mrs. S. A. Chappell Monday, at the age of 72 years. She had been ill but a short time, being stricken after coming here from her home in Walla Walla for a visit.

Mrs. Rinehart crossed the plains with her family and settled in Lane county. Following her marriage in 1865 she came with her husband, the late Henry Rinehart, to Summerville, Union county, where they lived on a ranch until 1908, when they moved to Walla Walla.

Three children survive, Mr[s]. Nellie M. Eubanks and Clay Rinehart, both of Walla Walla and Mrs. Chappell. Three sisters and one brother are : Mrs. J. Sellers of Creswell, Or; Mrs. E. Rinehart of Roosevelt, Wash., and William Martin, Kennewick, Wash.

The funeral was conducted at the chapel in Summerville by Rev.. Mr. Archer of North Powder, Wednesday.

DIED. - At Summerville, July 26th, Martin Luther son of Henry and Margaret Rinehart, aged 5 months and 26 days.

near Summerville, May 17th, ORMINA A. daughter of John and Sarah Rinehart, aged 10 years, 9 months and 12 days.

She is not dead, the child of our affection,
But gone unto that school
Where she no longer needs our poor protection
And God himself doth rule.

In that great choirester's stillness and seclusion,
By guarding angels led,
Safe from temptation, safe from sin's pollution
She lives whom we call dead.