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infill • ler liiKale*nn,IT.thtof'K*cdIS CLAIMED BY DEATHMrs. Sarah Jane Cummins Passes Away at Horne in Montana Within One Month of Being 91 Years Old.niMr*. Snrah Jane Cummin*, photttfr of iNiii unit wiihln one month of be-ins !* t rears of ago, dii il ut her tiori.ry Mi ••li.-i.trr. Mflniuin, on August n I nmi M'iu burled ten data later nt Went on. according to word received In Pendleton Uidny. Mr* GunifnliiD h | m«do her horn* In CnuUlJJa county for dmny year*, her b unban 3, Benjamin W#W«il, having ben* » county •'ominlasioner for l*f yrnn. Both -h.t unit Mr Walden wore u-ll I. no wit urnons the pioneer* in thi* part of ftin -cfofe.Hu rah June l^rnmon. daughter of John and Jane Crocker I.enun on. wai horn .-vpicmilier 11, |8S*. in SttKumnn town. Illinois. Hofno yearn luter the family removed to Hi. Joseph. Missouri, whero she wa* married to Qon-Jnmtn Walden, on April Its. JB46; on -May ad of tin* aama year they Marled across the plain* to Oregon.on reaching The Dalle*, Mr. and Mrv Walden and her brother. Lemuel Ummon. with aoinn other* decided to i-roM» t he .Candida mountain* •milth of Mt. Hood, to Kina the Mock of horses ntid cattle with them. After d.y*« of danger and toll Ilioy reached the settlement near Or exon City.and wintered there that flrwt winter.In I#4*1. they located on land In the French prairie near the prenent town of nrook*. One year Infer they filed n government donation claim In the Waldo Hill*, one mile west .of where the town of UrClttf I* located. Here their family war horn nnd raised. The house nnd other Improvement* rrtnnln almost Intact and are a fa-milinr land mark lo tourists In that part of the *tt*.In 187’ they sold that home and located near Weston, Umatilla Co,. Oreg. where Mr. Walden vat buriedNovember 27. 1 88 4.In IS®4 *he win married to HrCummin* of To a chat, Wn*h.. who died !erem!»er 9. IK 12. Sinro that time she ha* resided with her children. In lit]5 she went to Chester. .Montana, with her foun|mt dau*liter. and died there AojniM II. 19;®. She was burled t»t Weston, August 21 1919.* j Bhe prepared her autobiography and the history of some of the event* ; of her life, which ha* been extensively read throughout the Pacific north-wttt. BhO al«o wrote extensively for papers and maenxlnen nnd will be remembered by a larse circle of friend*.She leave* two soil*. John K- Walden of Weston, Ore.. Nathan H. Walden at California, and two daughter*. Hr. Martha S. Allen of Ia Grand©, Ore., and Mrs. Mary Bassett of Chester. Montana. Al'* 21 grandchildren, am! 16 gront grandchildren.Bhe I* survived by one slater. Mrs.! R. C. Davis of Rpsebunr, Ore . who U almost eleven year* younger than the deceased.Mr*, navi* has Just celebrated her I flOth blrthdav Hh« came up from , Hood uiver to attend tho funeral nt Weston.Mr* Cummin* w.»* year*. 10 months nnd 9 ifhvs of ace ut the time I of her death.
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Pendleton East Oregonian
Pendleton, Oregon, US
Thu, Aug 28, 1919
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