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tmifgflt;n.ft.rhtoIB- IedMrs. Sarah Jane Cummin* Passes Away at Home ir Montana Within One Month of Being 91 Years Old,Mm. Rnrah June Cuminirj», pioneer of isiTi nnil within line month or fj*--ins !M year* of gfc, died nt her hnritr Irt *‘lnMii»-r Montana, tn Aiitnist ij j arid WUJ* buried ten dam Inter « i Weston, according lo wofil revel red In Pendleton today. Mr*. Cumtulnii mod., he? hflmr in CmuUJIa county fop mony retro* her hustMuid, Ben jninlit Walden* liftvjng htteii i county comm Isa I oner f«r IS yenra. Doth h.* 14ltd Mr. Wlldftlt Were writ known u monte the jiinnMm in lhin pari of fflfl state.Kurnlt June daughter nfJohn Jifitj Jmw Crocker Ix'mrnon. wit* born Frptember ||, In SajguitmnI own Illinois. Holm! years later the family retnov?4 t•* Hi. Joseph, Min* AottH. where she wiih married to Benjamin Walden* *»« April lit. 184 , on May of the Maine year they marled .MioKo the plain* to Oregon.* Jii rcnchlnir The I hit lea, Mr. nnd Mrs, \\ .ihlcti and her brother, Lemuel i^»mirion, With xoinn other* de* cided to ennsa I h#,Cascade mountains south of Ml. Hood. taking the stuck of huriH*B and uiltl« wltli them. After 19 d,yy* of danger find toil they reached the wdtlement newr Oregon Clty nnd wintered there that firm winter.In J*48, they located on land In the French prUJHs near the present town of Brooks, one your Inter they filed n government donation claim In the Waldo Hills, one mile west-of where the town of MrCleJty la located. Here their family whip twrn nnd raised. The house nnd other improvements remain almost Intact and are a f«-millnr hind murk to tourists In that part of the stte.To IS7S they sold that home and located near Weston, Umatilla Co,, Ore*., where Mr. Walden was buried Nr*vember 2T, IsSfi,In lf!»4 she was married Vo hr Cummin* of Tnuchet. Wash., who died reeemhfr ®, IK 15. since that tl*n« ah# lias resided with her children. In illt;IS she went to Cheater,1 Montana, with her younf*M daurh- r ter, unit died there Aujruat 31. I5J9. ! | Phe Was burled ut Weston, Aturastj S1 1919..1 ; f'be prepared her ntttnhto graphs*I and the history of some of the events; 1 r»f her life, which hue been *»*t*n«|v*-Ify rend throughout the Pacific north* west. She also wroto extensively for papers and marnxines and will be re-J member*# by a larg# circle of friends. | | She leaves two sons. John IE- Wal-i don of W**dori( Or*-. Nathan TT, Walden of California* and two daughters, Ur. Martha J. Allen ««f I a Orand#. Ore., nnd Mrs. Mnrv Bassett of Chester. Montana. Ah* 21 irrnnil children, and 16 great grn nd children.She Is survived by one stster, Mr*, I j-1. €*. Davie of Iloscburk', Ore . who is J almost eleven years younger thnn the d?CM4«d.Mrs. Davis ha* Just celebrated her Rftih birthday. Who cam* up from Hood Hn*r lo attend the funeral at Weston.Mrs Cummins was 90 years. 10 months and :* dhy* of n*r* nt the ttm# of her death.
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Pendleton Eagle Valley news
Pendleton, Oregon, US
Thu, Aug 28, 1919
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