Mrs. J. W. Hensley, formerly Stella Antoinette McCord, who died at
Manila, P. I., on June 19, was a daughter of James Stirling
McCord and Mrs. Olive E. McCord. She was born on her father's farm
at Mount Pleasant, near Oregon City, December 18, 1872.
In 1901 she went to Manila, where she lived until her death.
Though not is robust health, she was ill but a short time, death
following an operation undertaken in the hope of saving her life.
In fulfillment of her own expressed wish, her body was
cremated at San Lazoro.
Mrs. Hensley at the time of her death was a teacher in the department
of stenography in the United States School of Commerce
at Manila. Her mother, now a resident of this city; four brothers,
William, George, Archie and Melvin, and a sister, Mrs.
Francis L. Mulvaney, all residents of Oregon, survive her, Mrs.
Hensley's father, James Stirling McCord, a Clackamas County
pioneer of 1850, died in March 1909. |