Mrs. Emily Jane Marshall, widow of the late William H. Marshall,
died at the family home in Canemah last night, after several
weeks' illness. She was 66 years old.
Mrs. Marshall came across the plains with her parents by ox team,
reaching Oregon October 22, 1852. The family settled at
what is now Beaver Creek. She was united in marriage to William
H. Marshall in 1861. From Beaver Creek Mr. and Mrs. Marshall
came to Oregon City. They afterward moved to Walla Walla, where
they remained nine years, after which they returned to Oregon
City. Mr. Marshall died in 1884.
Mrs. Marshall was the mother of nine children. The six who are
living and were present when she died are: Mrs. Emma Young,
Portland; Mrs. B. W. Myers, Pomeroy, Wash.; Mrs. Frankie Midlam,
Canemah; Ralph and William Marshall, Portland; Miss Grayce
Marshall, Canemah. The funeral services will be conducted on Sunday
afternoon, at 2 o'clock, at the family residence, Canemah |
The death at her home in Canemah on October 28 of Mrs. E. J. Marshall
closes the simple annals of a life that ran its course
in womanly ways for three-score and six years. Mrs. Marshall was
a daughter of Wiley May, a pioneer of Clackamas County.
Married in her early girlhood, she was the faithful wife, until his
death in 1884, of William H. Marshall. Throughout all of her
gentle womanly years she was the devoted mother of the children who
were born to them, of whom six survive. Memory will raise
over the tomb of Mrs. Marshall the tributes which affection and respect
hold in reserve for such women. |