Mrs. Susan D. Meldrum died at her home in this city, Saturday, June 2, near the close of the 89th year of her age. She was
born in Washington County, Kentucky, on July 25, 1817. Her maiden name was Susan Depew Cox and her girlhood was mostly spent in
Tennessee, to which state her parents removed during her childhood, afterwards removing to Illinois.

December 11, 1834, at Whitehall, Ill., she was married to John Meldrum, who also was a native of Kentucky, having been born in
Shelby county, of that state, on March 8, 1808. During the first year of their marriage the family resided in Illinois, where
the oldest child, a daughter, now Mrs. W. S. Moore, was born. George, the oldest son, was born in Iowa. In the Spring of 1845
they joined a caravan on the way to "the Oregon country," arriving at Oregon City, the end of their journey, about the middle of
October, that year. They brought with them from their Iowa home their four children, the eldest, Margaret O., born in Illinois;
Mary R., now Mrs. D. P. Thompson, of Portland; Sarah M., now Mrs. F. O. McCown, of Portland; and a son, John W. Meldrum, all of
whom are still living and were in attendance at the bedside of their dying mother, as was also her youngest son, Henry, the only
survivor of the five younger children born in Oregon.

Being always loyal to their adopted state, they lived contentedly here during all of the years that have passed since their
arrival. Her husband, John Meldrum, died August 2, 1889, in the same house in which Mrs. Meldrum's death occurred and which has
been the home over which she has presided during the past 40 years.

Mrs. Meldrum was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and a woman whose fine character and kindly nature endeared her to
all who knew her.

The funeral service was conducted at the late home at 1 o'clock Monday afternoon.