Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Potter, a pioneer of Oregon City of 1853 and a cousin by marriage of the late Bishop Potter, of New York,
died at her home in Oregon City, Friday after an illness of four years. Her two children, Mrs. Emma Potter Davis, of this city
and Gilbert C. Potter, of Camas, Were at her bedside.

Mary Elizabeth Patterson was born at Peoria, Ill., July 11, 1838, and crossed the plains in an oxcart in 1853, settling in
Oregon City. On May 15, 1855, she was married to Robert Potter, who died in 1901. Mansfield Patterson, her father, was County
Assessor in 1872 and prominent in the pioneer history of the North Willamette Valley.