Sons and Daughters of Oregon Pioneers on June 18, 1919, elected the following officers: Mrs. Benton Killin, president; H. G. Starkweather, vice-president; Miss Lillian M. Hackleman, secretary. Mr. Starkweather narrated the history of the Oregon state seal, and Robert A. Miller spoke on pioneer fraternalism. Cyrus H. Walker's resolution for equal pensions for soldiers of the Civil and the Indian wars was adopted. The meeting was in Library Hall. Portland.
A memorial park near Hood River in honor of the eight soldiers of the county who lost their lives in the European war, and the returning soldiers of that conflict, is to be established at Ruthton Hill, where O. P. Dabney has given a site.
Linn County pioneers and their sons and daughters held a reunion at Brownsville June 18–20. Speechmaking, picnicing and athletics contributed to the festivities.
Salmon Brown, 83 years old, son of John Brown, of civil war fame, died at Portland May 10. 1919. He shot himself with a revolver on account of sickness and despondency.
Mrs. Eliza Warren, daughter of the missionary. Rev. H. H. Spalding, died at Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, June 21, 1919, and the body was buried at Brownsville, Oregon, June 26, where the remains of other members of the Spalding family are interred. She was born at the Lapwai mission in 1837, and was married to Andrew Warren in 1859. Brownsville's main street is named after the Spalding family.
The 21st annual reunion of the Kelly Clan was held June 28, 1919, at Portland, at the home of Mrs. 0. P. S. Plummer on the Dosch road. Interesting features of the afternoon programme were the reading of the family history by Nellie Fawcett and an address by Father Hoberg of McMinnville, who is 92 years of age, and who was well acquainted with the four Kelly brothers. There are now some 200 descendants in Multnomah County.
The Henkle family, of Benton County, Oregon, held its annual reunion at the Wyatt home, three miles west of Corvallis, June 26, 1919, with 162 members of the family present.
