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Eric Erickson

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Eric Erickson

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Frances, Pacific County, Washington, USA Add to Map
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According to Pacific County Cemetery Book, Page 115. (According to Ernest W. Lilly, "My recollection of the Elk Prairie Tragedy" Pamphlet File, Raymond Public Library, 1936. "Their (Eric Erickson and Harry Hanson's) stacked hay and claim shanties on Elk Prairie, Fern Prairie, and Half Moon Prairie, burned buy an incendiary, and when Harry Hanson returned (from the trading post) his partner was missing. After some search he found his (Eric Ericson's) body in the creek, and marks on the bank where he had apparently slipped in....buried the body under an oak tree near the residence of W. W. Cambell."


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