LAST RESPECTS PAID TO BELOVED RESIDENT
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Scores of people in Canby and the surrounding community paid their last respects to a honored citizen Friday afternoon, the occasion being the funeral of Eli Bair which was held in the Methodist church in Canby.
Mr. Bair passed away on Wednesday of last week while visiting at his brother's warehoused in the city. A brief mention of his death was made in the last issue of the Herald.
Eli Bair was a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Bair, pioneers of Clackamas county who settled here in 1864. He was born at Bethel, Mo. September 16, 1863. Mr. Bair crossed the plains by ox team and Mrs. Bair and her little son, Eli, came by way of Cape Horn. Mr. Bair took up a homestead in the county near this city where he engaged in farming for many years. He served as county commissioner for a number of terms.
Eli Bair had been engaged in mining at Eastern Oregon for a number of years. He returned to Canby last February on the day his brother Ed was buried, he having passed away very suddenly also. Since his return he made his home on W.H. Bair's farm at Mulino until called to his eternal rest.
The funeral was conducted by Rev. M.G. Tennyson, and interment was made in the Zimmerman cemetery by the side of his parents, his sister and brother. The pallbearers were G.W. White, Arthur Graham, Dr. C.F. Shewey, H.H. Eccles, J.R. Vinyard and John Eid.
Canby Herald newspaper, Thur. Nov. 25, 1926, front page, column 4
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Scores of people in Canby and the surrounding community paid their last respects to a honored citizen Friday afternoon, the occasion being the funeral of Eli Bair which was held in the Methodist church in Canby.
Mr. Bair passed away on Wednesday of last week while visiting at his brother's warehoused in the city. A brief mention of his death was made in the last issue of the Herald.
Eli Bair was a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Bair, pioneers of Clackamas county who settled here in 1864. He was born at Bethel, Mo. September 16, 1863. Mr. Bair crossed the plains by ox team and Mrs. Bair and her little son, Eli, came by way of Cape Horn. Mr. Bair took up a homestead in the county near this city where he engaged in farming for many years. He served as county commissioner for a number of terms.
Eli Bair had been engaged in mining at Eastern Oregon for a number of years. He returned to Canby last February on the day his brother Ed was buried, he having passed away very suddenly also. Since his return he made his home on W.H. Bair's farm at Mulino until called to his eternal rest.
The funeral was conducted by Rev. M.G. Tennyson, and interment was made in the Zimmerman cemetery by the side of his parents, his sister and brother. The pallbearers were G.W. White, Arthur Graham, Dr. C.F. Shewey, H.H. Eccles, J.R. Vinyard and John Eid.
Canby Herald newspaper, Thur. Nov. 25, 1926, front page, column 4
LAST RESPECTS PAID TO BELOVED RESIDENT
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Scores of people in Canby and the surrounding community paid their last respects to a honored citizen Friday afternoon, the occasion being the funeral of Eli Bair which was held in the Methodist church in Canby.
Mr. Bair passed away on Wednesday of last week while visiting at his brother's warehoused in the city. A brief mention of his death was made in the last issue of the Herald.
Eli Bair was a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Bair, pioneers of Clackamas county who settled here in 1864. He was born at Bethel, Mo. September 16, 1863. Mr. Bair crossed the plains by ox team and Mrs. Bair and her little son, Eli, came by way of Cape Horn. Mr. Bair took up a homestead in the county near this city where he engaged in farming for many years. He served as county commissioner for a number of terms.
Eli Bair had been engaged in mining at Eastern Oregon for a number of years. He returned to Canby last February on the day his brother Ed was buried, he having passed away very suddenly also. Since his return he made his home on W.H. Bair's farm at Mulino until called to his eternal rest.
The funeral was conducted by Rev. M.G. Tennyson, and interment was made in the Zimmerman cemetery by the side of his parents, his sister and brother. The pallbearers were G.W. White, Arthur Graham, Dr. C.F. Shewey, H.H. Eccles, J.R. Vinyard and John Eid.
Canby Herald newspaper, Thur. Nov. 25, 1926, front page, column 4
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Scores of people in Canby and the surrounding community paid their last respects to a honored citizen Friday afternoon, the occasion being the funeral of Eli Bair which was held in the Methodist church in Canby.
Mr. Bair passed away on Wednesday of last week while visiting at his brother's warehoused in the city. A brief mention of his death was made in the last issue of the Herald.
Eli Bair was a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Bair, pioneers of Clackamas county who settled here in 1864. He was born at Bethel, Mo. September 16, 1863. Mr. Bair crossed the plains by ox team and Mrs. Bair and her little son, Eli, came by way of Cape Horn. Mr. Bair took up a homestead in the county near this city where he engaged in farming for many years. He served as county commissioner for a number of terms.
Eli Bair had been engaged in mining at Eastern Oregon for a number of years. He returned to Canby last February on the day his brother Ed was buried, he having passed away very suddenly also. Since his return he made his home on W.H. Bair's farm at Mulino until called to his eternal rest.
The funeral was conducted by Rev. M.G. Tennyson, and interment was made in the Zimmerman cemetery by the side of his parents, his sister and brother. The pallbearers were G.W. White, Arthur Graham, Dr. C.F. Shewey, H.H. Eccles, J.R. Vinyard and John Eid.
Canby Herald newspaper, Thur. Nov. 25, 1926, front page, column 4
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