Wallowa County Chieftain Newspaper, Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon, dated (Thursday) April 1, 1954.
Clara Blevans Services Held
Funeral services for Mrs. J.A. Blevans of Woodburn, Oregon were held at the Methodist church at Joseph, Oregon, Sunday, March 28, 1954, with Rev. Lyle J. Haines officiating.
Two hymns, "The Old Rugged Cross," and "Beautiful Isle of Somewhere", were sung by Mrs. Lyle Haines and Mrs. Orville Wilcox, with Mrs. Lauris Barton as pianist.
Members of the Silver Lake Rebekah lodge were in chrage of committal services in the Prairie Creek Cemetery.
Pall bearers were Earl Warnock, Elmer Warnock, Sam Shinn, Grady Miller, W.O. Graham and Frank Shevlin.
Those attending the services from out of the county were Mr. and Mrs. Russell Blevans and daughter, Barbara, of Woodburn, Oregon and Mr. and Mrs. Lenau Tucker and children, Lance, Sandra, Johnny and Debra form Elgin.
Clara Emma Beith was born April 6, 1869, in Waseca, Minnesota, the seventh of eight children born to Robert and Emma Beith.
When she was three years old the family moved by ox team to the raw frontier of Kansas where they endured many hardship, including a prairie fire, the draughts, and "the grasshopper year".
In 1882 the family, with the exception of two married daughters, moved again. This time to Oregon, in two covered wagons in a twenty-five wagon train, which was three months enroute. The Beith family settled on upper Prairie creek. Clara Beith attended school in the Prairie creek school house which still stands, her teachers being the late L.J. Rouse and her future father-in-law, J.J. Blevans.
She taught school two years. June 6, 1888, she was married to John Austin Blevans. They moved to the Divide where they lived
Clara Blevans Services Held
Funeral services for Mrs. J.A. Blevans of Woodburn, Oregon were held at the Methodist church at Joseph, Oregon, Sunday, March 28, 1954, with Rev. Lyle J. Haines officiating.
Two hymns, "The Old Rugged Cross," and "Beautiful Isle of Somewhere", were sung by Mrs. Lyle Haines and Mrs. Orville Wilcox, with Mrs. Lauris Barton as pianist.
Members of the Silver Lake Rebekah lodge were in chrage of committal services in the Prairie Creek Cemetery.
Pall bearers were Earl Warnock, Elmer Warnock, Sam Shinn, Grady Miller, W.O. Graham and Frank Shevlin.
Those attending the services from out of the county were Mr. and Mrs. Russell Blevans and daughter, Barbara, of Woodburn, Oregon and Mr. and Mrs. Lenau Tucker and children, Lance, Sandra, Johnny and Debra form Elgin.
Clara Emma Beith was born April 6, 1869, in Waseca, Minnesota, the seventh of eight children born to Robert and Emma Beith.
When she was three years old the family moved by ox team to the raw frontier of Kansas where they endured many hardship, including a prairie fire, the draughts, and "the grasshopper year".
In 1882 the family, with the exception of two married daughters, moved again. This time to Oregon, in two covered wagons in a twenty-five wagon train, which was three months enroute. The Beith family settled on upper Prairie creek. Clara Beith attended school in the Prairie creek school house which still stands, her teachers being the late L.J. Rouse and her future father-in-law, J.J. Blevans.
She taught school two years. June 6, 1888, she was married to John Austin Blevans. They moved to the Divide where they lived
Wallowa County Chieftain Newspaper, Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon, dated (Thursday) April 1, 1954.
Clara Blevans Services Held
Funeral services for Mrs. J.A. Blevans of Woodburn, Oregon were held at the Methodist church at Joseph, Oregon, Sunday, March 28, 1954, with Rev. Lyle J. Haines officiating.
Two hymns, "The Old Rugged Cross," and "Beautiful Isle of Somewhere", were sung by Mrs. Lyle Haines and Mrs. Orville Wilcox, with Mrs. Lauris Barton as pianist.
Members of the Silver Lake Rebekah lodge were in chrage of committal services in the Prairie Creek Cemetery.
Pall bearers were Earl Warnock, Elmer Warnock, Sam Shinn, Grady Miller, W.O. Graham and Frank Shevlin.
Those attending the services from out of the county were Mr. and Mrs. Russell Blevans and daughter, Barbara, of Woodburn, Oregon and Mr. and Mrs. Lenau Tucker and children, Lance, Sandra, Johnny and Debra form Elgin.
Clara Emma Beith was born April 6, 1869, in Waseca, Minnesota, the seventh of eight children born to Robert and Emma Beith.
When she was three years old the family moved by ox team to the raw frontier of Kansas where they endured many hardship, including a prairie fire, the draughts, and "the grasshopper year".
In 1882 the family, with the exception of two married daughters, moved again. This time to Oregon, in two covered wagons in a twenty-five wagon train, which was three months enroute. The Beith family settled on upper Prairie creek. Clara Beith attended school in the Prairie creek school house which still stands, her teachers being the late L.J. Rouse and her future father-in-law, J.J. Blevans.
She taught school two years. June 6, 1888, she was married to John Austin Blevans. They moved to the Divide where they lived
Clara Blevans Services Held
Funeral services for Mrs. J.A. Blevans of Woodburn, Oregon were held at the Methodist church at Joseph, Oregon, Sunday, March 28, 1954, with Rev. Lyle J. Haines officiating.
Two hymns, "The Old Rugged Cross," and "Beautiful Isle of Somewhere", were sung by Mrs. Lyle Haines and Mrs. Orville Wilcox, with Mrs. Lauris Barton as pianist.
Members of the Silver Lake Rebekah lodge were in chrage of committal services in the Prairie Creek Cemetery.
Pall bearers were Earl Warnock, Elmer Warnock, Sam Shinn, Grady Miller, W.O. Graham and Frank Shevlin.
Those attending the services from out of the county were Mr. and Mrs. Russell Blevans and daughter, Barbara, of Woodburn, Oregon and Mr. and Mrs. Lenau Tucker and children, Lance, Sandra, Johnny and Debra form Elgin.
Clara Emma Beith was born April 6, 1869, in Waseca, Minnesota, the seventh of eight children born to Robert and Emma Beith.
When she was three years old the family moved by ox team to the raw frontier of Kansas where they endured many hardship, including a prairie fire, the draughts, and "the grasshopper year".
In 1882 the family, with the exception of two married daughters, moved again. This time to Oregon, in two covered wagons in a twenty-five wagon train, which was three months enroute. The Beith family settled on upper Prairie creek. Clara Beith attended school in the Prairie creek school house which still stands, her teachers being the late L.J. Rouse and her future father-in-law, J.J. Blevans.
She taught school two years. June 6, 1888, she was married to John Austin Blevans. They moved to the Divide where they lived
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