Myrtle Mae Church

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Myrtle Mae Church's mother gave her life for her, dying in childbirth. She recovered from TB in the Salem Sanitorium. Herman William Tripp--Remembering......6th Cousin Myrtle, and her family's tough times.

Family/Spouse: William Jonasson. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Stephanie Ann Jonasson
2. William Bradford Jonasson

Notes:

Stephen Arthur Church died of T.B. in a VA hospital in Walla Wall, Washington. He was accompanied to the hospital by his nephew, Curtis S. Church. They rode the train from Portland. Stephen was only 43 years old. Herman William Tripp--Remembering......5th Cousin, one time removed Stephen Arthur Church. I cry for you, having such a short life span.

Stephen married Virginia Anderson in Jun 1919. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Virginia Anderson Chuuch died in childbirth. Herman William Tripp--Remembering......your lost chance to live a full long life.

Notes:

Bessie Agnes Church submitted the following to :"Portland, Oregon, Its History and Builders, " by Joseph Gaston, published by S.J.Clark Publishing Company, Volume 3, 1911. James S. Church, who has for the past twenty-seven years been engaged in the saw mill business in western Oregon, was born at Afton, Wisconsin. He was educated in the common schools, but at the age of eighteen years set out to make his fortune in the west. Oregon presented an attractive field for a young man looking for work and eager to take advantage of any opportunities for advancement that might appear. He began in a sack factory at Albany, which was in charge of Wheeler Church, an uncle. Later he engaged in steam boating and as bookkeeper for A.J.Richardson, a wheat buyer at Buena Vista. It was in this place that he gained his first knowledge of the milling business, to which he has devoted his attention successfully for many years. In 1883 he came to what is now Albina (Portland ) and associated with C.P. Church and Joseph Delay in a large saw mill, producing most of the lumber that was used in the construction of the Portland Flouring Mill. After the completion of the mill he entered the employ of the company with which he has ssince remained. On the 27th of December, 1879, Mr. Church was united in marriage to Margaret E. Smith, a daughter of Dr. J.A. and Eliza Smith of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Nine children were born of this union, of whom seven are now living: Charles, who is associated with father in the mill; Ethel C., now Mrs Scott Kent; Bernice, the wife of Dorr B. Wagoner; Mildred L.; Steven A.; Wilmot F.; and Oliver. S. Mr. Church is a member of the independent Order of Odd Fellows, the member of the Pattoton Methodist Episcopal church. In his various duties as head of the family and as a citizen of an enterprising communtiy he has performed an honorable part, and he has many friends who regard him as a safe counselor and one whose example is even more effective than words. Herman William Tripp--Remembering......4th Cousin, two times removed James Stephen Church.

James married Margaret Evelyn Smith on 27 Dec 1879. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Mrs. Church is a neice of William Hampton Smith, a pioneer of 1859, who crossed the plains, starting fronm Cedar Rapids, Iowa, of which city the father of Mr. Smith was one of the founders. A large party was made up for the journey, but many difficulties arose in the long and toilsome trip across the plains and mountains and before the end was reached many members of the party were claimed by sickness and death. The survivors came by way of California and located at Eugene, Oregon, wheere Mr. Smith found employment as clerk in a store and teacher in the village school. In the fall of 1865, with his father and brothers, he started the Oregon Pottery Company, the first manufactory of stoneware that was launched in the northwest. After several years, connection with this enterprise he left Eugene and located at Fort Clatsop in Clatsop County, where he resided until 1882, when he reentered the pottery business, founding at Portland, the Western Clay Manufacturing Company, which under his management became highly successful. Mr. Smith was a man of unusual mental power, and an original thinker in many lines. At the time of his death, July 13, 1910, in his seventy fourth year, he had completed five books which weere ready for publication. The list includes a geological work, a politacal work and a volume containing reminiscences of his trip across the plains and two works of fiction. he was always a public spirited man and profound believer in the effect of education in elevating the life and character of the individual. Margaret died in the influenza epidemic, July 1918.

James married Sarah Van Antwerp. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

J. married Eliza J. (-) Smith. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]