KIRBY, Mary Ann

Eagle Valley News; Richland, OR: 31 Oct 1918 A PIONEER PASSES Mrs. W. W. Kirby, whose death has been momentarily expected for some weeks past, passed away at the St. Elizabeth Hospital at 5:20 a.m. on Monday, Oct. 28th. The remains will be laid to rest in Eagle Valley cemetery at 10:30 a.m. on Friday, November 1st, Rev. J. M. Johnson conducting the services at the tomb. Mary Ann McClintock was born at Chillicothe, Ohio, on July 12, 1847, and with her parents came to Wapello county, Iowa, when but a child. In February 1864, she was married to W. W. Kirby at Rockport, Mo. With her husband and family she arrived in Eagle Valley on Sept. 27, 1887, and has since resided here. In 1874 she accepted Christ as her leader and united with the Christian church and has since been a constant and devoted christian as well as a sincere advocate of temperance. Her life was one of devotion to her family, yet she always found time to do a kind deed or lend assistance to a neighbor, friend or stranger, and though her last years were filled with much pain she was never heard to complain. For a number of years Mrs. Kirby had been a sufferer from a sort of stomach trouble, the exact nature of which physicians were never able to discover. Some months ago she was taken worse and several weeks since was removed to the home of her son Jas. A., in Baker, and later removed to St. Elizabeth Hospital where everything possible was done to relieve her suffering. One brother, Lafayette D. McClintock fo Tabor, Iowa, survives her demise, as also does her aged husband and six children, viz: James A. Kirby of Baker; Mrs. Maggie B. Chandler of Richland; Richard B. Kirby of Richland; Mrs. Cora E. Simonis of New Bridge; Wm. L. Kirby of Durkee; and Mrs. Maude M. Fraser of Pendleton. There are also living twenty grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.