Weston Washington

Biographical Sketch of Joseph Truesdale

JOSEPH TRUESDALE. – The name Truesdale is so well known throughout Oregon as designating the captain of the plains as to need little introduction here. The son Joseph was born in Illinois in 1850, and two years later made the journey to California with his father and mother, the latter of whom died the same year; while the former returned to Illinois in 1855, taking the boy with him. Marrying again in 1856, the Captain brought an ox-team across the Rocky Mountains in 1862 to form a settlement in the Grande Ronde valley. In 1865 young Truesdale went to the … Read more

Biographical Sketch of H. W. Stratton

H. W. STRATTON, the subject of this sketch, after a number of years spent in business in Ohio, was ordained to the ministry in 1866 over the same church of which his father had been pastor nearly a quarter of a century. Soon afterwards he began preaching in Kansas, continuing five years, and in 1871 came to Oregon, ministering to the Presbyterian and Congregational churches united at Albany. Leaving that field at the instance of his presbytery, he served a church as synodical missionary for one year, among other things organizing the first Presbyterian churches east of the Cascade Mountains … Read more

Loney, Evangeline Charlotte Strobel – Obituary

Loney–December 29 at a local hospital, Mrs. Evangeline C. Loney, aged 58 years; wife of William D. Loney of Lowden; mother of Mrs. Irvin Alexander of Freewater, Mrs. Guy Kent of Walla Walla, Miss Violet Loney of Lowden, William C., Edwin J., Herbert R., Orval, Albert, Delbert, Virgil, and Earl Loney, all of Walla Walla. Born December 11, 1873 at Weston. Member of White Temple Baptist Church. Remains at Marshall, Callaway & Hennessey Funeral Home. Funeral notice later. Walla Walla Daily Bulletin, December 29, 1931 Contributed by: Shelli Steedman