Siskiyou-Modoc-Trinity County CA Archives Obituaries.....Fairchild, Benjamin Harrison  September 4, 1959
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Sacramento Bee
Yrekan Who Recalled Modoc Peace Parleys Dies at 88

Yreka Siskiyou Co. 
Funeral services for Benjamin Harrison Fairchild, 88, of Yreka, an authourity 
on the Modoc War who remembered the peace parleys in his childhood, will be 
held at 2 PM tomorrow in Girdner's Funeral Chapel with the Rev Harold Colemaan 
officiating.
Gravside services will be conducted by the Yreka Odd Fellows Lodge in 
Evergreen Cemetery.

Born in Arkansas

Fairchild was born in Arkansas on August 17,1869, and was brought to the John 
Fairchild Ranch east of Dorris, Siskiyou County, at eh age of 4. The ranch was 
the center of of the peace negotiations between the Modocs and the army which 
ended the war in 1873.
He later moved to Yreka and spent his active years mining in the vicinity of 
Humbug Creek.
Between 1951 and 1956, as membership chairman of the Siskiyou Historical 
Society, he brought membership from 632 to 1,133, at that time the highest 
historical society membership in the state. He was honored with a reception in 
the county museum when membership reached 1,000. He was considered the most 
active member of the society. 

Fairchild Street

Since the death of his wife, Marie, in 2953, he lived alternately with his 
children or in his Yreka home on Fairchild Street, which was named for him.

He lapsed into a simi coma on September 4th and was taken to the Siskiyou 
General Hospital in Yreka where he died Friday.

Survivors include his daughters, Mrs Carl R McConnell of Etna, Siskiyou 
County, Ada Knaackstedt of Medford, Oregon and a son, Benjamin H of Ft Jones, 
Siskiyou County.

Additional Comments:
Found this obit with some family photos and letters in 2007. Would like info 
on family.

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