Obituary of O. S. Buckland, Sparta, Baker Co., OR 1900

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The Morning Democrat, Baker City, OR; 12 May 1900

O. S. BUCKLAND

Death of a Pioneer Citizen of Baker and Union Counties.

Yesterday the news was received in Baker City of the death of O. S. Buckland,
at his home near Sparta, and closely following the demise of his wife, whose
death occurred on April 29, pneumonia being the cause of their taking off.

Mr. Buckland arrived in Auburn this county, as sargeant in charge of a company
of United States soldiers in 1864, during the Indian scares in that year, and
remained all winter. In the spring he went to Walla Walla and secured his
discharge, his enlistment expired and returned to Auburn, and entered the
employ of Bowen & Cranston as salesman in that firm's mercantile house. A
short time after he went to Clarke's creek and went into the mercantile
business on his own account associating himself with J. W. Virtue. After a few
years he closed out business and went to Sparta, aftewards engaging in farming
and mining near that place, where he remained until the time of his death.

The deceased was a good citizen in all that the word implies and there is not
a citizen of Baker or Union counties who knew him but will regret his demise
and speak of him in the most complimentary terms.