Clackamas County OR Archives News.....90th anniversary observed by Mrs mary Barlow March 20, 1924
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Canby Herald And Clackamas County News March 20, 1924
Oregon City,or,-March 15-
Mrs mary Elizabeth Barlow of this city,widow of the late John Lawrence 
barlow,was 90 years old on Saturday,march 8.On that day and on Sunday Mrs 
barlow received many of her friends and many gifts and flowers made their way 
to her home at twelfth and Washington streets
Mrs Barlow,whose maiden name was Mary Elizabeth Miller,was the daughter of Mr 
and Mrs Samuel MIller,early residents of Oregon.She was born March 8,1834,and 
with her parents crossed the plains by ox team in 1850.
On the trip the Indians made many attempts to buy Mary Elizabeth and her 
sister Margaret Miller,who was the late J.G Pilsbury,for many years a resident 
of oregon City and who died in Portland several years ago.
In 1851 Mary Elizabeth Miller became the wife of John Lawrence Barlow,son of 
early Oregon City settlers.The marriage took place in Oregon City,which has 
been Mrs Barlows home since that time,except for seven years spent on what is 
now known as the Twin Rivers Farm,on the Willamette River near Canby

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