Clackamas County OR Archives Obituaries.....Deardorff, Tobias Grider June 3, 1907
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The Morning Oregonian June 6, 1907 page 5 column 2
WAS CLACKAMAS PIONEER

Funeral of Tobias Grider Deardorff, Who Crossed Plains in 1850

The funeral of Tobias Grider Deardorff, pioneer, who died last Monday, was 
held yesterday morning from his late home at Lents on the Mount Scott Railway, 
and the interment was in Multnomah Cemetery. Rev. E.M. Patterson, of Portland, 
conducted the services. There was a large attendance both at the house and in 
the cemetery, and many beautiful floral tributes were brought.

Mr. Deardorff was a well-known pioneer of 1850 and an Indian War veteran. He 
belonged to a distinguished family after whom the Deardorff Valley, in 
Clackamas County, near Mount Scott, was named. Tobias Deardorff was born in 
Putnam County, Indiana, September 10, 1829, his father Christian Deardorff, 
being a pioneer of Indiana. With his father, and his brothers John M. David 
and James, Tobias came to Oregon in 1850 and settled in the Deardorff Valley, 
then a wilderness, and here the father and sons developed productive farms. 

David Deardorff, was a Methodist minister and teacher. The others remained on 
the farm. The family became a force and factor in the development of the 
country. When the Indian wars in Oregon broke out the Deardorff brothers 
enlisted and bore a creditable and honorable part in defense of the settlers 
against the Indians in remote districts. Christian Deardorff, the father, died 
December 14, 1884, and all the brothers of the once well-known family have now 
passed away. 

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