Polk-Multnomah County OR Archives Obituaries.....Henkle, Elizabeth October 6, 1904
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Morning Oregonian October 19,1904
Philomath,Or.,Oct.18-(Special)- Elizabeth Henkle died here October 6. She was 
identified with the movement which in an early day settled this vicinity,and 
had been continously for 50 years an active promoter of the special religious 
and educational interests of the community.Mrs.Henkle,whose maiden name was 
Wood, was born in Champaign County,Ohio,Noember 8,1828.She was married to Jacob 
Hankle in 1846. With her husband she crossed the plains to oregon in 
1853,taking transportation with the Iowa train,which consisted of 21 wagons and 
79 emigrants.Arriving in Oregon the same year,the couple settled on a donation 
land claim on the south fork of Mary's River,near Philomath. A husband and four 
children survive, as follows; Rachel Kitson of Philomath;Melissa Wyatt of 
Corvallis,Nancy Connor, of Portland, and Elizabeth McKoy, of Oakdale,Wash.

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