Elizabeth Jane Bailes Brown
Kittitas Co., WA

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Contributed by:  Shelli Steedman 4/20/2007

OLDEST VALLEY PIONEER PASSES.  ELIZABETH J. BROWN, 98, SUCCUMBS TO HEART
ATTACK.  Elizabeth J. Brown, oldest pioneer resident of the Kittitas Valley,
who lacked just six weeks of becoming 99 years of age, succumbed to a heart
attack yesterday in her home at 108 North Ruby Street [died October 24, 1949].

An invalid for the past 10 years, Mrs. Brown has made the valley her home for
the past 70 years, since she first came here August 6, 1879.

Born December 8, 1850, in Springfield, Missouri, the daughter of Rev. Keathley
Bailes and Mrs. Bailes, she and her family crossed the plains by covered wagon
and horseback when she was 10 years old, settling in Marion County, Oregon,
before coming here.

She married Joseph Tucker in 1866 and they came to the Fairview District of
this valley in 1879.  Her father was the first Protestant minister in the
valley.

At the time of her death, Mrs. Brown was the widow of Thomas C. Brown and
surviving members of her family include three daughters, Mrs. Sara Jane Teeter
of Burlington, Wn., Mrs. Eva G. Price of Ellensburg and Mrs. Ella L. Sigman,
Spokane; three sons, John M. Tucker of Yakima, Frank M. Tucker of Fairfield,
Idaho, and James N. Tucker of Seattle.  Also surviving are three sisters, Mrs.
W. K. Rader of Puyallup, Mrs. Frank Barnhart of Castle Rock; and two brothers,
James Bailes of Hoquiam, and George Bailes of Cottage Grove.  Mrs. Brown also
leaves 13 grandchildren, 16 great grandchildren, and eight great great
grandchildren.

The funeral will be held Thursday afternoon at 2 p.m. in the Honeycutt-Evenson
Chapel with the Rev. Dan J. Rueb officiating.  Burial will be in the IOOF
Cemetery.