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bolftt lo--..Cpatevill4 %~£r[e° abuntp, .h
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b`,o1 ' end~tha-=~MOred'~eystem gl ~ sending o
pare , tn'seaagea over war„-ga. Men,r were the
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eletlnR o[ the words, "Behold robot h
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hath wzoyght" had been trans- p!
muted perfectly, over the wise. e:
open - `'On June Z8, 1R60, ahe became [her
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,t county, ;Iowa,
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made her home 1,
aU~e to Iowa, and in Kansas respectively, ~ n
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' until the year 1881, when fn com•' <~
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lying yany with some 80 families, undei ~rP
"aM- the leadership o[ her father-in-law,1v
a ,- eyTatt ows,-anaih
mdde the Journey"ocroes the Plainsla
~B'ftir by.mula.and-horse-teams- le diarya•: u
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'y vllle, California, where they apent
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to to tho winter of the "big flood.^ In ; {r
'erfla. n
May, ~18aE,-they came to [he Rogue
r the Rivet valley, and setlFed an a ranch ; n
.'atid about one mile from the present ~:, r
l dol- town of Central Poin[. The Gearge- a
w111 Ohenchain home ie now on part of t'
rmt
1 the .r
~ rglnn omostead. }far hue-
b¢nd passed away itl den u¢ry, 1a6 A, It
- and she made hei homo is fenlra! ; tl
~~~ PoSat, anti{ has passing ¢way on . 11
~9pa dune EEnd, the day before her 76th _t
edding- awnivaunrY.
have Of 'her dnacendenta there arc li,~-~ ~
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why ing four. children, 17 grandchildren,
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,aed. IS great grandchildren, and six g5~a\
IrT greet grandchildren.
8rnt For many years Mra. Obenchain
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ed-aa.Jl~"loading--apiri~r
leafs in sli uplifting movements. She a'aF ;
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t e ea er n the loon inR aT [be
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;rain Sunday aehool and [atdies' Aid in ~ ~~
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.ked this valley. Inheriting her love for
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nu`rawfg'-and healing the sick frvm, h
.nor her grandfather, Dr. Norse, she PoI- '!
why lowed in his [ooWtepa, and it would 1
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be ha}•d to'f-md one of [he alder tam-
i11es in Che valley wha have not been ~E
r.' Is
hot uenefitted by her miaiatrationc Of' ,
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n It, o wonderful memory, end an easy
slop conversation¢liat, ahe delighted ninny
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by- her recallectione of ear1p "hard-
Hare t
ships encountered by housewives wha
sa~i ~ had m "bake end brew" Jog large'
mad and epee fire-
with skillets
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but- ,
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sag: the reea~led the Brat stoves, !
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_ ~ eoutueloa they caused befot_c ~'
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and Peop!' m p na -
She kept abreast of the times, ~I
uso
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at p.ll limns uad rose even.weEl in- ~I
dyad (ermed.on the new alr•mnil eervices: ~1
onid never losing bar interest in enyth ing,I.
par' - t;-fiFrrr yt[er
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she was compelled to give up her i i
that aCtlvities by increastnpf weakneaa. {
'"'"' ~tp hvr years. Haaored, and~x-`.
epected 4hc has lastly wen,tiefr, Re-I
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