Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-10-31
MRS. INGALLS, FUNERAL
Notable Tribute to Pioneer Woman
Paid at Obsequies Wednesday
Afternoon.

MdI heu ITlDuleS Oh respect were
paid to the late Mrs. Mary Elizabeth
Mccall at the funeral obsequies al
the family home on Oak street yes
terday afternoon at 2 o'clock The
floral contributions were lavish and
notable. One of the numerous elab-
crate pieces came from the officers
of the Grand Chapter of Oregon, o.
E. S.; others from the local chapter
of that order, the w. r. c. and from
very many personal and family
friends. Religious services were con-
Quoted by the Rev. Robert Mclean
of Grants Pass, who also spoke earn
estly from the standpoint of a per-
sonal friend of many years standing
who held it to be a privilege to speak
in praise of the life work just ended
Lead, Kindly Light" and Rock of
Ages" by a vocal quartet composed
of Messrs. Minis and Briggs, Mes
danes l.. NJ. Caldwell and Ella B.
Mills, were included in the religious
exercises, which were followed by the
beautiful ritualistic funeral service
of the Eastern Star, conducted by
Past Grand Worthy Matron, Mrs. ].
D. Crocker, assisted by Alpha chapter
officers. Services at the grave in
Ashland cemetery were conducted by
Burnside Woman's Relief Corps
Both these organizations as we'll as
the G. A. R. post attended the SER
vices in bodies.
The honorary pallbearers were
Messrs. d. R. Mills, j. R. Casey, f.
V. Carter, James Mattingly, E. A.
Sherwin, Charles Ganiere. The ac-
tive pallbearers were Messrs. Emil
Peil, A. E. Kinney, J. w. Losher, D.
Perozzi, G. S. Butler, ]. T. Thorn
ton.
Mary Elizabeth Anderson Mccall
was born in Bowling Green, Ind,
April IA, 1886, and died in Ashland,
Ore, October 81, 1912, in the 18th
year of her age.
She was the youngest but one of
George and Hannah Anderson's fam
lily of two daughters and four sons,
all of whom were pioneers of south
ern Oregon or northern California,
and all of whom but one have now
crossed over the Great Divide into
that undiscovered country from
whose bourne no traveller has ever
returned. Daniel Preston, the elder.
d ed at Henley, Cal, in 1886; Eli
Knighten died in Ashland only a few
months ago; James Firman in Sis
kiyou county, California;; Marion
died in this county many years ago;
Mrs. Nancy Chaplin, the surviving
and youngest member of the family
group, is resident of Ashland at
this time.
When a girl in her teens, Mrs. Nc
Call experienced the trials and hard
ships of the long and toilsome jour
ney by OK team across the then Great
American desert, arriving in this val
ley in the fall of 1854. She made
the journey in company with her
mother, her brother Marion and her
sister Nancy, the father, George An
derson, having died two years before
in Monroe county, Iowa. whittier the
family had removed from Indiana
with the westward march of empire
in 1850. A mill, blacksmith shop.
a hotel and one store constituted
Ashland as this emigrant party
passed through it enroute to the
houe of one of the brothers, E. K,
who had several years previously
settled in the vicinity of what is now
the town of Talent, four miles west
of Ashland. She subsequently at
tended school in Eden precinct not
far from her home, continuing her
studies at the Umpqua Academy,
from which she graduated in 1856.
The history of southern Oregon gives
Miss Lizzie Anderson the distinction
of having taught the first school in
the town of Ashland, which was con-
Quoted in the house of Eben Emery,
Miss Anderson boarding" the while
at the home of Captain A. D. Helman.
Later she taught south of Ashland
in what is now the Neil Creek dis
trict, her mothers family at that
time making their home at the
Mountain House on the Siskiyous.
Here in 1853 she was married to
Rev. George H. Brown, a Methodist
minister, who died in 1866 at Hen
ley, Cal
In Ashland, July 4, 1876, Mrs.
Brown was married to General John
Marshall Mccall. Both were we'll
known and respected by all and the
whole community participated in the
nuptial festivities. General Mccall
was one of the early pioneers of this
section and had wide acquaintance
ship extending throughout t6e coun-
ty and state, and even farther. He
had rendered cOnsnicunuS carvioa ac