Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-06-05

Death of Mrs. Mary Louise Stanley.
Steadily but surely the grim reap
er is severing the ties that bind the
pioneer, days of Oregon to the pres
ent. One by one the adventurers to
the shores of the sundown sea and
their direct descendants bow sub
missively to the inevitable edict and
pass on.
Mrs. Mary Louise Stanley died at
Eugene, Ore, May 81, and was bur-
led in the family plot at Ashland,
June 2, at the age of SO years.
Mrs. Stanley was the eldest child
OF Colonel John E. Ross and was the
first white girl baby born in Jack
sonville and the second white child
to be born in Jackson county, Ore
gon.
Colonel John E. Ross was a
pioneer of 1914 and has an enviable
record as an Indian fighter and pub
lic-spirited promoter of the early
period of progress in Rogue River
Valley. He was the father of ten
children, of whom the following sis
ters and brothers of Mrs. Stanley are
still living: Mrs. j. E. Reams,
klamath Falls, Ore; Mrs. A. r. Da-
Wis, San Francisco, CAL; Mrs. Ade-
laid Phelps Paisley, Oregon; Mrs.
Mildred Cunningham, Oakland, CAL;
George e. Ross, Thomas B. Ross and
John E. Ross, all of Central Point,
Ore.
Mrs. Stanley's family consisted of
six children, as follows: Mrs. Wini-
fred Hildreth, Ashland, Ore; Mrs.
Helen r. Marks, Eugene, Ore;
George c. Stanley, Eugene; Mrs.
Margaret Schaefer, Gervais, Ore;
Mrs. Elizabeth Klum (deceased) and
Lewis F. Stanley of Portland. All
the living members of her immediate
family and her surviving hunband
attended the last sad rites.
Mrs. Stanley was married to w. ].
Stanley December 13, 1871. Mr..
Stanley was for several years county
school superintendent of this county
and took an active part in state and
county politics, but for many years
past has given his attention to min
ing.
For 25 years Mrs. Stanley has been
a resident of Ashland and her death
is keenly felt by her scores of
friends, some of whom, including the
writer, have known her from her
girlhood days and can testify to her
superior qualities and character.
Many a sick room has been cheered
with her presence and her ministra-
tions could always be depended on TO
relieve distress. Naturally of very
quiet and placid disposition, her
hand and voice were indices to her
kindly soul. Never obtrusive nor
complaining, her waning health was
not suspected except by her immedi-
ate family. A woman of the purest
of motherly affection, her love and
solicitude for her children and her
constant application to the affairs of
an orderly life occupied her time and
commanded the love and respect of
all who knew her.
Mrs. Stanley was an exceptionally
well equipped woman intellectually
and morally to be the mother and
mentor of family that worshipped
her, and the respected and loved CEN
ter of many friends. A woman of
quiet demeanor and dignified man.
ner, she was the embodiment of pure
unselfishness and an example of
earnest solicitude for the welfare of
those about her. The world is made
better by the presence of such wom-
en- and in the hurrying scenes of life.
Tears and roses are appropriately
dedicated in this blessed month of
May to the memory of one who has
passed on but who has left the fra
GRANGE of sweet personality that
will continue to love and bear fruit.