Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1915-03-05
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Thomas Ferr died at his home
In West Yaquina February 9th, !
1915, aged 76 years. Mr.. Ferr ,
was born in Caglaria, SARDINIA,
Italy, in 1899; came to Yaquina !
Bay January 1, 1866: was mar
ried to Miss Jane Craigy Decem- |
Der 1S, 1868. Nine children
were born to Mr.. and Mrs. Ferr,
as follows: Mrs. V, d. Boone,
Miss Daisy Ferr, who lives at I;
home, Mrs. Ed Seidler, Mrs. J. c.
Backus, Mrs. G. ~. Damon, who
lives at Toppnish, Wash, Miss
Margaret, Francis and Royal,
who live at home, and Albert,
who died some years ago Mr..
and Mrs. Ferr have fourteen
grandchildren. The funeral SER
vices were held at the Presby-
terian church Monday at ten
O'Clock a. m, conducted by Rev.
DR.. Gwynn officiating. The cas-
.ket was decorated with beauti-
full flowers. The interrment
took place in Eureka cemetery.
The pail bearers were pioneers
and neighbors, as follows:
Judge Fogarty, Frank Priest,
William Matthews, VIM. Willis,
Jack Vigars and F. M. Carter.
Funeral Director o. r. Hollings-
worth of Toledo has charge of
the arrangements. Mr.. Ferr
took up a homestead near Oys-
ter City in 1866, where he lived
until few years ago when he
sold the old home and moved to
West Yaquina, where he lived to
the time of his death, having
bought the beautiful home over
looking the bay, formerly owned
by Judge d. P. Plue. Mr.. Ferr
was one of the first settlers on
the bay when the country was
new and but few persons and,
with his family endured the
hardships and privatiops Incl
dent to pioneer life. He identi-
fled himself with the moral, ed
ucational, temperance and re-
ligious work of the community
and also the industrial work.
He was a member of the Meth
odist Church and raised a large
family under the best of home
influences. But few men have
gone through as much exposure
and hardships as Thomas Ferr.
He engaged in farming, stock
raising, oyster and fish business
for nearly a quarter of a CEN
tury. In the death of Thomas
Ferr Yaquina Bay has lost one
of her best citizens, a man no
sessed of a large measure of
kindness, sympathy and toler-
alton of the frailties and faults
of human nature. A few days
before he died he called the fam
lily around him and bid them
farewell, saying not to weep for
him as all was well. He set his
house in order and then closed
his eyes to this world and passed
on, as we believe, to awaken in
the elysium fields of Gods para
disc to begin the new and better
life, which we are told, will never
end. All the members of the
family were present at his death
except Albert, who died some
years ago. Mr.. Ferr lived in
this country nearly half a CEN
tury and saw it grow from a
wilderness to its present state of
development with the prospects
of being one Of the best parts of
Oregon.
A local institute was held in
the High School building Satur-
day under the direction of Sup
erintendent Coin. Some forty
teachers were present and took
part in the exercises. Capt.
Jacobson, John Loomis and
Chas. Saunders. trustees. were
present and added much to the
interest and success of the insti-
tute. The program both before
and after noon was very instruc-
tive. The singing of the Glee
Club added much to the interest
of the meeting. The papers
were all good but l think special
mention should be made of the
papers of Miss Booth and Miss
Springer. The formers subject
was Household Work and Do
mestic Science" and the latter's
subject was "The Text Book and
Teacher" The discussion on
the various topics were also in
structive and interesting. A
nice dinner was served at noon